JP2004021682A - Data processing system and image data processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a precise data management by surely grasping the disposal of data in a remote place. <P>SOLUTION: This data processing system comprises an image recognition means for recognizing the data to be abandoned, an abandonment means for abandoning the date requested to be abandoned, and a management means for accumulating and managing the data. The management means deletes the data recognized by the image recognition means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method in which, from the generation of a print image to the destruction thereof, in the case where image data requiring confidentiality management is printed at a branch office and a home office located at a place distant from the head office in a company, for example, Applies to monitoring systems.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, for example, at the headquarters of a company, it is not possible to grasp the type and number of prints printed at branch offices and home offices located at a place away from the headquarters and to manage whether those prints have been discarded. This has been realized by management information reported from workers working in branch offices and home offices.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the above conventional example, the number of copies printed at the branch office and the home office and the number of discarded prints depend on the report of the worker working at the branch office and the home office. If there is no means to determine whether the report is correct when a worker makes a wrong report or when a worker reports a lie with malicious intent, there is no means to determine whether the report is correct. There was a problem that management could not be performed accurately.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention comprises: an image recognition unit that recognizes data to be discarded; a discarding unit that discards data requested to be discarded; and a management unit that accumulates and manages the data. The management means deletes the data recognized by the image recognition means.
[0005]
[Action]
According to the present invention, for example, a worker working at a branch office and a home office at the head office can check the status of production and destruction of printed matter printed at a branch office and a home office located at a place away from the head office in a company. Can be grasped without the need for any human work, so that it is possible to more accurately and promptly manage the printed matter presence status.
[0006]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
[Example 1]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a printing apparatus 100 according to the present invention.
The printing apparatus 100 includes a print engine (output unit) 101 that performs printing on a physical medium such as paper, a data transmission / reception unit (network I / F) 102 that receives print data and outputs various data to an external device, and a network cable 103. Be composed.
[0007]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of the document discarding apparatus 200 of the present invention.
The document discarding apparatus 200 includes an image reading unit 201 capable of optically reading an image such as a scanner and converting it into digital data, and a document discarding unit for discarding a physical medium such as paper by processing such as cutting and burning. An image reading unit 201 includes a data storage unit 203 that stores image data read by the image reading unit 201, a data transmitting / receiving unit 204 that transmits and receives data to and from an external device, and a network cable 205.
[0008]
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of the image data management computer 300 of the present invention.
The image data management computer 300 includes a data operation unit 301, a data transmission / reception unit 302 for transmitting / receiving data to / from an external device, a data storage unit 303 for storing received image data and the like, and image data and the like stored in the data storage unit 303. Is configured by an image display device 304 for displaying an image, a network cable 305, and an operation unit 306 for operating a device.
[0009]
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a device connection configuration of the present invention.
In the image processing system of the present invention, the above-described printing apparatus 100, document discarding apparatus 200, image data management computer 300, and other computers 402/403 are interconnected via a communication medium 401 such as a network. .
[0010]
FIG. 5 is a data structure diagram of an image data management database 500 for managing information of image data managed in the image data management computer of the present invention.
The image data management database 500 stores image generation location information 501 indicating the location where the image data was printed, image generation date and time information 502 indicating the date and time when the image was printed, and the start address of the image data stored in the data storage unit 303. The image data address information 503 shown in FIG.
[0011]
6, 7, and 8 are flowcharts showing the control procedure of each device in the present invention.
The control procedure of the device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
[0012]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a control procedure of the printing apparatus 100 according to the present invention. First, the printing apparatus 100 shifts to the data receiving state in S601 after the power is turned on.
[0013]
If it is determined in step S601 that image data has been received from an external device, the process advances to step S602 to transmit the print permission request data and the image data received in step S601 to the image data management computer 300. Move to the state of waiting for a reply to.
[0014]
In step S603, when the data of the response to the print request is received from the image data management computer 300, the process proceeds to the data analysis process of step S604.
[0015]
In step S604, if the received data is data indicating that printing is not permitted, the process proceeds to step S605, where the image data received in step S603 is discarded, and the process proceeds to the print data receiving state in step S601.
[0016]
If it is determined in step S604 that the received data is data indicating that printing is permitted, the process advances to step S606.
[0017]
In step S606, the image data received in step S603 is printed on a physical medium such as paper, and after the printing is completed, the process proceeds to a print data reception waiting state in step S601.
[0018]
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the document discarding apparatus 200 with an image reading function according to the present invention.
First, when an operation of discarding a document is performed, in step S701, the image reading unit 201 reads an image of the document to be discarded, stores the read image in the data storage unit 203, and proceeds to step S702. I do.
[0019]
In step S702, data indicating that the image is to be deleted and the image data read in step S701 are transmitted to the image data management computer 300, and the flow advances to step S703.
In step S703, the document is discarded, and the process ends.
[0020]
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the image data management computer 300 according to the present invention.
First, the image data management computer 300 shifts to the data receiving state of S801 after the power is turned on.
[0021]
If it is determined in step S801 that data has been received, the process proceeds to a data analysis process in step S802.
[0022]
If it is determined in the data analysis processing in S802 that the data received in S801 is data for which a print request is not made, the flow shifts to S803.
In step S803, it is determined whether the data received in step S801 is data indicating that an image is to be deleted.
[0023]
If it is determined in step S803 that the data received in step S801 is not data indicating that an image is to be deleted, the process advances to step S814 to discard the data received in step S801 and shift to a data reception waiting state in step S801. .
[0024]
If it is determined in step S803 that the data received in step S801 is data indicating that an image is to be deleted, the process advances to step S804.
[0025]
In step S804, it is determined whether or not the image data stored in the data storage unit 303 of the image data management computer 300 includes image data that matches the image data included in the data received in step S801. Do.
[0026]
If it is determined in step S805 that the image data stored in the data storage unit 303 includes image data that matches the image data included in the data received in step S801, the process advances to step S807.
[0027]
In step S807, the image data that matches the image data received in step S801 is deleted, the corresponding image data entry is deleted from the image data information table managed in the image management computer 300, and the process advances to step S814.
[0028]
If it is determined in step S805 that the image data stored in the data storage unit 303 does not include image data that matches the image data included in the data received in step S801, error processing is performed in step S806. And the process moves to S814.
[0029]
If it is determined in the data analysis processing in S802 that the data received in S801 is data for which a print request is issued, the flow shifts to S808.
[0030]
In step S808, the image data received in step S801 is displayed on the image display device 304, and the flow advances to step S809 to wait for an operation to determine whether to permit the operator to print the image received in step S801 based on the data transmission.
[0031]
If it is determined in step S809 that an operation has been performed by the operator, the process advances to step S810 to analyze the content of the operation.
[0032]
If the content operated in S809 in S810 is a content that does not permit printing under the data transmission, in S811, data indicating that printing is not permitted is transmitted to the printing apparatus 100, and the process proceeds to S814.
[0033]
If the content operated in S809 in S810 is a content that permits printing at the data transmission source, data indicating that printing is permitted is transmitted to the printing apparatus 100 in S812, and the process proceeds to S813.
[0034]
In step S813, the image data received in step S801 is stored in the data storage unit 303. Further, the image data management information corresponding to the image data received in step S801 is stored in the image data management table 500, and the process proceeds to step S814.
[0035]
[Example 2]
In the first embodiment, the image data to be printed is transmitted from an external device such as a computer. However, in the present invention, an apparatus such as a copying apparatus 1000 can be applied instead of the printing apparatus 100. .
[0036]
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the copying apparatus 1000 when the copying apparatus 1000 is applied instead of the printing apparatus 100.
[0037]
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a configuration of a copying apparatus 1000 according to the present invention.
The copying apparatus 1000 includes an image reading unit 1001, a print engine 1002, a data storage unit 1003, and a data transmission / reception unit 1004.
[0038]
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention in which a copying apparatus 1000 is applied instead of the printing apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG.
Note that the control procedure of the image data management computer 300 and the document destroyer 200 with a reading function conforms to the first embodiment, and the description is omitted.
[0039]
First, when a copying operation in the copying apparatus 1000 is started, in step S901, the image reading unit 1001 reads image data of an image to be copied, stores the read image data in the data storage unit 1003, and shifts to step S902. I do.
[0040]
In step S902, data indicating that image data printing is requested and the image data stored in the data storage unit 1003 in step S901 are transmitted to the image data management computer 300, and the process shifts to a state of waiting for a response to the print request in step S903.
[0041]
If it is determined in step S903 that a response to the print request has been received, the process advances to step S904 to analyze the data received in step S903.
[0042]
If it is determined in step S904 that the data received in step S903 is data indicating that printing is not permitted, the process ends without performing printing.
[0043]
If it is determined in step S904 that the data received in step S903 is data indicating that printing is permitted, the process advances to step S905.
[0044]
In step S905, printing processing of the image data stored in the data storage unit 1003 in step S901 is performed, and the processing ends.
[0045]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, the state of generation and the state of discard of a printed material can be grasped by the computer for image data management, so that it is possible to more accurately and quickly manage the presence state of the printed material.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a document discarding device of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of an image data management computer according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a device connection configuration of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a data structure diagram for managing information of image data managed in the image data management computer of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating control means of the printing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing control means of the document discarding apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing control means of the image data management computer of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing control means of the copying apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a configuration of a copying apparatus according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 printing device 200 document discarding device 300 image management computer 401 communication medium

Claims (7)

Communication means;
Image data storage means for storing image data received via the communication means in a data storage unit,
A data communication unit for transmitting the image data stored in the data storage unit by the image data storage unit to an external device via the communication unit;
The image data received by the communication unit is compared with the image data already stored in the data storage unit to determine whether the received image data and the image data stored in the data storage unit are the same image. An image management computer having image data comparison means for determining,
Image reading means,
Document destroying means for destroying physical media such as paper,
Before discarding a physical medium such as paper by the document discarding unit, the image reading unit performs an image reading process, and has an image reading function having a unit for transmitting the read image to an external device via the communication unit. A document discarding device,
Printing means for printing the image data received via the communication means on a physical medium such as paper,
A printing apparatus having means for transmitting image data printed by the printing means to an external device via the communication means, and an image data processing system comprising:
The image management computer is arranged at a place where the image is managed, and the image reading function, the attached document discarding device and the printing device print the image on a physical medium such as paper, and use the printed physical medium. And configured to transmit image data of the printed image together with a print notification to the image management computer via the communication unit when the image is printed using the printing apparatus. The image management computer has image input / output control means for storing image data received from the printing apparatus in the data storage unit,
When the document is discarded by the document discarding device with the image reading function, the image of the discarded document is read by the image reading unit, and the image data read together with the image discard notification is transmitted to the image management computer. The document image data transmitting means and the image management computer compare the image data received by the discarded document image data transmitting means with the image data stored in the data storage unit by the image data storing means, and An image data processing system comprising: a unit that deletes the corresponding image data from the data storage unit when it is determined that the image data is stored in the data storage unit. In the image management computer, the image data input from the printing apparatus is stored in the data storage unit by the image data storage unit together with information on a location where the printing apparatus is arranged and additional information such as date and time of printing. 2. The image data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising means for storing the image data. A print permission request receiving unit that receives a print permission request via the communication unit in the image management computer; a print permission notifying unit that notifies the print permission request receiving unit of print permission or print non-permission; Immediately before printing is performed in the printing apparatus, image data to be printed and a print permission request are transmitted to the image management computer, and if no print permission command is received from the image management computer, the print data is discarded. The image data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit. 2. The image data processing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing device includes an image reading unit, and includes a unit that prints an image read from the image reading unit instead of printing image data. Image recognition means for recognizing data to be discarded;
Destroying means for destroying the data requested to be destroyed;
Management means for storing and managing the data,
The data processing system, wherein the management unit deletes data recognized by the image recognition unit. The image recognition means, printing means for printing the data requested to be discarded,
6. The data processing system according to claim 5, further comprising: reading means for reading data printed by said printing means. 6. The data processing system according to claim 5, wherein said management means and said discarding means are connected via a network, and said management means and said discarding means are located at a remote location.

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