JP2024067438A - Data processing device, data processing system, data processing method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

[Problem] The objective is to reduce the workload. [Solution] A data processing device having an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in acquired data acquired from an external source into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted by referring to item discrimination information, and a display control unit that displays a management screen for managing the acquired data, the management screen displaying the items for which editing is prohibited and the items for which editing is permitted in different display modes. [Selected Figure] Figure 13

Description

The present invention relates to a data processing device, a data processing system, a data processing method, and a program.

Technologies for managing data acquired from outside have been known in information processing devices. Document management using a computer is one example.

The task of managing data may involve the user visually checking the contents of the data. This task requires the user to determine for themselves whether the contents of the data are correct, making it a time-consuming task.

The disclosed technology was developed in light of the above circumstances and aims to reduce the workload.

The disclosed technology includes an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in acquired data acquired from an outside into items that are prohibited from being edited and items that are permitted to be edited by referring to item discrimination information, and a display control unit that displays a management screen for managing the acquired data,
The management screen is a data processing device in which the items prohibited from being edited and the items permitted to be edited are displayed in different display modes.

This can reduce the workload.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration of a data processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 illustrates an example of a hardware configuration of a data processing device. FIG. 2 illustrates an example of a hardware configuration of a terminal device. FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining a classification method. FIG. 4 illustrates an example of a management database. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of an item distinguishing database. FIG. 11 illustrates an example of an output destination database. 2 is a diagram illustrating the functional configuration of each device in the data processing system. FIG. FIG. 1 is a first sequence diagram illustrating an operation of the data processing system. FIG. 2 is a second sequence diagram illustrating the operation of the data processing system. FIG. 11 is a first diagram showing a display example of a terminal device. FIG. 13 is a second diagram showing an example of a display on the terminal device. FIG. 13 is a third diagram showing an example of a display on the terminal device.

The present embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 is a diagram showing an example of the system configuration of a data processing system according to this embodiment.

The data processing system 100 of this embodiment has a data processing device 200, an image forming device 300, and a terminal device 400. In the data processing system 100 of this embodiment, the data processing device 200, the image forming device 300, and the terminal device 400 are connected via a network.

In the data processing system 100, the data processing device 200 is connected to the core system 500, for example, via a network. The core system 500 is, for example, a system that performs processing corresponding to a specific application using data processed by the data processing device 200 of this embodiment. Note that the core system 500 may be, for example, software that executes processing corresponding to a specific application.

In the data processing system 100, the image forming device 300 is an example of a device that provides data to the data processing device 200.

The image forming device 300 of this embodiment is equipped with applications for implementing functions such as scanning, copying, and faxing, and these functions are realized by selecting the application corresponding to each function.

In the data processing system 100, the device that provides the data is not limited to the image forming device 300, but may be, for example, a device that outputs audio data or video data, or a device that outputs document data.

The terminal device 400 is a terminal device for managing data acquired by the data processing device 200. In other words, the terminal device 400 is a terminal device used by a user of the data processing system 100, and is mainly used for checking and correcting data acquired by the data processing device 200.

In this embodiment, data management includes checking the accuracy of the information contained in the data, correcting the erroneous information if there is an error in the information, and making the data available for output to a specified core system 500.

When the data processing device 200 of this embodiment acquires data from the image forming device 300, it distinguishes the items contained in the acquired data into high probability items and other items, prohibits editing of the high probability items, and allows editing of the other items.

Then, the data processing device 200 displays the items (information) that are prohibited from being edited and the items (information) that are permitted to be edited in different display modes on a management screen for managing the acquired data. The management screen may be displayed on the terminal device 400.

In this embodiment, this allows the user to know which information is prohibited from being edited and which information is permitted to be edited. Therefore, according to this embodiment, the user can easily determine which items of data they should edit (modify), reducing the effort required to manage data acquired from outside.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the data processing device 200 causes the terminal device 400 to display information indicating whether or not the contents of the data acquired from outside have been confirmed by the user. In other words, the data processing device 200 causes the terminal device 400 to display information indicating the progress of the confirmation work on the data acquired from outside.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the user can easily understand whether or not a verification operation has been performed on data acquired from outside.

Therefore, for example, if there is a large amount of data acquired from outside and the task of checking this data is shared among multiple users, multiple users can be made aware of the progress of the checking task.

The data processing device 200 of this embodiment has a storage unit 220 and a data processing unit 230. The storage unit 220 has an input database 240, a classification database 250, a management database 260, an item discrimination database 270, and an output destination database 280.

The input database 240 stores data acquired by the data processing device 200 from outside. The classification database 250 is referenced by the data processing unit 230 when the data processing unit 230 classifies the type of data acquired from outside.

The management database 260 stores management data for managing data acquired by the data processing device 200 from outside. The management data includes processing result data that is the result of executing a specified process on the data acquired from outside. The management data will be described in detail later.

The item discrimination database 270 is referenced by the data processing unit 230 when the data processing device 200 discriminates information items contained in data acquired from the outside into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted.

The output destination database 280 stores information regarding the output destination of the processing result data included in the management data.

In the following description of this embodiment, image data of a document scanned by the scanning function of the image forming device 300 and bibliographic data of the image data added to the image data in the image forming device 300 are examples of acquired data acquired from the outside by the data processing device 200. In other words, the acquired data in this embodiment includes image data and bibliographic data that is automatically added to the image data.

In addition, in the following description of this embodiment, character recognition processing on image data is an example of the predetermined processing performed by the data processing unit 230.

In addition, in the following explanation, text data extracted as a result of character recognition processing on image data is an example of processing result data.

The data processing unit 230 of this embodiment acquires image data read by the scanning function of the image forming device 300 and bibliographic data added to the image data, and stores them in the input database 240.

Next, the data processing unit 230 extracts text data from the image data included in the acquired data through character recognition processing, and classifies the type of acquired data by referring to the classification database 250. The data processing unit 230 then stores the text data and the classification results in the management database 260. In other words, the data processing unit 230 associates the classification results of the acquired data with the processing result data and stores them in the management database 260.

In addition, if the document scanned by the image forming device 300 is a form, for example, the text data stored in the management database 260 is data in which the items and item values included in the form are associated with each other.

In addition, when the user checks the contents of the acquired data, the data processing unit 230 outputs the processing result data corresponding to the acquired data that has been checked to the output destination indicated by the output destination database 280.

When the data processing unit 230 causes the terminal device 400 to display the management data stored in the management database 260, the data processing unit 230 refers to the item discrimination database 270 and causes items that are prohibited from being edited and items that are permitted to be edited to be displayed in different display formats.

In the example of FIG. 1, the data processing device 200 has five databases in the storage unit 220, but this is not limited to the configuration. A portion of each database may be provided in an external device of the data processing device 200, or all of the databases may be provided in an external device.

In the example of FIG. 1, the data processing unit 230 is realized by the data processing device 200, but this is not limited thereto. The data processing unit 230 may be realized by multiple information processing devices.

In the example of FIG. 1, the data processing system 100 includes one image forming device 300 and one terminal device 400, but the data processing system 100 may include any number of image forming devices 300 and terminal devices 400.

In addition, each database in the data processing device 200 of this embodiment may be provided for each tenant that uses the data processing system 100, and the terminal device 400 and the image forming device 300 may be managed for each tenant, for example. A tenant is an organization such as a company, and may have multiple users.

Next, the hardware configuration of the data processing device 200 of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the data processing device.

As shown in FIG. 2, the data processing device 200 is constructed by a computer, and as shown in FIG. 2, it includes a CPU 201, a ROM 202, a RAM 203, a HD 204, a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) controller 205, a display 206, an external device connection I/F (Interface) 208, a network I/F 209, a bus line 210, a keyboard 211, a pointing device 212, a DVD-RW (Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable) drive 214, and a media I/F 216.

Of these, the CPU 201 controls the operation of the entire data processing device 200. The ROM 202 stores programs used to drive the CPU 201, such as IPL. The RAM 203 is used as a work area for the CPU 201. The HD 204 stores various data such as programs. The HDD controller 205 controls the reading or writing of various data from the HD 204 according to the control of the CPU 201. The display 206 displays various information such as a cursor, menu, window, character, or image. The external device connection I/F 208 is an interface for connecting various external devices. In this case, the external device is, for example, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory or a printer. The network I/F 209 is an interface for data communication using a communication network. The bus line 210 is an address bus, a data bus, or the like for electrically connecting each component such as the CPU 201 shown in FIG. 2.

The keyboard 211 is a type of input means equipped with multiple keys for inputting characters, numbers, various instructions, etc. The pointing device 212 is a type of input means for selecting and executing various instructions, selecting a processing target, moving the cursor, etc. The DVD-RW drive 214 controls the reading and writing of various data from the DVD-RW 213, which is an example of a removable recording medium. Note that this is not limited to a DVD-RW, and may be a DVD-R, etc. The media I/F 216 controls the reading and writing (storing) of data from the recording medium 215, such as a flash memory.

Figure 3 is a diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of a terminal device. The terminal device 400 of this embodiment includes a CPU 401, a ROM 402, a RAM 403, an EEPROM 404, a CMOS sensor 405, an image sensor I/F 406, an acceleration/direction sensor 407, a media I/F 409, and a GPS receiver 411.

Of these, CPU 401 is an arithmetic processing device that controls the operation of the entire terminal device 400. ROM 402 stores CPU 401 and programs used to drive CPU 401, such as IPL. RAM 403 is used as a work area for CPU 401. EEPROM 404 reads or writes various data, such as smartphone programs, under the control of CPU 401. ROM 402, RAM 403, and EEPROM 404 are examples of storage devices of terminal device 400.

The CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) sensor 405 is a type of built-in imaging means that captures an image of a subject (mainly a self-portrait) under the control of the CPU 401 to obtain image data. Note that instead of a CMOS sensor, an imaging means such as a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) sensor may also be used.

The imaging element I/F 406 is a circuit that controls the driving of the CMOS sensor 405. The acceleration/direction sensor 407 is a variety of sensors, such as an electronic magnetic compass that detects geomagnetism, a gyrocompass, and an acceleration sensor. The media I/F 409 controls the reading and writing (storage) of data from and to a recording medium 408, such as a flash memory. The GPS receiver 411 receives GPS signals from GPS satellites.

The terminal device 400 also includes a long-distance communication circuit 412, an antenna 412a of the long-distance communication circuit 412, a CMOS sensor 413, an image sensor I/F 414, a microphone 415, a speaker 416, an audio input/output I/F 417, a display 418, an external device connection I/F (Interface) 419, a short-distance communication circuit 420, an antenna 420a of the short-distance communication circuit 420, and a touch panel 421.

Of these, the long-distance communication circuit 412 is a circuit that communicates with other devices via a communication network. The CMOS sensor 413 is a type of built-in imaging means that captures an image of a subject and obtains image data under the control of the CPU 401. The image sensor I/F 414 is a circuit that controls the operation of the CMOS sensor 413. The microphone 415 is a built-in circuit that converts sound into an electrical signal. The speaker 416 is a built-in circuit that converts electrical signals into physical vibrations to produce sounds such as music and voice. The audio input/output I/F 417 is a circuit that processes the input and output of audio signals between the microphone 415 and the speaker 416 under the control of the CPU 401.

The display 418 is a type of display means such as liquid crystal or organic EL (Electro Luminescence) that displays an image of a subject, various icons, etc. The external device connection I/F 419 is an interface for connecting various external devices. The short-range communication circuit 430 is a communication circuit such as NFC (Near Field Communication) or Bluetooth (registered trademark). The touch panel 421 is a type of input means that allows a user to operate the terminal device 400 by pressing the display 418. The display 418 is an example of a display unit that the terminal device 400 has.

Next, the databases of the data processing system 100 of this embodiment will be described with reference to Figures 4 to 7.

4 is a diagram for explaining a method of classification. The classification database 250 of this embodiment stores in advance classification information that is referenced when the data processing device 200 classifies the type of acquired data acquired from the outside.
The classification database 250 has information items, ie, classification and extracted content, which are associated with each other. In the following description, the value of the item "classification" and the value of the item "extracted content" are included.

The value of the item "Classification" indicates the classification of the acquired data. In other words, the value of the item "Classification" indicates the type of document. The value of the item "Extracted content" indicates the content of the data associated with the value of the item "Classification".

In the example of Figure 4, if character strings such as "amount," "destination," and "payment due date" are extracted from the text data (processing result data) extracted from image data, the classification of the acquired data is set to "invoice." Also, in the example of Figure 4, if character strings such as "order amount," "order details," and the like are extracted from the text data extracted from image data, the classification of the acquired data is set to "purchase order."

Next, the management database 260 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a management database. The management database 260 of this embodiment includes information items such as scan date and time, user name, document classification, file name, status, image data storage destination, and processing result data.

In the management database 260, the items "scan date and time" and "user name" are associated with other items. In the following explanation, information including the values of the items "scan date and time" and "user name" and the values of other items in the management database 260 is management data.

The value of the item "Scan Date and Time" indicates the date and time when the data was scanned by the image forming device 300. In other words, the value of the item "Scan Date and Time" indicates the date and time when the acquired data was generated by the image forming device 300.

The value of the item "user name" is information for identifying the user of the image forming device 300. In other words, the value of the item "user name" indicates the name of the user who used the scan function in the image forming device 300. Note that in this embodiment, the user name is used as information for identifying the user of the image forming device 300, but the information for identifying the user of the image forming device 300 is not limited to the user name, and a user ID, etc. may also be used.

In this embodiment, the items "scan date and time" and "user name" are items included in the bibliographic data, and are information that identifies the image data. In other words, the items "scan date and time" and "user name" are information that identifies the acquired data, and can be said to be data that links the processing result data and the acquired data. Furthermore, the management data in this embodiment can be said to include items of information included in the acquired data.

The value of the item "Classification" indicates the result of the data processing device 200 classifying the type of acquired data. The value of the item "File name" indicates the file name of the acquired data. The file name may be generated automatically in the image forming device 300, or may be generated automatically when the data processing device 200 acquires the acquired data from the image forming device 300.

The value of the "status" item indicates the progress of the confirmation work of the contents of the acquired data. Specifically, the value of the "status" item indicates whether or not the user of the terminal device 400 has completed confirmation of the contents of the acquired data.

In this embodiment, checking the contents of the acquired data includes the user visually comparing the image data included in the acquired data with the text data (processing result data) extracted from the image data.

In this embodiment, when the value of the "Status" item is "Completed", it indicates that the confirmation of the contents of the acquired data has been completed, and when the value of the "Status" item is "Not yet", it indicates that the confirmation of the contents of the acquired data has not been completed.

In this embodiment, the state where confirmation of the contents of the acquired data is completed means that the processing result data stored in the management database 260 can be output to the core system 500.

In the following description, processing result data linked to acquired data whose contents have been confirmed by the user may be referred to as confirmed processing result data, and processing result data linked to acquired data whose contents have not been confirmed by the user may be referred to as unconfirmed processing result data.

In other words, processing result data with a status of "Done" is confirmed processing result data, and processing result data with a status of "Not yet" is unconfirmed processing result data.

The value of the item "image data storage destination" indicates the storage destination of the image data included in the acquired data. In other words, the value of the item "image data storage destination" indicates the storage destination of the image data acquired from the image forming device 300. Since the image data is stored in the input database 240, the value of the item "image data storage destination" may be a value that specifies a memory area within the input database 240.

The value of the item "Processing result data" indicates the text data extracted from the image data included in the acquired data. In other words, the value of the item "Text" is the actual result of processing by the data processing unit 230.

Note that FIG. 5 is an example of the management database 260, and the items of information stored in the management database 260 are not limited to this. For example, the management database 260 may include items other than those shown in FIG. 5, or may not include some of the items shown in FIG. 5.

Next, the item discrimination database 270 will be described with reference to FIG. 6. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an item discrimination database.

In the item discrimination database 270 of this embodiment, edit-prohibited items are associated with data items included in the acquired data. In the following description, the associated information in the item discrimination database 270 may be referred to as item discrimination information.

In the example of Figure 6, the items that cannot be edited are associated with the scan date and time and the user name, which are included in the acquired data.

In this embodiment, prohibited items are items whose values are highly certain or items for which it is desirable to prohibit overwriting, and are set in advance by, for example, an administrator of the data processing system 100.

In the example of Figure 6, the items that cannot be edited are the scan date and time and the user name, but these are just examples and other items may be set.

In this embodiment, the acquired data acquired from the image forming device 300 is image data and bibliographic data, and the processing result data, which is the result of a predetermined process performed by the data processing device 200, is text data, which is the result of character recognition processing. In this case, since the text data is not included in the acquired data, items included in the text data are not set as prohibited items.

In contrast, consider the case where the image forming device 300 scans the form image and performs character recognition processing on the form image, and the specified processing performed by the data processing device 200 is form recognition processing that matches items included in the form with item values.

In this case, the data acquired by the data processing device 200 from the image forming device 300 is the form image data, bibliographic data, and text data extracted from the form image, and the processing result data obtained by performing a specified process in the data processing device 200 is the result of form recognition.

Therefore, text data extracted from a form image can be set as a prohibited item as part of the acquired data.

In this manner, in this embodiment, the items that are set as prohibited editing items may be freely set according to the acquired data that the data processing device 200 acquires from the outside and the predetermined processing that the data processing device 200 performs.

Next, the output destination database 280 will be described with reference to FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the output destination database.

The output destination database 280 contains information items such as classification and output destination, which are associated with each other. The value of the item "classification" indicates the type of acquired data.

The value of the item "Output destination" indicates the core system 500 to which the finalization processing result data is output. Specifically, the value of the item "Output destination" may be identification information for identifying the core system 500.

In FIG. 7, the output destination is associated with the type of acquired data, but this is not limited to this. The output destination may be determined, for example, for each tenant, or for each user belonging to the tenant.

Next, the functional configuration of each device of the data processing system 100 of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 8. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the functional configuration of each device of the data processing system.

First, the functions of the data processing device 200 will be described. The data processing unit 230 of this embodiment has an input receiving unit 231, a storage control unit 232, a character recognition unit 233, a classification unit 234, an item discrimination unit 235, a display control unit 236, and an output unit 237.

The input reception unit 231 receives various inputs to the data processing device 200. Specifically, the input reception unit 231 acquires data sent from the image forming device 300 and receives various requests from the terminal device 400.

The storage control unit 232 controls the storage of acquired data received by the input receiving unit 231, and the storage of data after the acquired data has been processed by each unit described below.

Specifically, the storage control unit 232 stores, for example, the image data and bibliographic data received by the input receiving unit 231 in the input database 240.

As a predetermined process, the character recognition unit 233 performs character recognition processing on the image data stored in the input database 240, and extracts text data from the image data as the processing result data. The text data extracted by the character recognition unit 233 is associated with the bibliographic data by the storage control unit 232 and stored in the management database 260.

The classification unit 234 classifies the type of acquired data by referring to the text data extracted by the character recognition unit 233 and the classification database 250. The classification results are associated with the text data and bibliographic data and stored in the management database 260.

When the item discrimination unit 235 receives a display request for the management screen of the acquired data from the terminal device 400, it refers to the item discrimination database 270 and discriminates the items of information included in the acquired data into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted. In the following description, items for which editing is prohibited are referred to as "edit-prohibited items" and items for which editing is permitted are referred to as "edit-permitted items."

The display control unit 236 controls the display of the terminal device 400 in response to a request from the terminal device 400. Specifically, the display control unit 236 causes the terminal device 400 to display a management screen for managing the acquired data. The management screen in this embodiment may be a list screen showing a list of the acquired data. When causing the terminal device 400 to display the management screen, the display control unit 236 causes the display mode of the prohibited items and the allowed items to be edited, which are determined by the item determination unit 235, to differ.

When displaying the management screen, the display control unit 236 also displays the value of the "status" item of the processing result data for each piece of acquired data. In other words, the display control unit 236 displays information on the management screen indicating whether the processing result data corresponding to the acquired data is confirmed processing result data or unconfirmed processing result data.

The output unit 237 outputs the confirmed processing result data to the core system 500 in response to a request from the terminal device 400. In other words, the output unit 237 permits output to the output destination only of processing result data for which confirmation work on the contents of the acquired data has been completed.

Next, the functions of the terminal device 400 will be described. The terminal device 400 of this embodiment has an input reception unit 440, a display control unit 450, and a communication unit 460.

The input reception unit 440 receives various types of information input to the terminal device 400. Specifically, the input reception unit 440 receives input by operation of the user of the terminal device 400. The display control unit 450 controls the display on the terminal device 400. The display control unit 450 may be realized, for example, by a browser or the like, or may be realized by an application for using the data processing system 100. The communication unit 460 transmits and receives information between the terminal device 400 and each of the other devices.

Next, the operation of the data processing system 100 of this embodiment will be described with reference to Figures 9 and 10. Figure 9 is a first sequence diagram illustrating the operation of the data processing system.

Figure 9 shows the process in the data processing device 200 until management data is stored in the management database 260.

In the data processing system 100 of this embodiment, the image forming device 300 scans a document (step S901) and transmits the image data and bibliographic data to the data processing device 200 (step S902).

When the data processing device 200 acquires the image data and bibliographic data through the input reception unit 231 of the data processing unit 230, the storage control unit 232 stores the image data and bibliographic data in the input database 240 (step S903).

Next, the data processing device 200 performs character recognition processing on the acquired image data using the character recognition unit 233, and extracts text data (step S904).

Next, the classification unit 234 refers to the text data extracted in step S903 and the classification information stored in the classification database 250, classifies the acquired data, and retains the classification results (step S905).

Next, the data processing device 200 causes the storage control unit 232 to store the text data resulting from the character recognition process, the bibliographic data, and the classification results in the management database 260 as management data (step S906).

At this time, the storage control unit 232 sets the value of the "status" item included in the processing result data to "Not yet."

In this embodiment, the processing result data is stored in the manner described above.

Figure 10 is a second sequence diagram explaining the operation of the data processing system. Figure 10 shows the operation until the processing result data stored in the management database 260 of the data processing device 200 becomes finalized processing result data.

In the data processing system 100 of this embodiment, the terminal device 400 receives an operation to instruct the display of a management screen for acquired data via the input reception unit 440 (step S1001). Next, the terminal device 400 transmits a display request for the management screen to the data processing device 200 via the communication unit 460 (step S1002).

When the data processing device 200 receives a request to display the management screen via the input receiving unit 231, the display control unit 236 acquires a list of management data stored in the management database 260 (step S1003).

Next, the data processing device 200 uses the item discrimination unit 235 to refer to the item discrimination database 270 to discriminate between edit-prohibited items and edit-permitted items among the items included in the acquired data (step S1004).

Then, the data processing device 200 causes the display control unit 236 to transmit an instruction to the terminal device 400 to display the management screen (step S1005). At this time, the display control unit 236 transmits a display instruction to the terminal device 400 so as to differentiate the display modes of the edit-prohibited items and the edit-permitted items on the management screen. Details of the management screen will be described later.

The terminal device 400 receives the display instruction and causes the display control unit 450 to display a management screen in which the display modes of the prohibited and permitted items are different from each other on the display 418, which is the display unit of the terminal device 400 (step S1006).

Next, when the terminal device 400 receives an operation to select the acquired data to be checked (step S1007), it transmits a display request to the data processing device 200 for a confirmation screen for the selected acquired data (step S1008).

The data processing device 200 receives a request to display the confirmation screen, and the display control unit 236 acquires the processing result data associated with the selected acquired data (step S1009), and transmits an instruction to display the confirmation screen to the terminal device 400 (step S1010). Note that this confirmation screen only allows input to editable items. Details of the confirmation screen will be described later.

The terminal device 400 receives this display instruction and causes the display control unit 450 to display a confirmation screen for the selected acquired data on the display 418 (step S1011).

Next, the terminal device 400 accepts an editing operation for the edit-permitted item (step S1012), and upon accepting an operation to complete the editing, transmits the edited processing result data to the data processing device 200 (step S1013).

When the data processing device 200 receives the edited processing result data, the storage control unit 232 overwrites the management database 260 and updates the processing result data (step S1014).

In addition, when editing is completed, the terminal device 400 stops displaying the confirmation screen and displays the management screen (step S1015).

Next, when the terminal device 400 receives an operation to change the status of the acquired data whose contents have been checked from "Not Confirmed" to "Completed" (step S1016), the terminal device 400 transmits a status change request to the data processing device 200 (step S1017).

Next, the terminal device 400 updates the management screen and changes the display mode of the information indicating the status (step S1018).
The data processing device 200 accepts the change request and, via the storage control unit 232, updates the value of the item "status" contained in the management data stored in the management database 260 for which a status change has been requested from "Not Yet" to "Completed" (step S1019).

Next, with reference to Figures 11 to 13, we will explain display examples on the terminal device 400 of this embodiment.

Figure 11 is a first diagram showing an example of a display on a terminal device. Screen 111 shown in Figure 11 is an example of a management screen displayed on terminal device 400 in step S1006 of Figure 20.

Screen 111 includes display areas 112, 113, 114, and operation button 115. Display area 112 displays a list of types of acquired data. Display area 113 displays input of search conditions for searching management database 260. Display area 114 displays a list of management data. Operation button 115 is an operation button for outputting the finalized processing result data to an output destination.

In the display area 114, the display mode of the items included in the management data that are acquired data items and that have been determined by the item determination unit 235 to be items that cannot be edited is different from the display mode of the items that have been determined to be items that can be edited.

Specifically, in the example of Figure 11, of the items included in the management data, the acquired data items "Scan date and time" and "User name" are determined to be items that cannot be edited, and the other items are determined to be items that can be edited.

Therefore, in the display area 114, the display mode is different between the area 116a where the values of the items "Scan Date and Time" and "User Name" are displayed and the area 116b where the values of the other items are displayed. Specifically, the background colors may be different between the areas 116a and 116b, and the font of the characters may be different.

In addition, in the display area 114, each piece of management data is associated with an operation button for displaying a confirmation screen and a display field showing the status.

Specifically, for example, in FIG. 11, management data 117 is displayed in association with operation buttons 117a and display fields 117b.

Operation button 117a is an operation button for displaying a confirmation screen for confirming the contents of the acquired data corresponding to management data 117.

The acquired data corresponding to management data 117 is the acquired data identified by the value "2022/9/1 14:46:06" in the item "Scan date and time" and the value "AAA" in the item "User name."

Display field 117b indicates the progress of the confirmation work on the contents of the acquired data corresponding to management data 117. In the example of FIG. 11, display field 117b displays "Not yet", which indicates that confirmation work on the contents of the acquired data corresponding to management data 117 has not been carried out, and the processing result data corresponding to this acquired data is unconfirmed processing result data.

When the operation button 117a is operated on the screen 111, the data processing device 200 of this embodiment assumes that the acquired data corresponding to the management data 117 has been selected, and displays a confirmation screen for this acquired data.

Figure 12 is a second diagram showing an example of a display on a terminal device. Screen 121 shown in Figure 12 is an example of a confirmation screen displayed on terminal device 400 in step S1011 of Figure 10.

On screen 121, confirmation screen 122 is displayed as a new window. Confirmation screen 122 includes display areas 123, 124, 125, and 126, and operation buttons 127, 128, and 129.

Display area 123 displays image data contained in the acquired data. Display area 124 displays a portion of the bibliographic data contained in the acquired data. Specifically, display area 124 displays the item "User name" and the item value "AAA."

Display area 125 displays the classification results of the acquired data. Display area 126 displays the text data (processing result data) extracted from the image data.

Operation button 127 is an operation button for downloading the image data displayed in display area 123 to terminal device 400. Operation button 128 is an operation button for reflecting the edited content in management database 260, and operation button 129 is an operation button for ending the display of confirmation screen 122 and displaying screen 111.

Here, in the example of FIG. 12, the item "user name" included in the bibliographic data is a prohibited item from being edited. Therefore, on the confirmation screen 122, the display area 124 is displayed in a state in which input (editing) is not possible.

In the example of FIG. 12, the other items are editable items. Therefore, on the confirmation screen 122, the display areas 125 and 126 are displayed in a state in which input (editing) is possible in the input fields within each display area.

When the operation button 128 is operated on the confirmation screen 122, the data processing device 200 updates the management data to the content entered on the confirmation screen 122.

For example, when the classification results displayed in the display area 124 on the confirmation screen 122 are edited, the data processing device 200 updates the value of the item "Classification" in the management data.

When operation button 129 is operated, confirmation screen 122 will no longer be displayed and will return to screen 111.

Figure 13 is a third diagram showing an example of a display on a terminal device. Screen 111A shown in Figure 13 is an example of a management screen displayed on terminal device 400 in step S1018 of Figure 10.

On screen 111A, "Done" is displayed in display field 117A corresponding to management data 117. Therefore, it can be seen that the confirmation of the contents of the acquired data has been completed for management data 117, and the processing result data can be output to the output destination.

In this state, when the operation button 115 is operated, the data processing device 200 of this embodiment may output the text data contained in the management data 117 to the core system 500 identified in the output destination database 280.

In this manner, in this embodiment, on the management screen for managing data acquired by the data processing device 200, among the items included in the acquired data, information that is considered to have a high degree of accuracy or information that is undesirable for being overwritten is treated as an edit-prohibited item whose item value is prohibited from being edited. Also, in this embodiment, on the management screen, it is treated as an edit-permitted item whose item value is permitted to be edited. And, in this embodiment, the display manner of the edit-prohibited items and the edit-permitted items on the management screen is made different.

According to this embodiment, by displaying in this manner, the user can understand the type and number of items for which the user must determine the accuracy of the item value. In other words, according to this embodiment, the user can understand the items for which the user does not need to determine the accuracy of the item value. Therefore, according to this embodiment, the burden of data confirmation work in managing acquired data can be reduced.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the user can know whether the confirmation work of the contents of the acquired data has been completed. Therefore, in this embodiment, for example, when multiple people share the confirmation work, it is possible to prevent the confirmation work of multiple users from overlapping.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, only processing result data for which confirmation of the contents of the acquired data has been completed is permitted to be output to the output destination, thereby preventing data that has not been confirmed from being output.

<Modification 1>
In the first modification, it is assumed that the data processing device 200 acquires voice data as the acquired data. In this case, the device that provides the acquired data to the data processing device 200 may be a device that acquires the voice data.

In variant 1, the data processing device 200 may acquire, as the acquired data, voice data and data indicating the date and time when the voice data was recorded. In addition, the predetermined processing performed by the data processing device 200 may be a voice recognition processing, and the voice recognition result may be the processing result data.

<Modification 2>
In the second modification, data processing device 200 acquires document data as acquired data. In this case, a source device that provides acquired data to data processing device 200 may be a device that acquires document data. Specifically, for example, the source device may be image forming device 300. In this case, image forming device 300 may output, to data processing device 200, document data transmitted to image forming device 300 together with a print instruction.

The source device may be a fax machine or the like. In this case, the fax machine may output the received document data to the data processing device 200. The fax machine may also set a fax number, a telephone number, or the like as bibliographic data of the document data.
Furthermore, the device providing the data may be a general computer that transmits and receives e-mails. In this case, the computer may output the received e-mail as document data to the data processing device 200. The computer may also treat the e-mail address of the sender of the e-mail, the e-mail address of the recipient, and the like as bibliographic data of the document data.

In the second modification, the predetermined process performed by the data processing device 200 may be, for example, a process of converting document data acquired from an external source into image data.
Each function of the above-described embodiment can be realized by one or more processing circuits. Here, the term "processing circuit" in this specification includes a processor programmed to execute each function by software, such as a processor implemented by an electronic circuit, and a device such as an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), a DSP (digital signal processor), an FPGA (field programmable gate array), or a conventional circuit module designed to execute each function described above.

Furthermore, the devices described in each embodiment represent only one of multiple computing environments for implementing the embodiments disclosed herein.

In one embodiment, data processing apparatus 200 includes multiple computing devices, such as a server cluster, configured to communicate with each other over any type of communication link, including a network, shared memory, etc., to perform the processing disclosed herein. Similarly, data processing apparatus 200 may include multiple computing devices configured to communicate with each other.

Furthermore, data processing device 200 can be configured to share the disclosed processing steps in various combinations. For example, the processes performed by a given unit can be performed by data processing device 200. Similarly, the functions of a given unit can be performed by data processing device 200. Also, each element of data processing device 200 can be integrated into one server device or separated into multiple devices.

The device providing the acquired data is not limited to an image forming device, so long as it is a device equipped with a communication function. The device providing the acquired data may be, for example, a PJ (Projector), an IWB (Interactive White Board: a white board with an electronic blackboard function that allows intercommunication), an output device such as a digital signage, a HUD (Head Up Display) device, industrial machinery, an imaging device, a sound collection device, medical equipment, a network home appliance, an automobile (Connected Car), a notebook PC (Personal Computer), a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet terminal, a game console, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a digital camera, a wearable PC, or a desktop PC.

For example, aspects of the present invention are as follows.
<1> an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in acquired data acquired from an external source into an item that is prohibited from being edited and an item that is permitted to be edited by referring to item discrimination information;
a display control unit that displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes on a management screen for managing the acquired data.
<2> The display control unit,
2. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the management screen displays, for each of the acquired data, information indicating a progress of a confirmation operation on the contents of the acquired data.
<3> A processing unit that performs a predetermined process on the acquired data,
The display control unit is
3. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the acquired data is selected on the management screen, a confirmation screen is displayed including the acquired data and processing result data which is the result of performing the specified processing on the acquired data.
<4> The data processing device according to claim 3, wherein the confirmation screen is displayed in a state in which input is possible for the items for which editing is permitted and in a state in which input is impossible for the items for which editing is prohibited.
<5> A data processing device as described in appendix 3 or 4, having an output unit that permits output of the processing result data to a predetermined output destination when information indicating the progress of a confirmation work on the contents of the acquired data indicates that the confirmation work has been completed.
<6> The data processing device according to any one of appendixes 3 to 5, wherein the acquired data includes image data, the predetermined processing includes character recognition processing on the image data, and the processing result data includes text data extracted by the character recognition processing on the image data.
<7> A data processing system including a data processing device and a terminal device that communicates with the data processing device,
The data processing device includes:
an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items that are prohibited from being edited and items that are permitted to be edited by referring to item discrimination information;
a first display control unit that displays a management screen for managing the acquired data,
the management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes;
The terminal device
an input receiving unit that receives an instruction to display the management screen;
a second display control unit that causes the management screen to be displayed on a display unit in response to the display instruction.
<8> A data processing method by a data processing device, comprising:
discriminating information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted, with reference to item discrimination information;
displaying a management screen for managing the acquired data;
A data processing method, wherein the management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes.
<9> Distinguishing information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted, with reference to item discrimination information;
displaying a management screen for managing the acquired data;
The management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes.

The present invention has been described above based on each embodiment, but the present invention is not limited to the requirements shown in the above embodiments. These points can be changed without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and can be appropriately determined according to the application form.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 Data processing system 200 Data processing device 220 Memory unit 230 Data processing unit 231 Input reception unit 232 Storage control unit 233 Character recognition unit 234 Classification unit 235 Item discrimination unit 236 Display control unit 237 Output unit 240 Input database 250 Classification database 260 Management database 270 Item discrimination database 280 Output destination database 300 Image forming device 400 Terminal device

JP 2002-055985 A

Claims (9)

an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items that are prohibited from being edited and items that are permitted to be edited by referring to item discrimination information;
a display control unit that displays a management screen for managing the acquired data,
The management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes. The display control unit is
The data processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said management screen displays, for each of said acquired data, information indicating a progress of a confirmation operation for the contents of said acquired data. a processing unit that performs a predetermined process on the acquired data;
The display control unit is
3 . The data processing device according to claim 1 , wherein when the acquired data is selected on the management screen, a confirmation screen including the acquired data and processing result data which is a result of performing the predetermined processing on the acquired data is displayed. The data processing device according to claim 3, wherein the confirmation screen is displayed in a state in which input is possible for the items for which editing is permitted, and in a state in which input is impossible for the items for which editing is prohibited. The data processing device according to claim 4, further comprising an output unit that permits output of the processing result data to a predetermined output destination when the information indicating the progress of the confirmation work on the contents of the acquired data indicates that the confirmation work has been completed. The data processing device according to claim 5, wherein the acquired data includes image data, the predetermined processing includes character recognition processing on the image data, and the processing result data includes text data extracted by the character recognition processing on the image data. A data processing system including a data processing device and a terminal device that communicates with the data processing device,
The data processing device includes:
an item discrimination unit that discriminates information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items that are prohibited from being edited and items that are permitted to be edited by referring to item discrimination information;
a first display control unit that displays a management screen for managing the acquired data,
the management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes;
The terminal device
an input receiving unit that receives an instruction to display the management screen;
a second display control unit that causes the management screen to be displayed on a display unit in response to the display instruction. A data processing method by a data processing device, comprising:
discriminating information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted, with reference to item discrimination information;
displaying a management screen for managing the acquired data;
A data processing method, wherein the management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes. discriminating information items included in the acquired data acquired from the outside into items for which editing is prohibited and items for which editing is permitted, with reference to item discrimination information;
displaying a management screen for managing the acquired data;
The management screen displays the items that are prohibited from being edited and the items that are permitted to be edited in different display modes.

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