| 6016502 |
Data processing apparatus |
| Jan-18-2000 |
A display of an electric device displays data which are stored in a chart data part, in the form of a chart. When deleting of a column or row of the chart using a coordinates inputting device is instructed,... |
| 6009196 |
Method for classifying non-running text in an image |
| Dec-28-1999 |
The present invention is a method for analyzing image data, and more particularly for analyzing of image data representing images containing text to partition the image into running and non-running text... |
| 5937155 |
Interactive report generation system and method of operation |
| Aug-10-1999 |
A computer software system (10) is provided. The computer software system (10) includes a compiler (12) operable to receive a worksheet definition (20) and to access a plurality of model interface functions... |
| 5883635 |
Producing a single-image view of a multi-image table using graphical representations of the table data |
| Mar-16-1999 |
A method for operating a processor-controlled machine produces a single-image compressed view of a multi-image table by replacing the character image information in each cell of the multi-image table with... |
| 5881381 |
Method and system for mapping non-uniform table-structure input data to a uniform cellular data structure |
| Mar-9-1999 |
A technique to make it possible to paste text display data in a text-editing program, which is arranged in table format and not formed into a geometrical format, onto a table region of a spreadsheet program... |
| 5880742 |
Spreadsheet image showing data items as indirect graphical representations |
| Mar-9-1999 |
An improvement to a spreadsheet application program executed in a processor-controlled machine displays a first spreadsheet image showing a plurality of cell regions each of which shows a direct, symbolic... |
| 5860156 |
Method for implementing an indexed jump table |
| Jan-12-1999 |
A method for processing interface messages, such as SCSI messages, using an indexed jump table. Two single-dimensional tables are implemented by the method described. The first table stores index values... |
| 5841900 |
Method for graph-based table recognition |
| Nov-24-1998 |
The present invention is a method for bottom-up recognition of tables within a document. This method is based on the paradigm of graph-rewriting. First, the document image is transformed into a layout... |
| 5835917 |
Table forming apparatus employing a partial ruled survey for facilitated table formation |
| Nov-10-1998 |
A table forming apparatus useful in forming a complex or large-sized table. In a partial ruled table survey model forming unit, a user selects a model for a survey of a partial ruled table, and designates... |
| 5835916 |
Document preparing apparatus capable of relocating cells forming a table and resetting cell size |
| Nov-10-1998 |
A document preparing apparatus capable of independently relocating and/or resetting cells includes a text generator generating text, and tabulation device to form a table containing text. The table includes... |
| 5819268 |
Method and system for testing for equality/difference in multiple tables of a database |
| Oct-6-1998 |
Methods and system for comparing tables of a database are set forth. Within each table are multiple rows, each row having multiple columns, each column having a datum contained therein. The methods include... |
| 5812131 |
Mobile client computer programmed to process table displays |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A display generating system, and particularly a computer such as a mobile client system, in which a control program such as an application or interface program cooperates with a processor in reflowing... |
| 5808914 |
Table allocating apparatus and method |
| Sep-15-1998 |
A table allocating apparatus for producing a layout of a table. In the apparatus, both of a linear equation for representing a column width of a table or a row height thereof by employing a parameter,... |
| 5805881 |
Method and apparatus for generating arbitrary output records in response to output designation of records |
| Sep-8-1998 |
In order to obtain an accounting form required by a person who has no expert knowledge, a first designation units designates record names of output records, and item contents (e.g., item codes) of the... |
| 5799115 |
Image filing apparatus and method |
| Aug-25-1998 |
In an image filing apparatus, the registered format similar to an input format is correctly retrieved from a plurality of the registered formats in a format registration section. The image data of a new... |
| 5787434 |
File processing apparatus, file processing method and a computer readable memory media |
| Jul-28-1998 |
A file processing apparatus stores document-definition documents for defining documents, which document-definition documents include document-definition information such as document format information... |
| 5768606 |
Method, system, computer program product and program storage device for declaring column widths of matrices |
| Jun-16-1998 |
A system and method for enabling a developer to write a computer program that, when executed, displays a matrix on a computer display device, and a system and method for displaying a matrix on a computer... |
| 5739824 |
Method and apparatus for conveying higher-dimensional tabular information to people using lower-dimensional output devices |
| Apr-14-1998 |
The invention discloses an apparatus for conveying higher dimensional tabular information to people using a lower dimensional output device. The apparatus is such that original information in the higher... |
| 5671427 |
Document editing apparatus using a table to link document portions |
| Sep-23-1997 |
A document editing apparatus is provided, which can perform a linking process after checking the entire correspondence between sentences in an existing document which are to be copied and portions in a... |
| 5668961 |
System and method for fast display of data objects in a table |
| Sep-16-1997 |
A system and method for displaying on a computer screen a specified data object that is part of a data table, in response to a user selecting a displayed object metaphor. The indexed location of the data... |
| 5632009 |
Method and system for producing a table image showing indirect data representations |
| May-20-1997 |
A method for operating a processor-controlled system produces a table image including graphical display objects in each of the cell regions indirectly representing the data values in an underlying n-dimensional... |
| 5623591 |
System and methods for building spreadsheet applications |
| Apr-22-1997 |
An electronic spreadsheet system includes a notebook interface having a plurality of notebook pages, each of which may contain a spread of information cells, or other desired page type (e.g., Graphs page).... |
| 5613131 |
Auto-formatting of tables in a spreadsheet program |
| Mar-18-1997 |
A number of predefined table formats are provided for formatting a table. A user converts a table into the predefined table format by selecting the range of cells for the table and then selecting the predefined... |
| 5583981 |
Method and system for changing the size of edit controls on a graphical user interface |
| Dec-10-1996 |
A method and system for resizing edit controls of a graphical user interface that in previous systems were of a fixed size. The preferred steps of the resize operation entail moving a mouse cursor over... |
| 5537525 |
Column layout information processing system |
| Jul-16-1996 |
An information processing apparatus includes a keyboard for inputting data representing information to be processed and for inputting data representing tab information including the location of tabs between... |
| 5485566 |
Method of finding columns in tabular documents |
| Jan-16-1996 |
Tabular documents have column structures that can be determined without decoding the bitmap. The method searches for separation intervals that separate word fragments in the table. These separation intervals... |
| 5450536 |
Technique for automatically resizing tables |
| Sep-12-1995 |
A data processing system is programmed for automatically resizing a table to preserve its original appearance. The table is resized when a cell size changes or when an explicit request from the user is... |
| 5420695 |
Image reading and forming apparatus for identifying and correcting the gridlines of a table |
| May-30-1995 |
An image forming apparatus has an image reading and correcting device capable of reading a document including a table, identifying the table (guideline) from the document correcting the table, and then... |
| 5416849 |
Data processing system and method for field extraction of scanned images of document forms |
| May-16-1995 |
An improved data processing system and method are disclosed for field extraction of scanned images of document forms. The process makes use of a viewpoint structure which characterizes the interior and... |
| 5359729 |
Method for searching for a given point in regions defined by attribute ranges, then sorted by lower and upper range values and dimension |
| Oct-25-1994 |
Regions, such as those determined by attributes in a spread sheet, are defined by ranges of attribute values. Regions are distinct if they differ in their number of ranges (dimension) or because a pair... |
| 5321804 |
Chemical data handling system |
| Jun-14-1994 |
A chemical data handling system is characterized by a display system which displays each data of many compound with an image of a table sheet where the chemical structures are arranged in the direction... |
| 5317306 |
System and method for dynamic control of horizontal scrolling |
| May-31-1994 |
A method and system for dynamically controlling the horizontal scrolling of data contained in a stored table of arbitrary size in a windowing environment. The list of data to be scrolled through is stored... |
| 5293615 |
Point and shoot interface for linking database records to spreadsheets whereby data of a record is automatically reformatted and loaded upon issuance of a recalculation command |
| Mar-8-1994 |
A spreadsheet program providing the combination of spreadsheet and database tools, and enabling users to develop an application environment that can use all resources in the spreadsheet storage area. The... |
| 5230040 |
Table calculating device |
| Jul-20-1993 |
In a table calculating device, an instructing unit gives an instruction to change data of a graphic pattern corresponding to a value in one of the entries of a table, which is displayed on a display unit.... |
| 5179652 |
Method and apparatus for storing, transmitting and retrieving graphical and tabular data |
| Jan-12-1993 |
A method and apparatus for rapid search and co-display of graphics and tabular data for both local and distributed computer systems. The method rapidly selects and displays related graphical and text information... |
| 5175810 |
Tabular data format |
| Dec-29-1992 |
A data structure for tabular data arranged in rows and columns. The data structure includes a header portion including a generic columnar processing information table, and a data portion for storing data... |
| 5168554 |
Converting trace data from processors executing in parallel into graphical form |
| Dec-1-1992 |
A computer implemented method by which trace data from concurrently executing virtual processors is reformatted and organized as a linked list of successive events evoking parallel activity for any given... |
| 5130924 |
System for defining relationships among document elements including logical relationships of elements in a multi-dimensional tabular specification |
| Jul-14-1992 |
A method is disclosed for defining the structure of a document by specifying the relationships between document elements in a data stream. A plurality of tabular specifications are provided, each of which... |
| 5043916 |
Data processing device for processing and displaying table data |
| Aug-27-1991 |
In a data processing device for processing table data, a memory is adapted for storing the table data lined up in matrix shape. The data of each of the table elements can be displayed with the line item... |
| 5018077 |
Data processing machines |
| May-21-1991 |
A data processing machine which is controlled to produce graphical output from stored sets of data. The data sets may be stored in the non-uniform manner. The machine is controlled to determine column... |
| 4953108 |
Document processor having a document composition function |
| Aug-28-1990 |
A document processor receives a document prepared by a different type of device, recognizes and registers a table in the document. It composes and outputs a document with the original form of the table... |
| 4591974 |
Information recording and retrieval system |
| May-27-1986 |
A method and system for information recording and retrieval using a hand held computer and a host microcomputer is described. The computers are provided with a communications link and application programs... |
| 4506343 |
Column layout reference area display management |
| Mar-19-1985 |
A method for editing data stored in a word processing system in table entry format. Means are provided for operator selection and definition of a top reference area for displaying table column headings... |
| 4484826 |
Automatic intertext column spacing |
| Nov-27-1984 |
In a column layout operation in an interactive word processing system, the unoccupied character escapement along a column example line is automatically evenly distributed by the insertion of an appropriate... |
| 4435778 |
Method for editing spatially related data in an interactive text processing system |
| Mar-6-1984 |
An improved text processing method is disclosed which permits spatially related data to be displayed and edited by the same method employed to display and edit conventional text type data in an interactive... |
| 4334286 |
Data entry apparatus for entering tabular data row by row and column by column |
| Jun-8-1982 |
A keyboard/display apparatus enters tabular data in two different modes. For the entry of tabular data in a row by row mode, a tab key on the keyboard is depressed for causing tabbing to a next set tab... |
