JPH05219289A - Image data transfer system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily transfer image data between host computers by using a facsimile equipment. CONSTITUTION:Facsimile controllers 15-1,15-2,15-3 enter the content of an OMR sheet 32 inputted from a facsimile equipment 30. An input data control section 11 of a host computer 10 analyzes the input data. An image data management information file 13 manages transferred image data. An image data storage file 14 stores the transferred image data. An image data output control section 12 transfers the image data. An image data input control section 21 of the host computer 20 receives the transferred image data. An image data storage file 22 stores the transferred image data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image data transfer system between host computers, and more particularly to an image data transfer system for transferring designated image data to a designated host computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional image data transfer system, image data on a host computer is designated from an expensive terminal device connected to another host computer, and the designated image data is designated. Had been transferred.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional image data transfer method, in order to transfer image data between host computers, an expensive terminal connectable to the host computers is prepared and a dedicated line or the like is used. Therefore, there is a drawback that the host computers must be connected with each other.

[0004]

According to the image data transfer method of the present invention, an image data management information file for accumulating management information of image data stored in a first host computer and a facsimile are stored in the first host computer. A first facsimile controller for use as an input / output terminal of a computer; and an input controller for analyzing OMR information input from the facsimile by inputting data code-converted by the first facsimile controller. Based on the input data, based on the management information of the image data, the contents of the first image data storage file in which the image data is stored are connected to the second host computer of the designated destination. Image data output control section for transferring to the facsimile control device of It is configured to include an image data input control unit for storing image data transferred to the second image data storage file on the second host computer by Shimiri controller.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the image data transfer system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, a host computer 10, which is an image data input / output processing system, an input control unit 11, an image data output control unit 12, an image data management information file 13, and an image data storage. File 14
And the facsimile control devices 15-1, 15-2, 15-
3, a host computer 20 which is an image data input / output processing system, and an image data input control unit 21.
The image data storage file 22, the facsimile control devices 23-1, 23-2 and 23-3, the facsimile 30, and the public telephone network 40.

FIG. 2 shows an OMR input from a facsimile.
It is a figure which shows an example of the entry example of a data sheet, and the image data management information for transferring image data based on the data. The operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS.

First, the user inputs the OMR data shown in the OMR sheet 32 of FIG. 2 from the facsimile 30 to the facsimile controller 15-i (S1). In the example of FIG. 2, “0000” of the entry data 31 is the identification number 31-1 of the image data to be transferred, which is registered in the image data management information file 13, and is “871.
Facsimile controller 23 connected to host computer 20 for transferring image data
The telephone number 31-2 of -j is shown. Facsimile 3
The OMR data input from 0 is passed to the facsimile controller 15-i as image information, internally converted from an image to a code, and passed to the input control unit 11 as host system code data.

In the input control section 11, "*", is determined by the predetermined pattern of the passed OMR sheet 32.
The data is converted into "#" and numerical data from 0 to 9, the delimiter "*" is detected, and the numerical data is taken out into the memory of the host computer 10. Then, the extracted input data 33 is analyzed (S2), and the identification number 31
It is confirmed whether -1 is registered in the image data management information file 13 and the telephone number 31-2 is checked (S3). If there is no error, the communication with the facsimile 30 is normally terminated (S4).

If the information of the identification number 31-1 is not registered in the image data management information file 13 or the information of the telephone number 31-2 is incorrect,
The communication with the facsimile is disconnected as a communication error and the processing is stopped (S5).

Next, the image data output controller 12
Using the designated identification number 31-1 as a key, the image data management information file 13 is searched for the image data indicated by the image data storage file name 13-1.
Based on the information of the image data attribute 13-2, it is transferred to the host computer 20 indicated by the designated telephone number 31-2.

Therefore, the image data transferred to the facsimile control device 23-j is processed by the image data input control section 21 and stored in the image data storage file 22.

[0013]

As described above, according to the image data transfer method of the present invention, the image data on the host computer can be easily transferred to another host computer only by inputting the OMR sheet from the remote facsimile. Therefore, there is an effect that the cost of an expensive host system terminal device and the line cost between the terminal device and the host computer can be significantly reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image data transfer system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of entry of an OMR data sheet input from a facsimile and image management information for transferring image data based on the data.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the image data transfer system of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10, 20 Host computer 11 Input control unit 12 Image data output control unit 13 Image data management information file 14, 22 Image data storage file 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 23-1, 23-2,
23-3 Facsimile control device 21 Image data input control unit 30 Facsimile 31 Entry data 32 OMR sheet 33 Input data 40 Public telephone network

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image data management information file for accumulating management information of image data stored in a first host computer, and a first for using a facsimile as an input / output terminal of the first host computer. A facsimile control device, an input control unit for inputting and analyzing OMR information input from the facsimile by code-converting data by the first facsimile control device, and based on the input data based on management information of image data. And an image data output control unit for transferring the contents of the first image data storage file storing the image data to the second facsimile control device connected to the second host computer of the designated destination. , The image data transferred by the first facsimile controller And an image data input control unit for storing in a second image data storage file on the second host computer.