JP2003263450A - Database forming device and database forming method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide database forming technology allowing easy database registration only by touching a prescribed part of display information displayed on a display means. <P>SOLUTION: The graphics of a prescribed article is displayed on a display screen of the display means 3, and registration item data tables 22, 23, 24 related to the article are displayed at the same time. When the optional part of the displayed graphics is inputted by touching, the corresponding part of the displayed article of the graphics is specified, and when the display part of optional data on the registration item data table is inputted by touching, following the touch input of the optional part of the graphics, the corresponding registration item data is registered in a database 2F, corresponding to the touched part of the article. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a database forming apparatus and a database forming method for forming a database only by a touch input operation on a graphics display screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a factory, it is necessary to use various forms for managing various products and processes, but in order to manage the data written in the forms with a computer, the forms are read with an image scanner. Character recognition is performed by OCR (optical character recognition device), the presence or absence of reading error is confirmed, the character recognition result is displayed on a display device such as CRT for error correction, and if there is a reading error, the corresponding part is manually input. I am trying to fix it.

In addition, as a part of product management, in order to collect statistics of defective parts of a product and their defective items and reflect them in later production management, when a database for comparing defective parts of a product and defective items is formed, work is performed. The person manually inputs the defective portion and the defective item of the product by using the keyboard in the same manner.

[0004]

However, in the conventional form input processing apparatus and database forming method as described above,
When a worker who is standing on the site tries to input data because the keyboard is used as the input operation means of the computer to correct the reading error or register the data in the database, You have to sit on a chair in front of the desk where the computer is installed and work on the desk each time, and if you wear work gloves to operate the keyboard, wear gloves. There is a problem that the correction operation must be performed after taking it off, and it takes time to move to the correction work and the correction operation takes time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and a database forming apparatus and a database capable of easily registering a database by touching a predetermined portion of the display information displayed on the display means. An object is to provide a forming method.

[0006]

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a database forming apparatus, a display means, a database for registering data relating to each part of a predetermined article, and a display screen of the display part. Display control means for displaying a graphic of a predetermined article on the top and simultaneously displaying a registration item data table for the article, and detecting a touch input to an arbitrary portion of the graphic displayed on the display screen of the display means. For the touch panel and the touch input, the corresponding part of the article on which the graphics of the display screen is displayed is specified, and the touch input to any part of the graphics is followed by the registration item data table Touch that outputs registered item data corresponding to touch input to the display location of arbitrary data And force processor is said to correspond to a touched portion and the registered item data of an article that includes a database registration means for registering in the database.

According to another aspect of the database forming method of the present invention, the graphics of a predetermined article are displayed on the display screen of the display means and the registration item data table relating to the article is simultaneously displayed on the display screen of the display means. For the touch input to any part of the displayed graphic, the corresponding part of the article displayed by the graphic is specified, and the registration item is followed by the touch input to any part of the graphic. The registration item data corresponding to the touch input to the display portion of the arbitrary data of the data table is registered in the database in association with the touch portion of the article.

A database forming apparatus according to the first aspect of the invention,
In the database forming method according to the second aspect of the present invention, a portion corresponding to a portion of the graphics of a predetermined article displayed on the display means that requires some database registration is touched, and then the registration item data table is displayed. A database can be formed by an operation of touching a display location of item data that requires registration.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. First, the system configuration of the hardware that realizes the database forming apparatus and the database forming method of the present invention will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, an image scanner 1 for reading the contents written in a form as image data, and this image scanner. A computer main body 2 that is equipped with an OCR application that executes character recognition processing on the image data of the form read by 1 to generate character data, and that executes various other arithmetic processing;
A CRT display device 3 having a touch panel (not shown) mounted on the front surface, and a keyboard 4 constituting an input means.
And mouse 5.

Next, the functional configuration of the computer system having the above configuration will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, the image scanner 1 and the character data are processed by performing character recognition processing on the image data read by the image scanner 1. An OCR unit 2A that generates a display, a display control unit 2B that controls the display of the CRT display device 3, and a touch input processing unit 2C that recognizes and outputs touch position coordinates with respect to the touch panel 6 installed on the front surface of the display device 3. , A correction processing unit 2D that executes a correction process on the form read data displayed on the display screen of the display device 3, an arithmetic processing unit 2E that executes various arithmetic control processes according to a program registered in advance, and various types. A storage device 2F for storing data and a database registration process for registering a database in this storage device 2F And a section 2G.

Next, the operation of the computer system having the above configuration will be described. The operation on the hardware will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. The form 7 is passed through the image scanner 1, the contents written therein are read as image data, and passed to the computer main body 2.

In the computer main body 2, the registered O
The CR unit 2A converts the image data into character data by character recognition processing and stores the character data in the storage device 2F, and the display control unit 2B converts the image data into display information for display on the display device 3. The display device 3 displays the character data 8 as a result of character recognition, and simultaneously displays the screen keyboard 9 required for the correction processing operation.

Then, the worker compares the character data of the reading result displayed on the display device 3 with the entry data of the original form 7, and if an error occurs in the reading data, the operator follows a correction operation procedure described later. , Touch the area on the display screen that needs to be corrected, and touch the corresponding key on the screen keyboard 9 to input the correction data, and finally the storage device 2F as the correctly corrected form data 10. Will be saved in.

Next, with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 4, the functional block diagram of FIG. 2 and the display screen 11 of the display device 3 of FIG. When the character recognition is completed, the display screen 11 of the display device 3 displays the character recognition result 8 of the predetermined data area 7a of the contents described in the original form 7, and at the same time for the correction operation. The screen keyboard 9 of is displayed.

Then, the data of the original form 7 is collated with the data 8 of the recognition result, and if there is a reading error, the place where the corresponding data is displayed is touched. In the read data 8 in FIG. 5, the cells in which an error has occurred are marked with an * to make it easier to understand.
It is not marked. In addition, actually, the touch input processing unit 2 is operated by touch input on the touch panel 6.
The touch position coordinates recognized by C are passed to the arithmetic processing unit 2E, where it is determined which cell and which key on the screen displayed on the display device 3 has been touched, and the correction processing unit 2E.
For convenience of explanation, it will be described below that the correction processing unit 2D directly executes a corresponding correction processing operation by a touch operation on the touch panel 6.

By the above touch operation, the touch panel 6
A touch signal is output from the touch input processing unit 2C, and the touch input processing unit 2C detects the touch position coordinate and passes it to the correction processing unit 2D. Since the touch position is the read data display portion, the correction processing unit 2D recognizes that the correction process should be started, and recognizes in which place the data is displayed, and the touched data of the display device 3 is recognized. The display cell part is reversed or changed to blink display. Here, if the cell of "096" in the code string is touched as one of the cells in which an error has occurred, the cell at the touched position is highlighted or blinked to indicate that it is a cell for error correction. (Steps S1 to S3).

Next, when the operator selects the correct number "005" from the numbers prepared in advance for the code string from the screen keyboard 9 and touches the position where the number is displayed, Correction processing unit 2D
The side recognizes that it is a command to be corrected to the code "005", replaces the data of the cell in which the corresponding "096" is displayed with the number "005", and continues inversion or blink display (step S4). ).

Here, if the worker judges that the correction is correct, he touches the "OK" button of the screen keyboard 9, and the correction processing section 2D judges that the correction just made is OK, and The reverse or blink display is stopped and the normal display is restored (step S5).

At the stage where the correction work of one cell is finished, the worker judges whether or not another cell needs to be corrected,
If it is determined that the correction of another cell is necessary, the correction processing unit 2D determines that the correction is not completed by touching the corresponding cell again, and returns to step 2 to start the next correction processing (step S6).

In the present example, there are other error cells in each of the symbol string, the numeral example, and the check column. Therefore, the error correction is also performed for these cells by the operation procedure of steps S2 to S5. When the number of the error occurrence cell of the number string is corrected, it is also possible to touch the error occurrence cell and then sequentially touch the corresponding numbers with the ten keys to input.

When all necessary corrections have been completed, a series of corrections are completed by touching the position of the "completion" button of the screen keyboard 9, and the reading and correction results shown in FIG. 3 are reflected. Displayed form 10
1 is displayed and output, and is registered in the storage device 2F in a database format by the database registration processing unit 2G.

In the above embodiment, the case where the operator touches with a finger has been described, but it is also possible to touch with another pen or the like. Further, instead of providing the touch panel 6 on the front surface of the display device 3 to perform touch input, in the case of a liquid crystal display device in particular, a display screen having a built-in touch panel may be used.

Further, the correction operation procedure is not limited to the above example, the display format of the screen keyboard 9 is not limited, and the writing data of the form 7 is read by the image scanner 1 and the result of character recognition is displayed. The method is not limited as long as the data correction can be executed by displaying on the display device 3 and directly touching the display screen.

It is also possible to move the cursor on the display screen of the display device with a mouse pointer or a trackball instead of the touch panel and click at a predetermined position so that necessary data correction work can be performed.

Furthermore, although the system in which the computer main body 2 and the display device 3 are separate bodies has been described in the above-mentioned embodiment, the system is a so-called pen computer.
It is also possible to connect the image scanner 1 and the pen computer, display the character recognition result of the form on the display device of the pen computer, and correct the reading error by a touch operation.

Next, a database forming method by the database registration processing unit 2G will be described. In the production line of a product, such as an automobile, a defective part may occur in the product, and in terms of production management, what kind of defect is occurring and what kind of defect is occurring. It is necessary to collect data such as time of day, which day of the week, and which time of month the defect is likely to occur. In such a case, it is necessary to form a database that serves as the basis for aggregation, but a worker in the field can input the information such as the defective portion for each product, the defective item, and the degree of the defectiveness. If the user interrupts the work and sits at the desk where the computer is installed and inputs data by using the keyboard, it takes the same labor as the above-mentioned reading and correction of the form.

In order to avoid this, it is desirable that the database can be formed only by directly touching the display screen of the display device 3. Therefore, in this embodiment, the database registration processing unit 2D causes the product graphic display 21, the defective item list 22, and the defective degree list 23 to be displayed on the display screen of the display device 3 as shown in FIG. By touching a location on the display 21 where a defect has occurred, then touching the corresponding defect type on the defect item list 22, and further touching the defect level on the defect level list 23, one by one. For each product, the location of the defect, the type of defect, and the degree of the defect can be registered as a database by comparing with the product number.

The procedure of this database registration processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Display device 3
When the database registration processing routine is started by touching a database registration soft key (not shown) at a predetermined position on the display screen or by inputting from the keyboard, the initial screen is displayed. Then, a corresponding product or a screen type prepared for each product, for example, an external view, an interior view, an electrical diagram, etc., is selected to obtain the graphics display 21. With this graphics display 21,
Corresponding defective item list 22 and defective degree list 23 are also displayed. Then, when the user touches a position corresponding to the place where the defect occurs in the actual product on the obtained graphics display 21, the touch input processing unit 2C recognizes the coordinates of the touch position and sends it to the arithmetic processing unit 2E. Arithmetic processing unit 2E
Determines to which part of the product the touch position corresponds, and the result of the determination is displayed on the display device 3 through the display controller 2B.
Is displayed (steps S11 and S12).

Next, from the defective item list 22, the type of defect,
For example, a relevant item is selected and touched from scratches, coating unevenness, dents, etc. (step S13), and then the relevant defect degree from the defect degree list 23, for example, A (large), B (medium), C Select the appropriate degree from (Mild), D (Minor), and touch (Step S1)
4).

By the series of touch operations described above, a record for a database is created in which the defective portion of one product is identified, and the type of defect and the degree of the defect are associated with each other. The unit 2G registers it in the storage device 2F (step S15).

The above database registration processing can be repeated as many times as necessary, and is terminated by inputting a database registration processing termination command (step S1).
6).

In the database forming method of the above-described embodiment, the product type, the defective item list, the defective degree list, etc. are not specified, and the display form and the display content differ depending on the database to be formed. .

[0033]

As described above, according to the first and second aspects of the present invention, a portion corresponding to a portion that requires some kind of database registration for the graphics of a predetermined article displayed on the display means is touched. Then, you can subsequently form a database by touching the display location of the item data that requires registration in the registered item data table, without having to sit in front of the desk and operate the keyboard as in the past. The worker can perform the database forming work while standing in front of the display device and touching the display screen of the display device, and the labor and time of the work can be saved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a hardware system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a read / correct operation of form data according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a read data correction procedure of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a correction procedure of read data according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a database forming procedure of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a database forming procedure of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 image scanner 2 Computer body 2A OCR section 2B display controller 2C touch input processor 2D correction processing unit 2E arithmetic processing unit 2F storage device 2G database registration processing unit 3 display devices 4 keyboard 5 mice 6 touch panel 7 reports 8 recognition results 9 screen keyboard 10 (read and corrected) forms 11 Display screen 21 graphics display 22 Bad item list 23 Defect list

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Yoshinori Takaguchi             1-24-30 Meinaminami 1-chome, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi             No. Toshiba Central Office F term (reference) 5B075 KK38 NK06 NK54 NR02 PP03                       PP13 PQ02 PQ13 PQ15                 5B082 GC05                 5E501 AA01 AA22 AC23 BA05 CA01                       CB05 EA05 EA12 EA13 EB05                       FA43

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A display means, a database for registering data relating to each part of a predetermined article, a graphic of the predetermined article displayed on a display screen of the display means, and a database relating to the article. A display control unit that simultaneously displays a registration item data table, a touch panel that detects a touch input with respect to an arbitrary portion of the graphics displayed on the display screen of the display unit, and a touch screen of the display screen with respect to the touch input. The corresponding part of the article displayed by the graphics is specified, and then the corresponding registration is performed for the touch input to the arbitrary display part of the registration item data table following the touch input to the arbitrary part of the graphics. Touch input processing means for outputting item data, a touched part of the article and the registered item data Database forming apparatus that includes a database registration means for registering the data in the database in correspondence. 2. A graphic of a predetermined article is displayed on the display screen of the display means, and a registration item data table relating to the article is displayed at the same time, and any of the graphics displayed on the display screen of the display means is displayed. For the touch input to the location, specify the relevant portion of the article displayed by the graphics, and display the arbitrary data of the registration item data table following the touch input to the arbitrary location of the graphics. A method of forming a database, wherein registration item data corresponding to a touch input with respect to is registered in the database in association with a touched part of the article.