Patent ID: 8913043

Claim:
An electronic writing apparatus comprising: a position acquisition portion that acquires a plurality of pieces of positional information of a writing instrument moving along with a writing operation of an operator on a media to be written using said writing instrument; a first visual object detecting portion that detects a visual object for identification entered at a desired position of said media to be written for selecting a plurality of storage destinations provided in an external storage device on the basis of said positional information acquired by said position acquisition portion; a first data creating portion that creates image data corresponding to writing on said media to be written by said writing instrument and having a predetermined positional relationship with said visual object for identification on said media to be written, by using the plurality of pieces of positional information acquired by said position acquisition portion; a first storage device that temporarily stores image data created by said first data creating portion; a first communication device that transmits said image data via communication for storing the image data in said external storage device; a first transmission control portion that controls said first communication device upon detection of said visual object for identification by said first visual object detecting portion and performs transmission for storing said image data created by said first data creating portion and stored in said first storage device in said storage destination corresponding to said visual object for identification detected by said first visual object detecting portion; and a surrounding line detecting portion that detects a surrounding line substantially surrounding writing by said writing instrument on said media to be written on the basis of said positional information acquired by said position acquisition portion, wherein said first visual object detecting portion detects said visual object for identification located inside the surrounding line, as said predetermined positional relationship, and said first communication device performs transmission for storing said image data corresponding to said writing substantially surrounded by said surrounding line in said storage destination corresponding to said visual object for identification detected by said first visual object detecting portion, on the basis of the control by said first transmission control portion.