JP2001292266A - Media board and electronic mail transmitting method for media board - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a media board and an electronic mail transmitting method in the media board, with which blackboard description contents can be distributed in the form easy to handle for the person concerned by converting the blackboard description contents to text data and distributing these contents to the person concerned as text data. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a scanner 7 for reading the blackboard description contents described on the blackboard surface of the media board as image data, an image data converter 8 for preparing an image data file, with which the image data read by the scanner 7 are converted to the designated image form, an OCR device 9 for converting the image data to text data and preparing text data file, and an electronic mail transmitter 10 for preparing and transmitting electronic mail attached with the image data file and the text data file prepared by the image data converter 8 and the OCR device 9.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a media board (electronic blackboard) for distributing contents described on a blackboard surface (hereinafter referred to as blackboard contents) and an electronic mail transmission method on the media board. The present invention relates to a media board for distributing contents written on a blackboard using the method and an electronic mail transmission method on the media board.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional media board is configured so that the contents written on a blackboard are read by an optical device such as a scanner and output on recording paper, so that the labor of copying the contents written on the blackboard manually can be omitted.

Further, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-004321, there has been proposed a technique of distributing the contents described in a blackboard to a person who needs the contents as an electronic file using a communication line. .

[0004]

However, in the prior art, the contents described on the blackboard are distributed to the parties concerned in a format with a large amount of information called an image data file. In order to save the contents, it is necessary to prepare a large storage space, and there has been a problem that the contents described on the blackboard are distributed in a format that is difficult for concerned parties to handle.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to convert the content described on a blackboard into text data and distribute the text data to a person concerned to obtain the content described on the blackboard. On the receiving side, the storage space for storing the contents written on the blackboard can be reduced, and the contents written on the blackboard can be distributed in a format that can be easily handled by the parties concerned. The point is to provide a transmission method.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following constitution. The gist of the invention according to claim 1 is a media board for reading, as image data, a content written on a blackboard written on a blackboard surface, wherein the text data conversion means converts the image data into text data, and the text data conversion means. E-mail creating means for creating an e-mail attached with the text data converted by the e-mail, and e-mail sending means for transmitting the e-mail created by the e-mail creating means via an external network. A media board characterized by that. The gist of the present invention resides in the media board according to claim 1, wherein the e-mail creating means creates the e-mail attached with the image data and the text data. . The gist of the invention according to claim 3 is provided with an e-mail address storage unit for storing an e-mail address, wherein the e-mail creation unit stores the e-mail address stored in the e-mail address storage unit. From the e-mail address selected as the destination address, and the e-mail address selected as the source address from the e-mail addresses stored in the e-mail address storage means. 3. The media board according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail is created. Further, the gist of the invention according to claim 4 comprises an address extracting means for extracting the e-mail address from the contents of the business card described in the business card, wherein the e-mail creating means is configured to extract the e-mail address by the address extracting means. The media board according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the e-mail is generated with an e-mail address as a destination or a transmission source. Claim 5
The gist of the present invention is that the e-mail creating means creates the e-mail with the first character string of the text data as a title. Exist. The gist of the invention according to claim 6 is a method of transmitting an e-mail on a media board that reads contents described on a blackboard written on a blackboard surface as image data, wherein the image data is converted into text data, and the converted An e-mail attached with text data is created, and the created e-mail is transmitted via an external network.
The gist of the present invention resides in a method of transmitting an e-mail on a media board according to a sixth aspect, wherein the e-mail attached with the image data and the text data is created. The gist of the invention according to claim 8 is that an e-mail address is stored, the e-mail address selected as a destination address from the stored e-mail addresses is set as a destination, and the stored e-mail address is stored. 8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the e-mail is created by using the e-mail address selected as the transmission source address from the addresses as a transmission source. The gist of the invention according to claim 9 is that the e-mail address is extracted from the contents of the business card described in the business card, and the e-mail is created with the extracted e-mail address as a destination or a sender. A method for transmitting an e-mail on a media board according to any one of claims 6 to 8. The gist of the invention described in claim 10 is that the e-mail having the title of the first character string of the text data as a title is created. Be in the way.

[0007]

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 embodiment of a media board according to the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the e-mail address detection device shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the e-mail transmission device shown in FIG.

[0009] The media board 1 according to the present embodiment comprises:
Input unit 2 for inputting an instruction such as an e-mail transmission instruction
And an electronic mail address detecting device 3 for reading an electronic mail address described on a business card, a database 4 for storing electronic mail addresses, an address managing device 5 for managing electronic mail addresses, and a portable terminal or the like. An external input interface 6, a scanner 7 for reading the content of the blackboard written on the blackboard surface of the media board as image data, and an image data file in which the image data read by the scanner 7 is converted into a specified image format is created. An image data conversion device 8, an OCR device 9 for converting image data into text data to create a text data file, an image data conversion device 8 and an OCR device 9
And a network connection device 11 for controlling the communication with another mail server, and an e-mail transmitting device 10 for generating and transmitting an e-mail attached with the image data file and the text data file created in the above. LAN, public telephone network, I
It is connected to an external network 12, such as an SDN, a mobile phone, or a PHS.

The input unit 2 is operated by an operator or the like to send an e-mail with the contents described on the blackboard as an attached file, to set a destination and a source address of the e-mail, and to make various settings related to the transmission of the e-mail. Instructions are performed, and the operator inputs each instruction based on guidance on a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel (not shown).

The e-mail address detecting device 3 performs a business card scanner 21 for reading the contents described on the business card (hereinafter referred to as business card contents) as image data, and performs character recognition of the image data read by the business card scanner 21. It comprises a business card OCR device 22 for converting to text data and an e-mail address extracting device 23 for extracting an e-mail address in the text data.

The electronic mail address extracting device 23 includes, in the text data converted by the business card OCR device 22,
A search is performed to determine whether the notation “＠” is included, and if the notation “＠” is detected, only the line (sentence, spelled character string) that includes “＠” is extracted and address management is performed. Input as an e-mail address to the device 5

The address management device 5 manages the e-mail addresses stored in the database 4, and stores the e-mail addresses input from the e-mail address detection device 3 in the database 4.
The e-mail address selected by the input unit 2 is input to the e-mail transmission device 10 as a destination address or a source address.

The external input interface 6 is an interface for connecting a portable terminal such as a notebook personal computer. The connected portable terminal is capable of inputting various instructions instead of the input unit 2 and is stored in the database 4. It is possible to input various data, such as inputting an e-mail address to be transmitted, inputting a destination address and a source address of the e-mail, and inputting a title and contents of the e-mail.

The OCR device 9 determines text from image data and converts it into text data to create a text data file. The contents described on the blackboard read as image data cannot be recognized as characters such as figures. Is included, the graphic information is changed to "+",
It is expressed to the extent that the outline of the contents described on the blackboard can be understood using symbols such as "-".

The e-mail transmitting device 10 includes a destination address buffer 30 for storing the destination address input from the address management device 5 and a source address for storing the source address input from the address management device 5. A buffer 31 and an image buffer 32 for temporarily storing an image data file created by the image data converter 8
A text buffer 33 in which a text data file created by the OCR device 9 is temporarily stored, an email creation unit 34 for creating an email to be sent, and a transmission request for the email created by the email creation unit 34 E-mail transmitting section 35 and e-mail transmitting section 3
5 and an e-mail client function 36 for controlling transmission of the e-mail created by the e-mail creation unit 34 based on the transmission request by the e-mail client 5.

The e-mail creating unit 34 sends the source address temporarily stored in the source address buffer 31 to the destination address temporarily stored in the destination address buffer 30, and sends the image buffer 32 Then, an e-mail is created in which the image data file temporarily stored in the text buffer 33 and the text data file temporarily stored in the text buffer 33 are attached as attached files.
In addition, the first character string of the text data file temporarily stored in the text buffer 33 is extracted and attached to the title of the created e-mail. The character string does not include symbols such as “+” and “−” obtained by converting information such as graphics.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the media board according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the electronic mail address detecting device shown in FIG.

First, when an instruction to read an e-mail address described in a business card is issued from the input unit 2 (step 40), the e-mail address detection device 3 extracts an e-mail address from the contents of the business card. Then, the e-mail address extracted by the address management device 5 is stored in the database 4 (step 41).

The e-mail address is extracted from the contents of the business card by the e-mail address detecting device 3 by reading the contents of the business card as image data by the business card scanner 21 (step 61) and by the business card scanner 21 by the business card OCR device 22. Character recognition of the image data is performed to convert the image data into text data (step 62). The text data converted by the business card OCR device 22 by the e-mail address extraction device 23 is searched for the notation “＠” (step 63). ), It is determined whether or not the notation “＠” is included (step 64). If the notation “＠” is included, the line (sentence,
Only one spelled character string) is extracted (step 65), and the line containing the extracted "@" is input to the address management device 5 as an e-mail address (step 66). "＠"
Is not included, a message indicating that the e-mail address could not be detected is displayed on a display unit (not shown) (step 67), and the process ends.

Next, in response to a destination address selection instruction from the input unit 2, the address management unit 5 inputs the selected e-mail address to the e-mail transmitting device 10 as a destination address (step 42). In response to the instruction to select the source address from the unit 2, the address management unit 5 inputs the selected e-mail address as the source address to the e-mail transmission device 10 (step 4).
3) The destination address and the source address input to the e-mail transmitting device 10 are stored in the destination address buffer 3
0 and the source address buffer 31 respectively. Needless to say, a plurality of destination addresses can be selected. In this case, the selected plurality of destination addresses are temporarily stored in the destination address buffer 30.

Next, the contents written on the blackboard are read as image data from the blackboard surface of the media board 1 by the scanner 7 (step 44), and the image data read by the scanner 7 is converted into the designated image format by the image data converter 8. To create an image data file (step 4
5) The image data read by the scanner 7 by the OCR device 9 is converted into text data to create a text data file (step 46), and the image data file created by the image data conversion device 8 and the OCR device 9
Are temporarily stored in the image buffer 32 and the text buffer 33, respectively.

Next, the e-mail creating section 34 uses the input section 2 to select whether to attach only the image data file or both the text data file and the image data file to the attached e-mail. It is determined whether a selection instruction has been given (step 47). If an instruction to attach only the image data file has been given, the destination address temporarily stored in the destination address buffer 30 is set as the destination, and the source address is set. When an instruction is made to create an e-mail from the source address temporarily stored in the buffer 31 and attach an image data file (step 48), and attach both a text data file and an image data file. Is the destination address temporarily stored in the destination address buffer 30. And, source address buffer 3
An e-mail from the source address temporarily stored in 1 is created and both the text data file and the image data file are attached (step 49).

Next, the e-mail creating section 34 determines whether or not a title is designated by the input section 2 or the portable terminal (step 50). Is attached to the title of the e-mail created by extracting the first character string of the text data file temporarily stored in the text buffer 33 (step 51).

Next, based on the transmission request of the e-mail created by the e-mail creation unit 34 by the e-mail sending unit 35, the e-mail client function 36 sends the e-mail created by the e-mail creation unit 34. Performed via the network connection device 11 (step 5
2) After the completion of the e-mail transmission, the image buffer 32
Then, the image data file and the text data file temporarily stored in the text buffer 33 and the text data file are deleted (step 53), and the process ends.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the contents described on the blackboard are converted into text data and distributed as text data to the parties concerned. The storage space for storing the contents can be reduced, and the contents described on the blackboard can be distributed in a format that is easy for the concerned parties to handle.

Further, according to the present embodiment, an electronic mail address can be read from a business card, and input by a human hand can be omitted, so that the configuration of the input unit can be simplified and an input error can be reduced by reducing labor. This has the effect of being able to reduce

Further, according to the present embodiment, an e-mail having a transmission source address as a transmission source is created and transmitted. Therefore, when the transmission of the e-mail cannot be performed due to a mismatch of the transmission destination address, etc. Also, there is an effect that the destination that could not be transmitted by the return mail sent to the source address specified by the operator can be grasped.

Further, according to the present embodiment, since the head character string extracted from the content described on the blackboard is attached to the title of the created e-mail, the heading often appears at the beginning of the content described on the blackboard. Can be used as the title of the e-mail, and the content of the e-mail received on the receiving side can be easily grasped by the title.

In the present embodiment, only the transmission of an e-mail has been described. However, the e-mail client function 36 may be provided with an e-mail server function. It is possible to receive e-mail, and it is possible to start inputting a destination address of the media board 1 and remotely operate operation settings and the like of the apparatus by using e-mail.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and it is clear that the embodiments can be appropriately modified within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. Further, the number, position, shape, and the like of the constituent members are not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be set to numbers, positions, shapes, and the like suitable for carrying out the present invention. In the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals.

[0032]

According to the media board and the method of transmitting an e-mail on the media board according to the present invention, the contents described on the blackboard are converted into text data and distributed as text data to a person concerned, so that the receiving side receiving the contents described on the blackboard can be used. Thus, the storage space for storing the contents written on the blackboard can be reduced, and the contents written on the blackboard can be distributed in a format that can be easily handled by the parties involved.

Further, in the media board and the method of transmitting e-mail on the media board, the e-mail address can be read from the business card and the input by a human can be omitted, so that the configuration of the input section can be simplified and the labor can be reduced. This has the effect of reducing input errors.

Further, in the media board and the method of transmitting an e-mail on the media board, an e-mail having a transmission source address as a transmission source is created and transmitted. Even in the case where there is no destination, there is an effect that the destination that could not be transmitted by the return mail sent to the source address specified by the operator can be grasped.

Further, in the media board and the method of transmitting an e-mail on the media board according to the present invention, the first character string extracted from the contents described on the blackboard is attached to the title of the created e-mail. The headline that is often described can be used as the title of the e-mail, and the receiving side can easily understand the content of the e-mail received by the title.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a media board according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the electronic mail address detection device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the electronic mail transmitting device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the media board according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the electronic mail address detection device shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Media board 2 Input part 3 E-mail address detection device 4 Database 5 Address management device 6 External input interface 7 Scanner 8 Image data conversion device 9 OCR device 10 E-mail transmission device 11 Network connection device 12 External network 21 Business card scanner 22 Business card OCR Apparatus 23 E-mail address extraction device 30 Destination address buffer 31 Source address buffer 32 Image buffer 33 Text buffer 34 E-mail creation unit 35 E-mail transmission unit 36 E-mail client function

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Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A media board that reads blackboard contents written on a blackboard surface as image data, wherein the text data conversion unit converts the image data into text data, and the text data conversion unit converts the image data into text data. E-mail creating means for creating an e-mail with text data attached thereto, and e-mail transmitting means for transmitting the e-mail created by the e-mail creating means via an external network Media board. 2. The media board according to claim 1, wherein the e-mail creating means creates the e-mail attached with the image data and the text data. 3. An electronic mail address storing means for storing an electronic mail address, wherein the electronic mail creating means selects the electronic mail address from the electronic mail addresses stored in the electronic mail address storage means as a destination address. The e-mail with the specified e-mail address as the destination and the e-mail with the e-mail address selected as the transmission source address from the e-mail addresses stored in the e-mail address storage means as the source. 3. The media board according to claim 1, wherein the media board is created. 4. An address extracting means for extracting the e-mail address from the contents of a business card described on a business card, wherein the e-mail creating means sends the e-mail address extracted by the address extracting means to a destination or The media board according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the electronic mail as a transmission source is created. 5. The media board according to claim 1, wherein the e-mail creating means creates the e-mail having a title of the first character string of the text data as a title. 6. A method for transmitting an e-mail on a media board which reads contents described on a blackboard written on a blackboard surface as image data, the method comprising converting the image data into text data, and attaching the converted text data. A method for transmitting an e-mail on a media board, comprising: generating a mail; and transmitting the generated e-mail via an external network. 7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the e-mail attached to the image data and the text data is created. 8. An e-mail address is stored, and the destination is the e-mail address selected as a destination address from the stored e-mail addresses, and a transmission source is selected from the stored e-mail addresses. 8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the e-mail is generated from the e-mail address selected as the address. 9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the e-mail address is extracted from the contents of the business card described on the business card, and the e-mail is created with the extracted e-mail address as a destination or a transmission source. The method for transmitting an e-mail on the media board according to any one of claims 1 to 8. 10. The e-mail transmission method according to claim 6, wherein the e-mail having the title of the first character string of the text data as a title is created.