Document processing apparatus

• US 5,787,295 A
• Filed: 11/06/1996
• Issued: 07/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakao, Hisayasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H.
• Application Number:
  US08/744,654
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 395/761, 395/762, 395/773, 395/774, 395/792, 395/793, 395/799, 395/348, 395/349, 395/350, 345/156-184
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A document processing apparatus to affix an identification mark (i.e., bookmark) to document information including character data, image data, etc. When an add command to affix an identification mark to a desired information location in the document information displayed on a display device is received from a command entry device, an identification mark affixing device causes a storage device to store an information location (i.e., a line in a page of the document information) to which the identification mark is to be affixed, as identification mark information. When a select command is received from the command entry device, to select a desired one of identification marks displayed on the display device, an identification mark searching device searches the identification mark information for the information location corresponding to the selected identification mark. When supplied with the add command or the select command, a display control device displays a portion of the document information to which the identification mark is affixed, at a particular position on the screen of the display device, together with the identification mark on a single screen. When a delete command to delete a desired one of the affixed identification marks is received, an identification mark deleting device deletes the information location corresponding to the identification mark to be deleted from the identification mark information.

Claims

1. A document processing apparatus including a display device for displaying document information of a page including a plurality of lines on the display device, comprising:

a storage device to store information;

command generating means for generating an add command to affix an identification mark to a desired line in a desired page of the document information displayed on the display device, and for generating a select command to select a desired one of a plurality of affixed identification marks;

identification mark affixing means, in response to receiving said add command, for causing said storage device to store the desired line in the desired page to which the identification mark is to be affixed as identification mark information;

identification mark searching means, in response to receiving said select command, for searching the identification mark information stored in the storage device for the desired line in the desired page corresponding to the selected one affixed identification mark; and

display control means for displaying the identification mark affixed to the desired line in the desired page of the document information at a particular position on a screen of the display device, based on the add command generated by the command generating means or the identification mark information searched for by said identification mark searching means in response to said select command, for moving the identification mark displayed on the display device from an outside to an inside of a display section for the document information in response to receiving the add command, and for displaying a ribbon-card shade as the identification mark on the display device.

2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said command generating means further generates a delete command to delete a desired one of the plurality of affixed identification marks, and the document processing apparatus further comprises identification mark deleting means, in response to receiving said delete command, for deleting a desired line in a desired page corresponding to the affixed identification mark to be deleted, from the identification mark information.

3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at the time that the delete command and the add command are entered in sequence from the command entry means and a desired one of the affixed identification marks and a desired line in a desired page of the document information displayed on the display device are specified, the identification mark deleting means and the identification mark affixing means further move the specified identification mark from the previous desired line in the desired page to the new desired line in the desired page.

4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said display control means moves the specified identification mark to the desired new line in the desired page in response to receiving the delete command and the add command in sequence.

5. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said command generating means includes a mouse having a button, said mouse outputting the add command by pressing the button after positioning a mouse cursor at a body of the identification mark.

6. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said command generating means includes a mouse having a button, said mouse outputting the add command by pressing the button and then dragging said mouse after positioning a mouse cursor at a body of the identification mark.

7. A document processing apparatus including a display device for displaying document information including a plurality of lines on the display device, comprising:

a storage device to store information;

command generating means for generating an add command to affix an identification mark to a desired line of the document information displayed on the display device, and for generating a select command to select a desired one of a plurality of affixed identification marks;

identification mark affixing means, in response to receiving said add command, for causing said storage device to store the desired line to which the identification mark is to be affixed as identification mark information;

identification mark searching means, in response to receiving said select command, for searching the identification mark information stored in the storage device for the desired line corresponding to the selected one affixed identification mark; and

display control means for displaying the identification mark affixed to the desired line of the document information at a particular position on a screen of the display device, based on the add command generated by the command generating means or the identification mark information searched for by said identification mark searching means in response to the select command.

8. A document processing apparatus including a display device for displaying document information of a page including a plurality of lines on the display device, comprising:

a storage device to store information;

command generating means for generating an add command to affix an identification mark to a desired line in a desired page of the document information displayed on the display device, for generating a select command to select a desired one of a plurality of affixed identification marks, and for generating a delete command to delete desired one of the plurality of affixed identification marks;

identification mark affixing means, in response to receiving said add command, for causing said storage device to store the desired line in the desired page to which the identification mark is to be affixed as identification mark information;

identification mark searching means, in response to receiving said select command, for searching the identification mark information stored in the storage device for the desired line in the desired page corresponding to the selected one affixed identification mark;

display control means for displaying the identification mark affixed to the desired line in the desired page of the document information at a particular position on a screen of the display device, based on the add command generated by the command generating means or the identification mark information searched for by said identification mark searching means in response to said select command, and for moving the identification mark displayed on the display device from an inside to an outside of a display section for the document information in response to receiving the delete command; and

identification mark deleting means, in response to receiving said delete command, for deleting a desired line in a desired page corresponding to the affixed identification mark to be deleted, from the identification mark information.

9. The document processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein at the time that the delete command and the add command are entered in sequence from the command entry means and a desired one of the affixed identification marks and a desired line in a desired page of the document information displayed on the display device are specified, the identification mark deleting means and the identification mark affixing means further move the specified identification mark from the previous desired line in the desired page to the new desired line in the desired page.

10. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said display control means moves the specified identification mark the desired new line in the desired page in response to receiving the delete command and the add command in sequence.

11. The document processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said command generating means includes a mouse having a button, said mouse outputting the add command or the delete command by pressing the button after positioning a mouse cursor at a body of the identification mark.

12. The document processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said command generating means includes a mouse having a button, said mouse outputting the add command or the delete command by pressing the button and then dragging said mouse after positioning a mouse cursor at a body of the identification mark.

13. A document processing apparatus including a display device for displaying document information of a page including a plurality of lines on the display device, comprising:

a storage device to store information;

command generating means for generating an add command to affix an identification mark to a desired line in a desired page of the document information displayed on the display device, and for generating a select command to select a desired one of a plurality of affixed identification marks, said command generating means including a control pad having various elements including an up command button, a down command button, a left command button, a right command button, a mode selection button, an execution button, a first process button, and a second process button, said various elements being arranged in a manner suited for entering commands to said document processing apparatus;

identification mark affixing means, in response to receiving said add command, for causing said storage device to store the desired line in the desired page to which the identification mark is to be affixed as identification mark information;

identification mark searching means, in response to receiving said select command, for searching the identification mark information stored in the storage device for the desired line in the desired page corresponding to the selected one affixed identification mark; and

display control means for displaying the identification mark affixed to the desired line in the desired page of the document information at a particular position on a screen of the display device, based on the add command generated by the command generating means or the identification mark information searched for by said identification mark searching means in response to said select command.