JPH0452735A - Information file device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the input for specification of the desired picture information while confirming the displayed picture information by making a control means inhibit the write to a storage area of a main storage means which stores the information pointed by an input means. CONSTITUTION:When plural pieces of picture information are continuously read out of an optical disk 14, these read information are stored in a display memory 3 and also in one of divided storage areas of a picture memory 9. If an input is received for specification of the picture information, the write is inhibited to the storage area of the memory 9 where the relevant picture information is stored. Thus it is possible to simultaneously perform the confirmation of the picture information through display and the specific processing of the picture information. Then the handling performance is improved for a picture information file device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (A) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to an information file device for storing and accumulating a plurality of pieces of information, and particularly for visually selecting desired information from among the stored information. Regarding.

(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. (e.g. 5ANYOTECH
NICAL REVIEW VOL, 21 No. 12
May, 1989, pages 3 to 11, "Optical Disk Document File System 5anfile <SOF-M2
(See S>).

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, image information recorded on optical discs can be searched by attribute information such as the image information title, registration date, or keyword attached to the image information, and you can search by specifying the attribute information. Image information can be selected. As a search result based on attribute information, usually a plurality of image information satisfying the specified attribute information (search condition) are selected, and a list of titles and the like of the image information is displayed.

A search based on attribute information has a strong primary search element for a secondary search in which desired image information is further searched for from the search results. The desired image information can be obtained by selecting desired image information and reading the selected image information from the optical disk into a storage means such as an image memory inside the system. The obtained image information is then subjected to processing such as printing, transmission via a communication line, or editing.

(c) Problem to be Solved by the Invention In order to specify desired image information from among the plurality of image information retrieved by the attribute information, it is necessary to check the plurality of image information ( It is necessary to select and display one or more pieces of image information that seem to be the desired image information from among the items (indicated by titles, labels, etc.).

Confirmation for specifying desired image information is displayed by either specifying one piece of image information and displaying it, or specifying a plurality of pieces of image information and displaying them one after another. In the case of continuous display, the image information read from the optical disk is stored in a storage means such as an image memory, but in order to store the next image information, the previous image information is erased. It ends up. For this reason, the display for confirmation simply displays the image information, and does not allow specific input of image information.In order to obtain (specify) the desired image information confirmed by the display, It was necessary to perform input to select desired image information from the search results in a processing mode different from the display for the search results.

However, especially when there is more than one desired image information, the mode of confirmation display and obtaining (identifying) the desired image information
Since the mode is different, it is not possible to select and input the desired image information while checking the image information displayed, and it is not possible to efficiently obtain the desired image information.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an information file device that allows input for specifying desired image information while confirming the image information by displaying it. be.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides an auxiliary storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of information, a main storage means for reading out and storing the information stored in the auxiliary storage means, and a method for displaying information based on the information. display memory,
An information file device comprising a display means for displaying information based on information stored in the display memory, wherein the storage area of the main storage means is divided into a plurality of areas and the storage of information in each storage area is managed. and the information stored in the auxiliary storage means is read from the auxiliary storage means and stored in a storage area of the main storage means to which writing of information is not prohibited by the management means, and also stored in the display memory and displayed on the display means. The control means includes a control means and an input means for instructing to prohibit writing of information to a storage area of the main storage means in which the same information as the information displayed on the display means is stored, and the management means is configured to perform an instruction to prohibit writing of information to a storage area of the main storage means in which the same information as the information displayed on the display means is stored. The storage area of the main storage means in which information is stored is write-protected.

(E) When a plurality of pieces of information are successively read from the auxiliary storage means by the action control means, the read information is stored in the display memory and displayed on the display means, and writing of the same information is prohibited by the management means. It is stored in a storage area of the main storage means that is not currently used. When an input is made to specify the information displayed on the input means, writing to the storage area of the main memory means in which the same information as the information displayed on the display means is stored is prohibited. . When the next information is read from the auxiliary storage means, the information is stored in the display memory and displayed on the display means, and is also stored in a storage area where writing of information is not prohibited by the management means of the main storage means. Ru. Thereby, the information specified by the input from the input means exists in the main storage means without being deleted, so that the desired information can be specified at the same time as confirmation by the display.

(f) Embodiment FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an image information file device as an information retrieval device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the information to be searched is image information, and the image information is given attribute information used as search information, such as the title, registration date, management number, or keyword of the image information.

(1) Recording, reading and displaying image information and attribute information,
Alternatively, it is a control circuit that controls the entire image information file device, such as searching.

(2) is a display as a display means such as a CRT or liquid crystal panel; (3) is a display memory in a bitmap format that stores display data on the display (2);
) is a display control circuit that controls the display on the display (2) based on the display data stored in the display memory (3), and the display management memory (5) stores the display data in the display memory (3). It manages the area and controls the display area on the display (2).

(6) is a keyboard as an input means for inputting operation commands and data to the control circuit (1), and is connected to the control circuit (1) and the display control circuit (4) via the input ink face (7). There is.

(8) is a scanner that optically reads an image and outputs image information, and the image information is stored in an image memory (9) as a main storage means. (10) is a printer that records and outputs an image based on image information on paper.

(11) is an image management means that controls the storage and reading of image information in the image memory (9), and controls the reading of the image by the scanner (8) and the printing process of the image information by the printer (10). In the memory control circuit, the image memory (9) is controlled by the image memory management buffer (12).
The storage area is managed.

(13) is an optical disk device that uses an optical disk (14) as a recording medium and serves as an auxiliary storage means for recording a plurality of image information together with its attribute information.

Although the attribute information is recorded on the optical disc together with the image information, they may be stored in separate storage means.

(15) means that the optical disk (14) is the optical disk device (1
A series of attribute information read out by the control circuit (1) at the initial stage when the optical disc (3) is loaded is stored.
14) is a search information file circuit such as a hard disk device that stores all attribute information given to image information when recording (registering) the image information.

(16) is a number indicating image information corresponding to draft information, which is searched by the control circuit (1) based on the search information entered from the keyboard (6) and stored in the search information buffer (17). etc. (here it is a number),
This is a search result file circuit that stores the number as a search result.

In such an apparatus, first, registration of image information on an optical disc will be explained.

The scanner (8) reads the original image of the manuscript, etc.
The image information is input into an image memory (9). The image information stored in the image memory (9) is displayed on the display (2), and the keyboard (6) is used as necessary.
Editing processing is performed by operating . Then the keyboard (
6) "Title", "Management number", "Keyword"
When attribute information serving as search information is input, the control circuit (1) encodes the image information and records the input attribute information together with the input attribute information on the optical disk (14) using the optical disk device (13). In (1), each time image information is recorded on an optical disc, an optical disc for which attribute information is not stored in the search information file circuit (15) is sent to the optical disc device (13).
Each time the search information file circuit (15) is set, the attribute information given to the image information recorded on the optical disc is stored in the search information file circuit (15).

Next, a case will be described in which desired image information is searched from among the image information recorded in (14) on the optical disc.

The user operates the keyboard (6) to issue a search processing instruction to the control circuit (1), and further inputs search information (attribute information) that matches the desired image information for search. The input search information is stored in the search information buffer (17).

When the control circuit (1) is instructed to execute a search process using the keyboard (6), the control circuit (1) stores the search information buffer (17).
) is stored in the search information file circuit (15).
) Search from the information stored in ). As a result of the search, the number of the extracted image information is the search result file circuit (16)
is memorized.

When the search using the attribute information stored in the search information file circuit (15) is completed, the control circuit (1) searches the title, etc. of the image information based on the number of the image information stored in the search result file circuit (16). The attribute information is displayed as a list on the display (2) via the display control circuit (4).

- To read out one image information from the displayed search results, press the keyboard (6) to read the image information.
When the selected image information is selected by operating the control circuit (1), the control circuit (1) reads the address etc. on the optical disk (14) in which the selected image information is recorded from the search information file circuit (15), and according to the information, the control circuit (1) reads out the address etc. on the optical disk (14) in which the selected image information is recorded, and according to that information, the optical disk device ( In step 13), the selected image information is read from the optical disc (14). The read image information is decoded and stored in the image memory (
9), and is simultaneously stored in the display memory and displayed on the display (2) under the control of the display control circuit (4). Then, as necessary, the read image information is subjected to processing such as printing, transmission via a communication line (not shown), or editing.

If you want to display multiple pieces of image information selectively or sequentially in order to specify the desired image information from the list of search results, you can select multiple pieces of image information from the keyboard (6). or all image information, and instructs the control circuit (1) to that effect.

Then, the control circuit (1) changes the display screen of the display (2) into readout image display areas A, B, and C in which the readout image information is sequentially displayed, and the displayed image, as shown in FIG. Information is divided into specific image display areas E, F, G, and H in which image information specified as desired image information is displayed by inputting from the keyboard (6). The divided display areas are managed by a display management memory (5).

Furthermore, the image memory control circuit (11) divides the storage area of the image memory (9) into five areas, IV. The image memory control circuit (11) stores and manages the divided state of the image memory (9) and the storage status of each divided storage area in the image memory management buffer (12). This image memory management buffer (12) contains an image memory (
An area (12) for storing flag information indicating whether or not image information can be written to each storage area corresponding to each storage area (9).
a), and since nothing is stored in the image memory (9) in the initial state, the image memory management buffer (9) is stored in the image memory management buffer (9).
The flag information 12) indicates a state in which image information can be stored in any storage area of the image memory (9), as shown in FIG.

Now, the control circuit (1) sequentially reads a plurality of image information selected from the displayed search results or all the searched image information from the optical disk and displays them in the read image display areas A, B, and C. Display in order.

For example, let us assume that there are 12 pieces of image information in total to be read and displayed, and the order of reading is number 1, number 2, . . . , number 12.

The control circuit (1) refers to the search information file circuit (15) and reads out the first image information from the optical disc (14) via the optical disc device (13). The read first image information is stored in the storage area I of the image memory (9) by the image memory control circuit (11) under the control of the control circuit (1), and the read image information of the display memory (3) is stored in the storage area I of the image memory (9). It is stored in display area A and displayed on display (2). The image memory control circuit (11) registers that the first image information has been stored as the management information of the storage area I of the image memory management buffer (12), but does not write to the write-protected state while leaving the flag information as is. .

After displaying the first image information and a predetermined time has elapsed, the control circuit (1) displays the second image information on the optical disc (14).
) via the optical disk device (13). Similarly to the above, the second image information read out is sent to the control circuit (
Based on the control in step 1), the image memory control circuit (11) stores the image in the storage area II of the image memory (9), and also stores it in the readout image display area B of the display memory (3) and displays it on the display (2). Is displayed. The storage of the second image information in the storage area n is registered in the image memory management buffer (12), but the state of the flag information remains unchanged.

After a predetermined period of time has elapsed since displaying the second image information, the control circuit (1) reads the third image information from the optical disk (14) and stores it in the storage area I11 of the image memory (9) in the same way as described above. The image is then stored in the read image display area C of the display memory (3) and displayed on the display (2). At this time as well, the image memory management buffer (12) contains the storage area I.
I register that the third image information has been stored in II, but
The state of the flag information remains unchanged.

Here, when it is confirmed that this image information is the desired image information by looking at the display of the third image information, when a predetermined input is made from the keyboard (6) to specify that, The control circuit (1) stores the image information stored in the read image display area C of the display memory (3) in the specific image display area via the display control circuit (4), and stores the image information stored in the read image display area C of the display memory (3). The specified image information is displayed on the display (2) together with the read image information displayed on the screen. Note that once image information is stored in a specific image display area, storage of new image information in that display area is prohibited.

Further, the control circuit (1) causes the image memory control circuit (11) to write to the area where the third image information input for identification is stored, that is, the storage area III of the image memory (9). be instructed to prohibit. Then, the image memory control circuit (11) sets the flag information of the storage area III where the third image information of the image memory management buffer (12) is stored into a write-inhibited state. The state of the display management memory (5) at this time is shown in FIG. 4, and the state of the image memory management buffer (12) is shown in FIG.

After displaying the third image information for a predetermined period of time, the control circuit (1) reads out the fourth image information from the optical disk (14) and stores it in the storage area (■) of the image memory (9) and the display memory (3).
) is stored in the read image display area A and displayed on the display (2).
to be displayed.

If there is no identifying information up to the 8th image information, the image information is sequentially read from the optical disk (14), and for the 5th image information, it is read from the storage area V of the image memory (9) and the display memory (3). The sixth image information is stored in the image display area B, and the sixth image information is stored in the storage area of the image memory (9) and the read image display area C of the display memory (3).
The seventh image information is stored in the storage area IT of the image memory (9) and the read image display area A of the display memory (3), and the eighth image information is stored in the image memory (11) by the image memory control circuit (11). Since the storage area I11 of 9) is in a write-inhibited state, it is stored in the storage area 2, and is stored in the read image display area B of the display memory (3). The read image information is stored in the display memory (3) and displayed on the display (2).

When the ninth image information is read from the optical disk (14), the control circuit (1) stores the image information in the storage area V of the image memory (9) and the read image display area C of the display memory (3). When an input is made from the keyboard (6) to specify the image information by displaying the ninth image information, the ninth image information is stored in the specific image display area E, and the image memory control circuit (11) In order to prohibit writing to the storage area (2), the flag information of the storage area (2) is changed.

10.11.12 read from optical disc (14)
The th image information is sequentially stored in the storage area I of the image memory (9),
The images are stored in the readout image display areas A, B, and C of the display memory (3) and displayed on the display. Assuming that an input is made to specify the 10th and 12th image information among the displayed image information, 3.9.
10. The twelfth image information is stored, and the image is displayed in the corresponding display area of the display (2). The image memory (9) contains 3.9.
10. The 12th image information is stored in storage area III, ■,
■ and ■ are stored. The state of the image memory management buffer (12) at that time is shown in FIG.

Therefore, input for identification is performed while checking the displayed image information, and when all of the image information to be continuously displayed is displayed, the identified image information is stored in the image memory (9). The specified image information can be processed without reading out the desired image information from the optical disc (14) again.

Note that when storing the image information read from the optical disk (14) in the read image display area of the display memory, the image information may be reduced depending on the size of the display area, or a portion of the read image information may be stored and displayed. It may also be displayed in .

(G) Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above description, the present invention, when a plurality of image information is continuously read from an optical disk, stores the read image information in a display memory and divides the image into a plurality of images. When the image information is stored in one storage area of the memory and there is an input for identification, writing to the storage area of the image memory where the image information is stored is prohibited, and the image information can be confirmed by display and the image Information identification processing can be performed at the same time. That is, desired image information can be efficiently identified, and the identified image information can be processed without having to read out the image information from the optical disc again. Therefore, the usability of the image concession file device can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an image information file device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of division of a display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 3, 5, and 6 4 is a diagram showing the storage state in the image memory management buffer according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the storage state in the display management memory according to the embodiment of the invention. (1)... Control circuit (control means), (2)... Display (display means), (3)... Display memory, (4
)...display control circuit, (5)...display management memory,
(6)...Keyboard (input means), (8)...Scanner, (9)...Image memory (main storage means), (1
0)...Printer, (11)...Image memory control circuit (management means), (2)...Image memory management buffer, (13)...Optical disk device (auxiliary storage means),
(14)...Optical disk, (15)...Search information file circuit, (16)...Search result file circuit, (
17)...Search information buffer.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Auxiliary storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of information, a main storage means for reading and storing information stored in the auxiliary storage means, a display memory for displaying information based on the information, and a display memory for displaying information based on the information. an information file device comprising: a display means for displaying information based on stored information; control means for reading out the information from the auxiliary storage means and storing it in a storage area of the main storage means to which writing of information is not prohibited by the management means, storing it in the display memory and displaying it on the display means; input means for instructing to prohibit writing of information to a storage area of the main storage means in which the same information as the input information is stored; An information file device characterized in that a storage area of the means is write-protected. (2) The information file device according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the auxiliary storage means is image information.