JPH0793354A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the futile use of a data storage area and to improve the degree of freedom of operation for data retrieval. CONSTITUTION:Plural optical disks are prepared, and each of the optical disks is stored with image data, a data base for retrieving the image data, and management data for managing those image data and database individually. The CPU 34 of a control part 10 classifies data to be stored on the optical disks into images data, data base, and management data, and controls an optical disk device 22 to record the data on the optical disk stored with the respective data. Further, the CPU 34 controls plural optical disk devices 22 on the basis of inputted operation instructions to read data out of the respective optical disks at the same time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information processing device such as an electronic filing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Prior Art Optically reading documents such as drawings and documents,
The electronic filing device for recording on a recording medium (optical disk) can compactly store a large amount of documents in the recording medium.

In such an electronic filing apparatus, image data and data for accessing the image data are stored.
An optical disc, which is a recording medium, stores a tabular image, and image data and management data for managing the data base.

In the conventional electronic filing apparatus,
As shown in FIG. 5, the data track of the optical disk 60 is divided into an area 61 for storing image data, an area 62 for storing data base, and an area 63 for storing management data.
All data was recorded on one optical disk.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional electronic filing apparatus, all the image data, the data base, and the management data are recorded on one optical disk. , When the image data is completely stored in a specific data area, for example, the area for storing the image data, and the free area runs out, there is still a free area in the other area and the data can be stored. There is a problem that data cannot be recorded on the optical disc even in the state.

Further, since all the data for retrieving image data is recorded on one optical disk, it is possible to access a plurality of image data as shown in FIG. 6, for example. Must be operated sequentially, and there is an operational limitation that the image data cannot be accessed while the management data is being accessed.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides an image information processing apparatus capable of eliminating the waste of the data recording area and improving the operational flexibility of data retrieval. It is intended to be provided.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a first storage means for storing image information, a second storage means for storing search information for searching the image information, and the image. Third storage means for storing information and management information for managing the search information, and the first, second and third storage means
Means for independently reading and writing information from and to the storage means. A second invention is a first invention for storing image information.
Managing the image information and the search information, a first optical disk device in which another optical disk is installed, a second optical disk device in which a second optical disk storing search information for searching the image information is installed, and the image information and the search information. And a control means for controlling reading / writing of information from / to the first, second, and third optical disk devices.

A third aspect of the present invention is a first optical disk for storing image information, a second optical disk for storing search information for searching the image information, and management for managing the image information and the search information. A third optical disk for storing information is mounted, and an optical disk device capable of simultaneously reading and writing information from at least two optical disks, and a control means for controlling reading and writing of information from and to this optical disk device are provided.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, first storage means for storing image information, second storage means for storing search information for searching the image information, and management of the image information and the search information. Third storage means for storing management information for storing the information, input means for inputting a request for reading and writing these pieces of information from an external terminal, and the first, second and third storage means according to the request input by the input means. And means for independently reading and writing information with respect to the third storage means.

[0011]

According to the present invention, by storing the image data, the data base and the management data in separate optical disks, it is possible to eliminate the waste of the data area of the optical disk. Further, since it is possible to access a plurality of optical disks at the same time, the degree of freedom in the data search operation is improved.

[0012]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The electronic filing apparatus 1 shown in the figure is connected to another electronic filing apparatus 1 via a network 2. The electronic filing device 1 includes a control unit 1
0, a scanner device 18, a plurality of optical disk devices 22
A, 22B, ..., Keyboard 23a, Mouse 23b, C
It comprises an RT display device 24, a printer device 25 and a magnetic disk device 27. The keyboard 23a and the mouse 23b are connected to the CPU 34 of the controller 10.

The control unit 10 stores and retrieves image data,
And a CPU 34 that performs various controls for editing processing and the like
, An optical disk interface 36 for connecting the optical disk devices 22A, 22B, ... And the CPU 34, a magnetic disk interface 37 for connecting the magnetic disk device 27 and the CPU 34, and storage of image data. , A main memory 38 for storing various control programs such as search and edit, management information, etc., and a display memory 42 as a display interface for temporarily storing an image displayed by the CRT display device 24, Image memory 50
An image processing unit 51, a scanner interface 52 for the scanner device 18, a printer interface 54 for the printer device 25, and other electronic filing device 1, a facsimile device, a personal computer, etc. It comprises a network interface 58 for connecting to a device. The respective units are connected by the system bus 30.

The scanner device 18 is composed of a two-dimensional scanning device, and two-dimensionally scans a document (document) with light to generate an electric signal (image data) corresponding to an image on the document.
To get

The optical disk devices 22A, 22B, ... Sequentially store the images of the original document read by the scanner device 18 on the optical disk. Also, the image data corresponding to the retrieval code designated by the keyboard 23a or the like is retrieved from the optical disc.

Here, as shown in FIG. 2, an image data is recorded on the optical disc 22a mounted on the optical disc device 22A.
It stores management data for managing the data and the database. An optical disk 22b mounted in the optical disk device 22B stores a data base for searching image data. Image data is stored in the optical disks 22c, 22d, ... Mounted on the optical disk devices 22C, 22D ,. The number of optical disk devices can be sequentially increased according to the amount of data to be stored. Normally, an optical disk device 22C for storing image data that requires a large amount of data area
The subsequent optical disk devices 22C, 22D, ... Will increase. The electronic filing apparatus 1 according to this embodiment includes at least three optical disk devices 22A and 22A.
B, ... Are provided.

The keyboard 23a is used to input a unique search title corresponding to the image data stored on the optical disk and various operation commands for storing, searching, and editing the image data. To do.

The mouse 23b is used, for example, to arbitrarily move a cursor displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24 to select or instruct various operation modes and area designation for image editing. To use.

The CRT display device 24 displays an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18 and an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk.

The printer device 25 prints out an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18, an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk, or an image displayed on the CRT display device 24. (Her
Make a copy).

The magnetic disk device 27 stores various control programs on the magnetic disk mounted on the magnetic disk device 27, and a search key for searching the image data stored on the optical disk and the search. The record address (search data) including the storage address of the image data corresponding to the key on the optical disk and the image size is stored.

As described above, the CPU 34 of the control unit 10 performs various controls for storing, retrieving, and editing processing of image data according to the control program of the main memory 38, as well as the optical disk. The data to be stored is classified into image data, data base and management data, and the optical disc devices 22A, 22B, ... Are controlled to record the respective data on the optical disc. in this way,
By storing the image data, the data base, and the management data on separate optical disks, for example, even if the optical disk storing the image data runs out of free space, only the optical disk device can be used. Just add a new one,
There is no waste of data area. Further, the CPU 34 can control the plurality of optical disc devices 22A, 22B, ... And read the data stored in each optical disc at the same time. Therefore, the users can simultaneously access the data stored in different optical disks.

Next, the operation of data retrieval in the electronic filing apparatus 1 configured as described above will be described based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

The user first accesses the management data for managing such image data in order to retrieve the target image (first image). This operation is performed on the keyboard 23a.
Alternatively, the mouse 23b is used. CPU 34 is a key
Based on the input from the board 23a or the mouse 23b,
The optical disk device 22A in which the optical disk 22a storing the management data is mounted is controlled to read the management data (step 301). Then, according to the read management data, predetermined information regarding the image data is displayed on the CRT display device 24.

Next, the user refers to the display on the CRT display device 24 to access the image data of the target image. Similar to the management data, the CPU 34 reads the target image data from the optical disk device 22C, ... In which the optical disks 22c, ... In which the image data is stored are mounted (step 302). Then, an image based on the read image data is displayed on the CRT display device 24.

Here, when the user retrieves an image (second image) other than the first image being retrieved by the above operation, the same operation as the access to the management data is performed. Thus, the management data can be accessed while searching the first image data. At this time, the CPU 34
Simultaneously controls the optical disk devices 22C, ..., In which the optical disks c storing the image data are mounted, and the optical disk 22A in which the optical disk 22a storing the management data is mounted, and each optical disk is controlled. The stored target data is read (step 303).

After the retrieval of the first image is completed, the second image can be retrieved by the same operation as accessing the image data. CPU34
Reads the image data by the same operation as described above (step 304).

As described above, in this embodiment, it is possible to simultaneously access the data stored in different optical disks.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.

For example, a plurality of optical disk devices 22A,
Instead of B ..., the present invention can be realized by using an optical disk device having an auto changer function and capable of simultaneously accessing a plurality of optical disks. And
Under the control of the CPU, the loaded optical disk is selected to read / write data. Of course, the accumulated data
When the amount of data is increased and the number of optical disks that can be mounted in the optical disk device cannot be stored, an optical disk device may be additionally installed.

Further, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, the electronic filing apparatus 1 according to the present invention has a plurality of terminals 41a,
1b are connected, it is possible to simultaneously access from a plurality of terminals 41a, 41b, if the optical disks to be accessed are different.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, it is possible to simultaneously access the optical disc storing the management data and the optical disc storing the image data, but the image data can be simultaneously accessed. If there are multiple optical discs storing the
It goes without saying that data can be accessed simultaneously.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image data, the data base, and the management data are stored in separate optical disks so that the data area of the optical disk can be saved. Waste can be eliminated.

Further, since it is possible to access a plurality of optical disks at the same time, the degree of freedom in the data search operation is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic filing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data configuration of an optical disc used in an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a data search operation of the electronic filing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic filing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of an optical disc used in a conventional electronic filing apparatus.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a data search operation of a conventional electronic filing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Electronic filing device, 10 ... Control part, 22 ... Optical disk device, 34 ... CPU.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A first storage unit for storing image information, and a second storage unit for storing search information for searching the image information.
Storage means, a third storage means for storing management information for managing the image information and the search information, and information reading / writing independently for the first, second and third storage means. An image information processing apparatus, comprising: 2. A first optical disk device in which a first optical disk for storing image information is mounted, and a second optical disk device for storing search information for searching the image information.
A second optical disk device in which the optical disk of No. 3 is installed, a third optical disk device in which a third optical disk for storing management information for managing the image information and the search information is installed, An image information processing apparatus comprising: a control unit that controls reading and writing of information from and into the second and third optical disk devices. 3. A first optical disc for storing image information,
Second, storing search information for searching the image information
And an optical disk device capable of reading / writing information from / to at least two optical disks at the same time, equipped with a third optical disk for storing management information for managing the image information and the search information. An image information processing apparatus, comprising: a control unit that controls reading and writing of information from and to the image processing apparatus. 4. A first storage means for storing image information, and a second storage means for storing search information for searching the image information.
Storage means, third storage means for storing management information for managing the image information and the search information, input means for inputting a request to read / write these information from an external terminal, and input by this input means An image information processing apparatus, comprising means for independently reading / writing information from / to the first, second and third storage means in response to a given request.