US 7,584,413 B2Granted

Electronic document binder builder

AssigneeCanon Kabuhsiki Kaisha

InventorsMakoto Takaoka, Yasumasa Sakai

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Abstract

A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held. An electronic binder builder composes an integrated electronic document on the basis of the electronic documents of the plurality of kinds of electronic source documents held. For the integrated electronic document, a desired electronic source document page is selected from electronic source document pages. The selected material page is edited, and the compositions of the electronic source documents and integrated electronic document are controlled on the basis of the editing result.

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An information processing apparatus including a computer-readable memory storing a computer program which when executed composes an integrated electronic document, said apparatus comprising:

holding means for holding a plurality of kinds of electronic source documents, each of the electronic source documents including a plurality of source pages;
selection means for selecting at least one desired source page from the plurality of source pages included in the plurality kinds of electronic source documents held by said holding means;
composition means for composing the integrated electronic document on the basis of at least one source page selected by said selection means,
wherein the integrated electronic document is composed of link information that links to the selected source page, the selected source page being used as a page of the integrated electronic document;
editing means for controlling to edit and then overwrite with an edited source page, the source page in the electronic source document, wherein the source page has been used as a page of the integrated electronic document by said composition means;
input means for inquiring of a user an input of an instruction regarding updating the page of the integrated electronic document and deleting the page of the integrated electronic document in response to when the source page being used as the page of integrated electronic document is edited and then overwritten with the edited source page in the electronic source document by said editing means;
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control means for controlling, in a case that updating the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by a user using the input means, updating the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document with the edited source page edited by said editing means and controlling, in the case that deleting the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user using the input means, deleting the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document, wherein the edited source page of the electronic source document is not deleted when the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document is deleted.

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An information processing method of composing an integrated electronic document, said method comprising:

a holding step of holding a plurality of kinds of electronic source documents in a storage medium, each of the electronic source documents including a plurality of source pages;
a selection step of selecting at least one desired source page from the plurality of source pages included in the plurality kinds of electronic source documents held in the storage medium in the holding step;
a composition step of composing the integrated electronic document on the basis of at least one source page selected in the selection step, wherein the integrated electronic document is composed of link information that links to the selected source page, the selected source page being used as a page of the integrated electronic document;
an editing step of controlling to edit and then overwrite with an edited source page, the source page in the electronic source document, wherein the source page has been used as a page of the integrated electronic document in said composition step;
an input step of inquiring of a user an input of an instruction regarding updating the page of the integrated electronic document and deleting the page of the integrated electronic document in response to when the source page being used as the page of integrated electronic document is edited and then overwritten with the edited source page in the electronic source document by said editing means;
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a control step of controlling, in the case that updating the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user in said input step, the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document with the edited source page edited in said editing step and controlling, in the case that deleting the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user in said input step, deleting the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document, wherein the edited source page of the electronic source document is not deleted when the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document is deleted.

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A computer-readable memory which stores program codes of information processing for composing an integrated electronic document composed of a plurality of kinds of electronic source documents, comprising:

a program code of a holding step of holding the plurality of kinds of electronic source documents in a storage medium;
a program code of a selection step of selecting a desired electronic source document page from electronic source document pages of the plurality of kinds of electronic source documents held in the storage medium in the holding step;
a program code of a composition step of composing the integrated electronic document on the basis of the electronic source document page selected in the selection step;
a program code of an editing step of controlling to edit and then overwrite with an edited source page, the source page in the electronic source document, wherein the source page has been used as a page of the integrated electronic document in said composition step;
a program code of an input step of inquiring of a user an input of an instruction regarding updating the page of the integrated electronic document and deleting the page of the integrated electronic document in response to when the source page being used as the page of integrated electronic document is edited and then overwritten with the edited source page in the electronic source document by said editing means;
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a program code of the control step of controlling, in the case that updating the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user in said input step, updating the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document with the edited source page edited in said editing step and controlling, in the case that deleting the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user in said input step, the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document, wherein the edited source page of the electronic source document is not deleted when the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document is deleted.

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Abstract

An information processing apparatus including a computer-readable memory storing a computer program which when executed composes an integrated electronic document, said apparatus comprising:

holding means for holding a plurality of kinds of electronic source documents, each of the electronic source documents including a plurality of source pages;
selection means for selecting at least one desired source page from the plurality of source pages included in the plurality kinds of electronic source documents held by said holding means;
composition means for composing the integrated electronic document on the basis of at least one source page selected by said selection means,
wherein the integrated electronic document is composed of link information that links to the selected source page, the selected source page being used as a page of the integrated electronic document;
editing means for controlling to edit and then overwrite with an edited source page, the source page in the electronic source document, wherein the source page has been used as a page of the integrated electronic document by said composition means;
input means for inquiring of a user an input of an instruction regarding updating the page of the integrated electronic document and deleting the page of the integrated electronic document in response to when the source page being used as the page of integrated electronic document is edited and then overwritten with the edited source page in the electronic source document by said editing means;
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control means for controlling, in a case that updating the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by a user using the input means, updating the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document with the edited source page edited by said editing means and controlling, in the case that deleting the page of the integrated electronic document is instructed by said user using the input means, deleting the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document, wherein the edited source page of the electronic source document is not deleted when the page of the integrated electronic document corresponding to the edited source page of the electronic source document is deleted.

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