Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mieko Asano

Osamu Hori

Shigeyoshi Shimotsuji

Hiroaki Kubota

Satoshi Ito

Tomoyuki Shibata

Osamu Yamaguchi

Yojiro Tonouchi

Ryuzo Okada

Tsukasa Ike

Hidetaka Ohira

Yuki Hata

Reiko Noda

Toshihiko Manabe

Naoki Kawamura

Yun Xiang

An information processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes one or more hardware processors coupled to a memory. The one or more hardware processors acquires pieces of target data of different types. The one or more hardware processors generates element information for each element included in the pieces of the target data. The element information indicates the corresponding element. The one or more hardware processors links, with each other, related pieces of the element information and stores the linked pieces of the element information in a storage device.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product to provide groups of related elements

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch-screen display, a memory, a display process module, and a change module. The memory is configured to store time-series information indicative of loci and an order of handwriting of a plurality of strokes handwritten on the touch-screen display. The display process module is configured to display loci corresponding to the plurality of strokes, on the touch-screen display, based on time-series information. The change module is configured to change time-series information in accordance with an editing operation to the plurality of strokes on the touch-screen display.

Electronic device and handwritten document creation method

According to one embodiment, an information search apparatus includes a generation unit, a selection unit, a search unit and a display unit. The generation unit generates recognition candidate character strings based on shapes of strokes and combinations of the shapes. The selection unit calculates reliability values for the recognition candidate character strings and selects search keys from the recognition candidate character strings. The search unit searches a database for second character strings including the search keys, and obtains one or more result character strings indicating search results of each of the search keys. The display displays the one or more result character strings corresponding to each of the search keys distinctively.

Information search apparatus and system

An electronic apparatus includes a character detector, a feature detector, a character string combiner, and a controller. The character detector detects a first character candidate and a second character candidate from an image. The feature detector detects first feature data and second feature data, the first and second feature data including at least character size, color, or line width of the first and second character candidate. The character string combiner combines the first and second character candidates to form a character string when a degree of coincidence between the first and second feature data at least satisfies a threshold coincidence value. The controller detects a portion of the character string indicative of an attribute and activates a function corresponding to the attribute.

Electronic apparatus and character string recognizing method

In a document filing apparatus, a file memory previously stores a plurality of documents including of line data, character data and image data. An image input section inputs a new document as image data. A character-line extraction section extracts line data and character data from the input image data. A document retrieval section retrieves a document to be compared with the new document from the file memory. A difference detection section detects differences of line data, character data and image data between the new document and the retrieved document. A register section registers the difference data and identification information of the retrieved document as the new document in the file memory.

Document filing apparatus and method having document registration,

In an image filing apparatus, the registered format similar to an input format is correctly retrieved from a plurality of the registered formats in a format registration section. The image data of a new form is inputted through an image input section. A format registration section previously registers a plurality of formats of forms. A format discrimination section extracts the input format from the new form, compares the input format with the plurality of formats in the format registration section, and calculates similarities between the input format and the plurality of formats, respectively. A preservation section stores the image data of the new form by using the registered format selected from the plurality of formats in accordance with the similarity.

Image filing apparatus and method

A drawing processing apparatus for extracting figures from a drawing as numerical data, comprises a drawing input section for inputting a background drawing and a to-be-processed drawing having a figure on the background drawing, and outputting the drawings as image data, an image storing section for storing the image data corresponding to the background drawing and the to-be-processed drawing input by the drawing input section, a registration section for registering the background drawing and the to-be-processed drawing with each other using the image data read out from the image storing section, a vector forming section for dividing figures on the registered background drawing and to-be-processed drawing into a plurality of segments, and converting the segments into segment data of numerical values, thereby representing the segments as vectors, and a selecting section for selecting vectors, which correspond to the vectors formed from the figure on the background drawing, from among the vectors formed from the figure on the to-be-processed drawing.

Drawing processing apparatus

An image figure editing system capable of manipulating figure elements given in terms of the image data in a substantially similar manner as the editing of the figure elements given in terms of the vector data. In the system, the position data to specify the figure elements to be operated in the figure are inputted, one of operation modes is specified, characteristics indicative of a shape of the figure are extracted, and features of the figure are determined according to the extracted characteristics, by carrying out an operation indicated by the specified operation mode to the figure elements specified by the inputted position data. In addition, an image of the figure is modified according to the determined features and the extracted characteristics, by carrying out the operation indicated by the specified operation mode to the figure elements specified by the inputted position data.

Image figure editing system for manipulating figure elements given in

With an image processing system, to-be-processed image data is run length coded. The pattern type of 1.times.M pixels of each row of the to-be-processed image data and a repetition count of the 1.times.M pixel pattern in the row direction are obtained. The run-length coded to-be-processed image data is logically filtered in accordance with the pattern type of the 1.times.M pixel pattern and its repetition count, thereby obtaining run-length coded processed image data.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Mieko Asano