IP Library Granted Patent US 8,570,610
Granted Patent B2
US 8,570,610 · App. 12/883,868 · Granted Oct 29, 2013

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable medium for designating a region of reduced document on display and creating image corresponding to the designated region

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Patent No.
US 8,570,610
App. No.
12/883,868
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a document acceptance unit that accepts a plurality of documents; a reduction and display unit that reduces and displays the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit; a region designation unit that designates a region for one of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; a region image creation unit that creates an image corresponding to the region designated by the region designation unit for each of the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit based on a size of each of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; and a region image display unit that displays the images created by the region image creation unit in respective document positions corresponding to the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit.

Claims (51)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising a processor configured to execute units comprising:

a document acceptance unit that accepts a plurality of documents;

a reduction and display unit that reduces and displays the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit;

a region designation unit that designates a region within one of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit;

a region image creation unit that creates images corresponding to the region designated by the region designation unit for each of the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit based on a size of each of the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit; and

a region image display unit that displays the images created by the region image creation unit in respective document positions corresponding to the documents displayed by the reduction and display unit,

wherein:

the region designation unit displays a shape as a region designation mark,

a position of the region designation mark is manipulable to designate the region,

the region designation unit designates the region within one of the documents in accordance with a manipulation of the region designation mark,

the region image creation unit creates the images of the region designated by the region designation unit, during the manipulation of the region designation mark, and

the region image display unit displays the images created by the region image creation unit of the region designated by the region designation unit, during the manipulation of the region designation mark.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of the documents accepted by the document acceptance unit has a plurality of pages, and

the region image creation unit creates an image of a region in a corresponding page of each document when the region designated by the region designation unit is on a second page or on a page after the second page.

3. The information processing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the region image creation unit creates an image of a corresponding region in each rotated document when the region designated by the region designation unit is a region in the rotated document.

4. The information processing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the document acceptance unit includes a first document acceptance unit which accepts a plurality of documents as a first document group, and a second document acceptance unit which accepts a plurality of documents as a second document group, and

when a document of the image displayed by the region image display unit is copied or moved from the first document group to the second document group, the region image display unit displays an image of said document of the first document group in the second document group.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

when a document of the image displayed by the region image display unit is copied or moved from the first document group to the second document group, the region image creation unit creates images equivalent to the region where the copied or moved document is displayed, for the second document group except the copied or moved document in the second document group, and

the region image display unit displays the images created by the region image creation unit in the second document group.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the document acceptance unit includes a first document acceptance unit which accepts a plurality of documents as a first document group, and a second document acceptance unit which accepts a plurality of documents as a second document group,

when a document is copied or moved from the second document group to the first document group indicated by images displayed by the region image display unit, the region image creation unit creates an image corresponding to a region designated by the region designation unit in the first document group for said document being copied or moved to the first document group, and

the region image display unit displays the image created by the region image creation unit in the first document group.

7. An information processing method comprising:

accepting a plurality of documents;

reducing and displaying the accepted documents;

designating a region within one of the displayed documents;

creating images corresponding to the designated region for each of the accepted documents based on a size of each of the displayed documents; and

displaying the created images in respective document positions corresponding to the displayed documents,

wherein:

the designating the region comprises displaying a shape as a region designation mark,

a position of the region designation mark is manipulable to designate the region,

the region is designated within one of the documents in accordance with a manipulation of the region designation mark,

the creating the images comprises creating the images of the designated region, during the manipulation of the region designation mark, and

the displaying the created images comprises displaying the images of the designated region, during the manipulation of the region designation mark.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing, the process comprising:

accepting a plurality of documents;

reducing and displaying the accepted documents;

designating a region within one of the displayed documents;

creating images corresponding to the designated region for each of the accepted documents based on a size of each of the displayed documents; and

displaying the created images in respective document positions corresponding to the displayed documents,

wherein:

the designating the region comprises displaying a shape as a region designation mark,

a position of the region designation mark is manipulable to designate the region,

the region is designated within one of the documents in accordance with a manipulation of the region designation mark,

the creating the images comprises creating the images of the designated region, during the manipulation of the region designation mark, and

the displaying the created images comprises displaying the images of the designated region, during the manipulation of the region designation mark.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 12, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 058287/0056 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2010
From: NAKAZAWA, SHINSUKE
To: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024999/0856 →