JPH07248982A - Data control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the simultaneous control of both image and code data without causing any burden to a network. CONSTITUTION:The image data supplied from a facsimile 1 are sent to another facsimile 1, and a computer system 9 by the instructions of a computer 3 or displayed on the computer 3. The image data received by the facsimile 1 are not outputted from this facsimile and sequentially transferred to the computer 3. These data are once stored in the computer 3 which serves as a FAX server and then sent to the system 9 from the computer 3 and the facsimile 1 via a facsimile network 7. Then the image data are combined with the code data by the controlling ID sent from the computer 5 via a low-speed communication circuit 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data management system for managing image data and code data related thereto.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when a drawing or photograph and an explanation or explanation for the drawing or photograph are created as one sheet of data, the created data is a mixture of image data and code data. Becomes

By the way, conventionally, the code system and the image system are operated by completely different communication systems.
Generally, image data is exchanged between a facsimile and a facsimile network, and code data relating to this is exchanged through a network (low-speed communication line) other than the facsimile network such as a packet network.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional data communication method, the code data and the image data are managed separately, and the image data is transmitted only by the facsimile and the facsimile network. The code data is transmitted through a low-speed communication line different from the facsimile network, and there is a problem that it is impossible to centrally manage data in which image data and code data are mixed.

On the other hand, it is possible to unify the image data and the code data so that they are managed by the same network, but since both the code data and the image data move back and forth on one network, the network load is extremely high. There was also a problem that the communication cost would increase because of the high cost.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to manage image data and code data centrally and simultaneously without burdening the network, and at low cost. It is to provide a data management system capable of improving the performance of data transmission.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a data management system for centrally managing image data to be transmitted and code data related to the image data. Link information giving means for giving link information relating the data and the code data to the image data to be transmitted, and a data managing means for centrally managing the image data and the code data transmitted based on the link information. It is characterized by having.

Further, in the data management system according to the present invention, the image data is facsimile data transmitted by a facsimile network, and the code data is data transmitted by a low speed communication line.

[0009]

In the present invention having the above-described structure, for example, when transmitting image data such as a drawing or photograph and code data such as explanations and explanations, link information with the code data is transmitted to the image data to be transmitted. Add and send. The destination centrally manages the transmitted image data and code data based on the link information. Further, a network for transferring image data and other data is separately configured, and the image data is transferred by a facsimile network to prevent an increase in network load and improve performance.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of a data processing system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the functional configuration of an embodiment of the data processing system according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the facsimile 1 is connected to the computer 3 via a communication device 5, and is also connected to another facsimile 1 and a computer system 9 via a facsimile network 7. In addition, this computer system 9
Is connected to each computer via a low-speed communication line 10 and each facsimile 1 via a facsimile network 7.
Connected with. Then, the image data input from the facsimile 1 is transmitted to the other facsimile 1 or the computer system 9 or displayed on the computer 3 according to an instruction from the computer 3. The image data sent to the facsimile 1 is not output from the facsimile 1 as a sheet of paper, but is sequentially transferred to the computer 3 and temporarily stored in the computer 3 functioning as a FAX server. The image data transmitted from the computer 3 to the computer system 9 via the facsimile 1 and the facsimile network 7 is associated with the code data by the management ID transmitted from each computer 3 via the low speed communication line 10 by the computer system 9. It is designed to be saved and managed.

As shown in FIG. 2, the facsimile 1
In terms of their functions, the image data reading unit 11, the image data storage unit 13, and the image data printing unit 15
And a communication unit 17.

The image data reading section 11 is equipped with an image scanner and reads characters, drawings or photographs on an input document and supplies them to the image data storage section 13.

The image data storage unit 13 stores the image data read by the image data reading unit 11 as a file.

The image data printing section 15 prints and outputs the image data stored in the image data storage section 13.

The image data communication unit 17 is composed of a modem for transmitting and receiving image data through the facsimile network 7.

The computer 3 is functionally composed of an image data input / output unit 31, an image data storage unit 33, an image data processing unit 35, a man-machine interface unit 37, and a link ID issuing unit 39. Has been done.

The image data input / output unit 31 inputs the image data supplied from the facsimile 1 through the communication device 7 and supplies it to the image data storage unit 33.

The image data storage unit 33 stores the image data input from the image data input / output unit 31 as a file.

The image data processing unit 35 applies to the image data stored in the image data storage unit 33,
It has a function of executing processing such as compression, decompression, expansion, rotation, etc. to create screen display data of the CRT display that constitutes the man-machine interface unit 37.

The man-machine interface unit 37 includes a keyboard, a mouse, a CRT display, etc., gives various commands to the facsimile machine 1 and the computer itself, and displays the screen data created by the image data processing unit 35. Furthermore, it is used for the process of assigning a link ID, which will be described later.

The link ID issuing unit 39 has a function of issuing an ID code for associating the image data with the code data related to the image data and adding the ID code to the image data.

The computer system 9 is composed of a drawing filing system and the like, and is functionally provided with a data management section 91, an image data storage section 93, and a code data storage section 95.

The data management unit 91 stores the image data transmitted via the facsimile network 7 in the image data storage unit 93 and stores the code data transmitted via the low speed communication line 10 in the code data storage unit. The image data and the code data are linked and centrally managed based on the ID code transmitted through the low-speed communication line 10 while being stored in 95.

The operation of the present embodiment will be described below. First, the scanner function of the facsimile 1 is used to read image data from the image data reading unit 11. The read image data is temporarily stored in the image data storage unit 13 in the facsimile 1. The accumulated image data is input to the image data input / output unit 31 of the computer 3 through the communication device 5 by the activation from the man-machine interface unit 37, and then transferred to the in-computer image data storage unit 33 and temporarily accumulated. It And
It is confirmed and displayed on the computer screen by the image data processing unit 35 or the like, or is transmitted to another facsimile machine 1 or the computer system 3 via the facsimile network 7. At the time of transmission, the computer 3 issues an ID for linking the image data and the code data, and adds the ID to the image data for transmission. The code data is transmitted to the computer system 10 through the low speed communication line 10.

FIG. 3 shows a data format for transmitting image data by facsimile.

The data format based on the CCITT recommendation is
As shown in (A) of the figure, the 4-byte network country code,
It consists of 1 byte of delimiter data, 8 bytes of subscriber number data, 1 byte of delimiter data, and 10 bytes of subscriber code data, for a total of 24 bytes.

In this embodiment, the link ID is added to the data by utilizing this information portion. As shown in FIG. 3B, 24 bytes are divided, and a unique number, that is, a computer identification code, is assigned to each of the computers connected to the facsimile in the first 4 bytes, and next to the 1-byte delimiter data, Allocate an 8-byte link ID that is issued based on the day, hour, minute, and second, and send 1-byte delimiter data next to normal paper directly by fax transmission and image data without output on paper. A 10-byte code (output identification code) for identifying whether to store in the storage unit is transmitted.

In this way, the image data transmitted from the computer 3 to the other facsimile 1 is not output on paper, but is temporarily stored in the image data storage unit 13 of the destination facsimile machine 1 and then via the communication device 5 at any time. And is stored in the image data storage unit 33 of the computer 3.

In the computer system 9, the computer 3
The image data and the code data linked by the link ID added in step 1 can be collated by this link ID, and are centrally managed. As a result, the data stored on the computer 3 or the computer system 9 can be freely referred to and printed at any time by linking the image data and the code data based on the link ID.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the image data and the code data can be collectively managed,
Moreover, since the scanner device or printer for inputting the image data can be replaced by a facsimile, the cost can be reduced.

The image data is sent by the facsimile network 7.
Since it is used for transmission, the load on the network used by the code system can be reduced and the transmission performance can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. There are many systems built using networks, and there are many systems that handle images. Also, since the image data has a large amount of data,
There are many problems such as heavy load on the network, data management, and many peripheral devices. Therefore, the present invention can be applied to various data management systems handling image data without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, a facsimile network and a network can be used to perform centralized management of image data and code data efficiently and at a low cost without major modification of peripheral devices and the like. It becomes possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of a data management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed functional configuration of an embodiment of a data management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing details of a link ID that serves as link information between image data and code data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Facsimile 3 Computer 5 Communication Device 7 Facsimile Network 9 Computer System 10 Low Speed Communication Line 11 Image Data Reading Section 13 Image Data Storage Section 15 Image Data Printing Section 17 Image Data Communication Section 31 Image Data Input / Output Section 33 Image Data Storage Section 35 Image Data processing unit 37 Man-machine interface unit 39 Link ID issuing unit 91 Data management unit 93 Image data storage unit 95 Code data storage unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A data management system for centrally managing image data to be transmitted and code data related to the image data, wherein an image to be transmitted is link information relating the image data and the code data. A data management system comprising: a link information adding unit for adding data, and a data managing unit for integrally managing image data and code data transmitted based on the link information. 2. The data management system according to claim 1, wherein the image data is facsimile data transmitted by a facsimile network, and the code data is data transmitted by a low speed communication line.