JP6804720B2 - Image processing equipment and programs - Google Patents

Description

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

Patent Document 1 describes a login permission means for permitting login by a card capable of paying expenses, a reception means for accepting an input of an advance application regarding a payment schedule by the card before payment of expenses by the card permitted to log in, and the login. The card corresponding to the pre-application by collating the acquisition method for acquiring the payment history data of the card used in the above from the card payment history server with the acquired card payment history data and the contents of the pre-application regarding the payment schedule. A specific means for specifying the payment history data, a selection means for selecting the payment history data to be settled from the specified card payment history data, and a payment history data selected by the selection means for making a payment. It discloses an image processing apparatus including a transmission means for transmitting a settlement request to a settlement system.

In Patent Document 2, a mobile terminal owned by an employee, a terminal device owned by an input control center, a terminal device owned by an accounting office, and a data management server owned by a data center of a company have a data management server via a communication network. The data management server and each terminal device sequentially process data in response to the expense reimbursement application message transmitted from the mobile terminal, thereby disclosing an expense reimbursement processing system that reimburses expenses.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-187498 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2008-225958

An object of the present invention is an instruction of an agent who has been requested in advance by the applicant when it is necessary to obtain information necessary for processing the application in the application procedure to the approver of the application case. It is to provide an image processing apparatus and a program which can acquire information by.

The present invention according to claim 1 is an identification information receiving means for receiving the identification information of the agent who has been requested in advance by the applicant to act on behalf of the application procedure to the approver of the application case.
Applicant information for receiving information about one or more applicants who have previously requested the agent having the identification information received by the identification information receiving means to act for the application procedure for the approval processing of the application case. Receiving means and
An image acquisition means for acquiring an image based on the operation of the agent, and
A transmission means for transmitting an image acquired by the image acquisition means as an image for the one or more applicants based on a transmission instruction from a proxy having the identification information received by the identification information receiving means.
A display control means for controlling the display of information about the applicant received by the applicant information receiving means, and
It is provided with an acquisition status receiving means for receiving information on the image acquisition status for the application matter .
The transmitting means transmits the image to a dedicated storage area associated with the one or more applicants, respectively .
The display control means uses the identification information of the delegator who has the application matter for which the image acquisition status has not been acquired for the application matter, and the identification information of the delegator who does not have the application matter for which the image acquisition status has not been acquired. It is an image processing device that displays with priority over .

The present invention according to claim 2 includes an identification information reception step for receiving the identification information of the agent who has been previously requested by the applicant to act for the application procedure to the approver of the application case.
Applicant information for receiving information about one or more applicants who have previously requested the agent having the identification information received in the identification information reception step to act for the application procedure for the approval processing of the application matter. Receive step and
An image acquisition step of acquiring an image based on the operation of the agent, and
When the image acquired in the image acquisition step is transmitted as an image of the one or more applicants based on the transmission instruction from the agent having the identification information received in the identification information reception step, the said image. A transmission step of transmitting the image to a dedicated storage area associated with one or more applicants, respectively .
An acquisition status reception step for receiving information on the image acquisition status for the application matter, and
When controlling to display the information about the applicant received in the applicant information receiving step, the identification information of the delegator who has the application matter for which the acquisition status of the image for the application matter has not been acquired is used for the image. It is a program for causing a computer to execute a display control step of displaying priority over the identification information of a delegator who does not have an application matter whose acquisition status has not been acquired .

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when it is necessary to obtain the information required for processing the application in the application procedure to the approver of the application case, the applicant requests the application procedure in advance. It is possible to provide an image processing device capable of acquiring information according to the instructions of an agent.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when it is necessary to obtain the information required for processing the application in the application procedure to the approver of the application case, the applicant requests the application procedure in advance. It is possible to provide a program capable of acquiring information according to the instructions of an agent.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the application processing system 2 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the image processing apparatus 4 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structure of the image processing apparatus 4 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the image processing apparatus 4 realized by executing a program in 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the display screen of the UI apparatus 11 displayed by the control of the display control unit 76, (a) shows the display example when the acquisition situation of the evidence document is not reflected, (b) is An example of display when reflecting the acquisition status of evidence documents is shown. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when the documentary evidence is read by the image reading device 14. It is a block diagram which shows an example of the hardware structure of the application processing apparatus 6 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an application processing device 6 realized by executing a program in the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a sequence chart which shows an example of the operation of application processing system 2 from application registration to approval processing in 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the image processing apparatus 4 of the 2nd Embodiment realized by executing a program. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a display screen of the UI device 11 displayed under the control of the display control unit 76 in the second embodiment. In the second embodiment, it is a schematic diagram showing an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when the documentary evidence is read by the image reading device 14. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the application processing apparatus 6 of the 2nd Embodiment realized by executing a program. It is a sequence chart which shows an example of the operation of the application processing system 2 from the registration of an application to the approval processing in the 2nd Embodiment.

Hereinafter, the first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an application processing system 2 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the application processing system 2 is composed of an image processing device 4, an application processing device 6, and a terminal device 8, and each device is connected to a network 10 such as a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. doing. The application processing system 2 is a system that processes an application. Specifically, the application processing system 2 acquires an image of evidence documents for the registered application and approves the application. In the present embodiment, the application processing system 2 describes an application for expense settlement by taking as an example a case where an image of evidence documents such as a receipt is acquired and settlement processing is performed.

The image processing device 4 is a device that acquires an image of evidence documents required for processing an application, and includes an image reading device such as a scanner that reads the evidence documents, or a photographing device such as a camera that captures the evidence documents. ing. In the present embodiment, an image forming apparatus provided with an image reading apparatus will be described as an example of the image processing apparatus 4.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the image processing apparatus 4. The image processing device 4 includes a UI device 11, a printing device 12, an image reading device 14, and a communication device 16.

The UI device 11 is a device including a display device for displaying information and an input receiving device for receiving input made by an operator, and is composed of, for example, a touch panel or the like. The operator can input his / her own identification information such as an ID via the UI device 11. The UI device 11 may read a recording medium such as an IC card to acquire the identification information of the operator stored in the recording medium, or may acquire the identification information by an input operation of the operator. .. In addition to the identification information, a password or the like may be obtained.

The printing device 12 is a device that performs printing. The printing apparatus 12 has, for example, a three-stage recording medium supply cassette 18, and each of these recording medium supply cassettes 18 is provided with a supply head 20.

When one of the recording medium supply cassettes 18 is selected, the supply head 20 operates to supply the selected recording medium supply cassette 18 to the image forming mechanism unit 24 via the recording medium supply path 22.

The image forming mechanism unit 24 is provided with yellow, magenta, cyan, and black photoconductors 26, and is provided with an intermediate transfer belt 28.

A charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a primary transfer device, a cleaning device, etc. (not shown) are arranged around each photoconductor 26, and a toner image formed on each photoconductor 26 is attached to an intermediate transfer belt 28. Transcribed. When black and white is set, only black is enabled.

The toner image of the intermediate transfer belt 28 is transferred to the transmitted recording medium by the secondary transfer roll 30, fixed by the fixing device 32, and the recording medium on which the toner image is fixed passes through the recording medium discharge path 34. Is discharged to the discharge unit 36.

However, when double-sided printing is set, the recording medium whose surface is fixed by the fixing device 32 is sent from the recording medium discharge path 34 to the reversing device 38, inverted by the reversing device 38, and the recording medium reversing path 40. Is sent back to the recording medium supply path 22 and sent back to the image forming mechanism unit 24 for printing on the back surface.

The image reading device 14 has an automatic document feeder 42 capable of reading double-sided documents, and the document is fed to the platen 44 by the automatic document feeder 42, and the scanning unit 46 composed of a CCD or the like is used on the platen 44. The image of the original is read.

A document set detector 48 for detecting whether or not a document has been set is provided in the automatic document feeder 42. Further, the automatic document feeder 42 also serves as a platen cover, and the document can be placed on the platen 44 by opening the platen cover. The opening / closing of the platen cover can be detected by the platen cover opening / closing detector 50.

The communication device 16 is a device that communicates with an external device via the network 10, and is composed of, for example, a data circuit-terminating equipment. The image processing device 4 transmits, for example, the image data read by the image reading device 14 to the application processing device 6 and transmits / receives information to / from the application processing device 6.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the image processing device 4.

As shown in FIG. 3, the image processing device 4 has a configuration in which a CPU 60, a memory 62, and a storage device 64 are connected by a bus in addition to the above-mentioned printing device 12, image reading device 14, UI device 11, and communication device 16. It has become.

As described above, the image processing device 4 has a component as a computer capable of communicating with other devices via the network 10.

The CPU 60 controls the operation of the image processing device 4 by executing a program written in the memory 62 or the storage device 64. Further, the input received via the UI device 11 is transmitted to the CPU 60, and the display information from the CPU 60 is transmitted to the UI device 11.

The CPU 60 may execute a program stored in a portable storage medium such as a CD-ROM (not shown), or may execute a program provided through the communication device 16.

The storage device 64 stores data in a hard disk or the like so that it can be written and read.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the image processing device 4 realized by executing the program.

As shown in FIG. 4, the image processing device 4 of the present embodiment includes an identification information receiving unit 70, an identification information transmitting unit 72, a delegator information receiving unit 74, a display control unit 76, and an acquisition status receiving unit. It includes 78, a selection reception unit 80, an image acquisition unit 82, an image transmission unit 84, a billing unit 86, and a request information transmission unit 88.

The identification information receiving unit 70 receives identification information such as a user's name or ID input via the UI device 11. In this embodiment, the password information input via the UI device 11 is accepted together with the identification information.

The identification information transmission unit 72 transmits the identification information of the user received by the identification information reception unit 70. In the present embodiment, the password information is transmitted to the application processing device 6 together with the identification information, and the process of logging in to the application processing device 6 is performed.

The delegator information receiving unit 74 receives information about the delegator. Specifically, the user who has the identification information received by the identification information reception unit 70 receives information about the delegator who has delegated to perform the necessary procedures for the approval process for the application. In the present embodiment, regarding the expense settlement application, information about the delegator who has delegated the procedure for submitting the image of the receipt required for the approval processing of the application to the delegator is received from the application processing device 6. Further, in the present embodiment, the identification information of the delegator is received as the information about the delegator. In addition, the delegator information receiving unit 74 may also acquire information on the authority of the delegator's proxy act.

For example, when the delegator BBB delegates the procedure in its own application to the delegator AAA, when the delegator AAA inputs the identification information via the UI device 11, the delegator information receiving unit 74 Receive the identification information of the delegator BBB. If there are delegators for the delegator AAA in addition to the delegator BBB, the delegator information receiving unit 74 also receives identification information about those delegators.

The display control unit 76 controls to display the information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 on the UI device 11 as the display device.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing an example of a display screen of the UI device 11 displayed under the control of the display control unit 76, and FIG. 5A shows a display example when the acquisition status of evidence documents is not reflected. , FIG. 5 (b) shows a display example when reflecting the acquisition status of evidence documents. In the example shown in FIG. 5, the delegator's identification information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 is displayed together with the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70. In FIG. 5, the display image 90 shows the operator's own identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70, and the display image 92 shows the identification information of the delegator received by the delegator information receiving unit 74. There is. Here, as shown in FIG. 5, the display control unit 76 may display the delegator over a plurality of pages. In this case, another page is displayed by changing the screen.

In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5B, the display control unit 76 includes the user information received by the identification information reception unit 70 and the information received by the delegator information reception unit 74. Controls to display the acquisition status of documentary images related to this information. In the example shown in FIG. 5B, if there is an application for which a receipt has not been submitted among the application for settlement of expenses of the user or the delegator, the receipt will be displayed together with the identification information of the user or the delegator. A display image 94 showing that there is an application that has not been submitted is displayed. In the example shown in FIG. 5B, a display image 94 showing that there is an application for which a receipt has not been submitted is displayed together with the identification information of the delegator, but the receipt is submitted. It may be configured to clearly indicate that.

The acquisition status receiving unit 78 receives information regarding the acquisition status of the image of the documentary evidence referred to when the application is approved. In the present embodiment, information on whether or not the image of the receipt required for approving the expense settlement application has been acquired is received from the application processing device 6. Here, the acquisition status receiving unit 78 of the present embodiment determines whether or not there is an application for which a receipt has not been submitted among the applications for the user or the delegator for each user or the delegator. Receive the indicated information as the acquisition status.

The display control unit 76 preferentially displays the information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 that has not been acquired by the acquisition status receiving unit 78 related to this information. May be controlled. For example, when the information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 is the identification information about the delegator as in the present embodiment, the identification information of the delegator who has an application for which a receipt has not been submitted is received as a receipt. The application may be controlled to be displayed in preference to the identification information of the delegator who does not have the application submitted. For example, the identification information about the delegator may be displayed on the first page of the display screen.

The selection reception unit 80 receives a selection operation for the information displayed by the display control unit 76. In the present embodiment, the selection operation via the UI device 11 for the identification information of the delegator displayed by the display control unit 76 is accepted. The operator, who is the delegate, selects, for example, from the list of the delegate's identification information displayed as shown in FIG. 5, which delegate's receipt image acquisition is to be performed on behalf of the delegate. When the operator acquires the receipt image for the application for settlement of his / her expenses, the operator selects his / her own identification information from the identification information displayed on the display screen shown in FIG. In this case, the operator's own identification information selection operation is accepted.

The image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image. In the present embodiment, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image of the documentary evidence that is referred to when the application is approved. For example, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data of the receipt read by the image reading device 14 from the image reading device 14.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when the documentary evidence is read by the image reading device 14. In the example shown in FIG. 6, a screen in which the delegate AAA, which is the operator, reads the documentary evidence for the application of the delegator BBB is illustrated, and the operator is based on this screen. You can set the reading conditions for the documentary evidence. Note that FIG. 6 is an example of transmitting the read image data to BBB @ xxx, which is the dedicated address of the delegator BBB, and the address of the transmission destination is displayed on the screen.

The image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as an image of the delegator whose information has been received by the delegator information receiving unit 74. In the present embodiment, the image transmission unit 84 sends the image of the receipt acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 to the application processing device 6 as evidence documents of the delegator specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80. And send. For example, when the destination address of the image of the documentary evidence is different for each applicant, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image data to the destination address dedicated to the delegator specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80. .. For this reason, evidence documents are collected even if the applicant does not operate the evidence. In the present embodiment, the image transmission unit 84 transmits, for example, based on a transmission instruction input from the user via the UI device 11.

The method of transmitting the image transmission unit 84 as evidence documents for the delegator whose information has been received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 is limited to the example of transmitting to the delegator-dedicated destination address as described above. However, other methods may be used. For example, when the application processing device 6 divides the storage area of the image of the evidence document for each applicant, the image transmission unit 84 is a storage area dedicated to the delegator specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80. Image data may be transmitted to be stored in. For example, the location information of the storage area dedicated to the delegator is acquired as the information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74. Further, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image data and notifies the application processing device 6 that the image data is the image data of the delegator specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80. You may do so. In this case, the application processing device 6 distributes the image data to the storage area dedicated to the delegator according to the notified identification information of the delegator.

The charging unit 86 charges according to the acquisition of the image by the image acquisition unit 82. The billing unit 86 accumulates the amount of money according to the acquisition of the image by the image acquisition unit 82, for example. The charging unit 86 may charge each time the image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image, or may charge each time the image acquisition unit 82 reaches a predetermined number of times. Further, in the present embodiment, the billing unit 86 is described as a function of the image processing device 4, but may be a function of the application processing device 6.

The request information transmission unit 88 transmits information requesting execution of the approval process for the application for which the image of the documentary evidence referred to in the approval process has been acquired. In the present embodiment, the request information transmission unit 88 transmits the information requesting the execution of the expense settlement process to the application processing device 6, but it may also be transmitted to another device. For example, in order to notify the approver in charge of the settlement process, it may be transmitted to a terminal device or the like used by the approver.

Next, the application processing device 6 will be described.
FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the application processing device 6.
As shown in FIG. 7, the application processing device 6 transmits and receives data to and from an external device and the like via the CPU 100, the memory 102, the storage device 104 such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and the network 10. A server having a communication interface (IF) 106 and an input / output device 108. These components are connected to each other via a control bus 110.

The CPU 100 executes processing based on the program stored in the memory 102 or the storage device 104 to control the operation of the application processing device 6.

In the present embodiment, the CPU 100 has been described as reading and executing a program stored in the memory 102 or the storage device 104, but the program is stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM and provided to the CPU 100. It is also possible to do.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the application processing device 6 realized by executing the program.

As shown in FIG. 8, the application processing device 6 of the present embodiment includes a user registration unit 120, a user / delegation information storage unit 122, a delegation registration unit 124, an application registration unit 126, and an application information storage unit. Correspondence with the unit 128, the identification information receiving unit 130, the delegator specifying unit 132, the delegator information transmitting unit 134, the acquisition status transmitting unit 136, the image receiving unit 138, and the image storage unit 140 for each applicant. It includes a registration unit 142, a correspondence storage unit 144, and an application approval unit 146.

The user registration unit 120 registers information about the user of the application processing device 6. In the present embodiment, the user registration unit 120 stores identification information such as an applicant, a person who acts on behalf of the application procedure (acceptor), and a person who approves the application (approver), and the like. Store in 122.

The delegation registration unit 124 registers information about the delegate who has been delegated the procedure for approval processing in the application of the applicant (delegator). In the present embodiment, the delegation registration unit 124 stores the identification information about the user (delegator) of the delegation destination for each delegator in the user / delegation information storage unit 122. In this way, the user / delegation information storage unit 122 stores information indicating the correspondence between the delegator and the delegate. The delegation registration unit 124 may further register information about the authority of the delegate to act on behalf of the delegate. For example, only the image acquisition authority may be given to the assignee, or the image acquisition authority and the approval request authority may be given.

The user / delegation information storage unit 122 stores the information registered by the user registration unit 120 and the delegation registration unit 124.

The application registration unit 126 registers information about the application. In the present embodiment, the application registration unit 126 stores information about the expense settlement application in the application information storage unit 128. For example, the application registration unit 126 registers information such as the date, the use of the expense, and the amount of money used as the information about the expense settlement application.

The application information storage unit 128 stores information about the application for each user who is the applicant.

The identification information receiving unit 130 receives the user's identification information transmitted from the image processing device 4. Specifically, it receives the identification information transmitted by the identification information transmission unit 72 of the image processing device 4.

The delegator identification unit 132 identifies the delegator who has delegated the procedure to the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 130 based on the information registered by the delegation registration unit 124. For example, the delegator identification unit 132 searches for the delegator who has delegated to the user from the information indicating the correspondence between the delegator and the delegator stored in the user / delegation information storage unit 122, and the delegator. To identify.

The delegator information transmission unit 134 transmits information about the delegator specified by the delegator identification unit 132. In the present embodiment, the identification information of the delegator is transmitted as the information about the delegator. The delegator information transmission unit 134 may also transmit information about the authority of the delegate to act on behalf of the delegate.

The acquisition status transmission unit 136 transmits the acquisition status of the image of the documentary evidence referred to in the approval process for the application. In the present embodiment, information on whether or not the image of the receipt required for approving the expense settlement application has been acquired is transmitted to the image processing device 4. Here, in the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the present embodiment, for each delegator specified by the user and the delegator identification unit 132, for example, among the applications for the delegator, an application for which a receipt has not been submitted is submitted. Information indicating whether or not it exists is transmitted as the acquisition status. The acquisition status transmission unit 136 applies to the application of the user and the delegator from, for example, the information on the correspondence relationship between the application and the image which is the documentary evidence for the application, which is stored in the correspondence storage unit 144 described later. It is judged whether or not there is an application for which a receipt has not been submitted, and the judgment result is transmitted.

The image receiving unit 138 receives an image as a documentary evidence about the delegator to whom the information has been transmitted by the delegator information transmitting unit 134. In the present embodiment, the image of which delegator is determined based on the transmission information from the image transmission unit 84 of the image processing device 4, and the image storage unit 140 for each applicant is used as the image of the receipt of the determined delegator. Store.

The applicant-specific image storage unit 140 stores image data, which is evidence documents for the application, for each applicant. In the present embodiment, the image of the receipt is stored in the storage area classified by the applicant.

The correspondence registration unit 142 receives information about the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 and the image storage unit 140 for each applicant by an instruction by an input operation via the input / output device 108 or an instruction from the terminal device 8. Associate with the stored image. Further, the correspondence registration unit 142 stores information indicating the correspondence between the two in the correspondence storage unit 144. For example, the applicant or the delegate delegated to the applicant gives an instruction regarding the association using the terminal device 8, and the association registration unit 142 performs the association based on this instruction.

The correspondence storage unit 144 stores information about the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 and information indicating the correspondence between the image stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant.

The application approval unit 146 performs approval processing for an application that is associated with the image stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant. In the present embodiment, the application approval unit 146 performs expense settlement processing according to an instruction by an input operation via the input / output device 108 or an instruction from the terminal device 8. For example, the approver uses the terminal device 8 to confirm the application to be approved and the receipt for this application, and if there is no problem, gives an instruction for expense settlement processing.

The terminal device 8 is a computer having a configuration similar to the hardware configuration shown in FIG. 7, and the user registration, the delegation relationship registration, and the application registration are performed on the application processing device 6 via the network 10. It is a terminal that gives instructions such as registration of correspondence between application and evidence document image, approval request, and approval execution. The terminal device 8 gives the above-mentioned instruction to the application processing device 6 based on, for example, an input operation of the user.

Next, the operation of the application processing system 2 in this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 9 is a sequence chart showing an example of the operation of the application processing system 2 from application registration to approval processing in the present embodiment.

In step 100 (S100), the applicant logs in to the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8. For example, if the applicant's identification information input to the terminal device 8 is transmitted to the application processing device 6 and the identification information is stored in the user / delegation information storage unit, the login is successful.

In step 102 (S102), information about the application to the application processing device 6 is registered via the terminal device 8. In the application processing device 6, the application registration unit 126 stores information about the expense application in the application information storage unit 128 based on the instruction via the terminal device 8.

In step 104 (S104), the applicant logs out of the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8. In steps 100 to 104, the applicant may be the subject of the operation, or the delegated person delegated to the applicant may be the subject of the operation.

In step 106 (S106), the assignee logs in to the application processing device 6 via the image processing device 4. In the image processing device 4, the identification information receiving unit 70 receives the identification information of the assignee who is the user of the image processing device 4, and the identification information transmitting unit 72 transmits the identification information to the application processing device 6. For example, if this identification information is stored in the user / delegation information storage unit, the login is successful.

In step 108 (S108), the image processing device 4 requests the application processing device 6 to provide the information of the delegator who has delegated the procedure to the delegate who is the user of the image processing device 4. In addition, this request may be made together with the transmission of the identification information by the identification information transmission unit 72, for example.

In step 110 (S110), in the application processing device 6, the delegator identification unit 132 identifies the delegator based on the identification information of the delegator from the image processing device 4 received by the identification information receiving unit 130, and the delegator The identification information of the delegate specified by the information transmission unit 134 is transmitted to the image processing device 4. On the other hand, the transmitted identification information is received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 of the image processing device 4. Here, in step 110, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the application processing device 6 also transmits information about the acquisition status of the evidence documents of the delegate and the delegator to the image processing device 4.

In step 112 (S112), in the image processing device 4, the identification information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 is displayed on the UI device 11 under the control of the display control unit 76. Here, the acquisition status of the documentary evidence of the delegator is transmitted, and the information received by the acquisition status receiving unit 78 is also displayed on the UI device 11.

In step 114 (S114), in the image processing device 4, the selection reception unit 80 accepts the selection operation, so that the selection (selection of the person to be settled) for which application the receipt is to be obtained is made.

In step 116 (S116), when the acquisition status of the evidence document for the settlement target person selected in step 114 is determined, and the image of the evidence document is acquired for all the applications of the settlement target person and associated with each other. , Step 138, otherwise the process proceeds to step 118.

In step 118 (S118), the image processing device 4 displays the screen as shown in FIG. 6 on the UI device 11. Further, in step 120 (S120), the image processing device 4 shifts to step 122 by receiving the operation of the reading instruction from the operator.

In step 122 (S122), the image reading device 14 reads the receipt as evidence documents, and the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data.

In step 124 (S124), the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 to the application processing device 6 as evidence documents of the settlement target person selected in step 114. For example, in step 114, if a delegator is selected, the image transmitter 84 transmits as evidence about the delegator.

In step 126 (S126), the image receiving unit 138 stores the received image in the applicant-specific image storage unit 140. For example, when a delegator is selected in step 114, the image receiving unit 138 stores the image in the applicant-specific image storage unit 140 as an image of a documentary evidence about the delegator. Further, the image processing device 4 transmits the registration result of the received image (for example, information indicating which applicant's image is stored as the image, storage success / failure information, etc.) to the image processing device 4.

In step 128 (S128), the image processing device 4 displays on the UI device 11 that the registration result has been transmitted from the application processing device 6. The image processing device 4 may output the registration result by the printing device 12.

In step 130 (S130), the applicant or the assignee logs in to the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8.

In step 132 (S132), the association between the application to the application processing device 6 and the image of the receipt is registered via the terminal device 8. The correspondence registration unit 142 of the application processing device 6 corresponds to the information about the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 and the image stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant according to the instruction from the terminal device 8. The information indicating the correspondence between the two is stored in the correspondence storage unit 144.

In step 134 (S134), information requesting execution of the approval process for the application is transmitted to the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8.

In step 136 (S136), the applicant or the assignee logs out of the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8.

For an application that has already been associated with the image of the receipt, a request for execution of the approval process may be made via the image processing device 4. In this case, in step 138 (S138), the image processing device 4 displays a screen on the UI device 11 for confirming whether or not the request for execution of the approval process may be made, and in step 140 (S140), the image processing device 4 approves. When the operation for instructing the execution of the process is accepted, the request information transmission unit 88 of the image processing device 4 transmits the information requesting the execution of the approval process for the application to the application processing device 6. By doing so, the execution of the approval process is requested without moving to the terminal device 8. For an application that has already been associated with the image of the receipt, the request information transmission unit 88 of the image processing device 4 automatically approves the application without going through steps 138 and 140. The information requesting the execution of the above may be transmitted to the application processing device 6.

In step 142 (S142), the application processing device 6 carries out an expense settlement process as an approval process. The application processing device 6 executes the approval process when, for example, the approver confirms the application to be approved and the receipt for the application and gives an instruction for the expense settlement process. When the application processing device 6 has received the approval processing execution request from the image processing device 4, the application processing device 6 transmits the result information of the approval processing to the image processing device 4 (step 144), and the image processing device 4 has the image processing device 4. The received result information is displayed on the UI device 11 (step 146). The image processing device 4 may output the received result information to the printing device 12.

In step 148 (S148), the assignee logs out of the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the second embodiment, the image processing apparatus 4 side associates the information about the application with the image of the evidence document for the application when the image of the evidence document is acquired. Is mainly different.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the image processing device 4 of the second embodiment realized by executing the program.

In the image processing device 4 of the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 10, as compared with the first embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150, the acquisition condition setting unit 152, and the associating unit 154, an inspection result receiving unit 156, a notification unit 158, and an acquisition condition changing unit 160 are added. The first point will be described later with respect to the delegator information receiving unit 74, the acquisition status receiving unit 78, the display control unit 76, the selection receiving unit 80, the image acquisition unit 82, and the image transmitting unit 84. It is different from the embodiment.

Hereinafter, the points different from the first embodiment will be described.
In the first embodiment, the delegator information receiving unit 74 receives the delegator's identification information as information about the delegator, whereas in the second embodiment, the delegator information receiving unit 74 receives the delegator's identification information. The following information is received as information. That is, the delegator information receiving unit 74 provides information about the delegator's application that has been delegated to the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70 to perform the necessary procedures for the approval process for the application. Receive. The delegator information receiving unit 74 may further receive information about the application of the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70.

In the first embodiment, the acquisition status receiving unit 78 receives the acquisition status for each delegator, but the acquisition status receiving unit 78 in the second embodiment receives each application received by the delegator information receiving unit 74. Receive the image acquisition status.

The display control unit 76 of the second embodiment controls to display the information about the application received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 on the UI device 11 as the display device.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing an example of the display screen of the UI device 11 displayed under the control of the display control unit 76 in the second embodiment. In the example shown in FIG. 11, information about the application of the delegator BBB delegating to the operator AAA of the image processing device 4 is displayed. In FIG. 11, the display image 170 represents the application of the delegator BBB, the display image 172 indicates that the image as evidence document has not been acquired for the application, and the display image 174 indicates the application. It shows that the image as a documentary evidence has been obtained. Here, the display control unit 76 may control to preferentially display an image whose acquisition status as evidence document has not been acquired.

The selection reception unit 80 of the second embodiment accepts a selection operation via the UI device 11 for the application displayed by the display control unit 76. For example, the operator selects from the list of applications displayed as shown in FIG. 11 which application the receipt image is to be acquired. In addition, the selection reception unit 80 notifies the application processing device 6 which application the selected application is.

In the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 14 described later, the configuration may be as follows. The delegator information receiving unit 74 first receives the identification information about the delegator who has delegated the procedure to the operator, the display control unit 76 displays the received identification information about the delegator, and the selection reception unit 80 , The delegator information receiving unit 74 receives the information about the application of the selected settlement target person, and the display control unit 76 displays the information about the received application. Then, the selection reception unit 80 may be configured to accept the selection operation of the application.

The acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives the image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 from the application processing device 6. Specifically, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives information about the reading condition of the image reading device 14, for example. Further, in the present embodiment, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives the acquisition condition according to the content of the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80. The details of the acquisition conditions according to the content of the application will be described later.

The acquisition condition setting unit 152 sets the acquisition condition received by the acquisition condition reception unit 150. Specifically, the acquisition condition setting unit 152 sets the reading condition of the image reading device 14 based on the reading condition received by the acquisition condition receiving unit 150. In this embodiment, the configuration in which the application processing device 6 receives the acquisition conditions according to the content of the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80 is illustrated, but the image processing device 4 itself itself. , The reading condition may be determined according to the content of the application and set as the reading condition of the image reading device 14.

The image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image of the documentary evidence according to the acquisition conditions set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152. FIG. 12 is a schematic view showing an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when the documentary evidence is read by the image reading device 14. In the example shown in FIG. 12, the setting screen of the receipt reading condition for the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80 is shown.

The association unit 154 associates the information about the application received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82. In the present embodiment, the association unit 154 includes an application designated by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80 among the applications received by the delegator information reception unit 74 and an image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82. To associate.

The image transmission unit 84 of the second embodiment transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as evidence documents for the application associated with the association unit 154. Specifically, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 and the information indicating the correspondence relationship associated with the association unit 154 to the application processing device 6.

Further, the inspection result receiving unit 156 receives an inspection result from the application processing device 6 as to whether or not the image associated with the application by the association unit 154 satisfies a condition predetermined as a documentary evidence for this application. Receive.

The notification unit 158 notifies the inspection result received by the inspection result receiving unit 156. For example, the inspection result may be displayed on the UI device 11, or may be notified by voice or the like. Further, the inspection result may be output by the printing device 12.

The acquisition condition changing unit 160 changes the image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 based on the inspection result of the inspection result receiving unit 156. Specifically, when the image associated with the application by the association unit 154 does not satisfy the condition predetermined as the documentary evidence for this application, the acquisition condition change unit 160 sets the predetermined condition. Change to the acquisition conditions required to meet.

For example, when the resolution of the acquired image is required to be able to recognize characters in the OCR (Optical Character Reader) processing in the application processing device 6, and the inspection result is that the resolution of the image is lower than the condition, Change the image resolution to be higher than the current setting. Further, for example, when a color image is a condition and the inspection result shows that the image is a monochrome image and the condition is not satisfied, the reading condition is changed to color reading.

In the above description, it is assumed that the inspection result receiving unit 156 receives the inspection result, but the image processing device 4 itself may have an inspection function.

Next, the application processing device 6 of the second embodiment will be described.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the application processing device 6 of the second embodiment realized by executing the program.

In the application processing device 6 of the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 13, as compared with the first embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the application selection information receiving unit 180, the acquisition condition determining unit 182, and the acquisition condition A transmission unit 184, an inspection unit 186, and an inspection result transmission unit 188 are added. Further, the delegator information transmitting unit 134, the acquisition status transmitting unit 136, and the image receiving unit 138 are different from the first embodiment in that they will be described later.

The delegator information transmission unit 134 of the second embodiment transmits information about the application of the specified delegator as information about the delegator specified by the delegator identification unit 132. In addition, the delegator information transmitting unit 134 contains information about the application of the user who has the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 130 together with or instead of the information about the application of the delegating person specified by the delegating person specifying unit 132. May be sent. Further, the delegator information transmission unit 134 may transmit information about the application of the settlement target person requested by the image processing device 4 regardless of the specification by the delegator identification unit 132.

The acquisition status transmission unit 136 in the second embodiment transmits the acquisition status of the image for each application of the delegator or the user transmitted by the delegator information transmission unit 134.

The application selection information receiving unit 180 receives which application is the application specified by the selection received by the selection receiving unit 80 of the image processing device 4.

The acquisition condition determination unit 182 determines the acquisition conditions according to the content of the application for the application specified by the reception result of the application selection information receiving unit 180. In the present embodiment, the acquisition condition determination unit 182 determines the acquisition conditions according to the content of the application according to a predetermined rule. For example, for an application for which a revenue stamp is required to be attached to a receipt (for example, an application for a predetermined amount or more, an application for a predetermined use, etc.), a color image having a resolution of 300 dpi is used. Acquisition is determined as an acquisition condition, and for other applications, acquisition as a monochrome image with a resolution of 200 dpi is determined as an acquisition condition. Further, regarding the content of the predetermined application, it may be decided as an acquisition condition that the images of both sides of the receipt are acquired.

The acquisition condition transmission unit 184 transmits the acquisition conditions determined by the acquisition condition determination unit 182 to the image processing device 4.

Further, the image receiving unit 138 in the second embodiment receives from the image processing device 4 an image of the documentary evidence associated with the application for which information has been transmitted by the delegator information transmitting unit 134. In the present embodiment, the image data transmitted from the image transmission unit 84 of the image processing device 4 and the information indicating the correspondence between the image data and the application are received. Further, the image receiving unit 138 stores the received image data in the applicant-specific image storage unit 140, and stores the received information indicating the correspondence relationship in the correspondence relationship storage unit 144.

The inspection unit 186 inspects whether or not the image received by the image receiving unit 138 satisfies a condition predetermined as a documentary evidence.

For example, the inspection unit 186 inspects whether the image received by the image receiving unit 138 does not overlap with an application different from the application associated with the image and another image already associated with the application. May be good. As a result, for example, fraud is discovered in which the same receipt is reused for multiple settlement applications. For example, the inspection unit 186 may inspect whether or not the content of the image associated with the application conforms to the content of the application. For example, the receipt and the settlement application may be inspected to see if the amount, date, etc. match.

The inspection result transmission unit 188 transmits the information of the inspection result by the inspection unit 186 to the image processing device 4.

Next, the operation of the application processing system 2 in the second embodiment will be described.
FIG. 14 is a sequence chart showing an example of the operation of the application processing system 2 from application registration to approval processing in the second embodiment. In the following description, steps 100 to 114 and steps 138 to 148 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and thus the description thereof will be omitted.

After step 114, in step 200 (S200), the application processing device 6 is requested to provide information about the application of the settlement target person designated by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80.

In step 202 (S202), the delegator information transmission unit 134 of the application processing device 6 transmits information about the requested settlement target person's application to the image processing device 4. On the other hand, the delegator information receiving unit 74 of the image processing device 4 receives the information about the application. Here, in step 202, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the application processing device 6 also transmits information about the acquisition status of the evidence document to the image processing device 4, and the acquisition condition transmission unit 184 of the application processing device 6 also transmits the information. , Send the acquisition conditions for each application.

In step 204 (S204), the display control unit 76 controls the UI device 11 to display information about the application received by the delegator information receiving unit 74.

In step 206 (S206), the selection reception unit 80 accepts the selection operation for the application displayed by the display control unit 76. At this time, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives the image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 from the acquisition condition transmitting unit 184 of the application processing device 6 for the selected application. The acquisition condition of the received image is set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152 for the application.

In step 208 (S208), if the acquisition status of the documentary evidence for the application specified in step 206 is determined and the image of the documentary evidence is acquired, the process proceeds to step 138, otherwise the process proceeds to step 138. , Step 210.

In step 210 (S210), the image processing device 4 displays the screen as shown in FIG. 12 on the UI device 11. Further, in step 212 (S212), the image processing device 4 shifts to step 214 by receiving the operation of the reading instruction from the operator.

In step 214 (S214), the image reading device 14 reads the receipt as evidence documents, and the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data. At this time, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image according to the acquisition conditions set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152.

In step 216 (S216), the association unit 154 associates the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80 with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82.

In step 218 (S218), the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as evidence documents for the application associated with the association unit 154.

In step 220 (S220), the image receiving unit 138 of the application processing device 6 receives the image data transmitted from the image processing device 4 and the information indicating the correspondence between the image data and the application, and receives the image data. It is stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant, and the information indicating the correspondence relationship is stored in the correspondence relationship storage unit 144. In this case, it is not necessary to associate the image data with the application by the terminal device 8. Further, the inspection unit 186 inspects whether or not the image received by the image receiving unit 138 satisfies a predetermined condition as a documentary evidence, and the inspection result transmitting unit 188 transmits the inspection result to the image processing device 4. ..

In step 222 (S222), the image processing device 4 displays the inspection result on the UI device 11 that it has been transmitted from the application processing device 6. The image processing device 4 may output the inspection result by the printing device 12.

As described above, in the second embodiment, the case where the operator of the image processing device 4 has a delegator who delegates the procedure has been described as an example, but the delegation relationship may not be required. That is, the operator may operate to obtain an image of the documentary evidence of his / her application. In this case, the above-mentioned delegator information transmitting unit 134 functions as an application information transmitting unit for transmitting information about the operator's own application, and the delegating information receiving unit 74 functions as an application information transmitting unit for the operator's own application. It will function as an application information receiving unit to receive.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the system for processing the application has been described, but the system is not limited to the processing of the application, and any system may be used for processing the matter, and the processing content is not limited. For example, for each matter to be processed, the processing may be such that the image for the matter is referred to during the processing. In this case, the delegator is the person who has delegated the procedure for processing the matter to the delegate.

2 Application processing system 4 Image processing device 6 Application processing device 8 Terminal device 11 UI device 14 Image reading device 70 Identification information reception unit 72 Identification information transmission unit 74 Delegator information reception unit 76 Display control unit 78 Acquisition status reception unit 80 Selection reception Unit 82 Image acquisition unit 84 Image transmission unit 86 Billing unit 88 Request information transmission unit 120 User registration unit 122 User / delegation information storage unit 124 Delegation registration unit 126 Application registration unit 128 Application information storage unit 130 Identification information reception unit 132 Delegation Person identification unit 134 Delegator information transmission unit 136 Acquisition status transmission unit 138 Image reception unit 140 Applicant-specific image storage unit 142 Correspondence registration unit 144 Correspondence relationship storage unit 146 Application approval unit 150 Acquisition condition reception unit 152 Acquisition condition setting unit 154 Correspondence unit 156 Inspection result reception unit 158 Notification unit 160 Acquisition condition change unit 180 Application selection information reception unit 182 Acquisition condition determination unit 184 Acquisition condition transmission unit 186 Inspection unit 188 Inspection result transmission unit

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Identification information receiving means that accepts the identification information of the agent who has been requested in advance by the applicant to act for the application procedure to the approver of the application case,
Applicant information for receiving information about one or more applicants who have previously requested the agent having the identification information received by the identification information receiving means to act for the application procedure for the approval processing of the application case. Receiving means and
An image acquisition means for acquiring an image based on the operation of the agent, and
A transmission means for transmitting an image acquired by the image acquisition means as an image for the one or more applicants based on a transmission instruction from a proxy having the identification information received by the identification information receiving means.
A display control means for controlling the display of information about the applicant received by the applicant information receiving means, and
It is provided with an acquisition status receiving means for receiving information on the image acquisition status for the application matter .
The transmitting means transmits the image to a dedicated storage area associated with the one or more applicants, respectively .
The display control means uses the identification information of the delegator who has the application matter for which the image acquisition status has not been acquired for the application matter, and the identification information of the delegator who does not have the application matter for which the image acquisition status has not been acquired. An image processing device that gives priority to display . The identification information reception step that accepts the identification information of the agent who has been requested in advance by the applicant to act on behalf of the application procedure to the approver of the application case,
Applicant information for receiving information about one or more applicants who have previously requested the agent having the identification information received in the identification information reception step to act for the application procedure for the approval processing of the application matter. Receive step and
An image acquisition step of acquiring an image based on the operation of the agent, and
When the image acquired in the image acquisition step is transmitted as an image of the one or more applicants based on the transmission instruction from the agent having the identification information received in the identification information reception step, the said image. A transmission step of transmitting the image to a dedicated storage area associated with one or more applicants, respectively.
An acquisition status reception step for receiving information on the image acquisition status for the application matter, and
When controlling to display the information about the applicant received in the applicant information receiving step, the identification information of the delegator who has the application matter for which the acquisition status of the image for the application matter has not been acquired is used for the image. A display control step that displays priority over the identification information of the delegator who does not have an application matter for which the acquisition status has not been acquired,
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