JP2003069810A - Method and system for adding information to electronic data - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To add electronic information to an optional position of display or a printed image of electronic data such as a distribution material without processing the electronic data. SOLUTION: Electronic additional information data composed of correction characters, annotations, etc., to be added to an optional place of an image are added in image display of received electronic data. The electronic additional information data comprise coordinates information that specifies a position and a range in the printed or display range of the electronic data on the basis of coordinates data that divide the printed or display range of the electronic data, correction information including the annotations or cancellation lines to the displayed or printed contents of the electronic data, etc., and can be subjected to electronic retransmission to other terminals.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and system for adding information to electronic data, and more particularly to enabling information to be electronically added to a predetermined position such as an image (image) based on distributed electronic data. The present invention relates to a method and a method of doing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the progress of paperless and computerization,
The adoption of systems that distribute materials by electronic data instead of distributing paper materials is increasing. However, in distributing electronic data of such materials, an annotation is made to the material (image) based on the electronic data at the electronic data stage. / I could not easily add corrections. In addition, it is possible to print an image of such electronic data in the form of paper, and then add annotations or make corrections to the image. Not only does it go against the flow, but there is also the problem that it is difficult to redistribute paper-shaped data by converting it into electronic data.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide information to electronic data that allows information to be added to an arbitrary position in a display or print image of electronic data without processing the electronic data. It is to provide an adding method and method.

[0004]

According to the method of adding information to electronic data of the present invention, an electronic data corresponding to information to be added to an arbitrary position on the display of the electronic data, for electronic data such as materials to be distributed. A method for adding additional information data, wherein the electronic additional information data is a position and range within the display range or print range based on coordinate data obtained by dividing the display range or print range of the electronic data at predetermined intervals. And additional information such as correction information including a comment or a strike-through line for displaying or printing the electronic data.

In the image display of the electronic data, the coordinate information is generated as data for specifying a display position by the coordinate data of the image. Further, the electronic additional information data is converted into image data, combined with the image data of the electronic data, and displayed on a display device. Further, the coordinate data is data in line units or dot units in an image of electronic data.

The method of adding information to electronic data according to the present invention is as follows:
An information addition method for creating and adding electronic additional information data corresponding to information such as annotations or correction characters to be added to an arbitrary position on the display of the electronic data with respect to electronic data such as distributed materials, A memory (for example, 4 in FIG. 1) that converts the electronic data into image data of a display range or a print range and holds the image data, and specifies a position and a range within the display range or the print range based on the coordinate data of the image data. And a control unit (for example, 1 in FIG. 1) for generating additional information such as correction information including a comment or a strike-through line for the image of the electronic data.

The control unit may generate the front coordinate information as data whose display position is specified by the coordinate data of the image in the image display of the electronic data, and the electronic additional information data on the memory. It is characterized in that it is converted into image data, combined with the image data of the electronic data, and displayed on a display device or the like.
Further, the coordinate data is data in line units or dot units in an image of electronic data.

A receiving unit (eg, 7 in FIG. 1) for receiving the electronic data and a transmitting unit (eg, 8 in FIG. 1) for transmitting the electronic data and the electronic additional information data.
And having.

(Operation)

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, an embodiment of a method and system for adding information to electronic data according to the present invention will be described in detail below.

(Description of Configuration) FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an information processing terminal (terminal) constituting the method and system for adding information to electronic data according to the present embodiment. In the figure, the control device 1 includes an input device 2, a storage device 3, a memory 4, and a display device 5.
The printer 6 and the printer 6 constitute a processing unit that performs a process of adding information to the electronic data material according to the present embodiment. Here, the electronic data is input through the receiving unit 7, and the electronic data and the electronic additional information data added in a form related to the electronic data in the control device 1 are transmitted by the transmitting unit 8.
Is transmitted to and displayed on another terminal or the like, or is output to the printing device 6 and printed out. The more detailed functions of each part are as follows.

The input device 2 is an input means for inputting control information, ruled line information and character information to the control device 1 such as a keyboard and a mouse, as well as coordinate information by position designation and range designation. The storage device 3 has a function of storing electronic data of the material distributed from the receiving unit 7 and electronic additional information data such as annotation or correction information added to the electronic data. The memory 4 has a function of converting the image data of the electronic data and the electronic additional information data such as the annotation under the control of the control device 1 into image data for display on the display device 5, and storing the image data. vide
memory), RAMDAC (random access memory dig)
Ital to analog converter) etc. can be provided.
The printing device 6 is, for example, a page printer, includes a CPU and a memory (not shown), and has a function of creating print image data such as a bitmap from electronic data input from the control device 1 and printing the print image data on paper. The control device 1 includes a CPU and a ROM (not shown). Input / output (transmission / reception) of the electronic data, conversion of electronic data into image data, image data on the memory 4 according to various programs stored in the ROM. Holding, image synthesizing, displaying the image data on the display device 5, inputting additional information from the input device 2 on the display screen, that is, creating coordinate information of the additional information based on the coordinates of the image data. It has a control function and further has a processing function similar to that of creating a print image in the printing device 6 by using the memory 4.

FIG. 2 shows a display image (display image) on the display device 5 or a printing device 6 based on the received electronic data.
It is a diagram showing an example of a print image (print output) from. The electronic data uses, for example, vector data and other various data formats, and the data is converted into bitmap data or the like in the memory 4 in association with the display device 5 or in the memory inside the printing device 6. Then, it is held and displayed or printed.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display or print image in which information on strike-through lines and correction characters is added to the display or print image. The strikethrough line is drawn as a ruled line in a desired range, and a correction sentence is added to a predetermined position and range corresponding to the strikeout line.

As one embodiment of a process of creating electronic additional information data such as correction in the control device 1, a conversion process similar to the image processing operation in the printing device can be carried out. In other words, the image data shown in FIG. 2 is created by converting electronic data into image data such as bitmap data, and the X and Y coordinate data (coordinate data) unique to the image data is used. The electronic additional information data corresponding to the electronic data is created by inputting the electronic additional information data such as correction or annotation to be superimposed on this from the input device 2 on the display device 5, and the two image data are superposed on the memory 4. By displaying the data on the display device 5, transmitting the electronic data and the electronic additional information data to another terminal or the like, or by sending the electronic data and the electronic additional information data to the printing device 6, FIG.
Print the print image shown in. Therefore, the control device 1
Owns the information of the margin portion similarly to the data printed on the paper by the printing device 6, and the vertical and horizontal coordinates of the image data obtained by the electronic data having the vertical and horizontal coordinates. The electronic additional information data is created using the data.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of electronic additional information data added to the image data shown in FIG. It shows an example of a data format of electronic additional information data of a correction sentence (character) of the character color “red”. In the electronic additional information data shown in the figure, the ruled line indicates the data of the strike-through line on the image as the "attribute", and the "start coordinate" and the "end point coordinate" indicate the start point and the end point of the ruled line on the coordinate of the image data. The corresponding data is shown. The character of "attribute" corresponds to the corrected character of the image data, and the CB of "content" indicates the data of the type of the character, and its start coordinates and range are similarly the start point of the character on the coordinates of the image data. And data corresponding to the range are shown.

As described above, the display or print image data shown in FIG. 4 is combined with the image data on the memory by converting the electronic additional information data into image data and combining (overlapping). That is, the electronic additional information data to be superimposed on the image data has information corresponding to the coordinates of the image data, and on the display, it is converted into image data as information corresponding to an arbitrary position of the image of the image data and synthesized. To be done.

(Explanation of Operation) FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation flow of a more specific information addition method and method according to the present embodiment. In the display of a print image of electronic data as the content of the additional information. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement which selectively adds either an annotation or correction of an original sentence. The operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG.

The operation in the figure is controlled by the control device 1, and, for example, in accordance with the terminal operation, for example, the receiving section 7
The electronic data stored in the storage device 3 that has been distributed via the
6 shows an example in which electronic additional information data for annotation or correction (for example, correction data as shown in FIG. 3) is displayed as display data like the image data shown in FIG.

First, the storage device 3 is controlled by the control device 1.
After the electronic data read from the device is displayed on the display device 5 via the memory 4 (s1), the operator switches to the display of the print image (s2), thereby "commenting" or "correcting" the print image. Can be selected (s2,
s3). If "correction" is selected here, it is possible to select a color on the display of the additional information, and the display color is determined by selecting the correction ruled line and the display color of the correction text (s
4).

Next, when the deletion range of the image on the display screen is designated by operating the cursor key or the mouse, the control device 1 determines the position coordinates on the memory 4 by designating the deletion range (s5). Ruled line data is created from the start coordinate data and the end coordinate data (s6), and is saved as additional information to the image data, and the display device 5
Show strikethrough for selected color above. Similarly, when the correction character addition position and the correction character are input by operating the mouse or the like, the control device 1 determines the correction character addition coordinates (s7) and creates correction character data (s8). The color correction characters are displayed on the display device 5 and the data is similarly stored.

By the above processing, it is possible to add electronic additional information data such as correction to electronic data,
Images based on both data are combined on the memory 4 and displayed on the display device 5 (s12). Both data are re-sent to another terminal via the transmission unit 8 if necessary, or transferred to the printing device 6 of the terminal to generate and print a composite image of both data in the CPU and the memory of the printing device (s13). .

If "annotation" is selected in step s3 of the flow, the display color of the annotation text is specified by selecting the display color of the additional information (s).
9) Further, when the input position and range of the annotation text of the image on the display screen are designated by operating the cursor keys or the mouse, the control device 1 is designated on the memory 4 by the designation of the input position and range. Determined the position coordinates (s10),
When the annotation text is input, the control device 1 creates data of the annotation text (s11) and displays the color annotation text on the display device 5
The data is displayed and saved.

By the above processing, electronic additional information data such as annotations can be added to electronic data,
Images based on both data are combined on the memory 4 and displayed on the display device 5 (s12). If necessary, both data are re-sent to another terminal via the transmission unit 8 or transferred to the printing device 6 of the own terminal, so that the CPU and the memory of the printing device generate and print a composite image of both data ( s13).

(Other Embodiments) In the above-described embodiments, the coordinate data used for the electronic additional information data added to the electronic data is the vertical and horizontal directions (X axis, Y axis) with respect to the image data obtained by converting the electronic data. Direction), and the coordinates can be obtained by dividing the number into arbitrary numbers, but it is preferable to follow the coordinate information regarding the image data in the display device 5 or the printing device 6, and the display data on the memory can be displayed and printed. It is possible to use coordinate information in line units (for example, 11 dot lines are one line) or dot units used as a reference.

Further, in the above-described embodiments, the data creation is described in the control device 1 by using the same process as the image creation process by the software for printing, such as the print preview process. ,
This can be created in normal display of electronic data using the memory 4 in the display device 5. By defining the correspondence between the coordinate information of the memory 4 in the normal display of electronic data and the coordinate information of the print image, "attribute", "start coordinate", "end coordinate" on the display screen, It is possible to create additional information data including "range", "color", "contents", and the like.

The electronic additional information data is linked with the electronic data to be distributed and can be retransmitted or printed, but since it can be treated as independent data, corrections or annotations are created. By adding the identification information of the creator, it is possible to make data for each creator, and the received electronic additional information data can be individually displayed or printed out for each creator.

The electronic data to be handled may be characters or graphics, and may have any data format. When displaying these data, it is preferable that each of them is basically expressed as vector data as an element constituting a page, and the data is converted into bitmap data in page units and printed by a printing device.

[0028]

According to the present invention, information such as corrections or annotations can be added as electronic additional information data to various materials distributed by electronic data, so that both data can be directly transmitted to other terminals. It can be redistributed electronically, and can be similarly displayed and printed on other terminals for reference. Further, it is also possible to print out the material with the correction and the like appropriately printed on the terminal.

Further, since the electronic additional information data can be handled as data independent of the electronic data to be added and attached to the electronic data, it can be appropriately set as different data for each of a plurality of terminals or creators. It is possible to selectively create, send, display, and print.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of an information processing terminal in a method and system for adding information to electronic data according to the present invention.

[Fig. 2] Display image by electronic data (display image)
It is a diagram showing an example of a print image (print output).

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of electronic additional information data added to electronic data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example in which a strike-through line and correction characters based on electronic additional information data are added to a display or print image based on electronic data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation flow of a more specific information addition method and system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Control unit (CPU) 2 input devices 3 storage devices 4 memory 5 Display device 6 Printing device (printer) 7 Receiver 8 transmitter

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. An information adding method for adding electronic additional information data to electronic data, the electronic additional information data corresponding to information to be added to an arbitrary position on the display of the electronic data, wherein the electronic additional information data is the electronic data. Correction including the coordinate information for specifying the position and range within the display range or print range based on the coordinate data obtained by dividing the display range or print range of the data at predetermined intervals, and the annotation or strike-through line for the display or print contents of the electronic data A method of adding information to electronic data, characterized by comprising additional information such as information. 2. The coordinate information of the electronic additional information data is:
2. The method of adding information to electronic data according to claim 1, wherein in the image display of the electronic data, the coordinate data of the image is generated as data for specifying a display position. 3. The method of adding information to electronic data according to claim 2, wherein the electronic additional information data is converted into image data, which is combined with image data of the electronic data and displayed. 4. The method of adding information to electronic data according to claim 2, wherein the coordinate data is data in line units or dot units in an image of electronic data. 5. An information adding system for creating and adding electronic additional information data corresponding to information such as a comment or a correction character to be added to an arbitrary position on the display of the electronic data, the method comprising: A memory for converting electronic data into image data of a display range or a print range and holding the image data, coordinate information for specifying a position and range in the display range or print range based on the coordinate data of the image data, and an image of the electronic data And a control unit for generating additional information such as correction information including a comment or a strike-through line, and an information adding method to electronic data. 6. The electronic data according to claim 1, wherein the control unit generates the front coordinate information as data whose display position is specified by the coordinate data of the image in the image display of the electronic data. Information addition method. 7. The electronic data according to claim 6, wherein the control unit converts the electronic additional information data into image data on a memory, synthesizes the image with the image data of the electronic data, and displays the image data. Information addition method. 8. The method of adding information to electronic data according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the coordinate data is data in line units or dot units in an image of electronic data. 9. A receiving unit for receiving the electronic data, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the electronic data and the electronic additional information data, according to any one of claims 5, 6, and 7.
Or a method of adding information to the electronic data described in 8.