JPH02287878A - Image retrieval managing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively utilize the image recording capacity by storing first retrieval information as third retrieval information in a second recorder, in the case management information satisfies a condition determined in advance, and deleting the image information forming a pair with first retrieval information, in the case the management information does not satisfy the condition determined in advance. CONSTITUTION:In the case management information satisfies a condition determined in advance by a control operation of a controller 5, first retrieval information is stored as third retrieval information in a second recorder 4, and in the case the management does not satisfy the condition determined in advance, first retrieval information stored in a first recorder 3 and image information forming a pair of this first retrieval information are deleted. Therefore, third retrieval information is discriminated from first retrieval information, and in the case of retrieving the image information retrieved frequently, first of all, third retrieval information having the same contents as the retrieval information forming a pair with this image information is retrieved from a second recorder 4. In such a way, necessity for retrieving the retrieval information forming a pair with necessary image information from in first retrieval information of a huge quantity decreases, and the image recording capacity is utilized effectively.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image search management device for managing the search of filed image information.

[Prior art] In order to efficiently conduct research on technical documents, conventionally, the documents converted into image information are electronically filed, and keywords related to the documents are then searched in a related index with the filed documents. It was filed electronically.

However, the recording device that stores documents converted into image information,
There is also a limit to recording capacity. For this reason, conditions such as the number of searches for recorded documents and the storage period of the documents are set, and if there is a document that does not meet the conditions of the number of document searches and the storage period at a predetermined date and time, the document will be transferred electronically. A method of storing documents on microfilm instead of recording them on a filing device (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-16827)
Publication No. 1) was taken.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] With the above conventional means, the number of searches for a certain document is large, and it is expected that searches will continue to be complicated in the future. After the deadline, the documents were microfilmed. On the other hand, even documents that have been searched very few times are electronically filed until the expiry of their retention period, which poses a problem in that the capacity of the filing device cannot be used effectively.

In addition, if microfilmed documents are used frequently, searching for the desired document from among the large number of microfilmed documents may require a huge amount of time and effort. There was a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an image search management device that can effectively utilize the image recording capacity of a device that electronically files image information.

[Means for solving the problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the purpose, the following measures were taken. That is, an input device for inputting image information, and a device for inputting first search information, management information, and second search information for searching for desired image information, which has a display function and is paired with the image information. an input/output device having an operation keyboard; a first recording device that records and stores the image information input by the input device and the first search information input by the input/output device; A second recording device that records and stores search information, and a control device that controls each of the input device, one-person output device, the first recording device, and the second recording device, When the management information satisfies a predetermined condition due to the control operation of the device, the first search information is recorded and stored in the second recording device as third search information, and the management information is stored as third search information. If the specified conditions are not satisfied, the first search information stored in the first recording device and the image information paired with the search information of box 1 are deleted.

[Effect] By taking the above measures, the following effects are achieved.

If the management information satisfies predetermined conditions, the image information management deadline is extended, and the first search information paired with the image information is stored in the third search) 11j information in the -C second recording device. do. Therefore, the third search information is differentiated from the first search information.

Therefore, when searching for image information that is frequently searched, first, search information paired with the image information, that is, third search information having the same content as the search information, is stored in a second recording device (magnetic disk device). ].Therefore, when searching for desired image information, it is less necessary to search for search information that pairs with the image information from a huge amount of first search information.

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an image search management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The image management device includes an image input device 1 for inputting image information, and a CRT display capable of displaying graphics, and searches first search information paired with the image information, management information, and a required image. an input/output device 2 having an operation keyboard KB for inputting second search information for the purpose of the search;
A first recording device (hereinafter referred to as an optical disk device) 3 that records and stores image information and first search information, and a second recording device (hereinafter referred to as an optical disk device) that records and stores management information and third search information. (referred to as a magnetic disk device) 4, a control device 5 that controls each of these devices, and an image input device 1. Optical disk device 3. Each of the magnetic disk devices 4 and the control device 5
The I10 interface bus 6 is capable of transferring information at high speed to and from the I10 interface bus 6.

The image input device 1 optically reads text, drawings, etc., converts it into an electrical signal, and outputs it as an image information signal IDI.

The input/output device 2 receives image information ID2 input from the control device 4.
High-resolution CRT capable of displaying graphics that displays images compatible with
First search information IF 1 , second search information IF2 .
Keyboard K for inputting information such as management information TS
It is composed of B. The optical disk device 3 is the control device 4
Image information digitized with ID2. There is no transmission/reception of the first search information IFI, and image information ID2.
It is a large-capacity device that can record, reproduce, and erase the first search information IFI relatively quickly. The magnetic disk device 4 exchanges the management information TS and the third
This is a large-capacity device that can send and receive search information IF1' and record, reproduce, and erase this information at high speed. The control device 5 is mainly used to control the operations of each device, and is composed of a ROMI O for storing operating procedures of the data processing device, a work memory 111, an image memory 12, and a microcomputer 13.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing information stored in the optical disc device 3, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of management information TS stored in the optical disc device 3.

When electronically filing a document or the like into an image search management device, first, the image input device 1 reads the document as image information. Then, the operator operates the keyboard KB to input management information TS such as the file name of the image information and the management deadline indicating the deadline by which the document must be managed. At this time, the control device 5 automatically records the filing date of the document in the management information TS. After this, the control device 5 automatically records the filing date of the document in the management information TS.
are stored in the optical disk device 3 in association with ('NJ).

At this time, the image information ID2 and the search information IF1 including the address where the image information ID2 is stored are stored in separate areas on the optical disk device 13 as shown in FIG. Historically, the control device 5 stores the management information TS and the first search information I.
Management information TS is stored in the magnetic disk device 4 in association with FI.

The management information TS stored in the magnetic disk device 4 is the first search information IFI stored in the optical disk device 3.
As shown in FIG. 3, the image information ID2
File name 1 Image information ■ D2 input port 2 Image information ID
1 set of management information ITs including 2. Storage period, number of searches, number of postponements of storage period, and information instructing the search information to be searched.
It consists of Therefore, while a large amount of image information ID2 is stored in the optical disc device 3, the magnetic disk device 4 stores the same number of nine-dimensional information TS as the image information ID2. In addition, the number of searches for management information TS,
The information indicating the number of extensions of the deadline is not information input via the input/output device 2. This 111'' report will be described later. Note that the input 1-1 is automatically set by the control device 5. Also, if input 11 is not set automatically,
The operator sets the input/output device 2 by pressing F4.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart roughly showing the procedure of processing related to updating the storage period of image information performed by the control device 5.

The process related to updating the storage period of image information is to judge whether the storage period and number of searches of the management information TS stored in the magnetic disk device 4 satisfy predetermined update conditions (Sl>
. If the judgment unit (Sl) determines that the update conditions are satisfied, the storage period of the relevant management information TS is extended and the number of searches is increased.
0'' and add "1" to the number of postponements (S
2). Then, the management information TS on the magnetic disk device 4,
Rewrite with the management information TS changed in the process (S2) (S
3).

It is determined whether the management information TS determined by the determination unit (St) to not satisfy the update conditions or the management information TS for which the update process has been performed satisfies an arbitrary condition (S4). If the management information TS is determined to be 0, The first search information IF1 or third search information IF1' that is paired with the management information TS is used as the fourth search information IF1', and the management information TS and third search information stored in the magnetic disk space device 4 are IF1' and another area (S5), and all update processing ends (S6
).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the procedure of processing related to updating the retention period of documents performed by the control device, and FIGS. 6(a) and 6(b) show information stored in the optical disk device and the magnetic disk device. FIG.

The image search management device performs processing related to updating the retention period of the filed documents, for example, once a month at a predetermined time interval. When updating the storage of image information, it is determined whether or not to update the storage of the image information based on the current Roy.] and the number of inspection searches. In this embodiment, the condition for the number of searches to be preset is set to 1011 "1 and 2 times."

The L order of update processing related to storage of image information is determined by R of the control device 5.
It is recorded in OM10, and the macro computer 1
3 operates according to the procedure recorded in ROMI (1).

The microcomputer 13 reads all management information TS from the optical disk device 3 into the work memory 12 (SIO).

If the management information TS does not exist, it is determined that the image information ID2 is not filed in the image search management device, and the update process related to storage of image information ends (Sl+).

After reading the management information TS into the work memory 12 (SIO
), the storage period of the management information TS is compared with the current date, and it is determined whether the current date marked with "] has passed the storage period (812).

"When it is determined that the storage period has passed (SI2) J All search information paired with the relevant management information TS, that is, the first search information IFI, the third search information IF', and the fourth search information By deleting IF'' from the optical disk device 3 and magnetic disk device 4 (S20), the update process related to storage of image information is completed.

``When it is determined that the warranty period has not passed (SI2) J Check whether the number of searches is greater than 0 times or not.
(S13) If the number of searches is greater than 1.0 times, it is assumed that the ``A1A1 image information list'' is being searched frequently, and the microcomputer 3 searches for the corresponding management information TS stored in the work memory 2. storage period, number of searches,
For term 11 of the number of postponements, process ■, ■, ■,
Rewrite the management information TS of the magnetic disk device 4 (814
).

■Extend the storage period.

■Set the number of searches to 0.

■Increments the number of postponements by “1”.

Next, if the third search information IFI' that pairs with the updated rational information TS is not stored in the magnetic disk device 4, the first search information that pairs with the management information 'rS' IF1 is stored in the magnetic disk device 4 as the third search information IFl' (Sl5, 316), and the update process related to the storage of image information ends J'.

When the process (Sl[i) is performed, "magnetic" is written in the search column of the management information TS. Further, if the third search information I Fl' is stored in the magnetic disk 1'3 device 4 (S15), the update process related to storage of image information ends.

When the above process (SIO) is executed, the third search information IFI' (same content as the first search information IFI) that is paired with the frequently searched image information (document) ID2 is retrieved from the magnetic disk device 4. is stored in Therefore, the third search information IF1' is differentiated from the first search information IF1. Therefore, since the third search information IF1' is stored in the magnetic disk device 4 with a high reading speed, when searching for a desired document, the search information paired with the image information ID2 can be searched quickly ( It becomes like this.

The determination unit (S13) determines that the number of searches for the management information TS is 10 or less, the number of searches is less than 2, the number of searches since registration is longer than, for example, 3 months, and the management information TS is When the third search information IFI' that is paired with the above is stored in the magnetic disk device 4, the third search information IFI' on the magnetic disk device 4 is deleted (S23
). Through this process, the third search information IFI', which was generated in the previous update process to differentiate it from the first search information IFI that was determined to be frequently searched, is deleted.

Next, ([conditions set at will, for example, management information 1
If the file name of the file satisfies an arbitrarily set condition such as starting with the letter "S" (S24), L
There may already be a third disk on the magnetic disk device 4 that satisfies the arbitrary conditions.
If the search information IF' is not stored (825>
, the first search information IF paired with the management information TS] as the fourth search information IF1'', and the third search information IFI
The image information is recorded in a different area from S2[i), and the update process related to the storage of image information ends. When performing the process (826), the search column of the management information TS is rewritten to 0''.

Further, in the determination unit (S25), the fourth search information I
When it is determined that Fl' is stored in the magnetic disk device 4, the update process related to storage of image information ends.

When the above-described processing (810 to 82G) is performed, the magnetic disk device 4 stores the management information TS and the third search information IF that is paired with frequently searched image information (documents).
I' and fourth search information IF1 that matches any condition
．． ' will be stored.

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram showing the operating procedure of the control device when searching for a desired document.

The operator inputs the file name of the desired document by operating the keyboard KB (S30). The control device 5 inputs the information (file name) input in the process (830) as the second search information IF2, and searches for management information TS having the same file name as the second search information IF2. Then, the control device 5 “
By referring to the "Search" column, it is possible to know which information (first search information IFI, third search information IFI', or fourth search information IF1'') that is paired with image information ID2 should be searched. (831,332). For example, “Search”
In the column, “light”, “magnetic”, or +1 [phase]” is written.

“Light” uses the first search information IFI. It tells you to search.

“Magnetic” is the third search information IF1’ It tells you to search.

The driver retrieves the fourth search information IF1''. It tells you to search.

If nothing is written in the “Search” column, or if the management information T has a file name that matches the second search information IF2.
If there is no S (831, 832), the second search information I
CRT indicates that image information ID2 with a file name matching F2 is not filed in the image search management device.
533) and returns to the process (S30).

When it is determined which search information paired with the required image ID2 is to be read out (S31, 532), the first search information IFI, the third search information IF', or the fourth search is performed based on that information. information 11F" (S34). Then, read the image information ID2 from the optical disk device 3 by speaking to the address information written in the searched information 53.
5) Display this image information ID2 on the CRT display. If it is determined that there is a need to search for historical documents (S3c), the process returns to S30. When the determination unit (836) determines not to perform the document search process again, the document search process ends.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the procedure of processing performed by the control device regarding deletion of image information ID2 filed in the image search management device.

The operator operates the keyboard KB to input the image name (file name on the image search management device) of the image information ID2 to be deleted (S40). The control device 5 reads the management information TS having the same file name as this image name from the magnetic disk device 4, and refers to the "Search" column. “Magnetic”,
If it is written as magnetic (S42), the control device 5 retrieves the image information ID2 and the first search information IFI stored in the optical disk device 3, and the management information TS and the first search information stored in the magnetic disk device 4. The third search information IF1 or the fourth search information IF'' are deleted.

7 (S43), the control device 5 retrieves the image information ID2 and the first search information IFI stored in the optical disk device 3, and the management stored in the magnetic disk device 4. The information TS is deleted.

Additionally, if nothing is written in the "Search" column, or if the search information that specifies the management information TS is not found, the image information ID paired with the management information TS is not filed in the image search management device. A message to that effect is displayed on the CRT display (S45).

As mentioned above, only search information that satisfies predetermined conditions or arbitrary conditions is stored in the magnetic disk device 4, so even though there is a huge amount of information, images that are frequently searched for are stored in the magnetic disk device 4. When searching for information or image information that satisfies the 1F conditions, there is no need to search for the required search information from a huge amount of search information, and the information stored in the magnetic disk drive 4, which has a relatively fast readout speed, can be used. Search information containing the address where the image information is stored is searched from a small amount of search information. In addition, the destination disk device 3 has
Since all the image information ID2 and the search information having the address where the image information ID2 is stored are stored,
Even if the magnetic disk device 4 is damaged, the management form of the image information ID2 will not be destroyed.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. For example, image information I stored in the optical disk device 3
D2 may be mixed information such as coded data and image data, or coded information. In addition, although the magnetic disk device 4 was used as the second recording device,
Any recording device may be used as long as it is capable of random access and read/write when searching for files. Further, although the optical disk device 3 capable of reproducing, recording, and erasing is used as the first recording device, a write-once optical disk device may be used instead of this optical disk device.

In this case, in order to efficiently delete all the information related to the required image information ID2, the method (2) or (2) is executed.

■If the search information paired with the image information ID2 is stored in the optical disk device 3 and the magnetic disk device 4,
The image information ID2 and the management information and search information stored in the magnetic disk device 4 are deleted.

(2) If the search information paired with the image information ID2 is stored in the optical disk device 3, the management information is deleted. It goes without saying that other minor modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, the input device for inputting image information and the display function are provided, and the image 1τ! an input/output device having an operation keyboard for inputting first search information, management information, and second search information for searching for desired image information, which are connected to the information; a first recording device that records and stores image information and first search information input by the input/output device; a second recording device that records and stores the management information and third search information;
It is equipped with a control device that controls each of the input device, the single output device, the first recording device, and the second recording device, and the management information is controlled to meet predetermined conditions by the control operation of the control device. If the management information satisfies the predetermined condition, the first search information is recorded and stored in the second recording device as third search information, and if the management information does not satisfy the predetermined condition, the first search information is stored in the first recording device. Since the first search information that is searched and the image information paired with the first search information are deleted, the image storage capacity of a device that electronically files image information can be effectively used. Management equipment can be provided.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 8 are diagrams showing an image search management device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows a tf4 of the image search management device.
2 is a diagram showing information stored in the optical disk device, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of management information stored in the optical disk device, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the contents of the control device. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the general procedure for updating the storage period of image information performed by the control device; FIG.
Figures (a) and (b) are schematic diagrams showing the information stored in the destination disk device and the magnetic disk device, Figure 7 is a flow diagram showing the procedure for searching required image information performed by the control device, and Figure 8 The figure shows image information filed in the image search management device performed by the control device. FIG. 7 is a flow diagram showing a procedure for deletion processing of search information regarding the image information. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Image input device, 2... Input/output device, 3... Optical disk device, 4... Magnetic disk device, 5... Control device, 6... I10 interface bus, 10
ROM, 11... Image memory, 12... Work memory, 1'3... Microcomputer. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Atsushi Tsubozuki

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) an input device for inputting image information; first search information, management information, and a second search information having a display function and paired with the image information;
an input/output device having an operating keyboard for inputting search information; a first recording device that records and stores image information input by the input device and first search information input by the input/output device; , a second recording device that records and stores the management information and the third search information, and a control device that controls each of the input device, input/output device, first recording device, and second recording device. If the management information satisfies a predetermined condition by the control operation of the control device, recording and storing the first search information as third search information in a second recording device; If the management information does not satisfy the predetermined conditions, the first
The first search information stored in the recording device of
An image search management device characterized in that image information paired with search information is deleted. (2) The image search management device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined conditions are the number of times the image information is searched and the storage period. (3) The image search management device according to claim 1, wherein the first search information and/or the third search information is managed by further adding one or more arbitrary conditions.