JPS63306766A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To discriminate the reamining capacity of a memory medium by operating the quantity of information stored in a memory means and the quantity of information stored in a management area, then operating the quantity of storable information after comparing said two quantities, and displaying the result. CONSTITUTION:One piece of optical disk 33a consists of 1 cabinet for one side, 2 cabinets for both sides, and image information equal to 16 binders, 80 thousand documents, 80 thousand pages can be stored in it 33a. However, for instance, if four binders are defined in one cabinet, maximum 30 thousand documents are stored in one binder, the remaining capacity of the cabinet is for 10 thousand documents, therefore, only maximum 10 thousand documents in total can be stored in the remaning three binders. Hence, in this case, the proportion of the remaining capacity to the whole memory capacity is operated for each management area of the memory medium and the result is displayed. This means that, since each document is respectively limited, how large the remaining-capacity proportion is operated for each management area, respective results are compared with each other to display them in percent.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Objective of the Invention J (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a device that performs processing such as storing and retrieving image information such as documents, and particularly relates to a device that stores and stores image information such as a document. The present invention relates to an information processing device capable of displaying the remaining storage capacity of a medium (hereinafter referred to as residual capacity).

(Prior Art) Conventionally, for example, image information such as sentence 1 written on a manuscript is read using a reading device, the read image information is displayed on a display device, and the image information is compressed. A storage device is used to store and register a large number of records on a storage medium such as an optical disk, and then a desired specific image information is searched from among the registered image information based on search conditions entered together with this image information. Large ω image information has been handled in information processing operations such as displaying it on the screen of a display device and recording and outputting it using a printer or the like.

On the other hand, recording media have a certain storage capacity, and in recent years the storage capacity has increased dramatically. For example, an optical disk can store up to 40,000 pages of image information on one side of an A4 standard manuscript. The amount of recorded image information can be simply deducted from the total storage capacity of the storage area on one side of the optical disk, and the remaining capacity is displayed as a guideline for further recording. there was. Regarding the display of the remaining capacity of the storage capacity which has been reduced due to the recording and accumulation of image information, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 55-155473, the maximum amount of image information stored in the storage medium is calculated from the address information. An information processing apparatus is known that displays the remaining amount of image information in units of pages, for example, by taking into account the amount of image information and the average compression rate of the image information compression processing performed when the image information is recorded and accumulated on a storage medium. It was getting worse.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) However, in this conventional information processing device, in order to reduce the storage capacity used by recording and accumulating, the image information is converted into image information using, for example, C0DEC. Therefore, when calculating and displaying the remaining amount of image information based on the average compression rate as described above, for example, documents with a large margin area and a high compression rate However, when recording and storing documents that include many photographs, patent publications, etc., the remaining capacity may be as low as 100 pages because the information density of these originals is high and the compression rate of the image information is inevitably low. Even though it is displayed, it is actually 80
In some cases, it was only possible to store records by page number.

Therefore, if you want to record and store human image information when this remaining capacity is low, it is necessary to accurately know the remaining capacity, but this remaining capacity a is Since it changes depending on the compression ratio, it is difficult to know the exact remaining capacity, and in some cases, the last page of a series of image information consisting of many pages cannot be registered.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing device that can accurately determine the remaining capacity of a storage medium.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a storage means that stores storage information in an information processing device and is capable of setting one or more management areas. , a first 5I11s means for calculating the storage information tank stored in the storage means, a second calculation means for calculating the storage information tank stored in the management area of the storage means, and a third calculation means for comparing the storage information tanks calculated by the second calculation means and calculating a storage information tank that can be stored in the storage means; and a display for displaying the results calculated by the third calculation means. and means.

(Function) In the information processing apparatus of the present invention, one or more management areas are appropriately set in the storage means for storing stored information, and the stored information is stored in the storage means and the management area, respectively. The stored storage information tank is operated on the storage means by the first calculation means and the management area by the second FIQ calculation means, and the storage information calculated by the first and second calculation means is operated on. 3, and calculates the storage information Φ that can be further added to the storage means including the management area to store 2, so it is possible to obtain information to rlQ into an appropriate storage information tank. .

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a general configuration of an image information storage and retrieval device as an information processing device of the present invention.

The image scanner device 99 is a device that reads the content written on a manuscript such as a photograph or a document as image data.
An operation unit 99C for setting parameters such as the original size of the original to be read, original density, and reading density; a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters; and a CPU for controlling the entire image scanner device 99. (not shown), a display 8I$99b that displays input information such as setting conditions and processing time, and an automatic document feed mechanism (ADF) 99a that continuously reads documents.

Control unit (G P LJ: Central P r
cessinq Unit) 1 controls the overall operation and data flow of this unit.

Further, the remaining capacity of the storage medium is estimated based on the amount of image information input from the image scanner device 99, and further comparison is made.

This control unit 1 is used to input character information when creating a document using a word processing function, and to move the cursor displayed on both sides of the display device 77 and perform functions when performing a search or image processing. Keyboard 11 for inputting search information and various command information for switching
is connected.

DMA (1) Direct Memory Acc
ess) 3 transfers data regardless of the operation of the control unit 1, and for example, transfers data between a main memory 51 and a storage device 30, which will be described later, via an interface 3a.

The storage device 30 includes a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from a large amount of image information, that is, search information, etc., and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information. It consists of an optical disk device 33 and the like that stores search information and the like.

As conceptually shown in FIG. 2, the optical disc 33a used as a storage medium of the optical disc device ftf33 has a portion near the center of the optical disc 33a.
A search area A/)< that manages a is set, and a memory 1bXB is set around this search area VtA. Further, the image information is recorded on the tracks of the optical disc 33a, and for convenience, it is assumed that the image information is recorded sequentially from the innermost track of the storage area B. Also, the innermost track is the first block, and the outermost tracks are the second and third blocks.

..., the outermost track is the X-th block.

The main memory 51 stores operating programs for the control section 1 and the like.

The page memory 53 is a memory that has a storage capacity corresponding to, for example, several pages of an A4-sized document, and stores image information and the like input from the Hokuki image scanner device 99.

For example, the code/image converter 71 converts the keyboard 11
The input character code data is converted into image data and outputted to the display memory 73, and the characters converted into image data on the screen are corrected by performing inverse conversion as necessary.

The display memory 73 is a memory that temporarily stores image information when displaying an image on the display device 77 based on the image information from the page memory 53 or the like.

The display #1111 section 75 is a display device 7 such as a CRT.
7, etc., to display the image information stored in the display memory.

The C0DEC95 is an encoding/decoding circuit unit that can reduce the storage area of a storage medium such as an optical disk used during zero recording by compressing image information (reducing redundancy). , and is a circuit unit that performs decompression processing (restores the reduced redundancy) to the compressed image information and outputs it as original image information.

This C0DE95 includes a tPLJ (1ma138 Pr0
CeS3inlJLlnit) is connected.

The interface 95a of the C0DE95 also has an image scanner device 99. A printer 97 etc. is connected.

The printer 97 is a device that prints out image information as visible information such as characters on a recording medium such as paper, and uses, for example, laser printing.

Also, the control unit 1, the DMA 3, the main memory 51, the page memory 53, the display memory 73, the display control unit 75, and the C0D
The E95, etc. are connected via the system bus 20, and the page memory 53, display memory 73, CODEC95, etc. are connected via the image bus 40 for transmitting image information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained using an image information storage and retrieval device.
The operating procedure will be explained using an example in which a large number of manuscripts are read, image information written in the manuscripts is registered, and further searches and printouts are performed.

When the power is turned on to this image information storage and retrieval device, the document is read and the read image information is transferred to a predetermined optical disk 5AP (33) according to the instructions on the initial screen displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. Enter commands for continuous registration from the keyboard 11,
This image information storage and retrieval device is put into the "reading/registration" mode.

Next, a large number of stacked originals are placed at a predetermined position on the image scanner device 99, and after setting the "automatic paper feed" mode to continuously read the stacked originals, the original size of the original and the original Keyboard 1 for concentration, reading density, etc.
1 or the operation section 99c of the image scanner device 99.

Furthermore, the image information from the image scanner N99 is
It is transmitted to the optical disc device v133 via MA3 so that it can be registered on the optical disc 33a.

Using the keyboard 11, search information such as the title and information of the manuscript to be registered is input according to the formula displayed on the screen of the display device 77.

This format is used to input and set key names to identify the document to be registered and facilitate search processing, and various information such as the remaining capacity of the storage device 30 when the image scanner N99 reads the document. , a "table" for inputting the above-mentioned key names, etc., and the function of this function key when inputting with the function key are displayed.

Further, in the lower part of the above-mentioned "table", there is provided a column for displaying the remaining capacity for each area on the storage medium, and the remaining capacity, which will be described later, is displayed using numbers or a histogram.

When reading the document starts, the image information read from the image scanner device 99 is stored in the -H page memory 53 via the interface 95a, and is further stored in the C0D page memory 53.
After the image information is compressed by the EC95, the search information is sent to the magnetic disk device 31 via the interface 3a.
Then, the search information and image information are registered in the optical disc device 33.

When searching for and printing out specific image information from a large amount of image information registered in the optical disk device 33, input a search command using the keyboard 11 in the same way as in the case of reading and registering. Enter "search" mode.

Next, search information for specifying desired image information is input using the keyboard 11, and the desired search information is searched from a large amount of search information recorded in the magnetic disk device 31.
Based on this search information, desired image information registered in the optical disk device 33 is searched. Furthermore, the retrieved image information is subjected to processing such as expansion by the CODEC 95W, and then displayed on the display device 77 via the display memory 73 or the like.

When making a hard copy of the displayed image information, the keyboard 11 is used to designate the image information desired to be made into a hard copy, set the number of copies to be output, etc., and print out from the printer 97.

The information management system of this embodiment will be outlined below with reference to FIG.

The information management system in this embodiment has a pyramid-like hierarchical structure in order to accurately manage a large amount of information over a wide range.

For example, the optical disk 3 used as a storage medium in this embodiment
3a, information can be stored on both sides of the optical disk 33a, and one side of this optical disk 338 is called a cabinet.

A "binder" is set as a management area in this cabinet, and "documents" consisting of a plurality of "pages" are normally stored in this binder.

The information storage amount will be explained below by giving an example.

Up to 8 binders can be set in the cabinet, and up to 40,000 "documents" can be stored, and "pages" can store up to 40,000 pages of A4 standard manuscripts. .

Further, the binder can store up to 30,000 documents, and similarly can store up to 30,000 pages.

Furthermore, a maximum of 4095 pages can be stored in one document.

In other words, one optical disc has one side and one cabinet.
It consists of two screen cabinets and can store image information equivalent to 16 binders, 80,000 documents, and 80,000 images, but for example, when 4 binders are defined in one cabinet, the maximum storage capacity for one binder is 30,000. Once the contents have been stored, the remaining capacity of the cabinet is 10,001, so the remaining three binders can only store a maximum of 10,000 documents in total.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the ratio of the remaining capacity to the total storage capacity is calculated and displayed for each management area of the storage medium.

In other words, ``As for Binder J, there are 8 binders per cabinet, but the limits for ``documents'' are 40,000 documents per cabinet, 30,000 documents per binder, and 4,095 pages per book. Therefore, we will demonstrate how much the remaining fence ratio is for each management area and compare them.

Below, a demonstration formula for displaying the remaining capacity in each area as a percentage is shown.

BT-(<30000-K)/30000)xl 00
% CT= ((40000-L)/40000)Xl
00% IMG = ((TE-PE)/TE) x 100% However, BT is the percentage ratio of the remaining capacity in the binder, K is the registered number of m classes in the binder, and CT is the percentage of the remaining capacity Φ in the cabinet. % ratio, is the number of registered classes in the cabinet, IMG is the % ratio of the remaining capacity in the information storage area on one side of the information storage medium, TE is the storage capacity of the information storage area on one side of the information storage medium, PE each indicates the storage capacity of the information storage area that has been used due to storage and accumulation of image information.

For example, when 4 binders are set in one cabinet, if the first binder stores 500011 types and the second binder stores 295001 types, then the third
and 550 as "binder" for the fourth binder.
Can store 0 documents.

At this time, the percentage ratio of the remaining capacity of the first binder is BT - ((30000-5000) / 30000) x 100% - about 83% The percentage ratio of the remaining capacity of the second binder is similarly about 1.7% The percentage ratio of remaining capacity as a cabinet is CT-((40000-34500)/40000))
X100% = approximately 14% Therefore, when the first binder is specified, the current BT value and CT value are compared and the remaining amount of the cabinet is displayed on the upper right side of the screen of the display device 77 as shown in FIG. 1:14% is displayed, and when the second binder is specified, 1.7% is similarly displayed.

Furthermore, when a third binder is specified, 1 binder is specified from the beginning.
4% is displayed. That is, although the binder could store 30,000 books, the cabinet could only store up to (40,000-34,500) documents since it already contained (29,500+5,000>documents).

Above, we have explained the percentage ratio of remaining capacity in the binder (BT) and the percentage ratio of remaining capacity in the cabinet (CT). If there is ((
x −n )/x ) x100% is displayed as the remaining capacity.

In this embodiment, as described above, the smallest remaining capacity value is always displayed as a percentage, so there is no risk of accidentally storing image information that exceeds the remaining capacity, and more accurate information management is possible. Can be done.

In this embodiment, each management area is made up of two cabinets, for example, one cabinet on each side of one optical disk, and up to eight binders can be set in one cabinet. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example. The present invention is not limited to only one side of the optical disk, but may be such that the recording area is provided only on one side of the optical disk, and up to 12 binders can be set in one cabinet on this one side.

In this embodiment, the names of each management area are cabinet, binder, document, page, etc., but it goes without saying that the names are not limited to these.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, the remaining capacity of the storage medium is accurately displayed, so the remaining capacity of the storage medium can be accurately determined, which improves the efficiency of information processing. This has effects such as being able to achieve the following.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram conceptually showing the storage area of an optical disk, Figure 3 is a diagram explaining the configuration of the information processing system, and Figure 4 is the remaining capacity. It is a figure which shows the example of a display when expressed as a percentage. 1... Control unit 10... Input device 3... DMA 30... Storage device 31... Magnetic disk device 33... Optical disk device 77... Display device 95... GODEC 2nd Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) a storage means that can store storage information and set one or more management areas; a first calculation means that calculates a storage information tank stored in the storage means; A second calculating means for calculating the amount of storage information stored in the management area and the amount of storage information calculated by the first and second calculating means to calculate the amount of storage information that can be stored in the storage means. An information processing device comprising: a third calculation means that performs a calculation; and a display means that displays a result calculated by the third calculation means.