JPH0522536A - Picture information input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost without using a plurality of telephone lines without manual aid by reading a storage designation display entered at the top of an input original and housing it to the designation storage destination in a memory according to its storage method and a file number. CONSTITUTION:An interface part 2 receives a facsimile signal and stores a picture signal in a buffer memory part 3. A mark detection part 4 reads a picture signal, detects storage information from the storage designation display entered at the top, and notifies it to a storage destination decision part 5. The decision part 5 decides the storage method and destination based on the storage information. A picture element density conversion part 6 reads a signal of a memory part 3 based on the result of the decision part 5, classifies it for each picture information and converts the input picture element density mode into the prescribed mode to be restored in the memory part 3. Then, the file management part 7 reads the prescribed signal amount from the memory part 3, stores it in a file memory part 3. Thus, the document can be housed in the designation storage destination without using a plurarity of telephone lines without manual aid.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention reads the storage designation display described in the image information received from a facsimile or the like,
The present invention relates to an image information input device for transferring image information excluding a storage designation display to a designated storage destination in a memory by a method designated by the storage designation display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a telephone number is stored as an input device for storing a document (hereinafter referred to as a document) in which image information including characters and drawings received by a facsimile or the like is stored in a designated file in a storage device. A method of setting the storage destination by phone number using it as a number, a method of having the sender specify the storage destination file on the receiving side by telephone contact, and a mark sheet (or OCR sheet) describing the storage destination before entering the original There are input methods and the like.

[0003]

However, the method of using the telephone number as the storage destination number among the above-mentioned storage methods requires a large number of lines and line corresponding parts, and the overall device scale increases, There is a problem that it costs too much. In addition, the method of having the storage destination set up by telephone contact is problematic in that it requires manpower and extra communication cost. The method of reading the mark sheet in which the storage location is described has a problem that extra page communication, mark sheet and mark recognition processing, etc. are required.

Therefore, according to the present invention, an image is stored in a predetermined file in a processing apparatus of a transmission destination by a predetermined method without human intervention, without requiring a plurality of telephone lines, and without performing mark sheet recognition. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image input device that operates.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an input for inputting image information with a storage designation display consisting of storage information including a storage method and a storage destination regarding image information to be input. Means, interface means for extracting information of image size, mode, and image signal from the image information input by the input means, buffer memory means for temporarily storing the image signal extracted by the interface means, Presence / absence of the storage designation display and detection means for detecting the storage information from the image information extracted by the interface means, and a storage method and a storage destination for the image information to be input based on the storage information detected by the detection means. Based on the determination result of the storage destination determination means and the storage destination determination means,
Reading the image signal stored in the buffer memory means,
Converting the input pixel density mode of the image signal into a predetermined pixel density mode while classifying the plurality of pieces of image information, and storing again in the buffer memory means, and a plurality of images read from the buffer memory means. An image information input device comprising a file management means for managing an image signal for each information on a file and a file memory means for storing the image signal for each of a plurality of image information managed by the file management means in a predetermined file. provide. Further, the image information input device has means for deleting the storage designation display before storing the input image signal of the image information in a predetermined file.

[0006]

In the image information input device of the present invention having the above-described structure, the storage designation display is described on the upper end of the original received from the facsimile or the like, and the storage designation display is read and stored in the memory in accordance with the storage designation display instruction. The storage designation display on the upper end of the received original is erased and stored in the designated storage destination.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the image information input device of the present invention, and description will be made with reference to this.

First, the facsimile 1 is connected to a telephone line, and the image information that has arrived (hereinafter referred to as an input document) is input. From the image information input to the facsimile 1, the interface unit 2 detects the document size of the image, the reception mode (resolution), and the image signal from the end of the facsimile procedure and the facsimile signal.

Then, the image signal is temporarily stored in the buffer memory unit 3, the presence or absence of a display (entry mark) of a storage designation display / entry seal, which will be described later, is read by the mark detection unit 4, and the storage destination determination unit 5 reads it. The storage method and storage location are determined based on the presence or absence of the entry mark. Based on the determination result of the storage destination determination unit 5, the pixel density conversion unit 6 converts, for example, the standard / high quality mode of the B4 size document into the A4 size standard mode.

The file management unit 7 also manages image signals of a plurality of received originals read from the buffer memory unit 3.

The file memory unit 8 is a file memory unit for storing image signals of a plurality of originals managed by the file management unit 7 as image signals of input originals. The file memory unit 8 of this embodiment has file numbers from "0" to "1".
It shall be up to 5 ".

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of the storage designation display entry sticker used in the above-mentioned embodiment.

On the storage designation display entry sticker 10 for entering the storage method and the storage destination for the input original (image information) to be input, the scanning designation display 11 serving as a reference for reading the entry mark and the storage method / storage destination designation. Mark writing guides 12 to 17 indicating the position to write the display are described.

The scanning designation display 11 and the mark writing guides 12 to 17 are of a color that can be detected by a line sensor of a facsimile and are written in a predetermined size on a predetermined position of the storage designation display writing sticker 10. . However, in the present embodiment, the upper left end of the left scanning designation display 11 is described 15 mm apart from the upper left end of the storage designation display sticker 10 in both length and width, and the size of the scanning designation display 11 is 2 mm square. The size of each of the mark writing guides 12 to 17 is one side.
mm squares and triangles. The positions of the mark writing guides 12 to 17 are 1 mm apart from the upper and lower ends of the scanning designation display 11 and the lateral pitch is 3 mm.

Next, FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of a B4 size input original used in the present invention. A storage designation display entry sticker 10 is attached to the upper left end of the B4 size input original 20.

Next, FIGS. 4A to 4D are views showing a method of reading an entry mark and a method of erasing black pixels in the storage designation display entry sticker 10, and FIG. 4A shows B4.
FIG. 4 (b) is a diagram showing a detection area of a mark, and FIG. 4 (c) is a mark for writing marks 12 to 17 in a mark writing guide. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the presence / absence, a storage method, and a storage destination. Here, the writing marks 30 and 31 are written so that the storage method and the storage destination are laid across the upper and lower mark writing guides 13 and 15, and an erasing area for changing the black pixels in the storage designation display / writing sticker 10 to white pixels is provided. ing.

The entry mark detection ranges 33 to 38 are
The main scanning lines after the scan designation display 11 are described with a pitch of 3 mm and a width of 2 mm. Here, L ₁ and L ₂ are scanning lines that intersect with the heads of the left and right scan designation displays 11, and n1 to n5 are image signals that scan the center of the scan designation display 11 and indicate between the scan designation displays 11. The width W between the left and right scanning designation displays 11
Is.

Next, "storing" in the storage method shown in FIG. 4C means that the received document size is additionally stored in a specific file number, and "conversion storage" means that the input document is A4 size.
The image signal is stored in a specific file number as a standard format image signal, and "erase storage" means that the contents of the specific file number are all erased before storing. In addition, in FIG. 4A, if the presence / absence of the entry mark is 1/0, "010100", that is, the file is converted into the A4 size standard mode and stored in the file number 4, is indicated. The inclination of 10 is 2 scan lines going upward to the left.

Referring to FIG. 4, the entry marks 30, 3
The detection method 1, the storage destination determination method, and the black pixel erasing method in the storage designation display entry sticker 10 will be described. First, the input document 20 is stored in the buffer memory in the B4 size standard mode as shown in FIG. Then, the scanning is performed from the beginning of the image signal in units of scanning lines, and the black pixel row in a predetermined range is examined from the beginning of the scanning line, and two spots where the scanning line having the black pixel row of 2 mm and the value of 2 mm continues are detected. As a result, the left and right scan designation displays 11 can be detected. At this time, the scanning lines intersecting the upper ends of the left and right scanning designation displays 11 are L ₁ and L ₂ and the main scanning address a 1 (the left end of the right scanning designation display 11), a 2
(The right end of the scan designation display 11 on the left) is detected. Then,
The inclination of the storage designation display entry sticker 10 is L ₂ −L ₁ = 2
Therefore, a1-a2 = W pixels between the scan designation displays 11.

Next, assuming that the scanning line for detecting the entered mark is the three scanning lines at the center of the left scanning designation display 11, since the inclination is two scanning lines moving upward to the left, as shown in FIG. The image signal of the width W is read from the right end of the right scanning designation display 11 at the position n1 to the scanning line n5 of the center -1 of the scanning designation display 11 in the sub-scanning direction.

The mark to be written in the mark writing guide 12 is the number of black pixels of the image signals n1, n2, n3 and the image signal at three locations designated by the main scanning detection area 33 (the shaded area in FIG. 4B). When the number of black pixels exceeding the specified value is detected at two or more places, it is determined that the mark writing guide 12 has a writing mark, and if not, there is no writing mark. Similarly, the image signals n1, n2, n3 and the image signals at three locations designated by the main scanning detection area 34, the image signals n2, n3, n4 and the image signals at three locations designated by the main scanning detection area 35, and so on. Check the number of black pixels at each of the three locations, and if two or more locations detect more than the specified number of black pixels, fill in each mark 1
Marks 2 to 18 are marked with entry marks, and if not, marks are not marked.

If the judgment is made in this way, the entry mark in FIG. 4A becomes "010100" from the left. Then, the reading result of the entry mark is compared with FIG. 4C, and it is determined that the input document 20 is converted into the A4 size standard mode and stored in the file number 4.

Next, a method of erasing black pixels in the storage designation display entry sticker 10 will be described. First, the left end address of the left scanning designation display 11 and the upper ends of the left and right scanning designation displays 11,
Detect the bottom scan line. In FIG. 3 (1), since there are two scan lines going up to the left, the upper end is the upper end of the left scan designation display 11 and the lower end is the lower end of the right scan designation display 11. Then, white is written to the image signal from the upper end scanning line -3 mm to the lower end scanning line +3 mm detected with a width of 31 mm from the left position detected to 3 mm to the right (25 mm from the end of the scanning designation display 11). As a result, the erase area 32 can be erased.

Next, the operation of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

First, an input document 20 of B4 size is input to the facsimile 1 in the standard mode. The facsimile 1 scans an input document 20 of B4 size and transmits a facsimile signal to the interface unit 2 via a line. The interface unit 2 receives a facsimile signal according to the procedure, extracts an image signal from the facsimile signal, and stores the image signal in the buffer memory unit 3.

After storing the image signal, the mark detecting section 4 is notified of the image signal amount, the document size, and the receiving mode. The mark detection unit 4 reads out the image signal of the buffer memory unit 3, determines that the entry mark of the storage designation display entry sticker 10 is “010100” by the method shown in FIG. The document size and the reception mode are notified by the storage destination determination unit 5.

Further, in order to erase the black pixels of the storage designation display entry sticker 10 of the buffer memory unit 3, the fixed erase region 32 including the left and right scanning designation displays 11 of the buffer memory unit 3 is erased by the method shown in FIG. Write white pixels. The storage destination determination unit 5 converts the B4 size standard mode screen from the B4 size standard mode screen with the original size of B4 size, the reception mode of the standard mode and the entry mark of "010100", and additionally stores the file number 4. To judge.

Then, the pixel density conversion unit 6 is instructed to convert the image signal of the buffer memory unit 3 into the A4 size standard mode by the image signal amount. However, the size of the received document is A
In the case of the 4-size standard mode, the conversion instruction is not issued to the pixel density conversion unit 6 even if the storage method is instructed to "convert and store". Upon receiving the conversion instruction, the pixel density conversion unit 6 converts the image signal of the buffer memory unit by the instructed image signal amount according to a certain algorithm.

After the end of the conversion, the pixel density conversion unit 6 notifies the storage destination determination unit 5 of the end of conversion. Upon receiving the notification of the end of conversion, the storage destination determination unit 5 instructs the file management unit 7 that the storage image signal amount and the storage destination file number are “4” for additional storage.

Upon receiving this instruction, the file management unit 7 reads out a predetermined image signal amount from the buffer memory unit 3, stores it in the file memory unit, and incorporates it into the management of the file 4.

By performing the above processing, not only the facsimile input documents can be classified and stored in the file, but also the document size and the reception mode can be stored in unification depending on the instruction of the storage method. Although the storage designation display entry sticker 10 is attached in the present embodiment, it is also possible to write directly on the manuscript when writing a sentence with a word processor or the like. Further, although black is used as the mark writing guide of the storage designation display writing sticker 10, other colors may be used, and if the color is dropout color, left and right scanning designation display 1
It may be between 1.

Therefore, the image information input device of the present invention reads the storage designation display entry sticker attached to the beginning of the input document and adds it to the specific file number in the memory according to the storage method and file number designated by the entry mark. Since it is possible to store documents, convert the document size and store them, and erase the contents of the file, it is possible to do without human intervention compared with the methods of telephone contact, multiple telephone lines, mark sheet input, etc. There are advantages such as low equipment cost, unnecessary communication, and no need to use a mark sheet. Further, since the mark portion of the storage designation display entry sticker attached to the original is erased, there is an advantage that the original image of the original can be stored.

Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it is needless to say that various modifications and applications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0035]

As described in detail above, according to the image information input device of the present invention, the original document is transmitted to the destination without manpower, without requiring a plurality of telephone lines, and without performing mark sheet recognition. Can be stored in a predetermined file in the above processing device by a predetermined method.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a storage designation display entry sticker used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an input original of B4 size used in the present invention.

4A is a diagram showing a state in which an input document of B4 size is stored in a buffer memory, FIG. 4B is a diagram showing a detection area of a writing mark, and FIG. 4C is a mark. FIG. 4D is a diagram showing the presence / absence of entry marks in the entry guide and the storage method, and FIG. 4D is a diagram showing the presence / absence of entry marks in the mark entry guide and the storage destination.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Facsimile, 2 ... Interface part, 3 ... Buffer memory part, 4 ... Mark detection part, 5 ... Storage destination determination part, 6
... Pixel density conversion unit, 7 ... File management unit, 9 ... File memory unit 10 ... Storage designation display / entry seal, 11 ... Scan designation display, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 ... Mark entry guide, 20 ... B4 Full size input manuscript, 30, 3
1 ... entry mark, 32 ... erased area, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38 ... the detection range of the fill mark, a1 ... right edge address of the right of the designated scanning display 11, a2 ... left end address to the left of the designated scanning display 11, L ₁ ... the right of the designated scanning display 11
Upper scanning line of L _2, ... Left scanning designation display 11 of upper left scanning line, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5 ... Scan designation display 11
Image signal between, W ... Width between left and right scanning designation displays 11.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting image information with storage designation display comprising storage information including storage method and storage destination relating to image information to be input, and image size from the image information input by the input means Interface mode for extracting each information of mode, mode, and image signal, buffer memory means for temporarily storing the image signal taken out by the interface means, presence or absence of the storage designation display from the image information taken out by the interface means A storage unit for detecting storage information, a storage destination determination unit for determining a storage method and a storage destination for the image information to be input, based on the storage information detected by the detection unit; Based on the judgment result, the image signal stored in the buffer memory means is read out to obtain a plurality of image information. And a conversion unit for converting the input pixel density mode of the image signal into a predetermined pixel density mode and storing again in the buffer memory unit, and an image for each of a plurality of image information read from the buffer memory unit. An image information input device comprising: a file management means for managing signals on a file; and a file memory means for storing image signals for each of a plurality of image information managed by the file management means in a predetermined file. 2. The image information input device according to claim 1, further comprising means for deleting a storage designation display from the image signal before storing the input image signal of the image information in a predetermined file.