JPH064474A - Work processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To freely change the title of a work to the title desired by an user, to add and delete the display order and the works and to display the work optionally in the step desired by the user even at the time of displaying the work in two steps. CONSTITUTION:In the processor for executing the plural works, the display contents of the plural works to be executed are stored in a main memory 38, the stored display contents of the respective works are displayed at a CRT display device 24 and the change of the displayed display contents of the respective works is instructed with a mouse 29 and a keyboard 23. Corresponding to the instruction, the display contents of the works stored in the main memory 38 is changed, that is, the title and the display order are changed and the works are added and deleted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a business processing device such as an image filing device for performing business such as image registration and retrieval.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an image such as a large amount of documents is read by a scanner (two-dimensional scanning device), and the read image is stored in an optical disc in association with a title.
An image filing apparatus has been put into practical use, which retrieves and reads any stored image using a title and outputs it in a state where it can be viewed on an output device such as a CRT display device or a recording device.

In such a device, filing processing,
It performs tasks such as search processing, registration processing, loading / unloading processing, cabinet / binder definition processing, image editing processing, document creation processing, and operation management processing. A selection screen for those operations is displayed as an initial menu. It has become so.

In some cases, a sub-menu is displayed next to each job after the initial menu. For example, if search processing is selected, logical search processing, direct search processing,
Annotation list search processing, page search processing, binder through search processing, etc.
In such a device in which a selection screen for those tasks is displayed, there are the following problems. That is, the name in the initial menu of each job cannot be displayed as the name desired by the user. Moreover, the display order in the initial menu of each work cannot be displayed in the order desired by the user. Also, the user cannot arbitrarily delete the job from the initial menu. Also, the user cannot arbitrarily add a task to the initial menu.

Further, when displaying a two-step job (displaying a submenu), the user must change whether to display the first-stage initial menu or the second-stage submenu. I can't. Therefore, the above-described business processing device has a problem that the display contents of the main menu and the sub menu cannot be changed.

[0006]

As described above, it is impossible to freely change the name of the work to the name desired by the user, the display order of the work, addition and deletion of the work cannot be performed, and the work of two stages cannot be performed. Even when displaying, there is a problem that the user cannot display the work at a desired stage.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances. It is possible to freely change the name of the work to the name desired by the user, to display the order, to add or delete the work, and
An object of the present invention is to provide a work processing device capable of displaying work at any stage desired by a user even when displaying work in stages.

[0008]

A business processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises execution means for executing a plurality of business operations, storage means for storing display contents of a plurality of business operations executed by the execution means, and this storage means. Display means for displaying the display content of each business stored in the storage means, instruction means for instructing to change the display content of each business displayed on the display means, and stored in the storage means in accordance with the instruction of the instruction means. The change means for changing the display content of the selected job, the selecting means for selecting the job displayed on the display means, and the processing means for processing the job selected by the selecting means using the executing means are included. There is.

The business processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plurality of first businesses, an execution means for executing the plurality of second businesses by the first business, display contents of the first business, and the second business. Storage means for storing display contents of work, display means for displaying the display contents of each first work or display contents of the second work stored in this storage means, and display by this display means Instruction means for instructing to change the display content of the first job or the display content of the second job, and the display content or the first content of the first job stored in the storage means according to the instruction of the instruction means. Changing means for changing the display content of the second job, selecting means for selecting one of the first job or the second job displayed on the display means, and the job selected by this selecting means Processing using means And a means.

[0010]

According to the present invention, a plurality of tasks are executed by the execution means,
The display contents of the plurality of jobs to be executed are stored in the storage means, the display contents of the stored jobs are displayed by the display means, and the change of the display contents of each displayed job is instructed by the instructing means. In response to this instruction, the display content of the work stored in the storage means is changed by the changing means, the work displayed on the display means is selected by the selecting means, and the selected work is executed by the executing means. It is designed to be processed using.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the construction of a business processing apparatus such as an electronic filing apparatus according to the present invention. That is, the electronic filing device includes a control module 10, a memory module 12, an image processing module 14, a communication control module 16, a scanner device 18, and an optical disk 20.
The optical disk device 22, the keyboard 23, the CRT display device 24, the printer device 25, the magnetic disk 26 and the magnetic disk device 27, the mouse 29, the system bus 30, and the image bus 32 are included.

The control module 10 includes a CPU 34 that performs various controls for image storage, retrieval, edit processing, and the like.
And optical disk device 22, magnetic disk device 27 and C
The interface circuit 36 connects the PU 34. A keyboard 23 and a mouse 29 are connected to the CPU 34.

The memory module 12 is an image memory having a main memory 38 for storing various control programs for image storage, retrieval, editing, etc. and management information, and an image memory having a storage capacity corresponding to images of several pages of A4 size document. Page memory 40, a display memory 42 as a display interface, and a display controller 44. A buffer memory area 40a is provided in a part of the page memory 40. The page memory 40 is a memory that temporarily stores, for example, an image stored in the optical disc 20 or an image read from the optical disc 20. The main memory 38 has an initial menu storage area 38a and a sub menu storage area 38b. In the initial menu storage area 38a, the contents corresponding to each job displayed as the initial menu (first-stage display menu) are stored in the display order.

For example, as shown in FIG. 2, for each job, a main menu item, job display attached data, a sub menu number, a job number, a user (user) definition job name,
It is composed of the execution business process name and the execution business related data.

The main menu item indicates whether or not to have a sub-menu table. When it is "1", it has a sub-menu table, and when it is "0", it does not have a sub-menu table. The work display attached data indicates data attached to the work display. The submenu number is the number of the submenu table or the address of the submenu storage area 38b. The business number is a number uniquely assigned to each business. The user-defined business name is a business name defined by the user and is the business name that is actually displayed. This business name can be arbitrarily changed by the user. The execution work process name and the execution work related data indicate the start program name of the processing program. The sub-menu storage area 38b stores the contents of sub-menus (second-stage display menus) corresponding to each job of the initial menu in the display order.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, it is composed of the number of submenu items, work display attached data, user-defined work name, execution work process name, and execution work related data.

The number of sub-menu items indicates the number of items in the corresponding sub-menu for one job. The work display attached data indicates data attached to the work display for each item of the sub-menu. The user-defined business name is a business name defined by the user for each item of the submenu, and is the business name that is actually displayed. The execution work process name and the execution work related data indicate the start program name for each item of the sub menu.

The display memory 42 is for temporarily storing an image displayed by the CRT display device 24. In the display memory 42, an image actually displayed in the display window of the CRT display device 24, for example, an image from the page memory 40 or an image from the buffer memory 40a is enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted or inserted. An image subjected to black-and-white reversal or the like is stored. The display control unit 44 controls the display processing of the CRT display device 24 and the like.

The image processing module 14 includes an enlarging / reducing circuit 46 for enlarging and reducing an image, a vertical / horizontal converting circuit 48 for rotating an image, and an encoding process for compressing an image (reducing redundancy). A compression / decompression circuit (CODEC) 50 for performing a decoding process for applying and decompressing (restoring the reduced redundancy), a scanner interface 52 for the scanner device 18, a printer interface 54 for the printer device 25, and scaling. The internal bus 56 connects the circuit 46 and the vertical / horizontal conversion circuit 48 with the compression / expansion circuit 50, the scanner interface 52, and the printer interface 54. The compression / expansion circuit 50 uses the MH (Modified Huffman) method, the MR (Modified Read) method, or the like to perform band compression,
Alternatively, band extension is performed.

The communication control module 16 is, for example, an LA.
It is configured by a communication interface 58 such as a BCP (Bus Communica-tion Processor) connected to the N.
Further, the communication control module 16 is connected to an external device such as an FCP (facsimile connection mechanism) or a personal computer through an interface, and a UCP (Universal Communication).
Processor) may be provided.

The system bus 30 is a bus for control signals of various devices and connects the control module 10 with the memory module 12, the image processing module 14, and the communication control module 16. The image bus 32 is an image bus, and connects the memory module 12, the image processing module 14, and the communication control module 16.

The scanner device 18 is, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device and obtains an electric signal corresponding to an image on the original by scanning the original (document) two-dimensionally with a laser beam.

The optical disk device 22 is the scanner device 18
The images read by the method are sequentially stored in the optical disc 20. The optical disc 20 is searched for an image corresponding to the search code designated by the keyboard 23 or the like.

The keyboard 23 is used to input a unique search code corresponding to an image stored on the optical disk 20 and various operation commands for storage, search, edit processing and the like. Further, the mouse 29 moves the cursor (not shown) displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24, for example, vertically and horizontally to give an instruction at a desired position so that the cursor is positioned. The display contents (various operation modes, area designation or icon for image editing, etc.) are selected or designated.

The CRT display device (cathode ray tube display device) 24 displays the image read by the scanner device 18 and the image retrieved from the optical disk 20. Icons and the like are displayed at the upper end, the lower end, and the right end on the display window of the CRT display device 24.

The printer device 25 prints out (hard copy) the image read by the scanner device 18, the image retrieved from the optical disk 20, or the image displayed on the CRT display device 24.

The magnetic disk device 27 stores various control programs on the magnetic disk 26 mounted on the magnetic disk device 27, and stores a search code input from the keyboard 23 and an image corresponding to the search code. The search data (search information) including the storage address on the optical disc 20, the image size, the search frequency, and the like is stored.

The search data is managed by a document management table. The document management table is, as shown in FIG. 4, a title management table 26a,
Page management table 26b and record management table 2
6c. In the title management table 26a, one document number is stored for each search code (image name) consisting of a plurality of search keys. In the page management table 26b, record numbers are stored page by page of one document, and one record number is stored corresponding to each page. The record management table 26c stores image attributes such as a storage address (storage start position) of the image on the optical disc 19, a document size (image size), a compression method and a resolution for each record number. The storage address is
It is a logical address, and a physical track address and a physical sector address are calculated from this at the time of access. Next, the display processing of the initial menu in such a configuration will be described.

That is, when the power switch (not shown) is turned on, the CPU 34 reads the stored contents of the initial menu storage area 38a of the main memory 38 and displays the initial menu of the read contents on the CRT display device 24. That is, the user-defined job name for each job is read from the initial menu storage area 38a and CR
It is displayed on the T display device 24.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, filing processing, retrieval, registration, loading / unloading, cabinet / binder definition, image editing, document creation, and operation management are displayed as initial menus.

When a search is selected using the keyboard or mouse while the initial menu is displayed, the CPU 34 reads the submenu data number corresponding to the search from the initial menu storage area 38a, and the submenu data From the address of the submenu storage area 38b corresponding to the number, the number of submenu items and the user-defined job name for each item are displayed in the initial menu storage area 3
It is read out from 8a and displayed on the CRT display device 24. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, logical search, direct search, annotation list search, page search, binder through search are displayed as submenus. By selecting one of the submenus, the corresponding search process is performed.

In such a state, the initial menu,
Submenu change processing will be described. That is,
Operation management is selected with the initial menu shown in FIG. 5 being displayed. Then, the CPU 34 reads the submenu data number corresponding to the operation management from the initial menu storage area 38a, and from the address of the submenu storage area 38b corresponding to this submenu data number, the number of submenu items and the user definition for each item. The work name is read from the initial menu storage area 38a and displayed on the CRT display device 24. As this display content, the work for designating the change processing of the initial menu and the sub menu is also displayed.

When the initial menu or submenu change process is selected, the initial menu change process or the submenu change process is selected, which task of the initial menu or submenu is changed, and the change contents are designated. The names are changed, the display order is changed, jobs are deleted, jobs are added, and jobs in the submenu are changed to jobs in the initial menu, and their contents are input.

For example, when the name of the initial menu is changed, the user-defined job name of the corresponding job in the initial menu storage area 38a is rewritten with the changed new name. When the name of the submenu is changed, the user-defined work name of the corresponding work in the submenu storage area 38b is rewritten to the changed new name.

Further, when the display order of the initial menu is changed, the stored contents of the business unit in the initial menu storage area 38a are rewritten to the stored contents corresponding to the instructed display order. When the display order of the sub-menu is changed, the stored content of the business unit in the sub-menu storage area 38b is rewritten to the stored content in the designated display order.

When the job of the initial menu is deleted, all the stored contents of the corresponding job in the initial menu storage area 38a are deleted. When the task of the submenu is deleted, the submenu storage area 38b
All the stored contents of the corresponding job in are deleted.

Further, when the work of the initial menu is added, the storage content of the additional work is added to the storage position corresponding to the display position in the initial menu storage area 38a. When the work of the submenu is added, the storage content of the additional work is added to the storage position corresponding to the display position in the submenu storage area 38b.

Further, when the work of the sub-menu is changed to the work of the initial menu, the stored content of the selected work in the sub-menu storage area 38b is stored corresponding to the display position in the initial menu storage area 38a. In addition to the position, the stored contents of the selected job in the submenu storage area 38b are deleted. As described above, the user can display an arbitrary business name by changing the user-defined business name.

Further, in both the main menu and the submenu, the jobs are displayed in the order in which the data groups are arranged. Therefore, the user can display the jobs in any order by changing the order of the data groups. And delete the data group,
By adding, the work displayed by the user can be added or deleted.

When this addition or deletion is performed, by changing the main menu item class and the sub menu number, it is possible to select whether to display the work in the main menu or the sub menu.

Therefore, the business name can be freely changed to the name desired by the user, the display order thereof, the addition of business,
Can be deleted. Further, when displaying the work in two stages, the work can be displayed at any stage desired by the user.

[0043]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a business processing device capable of changing the display contents of the main menu and the sub menu.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a business processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of an initial menu storage area in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of a submenu storage area in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a storage example of a document management table in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing a display example of an initial menu on the CRT display device of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a submenu on the CRT display device of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

20 ... Optical disc, 18 ... Scanner device, 22 ... Optical disc device, 23 ... Keyboard, 24 ... CRT display device, 34 ... CPU, 38 ... Main memory, 38a ...
Initial menu storage area, 38b ... Submenu storage area.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Execution means for executing a plurality of jobs, storage means for storing display contents of a plurality of jobs executed by the execution means, and display contents for each job stored in the storage means Display means for displaying, the instruction means for instructing to change the display content of each business displayed on this display means, and the display content of the business stored in the storage means in response to the instruction of the instruction means And a processing unit for processing the work selected by the selecting unit by using the executing unit. Processing equipment. 2. A plurality of first jobs, an execution means for executing the plurality of second jobs by the first jobs, a display content of the first business, and a display content of the second business. And a display means for displaying the display content of each first job stored in the storage means or the display content of the second job stored in the storage means; Instructing means for instructing to change the display content of the first job or the display content of the second job, and the display content of the first job or the second job stored in the storage means according to the instruction of the instructing means. Changing means for changing the display content of the work, selecting means for selecting one work of the first work or the second work displayed on the display means, and the executing means for executing the work selected by this selecting means Processing means for processing using Business processing apparatus characterized by the.