JPH03171369A - Electronic filing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of an electronic filing device by updating the retrieving information group stored in a 1st storage medium with use of the retrieving information group stored in a 2nd storage medium and then taking the 1st storage medium out of a 1st storage when the take-out instruction is received. CONSTITUTION:Plural pictures are stored in a 1st storage medium 20 loaded in a 1st storage 22 together with a retrieving information group that is used for retrieval of each of these stored pictures. Then plural retrieving information groups corresponding to those of the medium 20 are stored in a 2nd storage medium 26 loaded in a 2nd storage 27. When an instruction is given from an instruction means 22b provided to the storage 22 to take the medium 20 out of the storage 22, the retrieving information group stored in the medium 20 is updated with use of the retrieving information group stored in the medium 26. Then the medium 20 is taken out of the storage 22. Thus the operability of an electronic filing device is improved in the take-out processing.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an electronic filing device such as an image filing device that performs image registration, search, etc., for example. (Prior Art) In recent years, images such as documents, which are generated in large quantities, are read by a scanner (two-dimensional scanning device), and the read images are stored on a disk loaded in an optical disk device. Search and read out any image stored in the magnetic disk using database information consisting of a group of search information stored on a magnetic disk of a magnetic disk device, and make it visible on an output device such as a CRT display device or a recording device. Image filing devices that output images have been put into practical use. The destination disc stores management information such as search information for searching images stored on this optical disc and history information (indicating image updates and deletions). In such an image filing device, when a destination disk loaded in an optical disk device is removed, the updated search information temporarily stored in the magnetic disk and the
, , , is referred to, and an update process is performed to update the management information stored on the optical disk 11 based on the contents of the storage. However, in such an image filing device, before instructing to eject the destination disk using the eject 1 key of the destination disk device, it is possible to eject by returning to the initial menu and instructing to eject.

[7 processing is performed. In this way, since it was performed according to the user's instructions, it was not possible to remove it.
7 process requires the user to be aware of the process of updating the blueprint information, which interrupts the work being executed, and also causes the inconvenience of instructing the retrieval process and then inputting the I/O key. It also has the disadvantage of being complicated. (Problem to be Solved by the Invention 1) As mentioned above, when performing the extraction process, it is possible to eliminate the disadvantage of poor operability when performing the extraction process.
The purpose is to provide an electronic filing device with good operability. [Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The electronic filing device of the present invention stores a plurality of images in a first storage medium inserted into a first storage device, and stores these images in a first storage medium inserted into a first storage device. A search information group for searching each image is stored in a second storage medium inserted into a second storage device, and a search information group for searching each image is stored in a second storage medium inserted into a second storage device. In a device that stores a group of information, the above-mentioned first
an instruction means for instructing to take out the first storage medium from the first storage Fat; 2. Processing for updating the search information group stored in the first storage medium with the search information group stored in the second storage medium when the retrieval information is instructed to be retrieved from the first storage medium. T
-8, and after the update processing by this processing means is completed,
It is comprised of five ejecting means from which the first storage medium is ejected. (Function) The present invention stores a plurality of images in a first storage medium inserted into a first storage medium, and also provides a search function for searching each image corresponding to each of these images. Memorize the news group. a second storage medium inserted into a second storage device;
In the device for storing search information groups corresponding to a plurality of the first storage media, the instruction means installed in the first storage device causes the first storage device of the first storage medium to be When the retrieval information is instructed to be retrieved from the search information group stored in the second storage medium, the search information group stored in the first storage medium is updated, and after this update process is completed, , to eject the first storage medium (7). (Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. This figure shows an example of the configuration of an image filing device including a filing device 12. That is, the electronic filing device includes a control module 10, a memory module 12, an image processing module l4,
Communication control module]6, Scanner device]-8, Optical disk (storage means) 20 and destination disk device 22, Keyboard 23, CRT display device (display means) 24
, a printer device 25, a magnetic disk 26, a magnetic disk device 27, a mouse 29, a system bus 30, and an image bus 32. The control module 10 is composed of a CPU 34 that performs various controls for image storage, search, and editing processing, and an interface circuit 36 that connects the optical disk device 22, magnetic disk device 27, and CPU 34. The CPU 34 also includes a keyboard 23 and a mouse 2.
9 is connected. The memory module 12 includes a main memory 38 that stores various control programs such as image storage, search, and editing, management information, etc., and a page serving as an image memory having a storage capacity corresponding to images of several pages of an A4 size document. memory 40
, and display memory 4 as a display interface
2, a display control section 44, and the like. A buffer memory area 40a is provided in a part of the page memory 40. The page memory 40 includes, for example, the first disk 2
This is a memory that temporarily stores images stored in the optical disc 20 and images read from the optical disc 20. The display memory 42 is for temporarily storing images displayed by the CRT display device 24. This display memory 42 stores images that are enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted, or An image that has undergone black-and-white inversion or the like is stored. The image processing module 14 includes an enlargement/reduction circuit 46 that performs image enlargement and reduction processing, an aspect conversion circuit 48 that performs image rotation processing, and an encoding processing that performs image compression (reducing redundancy) and decompression. A compression/decompression circuit (COD) that performs decoding processing (restores reduced redundancy)
EC) 50, a scanner interface 52 for the scanner device 18, a printer interface 54 for the printer device 25, and an enlargement/reduction circuit 46 and an aspect/horizontal conversion circuit 48 are connected to a compression/expansion circuit 50, a scanner interface 52, and a printer interface 54. It is constituted by an internal bus 56. The compression/expansion circuit 50 has a M H (Modif'led
Hurl'man) method or M R (Modi
Bandwidth compression or band expansion is performed using a f1ed Read) method or the like. The communication control module 16 is, for example, a BCP (Bus Coma+unica-t1) connected to a LAN.
onProcessor) etc. communication interface 5
It is composed of 8. The communication control module 16 also includes a FCP (Facsimile Connection Mechanism), a UCP (Universal Coavunic Device) that is connected to external devices such as a personal computer via an interface.
aLionProcessor) 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 images, and includes the memory module 12 and 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 the document (document) two-dimensionally with a laser beam, an electrical signal corresponding to the image on the document is obtained. The optical disk device 22 sequentially stores images read by the scanner device 18 on an optical disk 20. It also searches the optical disc 20 for an image corresponding to search information specified using the keyboard 23 or the like. The optical disc device 22 is provided with a detector 22a that detects insertion of the optical disc 20.
Eject key 22b as a take-out switch to take out
is provided. The optical disc 20 is, for example, a write-once optical disc, and as shown in FIG. 3, it is composed of an image storage area 20a where images are stored and a management information storage area 20b where management information for each image is stored. . In the management information storage area 20b, as shown in FIG.
History information and the number of histories for each image are stored. The above history information includes the registration of each image, as shown in FIG.
History status such as deletion or update, number of this history information (the same number is given to the magnetic disk 26), search information (image name) consisting of multiple search keys, optical disk 20 of the image
storage address (memory start position), document size (
image size), etc. For example, when a predetermined image is deleted, updated, etc., history information indicating the details of the deletion, update, etc. is additionally stored.In this case, the storage address and document size are not given. (This is happening.) The number of records is the number of historical information, and one or more historical information units (each time they are stored, the last one is stored in the historical information storage area 20b). The keyboard 23 is used to manually enter unique search information corresponding to the image to be stored on the first disk 20 and various operation commands such as storage, search, and editing processing. mouse 2
For example, the cursor 9 can be set by arbitrarily moving the cursor (not shown) displayed on the display window 2 of the CRT display 1/24 vertically, horizontally, and giving an instruction at a desired position. (2) Select or instruct display contents (various operation modes, area designation for image editing, icons, etc.). This C
Icons and the like are displayed at the top, bottom, and right ends of the display window of the RT disk device 24. Further, the CRT display unit 24 includes one and two
It is a multi-window type display device that can display images simultaneously in one or four windows. The images displayed in each display window are subjected to editing processing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, scrolling, etc. independently. The printer device 25 prints an image read by the scanner device]-8, an image retrieved from the optical disk 20, or a CRT.
This is to display the image displayed on the display device @24 and output the image as a circle. The magnetic disk device 27 stores various control programs on the magnetic disk 26 attached to the magnetic disk unit W27, and also stores various control programs on the optical disk 20 in which search information input from the keyboard 23 and images corresponding to this search information are stored. It stores search data consisting of storage addresses, image sizes, etc. The above-mentioned search data is stored in the management information storage table 26a in the magnetic disk 26 and managed by the management information t8. This management information storage table 26a records separate management information for a plurality of optical discs 20, and as shown in FIG. It is composed of a storage unit 1 Noah 26b and an updated history information storage area 26C in which updated history information is stored. The management information storage area 26b includes the seventh
As shown in the figure, the destination disk number, history information for each image, and number of histories can be stored completely. As shown in FIG. 5, the ffi history information includes the history status of each image, such as registration, deletion, and update, the number of this history information (the same number is attached to the magnetic disk 26), and the number of The search information (image name) consisting of the search key, the storage address (storage start position) on the destination disk 20 of the image, the document size (image size), and the text is also the predetermined m. In the case of image removal, update, etc., history information indicating the contents of the deletion, update, etc. is additionally stored, and in this case, the storage address and document size are not provided. The above history number is
This is the number of the above history information, and the history is updated sequentially as the number of history increases. Update history information storage area 2
6c, history information as updated information is stored, and this updated content is stored in the management information storage area 20b in the optical disc 20 when the optical disc 20 is removed from the destination disc device 22. At the same time, a management information storage area 26 corresponding to the optical disc 20 to be taken out is provided.
b is updated and stored. After this storage, the storage contents of the update history information storage area 26e can be completely erased by completing the update process. 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 hierarchies: cabinet, binder, document, and page, and the cabinet corresponds to one side of the optical disc 20. A maximum of eight binders can be defined in the cabinet, and up to ao, ooo 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 a file, and in addition to the title, annotations (explanation of the document) can be added. Further, a document is composed of up to 4095 pages. Next, the operation of image storage and retrieval processing in the electronic filing device with such a configuration will be described. First, image storage processing will be explained. For example, the user selects and sets the registration mode using the keyboard 23 and manually enters search information for images to be stored on the optical disc 20. 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. Further, the search information is compared with the search information already registered on the optical disc 20 to check for double registration. Depending on the result of this check, the input search information is stored in the main memory 13.
is memorized. Next, the original is set on the scanner device 18, and the CPU 34
operates the optical disc device 22 and scanner device 18. Scanner equipped! ! ．． 18 two-dimensionally scans and photoelectrically converts an image of a set document or the like. The line information of this previously electrically converted image is sequentially stored in the page memory 40. The image stored in this page memory 40 is C
After being enlarged or reduced by the enlargement/reduction circuit 46 according to the display size of the RT display device 24, the display memory 4
2 and displayed on the CRT display device 24. The user checks the skew, density, etc. of the image displayed on the CRT display device 24, and when the displayed image is satisfactory, inputs a memory key (not shown). Then, the CPU 34 converts the image stored in the page memory 40 into a compression/expansion circuit (CODEC) 50 for each line information.
In this step, encoding processing is performed by band compression using a well-known MR method or the like. This encoded image is supplied to the optical disc device 22 and stored on the optical disc 20. When the image has been stored on the optical disk 20, the CPU 34
stores the physical track address where the image is stored, the logical address determined from the physical sector address, the image length expressed in block length, etc. in the main memory 38 in correspondence with the search code (search information). Next, the CPU 34 supplies the search data stored in the main memory 38 to the magnetic disk device 27. Thereby, the magnetic disk device 27 transfers the supplied search data to the corresponding update history information storage area 2 in the magnetic disk 26.
6c, the storage address (storage start position Fi) of the image on the optical disk 20, the document size (image size), the history state, that is, the registration "1", and the history information number are stored as history information. In this way, other images are also registered in the same manner as above. Next, a search process for images stored on the optical disc 20 will be described. First, a search mode is set using the keyboard 23, and search information corresponding to the image desired to be searched is input. The CPU 34 sequentially compares and collates the input search information with the search information stored in the title management table 26a of the magnetic disk 26, and sequentially checks whether or not search information that matches the input search information is stored. and extract the corresponding history number. As a result, C.P.
The U34 stores the history number of the extracted candidate in the main memory 38.
to be memorized. Then, when the above check is completed, the CPU 34 displays a list of search information for the matching history number on the CRT.
It is displayed on the display device 24. Select the desired one from this list. Then, the storage address of the image corresponding to the search information is stored on the magnetic disk 2.
The physical track address and physical sector address corresponding to the storage address 1/s of this image are calculated from the management information storage table 26a in 6, .
The image from the previous disc 20 is reproduced in the optical disc storage 22 by the process. That is, C P LT 3 4 is the previous disk unit W22.
The image (compressed information) for each scanning line supplied from the image forming apparatus 4 is supplied to five compression/expansion circuits, subjected to band expansion processing, and sequentially supplied to the page imager 40. The image stored in the base memory 40 is output as is to the display memory 42.
1. The detailed image is displayed on the CRT display device 24 or outputted to the printer device 25 via the printer interface 54, and the detailed image is printed out by the printer device 25. Next, while referring to the flowchart shown in FIG. The process when inserting the disk into the disk device 22 will be explained. That is, when the detector 22a detects that the previous disc 20 has been inserted into the optical disc mount W22, the detection signal from the detector 22a is sent to the CPU 34.
Output to. The CPU 34 judges the loading process of the optical disk 20 l2, reads out the optical disk number and H history number stored in the management information storage area 20b of the destination disk 20 l2, and reads this history number and the magnetic disk. 17 corresponding to the matching optical disk number in the management information storage table 26a of No. 26
By checking whether or not the number of histories stored in the system matches the number of histories stored in the system, it is determined whether registration, deletion, etc. have been performed by another system. Registered by other systems,
If deletion, etc. has not been performed, the next process, such as registration,
Proceed to search processing or return to the processing that was being executed. Further, when registration, deletion, etc. are performed by another system, the CPU 34 uses the stored history information in the management information storage area 20bI of the optical disk 20 to update the management information storage table 26a of the magnetic disk 26. Update processing of history information is performed. That is, the history information subsequent to the history number of the magnetic disk 26 is read from the management information storage area 20b of the optical disk 20, and the history information is read from the management information storage area 20b of the magnetic disk 26.
6b, the number of histories is updated l2, and the loading process is completed. Thereafter, the process proceeds to the next process, such as registration or search process, or returns to the process that was being executed. In this case, even during registration or search, the loading process can be performed without selecting the initial menu screen. Next, while referring to the flowcharts shown in Figures 1 and 2,
The process of ejecting the previous disk 2o from the optical disk device 22 will be explained. That is, when the eject key 22b of the previous disk device 22 is fully inserted, an eject instruction using the eject key 22b is output to the CPU 34. Then, the CPU 34 determines the ejection process of the optical disk 20 and transfers the history information stored in the update history information storage area 26c in the management information storage table 26a of the first magnetic disk 26 to the management information storage of the previous disk 20. An update process is performed in which the stored history information is stored in the area 20b, and the number of histories added by 1 to the original history information is stored after the above-mentioned last history information in the management information storage area 20I of the optical disk 20. It will be done. Thereafter, the CPU 34 stores the history information in the corresponding update history information storage area 26C in the magnetic disk 26 in the management information storage area 26b, and updates the number of histories.
The contents of the summer new history information storage area 26C are erased. Then, the optical disk 20 is ejected by the ejecting mechanism (not shown) in the previous disk device 22, and the ejecting process is completed. In this case, even during registration or search, the extraction 1 process can be performed without selecting the initial menu screen. As described above, when ejecting an optical disk is instructed by pressing the eject key installed in the optical disk device, the management information stored in the optical disk is updated using the update history information stored in the magnetic disk. After this update process is completed, an eject process for ejecting the optical disc from the optical disc device is performed. As a result, simply by inserting the eject key, an eject process that automatically updates the history information of the loaded optical disc is activated. This eliminates the hassle of instructing retrieval processing, that is, history information update processing, and improves operability when performing retrieval processing. Also,
Retrieval processing can be performed at any time without interrupting the work in progress. In the above embodiments, the case where the optical disc is a write-once type has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention can be implemented in the same manner even if the optical disc is rewritable. [Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an electronic filing device with good operability when performing a retrieval process.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining the ejecting process when ejecting an optical disc, FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of an electronic filing device, and FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of the management information storage area of an optical disc. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of history information. The figure is a diagram for explaining the configuration of a management information storage table, Figure 7 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of management information for magnetic discs with t≧11 discs, and Figure 8 is a diagram for explaining the storage of management information on a magnetic disk. It is a flowchart for explaining processing. 18...Scanner device, 20...Optical disc (first
storage medium) 20a... image storage area, 20b...
...Management information storage area, 22...Optical disk device (
(first storage device), 22a...detector (detection means),
22b... Eject key 23... Keyboard,
24... CRT display device, 25... Printer device, 26... Magnetic disk (second storage medium),
26a... Management information storage table, 26b... Management information storage area, 26c... Update history information storage area, 27... Magnetic disk device (second storage device), 3
4...CPU, 38...Main memory, 40...
Page memory, 40a... Buffer memory, 42...
- Display memory, 44...Display control unit, 46...Enlargement/reduction circuit, 50...Compression/expansion circuit.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Storing a plurality of images in a first storage medium loaded in a first storage device, and storing a search information group for searching each image corresponding to each of these images, In an electronic filing device that stores search information groups corresponding to a plurality of the first storage media in a second storage medium loaded in the second storage device, an instruction means for instructing the removal of the first storage medium from the first storage device; and when the instruction means instructs the removal of the first storage medium from the first storage device, the second processing means for updating the search information group stored in the first storage medium with the search information group stored in the storage medium; and after completing the update process by the processing means, the first storage An electronic filing device comprising: an ejecting means for ejecting a medium.