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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373593 | Apparatus and method for automatically setting constraints within a document layout A user can efficiently perform a setting operation in an automatic layout system. An information processing apparatus having an automatic layout function includes a function for, in editing containers, measuring a distance between a first container placed on the doc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366981 | Image forming device and method An image forming device for dividing a continuous document without the concept of pages, such as an HTML document, into pages, the device being capable of responding to a user's various needs in connection with page dividing. A page dividing processor (304) i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366980 | Multiple output device association One or more embodiments of the invention enable a user to establish, configure, and associate one or more output devices with a file. Prior art applications provide for configuring an output device (e.g., a printer) on an application wide basis. Users often format a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363315 | Creating, editing, and displaying hierarchical data structures associated with data in a data source Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362465 | Information processing apparatus and control method therefor Whether fascicle setting of bookbinding printing is designated is determined. When printing in several bundles is designated, imposition processing and drawing processing are performed on a plurality of printing surfaces on the basis of the fascicle setting. After e... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363582 | System and method of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359084 | Preview display for multiple-sided printing Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360157 | Aligning content in an electronic document Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356760 | System and method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects A system and method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects utilizes first and second display objects to separate the graphic objects from the text to provide a user with control of the layout of the electronic document. The separation of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350143 | Method for page translation Various embodiments include a means for simultaneously displaying in an ebook both an ebook page number and its corresponding print version page number. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340688 | Application of paging to a dataset, graphical display window and graphical scrollbar grip A dataset is divided into overlapping logical pages, each associated with a different page index. A graphical display window is then filled with data corresponding to a current page offset which is mapped into a subset of data in a logical page corresponding to a cu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7319543 | Image forming system An image forming system includes a PDL job receiving unit for receiving a PDL job generated by use of a page description language, a print image forming unit for interpreting the PDL job and forming a print image, a compression unit for compressing the print image, ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317986 | Method of map version management for a car navigation system According to a car navigation system and a map version management method thereof, a version management method for a server having maps of different versions and a car navigation apparatus is suggested. The method of the present invention includes: managing an update... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315312 | 3D publication with page-turn This invention provides a realistic 3-dimensional graphical representation of a publication on a display means such as a computer monitor or virtual reality goggles in which the publication includes a smooth fluid page-turn. The user interface to provide the publica... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310771 | Method and computer-readable medium for providing page and table formatting services A computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium are provided for providing page and table layout services. According to the method, a layout manager program provides layout services to client application programs. The layout manager receives requests from... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302636 | Enhanced position control of web pages A solution is presented to keep track of the URLs that have been visited within an HTML file, identify the location or exit point of the last line that was displayed on a screen in a multi-screen HTML file, and return to the exact exit point location upon reentry to... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293233 | Method and system for capturing a note-taking session using processing sensor A system and method capturing, in a computer system, data relating to a note-taking session, the session consisting of handwritten annotations made by a user by way of a writing implement on a plurality of pages. The method includes the steps of receiving, in the co... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293234 | Method and system for capturing a note-taking session using sensor with identifier A system and method capturing, in a computer system, data relating to a note-taking session, the session consisting of handwritten annotations made by a user by way of a writing implement on a plurality of pages. The method includes the steps of receiving, in the co... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290217 | Managing position and size for a desktop component In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the d... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290210 | Method and system for capturing a note-taking session using coded marks A system and method capturing, in a computer system, data relating to a note-taking session, the session consisting of handwritten annotations made by a user by way of a writing implement on a plurality of pages. The method includes the steps of receiving, in the co... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283257 | Print job GUI A printing method, including offering a choice to create special pages in a print job; simultaneously displaying a plurality of selectable features, each feature corresponding to a category of special pages; receiving a selection of a first selectable feature; displ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280240 | Image processing apparatus and customized printing system using the same The image processing apparatus includes an image processing section for executing at least one image processing operation with respect to digital image data and a set value chancing device for selecting a plurality of image processing conditions as to said at least ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281209 | Method and apparatus for managing numbering of print pages of sections within a document An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus and method capable of adding headers/footers to a plurality of sections of a document. Check boxes for definitions are checked on a plurality-of-definitions setting window. A document i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268909 | Document processing method and apparatus According to this invention, a document processing method of documenting image data obtained by double-sided scanning of an original containing a single-sided printed part and a double-sided printed part includes a blank determination step of determining on the basi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260778 | Printing pages in accordance with a remainder computation formula A system and method to print graphic documents in booklet format. The system allows the user to have a booklet print option available as a print option of a graphic editor. The system generates a plurality of graphic pages, and orders the pages into logical sequence... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260779 | Methods and apparatus for automatic page break detection In one aspect of the present invention, page breaks are identified in the following manner. A set of ink data and a document description are processed by a variety of scoring methods, each of which generates a score for each possible insertion point in the ink. Thes... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249320 | Method and system for displaying a title area for a page series Grouping pages of an electronic document into a series and displaying a title area for that series. The title area on the viewable area of a display screen whenever a page within a page grouping is displayed. The title area may contain editable document objects acce... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246312 | System and method for fitness evaluation for optimization in document assembly What is disclosed is a system and method for method for fitness evaluation to be used with a directly calculated or iterative optimization method for automatic document assembly. The method for fitness evaluation includes the steps of first capturing the creator's d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243303 | Constraint-optimization system and method for document component layout generation What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a multi-criteria constraint optimization problem, and a method to automatically create the specified document using existing constraint optimization solving algorithms. The present method s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218410 | Driverless, selectable multi-option tiff printing Proposed by the present invention is (a) a method, (b) structure for implementing the method, and (c) a resulting data structure that comes from implementation of the method, relating to introducing various modifications into the image file directory data contents i... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213031 | Automated database publishing and integrated marketing system and program A system to assist a seller in creating product catalogues using a database and a separate pagination program. Information regarding specific, desired products is collected from the database. It is modified by Markup Interchange Format (“MIF”) code wherein direc... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213203 | Document pagination based on hard breaks and active formatting tags Pagination of a document is achieved through the use of an index of predetermined hard breaks within the document. When a selected portion of the document is identified, an immediately prior hard break relative to the selected portion is identified. Active formattin... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210102 | Method and system for determining page numbers of page images Page numbering of images of pages in a document includes extracting all numbers that are exactly one different than a number found on an adjacent page, and grouping the extracted numbers into a set of sequences that describe the candidate page numbers in the book. T... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210103 | Printed book publishing system and management method for printed book publishing Printed book publishing system and method, for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book c... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203900 | Apparatus and method for inserting blank document pages in a print layout application This invention relates to a document processing apparatus which edits document data which can define a desired section using an original page as a unit of definition. Whether a page break is designated at the section break of the section is determined. If the page b... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203898 | Document processing method and apparatus A document processing technique using a computer having an application program for creating application data and a layout program for performing layout processing of document data is provided. A document processing method according to the present invention includes ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203902 | Method and apparatus for document composition A method of composing a document is disclosed which comprises defining a plurality of content portions to be fitted to the document, defining a content layout for the document, which defines at least two containers into which content portions are to be fitted, gener... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197695 | Automated paragraph layout Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node (140). For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calc... | 03/27/2007 |
