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GB2219674A
GB2219674A GB8913161A GB8913161A GB2219674A GB 2219674 A GB2219674 A GB 2219674A GB 8913161 A GB8913161 A GB 8913161A GB 8913161 A GB8913161 A GB 8913161A GB 2219674 A GB2219674 A GB 2219674A
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4 l.- 4 2 2 1 Information Processing Apparatus
Showing the Title of the Document by the Image Data
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus showing the title of the document by the image data used for a filing system or the like.
In a conventional filing system using an optical disk.or the like, documents are titled and managed. However, as the number of documents is increased, the number of similar titles is also increased, and it is difficult to discriminate a desired document at a glance.
For example, as shown in a list of document titles in Fig. 6, since a large number of similar titles are present, a document selection error often occurs.
Thus, in the conventional filing system using an optical disk or the like, as the number of documents is increased, the number of similar titles is also increased. Therefore, it is difficult to easily and accurately select a desired document.
The present invention has been made in consideration of the above situations, and has as i ts object to provide an image processing apparatus which can easily and accurately 2 select a desired document.
In order to achieve the above object according to the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for easily discriminating a desired document from plural types of stored documents, comprising memory means for storing a content of each document and image data representing the content of each document and control means for reading out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with a predetermined instruction and displaying he-readout image data.
According to the present invention, a content of each document and image data representing the content of each document are stored in a memory means, and the image data representing the content of each document is read out from the memory means in accordance with a predetermined instruction and then the readout image data is displayed. Therefore, the content of-each document can be discriminated in accordance with the displayed image, and a desired document can be easily and accurately selected.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an arrangement of an information processing apparatus showing the title of the document by the image data (an image processing apparatus) according to an embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a bloc% diagram showing units required for display of an abstract image among units of the image processing apparatus shown in Fig. 1; 1 3 Fig. 3 is a view showing a document data table 61 and a page data table 62 in a database 6; Fig. 4 is a flow chart showing a registration operation of the abstract image; Fig. 5 is a flow chart showing a display operation of the abstract image; Fig. 6 is a list showing titles of documents; and Fig. 7 is a view showing abstract images displayed on a display.
An embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an arrangement of an image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to Fig. 1, the image processing apparatus includes an image scanner 1, an image scanner controller (ISC) 2, a page memory 3, an optical disk unit 4, a distributed processing computer (DP) 5, a database 6, and a work station (WS) 7.
- The image scanner 1 serving as an inputting means reads a document as an image.
The image scanner controller 2 controls the image scanner 1 and the page memory 3.
The page memory 3 stores image data supplied from the image station controller (ISC) 2.
The image data stored in the page memory 3 is registered 4 in the optical disk unit 4 serving as a memory means.
The distributed processing computer 5 processes various data. For example, the distributed processing computer 5 reduces the size of an object image represented by the image data read by the image scanner 1, samples the size-reduced image data, and writes the resultant data in the page memory 3.
The database 6 serves as a relational database accessed by the distributed processing computer 5. As shown in Fig. 3, the database 6 includes a document data table 61 and a page data table 62.
The document data table 61 stores a title of each document and a corresponding document number. The titles of documents are shown, for example, in Fig. 6. The document numbers correspond to the titles.
The page data table 62 includes document numbers, page humbers, and image numbers. The document numbers in the page data table 62 are the same as those.in the document data table 61, and correspond to the documents. Each page number represents the page of the document. For example, in Fig. 3, a document having a document number 31 consists of page 11011 to "10". The image numbers correspond to the pages of the documents, and are output from the optical disk unit 4. An abstract image is in page 110". The abstract image is the image data showing the content of the document, as shown in Fig. 7.
The work station 7 exchanges various data including images with the distributed processing computer 5. In addition, the work station 7 includes a display serving as.a displaying means and an input unit (not shown) such as a keyboard. The operator points out registering the abstract image, showing all the abstract image and so on, by this keyboard. An abstract image is displayed on the display.
Fig. 2 shows the above-mentioned image processing apparatus. In particular, Fig. 2 shows units required when the abstract image is read out from the optical disk unit 4 and displayed at the work station 7.
An operation of this embodiment will be described below. Fig. 4 is a flow chart showing an operation when a part of a document is registered as an abstract image.
As shown in Fig. 6, for example, the image scanner 1 reads a document about TOSBAC Q-700E SYSTEM UNIT as image data (step S1).
This image data is displayed on the display of the work station 7 through the distributed processing computer 5.
The image displayed on the display of the work station 7 is confirmed by an operator. If a reduced image isn't formed, that is, it is determined that a registration instruction of the abstract image is not input (step S2), a predetermined registration operation is performed (step S6).
More specifically, each page of the document is read as image data, and is written in the optical disk unit 4. An image number corresponding to the page is output from the optical disk unit 4. The distributed processing computer 5 writes the title, the document number, the page number, and the image number of the document in the database 6.
6 In step S1, the image scanner 1 reads the image showing TOSBAC Q-700E SYSTEM UNIT in Fig. 7, as the abstract image data.
In step S2, when a reduced image is formed, the operator inputs a registration instruction of the abstract image. In this case, the distributed processing computer 5 reduces the size of the image data input by the image scanner 1 to form an abstract image arranged in a dot matrix form on a 1/9 area of the screen of the display (step S3). And the resultant image is stored in the page memory 3.
The abstract image stored in the page memory 3 is registered in the optical disk unit 4. In addition, an image number corresponding to the registered abstract image is output by the optical disk unit 4 (step S4), and is supplied to the distributed processing computer 5. The distributed processing computer 5 writes the document number and the image number corresponding to the abstract image, and the page number of the abstract image (normally, IT") in the page data table 62 (step S5).
A display operation of the abstract image will be described below with reference to a flow chart in Fig. 5 and Fig. 2. When an operator requests an abstract image of a desired document, he or she selects with a keyboard (not shown) an instruction for displaying a list of reduced images from a menu screen displayed on the display of the work station 7 (step S11).
When the instruction is input to the work station 7, first, the distributed processing computer 5 sets n = 1 (step 7 S12), and a corresponding image number is retrieved from the database 6 (step S13). More specifically, in the database 6 shown in Fig. 3, the image number corresponding to a page number "0" is extracted when the document number in the document data table 61 coincides with that in the page data table 62. This image number is supplied to the optical disk unit 4, and the abstract image corresponding to the image number is read out from the optical disk unit 4 (step S14).
This abstract image is supplied to the work station 7 through the distributed processing computer 5, and is displayed in one area of the display having equally divided into n areas (step S15).
Then, n is incremented by 11111 (step S16), and operaions in steps S13 to S16 are repeated until n is equal to 1191, (step S17).
With the above operations, the abstract images shown in Fig. 7 are displayed on the display of the work station 7.
Fig. 6 shows the titles of the documents, and Fig. 7 shows abstract images representing the corresponding documents and displayed on the display.
More specifically, the abstract images corresponding to the documents (1) to (9) in Fig. 6 are displayed on the display of the work station 7, as shown in Fig. 7.
When the operator finds a desired abstract image in this display, the abstract image is selected and designated by the keyboard (not shown) of workstation 7.
When the desired abstract image cannot be found, a display of the succeeding nine abstract images is designated.
8 Then, the succeeding nine abstract images are displayed on the display of the work station 7.
Thus, when the abstract images serve as title pages of the documents as if nine documents are simultaneously displayed on the display, a desired document can be easily discriminated. The operator points out the abstract image suggesting the desired document by the keyboard, thereby the desired document being able to be read out.
Since the abstract images obtained by reducing the amounts of data are simultaneously displayed, the total number of pages of the abstract images and the number of pixels can be reduced, and a display load of the apparatus can be reduced, thus realizing a high-speed display operation.
Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment. For example, although nine documents are displayed on a single display in the above embodiment, ten or more abstract images can be displayed.
In this embodiment, an abstract image obtained by reducing the size of the image and sampling the abstract image data is displayed. However, the image read by the image scanner I may be directly displayed on the display.
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9 What is claimed is:
1. An information processing apparatus for easily discriminating a desired document from plural types of stored documents, comprising:
memory means for storing a content of each document and image data representing the content of each document; and control means for reading out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with a predetermined instruction and displaying the readout image data.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprisin g input means for inputting the image data representing the content of each document and means for writing the image data input by said input means in said memory means.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for reducing a size of an image represented by the image data input by said input means, and wherein said writing means writes the size-reduced image data in said memory means.
4. An apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for reducing a size of an image represented by the image data input from said input means, and wherein said writing means writes the size-reduced image data in said memory means, and said control means reads out a plurality of size-reduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with a predetermined instruction and displays a list of the plurality of sizereduced image data.
5. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control means reads out a predetermined number of the sizereduced image data which can be displayed within a display screen and displays the predetermined number of size-reduced image data on said display screen when said control means reads out the plurality of size-reduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with the predetermined instruction and displays the list of the plurality of size-reduced image data.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further including input means for inputting the image data representing the content of each document and means for adding identification information to the image data input by said input means to discriminate between contents of the respective documents and the image data representing the content of each document, and wherein said control means refer to the identification information stored in said memory means in accordance with a predetermined instruction, reads out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means, and displays the readout image data.
7. An information processing apparatus for easily discriminating a desired document from plural types of documents, comprising:
memory means for storing the plural types of documents in units of pages; input means for inputting image data representing a content of each document; means for writing the image data input by said input means in said memory means; means for forming a table for managing the contents of the documents stored in said memory means and the image data representing the content of each document, said management table being constituted by a-document number which identifies each document, a page number of each document, and an image number corresponding to each page of each document stored in said memory means, the image data representing the content of each document being assigned with a predetermined page number; and control means for detecting the page number of the image data representing the content of each document by referring to said management table in accordance with a predetermined instruction, reading out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means on the basis of the image number corresponding to the detected page number, and displaying the readout image data.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising means for reducing a size of an image represented by the image data input by said input means, and wherein said writing means writes the size-reduced image data in said memory means.
9. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said control means detects the page number of the image data representing the content of each document by referring to said management table in accordance with the predetermined instruction, reads out a plurality of size-reduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means, and displays a list of the plurality of readout size-reduced image data on the basis of the image number 12 corresponding to the detected page number.
10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said control means reads out a predetermined number of size-reduced image data which can be displayed within a display screen and displays the predetermined number of size-reduced image data on said display screen when said control means reads out a plurality of size-reduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with the predetermined instruction and displays the readout size-reduced image data.
11. An information processing apparatus for easily discriminating a desired document from plural types of documents, comprising:
input means for inputting a content of each document as image data in units of pages and inputting the image data representing the content of each document; memory means for storing the content of each document and the image data representing the content of each document, both of which are input by said input means; means for instructing registration of abstract image data when the image data representing the content of each document is input by said input means; me-ans for forming a management table for reading out any page of any document and the image data representing the content of each document, both of which are stored in said memory means, said table forming means adding identification information for discriminating between contents of the documents and the image data representing the content of each 1.
13 document on the basis of an instruction from said registration instruction means; and control means for detecting the identification information by referring to the management table in accordance with a predetermined instruction, reading out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means, and displaying the readout image data.
12. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said table forming means forms a table constituted by a document number for identifying each document, a page number of each document, and an image number corresponding to a storage unit of said memory means, and forms a table by using page numbers of image data representing contents of documents to be registered as predetermined page numbers each different from the page number of the content of each document, and said control means detects the page number of the image data representing the content of each document by referring to the management table in accordance with a predetermined instruction, reading out the image data representing the content of each document from said memory means on the basis of the-image number corresponding to the detected page number, and displaying the readout image data.
13. An apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising means for reducing a size of an image represented by the image data input by said input means, and wherein said memory means stores the size-reduced image data.
14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said control means detects the page number of the image data 14 representing the content of each document by referring to said management table in accordance with the predetermined instruction, reading out a plurality of size-reduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means, and displaying a list of the plurality of readout size-reduced image data.
15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said control means reads out a predetermined number of image data which can be displayed within a display screen and displays the predetermined number of image data on said display screen when said control means reads out the plurality of sizereduced image data each representing the content of each document from said memory means in accordance with the predetermined instruction and displays the list of the plurality of readout size-reduced image data.
16. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said registration instruction means instructs registration of abstract image data when the content of each document is input as the image data by said input means.
Published 1989 at The Patent Office, State House, 66,71 High Holborn, London WClR 4TP. Further copies InaYbe obtained frova The Patent Office. Sales Branch, St Mary Cray, Orpington, Kent BR5 3RD- Printed by Multiplex techniques ltd, St Mary Cray, Rent, Con- 1/87
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