JPH02278376A - Information editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To inform time to the end of editing, and to smooth editing work by calculating and outputting the ending time of the under-mentioned editing before the start of the editing to store the storage information of a first storage means in which plural pieces of the storage information for editing are stored in a second storage means in which plural pieces of the storage information to be edited are stored. CONSTITUTION:A selected picture copy mode is selected by a keyboard 23, and simultaneously, a picture to be copied is selected. A CPU 34 stores retrieval data read out from an optical disk 20a in a document management table 27 in a magnetic disk 26, and subsequently, it reads out data stored in a page management table in the document management table 27 corresponding to a selected document in the order of a document number and a page number, and stores it on a main memory 38. Then, the CPU 34 calculates the copying time of these plural documents, and displays it by a CRT display device 24. Thus, the time to the end of the editing can be informed, and the editing work can be executed smoothly.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an information editing device such as an image information filing device that registers, searches, edits, etc. image information.

(Prior art) In recent years, scanners (
The read image information is stored on an optical disk, the stored arbitrary image information is searched and read out, and it is output to an output device such as a CR.
Image information filing devices that output image information in a form that can be viewed with a T-display device or a recording device have been put into practical use.

With such devices, when attempting to edit from an optical disc for editing to an optical disc for editing, the estimated editing time was not provided, so the time required to complete the editing was predicted by hand calculation or based on experience. Was. For this reason, there was a drawback that it was impossible to know when the editing process would change.

Therefore, when editing, the user was not informed of the time until the end of editing, which resulted in the drawback that the editing work could not be carried out smoothly.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) As mentioned above, the present invention eliminates the drawback that when editing, the editing work cannot be carried out smoothly because the time until the end of editing is not informed. To provide an information editing device capable of informing the time until completion and smoothly performing editing work.

[Configuration of the Invention (Means for Solving the Problems) The information editing device of the present invention includes a first storage means for storing a plurality of storage information for editing, a first storage means for storing a plurality of storage information for editing. 2 storage means, editing means for storing all or part of the stored information in the first storage means in the second storage means; before starting editing of the information, the editing means stores the information in the first storage means It is composed of a processing means for calculating the editing end time when all or part of the stored storage information is stored in the second storage means, and an output means for outputting the editing end time calculated by the processing means. There is.

The information editing apparatus of the present invention includes a first storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of stored information for editing, a second storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of stored information for being edited, and information on the first storage means. Editing means for storing all or part of the stored information in the second storage means, when editing information, all or part of the stored information stored in the first storage means is stored in the second storage means by the editing means. The processing means calculates the time until the end of editing, which is stored in the storage means, and the output means outputs the time until the end of editing calculated by the processing means.

(Operation) The present invention provides a first
All or part of the storage information of the storage means is stored in the second storage means in which a plurality of pieces of storage information for the edited object are stored. Before starting editing, the storage information is stored in the first storage means. The editing end time at which all or part of the storage information is stored in the second storage means is calculated, and the calculated editing end time is output.

The present invention also provides a method for transferring all or part of the storage information of the first storage means in which a plurality of pieces of storage information for editing are stored to a second storage means in which a plurality of pieces of written information for editing are stored. When editing to be stored, calculate the time until the end of the editing in which all or part of the storage information stored in the first storage means is stored in the second storage means, and The time taken to complete editing is output.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an information editing device, such as an electronic filing device, according to the present invention. That is, the electronic filing device includes a control module 10, a memory module 12, an image processing module 14, a communication control module 16, a scanner device 18, and a destination disk (first storage means) 20a.

Also, an optical disk device 22a, an optical disk (second storage means) 20b, an optical disk device 22b, a keyboard 23, a CRT display device 24, and a printer device 25.
, a magnetic disk 26, a magnetic disk device 26a1, a mouse 29, a system bus 30, and an image bus 32.

The control module 10 stores image information (storage information);
CP that performs various controls for search and editing processing, etc.
U34 (processing means) and optical disk device 22a1 optical disk device 22b1 magnetic disk device 26a and CPU
34 and an interface circuit 36 for connecting them. Further, a keyboard 23 and a mouse 29 are connected to the CPU 34.

The memory module 12 includes a main memory 38 that stores various control programs such as storage, search, and editing of image information, management information, etc., and an image memory that has a storage capacity corresponding to image information for several pages of an A4 size document. It is composed of a page memory 40, a display memory 42 as a display interface, a display control section 44, and the like. A part of the page memory 40 includes a buffer memory area 4Q.
A is provided. This buffer memory area 40a
Writing and reading are controlled by a counter (not shown). This page memory 40 stores, for example, image information to be stored on the optical disc 20a (20b) and information on the optical disc 2.
This is a memory that temporarily stores image information read from Qa (20b).

Further, the display memory 42 is for temporarily storing image information displayed by the CRT display device 24. This display memory 42 contains image information actually displayed within the display window of the CRT display device 24, that is, page memory 40.
Image information that has been enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted, black-and-white reversed, etc. is stored.

The display control unit 44 controls the display processing of the CRT display device 24 and the like.

The image processing module 14 includes an enlargement/reduction circuit 46 for enlarging and reducing image information, a vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 48 for rotating image information, and an encoding process for compressing (reducing redundancy) image information. A compression/expansion circuit (CODEC) 50 that performs decoding processing that performs processing and expansion (returning reduced redundancy), a scanner interface 52 for the scanner device 18, a printer interface 54 for the printer device 25, and scaling. It is constituted by an internal bus 56 that connects the circuit 46, the vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 48, the compression/expansion circuit 50, the scanner interface 52, and the printer interface 54.

The compression/decompression circuit 50 has M)i(ModifiedHu
fman) method or MR (Modified
Bandwidth compression or band expansion is performed using the Read) method or the like.

The communication control module 16 is connected to a LAN, for example.
communication interface 58 such as
It is made up of. In addition, the communication control module 1
6 is a U that is connected via an interface to external devices such as FCP (Facsimile Connection Mechanism) and a personal computer.
CP (U n1versal Congunl
cationProccssor) may be provided.

The system bus 30 is a bus for control signals of various devices, and connects the control module 10, the memory module 12, the image processing module 14, and the communication control module 16. Further, the image bus 32 is a bus for image information, and connects the memory module 12, the image processing module 14, and the communication control module 16.

The scanner device 18 is, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device, and is a document (
By scanning a document (document) two-dimensionally with a laser beam, electrical signals corresponding to image information on the document are aged.

The destination disk device 22a (22b) is the scanner device 1
The image information read in step 8 is transferred to the first disk 20a (20b
). Further, the image information corresponding to the search information specified by the keyboard 23 or the like is searched from the optical disc 20a (20b).

The keyboard 23 is used to input unique search information corresponding to the image information recorded on the optical disc 20a (20b) and various operation commands such as storage, search, and editing processing. Further, the mouse 29 can be used, for example, as a cursor (
By moving the cursor (not shown) arbitrarily in the vertical and horizontal directions and tapping your finger at the desired position, you can display the display content where the cursor is located (various operation modes, area designation for image editing, icons, etc.) ) to select or instruct.

The CRT display device (cathode ray tube display device) 24 is
It displays image information read by the scanner device 18 and image information retrieved from the optical disc 20a (20b). The display area of the CRT display device 24 for displaying image information is a multi-window type display device that can simultaneously display four pieces of image information using a maximum of four display windows. The image data displayed in each display window is subjected to editing processing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, scrolling, etc. independently.

The printer device 25 prints out (copies) image information read by the scanner device 18, image information retrieved from the optical disk 20, or image information displayed on the CRT display device 24.

The magnetic disk device 26a is the magnetic disk device 26a.
In addition to storing various control programs on the magnetic disk 26 attached to the optical disk 20a (20b'), the storage addresses and images on the optical disk 20a (20b') where search information input from the keyboard 23 and image information corresponding to this search information are stored. It stores search data including size, search frequency, etc.

The search data on the optical disc 20a is managed by a document management table 27, and the search data on the optical disc 20b is managed by a document management table 28.

As shown in FIG. 2, the document management table 27 (28) is composed of a title management table 27a (28a), a page management table 27b (28b), and a record management table 27c (28c).

The title management table 27a (28a) stores one document number corresponding to each piece of search information (image name) consisting of a plurality of search keys. The page management table 27b (28b) stores record numbers (image numbers) for each page of one document, and one record number is stored for each page. The record management table 27c (28C) includes optical discs 20a (20b) with image information for each record number.
storage address (memory start position), document size (
Image attributes such as image size), compression method, and resolution are stored.

The storage address is a logical address, from which a physical track address and a physical sector address are calculated at the time of access.

The document management system in this embodiment has four levels: cabinet, binder, document, and page, and the cabinet corresponds to one side of the optical disc 20a (20b). Up to 8 binders can be defined in the cabinet, and up to 30,000 documents can be stored in the binder. Each document has a title and its structure. is defined for each binder.The above document is the basic unit of the file, and in addition to the title, annotations (explanation of the document) can be added.The document can consist of up to 4095 pages. be done.

Next, the operation of image information storage and retrieval processing in the electronic filing device with such a configuration will be described. First, storage processing of image information will be explained.

For example, the user selects and sets the registration mode using the keyboard 23 and inputs search information for image information to be stored on the optical disc 20a.

This search information is composed of a plurality of search key items, and the contents of the search key items are set in advance. The CPU 34 checks the validity of the input search information according to a predefined format. Furthermore, double registration is checked by comparing the search information with the search information already registered on the optical disc 20a. Depending on the result of this check,
The input search information is stored in the main memory 13.

Next, the original is set on the scanner device 18, and the CPU 34
operates the optical disk device 22a and the scanner device 18. The scanner device 18 two-dimensionally scans and photoelectrically converts image information such as a set document. Line information of this photoelectrically converted image information is sequentially stored in the page memory 40.

The image information stored in the page memory 40 is stored in the display memory 42 and displayed on the CRT display device 24. The user checks the skew, density, resolution, etc. of the image information displayed on the CRT display device 24, and when the displayed image information is satisfactory, inputs a memory key (not shown). Then, the CPU 34 converts the image information stored in the page memory 40 into a well-known MR (
Encoding processing is performed by band compression using a Modified Read method or the like. This encoded image information is supplied to the optical disc device 22H and stored on the optical disc 20a.

When the storage of image information on the optical disk 20a is completed, the CP
U34 is the physical track address where the image information is stored,
A logical address determined from the physical sector address, an image length expressed by a block length, an image attribute, etc. are stored in the main memory 38 in correspondence with a search code (search information). Next, the CPU 34 supplies the search data stored in the main memory 38 to the magnetic disk device 28. Thereby, the magnetic disk device 26a stores the supplied search data in the document management table 27 within the magnetic disk 26.

Next, a search process for image information stored on the optical disc 20a will be explained. First, a search mode is set using the keyboard 23, and search information corresponding to the image information desired to be searched is input. The CPU 34 sequentially compares and collates the manually entered search information with the search information stored in the title management table 27c of the document management table 27 in the magnetic disk 26, and determines whether the search information that matches the manually entered search information is stored. It sequentially checks to see if there are documents and extracts the corresponding document number.

Then, the CPU 34 generates a list of applicable documents (search information).
is displayed using the CRT display device 24. Based on this display, if the document for which the operator is being searched for is not found, the user re-enters the search information. If found, specify the document from the list (specify by display document number, etc.) and instruct search execution.

The CPU 34 extracts all pages having the corresponding document number from the page management table 27b of the document management table 27 in the magnetic disk 26 and their record number information. This results in
The CPU 34 creates a record call table consisting of a document number, page number, and record number on the main memo J38.

Then, the CPU 34 first reads the record number to be searched, reads the logical address corresponding to this record number from the record management table 27c of the document management table 27 in the magnetic disk 26, and sets the physical track address corresponding to this address. The physical sector address is calculated, and the optical disc device 22a reproduces the image information from the previous disc 20a using these addresses.

Further, the CPU 34 supplies image information (compressed information) for each scanning line supplied from the optical disk device 22a to the compression/expansion circuit 50, performs band expansion processing, and stores the image information (compressed information) in the display memory 22a.
2 sequentially. As a result, the image information stored in the display memory 42 is displayed on the CRT display device 24.

Next, regarding the editing process as a cabinet copy,
This will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the optical disc 20a with registered image information is set in the optical disc device 22a, and the optical disc 20b with no registered image information is set in the optical disc device 22b. Then, the cabinet copy mode is selected using the keyboard 23. The CPU 34 reads the optical disc 20a.
The data (compressed information) in units of 4 megabytes (MB) read from the optical disc device 22b are sequentially supplied to the optical disk device 22b. The image information supplied to the optical disc device 22b is stored on the optical disc 20b.

That is, the search data and image information stored on the optical disc 20a are stored on the optical disc 20b.

At this time, the CPU 34 calculates the time required to copy the entire 2.5 gigabytes (GB) on one side of the optical disc 20a and the remaining time for each 4 MB data to be stored on the optical disc 20b, and displays them on the CRT display device 24. .

In other words, the optical disk 20a has 2.5 gigabytes on one side (
CB) If the time to copy the entire area is T, the copy time t when copying xGB is t-T x/2.5J.

As a result, the remaining copy time X is subtracted by 4 MB every 4 MB, and a new copy remaining time is displayed.

Next, the editing process for copying the selected image will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the optical disc 20a with registered image information is set in the first disc device 22a, and the optical disc 20b with no registered image information is set in the optical disc device 22b. Then, the selected image copy mode is selected using the keyboard 23, and the image to be copied is selected. For example, the user is instructed to copy multiple documents. Then, C.P.
U34 stores the search data read from the optical disk 20a in the document management table 27 within the magnetic disk 26. Next, the CPU 34 reads out data stored in the page management table 27b in the document management table 27 corresponding to the selected document in document number order and page number order, and stores it on the main memory 38.

Then, the CPU 24 calculates the copying time of the plurality of documents and displays it on the CRT display device 24. That is, the copy time for one search data is Tt, and the one page copy time fixed part is Tap.

Page copy time copy capacity dependent part Tvp (Similar to the calculation formula for cabinet copy, TvpmTXx/2.
It becomes 5. ), the number of copy search data is nt, the number of copy images is np, and the copy image capacity is X, then the selected copy time t is ``t - (Tt nt + T
cp np) + (T II x/
2.5) J, and the selected copy time t is displayed on the CRT display device 24.

Next, when the start of selective copying is instructed, the CPU 34
reads the record number corresponding to the first page of the first document from the main memory 38.

Then, the CPU 34 reads the logical address corresponding to the read record number from the record management table 27c in the document management table 27, calculates the physical track address and physical sector address corresponding to this address, and calculates the physical track address and physical sector address corresponding to this address. The optical disc 20a
The optical disk device 22a reproduces the image information from the optical disc device 22a.

In addition, the CPU 34 reads the data from the previous disk W 22 a to lj.
The supplied image information (compressed information) for each scanning line is sequentially supplied to the page memory 40. As a result, when one page of image information is stored in the page memory 40, the CPU
34 sequentially supplies image information (compressed information) for each scanning line to the destination disk device 22b. Destination disk device 2
The image information supplied to optical disc 20b is stored on optical disc 20b.

When the storage of image information on the optical disk 20b is completed,
The image information of the CPU 34 is: c! The stored physical track address, logical address determined from the physical sector address, image length expressed by block length, image attributes, etc. are stored in the main memory 3 in correspondence with the search code (##L search information).
Store in 8. Next, CPU3'4 is the main memory 3
The search data stored in 8 is supplied to the magnetic disk device 26a. Thereby, the magnetic disk device 26a stores the supplied search data in the document management table 28 within the magnetic disk 26.

Thereafter, the record numbers corresponding to the second and subsequent pages of the document are sequentially read out, and the image f5 information corresponding to the record number is read out from the previous disk 20a and stored on the optical disk 20b. Furthermore, the search data created at this time is also stored in the document management table 281 in the magnetic disk 26.

Then, when the search data for one document needle and all its images have been copied, the selected copy time t is calculated again and displayed on the CRT display device 24.

After that, copying of other selected documents will continue.

After storing the image information of all the selected documents on the optical disk 20a, the CPU 34
The search data of the document management table 28 is transferred to the optical disk 20.
Store in b.

As mentioned above, when copying a cabinet or a selected image, the copy completion time is displayed before copying starts, and the remaining copying time is displayed while copying is in progress. It is. As a result, it is possible to inform the user of the time until the end of cabinet copying or selected image copying, and it is possible to perform copying operations smoothly.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the case of a non-rewritable optical disc (write-once type) was explained, but the invention is not limited to this.
For example, it may be a rewritable optical disc (erasable). In this case, the optical disk after copying can be reused without being thrown away, which is very effective.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an information editing device that can notify the user of the time until the end of editing and can perform editing work smoothly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of an electronic filing device, and FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of storing a document management table.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the editing process when copying a cabinet, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the editing process when copying a selected image. 20a... optical disk (first storage means), 20b...
... Optical disk (second storage means), 18... Scanner device, 22a... Optical disk device, 22b... Optical disk device, 23... Keyboard, 24... CR
T display device, 25... printer device, 26.
...Magnetic disk, 27.28...Document management table, 26a...Magnetic disk device, 27a. 28a...Title management table, 27b, 28b.
...Page management table, 27 c s 28 c...Record management table, 34...CPU0

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A first storage means that stores a plurality of storage information for editing, a second storage means that stores a plurality of storage information for editing, and all or all of the storage information of the first storage means. an editing means for storing part of the stored information in the second storage means; and before starting editing of the information, all or part of the stored information stored in the first storage means is stored in the second storage by the editing means; An information editing device comprising: processing means for calculating the editing end time stored in the processing means; and output means for outputting the editing end time calculated by the processing means. (2) A first storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of memory information for editing, a second memory means for storing a plurality of pieces of memory information for being edited, and all or some of the information in the first memory means. editing means for storing the information in the second storage means; and when editing the information, the editing means stores the information in the first
processing means for calculating the time until the end of editing in which all or part of the storage information stored in the storage means is stored in the second storage means, and the time until the end of editing calculated by the processing means; An information editing device comprising: an output means for outputting an output; and an information editing device.