JPH032975A - Picture information retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the rough retrieval of picture information and to improve the retrieving efficiency of the picture information by instructing the display of picture information having a specific order number of sheets after the displayed picture information. CONSTITUTION:An input device 4 which instructs the number of pieces of picture information stored in a picture storage means 10 that are read out and displayed simultaneously at each time, a picture information read control means 7 which reads the picture information out of the means 10 every number of pieces of picture information instructed by the means 4 are provided. In such a constitution, the rough retrieval of picture information is attained and the desired picture information to be taken out can be retrieved quickly when the picture information stored near the desired picture information is known.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to an image information retrieval device for retrieving desired image information from a plurality of stored image information. Regarding what to search for.

(b) Conventional technology In recent years, with the increase in the amount of information and the rationalization of office processing, information file devices that can record image information on optical disks and read out the recorded image information as needed have been developed and put into practical use. (For example, the optical disk document file system SOF-MB2).

In such an information file device, image information to be recorded is obtained by reading an original (image) such as a document or drawing using an image information reading means such as an image scanner. The data is then subjected to editing and other processing before being stored on the optical disc.

In addition, the image information recorded on the optical disc can be searched by attribute information attached to the image information, etc.
The stored image information is read out one by one and displayed on the display so that the operator can visually search for desired image information (so-called page turning search).

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention Usually, in a page-turning search, by specifying the search start page and page-turning direction, image information is displayed one after another as if turning over pages.

However, when a large amount of image information is stored, it takes a lot of time to retrieve desired image information by page turning search. This is the same even when image information stored near the image information to be retrieved is known.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object thereof is to provide an image information retrieval device that can retrieve desired image information relatively quickly through page-turning retrieval.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention comprises an image storage means that stores a plurality of pieces of image information, and a display means that displays the image information, and searches for the image information by displaying the image information on the display means. The image information retrieval device includes an input means for instructing the number of pieces of image information stored in the image storage means to be read and displayed, and an input means for instructing the number of pieces of image information stored in the image storage means to be read out and displayed, and an input means for instructing the number of pieces of image information stored in the image storage means to be read out and displayed, and an image information readout control means for reading out image information.

(e) According to the number instructed by the action input means, image information for each number is read out from the image storage means storing the image information by the image information readout control means and displayed on the display means. Therefore, a rough search for image information is possible, and if image information stored near the image information to be retrieved is known, the image information to be retrieved can be quickly retrieved.

(f) Embodiment FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an image information file device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

(1) is a display as a display means such as a CRT or a liquid crystal panel, and (2) is a bitmap format video memory corresponding to the display screen of the display (1), which also includes a storage area for window display. (3) is a display control circuit as a display control means for controlling the display on the display (1) based on the display data written in the video memory (2).

(10) uses the optical disk (11) as the recording tα medium,
This is an optical disk device that serves as an image storage means for storing a plurality of image information for each page.

(14) is a scanner that optically reads an image and outputs image information, and the image information is stored in an image memory (12). (15) is a printer that records and outputs an image based on image information on paper.

The image memory (12), scanner (14) and printer (15) are controlled by an image memory control circuit (13).

(7) is a control circuit that controls the entire device, such as storing image information in the optical disk device (10), reading out the stored image information, and controlling the image memory control circuit (13). It has a function as a control means.

(4) and (5) are a keyboard and a mouse as input means for inputting operation commands and data to the control circuit (7), and input them to the control circuit (7) via the input ink face (6).
and a display control circuit (2).

(8) is display data (see Fig. 2, A display memory (9) that stores a page-turning instruction bar (referred to as a page-turning instruction bar) is a display memory (9) that is used to move the appropriate position of the page-turning instruction bar displayed on the display (1) using the keyboard (4) or mouse (5). This is a register that stores the number of times image information is read out from the optical disk device (10) as instructed by the cursor.
-Currently, optical disk device (1
A large amount of image information is recorded on the optical disc (11) of 0) (normally, about 3000 pages of 0 image information can be recorded on an optical disc), and each image information is recorded on each page (1 disc). is stored with pointer information indicating the starting position of the image information. Then, by specifying the pointer information, the image information indicated by the pointer information is read out.

When a command to perform a page-turning search is given to the control circuit (7) using the keyboard (4) or mouse (5), the control circuit (7) selects the first page from which the page-turning search is to be started using the keyboard (4). Further, the display side 9p circuit (3) causes the display data (turn page instruction bar) in the display memory (8) to be displayed on the display (1).

As shown in FIG. 2, the operator selects the number of pages of image information to be read from the optical disk device m (10) on the displayed turning page instruction bar by moving the cursor K displayed at the same time on the keyboard (4). Alternatively, use the mouse (5) to specify P/4f%.

The number of sheets specified on the display (1) is determined by the control circuit (
7) and stored in the register (9).

Then, the control circuit (7) reads out the first page for starting the previously instructed page turning search from the optical disk device (10) using the pointer information corresponding to that page, and displays the page on the display (1) for a predetermined period of time. indicate.

After that, the value of the pointer information corresponding to the value (number of sheets) stored in the register (9) is added or subtracted from the pointer information of the read image information, and the direction of the page to be turned is determined. image information is read from the optical disk device (10) using the new pointer information. The read image information is displayed on the display (1) for a predetermined period of time in the same manner as described above.

By repeating this process, the optical disk device (1
Image information is read out for each specified number of images from 0),
Image information is sequentially read out intermittently, and a page-turning search is performed.

For example, it is set to perform a page turning search from page m,
When the cursor is pointed at 110J on the displayed page turning bar on the display (1), 'I01' is stored in the register (9). Then, page m is displayed first, and after being displayed for a predetermined time, page m+10 is displayed for a predetermined time, and then page m+20, page m+30, and page m+4.
Page 0... are displayed one after another.

If you know the image information stored near the image information you want to retrieve, and the page turning search progresses and the image information stored near the image information you want to retrieve is displayed, press the keyboard (4) or mouse (5). ) to point the cursor to, for example, rIJ. Then, the control circuit (7) recognizes that the value indicated by the cursor indicating the number of images to be displayed is Jl, and stores rll in the register (9).

Since the value stored in the register (9) is rlJ, the image information read out from the optical disk device (10) and displayed will be changed for each page from the time the value of the register (9) changes. be made into

In other words, if the value indicated by the cursor is changed when page m+n is displayed, then
Read and display the page, then m + n + 2 pages, m
+ n + 3 pages... is displayed.

Thus, in a page turning search, by instructing how many pages of image information are to be displayed next after the displayed image information, a rough search for image information can be performed and the search can be made more efficient.

Incidentally, in the page turning search, image information is displayed for a predetermined time, but the time is not limited to - but a plurality of times may be prepared and the user may select from among them.

For example, when you point the cursor to the top square in the turning page instruction bar in Figure 2, image information is displayed for 0.5 seconds, when you point to the bottom square, image information is displayed for 1 second, and then the next image is displayed. Changes to information display.

(G) Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above description, the present invention provides an image processing system that allows image information to be displayed by instructing how many pages of image information are to be displayed next after the displayed image information in a page turning search. This allows for a general search for information. If the image information stored near the image information to be retrieved is known, the image information to be retrieved can be quickly retrieved, and the efficiency of the search can be improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an image information file device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of display of a turn page indicator bar according to an embodiment of the present invention. (1) Display (display means), (2) Video memory, (3) Display control circuit, (4)...
Keyboard (input means), (5)...Mouse (input means), (6)...Input ink face, (7)...
Control circuit (image information reading means), (8)...Display memory, (9)...Register, (10)...Optical disk device (image storage means), (11)...Optical disk, ( 12)...Image memory, (13)...Image memory control circuit, (14)...Scanner, (15)...
・Printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In an image information retrieval device comprising an image storage means storing a plurality of image information and a display means displaying the image information, the image information is displayed on the display means and the image information is retrieved, the image information is stored in the image storage means. an input means for instructing the number of pieces of image information to be read out and displayed; and an image information readout control means for reading out image information from the image storage means for each number instructed by the input means. An image information retrieval device characterized by: