PURPOSE: To easily set a format even by a beginner by writing a bar code read by a bar code reading means on a format table in which the format of a host computer is expressed in the bar code. and setting the format of data to be outputted with the bar code.
CONSTITUTION: A tablet 1 outputs a detected coordinate as the data of format that can be handled by the host computer 3. This coordinate detector is also constituted of the tablet 1 and a stylus pen 2. The type of the host computer 3 and the format of the host computer 3 expressed in the bar code are described correspondingly on the format table. After the tablet 1 is connected to the host computer 3, the type of the host computer 3 described on the format table is referred to, and a corresponding bar code is read by the bar code reading part 2b of the stylus pen 2. Thus, a read format can be written on the format table of the tablet 1.
TOYOMASU FUJIHIKO
YOSHIBA HIROYUKI
ARAI TOSHIHIRO
