Management apparatus, design management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 9,977,794 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2014
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Fujigaki, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Kholdebarin, Iman K
• Application Number:
  US14/542,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/33 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/751 Comparing pixel values or logical combinations thereof, or feature values having positional relevance, e.g. template matching
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink

Abstract

A design management apparatus is provided for presenting a template used to create a design. The design management apparatus may include a calculator that receives multiple templates having multiple character strings as predetermined samples and calculates a score for each character string in each template, where the score concerns a subject of the template and corresponds to a size of the character string. Moreover, the design management apparatus may receive information indicating a search subject to output the template including the character string which corresponds to the search subject and the score of which meets an output condition.

Claims

1. A design management apparatus comprising:

at least one hardware processor configured to execute modules comprising;

a calculator configured to;

receive a plurality of templates that are used to create designs and that include a plurality of character strings serving as predetermined samples; and

calculate a score for each character string in each template, the score concerning a subject of the template and corresponding to a size of the character string; and

an outputter configured to;

receive information indicating a search subject; and

output a template including a character string which corresponds to the search subject, in response to the calculated score for the character string in the template meeting an output condition.

2. The design management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the calculator is further configured to normalize the score of each character string calculated for every template.

3. The design management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the calculator is further configured to vary the score of the character string depending on a degree of decoration of the character string.

4. The design management apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the calculator is further configured to vary the score of the character string depending on a degree of decoration of the character string.

5. The design management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the score is increased in proportion to the size of the character string, and

wherein the outputter is further configured to receive the character string indicating the search subject and, in response to the calculated score being equal to or higher than a reference value, output the template including the character string which coincides with the character string indicating the search subject and the calculated score.

6. The design management apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the outputter is further configured to preferentially output the template including the character string having a higher score.

7. The design management apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein, among the plurality of templates including identical character strings having equal score values, the outputter is further configured to preferentially output the template including the character string having a larger size.

8. The design management apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein, among the plurality of templates including identical character strings having equal score values, the outputter is further configured to preferentially output the template having a size coinciding with a specified print size.

9. The design management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of templates include a base template that is created in advance and a derived template that is created by editing the base template.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:

a storage configured to store a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising;

receiving a plurality of templates that are used to create designs and that include a plurality of character strings serving as predetermined samples;

calculating a score for each character string in each template, the score concerning a subject of the template and corresponding to a size of the character string;

receiving information indicating a search subject; and

outputting a template including a character string which corresponds to the search subject, in response to the calculated score for the character string in the template meeting an output condition.

11. A design management method comprising:

receiving a plurality of templates that are used to create designs and that include a plurality of character strings serving as predetermined samples;

calculating a score for each character string in each template, the score concerning a subject of the template and corresponding to a size of the character string;

receiving information indicating a search subject; and

outputting the template including a character string which corresponds to the search subject, in response to the calculated score for the character string in the template meeting an output condition.