Information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium and data signal

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an information embedding section, a feature quantity acquiring section and an information managing section. The information embedding section embeds information, which specifies content relevant to document data, into the document data. The feature quantity acquiring section acquires feature quantity information about the content. The information managing section manages the feature quantity information about the content at a time when the information is embedded into the document data, while associating the feature quantity information and the information embedded into the document data with each other.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Exemplary embodiments of the invention will be described in detailed below with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIGS. 1A and 1B are explanatory views showing a system configuration in use of each information processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a functional configuration of an information processing apparatus according to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing specific examples of correspondence relations between link information and hash values;

FIGS. 4A to 4D are explanatory views showing specific examples of a printed image of a hypertext document and relevant contents;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a functional configuration of an information processing apparatus according to a second exemplary embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing a functional configuration of an information processing apparatus according to a third exemplary embodiment of the invention; and

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing other specific examples of correspondence relations between link information and hash values.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an information embedding section that embeds information, which specifies content relevant to document data, into the document data;a feature quantity acquiring section that acquires feature quantity information about the content; andan information managing section that manages the feature quantity information about the content at a time when the information is embedded into the document data, while associating the feature quantity information and the information embedded into the document data with each other.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information managing section compares the feature quantity information at the time when the information is embedded into the document data, with feature quantity information of the document data.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the information managing section compares the feature quantity information at the time when the information is embedded into the document data, with feature quantity information of the document data,when the information managing section judges, based on the comparison result, that the feature quantity information at the time the information is embedded into the document data and the feature quantity information of the document data are different, the information managing section notifies.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the feature quantity acquiring section acquires a hash value of the content as the feature quantity information about the content.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information embedding section embeds into the document data link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content.

6. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information embedding section embeds into the document data link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content.

7. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the information embedding section embeds into the document data link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the information embedding section embeds into the document data link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data the feature quantity information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the feature quantity information embedded into the document data while associating the embedded feature quantity information and link information about the content with each other.

10. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data the feature quantity information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the feature quantity information embedded into the document data while associating the embedded feature quantity information and link information about the content with each other.

11. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data the feature quantity information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the feature quantity information embedded into the document data while associating the embedded feature quantity information and link information about the content with each other.

12. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data the feature quantity information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the feature quantity information embedded into the document data while associating the embedded feature quantity information and link information about the content with each other.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data identifier information, which uniquely specifies link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the identifier information embedded into the document data while associating the identifier information and the link information specified by the identifier information with each other.

14. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data identifier information, which uniquely specifies link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the identifier information embedded into the document data while associating the identifier information and the link information specified by the identifier information with each other.

15. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data identifier information, which uniquely specifies link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the identifier information embedded into the document data while associating the identifier information and the link information specified by the identifier information with each other.

16. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein: the information embedding section embeds into the document data identifier information, which uniquely specifies link information about the content as the information, which specifies the content; andthe information managing section manages the identifier information embedded into the document data while associating the identifier information and the link information specified by the identifier information with each other.

17. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute information processing, the information processing comprising: embedding information, which specifies content relevant to document data, into the document data;acquiring feature quantity information about the content; andmanaging the feature quantity information about the content at a time when the information is embedded into the document data while associating the feature quantity information and the information embedded into the document data with each other.

18. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave for enabling a computer to perform information processing, the information processing comprising: embedding information, which specifies content relevant to document data, into the document data;acquiring feature quantity information about the content; andmanaging the feature quantity information about the content at a time when the information is embedded into the document data while associating the feature quantity information and the information embedded into the document data with each other.

19. An information processing method comprising: embedding information, which specifies content relevant to document data, into the document data;acquiring feature quantity information about the content; andmanaging the feature quantity information about the content at a time when the information is embedded into the document data while associating the feature quantity information and the information embedded into the document data with each other.