Abstract: A document editing device has a editing unit and a supplementary information editing unit. The editing unit edits a manuscript element of a document. The supplementary information editing unit edits the supplementary information of the document based on a result of editing the manuscript element by the editing unit. The document is a electronic document read by a reading device.

Abstract: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: A translation processing method comprising: registering a type of annotation with a corresponding translation rule in a table; identifying a text to be processed; extracting a type of annotation and character information from the text identified at the identifying step; identifying a text element to which the annotation extracted at the extracting step is to be added; determining a translation rule corresponding to the type of annotation by referring to the table; and translating the text element identified in the annotation identifying step, by applying the translation rule determined at the translation rule determining step is provided.

Abstract: A translation device has a translation processing unit that outputs character-area-character data by performing a translation process on the character-area-character data of an input image representing a figure-containing document, and outputting figure-area-character data by performing a translation process on the figure-area-character data of an input image representing a figure-containing document, a figure identification information searching unit that searches figure identification information used to identify a figure contained in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data, a linked page number searching unit that searches a page number in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data, a page number extracting unit that extracts a page number of a page included in figure area of is figure identification information, and a page number rewriting unit that rewrites the searched page number linked to the figure identification information to the extracted page number of a page.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the text imaging regions separated by the text structure analyzing unit, a feature vectors calculating unit that calculates feature vectors of the clipped characters for each of the text imaging regions, a feature vectors aggregating unit that aggregates the calculated feature vectors over a predefined range of the input text image, and a typed and handwritten character separation unit that separates characters involved in the input text image into the typed characters and the handwritten characters, based on a result of the aggregation by the feature vectors aggregating unit.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus includes: a separation processing unit that separates, into printed character portions and handwritten character portions, data of a document in which printed characters and handwritten characters are mixed; a printed character portion recognition processing unit that character-recognizes the printed character portions; and a handwritten character portion recognition processing unit that utilizes the character recognition result of the printed character portions to character-recognize the handwritten character portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a character recognition apparatus including: plural dictionary databases that contain terms or characters classified into respective fields; a determination unit that determines which field the contents of a document shown by document image data belong to; a selection unit that selects a dictionary database pertaining to the field determined by the determination unit from among the plural dictionary databases; a recognition unit that recognizes a term or a character written in the document shown by the document image data by using the terms or characters stored in the selected dictionary database as candidates; and an output unit that outputs the result of recognition by the recognition unit.

Abstract: An area separating apparatus for judging whether or not each object pixel belongs to a photograph image area in an image.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus has an attachment unit and a storage. The attachment unit attaches a comment to an electronic document as additional information. The comment relates to a modification of the electronic document. The storage associates the comment with modified place information and stores them. The modified place information indicates a modified place of the electronic document, when the electronic document is modified based on the comment.

Abstract: A document processor has a function of attaching additional information to an electronic document and a function of associating linked information with the additional information. The document processor includes a display unit that displays the electronic document, the additional information, and the linked information, a judging unit that judges whether or not the linked information has changed since it was last referred to by a user, and a display control unit that controls the display unit so that a display state of the additional information varies according to the judgment result from the judging unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has an additional information adding unit, a display, an acquisition unit, a status determination unit, and a display control unit. The additional information adding unit adds additional information to an electronic document. The display displays the electronic document and the additional information added to the electronic document. The acquisition unit acquires, in a state where the electronic document is being displayed by the display unit, additional information added to the electronic document by another information processing apparatus. The status determination unit determines whether or not a user is unhindred in referencing the additional information added by the other information processing apparatus. The display control unit controls the display to display the additional information acquired by the acquisition unit when it has been determined by the status determination unit that the user is unhindered in the referencing.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for quantizing image data indicative of a density gradation level of a constituent pixel of an image into a discrete value on the basis of quantization levels of a number smaller than the maximum density gradation level and not smaller than two.

Abstract: A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of the annotations. A weighted value is assigned to each grouped, ranked and typed annotation based on temporal and spatial information. The display characteristics of the weighted annotation is altered based on the weighted value.

Abstract: In a meeting held with employment of a plurality of materials, conditions of this meeting are recorded in the form of continuous data, and these materials are distributed to a user P who participates in this meeting byway of a printed matter and/or a screen output. Then, an analyzing unit analyzes the recorded continuous data so as to specify both a material and a place of the continuous data where this material was used. Also, an annotation/material relating unit specifies both an annotation which was added to a distributed material by the user in the meeting and this distributed material. A material matching unit judges a matching characteristic between these specified material and distributed materials. Then, are lating unit links the place of the continuous data where the material having the matching characteristic was employed with respect to the annotation of the distributed material.

Abstract: The technique for selecting at least a part of object on an electronic media includes, providing annotations on the object, grouping the annotation on the object, and selecting one or both of the object and the annotations based on the grouping of the annotations on the object. The techniques also provide the system that selects a part of object on a media, that includes an annotation grouping circuit that provides annotations on the object and groups the annotations on the object, and an object selection circuit that selects at least one of the object and the annotations based on the grouping of the annotation on the object.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for displaying sets of high value annotation information while maintaining the contextual relevance of the high value annotations to the source portion of the annotated document. A selection criteria such as annotator name, time or other criteria, is applied to the high value annotations. High value annotations having overlapping display locations in the source document are determined and the overlap resolved based on a presentation style. The high value annotations and the document is displayed based on the presentation style.

Abstract: The present invention provides a micro gravity environmental control apparatus, such as a plant cultivating apparatus, an animal raising apparatus, and a micro gravity environmental control method, such as a plant cultivating method, an animal raising method, a breeding method, capable of cultivating a plant and raising an animal by using soil and also capable of recovering moisture supplied to the soil so as to reuse the moisture, under a weightless environment or a micro gravity environment. There is provided a micro gravity environmental control apparatus comprising a chamber, an air suction pipe arranged in the vicinity of a lower end portion within the chamber, and an air sucking part communicated and connected with the air suction pipe and used for sucking air within the chamber out of the chamber.

Abstract: Information recording area of an optical disk is divided radially into a plurality of recording areas with a boundary area interposed therebetween. The boundary area is formed as either a high-reflection area that presents a higher reflection light level than the divided recording areas or a low-reflection area that presents a lower reflection light level than the divided recording areas. When an instruction is given to move an optical head from a current point to the target point over the optical disk, a seek operation is performed up to the start point of one of the divided recording areas that contains the target point, while detecting, on the basis of a variation in the reflection light level, the boundary area located between another one of the divided recording areas that contains the current point and the divided recording area containing the target point.

Abstract: A solder connecter assembly having a printed wiring board, an electrode formed on the printed wiring board, a semiconductor package, a pad formed on the semiconductor package, a resist formed on the printed wiring board and having an opening of the resist around the electrode, a solder ball disposed between the electrode and the pad, and a resin fillet formed in the opening and in a vicinity of a connecting part between the solder ball and the electrode.

Abstract: A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of the annotations. A weighted value is assigned to each grouped, ranked and typed annotation based on temporal and spatial information. The display characteristics of the weighted annotation is altered based on the weighted value.