JP2018046416A - Information processing device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing device and program capable of selecting a job memory suitable for a purpose even though the name of set contents is not accurately known.SOLUTION: The information processing device includes: a storage part 11 for storing a plurality of job memories set by a combination of a setting item and a setting value, a thesaurus 111 relevant to a setting item and a setting value, and mechanical setting information 112 with attribute information of paper set; a voice recognition part 131 for performing voice recognition of instruction contents inputted by voice; and extraction means for extracting a job memory in which a similarity between set contents specified by using information of at least one of the mechanical setting information 112 and original information of a processing object and set contents of the job memory is equal to or more than a constant level in addition to a recognition result of the voice recognition part 131 and the thesaurus 111 as a candidate from a plurality of job memories 113.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a program.

  In recent years, there has been proposed an image editing apparatus that facilitates selection of a command sequence by displaying a command sequence necessary for image editing in association with continuous image information (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  The image editing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores associative information related to an edited image registered in association with a command sequence used during editing of each one image, and edits the next image. When displaying, a display means for displaying a list of associative information related to each registered command string and a corresponding command string applied to the image being edited in response to a user button selection operation Means. By observing the associative information, the user can identify the contents of the corresponding command sequence and visually determine the command sequence that matches the currently edited image. As the associative information, information that can easily identify the contents of the command string, such as identification information such as a thumbnail of the edited image and a serial number attached to the edited image, is used.

JP 2000-331178 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus and program capable of selecting a job memory suitable for the purpose without knowing the name of the setting contents accurately.

[1] A storage unit that stores a plurality of job memories set by combinations of setting items and setting values, a synonym dictionary related to the setting items and setting values, and machine setting information in which attribute information of paper is set;
A voice recognizing unit that recognizes instructions inputted by voice;
Similarity between the setting content specified using at least one of the machine setting information and the document information to be processed in addition to the recognition result of the voice recognition unit and the synonym dictionary, and the setting content of the job memory An information processing apparatus comprising: extraction means for extracting a job memory having a predetermined value or more as a candidate from the plurality of job memories.
[2] A morpheme analysis unit that performs morpheme analysis on the recognition result,
In addition to the morpheme analysis result of the morpheme analysis unit and the synonym dictionary, the extraction unit specifies the setting content specified using at least one of the machine setting information and the document information to be processed, and the setting content of the job memory The information processing apparatus according to [1], wherein the job memory having a certain degree of similarity with the or more is extracted.
[3] The extraction means includes:
Instruction content analysis means for analyzing the instruction content using at least the morpheme analysis result and the synonym dictionary;
Job memory candidate extraction means for extracting the job memory having a certain degree of similarity between the setting contents specified using at least the analysis result of the instruction contents and the machine setting information and the setting contents of the job memory; The information processing apparatus according to [2], further comprising:
[4] Document information acquisition means for acquiring document information from the document is further provided,
When the document information is acquired before the voice recognition unit performs voice recognition, the extraction unit limits the job memory to be searched to one that copies, scans, and faxes the document, and the voice recognition unit performs voice recognition. And analyzing the instruction content using the document information, the recognition result of the voice recognition unit, and the synonym dictionary, setting content specified using the analysis result of the instruction content and the machine setting information, and the job memory The information processing apparatus according to [1], wherein the job memory related to the copy, scan, or fax having a certain degree of similarity with the set content is extracted.
[5] The apparatus further comprises document information acquisition means for acquiring document information from the document,
The extraction means requests the user to scan the document when the document information cannot be acquired before the voice recognition of the voice recognition unit, and extracts the document information and the synonym dictionary acquired by scanning the document. The content of the instruction is analyzed using the analysis result of the instruction content and the setting content specified by using the machine setting information, and the copy, scan, or The information processing apparatus according to [1], wherein the job memory related to a fax is extracted.
[6] When the morpheme string includes the particle “wo” and the particle “ni”, the instruction content analysis unit processes the morpheme when the morpheme immediately before the particle “wo” is a noun. The information processing apparatus according to [3], which indicates a target and analyzes that the morpheme immediately before the particle “ni” is a noun or an adjective verb and indicates the processing result.
[7] The job memory candidate extraction unit extracts a job memory including a setting item for reading the document when the morpheme string includes a morpheme indicating reading an image from the document. The information processing apparatus described in 1.
[8] The instruction content analysis means outputs a combination of the setting item and the setting value as an analysis result of the instruction content,
The job memory candidate extraction unit adds the setting item and the setting value acquired based on at least the machine setting information to the combination of the setting item and the setting value output from the instruction content analysis unit. And a combination of setting values, a similarity is obtained between the generated combination of the setting items and setting values and the job memory stored in the storage unit, and the job memory having the higher similarity is obtained. The information processing apparatus according to [3], [6], or [7].
[9]
A machine in which paper attribute information is set in addition to a voice recognition result obtained by voice recognition of an instruction content input by voice, an analysis result obtained by analyzing the instruction content using a synonym dictionary regarding setting items and setting values Job memory whose similarity between the setting content specified using at least one of the setting information and the document information to be processed and the setting content of the job memory set by the combination of the setting item and the setting value is a certain level or more For functioning as an extraction means for extracting a candidate from a plurality of job memories.

According to the first, second, third, and ninth aspects of the present invention, it is possible to select a job memory suitable for the purpose without knowing the name of the setting contents accurately.
According to the invention which concerns on Claim 4, compared with the case where it searches only from audio | voice information, the time which a search requires can be shortened.
According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the time until selection of the job memory is completed is faster than when searching after all the information is gathered.
According to the invention which concerns on Claim 6, it turns out that the instruction | indication content contains a process target and a process result by morphological analysis.
According to the seventh aspect of the invention, it is possible to extract a job memory including setting items for reading a document by morphological analysis.
According to the eighth aspect of the invention, it is possible to select a job memory having a high degree of similarity.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a control system of the image forming apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job memory menu screen. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a morpheme analysis result when a voice input “score copy clearly” is input. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a morpheme analysis result when a voice input “A4 is enlarged to A3” is input. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job memory menu screen. FIG. 6 is a timing chart showing an example of the operation of the image forming apparatus when a document is placed after a user inputs sound. FIG. 7 is a timing chart showing an example of the operation of the image forming apparatus when the user inputs sound after placing a document. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the image forming apparatus.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, in each figure, about the component which has the substantially same function, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and the duplicate description is abbreviate | omitted. An image forming apparatus will be described as an example of the information processing apparatus.

[Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a control system of the image forming apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. The image forming apparatus 1 is a multifunction device having a plurality of functions such as a scan function, a print function, and a copy function. The image forming apparatus 1 includes a control unit 10, a storage unit 11, an operation display unit 12, an audio processing unit 13, a scanner unit 14, a printer unit 15, and a FAX unit 16 connected to the control unit 10. The storage unit 11 is an example of a storage unit.

  The control unit 10 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an interface, and the like. The CPU functions as the accepting unit 100, the document information acquiring unit 101, the instruction content analyzing unit 102, the job memory candidate extracting unit 103, the executing unit 104, and the like by operating according to the program 110. Details of each means 100 to 104 will be described later.

  The storage unit 11 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a hard disk, and the like, and includes a program 110, a synonym dictionary 111, machine setting information 112 in which paper attribute information is set, setting items, and setting values. Various data such as a plurality of job memories 113 set by a combination of the above are stored.

  The synonym dictionary 111 is a synonym (synonyms) of setting items (parameters) and setting values corresponding to functions of the image forming apparatus 1, for example, functions such as a scan function, a print function, a copy function, a FAX function, and mail. And synonyms such as synonyms. For example, since “distribute” is registered as a synonym for “mail”, when the voice input is “distribute photo to friend”, the instruction content analysis unit 102 (to be described later) sends “mail” Can be analyzed.

  The job memory is a collection of setting values registered as a set of one or a plurality of settings. When selected after registration, the registered settings can be read as the setting of the associated process. The job memory may be one in which one or more settings are registered. For example, the job memory relates to a machine other than the multifunction device such as a specific shooting mode (for example, night view mode) or a shooting template (for example, sepia) in the camera, This includes those that are not registered by the user but are registered in the device in advance.

  The machine setting information 112 includes paper attribute information such as paper size, paper orientation, paper type, and paper color set for each tray. Since the tray does not have a sensor for detecting the attribute of the paper, a user setting is required. The types of paper include plain paper, thick paper, postcard, special size paper, special thickness paper, and the like. The machine setting information 112 may be limited to special paper. The tray is an example of a storage unit that stores paper.

  The operation display unit 12 includes, for example, a touch panel and hard buttons, and accepts an input such as an instruction from the user and performs display for the user. The hard buttons of the operation display unit 12 include a start button, a numeric keypad, and the like for starting processing specified by the job memory.

  The voice processing unit 13 processes instruction contents input by voice and performs morphological analysis, and includes a microphone 130, a voice recognition unit 131, and a morphological analysis unit 132. The microphone 130 is an example of an audio input unit. The morphological analysis unit 132, the instruction content analysis unit 102, and the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 are an example of an extraction unit that extracts candidates in the job memory 113.

  The voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the voice input from the microphone 130 using a dictionary, converts the voice into text data, and outputs the text data to the morpheme analysis unit 132. The voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the silent part as a blank character.

  The morpheme analysis unit 132 refers to an analysis dictionary (not shown) and performs morpheme analysis on the text data output from the speech recognition unit 131. The morpheme analysis unit 132 may be realized by using known morpheme analysis software such as JUMAN, teacup, and MeCab. The morpheme analysis unit 132 outputs an analysis result including the morpheme string obtained by the morpheme analysis to the instruction content analysis unit 102.

  For example, the morphological analysis unit 132 sets text data such as “distribute photos to friends”, “copy score clearly”, “digitize to DocuWorks”, and “enlarge copy to A3” as morphological analysis targets. In this case, from “Distribute photos to friends”, “Photos”, “O”, “Friends”, “Ni”, “Distribute” morpheme strings, and from “Copy score clearly”, “Score” , “To”, “Clear”, “Ni”, “Copy”, “To” morpheme sequence, “DocuWorks to digitize”, “DocuWorks”, “Ni”, “Digitize” morpheme sequence, “ From “enlarged copy to A3”, morpheme sequences of “A3”, “ni”, “enlarge”, “copy”, and “do” are obtained.

  The scanner unit 14 includes an automatic feeding device that automatically feeds a document placed on a tray to a reading position, and a scanner that optically reads image data from a document placed on a document table or a document sent from the automatic feeding device. And a document sensor for detecting whether or not the document is placed on the document table or tray, the size of the document, the color of the document (monochrome / color), the direction of the document, and the like.

  The printer unit 15 prints and outputs image data on a recording medium such as paper using, for example, an electrophotographic system or an inkjet system.

  The FAX unit 16 modulates and demodulates data according to a facsimile protocol such as G3 or G4, and performs facsimile communication via a telephone line.

  When the voice input button provided on the job memory menu screen, which will be described later, is selected, the receiving unit 100 converts the voice input to the microphone 130 into text data by the voice recognition unit 131 and analyzes it by the morphological analysis unit 132. Result, that is, the instruction content is accepted.

  The document information acquisition unit 101 detects document information such as the document size, document color (monochrome / color), document direction, etc. detected by the document sensor of the scanner unit 14 and placed on the document table or tray. Obtained from the document scanner.

  The extraction means corresponding to the voice recognition unit 13, the instruction content analysis unit 102, and the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 includes at least machine setting information 112 and document information to be processed in addition to the recognition result of the voice recognition unit 13 and the synonym dictionary 111. A job memory having a certain degree of similarity between the setting content specified using one piece of information and the setting content of the job memory may be extracted from the plurality of job memories 113 as a candidate.

  When the document information is acquired before the voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the document, the extraction unit limits the job memory to be searched to one that copies, scans, and faxes the document, and after the voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the document, Information, the recognition result of the voice recognition unit 131, and the synonym dictionary 111 are used to analyze the instruction content of the user, and the setting content specified using the analysis result of the instruction content and the machine setting information 112 and the setting content of the job memory A job memory related to copying, scanning, or faxing with a certain degree of similarity between them may be extracted.

  If the document information cannot be acquired before the voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the voice, the extraction unit requests the user to scan the document, and uses the document information acquired by scanning the document and the synonym dictionary 111 to instruct the user. Analyzing the contents and extracting the job memory related to copy, scan or fax whose similarity between the setting contents specified using the analysis result of the instruction contents and the machine setting information 112 and the setting contents of the job memory is more than a certain level May be.

  The instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes the user's instruction content based on at least the morpheme analysis result output from the morpheme analysis unit 132 of the speech processing unit 13 and the synonym dictionary 111. That is, the instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes the user's instruction content based on the morphological analysis result, the synonym dictionary 111, and the document information when the document information is acquired before the processing of the voice processing unit 13, and sets it as the analysis result. Output combination of items and set values. When the document content is acquired after the processing of the voice processing unit 13, the command content analysis unit 102 analyzes the user command content based on the morphological analysis result and the synonym dictionary 111, and sets the combination of the setting item and the setting value as the analysis result. Is output.

  When the outputted morpheme string includes two particles “O” and “NI”, the instruction content analysis unit 102 uses a noun as the morpheme immediately before the first particle “O”. Analyzes that the morpheme indicates a manuscript to be processed, and when the morpheme immediately before the second particle “ni” is a noun or adjective verb, the morpheme indicates the processing result. And analyze.

  The job memory candidate extraction unit 103 extracts candidates in the job memory 113 based on at least the analysis result of the instruction content analysis unit 102 and the machine setting information 112. That is, when the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 acquires the document information after the processing of the voice processing unit 13, the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 selects the job memory 113 candidate based on the analysis result of the instruction content analysis unit 102, the machine setting information 112, and the document information. Extract. The job memory candidate extraction unit 103 extracts candidates in the job memory 113 based on the analysis result of the instruction content analysis unit 102 and the machine setting information 112 when the document information is acquired before the processing of the voice processing unit 13.

  More specifically, the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 acquires the combination of the setting item and the setting value output from the instruction content analysis unit 102 based on the machine setting information 112 or the machine setting information 112 and the document information. A combination of the setting item and the setting value is generated by adding the setting item and the setting value, and a similarity is obtained between the generated combination of the setting item and the setting value and the job memory 113 stored in the storage unit 11. The job memory 113 having the higher similarity is displayed preferentially. The similarity is, for example, a number that matches the setting item and the setting value.

  The execution unit 104 controls the scanner unit 14, the printer unit 15, or the FAX unit 16 to execute processing specified by setting items and setting values corresponding to the job memory selected by operating the operation display unit 12 by the user. To do.

(Operation of image forming apparatus)
Next, an example of the operation of the image forming apparatus 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The description will be divided into (1) a case where a document is placed after a user inputs sound, and (2) a case where a user inputs sound after placing a document.

(Example of machine setting information)
As the machine setting information 112, it is assumed that the paper size, paper orientation, paper type, and paper color are set as follows for each tray. That is, A3 size, landscape orientation, plain paper, white is set for tray 1, B4 size, portrait orientation, plain paper, white is set for tray 2, and B4 size, landscape orientation, thick paper is set for tray 3. , Yellow is set, B5 size, landscape orientation, plain paper, white is set for the tray 4, and nothing is set for manual feed.

(Example of job memory)
Assume that the combination of setting items and setting values is set in the job memory 113 in correspondence with the job memory names (1) to (5) as follows. For “>”, the character string on the left side is the upper setting item, and the character string on the right side is the lower setting item or setting value.

  Job memory name (1): copy> copy, document image quality> character, double-sided / single-sided selection> single-sided / single-sided, sorting / stapling / punch> stapling> top left 1, number of copies> 20, document size> A4, tray> A3

  Job memory name (2): copy> copy, document image quality> character, double-sided / single-sided selection> single-sided / single-sided, sorting / stapling / punch> stapling> top left 1, number of copies> 20, document size> A4, tray> A4

  Job memory name (3): copy> copy, image quality adjustment> copy density / sharpness / saturation> sharpness> +2, document image quality> character, image quality adjustment> background color removal> background color removal> document size> A4, Tray> B4, Magnification selection> Auto

  Job memory name (4): copy> copy, image quality adjustment> copy density / sharpness / saturation> sharpness> +2, document image quality> character, image quality adjustment> background color removal> background color removal> document size> A4, Tray> B4

  Job memory name (5): copy> copy, document image quality> photograph, reading method> frame> upper> 2 mm2 mm, reading method> frame> left> 4 mm4 mm, output format> bookbinding> do> original size> A4, tray > A4

(Example of manuscript)
The document size is A4 size, the image quality is black and white, and the image type is text.

(1) Case where Document is Arranged after User Inputs Voice FIG. 6 is a timing chart showing an example of the operation of image forming apparatus 1 when a user places a voice after inputting voice.

  When the user operates the operation display unit 12 to instruct display of the job memory menu screen, the accepting unit 100 displays the job memory menu screen on the operation display unit 12 (S1).

  The accepting unit 100 determines whether a document is placed based on a signal from the document sensor (S2). Here, since the document has not been arranged yet (S2: No), it waits for the voice input from the user.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job memory menu screen. In the job memory menu screen 120 shown in FIG. 2, a message 121a for prompting voice input such as “Please speak the contents of the desired job memory.”, A voice input button 123 for turning on the voice recognition function, a job A “setting confirmation” button 124 for confirming the setting contents of the memory is displayed.

  The user touches the voice input button 123 provided on the displayed job memory menu screen 120 to turn on the voice recognition function. When the voice recognition function is on, the user speaks the instruction content and inputs the voice to the microphone 130. When the user finishes speaking the instruction content, the user releases the voice input button 123 to release the voice input button 123 and turn off the voice recognition function.

  The voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the voice input to the microphone 130 using a dictionary, converts the voice into text data, and outputs the text data to the morpheme analysis unit 132.

  The morpheme analysis unit 132 performs morpheme analysis on the text data output from the speech recognition unit 131. For example, when the user utters “copy score clearly”, morphological analysis is performed as follows.

  "Copy score clearly" is divided into "score", "on", "clear", "ni", "copy", "do" morphemes, and the type of character string, reading, prototype, part of speech for each morpheme The type of utilization and the utilization form are analyzed, and the analysis result including the morpheme string is output to the instruction content analysis means 102. FIG. 3 shows an example of a morphological analysis result when the voice input is “copy score clearly”.

  The instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes the user instruction contents based on the morphological analysis result and the synonym dictionary 111 (S4). The morpheme string output from the morpheme analysis unit 132 includes two particles “O” and “NI”, and the morpheme (score) immediately before the first particle “O” is a noun. Therefore, the morpheme is analyzed as indicating the document to be processed. Also, since the morpheme (clear) immediately before the second particle “ni” is an adjective verb, it is analyzed that the morpheme indicates a processing result.

  In the synonym dictionary 111, for example, {original image quality> characters: characters, music score, text,...}, {Original image quality> photo: photo, picture, painting, picture,. Density / Sharpness / Saturation> *: clear, clear, high contrast,...}, {Copy> copy: copy, xerox, copy, print,. “*” Means that a set value is entered. When the voice input is “clearly copy the score”, the instruction content analysis unit 102 uses the synonym dictionary 111 to register “character” as a synonym for “music score”. The setting value for the item “image quality” can be analyzed as “character”, and “clear” can be analyzed as the setting value of the setting item “copy density / sharpness / saturation”.

 As described above, the instruction content analysis unit 102 obtains {original image quality> character, copy density / sharpness / saturation> *, copy> copy} as a result of the combination of the setting item and the setting value. Is output.

  The instruction content analysis unit 102 determines whether the analyzed morpheme (copy) includes a term related to copying, FAX, or scanning (S5). Here, since the term “copy” is included in the analyzed morpheme (copy) that indicates the processing result, it is determined that the instruction content is copy, FAX, or scan (S5: Yes).

  Next, the accepting unit 100 displays a message “Please place a document” on the operation display unit 12 (S6).

  In accordance with the message displayed on the operation display unit 12, the user places the document on the document table or tray and presses the start button. The scanner unit 14 reads a document image from a document and stores it in the storage unit 11 (S7). At this time, the document information acquisition unit 101 acquires document information from the document sensor of the scanner unit 14.

  Since the document information includes the document size A4, and the machine setting information 112 registers A3 plain paper for the tray 1 as a paper size greater than or equal to the document size A4 and close to A4, the job memory candidate extraction unit 103 Based on the document information and the machine setting information 112, {document size> A4, tray> A3} of the combination of the setting item and the setting value is acquired.

  The job memory candidate extracting unit 103 analyzes the original as a result of analysis by the instruction content analyzing unit 102, that is, a combination of setting items and setting values {original image quality> character, copy density / sharpness / saturation> *, copy> copy}. {Document size> A4, tray> A3} of the combination of setting item and setting value acquired based on the information and machine setting information 112 is added to the combination of setting item and setting value {image quality of original> character, copy density / Sharpness / Saturation> *, Copy> Copy, Document size> A4, Tray> A3}.

  The job memory candidate extraction unit 103 evaluates the degree of similarity between the generated combination of setting items and setting values and each job memory 113 stored in the storage unit 11 (S8).

  For the job memory name (1), the four items of copy> copy, document image quality> character, document size> A4, and tray> A3 match, so the similarity is 4.

  For the job memory name (2), the three items of copy> copy, document image quality> character, document size> A4 match, so the similarity is 3.

  For the job memory name (3), the five items of copy> copy, image quality adjustment> copy density / sharpness / saturation> sharpness> +2, document image quality> character, document size> A4, tray> B4 match. Therefore, the similarity is 5.

  For the job memory name (4), the four items of Copy> Copy, Image Quality Adjustment> Copy Density / Sharpness / Saturation> Sharpness> +2, Original Image Quality> Character, Tray> B4 match, so the degree of similarity Becomes 4.

  For the job memory name (5), the three items of copy> copy, document size> A4, tray> A4 match, so the similarity is 3.

  A job memory menu screen in which job memory names are displayed as a list on the operation display unit 12 is displayed on the operation display unit 12 in descending order of similarity (S9). That is, job memory name (3), job memory name (1), job memory name (4), job memory name (2), and job memory name (5) are displayed in descending order of similarity. The job memory names of job memory name (3), job memory name (1), job memory name (4), job memory name (2), and job memory name (5) are “concert distribution 2” and “music”, respectively. Corresponding to “Distribution 1”, “Yamada Only”, “Conference Set 2”, “For Presentation”, “Evacuation Training Sheet”.

  FIG. 5 shows a display example of the job memory menu screen. In the job memory menu screen 120 shown in FIG. 5, a message 121 b of “Please select a registered memory number”, a job memory menu 122 in which the job memory 122 a is displayed in a list, a voice input button 123, and a “setting confirmation” "Button 124 and scroll button 125 are displayed.

  In the job memory menu 122, for example, “concert distribution 2”, “concert distribution 1”, “only for Yamada”, “conference set 2”, “for presentation” in descending order of job memory name 122a. Like the “evacuation training sheet”, they are arranged from the upper row to the lower row.

  The user selects one job memory name 122a from the list (S10). At this time, the number may be sounded or the number or job memory name 122a may be touched. The user selects the job memory name 122a displayed in the uppermost row by sounding the number “1” of “music concert distribution 2”. The combination of the setting item and the setting value of the selected job memory name 122a is {copy> copy, image quality adjustment> copy density / sharpness / saturation> sharpness> +2, document image quality> character, image quality adjustment> ground color removal> Background color removal> document size> A4, tray> B4, magnification selection> auto}.

  The accepting unit 100 displays details of the setting contents of the selected job memory name 122a on the operation display unit 12 (S11).

  The user presses the start button on the operation display unit 12. The operation display unit 12 transmits a start button pressing signal to the receiving unit 100. When receiving the start button pressing signal from the operation display unit 12, the receiving unit 100 notifies the execution unit 104 to that effect.

  When the user touches a “confirm setting” button 124, the execution unit 104 executes a job corresponding to the job memory name 122a selected by the user by controlling the scanner unit 14, the printer unit 15, and the like.

(2) When a user inputs a sound after placing a document FIG. 7 is a timing chart showing an example of an operation of the image forming apparatus 1 when a user inputs a sound after placing a document.

  When the user operates the operation display unit 12 to instruct display of the job memory menu screen, the accepting unit 100 displays the job memory menu screen on the operation display unit 12 (S1).

  The accepting unit 100 determines whether a document is placed based on a signal from the document sensor (S2). Here, since the document is arranged (S2: Yes), the scanner unit 14 reads the image data from the document (S13). At this time, the document information acquisition unit 101 acquires document information from the document sensor of the scanner unit 14.

  The accepting unit 100 recognizes that the desired job is one of copy / fax / scan (S14).

  The user touches the voice input button 123 provided on the job memory menu screen 120 displayed on the operation display unit 12 to turn on the voice recognition function. When the voice recognition function is on, the user speaks the instruction content and inputs the voice to the microphone 130. When the user finishes speaking the instruction content, the user releases the voice input button 123 to turn off the voice recognition function.

  The voice recognition unit 131 recognizes the voice input to the microphone 130 using a dictionary, converts the voice into text data, and outputs the text data to the morpheme analysis unit 132.

  The morpheme analysis unit 132 performs morpheme analysis on the text data output from the speech recognition unit 131 and outputs a morpheme analysis result to the instruction content analysis unit 102.

  The instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes the user's instruction content based on the morphological analysis result, the synonym dictionary 111, and the manuscript information (S16). The instruction content analysis unit 102 outputs {original image quality> character, copy density / sharpness / saturation> *, copy> copy, document size> A4} as a result of the analysis.

  The job memory candidate extraction unit 103 acquires {Tray> A3} based on the machine setting information 112. The job memory candidate extraction unit 103 adds the acquired setting item and setting value to the combination of the setting item and setting value obtained as a result of the analysis by the instruction content analysis unit 102 to generate a new setting item and setting value combination. . The degree of similarity is evaluated between the combination of the generated setting item and setting value and each job memory 113 stored in the storage unit 11 (S8), and jobs are displayed on the operation display unit 12 in descending order of similarity. A job memory menu screen displaying a list of memory names is displayed (S9). Thereafter, one job memory name 122a is selected from the job memory menu 122 (S10).

  The accepting unit 100 displays details of the setting contents of the selected job memory name 122a on the operation display unit 12 (S11).

  The user presses the start button on the operation display unit 12. The operation display unit 12 transmits a start button pressing signal to the receiving unit 100. When receiving the start button pressing signal from the operation display unit 12, the receiving unit 100 notifies the execution unit 104 to that effect.

  When the user touches the “setting confirmation” button 124, the execution unit 104 executes a job corresponding to the job memory 122 a selected by the user by controlling the scanner unit 14, the printer unit 15, and the like. Thereafter, the operation display unit 12 transitions to a screen during job execution. The control unit 10 puts the selected job into a selected state.

  When “A4 is enlarged to A3” is input by voice, as shown in FIG. 4, morphemes of “A4”, “O”, “A3”, “Ni”, “enlarged”, and “copy” are displayed. It is divided and analyzed. That is, the morpheme string output from the morpheme analysis unit 132 includes two particles “O” and “NI”, and the morpheme immediately before the first particle “O” (A4) Is a noun, the instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes that the morpheme indicates an A4 size document to be processed. Also, since the morpheme (A3) immediately before the second particle “ni” is a noun, the instruction content analysis unit 102 analyzes that the morpheme indicates a processing result (A3 sheet). .

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications and implementations are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. is there. For example, in the above embodiment, the extraction unit selects job memory candidates based on the morphological analysis result, the synonym dictionary, the machine setting information, and the manuscript information, but based on the morphological analysis result, the synonym dictionary, and the machine setting information. The job memory candidate may be selected, or the job memory candidate may be selected based on the morphological analysis result, the synonym dictionary, and the document information.

  In the above-described embodiment, words such as nouns are extracted by elemental analysis. However, the contents of instructions may be analyzed by other methods, for example, only words of specific parts of speech such as nouns may be extracted.

  Also, the speech recognition result may be displayed in real time on the job memory menu screen. As a result, if the voice recognition result is different, the user can immediately rephrase.

  Each part of the control unit 10 may be partially or entirely configured by a hardware circuit such as a reconfigurable circuit (FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Good.

  Further, it is possible to omit or change some of the constituent elements of the above-described embodiment within a range not changing the gist of the present invention. In addition, steps can be added, deleted, changed, replaced, and the like in the flow of the above-described embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention. The program used in the above embodiment can be provided by being recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image forming apparatus, 10 ... Control part, 11 ... Memory | storage part, 12 ... Operation display part,
13 ... Audio processing unit, 14 ... Scanner unit, 15 ... Printer unit, 16 ... FAX unit,
100: Accepting means, 101: Document information acquiring means, 102: Instruction content analyzing means,
103 ... job memory candidate extraction means, 104 ... execution means, 110 ... program,
111 ... Synonym dictionary, 112 ... Machine setting information, 113 ... Job memory,
120 ... Job memory menu screen, 121a, 121b ... message,
122 ... Job memory menu, 122a ... Job memory name,
123 ... Voice input button, 124 ... "Setting confirmation" button,
125 ... scroll button, 130 ... microphone, 131 ... voice recognition unit,
132 ... Morphological analyzer

Claims (9)

A plurality of job memories set by a combination of setting items and setting values, a synonym dictionary relating to the setting items and the setting values, and a storage unit for storing machine setting information in which attribute information of paper is set;
A voice recognizing unit that recognizes instructions inputted by voice;
Similarity between the setting content specified using at least one of the machine setting information and the document information to be processed in addition to the recognition result of the voice recognition unit and the synonym dictionary, and the setting content of the job memory Extracting means for extracting a job memory having a predetermined value or more as a candidate from the plurality of job memories;
An information processing apparatus comprising: A morpheme analysis unit that performs morpheme analysis on the recognition result;
In addition to the morpheme analysis result of the morpheme analysis unit and the synonym dictionary, the extraction unit specifies the setting content specified using at least one of the machine setting information and the document information to be processed, and the setting content of the job memory Extracting the job memory having a certain degree of similarity between
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The extraction means includes
Instruction content analysis means for analyzing the instruction content using at least the morpheme analysis result and the synonym dictionary;
Job memory candidate extraction means for extracting the job memory having a certain degree of similarity between the setting contents specified using at least the analysis result of the instruction contents and the machine setting information and the setting contents of the job memory;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: A document information acquisition means for acquiring document information from the document;
If the document information is acquired before the voice recognition unit performs voice recognition, the extraction unit limits the job memory to be searched to one that copies, scans, or faxes the document, and performs voice recognition of the voice recognition unit. And analyzing the instruction content using the document information, the recognition result of the voice recognition unit, and the synonym dictionary, setting content specified using the analysis result of the instruction content and the machine setting information, and the job memory Extracting the job memory relating to the copy, scan, or fax having a certain degree of similarity with the set content of
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. A document information acquisition means for acquiring document information from the document;
The extraction means requests the user to scan the document when the document information cannot be acquired before the voice recognition of the voice recognition unit, and extracts the document information and the synonym dictionary acquired by scanning the document. The content of the instruction is analyzed using the analysis result of the instruction content and the setting content specified by using the machine setting information, and the copy, scan, or Extracting the job memory for the fax;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. When the morpheme string includes a particle “wo” and a particle “ni”, the instruction content analysis means indicates a processing object when the morpheme immediately before the particle “wo” is a noun. , When the morpheme immediately before the particle “ni” is a noun or adjective verb, the morpheme is analyzed to indicate a processing result.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3. The job memory candidate extraction unit extracts a job memory including a setting item for reading the document when the morpheme string includes a morpheme indicating reading an image from the document.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 or 6. The instruction content analysis means outputs the combination of the setting item and the setting value as an analysis result of the instruction content,
The job memory candidate extraction unit adds the setting item and the setting value acquired based on at least the machine setting information to the combination of the setting item and the setting value output from the instruction content analysis unit. And a combination of setting values, a similarity is obtained between the generated combination of the setting items and setting values and the job memory stored in the storage unit, and the job memory having the higher similarity is obtained. Display with priority,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, 6 or 7. Computer
In addition to the speech recognition result obtained by speech recognition of the instruction content input by voice, the synonym dictionary related to setting items and setting values, at least one of machine setting information in which paper attribute information is set and document information to be processed To extract job memory with a certain degree of similarity between a setting content specified by using the information and a setting content of a job memory set by a combination of setting items and setting values as candidates from a plurality of job memories Program to function as a means.

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