JP7172273B2 - Information processing device and program - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an information processing device and program.

Patent Literature 1 discloses a document image retrieval system that, when a retrieval keyword is received, performs retrieval processing using the received keyword, and displays thumbnails, text information, and representative partial images of hit pages.

Patent Literature 2 discloses a search system that displays a document that has already been read so that it can be seen that it has already been read when performing multiple related document searches using an accepted search keyword. there is

JP 2008-040753 A JP 2013-114310 A

An object of the present invention is to compare the search results obtained by searching for the history information of processed images in comparison with the case where a list of all the history information that matches the search conditions is displayed as the search results. Another object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device and a program capable of reducing the number of pieces of history information displayed as search results to make the search results easier to see.

[Information processing device]
The present invention according to claim 1 is a storage means for storing as history information in association with an image on which processing has been performed and details of the processing performed when processing is performed on a certain image;
search means for searching history information stored in the storage means based on specified conditions;
determining means for determining whether or not the plurality of pieces of history information relate to the same image by comparing the images included in the plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search unit;
when the determination means determines that the search results of the search means include a plurality of pieces of history information relating to the same image, the plurality of pieces of history information determined to relate to the same image by the determination means are regarded as one piece of history information. and a control means for controlling to collectively display.

In the present invention according to claim 2, the control means associates one image selected from a plurality of images with a plurality of processing contents for the same image with respect to a plurality of pieces of history information relating to the same image. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of pieces of history information are collected as one piece of history information.

In the present invention according to claim 3, the information according to claim 2, wherein the control means controls to collectively display the plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information in a search result based on one search condition. processing equipment.

In the present invention according to claim 4, the information according to claim 2, wherein the control means controls to collectively display the plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information in a plurality of search results based on different search conditions. processing equipment.

In the present invention according to claim 5, the information representing the processing content includes the type of processing performed on the image, the operator who performed the processing, the time when the processing was performed, and the page on which the processing was performed. 5. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, comprising information relating to.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, when the search result by the search means includes a plurality of pieces of history information indicating that the process has been performed on different page ranges of the same image, the process is 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said plurality of pieces of history information are collected as one piece of history information so as to include images of all pages executed.

[program]
According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, when a certain image is processed, a storing step of correlating the processed image and the executed processing content and storing them as history information;
a searching step of searching the history information stored in the storing step based on specified conditions;
a determination step of determining whether or not the plurality of pieces of history information relate to the same image by comparing the images included in the plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search step;
If it is determined in the determination step that the search results in the search step include a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image, the plurality of pieces of history information determined to relate to the same image in the determination step are treated as one piece of history information. It is a program for causing a computer to execute a control step for controlling to collectively display.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a list of all history information that matches a search condition is displayed as a search result when searching for history information of an image on which processing has been executed. It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can reduce the number of pieces of history information displayed as search results and make the search results easier to see than in other cases.
Further, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when a plurality of processes are performed on the same image, a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image can be combined into one piece of history information. A processing device can be provided.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a list of all history information that matches the search condition is displayed as the search result when the history information of the processed image is searched. It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can reduce the number of pieces of history information displayed as search results and make the search results easier to see than in other cases.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when a search is performed based on one search condition for the history information of the processed image, all the history information that matches the search condition is displayed. It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can reduce the number of pieces of history information displayed as search results and make the search results easier to see than when a list is displayed as search results.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when a search is performed based on a plurality of search conditions for the history information of processed images, all the history information that matches the search conditions is displayed. It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can reduce the number of pieces of history information displayed as search results and make the search results easier to see than when a list is displayed as search results.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide an information processing apparatus capable of grasping specific processing contents of each of a plurality of pieces of history information that have been combined.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, even if a plurality of processes are performed on different page ranges of the same image, all the processes that have been performed can be performed by simply referring to one integrated history information. It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can grasp the page of the.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, a list of all the history information that matches the search conditions is displayed as the search results when the history information of the processed image is searched. It is possible to provide a program capable of making the search results easier to see by reducing the number of history information displayed as the search results compared to the case.
Further, according to the present invention as defined in claim 7, when a plurality of processes are executed for the same image, a program capable of combining a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image as one piece of history information. can be provided.

1 is a diagram showing the system configuration of a history management system according to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of a history management server 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of a history management server 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a search operation screen displayed on the terminal device 40. FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an example of processing for collecting a plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information; FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a search result screen displayed on the terminal device 40. FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed when a user selects a thumbnail image of document F on the inspection result screen shown in FIG. 6;

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a history management system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

A history management system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises, as shown in FIG. 1, a history management server 10, a plurality of image forming apparatuses 20, and a terminal device 40, which are interconnected by a network 30. FIG.

The image forming apparatus 20 is a so-called multifunction device having multiple functions such as a print function, a scan function, a copy function, and a facsimile function.

The history management system of the present embodiment can be used to determine when, by whom, from which device what document was copied, printed, facsimile transmitted, or scanned in a state in which a plurality of image forming devices 20 are installed. It is a system to make it possible to understand whether

Specifically, in the image forming apparatus 20, when various types of processing such as copying, scanning, and printing are executed, the type of processing executed on an image such as a document, the user (operator) who performed the processing, Information about the time when the process was performed, the page (page) on which the process was performed, and the like are generated as history information representing the details of the process and transmitted to the history management server 10 .

Then, when various processes such as copying, scanning, and printing are executed in the image forming apparatus 20, the history management server 10 stores the processed image, the operator who executed the process, the date and time, the type of process, Processed page information and the like are associated and acquired as history information and managed. In other words, the history management server 10 is an information processing device for managing the history of processing executed in the image forming device 20, and when information leakage or the like occurs, the information leakage path can be determined by referring to this history. etc. can be tracked.

By managing the history information in this manner, the history management system of the present embodiment can prevent information leakage, and when information leakage occurs, can track the route of the leaked information, thereby improving traceability. will be improved.

The terminal device 40 is operated by, for example, an administrator who manages such history information, and is used when browsing, searching, etc., history information accumulated in the history management server 10 .

Next, FIG. 2 shows the hardware configuration of the history management server 10 in the image forming system of this embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 2, the history management server 10 transmits and receives data to and from an external device or the like via a CPU 11, a memory 12, a storage device 13 such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and a network 30. It has a communication interface (IF) 14, a user interface (UI) device 15 including a touch panel or liquid crystal display and a keyboard. These components are connected to each other via a control bus 16 .

The CPU 11 executes predetermined processing based on a control program stored in the memory 12 or storage device 13 to control the operation of the history management server 10 . In this embodiment, the CPU 11 reads and executes a control program stored in the memory 12 or the storage device 13. It is also possible to provide

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the history management server 10 realized by executing the above control program.

As shown in FIG. 3, the history management server 10 of this embodiment includes a communication unit 31, a history information acquisition unit 32, a history information storage unit 33, a control unit 34, a search unit 35, and a match determination unit. 36 and a search result storage unit 37 .

The communication unit 31 transmits and receives data to and from a plurality of image forming apparatuses 20 and terminal devices 40 .

The history information acquisition unit 32 receives images from the image forming apparatus 20 via the communication unit 31 for which various processes such as copying, scanning, and printing have been performed, the operator who performed the process, the date and time, the type of process, and the process. Acquire history information in which page information and the like that have been visited are associated with each other.

The history information storage unit 33 stores history information acquired by the history information acquisition unit 32 . That is, when an image is processed in the image forming apparatus 20, the history information storage unit 33 associates the processed image with the contents of the executed processing and stores them as history information.

The search unit 35 searches history information stored in the history information storage unit 33 based on specified conditions. For example, the search unit 35 displays a search operation screen as shown in FIG. The history information stored in the history information storage unit 33 is searched for history information that matches the time range or the like.

In the search operation screen shown in FIG. 4, among the history information of all types of processing such as copy and print, the processing time is from January 10, 2018 to February 10, 2018, and the word "confidential" The case of retrieving documents containing .

When the search result of the search unit 35 includes a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image, the control unit 34 collects (combines and integrates) the plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information, and outputs the information to the terminal device. 40 to be displayed.

Specifically, the control unit 34 associates one image selected from among a plurality of images with a plurality of processing contents for the same image with respect to a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image. are collected as one piece of history information.

Note that, if the search result by the search unit 35 includes a plurality of pieces of history information indicating that processing has been performed on different page ranges of the same image, the control unit 34 performs A plurality of pieces of history information are put together as one piece of history information so that an image is included.

An example of a process of collecting a plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information in such a control unit 34 will be described with reference to FIG. 5 . FIG. 5 shows an example in which three pieces of history information for document F are put together as one piece of history information.

FIG. 5 shows a case where history information of user A, user B, and user C is included as history information about document F in the search result of search unit 35 . The history information of user A indicates that pages 1 to 4 of document F have been printed, and the history information of user B indicates that pages 2 to 5 of document F have been printed. The history information of user C indicates that scanning processing for pages 3 to 5 of document F has been executed.

Therefore, the control unit 34 generates history information including information indicating the processing details of each of users A to C, which is all pages processed in all of this history information, including images of pages 1 to 5. By generating, the three pieces of history information are put together (combined, integrated) into one piece of history information.

Note that the control unit 34 stores the search results obtained as described above in the search result storage unit 37 . Then, the control unit 34 may perform control so that a plurality of pieces of history information are collectively displayed as one piece of history information within the search result based on one search condition, or the history information stored in the search result storage unit 37 may be displayed. By referring to past search results, control may be performed so that the plurality of pieces of history information are collectively displayed as one piece of history information in a plurality of search results based on different search conditions.

The coincidence determination unit 36 determines whether or not a plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search unit 35 relate to the same image, under the control of the control unit 34 .

Specifically, the coincidence determination unit 36 compares the corresponding pages of the images of the plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search unit 35, thereby determining whether the plurality of pieces of history information relate to the same image. It is determined whether or not.

For example, the match determination unit 36 calculates the correlation coefficient between each pixel of the two images to be compared, and if the total value of the correlation coefficients is equal to or greater than a preset value, the two images are can be determined to be identical.

Then, the control unit 34 controls the terminal device 40 to collectively display a plurality of pieces of history information determined to be related to the same image by the match determination unit 36 as one piece of history information. It should be noted that if the match determination unit 36 determines that none of the images are the same document, the control unit 34 does not execute the process of combining a plurality of pieces of history information into one piece of history information.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a search result screen displayed on the terminal device 40 after the history information for the same image (document) is collected in this way.

The search result screen example shown in FIG. 6 shows a case where thumbnail images of documents A to H are displayed as documents matching search conditions specified by a user such as an administrator.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a screen displayed when the user selects a thumbnail image of document F on such an inspection result screen.

In FIG. 7, the image of each page of the document F selected by the user can be selected and viewed. Further, information on the name of the user who executed the process on this document F, the contents of the process, the date and time of the process, and the range of pages to be processed can be referred to.

Note that the search result screen shown in FIG. 7 is an example of a screen when the history information of the document F described in FIG. 5 is displayed as the search result.

[Variation]
In the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which the content of processing in an image forming apparatus is managed as history information. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention can be similarly applied to the case of managing the history of processing contents in other devices.

10 history management server 11 CPU
12 memory 13 storage device 14 communication interface (IF)
15 User Interface (UI) Device 16 Control Bus 20 Image Forming Apparatus 1
30 network 31 communication unit 32 history information acquisition unit 33 history information storage unit 34 control unit 35 search unit 36 match determination unit 37 search result storage unit 40 terminal device

Claims (7)

storage means for storing as history information in association with an image on which processing has been performed and details of the processing performed, when processing is performed on a certain image;
search means for searching history information stored in the storage means based on specified conditions;
determining means for determining whether or not the plurality of pieces of history information relate to the same image by comparing the images included in the plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search unit;
when the determination means determines that the search results of the search means include a plurality of pieces of history information relating to the same image, the plurality of pieces of history information determined to relate to the same image by the determination means are regarded as one piece of history information. a control means for controlling to collectively display;
Information processing device with The control means associates a plurality of pieces of history information relating to the same image with one image selected from among the plurality of images and a plurality of processing contents for the same image, thereby obtaining the plurality of pieces of history information. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the history information is summarized as one piece of history information. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said control means performs control such that said plurality of pieces of history information are collectively displayed as one piece of history information within a search result based on one search condition. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said control means performs control to collectively display said plurality of pieces of history information as one piece of history information in a plurality of search results based on different search conditions. 5. Claims 1 to 4, wherein the information representing the content of the processing includes information on the type of processing performed on the image, the operator who performed the processing, the time when the processing was performed, and the page on which the processing was performed. The information processing device according to any one of the above. When a search result by the search means includes a plurality of pieces of history information indicating that processing has been performed on different page ranges of the same image, the control means controls that all page images on which processing has been performed are 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of pieces of history information are collected as one piece of history information so as to be included. a storage step of correlating the processed image with the content of the executed processing and storing them as history information when processing is executed on a certain image;
a searching step of searching the history information stored in the storing step based on specified conditions;
a determination step of determining whether or not the plurality of pieces of history information relate to the same image by comparing the images included in the plurality of pieces of history information included in the search results of the search step;
If it is determined in the determination step that the search results in the search step include a plurality of pieces of history information related to the same image, the plurality of pieces of history information determined to relate to the same image in the determination step are treated as one piece of history information. A control step for controlling to collectively display;
A program that causes a computer to run

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