System for editing graphical data based upon relative time of entry

Abstract

This disclosure provides a system for editing graphical data based upon relative time of entry, and in particular, provides editing software used with an electronic digitizing clipboard. A stylus of the clipboard is used to write on pages, with a digitizer underneath the pages generating an electronic record of entered marks for storage and later recreation of the pages. The electronic record represents both stylus spatial coordinates, normally sampled every ten milliseconds, and certain user commands such as page identification, inserted at significant locations within the aggregate data stream. Data in the stream is associated with prior page identification commands, such that subsequent data may be cut or sorted based upon timing of that data relative to the page identification commands. In this manner, the remote editor, and splicing software on the editor, may distinguish data based upon time of entry, and move that data notwithstanding any spatial overlap with other stylus data.