Minutes-creating support apparatus and method

• US 20060218477A1
• Filed: 08/31/2005
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Hirohito
• Granted Patent: US 7,707,227 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

There is provided a minutes-creating support apparatus including a conference image retaining portion retaining a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus to be associated with date and time information, a memo editing portion associating information input from an inputting apparatus with the date and time information, and a minute creating portion editing the information input from the inputting apparatus with retaining the date and time information.

Claims

1. A minutes-creating support apparatus comprising:

a conference image retaining portion retaining a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus to be associated with date and time information;

a memo editing portion associating information input from an inputting apparatus with the date and time information; and

a minute creating portion editing the information input from the inputting apparatus with retaining the date and time information.

2. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a replay portion replaying the conference image according to the information input from the inputting apparatus.

3. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memo editing portion associates the information input from the inputting apparatus with the date and time information on a given piece of information basis.

4. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the given piece of information includes at least one of a character, word, phrase, sentence, line, and a combination thereof.

5. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memo editing portion displays the information input from the inputting apparatus to correspond to the date and time information.

6. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the minute creating portion provides a screen on which the information input from the inputting apparatus can be moved on a given block basis.

7. The minutes-creating support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information input from the inputting apparatus is of text format.

8. A minutes-creating support method comprising:

retaining portion retaining a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus to be associated with date and time information;

associating information input from an inputting apparatus with the date and time information; and

editing the information input from the inputting apparatus with retaining the date and time information.

9. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 8, further comprising replaying the conference image according to the information input from the inputting apparatus.

10. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 8, further comprising displaying the information input from the inputting apparatus to correspond to the date and time information.

11. The minutes-creating support method according to claim 8, further comprising displaying a screen on which the information input from the inputting apparatus can be moved on a given block basis.

12. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for supporting creating the minutes, the function comprising:

retaining portion retaining a conference image captured by a capturing apparatus to be associated with date and time information;

associating information input from an inputting apparatus with the date and time information; and

editing the information input from the inputting apparatus with retaining the date and time information.