JP2005182249A - Information processor, data storage device, image data acquisition method, image data acquiring program and recoding medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor for enabling a user to acquire image data through a network by optionally selecting whether it is necessary or unnecessary to acquire image data whose information amounts are different from the above image data, a data storage device, an image data acquisition method, an image data acquiring program, and a recording medium. <P>SOLUTION: The information processor for acquiring image data from a data storage device which can store image data through a network is provided with an image data acquiring means for acquiring image data stored in the data storage device and an image data designating means for making a user to select whether to acquire second image data whose information amounts are different from those of the image data when acquiring the image data, and to designate the acquisition units of the second image data when acquiring the second image data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an image data acquisition method, an image data acquisition program, and a recording medium, and more particularly to an information processing apparatus, an image data acquisition method, an image data acquisition program, and a recording medium for acquiring image data via a network. About.

  The present invention also relates to a data storage device that stores image data to be acquired by the information processing device.

  In recent years, image forming apparatuses have become more multifunctional, and some of them are equipped with a plurality of functions such as FAX, scanner, copying, and printing. Some of these apparatuses have a function of storing information received by FAX, information read at the time of scanning or copying, and the like as image data on a hard disk or the like.

  Software for editing image data stored in such an image forming apparatus from a terminal such as a PC (Personal Computer) connected to the image forming apparatus via a network (hereinafter referred to as “image editing software”) Is already provided. The software is installed on the terminal side, and downloads and displays image data stored in the image forming apparatus based on an instruction from the user. The user can perform various editing operations such as removing noise contained in the image data and pasting other image data while referring to the displayed image data.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a main screen of image editing software. As shown in FIG. 1, the main screen 500 mainly includes a tree display area 501 and an image list display area 502. The tree display area 501 displays image data storage locations (folders) in a tree format.

  In the image list display area 502, a list of thumbnail images of the first page of image data stored in the folder selected in the tree display area 501 is displayed. By operating the thumbnail image displayed in the image list display area 502, the user can delete the image data, or copy or move the image data to another folder. In addition, when a thumbnail image is double-clicked, an edit screen for editing the image data can be displayed.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an editing screen. As shown in FIG. 2, the editing screen 510 mainly includes a page list display area 511 and an image display area 512. In the page list display area 511, thumbnail images of all pages of image data to be edited are displayed.

  In the image display area 512, actual data of the page selected in the page list display area 511 is displayed.

As described above, the image editing software allows the user to visually recognize the contents of each image data by displaying the thumbnail image of a predetermined page of the image data on the main screen 500 or the editing screen 510.
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  However, conventionally, thumbnail images of all pages or only the first page have been unconditionally downloaded to the terminal side together with image data.

  For example, when the page to be edited is clear in advance, it is sufficient that only the thumbnail image of the page is displayed on the editing screen 510 or the like, but the thumbnail images of all pages are downloaded unconditionally. However, there is a problem that the network load is unnecessarily increased by the amount of thumbnail images of unnecessary pages, and the response is deteriorated.

  In addition, when only the first page is downloaded unconditionally, there is a problem that it is inconvenient when editing a page other than the first page.

  In Patent Document 1, when transferring image data captured by a digital camera to a computer, the thumbnail image is transferred in preference to the main image so that the captured image can be confirmed early on the computer. Is described.

  However, in Patent Document 1, the response is improved by acquiring the thumbnail image in preference to the main image, and there is no room for the user to select whether or not to acquire the thumbnail image.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and when acquiring image data via a network, whether or not to acquire image data having an information amount different from that image data is arbitrarily determined by the user. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing apparatus, a data apparatus storage, an image data acquisition method, an image data acquisition program, and a recording medium.

  Accordingly, in order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus that acquires the image data via a network from a data storage apparatus capable of storing image data. , Image data acquisition means for acquiring image data stored in the data storage device, and whether to acquire second image data whose amount of information differs from that of the image data when acquiring the image data And image data designating means for designating the acquisition unit when acquiring the second image data.

  In such an information processing apparatus, it is possible to accept designation of second image data such as a thumbnail image to be obtained via the image data designation means, and image data can be obtained according to the designation. The second image data to be acquired can be arbitrarily set by the user.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention may be a data storage device including output means for printing the image data.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an image data acquisition method in the information processing apparatus, an image data acquisition program for causing the information processing apparatus to execute the image data acquisition method, or the image data acquisition program. A recorded recording medium may be used.

  According to the present invention, when acquiring image data via a network, an information processing device, a data device storage, and the like that can be arbitrarily set by the user as to whether or not to acquire image data having an information amount different from that image data, An image data acquisition method, an image data acquisition program, and a recording medium can be provided.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the document management system according to the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, the document management system 1 in the present embodiment is configured by connecting a client apparatus 10 and an image forming apparatus 20 via a network 30.

  The client device 10 is a computer such as a PC (Personal Computer) in which functions for displaying and editing image data stored in the image forming apparatus 20 are installed. The client device 10 uses the function of the image forming device 20 as a Web service.

  The image forming apparatus 20 is a so-called multi-function machine or multi-function machine in which a multi-service such as a printer, a copy, a scanner, or a facsimile is mounted. The image forming apparatus 20 can also store information read by the copy function and the scanner function and information received by the facsimile function as image data, and can store the image data in response to a request from the client apparatus 10. It can be provided to the client device 10.

  Next, details of the client device 10 will be described. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the client device according to the embodiment of the present invention. 4 includes a drive device 100, an auxiliary storage device 102, a memory device 103, an arithmetic processing device 104, and a network I / F (interface) device 105, which are mutually connected by a bus B. The input device 106 and the display device 107 are configured.

  A document editing program for realizing processing in the client device 10 is provided by a recording medium 101 such as a CD-ROM. When the recording medium 101 on which the document editing program is recorded is set in the drive device 100, the document editing program is installed from the recording medium 101 to the auxiliary storage device 102 via the drive device 100. The auxiliary storage device 102 stores the installed document editing program and also stores necessary files and data.

  The memory device 103 reads the document editing program from the auxiliary storage device 102 and stores it when there is an instruction to start the document editing program. The arithmetic processing device 104 executes functions related to the client device 10 in accordance with the document editing program stored in the memory device 103. The network I / F device 105 includes, for example, a modem, a router, etc., and is used to connect to the network 30 in FIG.

  The input device 106 includes a keyboard and a mouse, and is used to input various operation instructions. A display device 107 displays a GUI (Graphical User Interface) or the like by a document editing program.

  Next, the functional configuration of the document management system 1 will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the document management system according to the first embodiment.

  In FIG. 5, the client device 10 includes a document management unit 11, a document management DB 12, a SOAP proxy 13, and the like that are realized by processing a document editing program by the arithmetic processing device 104.

  The document management unit 11 is a module in which management functions (registration, deletion, update, etc.) of document data (image data, image data attribute information, image data thumbnail images, etc.) stored in the document management DB 12 are implemented. It is. The document management unit 11 causes the display device 107 to display a GUI (main screen 500, edit screen 510, etc. as shown in FIG. 1) for providing the user with document data operation means on the display device 107, and input to the GUI. The document data stored in the document management DB 12 is updated, the document data is taken out (downloaded) from the image forming apparatus 20, and the like.

  The document management DB 12 is a database for storing document data taken from the image forming apparatus 20.

  In the first embodiment, the document data means an abstract concept for expressing information corresponding to one document in the real world on a computer, and is one for each page constituting the document. It is embodied by one or more image data constituting a unit.

  Accordingly, document data corresponding to a document consisting of only one page has a one-to-one correspondence with image data belonging to the document data, but document data corresponding to a document consisting of a plurality of pages may include a plurality of image data. Bibliographic information and thumbnail images exist for each image data, that is, for each page of a document.

  A thumbnail image is data having a different amount of information such as resolution and size from image data, and is mainly used for simply displaying the contents of image data.

  The SOAP proxy 13 is a module in which a method for transparently calling the function of the image forming apparatus 20 by SOAP RPC is implemented. That is, the SOAP proxy 13 serializes call information for a method in the image forming apparatus 20 corresponding to the method into XML format data based on the method call by the document management unit 11, and converts the XML format data to the SOAP format. A message (SOAP request) is transmitted to the image forming apparatus 20. The SOAP proxy 13 also receives a SOAP message (SOAP response) returned from the image forming apparatus 20 as a response to the SOAP request, deserializes the return information of the method included in the SOAP response as XML format data, Returned to the document management unit 11.

  On the other hand, the image forming apparatus 20 includes a repository service 21, an image storage unit 22, an output processing unit 23, an operation panel 24, a scanner unit 25, and the like.

  The repository service 21 is a module group for managing document data stored in the image storage unit 22 and providing functions such as provision of the document data to the client device 10 as a Web service, and a SOAP processing unit 211. And a data management unit 212 and the like. Here, the Web service refers to a service that executes a process requested in the SOAP message based on a SOAP message transmitted via a network and returns a result of the process as a SOAP message.

  The data management unit 212 is a module in which a method for providing document data stored in the image storage unit 22 is implemented.

  The SOAP processing unit 211 interprets the method call information included in the SOAP message (SOAP request) transmitted from the client device 10 (deserialization), and calls the method of the data management unit 212 corresponding to the call information. Module. The SOAP processing unit 211 also serializes return information such as a return value of the called method into XML format data, and transmits the XML format data to the client device 10 as a SOAP message (SOAP response).

  The image storage unit 22 is a storage area for storing image data read by the scanner unit 25 as document data together with the bibliographic information and thumbnail images.

  The output processing unit 23 is a module in which a function for printing image data stored in the image storage unit 22 on paper based on an instruction from the data management unit 212 is implemented.

  The operation panel 24 is an operation panel (operation panel: operation panel) that displays information for accepting an input such as a print instruction from a user and a reading instruction by a scanner. A user can operate the image forming apparatus 20 via the operation panel 24.

  The scanner unit 25 has a function for reading a document as image data when copying or scanning is instructed.

  Further, details of the document management unit 11 will be described. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the document management unit. As shown in FIG. 6, the document management unit 11 includes a data designation unit 111 and a data acquisition unit 112. The data specifying means 111 displays a dialog for designating how to take a thumbnail image when taking document data (hereinafter, referred to as “take-out designation dialog”), thereby allowing the user to take a thumbnail image of which page. It is a function to specify whether or not (acquisition unit).

  The data acquisition unit 112 is a function for collecting document data from the image forming apparatus 20.

  Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the document management system 1 of FIG. 5 will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining document data collection processing according to the first embodiment.

  For example, when the user gives an instruction to collect document data on the main screen 500 (FIG. 1), the data designating unit 111 designates a dialog (hereinafter referred to as “collection designation”) for designating how to take thumbnail images together with image data. Dialog ”is displayed on the display device 107 (S101).

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of the take-out designation dialog. As shown in FIG. 8, the check designation dialog 520 has three check buttons, check buttons 521, 522, and 523.

  The check button 521 is a check button for designating the collection of thumbnail images of all pages. The check button 522 is a check button for designating that a thumbnail image is not acquired. The check button 523 is a check button for designating the receipt of only the thumbnail image of the first page.

  When the user checks one of the check buttons in the collection designation dialog 520 and selects the OK button 524, the process proceeds to step S102.

  In step S102, the data acquisition unit 112 identifies which check button has been selected in the collection designation dialog 520, and holds the result as “collection designation information”.

  Progressing to step S103 following step S102, the data acquisition unit 112 calls the image acquisition method of the repository service 21 in the image forming apparatus 20 via the SOAP proxy 13 by SOAP RPC, thereby obtaining the document to be retrieved. Image data (hereinafter referred to as “current image data”) corresponding to one page of data (hereinafter referred to as “current page”) is acquired from the image forming apparatus 20.

  When the current image data can be acquired, the process proceeds to step S104 following step S103, and the data acquisition unit 112 calls the bibliographic information acquisition method of the repository service 21 via the SOAP proxy 13 by the RPC of the SOAP, whereby the current image data is acquired. Bibliographic information of data is acquired from the image forming apparatus 20.

  Proceeding to step S105 following step S104, the data acquisition unit 112 branches the process based on the collection designation information stored in step S102. That is, when it is specified that the thumbnail image is not taken (when the check button 522 is checked), the process directly proceeds to step S106. On the other hand, in other cases (when the check button 521 or 523 is checked), after the thumbnail image acquisition process of the current image data is executed in step S107, the process proceeds to step S106. Details of the thumbnail image acquisition process will be described later.

  In step S106, the data acquisition unit 112 determines whether the current image data is the image data of the last page. If the current image data is not for the last page, the processing from steps S103 to S107 is repeated for the remaining pages.

  If the current image data is for the last page, the process proceeds to step S108, and the data acquisition unit 112 associates the acquired image data, bibliographic information, thumbnail image, and the like as one document data and registers them in the document management DB 12. To do.

  Further, details of the thumbnail image acquisition process in step S107 will be described. FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the thumbnail image acquisition process.

  In step S107a, the data acquisition unit 112 determines a thumbnail image designated as a collection target based on the collection designation information stored in step S102.

  If it is specified that thumbnail images of all pages have been designated, the process proceeds to step S107c, and the data acquisition unit 112 calls the thumbnail image acquisition method of the repository service 21 by means of SOAP RPC, thereby obtaining the thumbnail image of the current image data. Obtained from the image forming apparatus 20.

  On the other hand, when the thumbnail image of only the first page is designated, the thumbnail image of the current image data is acquired from the image forming apparatus 20 only when the current page is the first page (S107b, S107c).

  In step S103, S104 or S107 (S107c), in the image forming apparatus 20 for which acquisition of image data, bibliographic information, or thumbnail image is requested, the SOAP processing unit 211 performs data management based on each method call request. Call unit 212. The data management unit 212 acquires image data, bibliographic information, or thumbnail images from the image storage unit 22 in response to each request, and transmits the acquired information to the client device 10 via the SOAP processing unit 211.

  By the way, in the take-out designation dialog 520 in FIG. 8, only three types of designation with the check buttons 521, 522, and 523 can be designated for taking a thumbnail image, but the page to be taken may be designated.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a take-out designation dialog that enables page designation. 10, parts that are the same as the parts shown in FIG. 8 are given the same reference numerals, and explanation thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 10, the take-out designation dialog 520 a is obtained by further adding a check button 525 and a page input area 526.

  The check button 526 is used to check when specifying to specify a page to be taken over for the thumbnail image. The page input area 526 is an area for inputting a page number (position information) of a page to be taken, and can be input when the check button 525 is checked.

  When the take-out designation dialog 520a is used, the thumbnail image acquisition process in step S107 may be performed as shown in FIG. FIG. 11 is a flowchart for explaining thumbnail image acquisition processing when page specification is enabled. In FIG. 11, the same steps as those in FIG. 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  In step S107a, the data acquisition unit 112 further determines whether a page is specified. If page designation is designated, it is determined whether or not the current page is the designated page. If the designated page is designated, a thumbnail image of the current image data is obtained from the image forming apparatus 20. Obtain (S107c). The other cases are the same as in FIG.

  As described above, according to the client device 10 in the present embodiment, when taking document data, the user can select a thumbnail image to be taken over. Therefore, the thumbnail image can be taken in a manner desired by the user. As a result, the network load can be reduced and the response can be improved as compared with the case where the thumbnail image of all pages is taken unconditionally.

  In the first embodiment, an example has been described in which thumbnail images of image data stored in the image forming apparatus 20 are targeted. However, the scope of application of the present invention is only in such a case. Not limited to. For example, thumbnail images of image data and application data (data generated by word processing software, spreadsheet software, etc.) stored in a general-purpose computer with a document management function may be targeted. Hereinafter, an example of a thumbnail image of data stored in a general-purpose computer will be described as a second embodiment.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a document management system according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 12, the same parts as those of FIG.

  In FIG. 12, a document management server 40 is connected to the network 30 instead of the image forming apparatus 20. The document management server 40 is a general-purpose computer on which a document data management function is implemented, and provides document data in response to a request from the client device 10.

  Note that the definition of document data in the second embodiment is slightly different from that in the first embodiment. That is, the document data in the second embodiment includes not only image data but also application data generated by word processing software, spreadsheet software, or the like, each of which constitutes one “page” of the document data. . Therefore, one document data may be a mixture of image data and application data.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the document management system according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 13, the same parts as those in FIG.

  In FIG. 13, the document management server 40 is composed of a repository service 41, a document management DB 42, and the like.

  The repository service 41 is a module group for managing document data registered in the document management DB 42 and providing functions such as provision of the document data to the client device 10 as a Web service, and includes a SOAP processing unit 411 and The document management unit 412 and the like are included.

  The document management unit 412 is a module in which a method for providing document data registered in the document management DB 42 is implemented.

  The SOAP processing unit 411 interprets the method call information included in the SOAP message (SOAP request) transmitted from the client device 10 (deserialization), and calls the method of the document management unit 412 corresponding to the call information. Module. The SOAP processing unit 411 also serializes return information such as a return value of the called method into XML format data, and transmits the XML format data to the client device 10 as a SOAP message (SOAP response).

  The document management DB 42 is a database for registering image data and application data as document data together with bibliographic information and thumbnail images.

  Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the document management system 2 in FIG. 13 will be described. FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining document data collection processing according to the second embodiment. The processing procedure in FIG. 14 is almost the same as the processing procedure in FIG. 7, and the step numbers in FIG. 14 are obtained by setting the step numbers of the corresponding steps in FIG. Therefore, the difference from FIG. 7 will be mainly described.

  When the data specifying means 11 displays the take-out designation dialog 520 or 520a (hereinafter, unified by the “take-out designation dialog 520”) and the user inputs to the take-out designation dialog 520 (S201), the data acquisition means 112 is displayed. Holds the designated content in the take-up designation dialog 520 as take-up designation information (S202).

  Progressing to step S203 following step S202, the data acquisition unit 112 calls the data acquisition method of the repository service 41 in the image forming apparatus 20 via the SOAP proxy 13 by SOAP RPC, thereby obtaining the document to be retrieved. Image data or application data (hereinafter referred to as “current data”) corresponding to one page of data (hereinafter referred to as “current page”) is acquired from the document management server 40.

  When the current data can be acquired, the process proceeds to step S204 following step S203, and the data acquisition unit 112 calls the bibliographic information acquisition method of the repository service 41 via the SOAP proxy 13 by the RPC of SOAP, thereby Bibliographic information is acquired from the document management server 40.

  Proceeding to step S205 following step S204, the data acquiring unit 112 branches the process based on the collection designation information held in step S202. In other words, when it is specified that the thumbnail image is not taken (when the check button 522 is checked), the process directly proceeds to step S206. On the other hand, in other cases (when the check button 521 or 523 is checked), after the thumbnail image acquisition process of the current data is executed in step S207, the process proceeds to step S206. Note that the thumbnail image acquisition process is the same as that in the first embodiment (FIGS. 9 and 11), and thus the description thereof is omitted.

  Thereafter, the data acquisition unit 112 executes processing similar to the processing (S106, S108) in the first embodiment (S206, S208), and acquires the acquired image data or application data, bibliographic information, thumbnail images, and the like. The document data is registered as one document data in the document management DB 12.

  In step S203, S204 or S207 (S107c), in the image forming apparatus 20 for which acquisition of image data or application data, bibliographic information, or thumbnail image is requested, the SOAP processing unit 411 executes the request for calling each method. The document management unit 412 is called. In response to each request, the document management unit 412 acquires image data, bibliographic information, or thumbnail images from the document management DB 42, and transmits the acquired information to the client apparatus 10 via the SOAP processing unit 411.

  As described above, the present invention can be applied to a system for managing information including application data as well as image data.

  A thumbnail image generally refers to a reduced version of image data. However, even in the case of acquiring data (enlarged data) obtained by enlarging the image data together with the image data, it is necessary to specify whether or not to acquire the enlarged data. The present invention can be applied as well.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited to such specific embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims.・ Change is possible.

It is a figure which shows the example of the main screen of image editing software. It is a figure which shows the example of an edit screen. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the document management system in 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of the client apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structural example of the document management system in 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the function structural example of a document management part. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the collection process of the document data in 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a pick-up specification dialog. It is a flowchart for demonstrating a thumbnail image acquisition process. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the pick-up specification dialog which enabled page specification. 10 is a flowchart for explaining a thumbnail image acquisition process when page designation is enabled. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the document management system in 2nd embodiment. It is a figure which shows the function structural example of the document management system in 2nd embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the taking over process of document data in 2nd embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

1, 2 Document management system 10 Client device 11 Document management unit 12 Document management DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 13 SOAP proxy 20 Image forming apparatus 21, 41 Repository service 22 Image storage part 23 Output processing part 24 Operation panel 25 Scanner part 30 Network 40 Document management server 42 Document management DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Drive apparatus 101 Recording medium 102 Auxiliary storage apparatus 103 Memory apparatus 104 Arithmetic processing apparatus 105 Network I / F apparatus 106 Input apparatus 107 Display apparatus 111 Data designation means 112 Data acquisition means 211, 411 SOAP processing section 212 Data management section 412 Document management Part B Bus

Claims (12)

An information processing apparatus that acquires the image data via a network from a data storage apparatus capable of storing image data,
Image data acquisition means for acquiring image data stored in the data storage device;
When acquiring the image data, let the user select whether to acquire second image data whose amount of information is different from that of the image data, and when acquiring the second image data, select the acquisition unit. An information processing apparatus comprising image data specifying means for specifying. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data designating unit further designates the head of the second image data as an acquisition unit when there are a plurality of the second image data to be acquired. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data specifying unit further specifies position information of the second image data as an acquisition unit when there are a plurality of the image data to be acquired. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data acquisition unit further acquires bibliographic information related to the image data or the second image data. 5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising image information management means for managing any one or a combination of the image data, the second image data, and the bibliographic information. 2. The data storage device according to claim 1, further comprising an output unit that prints the image data. An image data acquisition method in an information processing apparatus for acquiring the image data via a network from a data storage apparatus capable of storing image data,
An image data specifying procedure for selecting whether to acquire second image data whose amount of information is different from the image data, and for specifying an acquisition unit when acquiring the second image data;
An image data acquisition method comprising: an image data acquisition procedure for acquiring image data stored in the data storage device based on designation in the image data designation procedure. 8. The image data acquisition method according to claim 7, wherein the image data specifying procedure further specifies the start of the second image data as an acquisition unit when there are a plurality of the second image data to be acquired. . The image data acquisition method according to claim 7, wherein the image data specifying procedure further specifies position information of the second image data as an acquisition unit when there are a plurality of the image data to be acquired. The image data acquisition method according to claim 7, wherein the image data acquisition procedure further acquires bibliographic information related to the image data or the second image data. In an information processing apparatus that acquires the image data via a network from a data storage apparatus capable of storing image data,
An image data specifying procedure for selecting whether to acquire second image data whose amount of information is different from the image data, and for specifying an acquisition unit when acquiring the second image data;
An image data acquisition program for executing an image data acquisition procedure for acquiring image data stored in the data storage device based on the specification in the image data specification procedure. The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the image data acquisition program of Claim 11.

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