JPH01114984A - Image information accumulating and retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily select necessary image information by specifying and storing partial image information to be the feature of image information at the time of storing the image information and displaying a retrieved result together with the partial image information. CONSTITUTION:An original 11 is read out by a scanner 3, image information is displayed on a display part 9 as an image 110 by a control part 1 through a memory 8 and a frame 111 is simultaneously displayed. The frame 111 is moved by a pointer 10 and the position of a partial image in the frame is identified by the upper-left end coordinates of the frame. When the title of the image information is inputted through a keyboard 2, the information stored in a buffer 6 is compressed and the coordinates of the frame 111 or the like are stored in a recording part 5. The control part 1 reads out index information coincident with the inputted title from a recording part 5 based on a retrieval instruction, stores the index information in the image buffer 6 by using the coordinates of the frame 111, stores the information in a memory 8 correspondingly to the title in a character pattern buffer 7 to display the image of the united list of the tile and the partial image. Thereby, a necessary image can be rapidly selected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image information storage and retrieval device that records image information such as documents and is capable of searching and reading out necessary image information.

[Prior Art] In general, an image information storage and retrieval device stores the title of each article when storing the image information, in order to facilitate the search for necessary image information 2, for example, a specific article, from among the stored image information such as documents. Information is recorded by adding index information consisting of an address and an address, and when searching, a necessary article is searched using the title, etc. as a logical condition.

For example, when the specification of the present case is treated as one article, the conventional device sets the word "Image information storage and retrieval device" as the title, and when searching, displays the image information to which this title is given. It is configured as follows. When a plurality of pieces of image information are extracted as a result of this search, the operator displays or prints all the image information and selects the necessary information from among them.

Incidentally, as a technique related to this type of device, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-204773 can be cited.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-mentioned prior art, when a plurality of image information is extracted through a search, all pages of the plurality of image information 2, for example, a plurality of articles, must be displayed or printed. This led to the problem of poor efficiency.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an image information storage and retrieval device that can obtain target image information at high speed.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention specifies partial image information that is a characteristic of the image information when storing one image information, stores it, and searches it. The configuration is such that the results are displayed in a form that includes the partial image information.

[Operation] By displaying the search results in a form that includes partial image information, the operator can easily select necessary image information based on the partial image information.

[Example 1] Hereinafter, an example of the image information storage and retrieval device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the main configuration of the image information storage and retrieval device according to this embodiment.
The figure is a diagram for explaining information stored in the recording section of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams showing display examples of search results.

As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus according to this embodiment includes a two-dimensional scanner 3 that binarizes image information written on a document 11 and reads it into the apparatus, and a recording section 5 that records the read image information.
a printing section 4 that prints the image information read from the recording section 5 as a copy original 12; an image buffer 6 that temporarily stores the image information; and a display section 9 that displays the image information stored in the buffer 6. The display memory 8 includes a display memory 8 for displaying a character pattern, a character pattern buffer 7 for writing character patterns into the display memory 8, a pointer IO, a keyboard 2, and a control unit 1 for controlling each of these components.

The apparatus configured in this way accumulates image information in the following steps. First, the operator sets the original 11 on the two-dimensional scanner 3, and the scanner 3 converts the image information of the original 11 into binary information. When the image information is read as , the image information is transferred from the image buffer 6 to the display memory 8 by the control section 1 and displayed on the display section 9 . At the same time, the control unit 1 controls the frame 11 with predetermined vertical and horizontal dimensions.
1 is displayed on the display section 9. A display image 110 in the upper left corner of FIG. 2 shows the display state on the display unit 9.

The display image 110 displayed on the display section 9 has the frame 111 displayed in a part thereof, and this frame itt can be moved in left, right, up and down directions by the pointer 10 shown in FIG.

In this state, the operator moves the pointer 10 to the frame 1.
11 to an arbitrary position and operates the keyboard 2, the position (range) of the partial image on the display image 110 surrounded by this frame 111 is identified by the control unit 1. This identification is performed, for example, as the coordinates (xyy) of the upper left corner of the frame 111 on the display image 110 in FIG. Next, the operator
Use keyboard 2 to enter the title of the main image information, e.g.
When inputting the image information storage and retrieval device and instructing input of the image information, the control unit 1 first compresses the image information stored in the image buffer 6, and then compresses the image information as shown in FIG.
In addition to recording in the image recording area of the recording unit 5, the title, the coordinates of the partial image of the area specified in the frame 111,
Index information consisting of the address in the image recording area of the previously recorded image information and the registration number of this image information is recorded in the title information area in the recording section 5.0 or more is the procedure for recording image information. What should be noted in this example is:

When storing image information, coordinate information of a partial image of the image is stored in the title information area.

Next, the search operation will be explained. In this case, when the operator inputs the title of the image to be searched using the keyboard 2 and instructs the search, the control unit 1 stores the index information of the image information that matches the title in the title information area of the recording unit 5. If a plurality of index information are retrieved as a result of this search, the control unit 1 stores character information such as the retrieved title in the character pattern buffer based on the read index information, and also stores the character information such as the title in the character pattern buffer. The partial image is stored in the image buffer 6 using the coordinates of the partial image corresponding to . The control unit 1 compares the title stored in the character pattern buffer 7 with the partial image stored in the one-image buffer 6 and stores it in the display memory 8, and displays the title 13 as shown in FIG.
1 and a list of partial images 132 are displayed. The operator refers to the title 131 and partial image 132, selects the required image information, reads the selected image information from the image information area of the recording section 5 and displays it on the display section 9, or displays it on the printing section. Print by 4.

According to this embodiment, part of the searched image information is displayed together with the title, and the operator can see part of the image information, so that the operator can easily select the required image information. Can be displayed or printed.

In the above embodiment, an example was shown in which the title of the search result and the partial image are written together, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the partial image 141 excluding the title is You may also write multiple ``-'' in this case, −
Since a large number of partial images can be viewed at a time, necessary image information can be selected more quickly. Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, an example was shown in which the index information includes the coordinates of the partial image, but the index information may also include the data of the partial image itself. In this case, the area of the title information area increases.

The list of partial images shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 can be displayed even faster.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, since search results are displayed in a list including partial images, the operator can quickly select desired image information.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the image information storage and retrieval device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining image information and index information recorded in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of displaying search results. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Control part, 2... Keyboard, 3... Two-dimensional scanner, 4... Printing part, 5... Recording part, 6...
Image buffer, 7...Character pattern buffer, 8...
- Display memory, 9...Display section, 110...Display image, 111...Frame, 13 and 14...Search result display screen, 131...Title, 132...Partial image, 141...Partial image. Agent Patent Attorney Tadashi Akimoto Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an image information storage and retrieval device that stores image information and index information for searching image information, and searches for image information using the index information, when storing image information, one part of the image information is stored. 1. An image information storage and retrieval device, characterized in that partial image information, which is a portion of an image, is specified and stored, and when searching, the search results using the index information are displayed in a form that includes the partial image information.