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US 5,179,650 AGranted
Method and apparatus for editing documents
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMika Fukui, Isamu Iwai, Miwako Doi, Yoichi Takebayashi
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for editing a document to automatically produce a satisfactory, well ordered layout which includes the steps of (a) extracting characteristic quantities which characterize different elements of the document; (b) deriving relationships among the different elements of the document in accordance with the characteristic quantities; (c) determining a layout of the different elements of the document in accordance with the relationships; and (d) processing the document in accordance with the layout.
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A method for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising the steps of:
- (a) extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- (b) deriving physical relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted at the step (a) and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make references to said figure elements;
- (c) determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said physical relationships and said referential relationships derived at the step (b);
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- (d) processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined at the step (c).
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An apparatus for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising:
- means for extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- means for deriving physical relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted by said means for extracting and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make references to said figure elements;
- means for determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said physical relationships and said referential relationships derived by said means for deriving;
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- means for processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined by said means for determining.
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A method for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising the steps of:
- (a) extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- (b) deriving structural relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted at the step (a) and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make reference to said figure elements;
- (c) determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said structural relationships and said referential relationships derived at the step (b);
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- (d) processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined at the step (c).
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An apparatus for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising:
- means for extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- means for deriving structural relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted by said means for extracting and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make reference to said figure elements;
- means for determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said structural and said referential relationships derived by said means for deriving;
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- means for processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined by said means for determining.
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A method for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising the steps of:
- (a) extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- (b) deriving denotative relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted at the step (a) and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make reference to said figure elements;
- (c) determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said denotative relationships and said referential relationships derived at the step (b);
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- (d) processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined at the step (c).
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An apparatus for editing a document containing sentence elements and figure elements, comprising:
- means for extracting characteristic quantities which characterize each of said figure elements of said document;
- means for deriving denotative relationships among said figure elements of said document indicative of compatibility of each one of said figure elements with the other ones of said figure elements in view of an overall balance of a layout of said document by using said characteristic quantities extracted by said means for extracting and deriving referential relationships between said sentence elements and said figure elements of said document indicative of positions of words in said sentence elements which make references to said figure elements;
- means for determining layout position and size of each of said figure elements of said document with respect to already laid out parts of said sentence elements and said figure elements in accordance with said denotative and referential relationships derived by said means for deriving;
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- means for processing said document in accordance with said layout position and size determined by said means for determining.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.