JPH04289972A - Additional information retrieval system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To register an image only in order to increase the number of registrations of the image to be able to file-register, for example, a print of a seal and to communicate and display at the time of necessity the additional information of the image, for example, the additional information such as the address, etc., of the owner of a seal from a host side. CONSTITUTION:The system is equipped with a terminal 1 having a command input means 11 to input a command for retrieval, an output means 15 to output the retrieved result, and a retrieval control means 12 to send a command for the retrieval inputted from the command input means 11 and receive the retrieved result, and a host computer 2 having an image information file 22 and an additional information file 23 having the additional information related to the image information stored in an image information file 22, and when the image information only is necessary, the image information file is accessed, and when the additional information related to the image information is necessary, the access is performed to the additional information file.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an additional information retrieval method, and in particular, when searching for information from the host side using a terminal, information that is not registered in the main file on the host side is retrieved from the terminal. The present invention relates to an additional information search method in which information added in relation to search information (referred to as additional information) is read out from another file on the host side and displayed.

[0002] Financial institutions such as banks use seals for customer identification when conducting transactions with customers, and therefore, customers register the seals to be used in advance with the financial institution that uses them. When making a transaction, it is necessary to check whether the seal used by the customer is the same as the one registered with the financial institution, and therefore it is necessary to quickly withdraw the necessary seal when needed.

[0003] For this reason, financial institutions, etc., store seal impressions as electronic image information to form a seal image file, and also prepare a seal imprint search device that can search this seal image file. , the data of the necessary seal imprint image can be searched and displayed on the monitor when necessary, and the data can be compared with the seal imprint of the seal presented by the customer.

0004

[Prior Art] A seal imprint search device that searches for a seal imprint usually uses
It consists of a seal imprint file that records seal image data using the customer's account number as a key, and a search device that searches for the seal imprint file. The stamp file contains the customer's account number, the stamp image of the seal registered by the customer, and in some cases additional information such as the customer's name and address.By inputting the account number, the corresponding data such as the stamp image can be downloaded. is displayed.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an outline of this conventional seal imprint search device. In the figure, 60 is a search control unit;
Usually, a terminal device placed in a branch office or the like is used. A seal imprint file 61 in which a seal imprint image is recorded is connected to this seal imprint search device 60. The seal imprint file 61 is usually tracked at a computer center, and seal imprint search devices in various places are connected to it. The search device 60 includes a keyboard 64 for sending various commands, and a display unit 6 for displaying search results.
3 is connected.

[0006] The seal imprint file 61 includes an account number and a seal imprint image, as shown in FIG. 6(B).
As mentioned above, additional information related to this account number, such as the customer's name and address, may be included in some cases. In the figure (a)
(b) is an example of data with additional information, and (b) is an example of data that does not include additional information. The reason why a seal imprint file may be composed of data that does not include additional information is because some financial institutions normally verify customers simply by comparing seal impressions, and additional information may be included in the seal imprint file. This is because a large amount of memory is required to store this information.

[0007] It goes without saying that the seal image is stored in the form of image information in the seal imprint file, but
Normally, the additional information section is also stored in the form of image information for reasons such as saving labor during input. When information is stored in the form of image information in this way, the amount of memory required for storage is even larger than that in the form of characters.

[0008]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the case of the prior art described above, it is not possible to verify a customer's name, address, etc. using data that does not include additional information. Furthermore, it is conceivable to store additional information as an image along with the image information, but storing information as an image would require a large-capacity file.

[0009] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and when additional information such as the customer's name and address is required while using the conventional seal imprint file, the necessary additional information such as the customer's name, address, etc. To provide an additional information retrieval method that can easily obtain additional information without creating a large-capacity file.

0010

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an image information retrieval device for registering image data in an information file and retrieving it, as shown in FIG. A terminal having a command input means 11 for inputting a command, an output means 15 for outputting a search result, and a search control means 12 for transmitting a search command input from the command input means 11 and receiving the search result. 1, an image information file 22, and an additional information file 23 having additional information related to the image information stored in the image information file 22; The file is accessed, and if additional information related to the image information is required, the additional information file is also accessed.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention. In the figure, 1 indicates a terminal at a branch office, and 2 indicates a computer center where a host computer is located. The branch terminal 1 is equipped with a seal imprint search device consisting of a keyboard 11, a search control section 12, an additional information presence/absence determination section 13, an editing section 14, and a display section 15. , an additional information file 23, and a host computer 21 are provided.

The seal imprint file 22 contains the imprint of a seal in the form of image data, and may also contain additional information in the form of image data. Further, the additional information file 23 records the customer's name and address using the account number as a key, and usually stores this information in the form of character information.

[0013]

[Operation] When searching from the branch terminal 1, an account number and additional information data request are input from the keyboard 11. The host computer 21 accesses the additional information file 23 and outputs the additional information to the search control section 12, which is edited by the editing section. Next, a seal impression data request is input from the keyboard 11, and the search control section 12 sends this to the host computer 21, so that the host computer 21 accesses the seal impression file 22 and sends out the image data of the seal impression. The search control unit 12 sends this to the editing unit 14. The editing section 14 edits the image data of the seal impression and the character information of the additional information, and displays the image data on the display section 15.
to display this.

By the way, the search control section 12 uses the keyboard 11.
The command input by the host computer 21 is transmitted to the host computer 21, and the response data from the host side is transmitted to the additional information presence/absence determining section 13, which determines the presence/absence of additional information.
If there is no additional information, the additional information may be requested again to the center 2 in response to the request from the additional information presence/absence determining section 13. When there is no additional information in the response data from the seal imprint file, the editing unit 14 edits the additional information, which is character data sent from the host side, and the seal image, which is image data, and displays them as data on one screen. It is displayed on the device 15.

[0015] In this invention, as described above, the center 2 is provided with a seal imprint file and an additional information file using customer information (CFI) provided in the center 2. Can be displayed. Furthermore, it is also possible to first search a seal imprint file to enable customer verification through normal seal imprint verification, and to automatically search for additional information if additional information is required.

[0016]

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, 4, and 5. FIG. 2(A) is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2(B) is a diagram showing the state of display of search results on a display device.

In this embodiment, the search control section 12 is composed of a seal impression data requesting section 17, an additional data requesting section 18, and a data receiving section 19, and the seal impression file 22 is composed of compressed image data. A decompressing section 16 is provided for decoding compressed image data. Further, as shown in FIG. 2(B), a seal imprint is displayed at the top of the display section, and additional information related to the seal imprint being displayed is displayed below it.

The additional information presence/absence determination unit 13 determines the presence or absence of additional information in the response data from the host side, and outputs this to the additional data request unit 18 if there is no additional information.

The editing unit 14 edits the additional information, which is character data, and the seal image, which is image data, sent from the host 2 side when there is no additional information in the response data from the seal impression file 22. . At this time, the additional information is edited so as to be displayed with a specified number of characters, such as 29 characters per line, for example.

The seal data requesting section 17 creates a seal data request signal based on the account number and seal data request inputted from the keyboard 11, for example, and sends it to the center 2.

The additional data request section 18 creates an additional data request signal based on the account number and additional data request inputted from the keyboard 11, for example, and sends it to the center 2. Note that, as in the second embodiment shown in FIG. It is also possible to create an additional data request signal and automatically obtain additional data from the center 2.

The data receiving section 19 receives signals sent from the center 2, and sends image data to the additional information presence/absence determining section 13, and sends characters to the editing section 14.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the file structure of the seal impression file 22 and additional information file 23. Seal impression file 2
2 has a seal image with the data header at the beginning and the account number as a key, and in some cases, additional information data in the form of an image. In this way, the seal imprint file may contain a mixture of data with an additional information image and data without an additional information image. The additional information file 23 has additional information in the form of character data, starting with a data header and using the account number as a key.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the first embodiment. This figure 4 shows the seal impression file 2
This is an example of operation when it is clear from the beginning that No. 2 has no additional information. When the account number is input from the keyboard 11 (step 1), the additional data request section 18 sends the host 21
sends a request for additional information data to (step 2),
Additional information data in the form of character data is received from the additional information file 23 via the data receiving unit 19 . Editing processing is performed to display this additional information data on the screen of the display device (step 3). This is, for example, the display format of the additional information, such as how many lines of additional information to display on the screen.

Next, the seal imprint data requesting unit 17 requests the host 2
1 for seal impression data (step 4), and obtains seal image data in the form of image information from the host 21 via the data receiving section 19. The image information is
The information will be sent to the additional information presence/absence determination unit 13, and in this case, the additional information will naturally be “absent”, but if the additional information has been obtained first, no request signal will be issued to the additional data request unit 18. Configure it like this.

Normally, the seal image information is stored in the seal impression file 22 as compressed data.
This data is expanded (step 5), and the editing section 14 displays the additional information data and the seal impression data together on the display device 15. For example, the display format is shown in Figure 2 (B
).

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the second embodiment. This is a case where the seal imprint file 22 contains a mixture of data in which additional information is stored in the form of an image and data in which it is not stored, and when additional information cannot be obtained, the additional information file 22 is automatically
It extracts additional information from the

When an account number is input from the keyboard 11 (step 1), it is sent to the host 21 via the seal impression data requesting section 17. The host 21 searches the seal imprint file and pulls out the seal imprint data corresponding to the account number.
This is sent to the data receiving section 19 of the terminal 1 at the branch office. The data receiving unit 19 sends the obtained seal imprint data in the form of image information to the additional information presence/absence determining unit 13, and determines whether or not the image information includes image data of additional information (step 3). If additional information is included, it is passed through the decompression section 16 and the editing section 14 and displayed on the display section 15 (step 7).

If the additional information is not included, the additional information presence/absence determining unit 13 sends a notification to that effect to the additional data requesting unit 18 (step 4), and the host 21 then requests necessary additions in the additional information file. Obtain information (step 5)
). The obtained seal impression image data and additional information data are edited by the editing section 14 and displayed on the display device 15 (step 6).

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, even when using a file in which only a seal image is registered, additional information corresponding to the seal impression can be displayed. Furthermore, even when using a file that contains a mixture of data that does not include additional information and data that does include additional information, additional information can be automatically displayed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a file used in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the first operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the second operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional seal imprint search device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Terminal 2 Center 11 Keyboard 12 Search control section 13 Additional information presence/absence determination unit 14 Editorial Department 15 Display section 21 Host computer 22　Seal imprint file 23 Additional information file

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An image information retrieval device for registering image data in an information file and retrieving it, comprising: command input means (11) for inputting commands for retrieval; and output means (11) for outputting retrieval results. 15) and command input means (
11), a terminal (1) having a search control means (12) for sending search commands inputted from the terminal and receiving search results; an image information file (22); comprising a host computer (2) having an additional information file (23) having additional information associated with the stored image information; accessing the image information file when only image information is needed;
An additional information search method characterized in that when additional information related to image information is required, an additional information file is also accessed. 2. The additional information search method according to claim 1, wherein the additional information file is automatically accessed when the image information does not include necessary additional information.