CN2360882Y

CN2360882Y - Electronic name's card clip

Info

Publication number: CN2360882Y
Application number: CN 99211023
Authority: CN
Inventors: 东磁
Original assignee: Dongyang Cixing Enterprise Group Co Zhejiang Prov
Current assignee: Dongyang Cixing Enterprise Group Co Zhejiang Prov
Priority date: 1999-09-06
Filing date: 1999-09-06
Publication date: 2000-01-26
Anticipated expiration: 2009-09-06

Abstract

The utility model relates to an electronic name card clip, which adopts a CMOS image sensor as an input device of image information such as a name card, etc. The device comprises a lens which collects the images and an image sensor, wherein, the lens is positioned on the surface of the name card clip, and the image sensor is positioned in the name card clip. The utility model causes the input of the image such as the name card, etc., to become rapid, convenient and labor-saving. All the information of the name card is reserved, and a plurality of definition retrieval modes which are matched with a retrieval device are set for bring the convenience to the management and use of the image information such as the name card, etc. The utility model has the advantages of small size, light weight and convenient carryover. Various methods such as voice, handwriting, touch, keyboard input, etc., can be used on the occasion of indexing.

Description

Electronic visiting card scanner

The utility model relates to a kind ofly can obtain and the palm PC device of managing image information particularly a kind of electronic visiting card scanner.

In the modern information exchange, business card is a kind of important communication way of personal information, and is particularly especially true for business people.Therefore, how managing that hundreds of is opened even thousands of name cards, is a relatively thing of difficulty really.People once found out various ways and managed, as make cards folder for preserving and searching and provide convenience, and for example present upper reaches, market row e-commerce notepad, can be with the main information in the business card, for example name, phone deposit in the notepad, solve a difficult problem of searching with this mode, but had the problem of two aspects not solve:

The one, input is during canned data, employing be keyboard input or hand-written mode, waste time and energy; The 2nd, the simple information in the business card can only be deposited in, and the full detail in the business card can not be deposited in, obviously inconvenient during use.As represent the non-legible information such as sign, trade mark of company's feature, and just more can not deposit in the memo pad, and this information is to the contacts between the people, particularly identification in the commercial affairs and authentication are often extremely important.

At the problems referred to above, the purpose of this utility model provides that a kind of volume is little, deal is light, can carry, and the electronic visiting card scanner that the whole quick storage of card information and available multiple mode can be retrieved makes image input such as business card not only easy but also laborsaving.

For achieving the above object, the utility model is taked following technical scheme:

A kind of electronic visiting card scanner, comprise message input device and palm PC, it is characterized in that, described message input device is a camera lens and an image sensor of images acquired, camera lens places the surface of cards folder, the touch screen of palm PC is located on the table body of cards folder, and described image sensor places the inside of cards folder, it has one to place on the camera lens focal plane and receive the image that described camera lens is gathered, the CMOS chip of output signal, one receives simulating signal, and convert the A/D converter of digital signal output to, the frame memory of one temporary transient storage digital signal, the CMOS output port connects the output port of A/D converter, and the A/D converter output port links to each other with the frame memory input port, the CMOS chip, A/D converter, frame memory all links to each other with the palm PC host CPU.

Electronic visiting card scanner recited above, the data output DO of described CMOS chip A/D converter is electrically connected with frame memory RAM FPDP DO/DI by data bus, the line synchronizing signal LS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C1 of bus arbiter end, the frame synchronizing signal FS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C2 of bus arbiter end, the point synchronizing signal PS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C3 of bus arbiter end, the Serial Control bus of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the serial line interface SCI of host CPU end, and the clock signal clk of CMOS chip is electrically connected with outer clock circuit.The data bus of host CPU is electrically connected by the FPDP DO/DI of bus arbiter with frame memory RAM, and the address bus AD of host CPU is electrically connected with the address bus AD of the address bus AD of bus arbiter and frame memory RAM.The read-write control signal R/W of host CPU is electrically connected with the read-write control signal R/W of frame memory RAM.

Described CMOS chip can be OV7110, OV7910, OV7410, PB300, M20 and similar chip.

Above-mentioned electronic visiting card scanner, wherein, described palm PC has:

Host CPU receives the information of described image sensor, the identification of control information, compression, arrangement, index, storage, retrieval and demonstration;

One definition indexing unit, the information of received frame storer is finished the definition setting of image information;

One primary memory, information such as memory image;

One indexing unit, the indexed mode in the corresponding index of definition device and corresponding retrieval mode is set is sent retrieving information into display;

One display shows input, retrieval and management information; Said apparatus connects in turn with custom circuit respectively, and links to each other with host CPU respectively.

In the utility model, above-mentioned index of definition device, indexing unit are that corresponding module is solidificated on the EPROM, described index of definition mode can adopt manually, voice or image etc., described retrieval can be adopted manual or voice etc., wherein, manual mode comprises touch display screen, imports with writing pencil input or keyboard.

The utility model is owing to adopt the input media of CMOS image sensor as image informations such as business cards, makes image input such as business card not only easy but also laborsaving, high input speed; And set the multiple index of definition mode that cooperates with indexing unit, so that the management of image informations such as business card and use.

The utility model is described in further detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is the utility model structure and principle of work block diagram

Fig. 2 is the utility model electronic business card synoptic diagram

Fig. 3 is the utility model message input device circuit connection diagram

Referring to Fig. 1, the image-input device that the utility model is made up of camera lens 1 and CMOS image sensor 2 and the palm PC 3 of program curing are formed.

As seen from Figure 2, message input device is a camera lens 1 and an image sensor 2 of images acquired, camera lens 1 places the surface of cards folder, the touch screen 34 of palm PC 3 is located on the table body of cards folder, and described image sensor 2 places the inside of cards folder, it has one to place on camera lens 1 focal plane and receive the image 4 that described camera lens 1 is gathered, the CMOS chip 21 of output signal, one receives simulating signal, and convert the A/D converter 22 of digital signal output to, the frame memory 23 of one temporary transient storage digital signal, the CMOS output port connects the output port of A/D converter 22, and A/D converter 22 output ports link to each other with frame memory 23 input ports, CMOS chip 21, A/D converter 22, frame memory 23 all links to each other with palm PC 3 host CPUs.

Referring to Fig. 1,2 and 3, the image 4 that CMOS image sensor 2 is gathered camera lens 1 is input on the CMOS chip 21, output becomes simulating signal, become digital signal after handling through A/D converter 22 again, send into palm PC 3, solidify supervisory routine and softwares through palm PC 3, identification, compression, arrangement, index, deposit primary memory 32 in.When extracting data, through retrieval, the information of will wishing to get shows on display screen 34.

Particularly, image is after for example business card 4 is ready to, the CPU35 of palm PC 3 drives image sensor 2 work by control chip, image information can be mapped to CMOS chip 21, elapsed time control circuit control like this, and CMOS chip 21 image informations will become the simulating signal of response, through delivering to A/D transducer 22 after the arrangement, this image information is through after conversion, becomes digital information and delivers to frame memory 23 again and temporarily store, thereby finished an image capture process.

Fig. 3 is that a kind of physical circuit of message input device connects, described as can be seen CMOS chip 21, the data output DO of A/D converter 22 is electrically connected with frame memory 23RAM FPDP DO/DI by data bus, the line synchronizing signal LS of CMOS chip 21 is electrically connected with the control signal C1 of bus arbiter end, the frame synchronizing signal FS of CMOS chip 21 is electrically connected with the control signal C2 of bus arbiter end, the point synchronizing signal PS of CMOS chip 21 is electrically connected with the control signal C3 of bus arbiter end, the Serial Control bus of CMOS chip 21 is electrically connected with the serial line interface SCI of host CPU end, and the clock signal clk of CMOS chip 21 is electrically connected with outer clock circuit.The data bus of host CPU is electrically connected by the FPDP DO/DI of bus arbiter with frame memory 23RAM, and the address bus AD of host CPU is electrically connected with the address bus AD of the address bus AD of bus arbiter and frame memory 23RAM.The read-write control signal R/W of host CPU is electrically connected with the read-write control signal R/W of frame memory 23RAM.

Certainly, the circuit connection is not limited to top concrete mode, and above-mentioned CMOS chip can be OV7110, OV7910, OV7410, PB300, M20 and similar chip.

CMOS image sensor 2 pickup image information are to palm PC 3, and the index definition device of being made up of the EPROM that has solidified the index definition module 31 is finished the definition sign of image information, for image management is set up foundation, delivers to primary memory 32 through processing again; When extracting image information, start the indexing unit 33 that the EPROM that has been solidified with retrieval module forms, and result for retrieval delivered on the display 34 show.

Definition retrieval has three kinds of modes, i.e. speech index, community string index community and image recognition index are to having two kinds of retrieval modes, i.e. speech retrieval and string search.As shown in Figure 2, speech index serves as to receive voice device with microphone 5, voice messagings such as name, address are identified as character string, and set up one-to-one relationship with this image, during retrieval, under the speech retrieval state, the speech recognition of importing is become character string, and, image detected be shown on the screen 34 according to string search; Community string index community has three class settings: handwriting recognition, touch recognition and keyboard, receive behind the various identification strings through handling, set up corresponding relation with image information, deposit in the primary memory 32, during retrieval, select the character string input mode, as writing character string with writing pencil 6, retrieving information is retrieved after treatment, and the image information that fits like a glove is shown on display 34; Equally, the image recognition index is to search for specific region or the artificial mode of determining automatically, determine a zone in the image, then the Word message in the zone is carried out pictograph identification, the Chinese character or the character information of centre are identified respectively, be converted to retrieving information with the Chinese character information that identifies, as a kind of index of this image.Above-mentioned index or retrieval mode can be selected to use, and also can all use

The utility model can be worked like this: after the start, screen shows 34 and shows function menu, selects input picture or retrieving images; When selecting input picture, business card 4 images such as grade are imported computers 3 by CMOS image sensor 2, and show on screen 34, the image of input can be by the index of index of definition device 31 definition different modes; When selecting retrieval to go into image, select concrete retrieval mode, will from primary memory 32, the image that responds be accessed, on screen 34, show by indexing unit 33.

The bus arbiter that is used for the utility model electronic visiting card scanner can be ATF1500, ALTERA7032, XILINX9536 and similar chip; Host CPU can be IntelX86 series, MOTOROLA68K series and similar chip; Frame memory can be SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM and similar chip.

Claims

1, a kind of electronic visiting card scanner, comprise message input device and palm PC, it is characterized in that, described message input device is a camera lens and an image sensor of images acquired, camera lens places the surface of cards folder, the touch screen of palm PC is located on the table body of cards folder, and described image sensor places the inside of cards folder, it has one to place on the camera lens focal plane and receive the image that described camera lens is gathered, the CMOS chip of output signal, one receives simulating signal, and convert the A/D converter of digital signal output to, the frame memory of one temporary transient storage digital signal, the CMOS output port connects the output port of A/D converter, and the A/D converter output port links to each other with the frame memory input port, the CMOS chip, A/D converter, frame memory all links to each other with the palm PC host CPU.

2, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, the data output DO of described CMOS chip A/D converter is electrically connected with frame memory RAM FPDP DO/DI by data bus, the line synchronizing signal LS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C1 of bus arbiter end, the frame synchronizing signal FS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C2 of bus arbiter end, the point synchronizing signal PS of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the control signal C3 of bus arbiter end, the Serial Control bus of CMOS chip is electrically connected with the serial line interface SCI of host CPU end, and the clock signal clk of CMOS chip is electrically connected with outer clock circuit.The data bus of host CPU is electrically connected by the FPDP DO/DI of bus arbiter with frame memory RAM, and the address bus AD of host CPU is electrically connected with the address bus AD of the address bus AD of bus arbiter and frame memory RAM.The read-write control signal R/W of host CPU is electrically connected with the read-write control signal R/W of frame memory RAM.

3, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 2 is characterized in that, the CMOS chip can be OV7110, OV7910, OV7410, PB300, M20 and similar chip.

4, according to any one described electronic visiting card scanner of claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that described palm PC has:

Host CPU receives the information of described image sensor, the identification of control information, compression, arrangement index, storage, retrieval and demonstration;

One definition indexing unit, the information of received frame storer is finished the identification setting of image information;

One primary memory, information such as memory image;

One display shows input, retrieval and management information;

Said apparatus connects in turn with custom circuit respectively, and links to each other with host CPU respectively.

5, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 4 is characterized in that, described index of definition device, indexing unit are that corresponding module is solidificated on the EPROM.

6, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described index of definition mode can adopt manually, voice or image etc.

7, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described retrieval can be adopted modes such as manual or voice.

8, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 6 is characterized in that, described manual mode comprises touch display screen, imports with writing pencil input or keyboard.

9, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described manual mode comprises touch display screen, imports with writing pencil input or keyboard.

10, electronic visiting card scanner according to claim 2 is characterized in that, bus arbiter can be ATF1500, ALTERA7032, XILINX9536 and similar chip; Host CPU can be IntelX86 series, MOTOROLA68K series and similar chip; Frame memory can be SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM and similar chip.