Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Takahiko Nomura

Koichi Hayashi

Kenichi Suzuki

Yasuo Horino

Tan Hazama

Yoichiro Maeda

Naoya Takezaki

Hitoshi Ihashi

Jun Kiyota

Naoki Hayashi

Noboru Konno

In a PC, image data, position data indicating the position of the image data, and addition data associated with the image data are created. Further, the PC requests a background management unit to send a background pattern used to specify paper and a position on the paper, and prints the background pattern together with the image data. Further, the PC registers the background pattern, the addition data, and the position data in an information server in association with each other. When the user points to an image on the paper provided as the result of printing with a handwrite input pen, the background pattern and the pointing position are detected on the paper, and the addition data corresponding to the paper and the position is output.

Data output system and method

When an user inserts already used paper into a shredder of PC, a scanner disposed with the shredder reads a background pattern put on the paper. The shredder shreds and discards the inserted paper. The PC transmits the background pattern put on the discard paper to a background management unit and further notifies a background management unit that the paper is discarded. The background management unit places the background pattern sent from the PC in an unused state and manages the background pattern so that the background pattern can be reused.

Data management system and method

The present invention provides a knowledge-based management diagnosis system which evaluates/diagnoses enterprise management and automatically generates a community for enhancing the enterprise management. A questionnaire on the awareness, and etc. of employees is conducted, whereupon on the basis of the questionnaire, the management situation of an organization is diagnosed, the course of improvement/reform is indicated, and a community of persons who are interested in particular knowledge or whose work styles are similar is automatically generated. Knowledge assets are classified into the characteristic of individual working manners, the characteristic of working manners in the organization, and a characteristic expressive of the sources of profits at present and in the future, to which the characteristic of knowledge-based management may well be added. A correlation analysis is made using these characteristics, and evaluation/generation evaluates analytical results based on the correlation analysis or generates the community from the analytical results.

Knowledge-based management diagnostic system

A document outlining any work done on a workspace is to be automatically generated. A workspace history managing part holds the present and past states of a workspace together with history information on the manipulation performed on the workspace. A synthesis rule holding part holds synthesis rules for synthesizing information. A synthesizing part, working on history information managed by the workspace history managing part, synthesizes information in accordance with the synthesis rules held by the synthesis rule holding part, and thereby generates outline information. This dispenses with the need for a user to prepare documents stating the progress of his or her work, and reduces the user's workload correspondingly. Moreover, automatic generation of outline information makes the latest information available all the time.

Outline information generating apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recording thereon outline information generating program

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus to administer a set of evaluation units for providing evaluation including classification, providing comments and so on to information based on the history of evaluation in the past. A data object or information specifying the data object is stored as an information unit in an information unit administering element to be administered, and a set of evaluation units (item such as classification, providing comments and so on) is stored in an evaluation unit set administering element and administered. Every time evaluation is provided to the information unit, information about the relation of association among the information unit, evaluation unit and the set of evaluation units is stored in an evaluation history administering element as a result of evaluation to be administered. Accordingly, a user is able to know by which set of evaluation units the evaluation is provided to a certain piece of information in detail by referring to the result of evaluation administered in the evaluation history administering element.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A graphic processing apparatus is described which is capable of controlling the highlighting states of regions of an image by providing differences in color and hatching densities and the like to the regions in accordance with the area and the degree of importance of the region. This allows high quality coloring and hatching to be easily performed. The graphic processing apparatus has a memory for temporarily storing the image; a region extractor that extracts a plurality of regions to be painted with a color from the stored image; a region color determiner that determines region colors to be applied to the extracted regions; and an output image generator that generates an image having the color attributes applied to the extracted regions of the stored image. The region colors are differentiated from each other by differences in color attributes from among the regions in accordance with the areas of the individual regions each to be painted with a color. When used in a digital photocopier environment, an image that is scanned and stored in memory can have regions, selected by a user through a graphical user interface, colored or hatched, the colors/hatching applied at the same time to the regions and the modified image printed.

Graphic processing apparatus allowing the user to specify image

A work environment is expressed as an information unit set (Snap), a data object or the like to be used in the work environment is expressed as an information unit (Mediator), a plurality of information unit sets are collected into a Place and are stored in Places into an information unit set hold history storage part 3, and an information unit set to be used in a current work environment is held by an information unit set hold part 14. If a given condition such as the change of a work or the like is prepared, then the information unit set held by the information unit set hold part 14 is stored into the information unit set hold history storage part 3 by a storage instruct part 7, and selection information such as the name of a work and the like is applied to the thus stored information unit set. If a certain piece of selection information is input from a user in order that a certain information unit set can be selected and used in a current work environment, then an information unit set select part 4 uses the thus input select information to select an information unit set corresponding to the present select information from the information unit set hold history storage part 3, and the present information unit set is then read out into the information unit set hold part 14 by an information unit set read part 5.

Information processing unit for automatically building work environment

A workspace management section collects resources related to a job and manages them as a workspace separately from resource management of a primary resource management section. The workspace has resource administration information as job relevant information, area information on a display screen, a base image, etc. A program can define the area information together with areas on the screen. A workspace display section superposes icons corresponding to the resources on the base image for display. The icons can be moved by a resource placement section. When an icon is moved to a different area, a job support processing execution section executes a program defined corresponding to the area to which the icon is moved, whereby different meanings can be imparted to the same resource depending on the area in which the corresponding icon is placed.

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Takahiko Nomura