Mixed text and image data processing
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhito Shimamura
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Abstract
An image received is inserted at appropriate positions of a text which is separately received through a communication line. More specifically, a text is displayed first, and an arbitrary area in the displaying screen is then set. Thereafter, the text being displayed is rearranged outside the area which has been set, and an image which is separately received is then spread within the area set.
Claims26
A data processing apparatus for editing mixed data including at least two rectangular text data blocks and at least one rectangular image data block, each of the text data blocks including character code data, the at least one image data block including image data, and each of the data blocks further including at least block information for determining layout and kind-of-data-block thereof, said apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing a plurality of mixed data which are received through a communication line;
- designation means for designating mixed data stored in said memory means;
- converting means for converting at least two text data blocks in the mixed data designated by said designation means into one text data block;
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- editing means for editing the mixed data including the one text data block produced by said converting means.
A data receiving apparatus for receiving mixed data which has been divided into at least two rectangular text data blocks and at least one rectangular image data block, each text data block including character code data, the at least one image block including image data, and each of the data blocks further including at least block information for determining layout and kind-of-data-block thereof, said apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing a plurality of mixed data which are received through a communication line;
- designation means for designating mixed data stored in said memory means;
- converting means for linking character code data in plural text data blocks included in the mixed data designated by said designation means;
- display means for displaying the text data produced by said converting means and the associated image data block;
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- editing means for editing the text data displayed by said display means.
A method for receiving a page of mixed data which has been divided into at least two rectangular text data blocks and at least one rectangular image data block, and for processing the mixed data, each text block including character code data, the at least one image data block including image data, and each of the data blocks further including at least block information for determining layout and kind-of-data-block thereof, comprising the steps of:
- storing a plurality of mixed data in a predetermined storage device, the mixed data having been received through a communication line;
- designating a body of mixed data from among the mixed data stored in said storing step;
- creating one text data block of character code data from plural text data blocks included in the mixed data designated in said designating step;
- displaying the one text data block produced in said creating step;
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- editing the test data block displayed in said displaying step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.