JPH06309382A - Picture information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically apply a key word which can be easily retrieved to inputted picture information. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a means 50 which inputs the picture information, means 51 which stores the picture information, means 52 which generates frequencies, means 53 which calculates a time based on the generated frequencies, means 54 which generates the calculated time as a key word constituted of a character string, means 55 which stores the generated key words, means 56 which synchronization controls the picture information of the picture information storage means 51 and the key words of the key word storage means 55, means 57 which integrates the synchronization-controlled picture information and key words, and means 58 which stores the integrated picture information and key words.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement of an image information processing apparatus for processing image information such as drawings using a computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, while inputting image information such as a drawing using a computer, a keyword (search information composed of a character string) for identifying the input image information is added to the image. There is known an image information processing apparatus which reads out arbitrary image information by a keyword after associating the information with the keyword.
It is known that an operator attaches a keyword to input image information to easily search and read arbitrary image information from a large number of image information.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional apparatus, the operation of assigning a keyword requires skill, and when a large amount of image information is input, the operation of assigning a keyword requires a great deal of labor. In addition to the above, the input of the image information may not be immediately available due to the delay of the addition of the keyword.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an image information processing apparatus capable of automatically adding easily searchable keywords to input image information.

[0005]

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention provides an image information processing apparatus comprising means 50 for inputting image information and means 51 for accumulating the image information,
A means 52 for generating a frequency, a means 53 for calculating a time based on the generated frequency, a means 54 for generating the calculated time as a keyword composed of a character string, and a storage for the generated keyword. Means 55
And means 5 for synchronously controlling the image information of the image information storage means 51 and the keyword of the keyword storage means 55.
6, means 57 for integrating the synchronized image information and keywords, and means 58 for storing the integrated image information and keywords.

[0006]

The input image information is sequentially stored in the image information storage means, while the time calculated based on the signal from the frequency generation means is composed of a character string indicating time such as date and time by the keyword generation means. After being converted into keywords, they are sequentially stored in the keyword storage means. The image information and the keyword stored in the image information storage means and the keyword storage means are synchronously read by the synchronization control means and then combined as a pair of data in the integration means. The information stored in the integrated information storage means can be searched and read out based on the keyword.

[0007]

EXAMPLE FIG. 2 shows an example of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, an image database device 4 is composed of a computer or the like and processes image information such as drawings and keywords composed of character strings. The image database device 4 is internally provided with a storage unit (not shown).
Data is transferred to and from the integrated data storage unit 3 connected to the image database device 4, and the processing content is displayed on the display device 5.

The integrated data storage unit 3 is composed of storage means such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk device (not shown), and the input image information and keywords are stored in the integrated data storage unit 3.

Image information is input by an image data input unit 1 formed of an image reading device such as a scanner, and an image such as a drawing digitized (encoded or functionalized) by the image data input unit 1 is input. The information is sequentially stored in the image data storage unit 2. The image data storage unit 2 is configured by a storage unit such as a memory or a magnetic disk device (not shown).

On the other hand, the frequency generator 6 is composed of an oscillator circuit (not shown) or the like to generate a signal of a predetermined frequency (hereinafter referred to as a clock), and the character code generator 7 is based on the clock of the frequency generator 6. A time consisting of date and time is calculated, and the calculated time is converted into a character code composed of a predetermined character string.

In the keyword generation unit 8, the character codes sequentially converted are compared with the character codes before and after sequentially sent from the character code generation unit 7 in order to eliminate the duplicated keywords, and only the character codes that do not overlap are used as keywords. Is sent to the keyword storage unit 9.

The keyword storage unit 9 is composed of the same storage means as the image data storage unit 2, and sequentially stores the keywords sent from the keyword generation unit 8.

In this way, the image data storage unit 2 and the keyword storage unit 9 store the sequentially sent image information and the keyword, respectively, and the synchronization control unit 10 stores the image data storage unit 2 and the keyword storage based on a predetermined synchronization signal. Image information and keywords are output from the gates 11 and 12 respectively connected to the unit 9.

The image information and the keyword output from the gates 11 and 12 are sent to the OR gate 13.
The OR gate 13 combines the image information and the keyword as a pair of data based on the synchronization signal from the synchronization control unit 10, and writes the data including the pair of image information and the keyword into the integrated data storage unit 3.

In this way, the data written in the integrated data storage unit 3 can be searched for image information from a pair of keywords in the OR gate 13 by a read command from the image database device or the like.

An example of a processing operation for inputting a drawing as image information will be described in detail below with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The drawings read by the image data input unit 1 are sequentially stored as image information in the image data storage unit 2 (S1), and the storage in the image data storage unit 2 is performed at any time as the drawings are read.

On the other hand, the character code generator 7 sequentially converts the time calculated based on the clock into a predetermined character code (S2, 3), and the keyword generator 8 stores the character code as a unique keyword that does not overlap. It is stored in the section 9 (S4). This keyword storage is performed in the order of generated keywords.

The synchronization control unit 10 controls the gates 11 and 12 based on the synchronization signal to read the image information and the keyword from the image data storage unit 2 and the keyword storage unit 9, and the OR gate 13 also controlled by the synchronization signal. The image information and the keyword sequentially read out in step S1 are combined as a pair of data, and then written in the integrated data storage unit 3 (S
5) The time-based keyword is added to the image information of the drawing and held.

The time-based keyword is, for example,
It is composed of date, hour, minute, second, etc., and is added to the image information as a unique keyword that does not overlap in the integrated data storage unit 3.

In this way, the image information to which the keyword is added can be searched and classified from the image database device 4 based on the keyword (S6). The data stored in the integrated data storage unit 3 can be further smoothly used by adding image information, that is, drawing attributes, names, etc., by an operation of an operator or the like as necessary.

In this way, by repeating S1 to S6 described above, it becomes possible to sequentially read a large amount of image information such as drawings, and to sequentially write the image information to the integrated data storage unit 3 while adding a keyword based on time. Keywords are automatically assigned without manual operations such as, so the time from inputting image information to availability can be shortened, and labor saving of input work of image information processing device is promoted. can do.

In the above embodiment, the keywords are date, hour, minute, and second, but the keyword can be appropriately changed according to the interval of the image information to be input, and the image information to be input is only in the drawing. There is no limitation.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the time-based keywords are sequentially added to the read image information in the integrated information accumulating means, it is automatically performed without the need for manual operation by an operator or the like. Since it is possible to add a keyword to, it is possible to shorten the time from the input of the image information until the image information becomes available, and it is possible to promote the labor saving of the input work of the image information processing apparatus.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram corresponding to a claim of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control flow.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 image data input unit 2 image data storage unit 3 integrated data storage unit 4 image database unit 5 display unit 6 frequency generation unit 7 character code generation unit 8 keyword generation unit 9 keyword storage unit 10 synchronization control unit 11, 12 gate 13 OR gate 50 image information input means 51 image information storage means 52 frequency generation means 53 time calculation means 54 keyword generation means 55 keyword storage means 56 synchronization control means 57 integration means 58 integrated information storage means

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Masafumi Tachibada 1-12-1, Asamizodai, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. Sagami Factory (72) Inventor Kazutoshi Iizuka 1-12-1, Asamizodai, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa No. Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. Sagami Factory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image information processing apparatus comprising means for inputting image information and means for accumulating the image information, means for generating a frequency, and means for calculating time based on the generated frequency. , Means for generating the calculated time as a keyword composed of a character string, means for accumulating the generated keyword, image information of the image information accumulating means, and keyword control of the keyword accumulating means An image information processing apparatus comprising: a unit, a unit for integrating the synchronized image information and the keyword, and a unit for storing the integrated image information and the keyword.