Patent Document ID: 8656276
Application ID: 11333225

Base Claim:
1. A position information management system, comprising: a document acquisition unit that acquires an electronic document to be printed, the electronic document comprising a first page of the electronic document and a second page of the electronic document; a layout acquisition unit that acquires layout information that indicates an n-up arrangement in which the first page of the electronic document is to be printed on a single page of medium and the second page of the electronic document is to be printed on the single page of medium; an information generation unit that generates correspondent information comprising a first coordinate position on the single page of medium at which the first page of the electronic document is to be printed and a second coordinate position on the single page of medium at which the second page of the electronic document is to be printed, on the basis of the n-up arrangement of the first page of the electronic document and the second page of the electronic document on the single page of medium indicated by layout information; and a management unit that receives from a pen device a request to modify the electronic document, the request comprising a position of the pen device on the single page of medium having the first page of the electronic document and the second page of the electronic document printed thereon at which an annotation is added to the single page of medium, the annotation comprising a character or a pattern recorded on the single page of medium by the pen device, determines a position on one of the first page of the electronic document and the second page of the electronic document at which the annotation is added based on the position on the single page of medium and the correspondent information, and modifies the electronic document to include the annotation at the position on the one of the first page of the electronic document and the second page of the electronic document.

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Claim 2:
2. The position information management system as defined in claim 1 , further comprising an image generation unit that generates an image by superposing a document image of the first page of the electronic document, the second page of the electronic document, and a code image indicating the first position and the second position on the medium.