Document processing system, document processing method, computer readable medium and data signal

• US 20070296695A1
• Filed: 12/11/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shi, Meng, Terao, Taro
• Granted Patent: US 8,418,048 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00246 with an optical device, e.g. an optical viewing aid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00334 with an apparatus processing barcodes or the like arrangements for sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00363 Bar codes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/195 the array comprising a two-dimensional array or a combination of two-dimensional arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/19594 using a television camera or a still video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0436 Scanning a picture-bearing surface lying face up on a support H04N2201/0434 takes precedence; using cylindrical picture bearing surfaces H04N1/06; with manual scanning H04N1/107
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

A document processing system includes a first acquisition section, a storage section, a second acquisition section and a data processor. The first acquisition section acquires a position specified by a user in an actual document. The storage section stores layout data of the document and content data of the document associated with the layout data. The second acquisition section acquires data in the specified position from the content data of the document stored in the storage section, based on the layout data stored in the storage section and the specified position. The data processor processes the data acquired by the second acquisition section.

Claims

1. A document processing system comprising:

a first acquisition section that acquires a position specified by a user in an actual document;

a storage section that stores layout data of the document and content data of the document associated with the layout data;

a second acquisition section that acquires data in the specified position from the content data of the document stored in the storage section, based on the layout data stored in the storage section and the specified position; and

a data processor that processes the data acquired by the second acquisition section.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a projector that projects an image concerning a computer program onto a projection target region where the actual document is placed, wherein;

the data processor processes the data acquired by the second acquisition section in accordance with the computer program based on a command entered by the user, the command relating to the image concerning the computer program.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the image concerning the computer program is at least one of (i) an image for operation command entry containing a menu relating to an application software, which serves as a computer program, and (ii) an image indicating a region where processing content is displayed.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein:

the region where the processing content is displayed is a window, and

the data processor displays processing result data in the window through the projector.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display, wherein;

the projector further projects an image, which indicates the position currently specified by the user onto a projection target region, and

if the specified position is placed out of a predetermined projection region, the data processor displays the processing result on the display screen of the display.

6. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a logging section, wherein if second acquisition section acquires the data, the logging section logs information concerning the data acquired by the second acquisition section as a history.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the storage section stores a storage address of the content data in place of the content data, and

the second acquisition section acquires the data based on the content data from the storage section indicated by the storage address.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the projector further projects an image indicating the position currently specified by the user onto a projection target region.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein:

the document includes one or more partial regions each containing a description,

when the image indicating the position specified by the user is projected onto any of the partial areas, the projector projects a region identification image, which identifies the partial area, onto the projection target region based on the layout data, and

the second acquisition section acquires the data of the description contained in the partial area identified by the region identification image from the content data stored in the storage section.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

identification information, which identifies the document, is recorded in the actual document,

the system further comprising;

a document specifying section that specifies the document based on the identification information recorded in the actual document, wherein;

the second acquisition section acquires the data in the position specified by the user from the content data of the specified document based on the layout data of the specified document and the position specified by the user.

11. A document processing method comprising:

acquiring a position specified by a user in an actual document;

acquiring data in the specified position from content data of the document associated with layout data stored in a storage section, based on the layout data of the document stored in the storage section and the specified position; and

processing the acquired data.

12. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute document processing, the document processing comprising:

acquiring a position specified by a user in an actual document;

storing layout data of the document and content data of the document associated with the layout data;

acquiring data in the specified position from the stored content data based on the stored layout data; and

processing the acquired data.

13. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave for enabling a computer to execute document processing, the document processing comprising:

acquiring a position specified by a user in an actual document;

storing layout data of the document and content data of the document associated with the layout data;

acquiring data in the specified position from the stored content data based on the stored layout data; and

processing the acquired data.