JPS62248375A - Picture processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently retrieve a picture even when the page of a document in which objective picture is present is not apparent by having a page turning over function to all the plurally displayed reduced pictures. CONSTITUTION:The objective document is designated by a pointing device 16 or a keyboard 15 from a retrieval result list and a picture index is displayed on a display 17. The page turning over functions 51e and 51f at the left side of the index picture of the objective document are designated by the pointing device 16 from the picture index. Whether the preceding page turning over function 51e is designated or the next page turning over function 51f is designated is decided. When the next page turning over function 51f is designated, the page managing record of the next page from the next page address 31d of the page managing record of the display picture is read from a page management file 31.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to an image processing device.

[Prior art 1 A conventional image processing device reduces an image corresponding to the first page or cover of a document, and prints the reduced image.
Then, to display the target page of the target document on the display section, look at the reduced image above, select the target sentence 3, and click OK. Next, the desired page is displayed on the display section by turning over the pages in order or by specifying the relevant page.

Therefore, in the conventional device described above, if it is not known in advance t in advance which document and which page the target image is on, the target document and the target page are unclear, and the target image is turned over one page at a time. Therefore, there is a problem in that the search takes a lot of time.

[Objective of 51 Akira] The present invention has been made by focusing on the problems of the above-mentioned conventional devices.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing device that can efficiently search for a target image even when the position of the target image is unclear.

[Embodiment of the invention]: The JSi diagram is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the invention.

This embodiment includes an input section 1 for inputting data, a processing section 2 for processing data, a storage section 3 for storing information such as documents input from the input section 1, and a storage section 3 for storing information such as documents input from the input section 1. a display unit 4 that displays information or processing results of the document list; and an output unit 5 that outputs data processed by the processing unit 2;
and has.

A memory 11 in the storage unit 3 temporarily stores document image data stored on the optical disk 12 and record information stored on the hard disk 13. The image reader 14 in the input section 1 converts the read sentence 3 image into a digital signal and stores it on the optical disk 12.

The keyboard 15 is used to manually enter keywords for document searching and commands for data processing.

An FD (pointing device) 16 is used to input coordinate information on a display 17, and a laser beam printer 18 is used to form high-resolution images. The hard disk 13 stores an array of keywords necessary for document search as a record, and the optical disk 12 is capable of storing a large amount of non-rewritable document and image data.

FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams explaining the structure of files on the hard disk 13. FIG.

The document management file 21 shown in FIG.
1a, a page interval 21b, and the address 21c of the first page are stored. Keywords 21a record keywords assigned to each document. The address 21c of the first page records the record address of the first page of the page management file 31 (shown in FIG. 3) in which the management information of the page of the document is recorded.

The page management file 31 shown in FIG. 3 has a page address 31a and an index image storage location 2t3 lb.
, actual image storage location M31c, next page chain address 31d, and previous page chain address 31e are stored. Here, the index image refers to an image obtained by reducing part or all of the actual image at a certain reduction rate.The page management files 31 are 31a, 31b, 31c, 31d
.

31e forms one record, and one record manages information for one page of the document. The index image storage location 1i31b and the real image storage location 5131C are the addresses of the reduced image image and real image image of the page stored on the optical disk 12, respectively, and are recorded as the addresses of the first sector and the last sector. There is.

The next page chain address 31d indicates the address of the record in which the information of the next page is stored, if a subsequent page exists.

If it is the last page of the document, next page address 3L
d contains the address of the first page. Similarly,
The chain address 31e of the previous page is the address of the record in which the information of the previous page is stored.0 If this is the record of the first page of the document, the previous page address 31e contains the address of the last page. .

4UgJ, FIG. 5, FIG. 7, and FIG. 8 are diagrams explaining the operation contents of the above embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a detailed explanatory diagram of FIG. 5.

In the search result list 41 shown in FIG. 4, keywords 21a of searched documents are displayed in order.

The image index 51a shown in FIG.
A plurality of pages are displayed on the display 17. In the above embodiment, up to 6 fN of index images can be displayed at one time. Reference numeral 51b is an index image of the first page of the document.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 5.

In the index image display area 51d, index images selected from the search results are displayed. The funk screen display area 51c includes a previous page turn function screen 51e and a next page refunction screen 51e.
The number of pages 51g of the 0 display image where f is displayed is [
The number to the left of "/" is the current display page, and the number to the right of "/" is the total number of pages in the document.

Reference numeral 61a shown in FIG. 7 is an index image of an intermediate page of one document, and reference numeral 71a shown in FIG. 8 is an actual image.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment.

First, a target document is specified from the search result list using the pointing device 16 or the keyboard 15, and one image index is displayed on the display 17 (Sl
), then use the pointing device 1 to select the page turning function 51e or 51f to the left of the index image of the target document from among the image indexes.
6 (S2), it is determined whether the previous page turning function 51e or the primary page turning function 51f has been specified (S3), and if the previous page turning function 51e is specified, the The page management record of the previous page is also read from the previous page address 31e in the page management file 31 (S4).

When the next page turning function 51f is specified, the next page address 3 of the page management record of the display image
1d to read the page management record of the next page from the page management file 31 (S, S), then read the index image from the index image storage location 2231b of that page management record (SS), index image display area 51d (37). At the same time, the page number displayed in the upper right corner of the index image display area is counted down by 1 in the case of the previous page.
For the next page, increase the count by 1 and display it again (5
8) Here, if the image of the last page is displayed, if you specify the next page turning function, the pages will wrap around and the image of the first page will be displayed (the number of pages will be 1).

Similarly, if the first page is displayed and the previous page turning function is specified, the image of the last page will be displayed and the page number will be the same as the last page. In addition, in the case of a one-page document, the page refinements 51e and 51f are not displayed.

Next, the operator determines whether the displayed index image is the desired image (S9), and if it is not the desired image, the operator determines whether or not the desired image exists in the same document (S9).
10) If it is determined that the document exists on another page within the same document, continue page turning of the document.

If it is determined that the document exists in another document, it is determined whether or not the document exists in the currently displayed image index (S11), and if it exists, it is determined that the document exists in another document. Executes page turning for .

If it is determined that the target image does not exist in the currently displayed image index (Sll), the process returns to Sl and displays another image index again.

If it is determined that the displayed image is the desired image (S9),
The actual image storage position t is read from the page management record of the page, the corresponding image is read from the optical disk, and the actual image is displayed on the display (S l 2).

In the above embodiment, an upward arrow or a downward arrow is used as the page turning function, and it is designated by a pointing device, but any symbol or character may be used as long as it is understood by the operator. Although the page turning function is specified by a pointing device, it can also be specified by a keyboard.

In addition, in the above embodiment, up to six documents displayed as index images are independently page-turned so that one image can be searched, but the page-turning function is separated from each image, and the page The page-turning function may be provided independently. In other words, when the previous page-turning function is specified using a pointing device or a keypad, the displayed index images may be set to the previous page image. It may also be possible to replace all of them with . Similarly, when Grandpa Ja is designated to turn the next page, all displayed images may be replaced with images of the next page.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, even when it is unclear which page of the document the target image is, it is possible to efficiently search for the image.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams each explaining the storage file structure of the hard disk in the above embodiment. FIG. 4, FIG. 5, FIG. 7, and FIG. 8 are diagrams each explaining the operation in the above embodiment. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the part shown in FIG. FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of displaying index images in the above embodiment. 1... Input section, 2... Processing section, 3... Storage section, 4... Display section, 5... Output section. Patent applicant Canon Co., Ltd. Agent Arata Yokubo - Figure 7 Figure 8

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] An image processing device that stores image data, reduces the stored images, and displays a plurality of them at the same time, comprising a page turning function for all of the plurality of displayed reduced images. An image processing device characterized by: