JPH06223153A - Electronic filing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten a copy generation time by providing a function for writing exactly the same data on plural different optical disk media, performing operation during actual operation, and copying the data to plural optical disk media at the same time. CONSTITUTION:This system has an input mechanism 11 for inputting,image data, an image development memory 12 where the inputted image data are developed, and an optical disk control mechanism A13a which controls plural optical disk devices, and is connected to an input device 20 through the input control mechanism 11 and to an optical disk device A21 and an optical disk device B22 through the optical disk control mechanism A13a, and image data inputted from the input device 20 are passed to the input control mechanism 11 as shown by a flow 30 of data and developed on the image development memory 12 as shown by a flow 31 of data. Then the optical disk control mechanism A13a writes the data, developed on the image development memory 12, in the optical disk device A21 (flow 33 of data) as shown by a flow 32 of data and also writes them in the optical disk device B22 (flow 34 of data) at the same time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic filing system for storing a large number of documents and drawings, and more particularly to an electronic filing system that requires the production of a plurality of optical disc media.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional electronic filing system will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a conventional electronic filing system.

In FIG. 3, a conventional electronic filing system B10b is an input mechanism for inputting image data.
11, an image development memory 12 for developing the input image data, and an optical disc control mechanism B13b for controlling a plurality of optical disc devices. The electronic filing system B10b is connected to the input device 20 via the input control mechanism 11 and the optical disc device C23 via the optical disc control mechanism B13, and further to the optical disc device C.
The optical disk device D24 is connected via 23. Input device
The image data input from 20 is transferred to the input control mechanism 11 by the data flow 30 and expanded in the image expansion memory 12 by the data flow 31. Optical disc control mechanism B
13b shows the data developed in the image developing memory 12 according to the data flow 32 of the optical disk device C23 (data flow 35) or the optical disk device D24 (data flow 3).
6) It has a registration function to write in and a copy function of an optical disk medium for creating a duplicated optical disk medium for dual management of data.

For the purpose of dual management or storage, the optical disk device C23 (data stream 35) or the optical disk device D24 (data stream 36) is used by the copy function of the optical disk control mechanism B13b. Are being duplicated on different optical disc media.

[0006]

Although the above-mentioned conventional electronic filing system has a feature that a large amount of documents and drawings can be stored, it is not suitable for dual management or storage. It is necessary to use the copy function to copy to different optical disk media each time.

Further, in order to perform the registration function and the copy function separately, it is necessary to perform at night because the work cannot be performed during the actual operation of registering and searching the electronic filing system. There is a drawback that it takes a huge amount of time to create the optical disc medium.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks by having the function of writing exactly the same data on a plurality of different optical disk media, and to perform work during actual operation.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic filing system in which duplication is simultaneously performed on a plurality of optical disc media and the duplication processing time is shortened.

[0009]

An electronic filing system according to the present invention has a registration function of compressing and encoding a document and a drawing as image information and storing the image and information on an optical disc medium.
In an electronic filing system having a function of copying an optical disk medium for creating a duplicated optical disk medium for performing dual management of data compression-encoded data, when performing the registration function, a plurality of different optical disk media are exactly the same. It has the function of writing data.

[0010]

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

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an electronic filing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mechanism not related to the present invention is omitted here.

In FIG. 1, an electronic filing system A10a of this embodiment controls an input mechanism 11 for inputting image data, an image developing memory 12 for developing the input image data, and a plurality of optical disk devices. It has an optical disk control mechanism A13a. The electronic filing system A10a is connected to the input device 20 via the input control mechanism 11 and to the optical disc device A21 and the optical disc device B22 via the optical disc control mechanism A13a. The image data input from the input device 20 is transferred to the input control mechanism 11 by the data flow 30 and expanded in the image expansion memory 12 by the data flow 31. The optical disk control mechanism A13a has the conventional registration function and copy function, and also transfers the data expanded in the image expansion memory 12 by the data flow 32 to the optical disk device A21.
It has the function of writing to (data flow 33) and the function of writing to optical disk device B22 (data flow 34).

Although the optical disk control mechanism A13a can write to the optical disk device A21 and the optical disk device B22 only for sequential processing, both the optical disk device A21 and the optical disk device B22 take time to complete the write operation. Therefore, when the write operation is completed, the optical disk device A21 and the optical disk device B22 notify the optical disk control mechanism A13a of the completion of the write operation in the form of an interrupt.

Next, the operation of the electronic filing system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the software processing method of the electronic filing system of this embodiment.

Electronic filing system A in FIG.
The software for controlling the simultaneous creation function of a plurality of media is stored in 10a, and the optical disk device A21 stores an optical disk medium A (hereinafter referred to as an optical disk A) and an optical disk device B.
22 is an optical disc medium B (hereinafter referred to as optical disc B)
Shall be installed. The control software first opens the optical disc A and then (step 5
0), the optical disk B is opened (step 5)
1). In this state, in order to write the image data stored in the image development memory 12 of FIG. 1 to the optical disc A and the optical disc B, first, a write request is made to the optical disc A (step 52). Since it takes time to complete the writing of the optical disc A, the writing of the optical disc B is requested without waiting for the completion (step 53). Both are devices having the same performance and media having the same characteristics, and in order to write the same amount of data, the write completion from the optical disk device A21 and the write completion from the optical disk device B22 are awaited (step 54). When the interrupt is returned, a judgment is made (step 55), and when the optical disc A is completed, the optical disc A is closed (step 56),
Further, the writing completion of the optical disc B is awaited (step 5).
8). When the optical disc B is completed, the optical disc B
After closing (step 57), the optical disc A
Wait for completion. Thereby, two optical disc media are simultaneously created by taking into consideration the time difference between the optical disc A write in step 52 and the optical disc B write in step 53, and the optical disc A close in step 56 and the optical disc B write completion waiting time in step 58. .

[0018]

As described above, according to the electronic filing system of the present invention, a plurality of optical disk media can be simultaneously prepared by adding a little time, so that the user can create the optical disk media. When making a copy, the following effects are obtained.

Copying can be performed during actual operation without considering the operating time zone.

It is not necessary to spend an enormous amount of time, and the copy creation time can be shortened.

There is no need to be aware of the copy function or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an electronic filing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a software processing method of the electronic filing system of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a conventional electronic filing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

10a Electronic filing system A 10b Electronic filing system B 11 Input control mechanism 12 Image expansion memory 13a Optical disc control mechanism A 13b Optical disc control mechanism B 20 Input device 21 Optical disc device A 22 Optical disc device B 23 Optical disc device C 24 Optical disc device D 30, 31 , 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 Data flow

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A registration function of compressing and encoding a document and a drawing as image information and storing them in an optical disc medium.
In an electronic filing system having a function of copying an optical disk medium for creating a duplicated optical disk medium for performing dual management of the data compression-encoded data, a plurality of different optical disk media are completely An electronic filing system having a function of writing similar data.