Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Katsurabayashi

Chihiro Sato

Nobuyuki Takeo

Akira Kurosawa

Takashi Noguchi

Takashi Ohsawa

Nobuo Suzuki

Shigehiko Sasaki

Masayoshi Sakakibara

Motoyuki Takaai

Shinji Kita

Eriko Tamaru

Toru Tanaka

Shoichi Hayashi

Toru Ishigaki

Satoshi Ichimura

Shinichi Miyamoto

Takanao Sasaki

Fumitaka Matsumoto

Chihiro Satoh

Maki Kamisango

Hiroto Fukushima

An image formation apparatus includes a visible image data generation section that acquires content data of a print object and generates image data of a visible image containing the content, an invisible image data generation section that generates image data of a code image describing predetermined code information, the code image being an invisible image that can be hardly recognized by eyes of a human being, and a print image data generation section that generates print image data by superposing the invisible image data onto the visible image data, a part of the invisible image data being changed to be printed as a visible image.

Image formation apparatus, image forming method and storage medium for storing program

A workflow management system includes a print control section that, upon receiving an instruction to print an electronic document used in a workflow, causes a printing device to print, together with the electronic document, identification information for identifying the workflow or an activity of the workflow, the workflow or the activity is a destination to which an image resulting from reading a printed result of the electronic document is to be taken, an identifier recognition section that recognizes the identification information read by an image reading device, and an association section that associates the image of the electronic document read in association with the identification information by the image reading device or data resulting from a process performed on the image with the destination identified by the recognized identification information.

System, method, and storage medium for workflow management

A document correction detection system includes a code analysis section that inputs a read image provided by optically reading a print medium on which a document image and a code image are formed and extracts the code image from the read image and a correction detection section that determines a correction made to the document image on the print medium if an anomaly in the code image extracted by the code analysis section is detected.

Document correction detection system and document tampering prevention system

An electronic document management system includes an electronic document management unit that manages a correlation between address information that is printed on a surface of a medium to specify a position of the surface of the medium and an electronic document printed on the medium, and an accumulating unit that accumulates correction information describing a difference between a position of the electronic document on a document image and a position on the medium by a code image describing the address information printed on the surface of the medium together with the electronic document, in connection with the medium. The electronic document management unit inputs reading information of the code image, and corrects position information obtained from the reading information based on the accumulated correction information so that a position of the electronic document on the document image matches with a position on the medium by the code image.

Electronic document management system, image forming device, method of managing electronic document, and program

An information storage unit stores pieces of information that are classified on the basis of their relationships. An information providing unit provides a client terminal with information stored in the information storage unit via a communication network in response to an access request from the client terminal. An access frequency acquiring unit acquires access frequencies, for respective classification items of the pieces of information, of accesses to the pieces of information. An information generating unit generates prescribed information so that pieces of information of plural classification items will be displayed in the client terminal in such a form as to be based on histories of the access frequencies.

Information providing system and information providing method

An optimum operator selection support system, executed by a computer, includes a document computer executable management part, a document feature computer executable extraction part, and a job feature computer executable extraction part. The document computer executable management part manages documents related to jobs stored by the computer, with additional information on operators who generated the documents. The document feature computer executable extraction part extracts a plurality of documents generated by a same operator from the document computer executable management part, and extracts features of the respective documents. The job feature computer executable extraction part extracts features of jobs of the operator by detecting common features based on a frequency of occurrence of terms in the plurality of documents extracted by the document feature computer executable extraction part.

Optimum operator selection support system

The invention provides an apparatus for reproducing the state in which an editor has added and described a comment to a document while what description content the editor is viewing so that the intention of the editor is rendered understandable. A document synthesis unit displays a layer on a screen, the document editing unit generates a new layer based on user operation to the document having the component layer displayed on the screen and adds it to the document, and generates at-add-time layer display state information of the layer displayed on the screen at the time of the addition. Layer state managing units manage the at-add-time layer display state information in correlation with the new layer, and when a display designation receiving unit receives a designation that specifies the content added to the document, a layer state reproducing unit controls the document synthesis unit to display the layer that was displayed on the screen when the specified layer was added based on the at-add-time layer display state information.

Document editing apparatus

The invention provides a common document editing apparatus that is capable of reflecting the edition content based on a exclusive edition right on a common document even in the case where the exclusive edition right is cancelled forcibly. When an exclusive edition right of a common document stored in a document storing unit is requested, a lock information managing unit issues an exclusive edition right to permit exclusive edition and the lock information in stored in a lock information storing unit. Upon receiving the edition content together with the lock information, the lock information managing unit stores the edition content in the document storing unit only when the received lock information is identical with the lock information stored in the lock information storing unit. When the exclusive edition right is cancelled forcibly, the lock information managing unit 23 stores the lock information in an unlocked lock information storing unit. When the edition content that is identical with the same lock information is requested to be stored before a new exclusive edition right of the same document is requested, the lock information is overwritten in the document storing unit.

Common document editing apparatus

A work area detection unit detects the work area in which a user is interested and a user viewpoint calculation unit extracts viewpoint information from the work area. In a dynamic communication group generation unit, the current viewpoint information of each user is accumulated in a user viewpoint information storage unit, a group generation unit generates the group information based on the similarity to the accumulated viewpoint information every time the viewing information is accumulated. In a dynamic communication session control unit, a group information storage unit accumulates the group information, a communication session generation unit generates the environment to assure the communication for all members of each group based on the group information and a communication session deletion unit deletes the group information of the group of only one member. Thereby, each user can implement communication with the best partner fit for the work condition being executed in current as the collaborative work on the virtual space.

Collaborative work support system

The states of activities by a plurality of users regarding a given project are kept track of, including activities personally carried out by individual users. An information processing unit processes, upon request from a user, work data in a joint work data management unit and personal work data management units. A shared activity information management unit and personal activity information management units manage joint work data and personal work data in the joint work data management unit and the personal work data management units as activity information. An activity information tracing unit, on the basis of activity information separately managed by the shared activity information management unit and the personal activity information management units, extracts particulars of a sequence of operations performed on a specific activity. The states of activities can be thereby kept track of, including activities personally carried out by individual users.

Activity state viewing and recording system

The present invention provides an electronic meeting system which enables a user to refer to the progress of a meeting from the user's unique view point. A first communication unit communicates information with a client. A first analysis unit analyzes the information transmitted. A first attribute extraction unit extracts the attribute included in the information. A first memory unit stores the attribute and the information in correlated relation. An information management unit manages information and extracts required information to return it to the client. A second communication unit communicates information with the sever. An input unit receives information input from a mouse. A second analysis unit analyzes input information. A second attribute extraction unit extracts the attribute included in the information. A second memory unit stores the extracted attribute. A selection unit selects a desired attribute from among attributes stored. A display unit displays the information written in the virtual space on a display unit in the form of display type corresponding to the selected attribute.

Electronic meeting system, information processor, and recording medium

Use right processing for mere viewing and listening of information and utilization right processing for utilization in users' own works can be separately performed, thereby reducing useless right processing in the process of creation and efforts to negotiate singly with an author for right processing. Virtual electronic information manipulation spaces are created on a network and managed by a management part. Information within the spaces is accumulated by an information accumulation part. An information manipulation space control part presents the virtual electronic information manipulation spaces to users while communicating with the management part over the network and obtains information managed by the management part by users' operations. Information in the information manipulation spaces is manipulated by an information manipulation part. When information is transferred out of the information manipulation spaces, right processing is performed by a right processing part.

Electronic information utilization promotion system

In an application sharing system in which a plurality of users can make discussions using a relationship among pieces of information extending to a plurality of application windows, there is provided the ability to select windows to be displayed and windows to be hidden for each user. In the system, an application included in one computer is shared by a plurality of computers connected through a network and display screens produced by the application are shared. In a computer having the shared application, whether to display or hide, for each user, windows displayed in the course of screen display shared other computers is controlled by a display control unit. There is provided a user information management unit that manages user information indicating for each user whether to display or hide each window. The display control unit determines whether to display or hide for each user, using the user information in the user information management unit.

Cooperative work support system for managing a window display

A collaborative work support system that is performed on plural computers each of which is assigned for an operator, and supports collaborative work in which the plural computers display common data and each operator operates the displayed common data through his own computer. The collaborative work support system includes: a shared data storage for storing shared data to be displayed on each computer; an individual data storage for storing individual data, which is individually created by a specific operator and individually displayed on any of the computers; an individual data sender for sending the individual data to other computers in response to a command from the specific operator who created the individual data so as to display the individual data on other computers as created shared data; and a manager for managing so that the individual data is stored in the shared data storage with other data associated with the individual data as a unit of storage.

Collaborative work support system and method to facilitate the process

An internal clock generates time stamps indicating an order of occurrence of operation events in a drawing communication apparatus. Data of operation events that occurred in another apparatus are transmitted to the drawing communication apparatus together with time stamps. The data of the operation events that have been input to the drawing communication apparatus or transmitted from the other apparatus are stored together with the time stamps. When a contradiction is detected between an order of receptions of the operation events and an order of the time stamps, the processing order of contradiction-detected operation events are corrected based on their time stamps.

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Nakai-machi, Japan

Hiroshi Katsurabayashi