JP4930121B2 - Information processing apparatus, document display system, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for outputting data from a device storing data to another device.

There is an information display device called a so-called electronic book that displays a digitized book or document page on a liquid crystal display or an electrophoretic display. When displaying a document on this type of information display device, for example, the data of the document is opened using an application program in a personal computer. Then, using the function of the virtual printer, the opened data is converted into a data format that can be used by the information display device, and the converted data is output to the information display device connected to the personal computer. Alternatively, the data format conversion application program is used in the personal computer to convert the document into a data format that can be used by the information display device, and the converted data is output to the information display device connected to the personal computer. The information display device stores the output data, interprets the stored data, and displays a document image.

Here, when the personal computer device is shared by a large number of people, the document data may be accessed by an unspecified person and output to the information display device and taken out without the knowledge of the creator of the data. Therefore, in computer devices, a technology has been devised in which access rights such as reading and writing to data are set only for specific users, and access to data by a third party who is not allowed to read or write is prohibited. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1). If this technology is used, the document data can be opened only by a specific person by setting the access right to the document data. Further, since a third party who does not have access right cannot open the document data and output it to the information display device, it prevents the third party from outputting the document data to the information display device without permission. be able to.

JP-A-6-236310

Now, the document display device has low power consumption and portability, and can easily carry a document. In addition, since paper is not required when reading a document, it is environmentally friendly, and particularly in an office or the like, the use of paper can be reduced and the cost can be reduced. However, when it is used in an office or the like, it may be difficult to prepare an information display device for the number of people, and a single information display device may be shared by a plurality of people. In this case, when the above-described technique is used, output of document data from the computer device to the information display device can be performed only by a person who is permitted to access the document data. Can view a document for which the user has no access right using the information display device.

The present invention has been made under the above-described background, and an object of the present invention is to provide a technique that allows only the person who is permitted to browse the output data.

In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention obtains user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device from an information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document. A user who is permitted to view the document represented by the document image data is selected as the operation unit from among the users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit. selection means for selecting in response to the operation, the user identification information of the user selected by the selection means in addition to the document image data to chromatic and output means for outputting to the information display device, wherein the acquisition unit, Provided is an information processing apparatus characterized by acquiring a plurality of pieces of user identification information from one information display apparatus .

In the present invention, the acquisition unit is connected to a plurality of information display devices, acquires the user identification information from a plurality of connected information display devices, and the output unit is connected to a plurality of information display devices. The document image data may be output to a plurality of connected information display devices.

Moreover, in this invention, you may have a display means which matches and displays the user's account of the said information processing apparatus, and the said user identification information corresponding to the user of this account.

In the present invention, the acquisition unit further acquires feature information representing a feature of a user who can use the information display device, and includes a user account of the information processing device and feature information representing the feature of the user. And an account stored in association with the feature information in the storage unit when there is feature information that matches the feature information acquired by the acquisition unit in the storage unit. The information acquired by the acquisition unit may include display means for displaying the user identification information corresponding to the feature information in association with each other.

The present invention also provides an acquisition means for acquiring user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device from an information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document, and an operation performed by the user. And the user who is permitted to view the document represented by the document image data is selected from the users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit according to the operation performed on the operation unit. An information processing apparatus comprising: selection means; and output means for adding user identification information of a user selected by the selection means to the document image data and outputting the document image data to the information display apparatus, and the information display apparatus, Storage means for storing the user identification information; providing means for providing the user identification information to the information processing apparatus; and document image data output from the output means. The document image data receiving means for receiving the information, the specifying means for specifying the user of the information display device, the user identification information corresponding to the user specified by the specifying means is read from the storage means, and is the same as the read user identification information Information display apparatus comprising: display means for extracting document image data to which user identification information is added from the document image data received by the document image data receiving means, and displaying a document represented by the extracted document image data And the acquisition means acquires a plurality of the user identification information from one information display device .

The present invention also obtains a plurality of user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device from one information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document. An acquisition unit, an operation unit operated by the user, and a user permitted to view the document represented by the document image data are designated as the operation unit from among users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit. There is provided a program for functioning as a selection means for selecting in accordance with the operated operation and an output means for adding the user identification information of the user selected by the selection means to the document image data and outputting it to the information display device.

[Configuration of the embodiment]
(overall structure)
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The information processing apparatus 1 is a computer device called a so-called PC / AT compatible machine. The information processing apparatus 1 includes a terminal to which a communication cable 3 for communicating with the information display apparatus 2 is connected, and transmits the digitized document data to the information display apparatus 2 via the communication cable 3. . In the present embodiment, the information processing apparatus 1 is not limited to a computer apparatus called a PC / AT compatible machine, and any other computer apparatus can be used as long as it can transmit document data. There may be. The portable information display device 2 is a device that displays a digitized document page, and includes a terminal to which a communication cable 3 for communicating with other devices is attached. The information display device 2 receives and stores document data transmitted from the information processing device 1 via the communication cable 3. Then, the document represented by the stored data is displayed according to the user's operation.

(Configuration of information display device 2)
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the information display device 2. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the information display device 2 includes a control unit 201, a display unit 202, an operation unit 203, and a communication unit 204.
The sensor unit 205 is included.

The display unit 202 is connected to the control unit 201, and displays a document image, a menu screen for operating the information display device 2, and the like under the control of the control unit 201. Note that the display portion 202 includes a display element having storage properties, and can display the same image for a long time even after power is not supplied after the image is displayed.
The operation unit 203 is connected to the control unit 201 and has various buttons for operating the information display device 2. When the button of the operation unit 203 is operated, a signal indicating the operated button is output to the control unit 201. The control unit 201 specifies an instruction from the user based on this signal and the screen displayed on the display unit 202, and controls each unit according to the specified instruction.

The communication unit 204 is connected to the control unit 201 and has a communication interface function for communicating with the information processing apparatus 1. The communication unit 204 includes a terminal into which a communication cable is inserted. Under the control of the control unit 201, the communication unit 204 communicates with the information processing apparatus 1 through the communication cable 3 connected to the terminal, and exchanges various data.
The sensor unit 205 is connected to the control unit 201 and includes a fingerprint sensor (not shown) that reads the fingerprint of the user of the information display device 2. The sensor unit 205 reads the fingerprint of the user's finger with the fingerprint sensor under the control of the control unit 201, and outputs feature point data representing the feature point of the read fingerprint to the control unit 201.

The control unit 201 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 201A and a ROM (Read Only M).
emory) 201B, RAM (Random Access Memory) 201C, non-volatile memory 201D
have. The ROM 201B stores a control program executed by the CPU 201A.

The non-volatile memory 201D is a memory that retains stored contents even when power is not supplied. Document image data that represents an image of a document, a device identifier that uniquely identifies the information display device 2, and a control unit 201 that is a sensor unit. The feature point data received from 205 is stored. The nonvolatile memory 201D stores a user table TB1 having the format shown in FIG. In the user table TB1, data representing the name of the user who uses the information display device 2 is stored in the “user name” field. In the “feature point” field, a file name of feature point data representing the feature point of the fingerprint of the user of the information display device 2 is stored.

In the control unit 201, when power is supplied from a power source (not shown), the control program stored in the ROM 201B is executed by the CPU 201A. When the CPU 201A executes the control program, each unit is controlled by the control unit 201, and a function for displaying an image of a document represented by document image data and a function for displaying an operation screen for operating the information display device 2 on the display unit 202. Various functions such as a function of communicating with the information processing apparatus 1 and a feature of detecting a fingerprint of the user of the information display apparatus 2 and storing various data in the user table TB1 are realized in the information display apparatus 2.

(Configuration of information processing apparatus 1)
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 1. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the information processing apparatus 1 includes a control unit 101, a storage unit 105, a communication unit 106, and an operation unit 107.
, A display unit 108, and drive units 109A to 109C.

A communication unit 106 having a communication interface function is connected to the control unit 101 and includes a terminal into which the communication cable 3 is inserted. The communication unit 106 communicates with the information display device 2 through the communication cable 3 connected to the terminal under the control of the control unit 101, and exchanges various data. The operation unit 107 includes a keyboard (not shown) and a mouse (not shown) for operating the information processing apparatus 1. The display unit 108 includes a liquid crystal display, and displays various images such as characters and graphic images and a menu screen for operating the information processing apparatus 1 under the control of the control unit 101.

The drive units 109 </ b> A to 109 </ b> C have a function of reading / writing data from / to various recording media, and are connected to the control unit 101. Specifically, the drive unit 109A includes an insertion slot into which a flexible disk is inserted. Under the control of the control unit 101, writing of data to the flexible disk inserted into the insertion slot and data from the flexible disk are performed. Is read out. The drive unit 109B is a CD (Compact Disk) or DVD (Digi).
tal Versatile Disk) and the like are provided with an insertion slot into which a readable / writable optical disk recording medium is inserted. Under the control of the control unit 101, data is written to and read from the optical disk inserted into the insertion slot. I do. Further, the drive unit 109C includes an insertion slot into which a memory card adopting a flash memory as a recording medium is inserted.
Under the control of the control unit 101, data is written to the memory card inserted into the insertion slot and data is read from the memory card.

The storage unit 105 includes a hard disk device, and an OS program that causes the information processing apparatus 1 to realize an operating system (OS) function, an application program that realizes functions such as document creation and editing, and an application program A driver program that realizes the function of a virtual printer that outputs data representing a document created using is stored.
The storage unit 105 stores document data representing a document created using an application program. The storage unit 105 can store a plurality of document data.
A plurality of document data having different file names such as “html” and “def.html” are stored. The document data includes an account of a user who can access the document data. When the document data is opened by the application program, only the user of the account included in the document data can open the document. It has become.

The control unit 101 includes a CPU 102 and a ROM that stores an IPL (Initial Program Loader).
103 and RAM 104. In the control unit 101, when power is supplied from a power source (not shown), the CPU 102 executes the IPL stored in the ROM 103. C
When the PU 102 executes IPL, the OS program stored in the storage unit 105 is updated to the CP.
In this embodiment, the drive unit 109A is “A drive”.
The hard disk device of the storage unit 105 is recognized as “C drive”, the drive unit 109B is recognized as “D drive”, and the drive unit 109C is recognized as “E drive”. When the OS program is executed, input / output functions such as input from the operation unit 107 and screen output to the display unit 108, control of the storage unit 105 and the drive units 109A to 109C, and various types stored in the storage unit 105 Basic functions as a computer device such as program execution are realized.

[Operation of the embodiment]
(Operation when registering the user name of the user in the information display device 2)
First, when the information display device 2 is used by a plurality of persons, the information display device 2 performs an operation for registering a user. Specifically, first, the user of the information display device 2 operates the operation unit 203,
When the information display apparatus 2 is instructed to display a menu screen for user registration, the control unit 201 controls the display unit 202 to display the menu screen shown in FIG. When the user who views this screen operates the operation unit 203 and inputs a user name in the text box A1 in the menu screen of FIG. 6 (FIG. 5: Step SA1; YES), the input user name is the text box A1. (Step SA2). When the user operates the operation unit 203 to perform an operation of pressing the OK button A2 in the menu screen (
Step SA3; YES), the control unit 201 stores the input user name in the RAM 201C (Step SA4), and then displays a menu screen (FIG. 7) that prompts the user to place a finger on the fingerprint sensor of the sensor unit 205. The data is displayed on the unit 202 (step SA5). It is determined between step SA3 and step SA4 whether or not characters have been input into the text box. If no characters have been input, a message prompting character input is displayed, and then the process proceeds to step SA1. You may make it return a flow.

Here, when the user places a finger on the fingerprint sensor of the sensor unit 205 and then performs an operation of pressing the OK button B1 in the menu screen shown in FIG. 7 (step SA6; YES), the sensor unit 205 The fingerprint of the finger is read by the fingerprint sensor, and feature point data representing the feature point of the fingerprint is output from the sensor unit 205 to the control unit 201. When the control unit 201 receives the feature point data (step SA7), the control unit 201 generates a file name for uniquely identifying the data, sets the file name of the feature point data to the generated file name, and then stores the feature point data in a nonvolatile manner. Stored in the memory 201D (step SA8). And the control part 201 is RAM2
The user name stored in 01C is stored in the user name field of the user table TB1, and the file name of the feature point data stored in the “feature point” field in association with the cell storing the user name is stored (step SA9). ). For example, if the entered user name is “saburo
”And the file name of the feature point data is“ f003 ”, the user name“ saburo ”and the file name“ f003 ”are stored in the user table TB1 in association with each other as shown in FIG.

(Operation when outputting document data to the information display device 2)
Next, an operation when displaying a document of document data stored in the information processing apparatus 1 on the information display apparatus 2 will be described. First, the user of the information processing apparatus 1 operates the operation unit 107 to input his / her account and password and logs into the information processing apparatus 1. For example,
When a person (user name “saburo”) who has registered a user in the information display device 2 by the above-described operation logs in to the information processing device 1, he / she logs in by inputting his / her account “saburo” and a password.
Next, when the user operates the operation unit 107 to instruct the information processing apparatus 1 to open the document data whose file name is “abc.html” in the storage unit 105, the information is stored in the storage unit 105. An application program is executed by the control unit 101. Then, the document creation / editing function is realized in the information processing apparatus 1, a document creation window (FIG. 8) is displayed on the display unit 108 and the document data is opened, and the document data is displayed in the document creation window. The document represented by is displayed.

When the document is displayed, the user operates the information processing apparatus 1 to transmit document image data representing an image of the document to the information display apparatus 2. Specifically, the end of the communication cable 3 is connected to the communication unit 106.
And the information processing apparatus 1 and the information display apparatus 2 are connected to each other. Next, when the user performs an operation of clicking the “file” item on the toolbar of the window of FIG. 8, a pull-down menu P1 is displayed as illustrated in FIG. Then, in order to transmit the document image data to the information display device 2, the user selects “
When an operation of clicking the “print” item is performed, a menu screen for performing settings related to printing is displayed on the display unit 108 as shown in FIG.

Here, when the user performs an operation of clicking the “printer name” list box L1 in FIG. 10, a list of devices to which document image data is to be transmitted in the list box L1, as shown in FIG. Is displayed. Here, when the user operates the mouse of the operation unit 107 to perform an operation of clicking the “virtual printer” displayed in the list, and then performs an operation of clicking the OK button C1 in FIG. Executes the driver program stored in the storage unit 105 and performs the processing of the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, the control unit 101 generates document image data that is data representing an image of a document and can be interpreted by the information display device 2, and stores the document image data in the RAM 104 (step SB1). For example, when document image data is generated from document data whose file name is “abc.html”, the file name is “abc.bmp”, and “abc.html” is the original file name as the bibliographic information of the document. Is generated as bibliographic information.
Next, the control unit 101 generates a request message for requesting the user table TB1, and controls the communication unit 106 to transmit the generated request message to the information display device 2 (step SB).
2). A request message transmitted from the communication unit 106 via the communication cable 3 is transmitted to the communication unit 20.
4, the control unit 201 reads the user table TB1 and the device identifier from the nonvolatile memory 201D. Then, the control unit 201 controls the communication unit 106 to transmit the user table TB1 and the device identifier to the information display device 2. Here, the file name of the feature point data stored in the user table TB1 may not be transmitted.

When the user table TB1 and the device identifier transmitted from the communication unit 204 via the communication cable 3 are received by the communication unit 106 (step SB3; YES), the control unit 101 displays “user name” in the user table TB1. The user name and device identifier stored in the field are displayed on the display unit 108 as shown in FIG. 13 (step SB4). On the screen shown in FIG. 13, the user of the information processing apparatus 1 can specify a user who is permitted to view a document on the information display apparatus 2. For example, “saburo” logged into the information processing apparatus 1
, The user with the user name “ichiro” in addition to himself / herself can view the document, the check box D3 associated with the user name “ichiro” and “sabu”
Check the checkbox D5 associated with the user name “ro” (
Step SB5; YES, Step SB6).

Next, when the user performs an operation of clicking the OK button D1 in the screen shown in FIG.
In step SB7; YES, the control unit 101 adds the user names “ichiro” and “saburo” whose check boxes are checked to the bibliographic information of the document image data (step SB8).
). Then, the control unit 101 controls the communication unit 106 to transmit the document image data with the user name added to the information display device 2 (step SB9). When the document image data transmitted from the communication unit 106 via the communication cable 3 is received by the communication unit 204, the control unit 201 stores the received document image data in the nonvolatile memory 201D. When the information display device 2 receives an instruction from the user to display the stored image of the document image data, the information display device 2 displays the image according to the document image data.

(Operation when displaying an image of a document on the information display device 2)
Next, an operation when displaying an image of document image data stored in the nonvolatile memory 201D on the display unit 202 will be described.

(Operation when a user whose user name is “ichiro” uses the information display device 2)
First, the user logs into the information display device 2. Specifically, when a user whose user name is “ichiro” operates the operation unit 203 and instructs the information display device 2 to display a list of registered user names, the control unit 201 displays the user table TB1. The user name stored in is read. Then, the control unit 201 controls the display unit 202 to display a list of read user names on the display unit 202 as shown in FIG. 15 (FIG. 14: step SC1).
When the user viewing this screen operates the operation unit 203 and selects a radio button corresponding to his / her user name “ichiro”, a black circle is displayed on the selected radio button as shown in FIG. 15 (step SC2 YES, step SC3), when an operation to press the OK button E1 in the screen shown in FIG. 15 is performed (step SC4; YES), the control unit 201 associates the selected user name with the user table. The file name “f001” stored in TB1 is read, and the feature point data of the read file name is read from the nonvolatile memory 201D and stored in the RAM 201C (step SC5). Then, the control unit 201 causes the display unit 202 to display a menu screen (FIG. 16) that prompts the user to place a finger on the fingerprint sensor (step SC6).

Here, after the user places his / her finger on the fingerprint sensor of the sensor unit 205, OK in the menu screen is displayed.
When the operation to press the button F1 is performed (step SC7; YES), the sensor unit 205 is controlled, the fingerprint of the finger is read by the fingerprint sensor, and the feature point data representing the feature point of the fingerprint is controlled from the sensor unit 205. Is output to the unit 201.
When the control unit 201 receives the feature point data (step SC8), the control unit 201 compares the feature point data of the user name “ichiro” stored in the RAM 201C with the feature point data received from the sensor unit 205. Here, if the feature point data does not match (step SC)
9; NO), the control unit 201 determines that a person who is not the user name “ichiro” is attempting to log in to the information display device 2, and displays an error message on the display unit 202 informing that the information display device 2 cannot be used. Display (step SC10).

On the other hand, when the feature point data stored in the RAM 201C matches the feature point data received from the sensor unit 205 (step SC9; YES), the control unit 201 identifies the user of the information display device 2 with the user name “ Identified as “ichiro”. Then, the control unit 201
A display unit 20 displays a list of file names of document image data stored in the nonvolatile memory 201D.
2 is displayed (step SC11).
Here, the control unit 201 displays only the file name of the document image data that is permitted to be browsed by the user. Specifically, the control unit 201 searches the file stored in the non-volatile memory 201D for a file having the bibliographic information of the user name of the logged-in user. For example, the non-volatile memory 201D stores document image data of abc.bmp and def.bmp. The user names “ichiro” and “saburo” are added to abc.bmp, and def
Assuming that user names `` ichiro '' and `` jiro '' are added to .bmp, here, `` abc.bmp '' and `` def. bmp "is searched. When the control unit 201 searches for a file name, the control unit 201 displays a list of the searched file names on the display unit 202 as shown in FIG.

Next, the user who has viewed the screen in FIG. 17 operates the operation unit 203 to execute the file name “abc.bmp”.
When the radio button next to is selected (step SC12; YES), the display of the radio button next to the selected file name is changed (step SC13). Then, the user performs FIG.
If the user presses the OK button G1 in the screen shown in (Step SC14; YE
S), the control unit 201 reads the document image data of the file name selected by the radio button from the nonvolatile memory 201D. The control unit 201 displays an image represented by the read document image data on the display unit 202 (step SC15).
When the user performs an operation of pressing the OK button without selecting a file name,
After displaying an error message notifying that a file name has not been selected, the screen of FIG. 17 may be displayed again to prompt the user to select a file.

(Operation when a user whose user name is “jiro” uses the information display device 2)
Next, an operation when a user whose user name is “jiro” uses the information display device 2 will be described. First, a user whose user name is “jiro” performs an operation of logging in to the information display device 2 in the same manner as a user whose user name is “ichiro”. Then, the processing shown in FIG. 14 is performed, and if YES is determined in step SC9, the control unit 201 causes the display unit 202 to display a list of file names of document image data stored in the nonvolatile memory 201D. (Step SC11).
Here, as described above, the non-volatile memory 201D stores document image data of abc.bmp and def.bmp. The user names “ichiro” and “saburo” are added to abc.bmp, and def. b
Assuming that user names “ichiro” and “jiro” are added to mp, here, only “def.bmp” to which the user name “jiro” of the currently used user is added is shown in FIG. Displayed as shown.

Next, the user who has viewed the screen of FIG. 18 operates the operation unit 203 to name the file “def.bmp”.
When the user presses the OK button G1 in the screen shown in FIG. 18 (step SC14; YES), the control unit 201 stores the document image data of the selected file name in the nonvolatile memory. Read from 201D. The control unit 201 displays an image represented by the read document image data on the display unit 202 (step SC15).

(Operation when the user whose user name is “saburo” uses the information display device 2)
Next, an operation when a user whose user name is “saburo” uses the information display device 2 will be described. First, the user whose user name is “saburo” performs an operation of logging in to the information display device 2 in the same manner as the user whose user name is “ichiro”. Then, the processing shown in FIG. 14 is performed, and if YES is determined in step SC9, the control unit 201 causes the display unit 202 to display a list of file names of document image data stored in the nonvolatile memory 201D. (Step SC11).
Here, as described above, the non-volatile memory 201D stores document image data of abc.bmp and def.bmp. The user names “ichiro” and “saburo” are added to abc.bmp, and def. b
Assuming that user names “ichiro” and “jiro” are added to mp, here, only “abc.bmp” to which the user name “saburo” of the currently used user is added is shown in FIG. Displayed as shown.

Next, the user who has viewed the screen of FIG. 19 operates the operation unit 203 to execute the file name “abc.bmp”.
When the user presses the OK button G1 in the screen shown in FIG. 19 (step SC14; YES), the control unit 201 stores the document image data of the selected file name in the nonvolatile memory. Read from 201D. The control unit 201 displays an image represented by the read document image data on the display unit 202 (step SC15).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the information display device 2, when a plurality of people use the information display device 2, the user outputs document image data from the information processing device 1 to the information display device 2. Since only document image data that is permitted to be viewed at times can be viewed,
The content of the document is not known to those who are not permitted to view the document.
In the present embodiment, when document image data is output to the information display device 2, a person who can view the document image data can be designated. Even if you can browse the document.

[Modification]
As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, It can implement with another various form. For example, the present invention may be implemented by modifying the above-described embodiment as follows.

The information processing apparatus 1 and the information display apparatus 2 may perform various data and information exchange by performing communication by wireless communication, instead of performing communication by the communication cable 3.

In the embodiment described above, the communication unit 106 of the information processing apparatus 1 may have a plurality of terminals to which the communication cable 3 is connected. Further, when a plurality of terminals are provided, as shown in FIG. 20, a plurality of information display devices (information display device 2A and information display device 2B) are connected to information processing device 1 by communication cable 3, and document A plurality of information display devices 2A, 2B for image data
You may make it output to.
In this case, the user table TB11 shown in FIG. 21A is stored in the information display device 2A, and the user table TB12 shown in FIG. 21B is stored in the information display device 2B. When the user performs an operation for instructing output of document image data, the information display device 2A sends the user table TB11 and the device identifier of the information display device 2A to the information processing device 1, and the information display device 2B sends information to the user table TB12. The device identifier of the display device 2B is sent to the information processing device 1. Upon receiving these, the information processing apparatus 1 displays the user name stored in the user table TB11 in association with the apparatus identifier of the information display apparatus 2A as shown in FIG. The user name stored in the user table TB12 is displayed in association with the device identifier.

Here, the user checks a check box on the screen shown in FIG. 22, and designates a user who is permitted to view a document in the information display apparatus. For example, the user operates the operation unit 1
07 to operate the user name “ichiro” associated with the device identifier of the information display device 2A.
And “saburo” are checked, the user names “shiro” and “goro” associated with the device identifier of the information display device 2B are checked, and then the OK button D1 on the screen is displayed. When the operation of clicking is performed, the control unit 101 adds the user names “ichiro” and “saburo” whose check boxes are checked to the document image data, and communicates the document image data with the user names added thereto. Information display device 2A by controlling unit 106
Output to. In addition, the control unit 101 checks the user name “sh” whose checkbox is checked.
“iro” and “goro” are added to the document image data, and the document image data with the user name added is controlled by the communication unit 106 and output to the information display device 2B.
According to this modification, document image data can be efficiently output to a plurality of information display devices, compared to a case where only one information display device 2 can be connected to the information processing device 1.

In the embodiment described above, the information processing apparatus 1 may associate the account when the user logs into the information processing apparatus 1 and the user name registered in the information display apparatus 2 by the information processing apparatus 1.
Specifically, first, in the information processing apparatus 1, as shown in FIG.
A sensor unit 110 similar to the sensor unit 205 is provided. In this case, similarly to the information display device 2, the information processing apparatus 1 stores an account table that stores a user account and a file name of feature point data of the user's fingerprint in association with each other as shown in FIG. . When the information processing apparatus 1 transmits a request message to the information display apparatus 2, the information display apparatus 2 reads the user table TB1, the apparatus identifier, and the feature point data from the nonvolatile memory 201D and transmits the information to the information processing apparatus 1. .

Upon receiving these data, the information processing apparatus 1 reads from the storage unit 105 the feature point data specified by the account stored in the account table and the file name stored in association with the account. Then, feature point data that matches the read feature point data is searched from the feature point data received from the information display device 2. Information processing device 1
When feature point data with matching feature points is found, the user name stored in the user table TB1 is extracted in association with the file name of the matched feature point data, and the account is associated with the extracted user name. .

For example, if the feature point data of the file name “f0100” associated with the account “suzuki” matches the feature point data of the file name “f001” associated with the user name “ichiro”, the information The processing device 1 associates the account “suzuki” with the user name “ichiro”. Further, the information processing apparatus 1 has the feature point data of the file name “f0101” associated with the account “sato” and the file name “f00” associated with the user name “jiro”.
When the feature point data of “2” matches, the account “sato” is associated with the user name “jiro”. Then, the information processing apparatus 1 generates a user correspondence table that stores the associated account and user name, and stores them in the storage unit 105.

Then, when outputting the document image data, the information processing apparatus 1 reads the account and the user name stored in the user correspondence table when designating the user who is permitted to view the document, The associated user names are displayed in association with each other as shown in FIG.
When the user performs an operation of clicking the OK button D1 in the screen shown in FIG. 25 after checking the check box provided beside the account, the control unit 101 checks the check box. The user names “ichiro” and “jiro” are added to the document image data, and the document image data with the user name added is transmitted to the information display device 2 by controlling the communication unit 106.
According to this modification, the information processing apparatus 1 can know the correspondence between the account in the information processing apparatus 1 and the user name of the user who uses the information display apparatus 2.
The user correspondence table in which the account in the information processing apparatus 1 and the user name in the information display apparatus 2 are associated with each other is manually associated with the account and the user name by operating the operation unit 107 in the information processing apparatus 1 May be generated. The user correspondence table may be stored in the storage unit 105 of the information processing apparatus 1.

In the embodiment described above, the user who can view the document image data sent to the information display device 2 may be changed.
Specifically, when the user performs an operation for instructing the change of the user permitted to browse in the information processing apparatus 1, an image request message requesting document image data is transmitted from the information processing apparatus 1 to the information display apparatus 2. . Then, when the information display device 2 receives this message, the information display device 2 transmits the user table TB1 and document image data stored in the nonvolatile memory 201D to the information processing device 1. When receiving these, the information processing apparatus 1 extracts the user names stored in the user table TB1 transmitted from the information display apparatus 2.

Then, the extracted user name and the file name to which the logged-in user has an access right are displayed as shown in FIG. If document image data including the file name displayed here in the bibliographic information is included in the data transmitted from the information display device 2, the information processing device 1
Displays a check in a check box at the intersection of the included user name row and the displayed file name column.
For example, when a user who has access rights to a file whose file name is “abc.html” is logged in to the information processing apparatus 1, the document image data whose file name is “abc.bmp” is transferred from the information display apparatus 2. When the user names “ichiro” and “saburo” are included as bibliographic information in this file, as shown in FIG. 26, the line of the user name “ichiro” and “abc.html”
Checks appear in the check box at the intersection of the file name column of "" and the check box at the intersection of the user name line of "saburo" and the file name column of "abc.html" .
Here, after the user operates the information processing apparatus 1 and switches between display / non-display of the check,
When the user clicks the OK button in the screen of FIG. 26, the information processing apparatus 1 includes the checked user name in the bibliographic information in the document image data including the displayed file name in the bibliographic information. Change the bibliographic information of the file as follows. Then, the file whose bibliographic information is changed is transmitted to the information display device 2. According to this modification, it is possible to easily change who can view the file transmitted to the information display device.

It is a figure showing the whole system composition concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is the figure which showed the hardware constitutions of the information display apparatus 2 which concerns on the embodiment. It is the figure which illustrated the format of user table TB1. It is a figure showing hardware constitutions of information processor 1 concerning the embodiment. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the process which the information display apparatus 2 performs. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing performed by the information processing apparatus 1. 3 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1. FIG. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the process which the information display apparatus 2 performs. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the information display device 2. FIG. It is the figure which showed the whole structure of the system which concerns on the modification of this invention. It is the figure which showed the user table which concerns on the modification. It is the figure which showed the screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1 which concerns on the modification. It is the figure which showed the hardware constitutions of the information processing apparatus 1 which concerns on the modification of this invention. It is the figure which showed the account table which concerns on the modification. It is the figure which showed the screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1 which concerns on the modification. It is the figure which showed the screen displayed on the information processing apparatus 1 which concerns on the modification.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Information processing apparatus, 2 ... Information display apparatus, 3 ... Communication cable, 101 ... Control part, 102 ... CPU, 103 ... ROM, 104 ... RAM, 105 * ..Storage unit 106 ... Communication unit 107 ... Operation unit 108 ... Display unit 109A-10
9C: drive unit, 110: sensor unit, 201: control unit, 201A ... C
PU, 201B ... ROM, 201C ... RAM, 201D ... nonvolatile memory,
202 ... Display unit, 203 ... Operation unit, 204 ... Communication unit, 205 ... Sensor unit

Claims (6)

Obtaining means for obtaining user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device, from an information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document;
Operation means operated by a user;
A selection unit that selects a user who is permitted to view the document represented by the document image data from among users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit, according to the operation performed by the operation unit;
By adding user identification information of the user selected by the selection unit to the document image data to chromatic and output means for outputting to the information display device,
The information processing apparatus, wherein the acquisition unit acquires a plurality of the user identification information from one information display apparatus. The acquisition means is connected to a plurality of information display devices, acquires the user identification information from a plurality of connected information display devices,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit is connected to a plurality of information display apparatuses and outputs the document image data to the plurality of connected information display apparatuses.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying an account of a user of the information processing apparatus and the user identification information corresponding to the user of the account in association with each other. The information processing apparatus according to 1. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The acquisition means further acquires feature information representing features of a user who can use the information display device,
Storage means for storing the account of the user of the information processing apparatus and feature information representing the feature of the user in association with each other;
When there is feature information that matches the feature information acquired by the acquisition unit in the storage unit, the account stored in association with the feature information in the storage unit and the information acquired by the acquisition unit An information processing apparatus comprising display means for displaying user identification information corresponding to feature information in association with each other. Obtaining means for obtaining user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device, from an information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document;
Operation means operated by a user;
A selection unit that selects a user who is permitted to view the document represented by the document image data from among users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit, according to the operation performed by the operation unit;
An information processing apparatus comprising: output means for adding user identification information of the user selected by the selection means to the document image data and outputting the document image data;
The information display device,
Storage means for storing the user identification information;
Providing means for providing the user identification information to the information processing apparatus;
Document image data receiving means for receiving document image data output from the output means;
Identifying means for identifying a user of the information display device;
User identification information corresponding to the user specified by the specifying means is read from the storage means, and the document image data receiving means receives the document image data to which the same user identification information as the read user identification information is added. An information display device having display means for extracting from the document image data and displaying a document represented by the extracted document image data ,
The document display system , wherein the acquisition unit acquires a plurality of the user identification information from one information display device . Computer equipment,
Obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of user identification information provided for each user who can use the information display device from one information display device that displays the document according to document image data representing the document;
Operation means operated by a user;
A selection unit that selects a user who is permitted to view the document represented by the document image data from among users corresponding to the user identification information acquired by the acquisition unit, according to the operation performed by the operation unit;
A program that functions as output means for adding user identification information of a user selected by the selection means to the document image data and outputting it to the information display device.

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