JPH02226960A - Electronic file system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the processing other than registration processing in parallel with the registration processing by operating a device not in use in the registration processing and an idle part of a memory during the registration processing. CONSTITUTION:A window is displayed on a CRT 18, a main menu and a status display window representing the present processing content are shown on the window and the operator selects a job desired to be implemented from now from the main menu. When a parallel registration is selected and the operation relating to the registration of a picture is applied, since the control is returned to the system menu, when a prescribed item is selected from the menu, the processing corresponding to the selected item is executed and a slave menu is displayed. In this case, when the processing unable to be executed is selected, the inside of menu shows disabled selection. For example, the processing such as usual registration or retrieval cannot be selected during the parallel registration.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic file system that electronically processes documents as image data.

[Prior Art] In a conventional electronic file system, when a registration process is performed using a registration means, a document is scanned using a scanner, an image is displayed on a display means, and then the image is registered.

Generally, a large-capacity optical disk device or a rewritable magneto-optical disk device is used as the registration means.
Normally, in the registration process, an operator sets or replaces a document on a scanner, scans it, displays the read document image, and registers the document after confirming the scan state.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As mentioned above, the registration process is a process that continuously uses a display means in addition to the registration means, but usually the entire system is used exclusively and other devices are used in parallel. Unable to process.

On the other hand, the registration process processes a large number of documents at a time, so
The system may be occupied for a long period of time and cannot perform any other processing.

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic file system that allows other tasks to be executed while registration processing is being performed.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention enables devices and idle portions of memory that are not used in the registration process to operate during the 5-registration process.

[Operation] In the present invention, since the device and the idle portion of the memory that are not used in the registration process are made operational during the registration process, processes other than the registration process can be performed in parallel with the registration process.

[Example] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, one CPU controls the entire system.
The memory 2 includes a program area 2a for storing programs related to CPU control processing, and a work area 2b for various processing. In addition to programs related to various processes (for example, search processing), the program area 2a also stores programs related to the flowchart shown in FIG. The floppy disk 3 is mainly used for personal use, and the hard disk drive fi4 is used when processing common data.

Further, in the above embodiment, an FD/HD is used which controls the floppy disk 3 and the hard disk 4 and exchanges data with the floppy disk 3 and the hard disk 4.
A controller 5, a printer 6 that forms an image, a scanner 7 that reads an original image, etc. 5 print data to the printer 6,
The scanner 7 has an S/P interface 8 through which image data passes, and an SCSR interface 9 which is a general-purpose interface to which a magneto-optical disk unit 911 (including its controller 10) is connected. The magneto-optical disk device 11 is used to register various types of information to be searched in the embodiment.

A pointing device 13 is connected to a keyboard 12 for inputting various characters and instruction information. and,
The input key information and movement information from the pointing device 13 are output together as serial data. Furthermore, a serial interface 14 inputs this serial data and converts it into corresponding parallel data, a bit move unit (BMU) 15 performs bit control such as image data transfer or rotation, and a pattern corresponding to the character symbol code. A character font storage unit 16 that stores fonts, a VRAM 17 that expands the display image as image data, a CRT 18 that visualizes and displays the image data expanded in the VRAM 17, and compresses the image or decompresses the compressed data. Companding section 19
and has.

These various components are electrically connected via buses (address bus, data bus, control bus) 100. A feeder 20 attached to the scanner is capable of setting a plurality of originals, transporting the originals one by one to the reading position of the scanner, and ejecting the originals after the reading is completed.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the main menu that is displayed immediately after the electronic file system is powered on in the above embodiment.

A window is displayed on the CRT 18, and this window shows a main menu 32 and a status display window 33 showing the current processing contents, and the operator selects from the main menu 32 the task he/she wishes to perform from now on. When that item is selected, the process is executed or the next menu is displayed.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment.

First, when parallel registration is selected from the main menu 32 shown in FIG. 2, setting of the document in the feeder is requested, so the operator sets the document (31), and
Scanner 7 from the keyboard to read the original, check density, density, etc.
give instructions to

Activate the scanner 7 (32). In the above embodiment, after executing the SS, the system control displays the main menu 32. That is, the processing after S3 becomes background processing.

It should be noted that since there is no difference in the operating procedure regarding image registration between registration and parallel registration, this will be described below as a registration process.

To determine whether or not there is a document on the feeder 20 53
), if the document does not exist on the feeder 20, the registration process is interrupted (S10), in the case of this registration process interruption,
For example, the status display window 33 or the like displays this fact and notifies the operator. When there is a document on the feeder 20, one document is fed from the feeder 20 (34) and read scanned (SS). The data is then stored in the memory and preparations are made for writing to the magneto-optical disk (3B).

Then, the magneto-optical disk is searched to find the amount of image data (37), and it is determined whether image data can be written (SS). If the data cannot be written, the registration process is interrupted (S11). If the magneto-optical disk is capable of writing image data, the image data is compressed and then written.

When the writing process is completed, the process returns to 83 to start processing the first original. When performing the above registration process, 33 to S9
Execute the operations in a loop for the number of originals.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing each device used at the time of image registration in the above embodiment from top to bottom in the order in which image data flows.

The original set on the feeder 20 is read by the scanner 7, and the binarized image data is stored in the memory 2 via the S/P interface 8. Here, the image data in the memory 2 is compressed by the companding section 19 and the 5C
Written to OMD 11 via 3I ink face 9.

Therefore, during registration, only the device shown in FIG. 4 is used.

By the way, as explained at SS in FIG. 3, after starting the parallel registration process, control returns to the system menu, so the subsequent process will be explained.

When a predetermined item is selected from the menu 32, a process corresponding to the selected item is executed and a child menu is displayed. At this time, there is a process that cannot be executed while parallel registration is being executed, but if you try to select a process that cannot be executed, the menu becomes unselectable. For example, during parallel registration, normal registration, search, and other processing uses the device shown in FIG. 4, so these processing cannot be selected.

However, device i not shown in FIG. 4 (device not used during registration) can be activated during parallel registration, and therefore processing with respect to other devices in the system not shown in FIG. can be selected at any time. for example,
Data input operations to the hard disk 4 can be performed during parallel registration.

In the past, the original read from the scanner was displayed on the display means, but when parallel processing is performed in the above embodiment, the original read from the scanner 7 is not displayed on the display means.

That is, when inputting data to the hard disk 4, the operator can perform the operation via the CRT 18 as a display means. An example of inputting data to the hard disk 4 is inputting registered image data and index information that will be merged later. Since this process involves inputting a large amount of data, it takes a long time. During this process, a fixed frame (window) is displayed on the CRT (1 display means), character strings are input from the keyboard 12, and the format is checked in memory. After performing this, data is written to the hard disk 4. The devices used in this process are as shown in FIG. 5, and only the memory 2 overlaps with that in FIG. 4 for parallel registration. Since memory is sharable, there is no problem.

Therefore, the registration process and the data input process to the hard disk proceed simultaneously.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, during continuous use of an electronic file system, other processes can be executed in parallel during the registration process, which otherwise requires exclusive use of the system for the longest time, thereby improving system operational efficiency. be effective.

FIG.

1...CPU, ? ···memory.

6...Printer, 7...Scanner, 18...CRT, 20... Feeder.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the main menu display screen in the above embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of parallel registration processing in the above embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram in which the devices used in the 5-parallel registration process are arranged from top to bottom in order of use.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] An electronic file having a registration means for registering image data, adding search index information to the image data registered by the registration means, and searching for the image data registered by the registration means. An electronic file system characterized in that an image data processing means different from the registration means can be operated while executing a task of continuously operating the registration means.