System and method for conversion between tangible and electronic calendaring systems
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorLouis M. ORMOND
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Abstract
A system and method digital conversion of schedule data includes schedule data stored in a data format corresponding to a scheduling application. A digital imager to captures a digital image of a calendar page sheet into a memory and a processor extracts character data from the digital image. The processor parses temporal data from the character data and determines a calendar entry date from parsed temporal data. The processor further parses event data from the character data and updates an electronic calendar entry for a determined calendar entry date with the event data.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a memory configured to store schedule data in a data format corresponding to a scheduling application;
- a digital imager configured to capture a digital image of a calendar page sheet into the memory;
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- a processor configured to extract character data from the captured digital image,
- the processor further configured to parse temporal data from the character data,
- the processor further configured to determine a calendar entry date from parsed temporal data,
- the processor further configured to parse event data from the character data, and
- the processor further configured to update an electronic calendar entry for a determined calendar entry date with the event data.
A method comprising:
- storing schedule data in a data format corresponding to a scheduling application;
- capturing a digital image of a calendar page sheet into a memory;
- extracting character data from a captured digital image;
- parsing temporal data from the character data;
- determining a calendar entry date from the parsed temporal data;
- parsing event data from the character data;
- and
- updating an electronic calendar entry for a determined calendar entry date with the event data.
A device comprising:
- a network interface configured to receive image data corresponding to a captured calendar page image;
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- a processor and associated memory,
- the processor configured to extract character data from received image data,
- the processor further configured to parse temporal data from the character data,
- the processor further configured to determine a calendar entry date from parsed temporal data,
- the processor further configured to parse event data from the character data,
- the processor further configured to update an electronic calendar entry for a determined calendar entry date with the event data, and
- the processor further configured to send an updated calendar entry to an associated user device via the network interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.