The invention provides a document editing apparatus by which a hand-written inputted editing operation can be reflected on a document without deterioration of the efficiency in editing operation. Editing operations recognized by an editing operation recognition section based on locus data, that is, information hand-written inputted using a locus data inputting section, are stored once into an editing operation storage section. Each time an editing operation is inputted, an editing operation which satisfies a determination condition stored in a determination condition storage section is searched from among the editing operations stored in the editing operation storage section by a determination section. Then, only the editing operation thus searched out is reflected on the document by a document editing section.
An environment recognizing unit extracts the first through N-th states from an input image and calls data corresponding to the first through N-th states from the first through N-th pattern recognizing units to perform a recognizing unit.
A pattern recognizing apparatus, having an environment recognizer that extracts a predetermined feature from an input image and a pattern recognizer that performs a pattern recognizing process after altering the process based on the feature extracted by the environment recognizer.
A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating to the computer software and coded data indicative of a text field. When placed in an operative position relative to the interface surface, the sensing device senses indicating data indicative of the text field and generates movement data indicative of the sensing device's movement relative to the interface surface. The indicating data and movement data are received in the computer system and the text field is identified from the indicating data. The computer software is operated at least partly in reliance on the movement data, and in accordance with instructions associated with the text field.
A system and method for editing ink objects recognized in ink input is provided. An ink parser may recognize an ink object in ink input and then an ink editing user interface may edit the ink object recognized by the ink parser. The ink parser may include a chart detector, shape recognizer, and various ink object recognizers such as a chart recognizer, a list detector and a table detector. The various ink object recognizers may recognize particular ink objects. The ink editing user interface may edit the ink object recognized by the ink parser. The ink editing user interface may include a chart editor, list editor, table editor, mode switcher, and a visualizer. The mode switcher may switch the ink editing system between inking mode and ink editing mode.
Apparatus for automatically building an electronic form for presentation to a user during a data capture process segregates the data capture intent behind the form from the presentation and execution of the form to a data capture user. In this way, the data capture process, including generation of the form and display of user input prompts, can be carried out on any computing platform independent of the system used to generate a data capture definition file that specifies the intent of the data capture requirements. The specification of data elements required during data capture, each having a type specification and a logical relationship relative to other data elements in a hierarchical structure are defined in a data capture definition file in a predetermined format. A data capture process executes the data capture definition file and automatically generates a plurality of visual displays for presentation to a user, each input screen comprising a plurality of user input areas corresponding to the data elements and physically positioned on the screen in a manner corresponding to the defined logical hierarchical structure.
