JPH04296155A - Image data display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a wait time for the operator implementing a prescribed operation based on a display data being an image data sent from a facsimile equipment after the end of the operation for a display data till the operation for a succeeding display data is made available. CONSTITUTION:Upon the receipt of an image data sent from a facsimile equipment by a reception means M1, a display data generating means M2 generates a display data to be displayed on a display means M4 based on the reception data. The display data generating means M2 generates the display data so long as the reception data is in existence. A display control means M3 controls the display device so that only one display data among plural display data generated by the display data generating means M2 at the same time (that is, sequentially) and displays the data onto the display means M4.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention is an image display for performing predetermined processing based on image data transmitted from a facsimile machine, displaying the results, and modifying the displayed content as necessary. Regarding equipment.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in financial institutions such as banks, for example, information processing equipment installed at district centers etc. is used to read predetermined forms using facsimile machines installed at each branch office etc. By using a system (hereinafter such a system is referred to as a "FAX-OCR system") that transmits image data and causes the above-mentioned information processing device to recognize the image data, convert it to character data, and perform predetermined processing. For example, we conduct foreign exchange transfer transactions.

[0003] Below, a description will be given of how money transfer transactions are carried out using the FAX-OCR system.

[0004] At the counter of a branch, a customer submits a money transfer request form filled out by the customer to a receptionist who is a bank employee in order to request the bank to transfer a money order. Then, the receptionist receives the money transfer request form from the customer and submits the money transfer request form to the operator of this system (the receptionist may also serve as the operator). When an operator reads a money transfer request form from a facsimile machine installed at a branch (for example, FAXla in Figure 2), the facsimile machine reads the money transfer request form and converts it into image data (usually compressed). Then, the image data is transmitted to an information processing device installed at the district center via a communication line, for example. The image data sent from the facsimile machine installed at the branch is converted into character data by the information processing device, and after the necessary processing related to the money transfer process is performed, a money order transfer request message is sent to the host computer. Then, the exchange transfer process is performed on the host computer.

[0005] As described above, the money transfer transaction requested by the customer is executed, and the processing carried out at the district center will be explained in some detail as follows. That is, the district center needs to check whether the data of the money transfer request sent from the branch is correct, and if it is not correct, it needs to be corrected. Processing for this purpose is performed by a workstation connected to the information processing device. Money order transfer request data is displayed on the workstation, and the operator visually checks whether the displayed data is correct. As a data display method for making the operator perform a check, the data (i.e., image data) of the money transfer request form filled out by the original customer is displayed together with the character data recognized by the information processing device. Therefore, the data that the workstation receives from the information processing device includes not only character data converted into characters but also image data that is the exact contents written on the money transfer request form.

[0006]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, in an image display device such as a workstation used in a FAX-OCR system as described in the prior art, after completing one data processing, the next data processing is performed. (In the above-mentioned example of money transfer processing, from the end of checking one money transfer request data to the start of checking the next money transfer request data, that is, until the end of display), the data for display is The data is received and display screen data is created, but in this case, the data includes image data, so the amount of data is large, and it takes a lot of time to display the screen, including the transfer time. For the operator, this means that the processing waiting time from one transaction processing to the next transaction processing becomes longer.For example, in the above-mentioned money transfer processing, a waiting time of 3 to 7 seconds may occur. be. In addition, if a large number of transactions need to be processed in a short period of time, it is necessary to increase the number of workstations, etc., and therefore the installation cost and installation space of image display devices such as workstations will be required. There was also the problem that it led to an increase in the amount of water.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and it reduces the waiting time for the operator to perform the next process, enables processing of a large amount of data in a short time, and reduces installation costs and installation costs. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image data display device that can reduce space.

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has been made as follows. That is, the image data display device of the present invention is an image data display device that performs display based on image data transmitted from a facsimile device, and includes a receiving device for receiving image data, a display device, and a display device for receiving image data received by the receiving device. Display data creation means capable of creating a plurality of display data to be displayed on the display means based on image data; and a plurality of display data created by the display data creation means;
and display control means for controlling sequential display on the display means.

[0009]

[Operation] In the image data display device having the above configuration, when the receiving means receives the image data transmitted from the facsimile machine, the display data creating means displays the image data on the display means based on the image data received by the receiving means. A plurality of display data are created for the display, and the display control means performs control to sequentially display the plurality of display data created by the display data creation means on the display means.

0010

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 is a conceptual diagram of an image data display device, FIG. 2 is a system configuration example of a FAX-OCR system, FIG. 3 is a hardware configuration diagram of an image data display device, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. is F
A hardware configuration diagram of the AX-OCR system, FIG. 6 shows an example of a money transfer request form, and FIG. 7 shows an example of a screen display. First, Figure 2
The system configuration of a FAX-OCR system in which the image data display device of the present invention is used and the hardware configuration of the image data display device will be explained using FIG. In FIG. 2, 1a is a facsimile machine (hereinafter referred to as "FAX").
'') and are installed at each branch of banks, etc. The FAX 1a is a FAX installed at a district center that centrally manages each branch via a communication line 2 (for example, a public line is used as a communication line, but is not limited to this).
It is connected to the AX-OCR control device 3, and is further connected to the FA
The X-OCR control device 3 is connected to a FAX-OCR processing device 4 installed within the same district center. The FAX-OCR processing device 4 is further connected to a terminal control device 9, and the terminal control device 9 is connected to a host computer (hereinafter referred to as "H") installed in a bank's office center etc. via a communication line.
OST10). FAX-OC
The R control device 4 mainly performs the process of receiving image data (usually compressed) from the FAX 1a, and as shown in FIG. 5, it includes a processor 31, a memory 32,
It is composed of a communication control section 33, a workstation control section 34, a line control section 35, a disk device control section 36, an image conversion section 37, and a timer 38, and as shown in FIG. 6a and a workstation (hereinafter referred to as "WS") 5a are connected. The FAX-OCR processing device 5 mainly uses FA
Based on the image data received by the X-OCR control device 4, the recognition device 7 is requested to perform recognition processing, and the WS
5b and the terminal control device 9, and as shown in FIG. 45, timer 46
, a communication control section 47, and a recognition device control section 48,
Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a recognition device 7, a disk device 6b, a photo printer 8, and a plurality of WSs 5b, which are image data display devices of the present invention, are connected to the FAX-OCR processing device 5. Further, the WS5b, which is the image data display device of the present invention, has a processor 50 as shown in FIG.
, memory 51, image decompression section 52, transfer control section 53,
Floppy disk device 54, disk device 55, CR
It is composed of a T display 56 and a keyboard 57.

Next, using FIG. 2, the above-mentioned FAX-OC
An outline of an embodiment of the present invention will be explained based on a foreign exchange transaction operation in a financial institution using the R system. An explanation will be given assuming that an operator belonging to a bank branch receives a request from a customer for a money transfer transaction. When the operator receives the transfer request form shown in FIG. 6, for example, filled out by the customer at the branch counter (step ■), the operator causes the transfer request form to be read from the FAX 1a installed at the branch ( Step ■). As a result, FAX 1a reads the transfer request form, converts it into image data (compressed), and sends it to the FAX-OCR installed at the district center via communication line 2.
It is sent to the control device 3. The image data received by the FAX-OCR control device 3 is temporarily stored in the disk device 6a.
(Step 2), and then transmitted to the FAX-OCR processing device 4. Next, the FAX-OCR processing device 4 converts the image data received from the FAX-OCR control device 3 into character data using the recognition device 7. When converting to character data, the entire received image data (
In other words, the entire content of a transfer request form (the entire contents of a transfer request form is converted into image data) may be uniformly converted into character data, or a specific part of the image data may first be converted into character data, and then the relevant characters may be converted into character data. It is also possible to determine which part of the image data should be converted into character data based on the data, and to convert only the determined part into character data. When there is a large amount of image data, it is necessary to convert the image data into original image data (for example, bank marks or patterns printed on the transfer request form) and character data. When image data is mixed with image data, the latter is more effective in reducing the conversion time to character data and improving the conversion rate to character data, but in the present invention, conversion to character data is more effective. The method may be any of the above, and is not limited to the above methods. When the conversion from image data to character data is completed, it is subsequently determined whether the transfer process is to be performed based on the character data. As a method for this determination, for example, a method using a character at a specific position of the character data, that is, a character corresponding to the position of the request form classification K ("789" in the example of FIG. 6) among the character data as shown in FIG. Adopt a method to determine whether a transfer is being processed. In this embodiment, "789" is printed on the transfer request form in the form position corresponding to the request form classification K.
When the image data of the transfer request form is converted into character data, the characters corresponding to the position of the request form classification K are "789".

If it is a transfer process, the character data is stored in the disk device 6b together with the image data corresponding to the character data (ie, the image data to be converted into character data) (step 2). Next, FAX-OC
The R processing device 4 performs predetermined processing based on the character data of the transfer process stored in the disk device 6b in step (3), edits it into a predetermined format, and displays the image data on the WS5b if necessary. The image is displayed on the CRT display 56 or the like (step 2). The operator belonging to the district center confirms the transfer transaction data displayed on the display section of the WS 5b in step (2) and, if necessary, corrects the transfer transaction data using the operation section of the WS 5b, such as the keyboard 57. When a predetermined key on the operation section of WS5b is pressed, the FAX-OCR processing device 4 determines that the transfer data displayed on the display section of WS5b is correct, edits it into a predetermined message format (not shown), and sends it to the terminal control device 9. via H
Send to OST 10 (step ■). Through the above steps, the money order transfer process is performed.

Next, the processing of the WS5b (ie, the image data display device of the present invention), which is the central part of the present invention, will be explained. First, an overview of the present invention will be explained using FIG. 1, which is a conceptual diagram of an apparatus of the present invention. That is, the receiving means M1 is a FAX 1a or a higher-level device (for example, a FAX-OCR
When image data (and character data) is received from the processing device 4), the display data creation means M2 creates a plurality of display data to be displayed on the display means M4 based on the received data. The display control means M3 controls so that only one of the plurality of display data created by the display data creation means M2 is displayed at a time (that is, sequentially), and displays it on the display means M4.

Next, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail, mainly using FIGS. 3 and 4. This process is performed by a program stored in advance in the floppy disk device 54 or disk device 55 and loaded into the memory 51. This program is an operating system that mainly executes data processing related to image data, etc., Job 1J1 and Job 2J2 (see Figure 4), manages Job 1J1 and Job 2J2, and performs basic control of the hardware of the image data display device. (not shown)
It consists of Also, job 1J1 and job 2J2
perform operations in parallel under the control of the operating system. In the following explanation, job 1J1 and job 2J2
The explanation will focus on the processing of each job, but the processing of each job is performed in cooperation with the operating system.

[0015] The processing of job 1J1 (job 2J2
The processing of job 1J1 is also the same as that of job 1J1). Briefly speaking, the contents of this process are as shown in FIG.
The data is displayed on the CRT display 56 in b for the operator to confirm and correct the data if necessary. That is, the disk device 6 of the FAX-OCR processing device 4
The transfer control unit 53 receives the money order transfer processing data (a mixture of image data and character data that is the recognition result of the image data) stored in b.
Step S10). Next, the received image data (compressed to reduce the amount of transfer) is decompressed by the image decompression unit 52 (step S11), and the decompressed image data and character data that is the recognition result of the image data are combined. Based on this information, display screen data to be displayed on the CRT display 56 as shown in FIG. 7, for example, is created by adding other information as necessary (step S12). After that, the operating system is sent to step S12.
The display screen data that has already been created is requested to be displayed on the CRT display 56, but the operating system determines whether another job (job 2J2 in this embodiment) is already being displayed and determines that it is being displayed. The job waits until it can be displayed, and when it is determined that it is not being displayed, it is displayed on the CRT display 56 (step S1
3). That is, the operating system exercises exclusive control over the use of the CRT display 56 for each job. Next, the operator of the WS 5b looks at the content displayed on the CRT display 56 and makes corrections or confirmations (step S14). This part will be explained using FIG. 7 as follows. That is, the important part of the content displayed on the CRT display 56 is the content of the money transfer request form filled out by the customer at the branch, and the image data IM displayed at the top of each display item is the actual characters written by the customer. , character data CH displayed below is the recognition result (ie, recognized character) of the image data IM. Therefore, the operator of the WS 5b has to check whether the recognized characters have been correctly recognized based on the image data IM that is also displayed. If it is determined that the text was not recognized correctly (the data in the [Amount] column in Figure 7 shows this example), or if it is determined that the characters entered by the customer were not recognized ([Client] in Figure 7). (The data in the column shows this example), and other cases where the recognition result is correct but there is a mistake in the content entered by the customer. Displayed image data I
Make a comprehensive judgment based on M and other information and correct the recognition results to correct data. As mentioned above, when the operator
After checking the content displayed on the RT display 56 and making corrections if necessary, and confirming that the data is correct, the user presses the completion key provided on the keyboard 57 (step S15). As a result, the recognized characters confirmed by the operator (sometimes characters modified by the operator) are converted to a predetermined transfer format and sent to the FAX-OCR processing device 4 via the transfer control unit 53. (Step S16
). (In addition, in the FAX-OCR processing device 4, after storing the transmitted recognized characters in the disk device 6b, they are edited into a predetermined message format (not shown) and sent to the HOST via the terminal control device 9.
Send to 10. ) With the above, one exchange transfer transaction operation on the image data display device side has been completed.
Since it is no longer necessary to display the screen data related to the transaction, the operating system is requested to perform processing to switch the display screen. The job that has issued the occupation request for the CRT display 56 is permitted to occupy the CRT display 56 (step S17), and the process returns to step S10 again to receive data for the next transaction. With the above, job 1J1
Although the processing of job 2J2 has been explained in detail, the processing of job 2J2 is the same as that of job 1J1, and step S20 of job 2J2
Each process from step S10 corresponds to the process from step S10 of job 1J1. As is clear from the above explanation, job 1
J1 and job 2J2 are processed in parallel under the management of the operating system, so steps S10 to S12 (steps S20 to S22) are processed in parallel. Therefore, as long as data can be obtained through reception, display data will be created in parallel, so a plurality of display data will be created. However, the part related to the processing using the CRT display 56, that is, steps S13 to S17 (
Steps S23 to S27) are sequentially executed under exclusive control of the operating system.

[0016] This completes the explanation of one embodiment of the present invention based on the money transfer process, but of course the present invention is not limited to the money order transfer process or the above-described embodiment, and may be configured as follows. It's okay.

1. The number of jobs is not limited to two, but may be three or more. In addition, by increasing the number of jobs or preparing multiple connection lines between the transfer control unit 53 and the FAX-OCR processing device 4, it is possible to It is desirable that other jobs receive the data and complete the creation of display data so that they can immediately occupy the CRT display 56 when the CRT display 56 is no longer occupied.

2. In the above-described embodiment, the processing of job 1J1 includes steps S10 to S12 (hereinafter referred to as the "first half"), which are parts that can be processed in parallel with other jobs under the management of the operating system; CRT display 56 on which sequential processing is performed under exclusive control of the system
, that is, steps S13 to S17 (hereinafter referred to as the "second half"). However, without configuring the job for this kind of processing,
After preparing the second half as an independent job, preparing multiple independent jobs for the first half, and completing the display data creation that is the processing of the first half, the process of using the CRT display 56 is described above. It is also possible to request processing to the second half of the independent job. Furthermore, a processor may be assigned exclusively to each of the jobs in the first half, and these jobs may be operated in parallel.

3. In the embodiment described above, it was possible to modify the displayed data, but the operator does not perform any key operations such as modification, and the image data display device only performs display, that is, the data is displayed on the monitor. You can also just do it.

4. In the above example, FAX1a and WS5
FAX-OCR control device 3 or FAX-OCR
In other words, the processing device 4, etc. existed, but these devices did not exist at all, and the functions of all these devices (i.e., receiving, recognizing, displaying image data from the FAX 1a, etc.) were made to be provided to the WS5b. , the WS 5b alone may perform all the processes of the above-described embodiments.

[0021]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained in detail above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be expected. That is, in the image data display device according to the present invention, the display data creation means creates a plurality of display data to be displayed on the display means based on image data transmitted from a FAX, and the display control means creates a plurality of display data to be displayed on the display means. Control is performed to sequentially display the plurality of display data created by the creation means on the display means.

Therefore, for an operator who performs a predetermined operation based on the display data displayed on the display means, when the operation of one display data is completed and the operator attempts to operate the next display data, the display means The display data to be displayed is
Since it can be expected that the display data has already been created by the display data creation means while the operator is operating, the time required to display the display data is shortened, and the waiting time before performing the next operation is shortened. A large amount of data can be processed in a short period of time. Therefore, since the number of image data display devices can be reduced, the installation cost and installation space of the image data display devices can also be reduced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

[Figure 1] Conceptual diagram of an image data display device

[Figure 2] FA
System configuration example of X-OCR system

[Figure 3] Hardware configuration diagram of image data display device

FIG. 4: Flowchart of one embodiment of the present invention

[Figure 5] Hardware configuration diagram of FAX-OCR system

[Figure 6] Example of money transfer request form

[Figure 7] Screen display example

[Explanation of symbols]

M1 Receiving means M2 Display data creation means M3 Display control means M4 Display means 1a Facsimile machine (FAX) 2
Communication line 3 FAX-OCR control device 4
FAX-OCR processing device 5b Workstation (WS) 50 Processor 51 Memory 52 Image data expansion section 53 Transfer control section 54 Floppy disk device 55 Disk device 56 CRT display 57 Keyboard 6a, 6b Disk device (DK) 7
recognition device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image data display device that performs display based on image data transmitted from a facsimile machine, comprising: receiving means for receiving image data; display means; based on the image data received by the receiving means; Display data creation means capable of creating a plurality of display data to be displayed on the display means, and control for sequentially displaying the plurality of display data created by the display data creation means on the display means. An image data display device comprising: display control means.