JPH07295778A - Document storage system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify a storage and to improve operability by displaying virtual realization space including plural document storage areas on a screen, disignating an arbitrary document storage areas on a realization space, displaying the document stored in the corresponded document storage area and reading documents. CONSTITUTION:A virtual display control part 8 displays virtual realization space including plural document storage areas on the screen of a display 11. An area data storage part 3 stores area data for discriminating the document storage area displayed on the display 11 and the location on the screen of a monitor, etc. When an arbitrary location is designated on the screen, an area recognition part 4 recognizes the designated document storage area based on the area data of the area data storage part 3. In a state that the area recognition part 4 recognizes an arbitrary document storage area and when an arbitary operation instruction including the take-out and storage of the document is performed for the document storage area, a document processing part 5 performs the processing corresponding to the operation instruction.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document storage system for storing electronic documents in various areas in an office (virtual reality) drawn on a computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art DTP is used as a document processing system.
(Desk top publishing) system is available.
Such a DTP system performs document processing such as document creation, editing and layout.

[0003]

However, the conventional DTP system only has the storage destination of the document as an icon of a cabinet or the like, and, for example, the document management of a section, a department or a department which is a rule of the office. There is no concept of. Therefore, for the operator,
Storage is very complicated, and there has been a demand for a document storage system capable of improving operability for the operator.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a document storage system of the present invention includes a virtual display control unit for displaying a virtual reality space including a plurality of document storage areas on a screen, and a virtual display control unit for displaying the virtual reality space. Area data storage unit that stores the area data for identifying the position of the document storage area on the screen, and the area of the area data storage unit when an arbitrary position is specified on the screen displayed by the virtual display control unit An area recognition unit that recognizes a specified document storage area based on the data, and an operation that retrieves or stores a document in the document storage area while the area recognition unit recognizes the arbitrary document storage area. When an instruction is given, a document processing unit that performs processing corresponding to the operation instruction is provided.

[0005]

In the document storage system of the present invention, when an arbitrary position on the screen is designated, first, the area recognition unit
It recognizes which document storage area is designated based on the area data in the area data storage unit. Next, the document processing unit
Based on the document storage area recognized by the area recognition unit, when an operation instruction for taking out or storing a document is given, the document is taken out or stored according to the operation instruction.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. << Embodiment 1 >> FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing Embodiment 1 of the document storage system of the present invention. The system shown in the figure includes a data storage unit 1, a print control unit 2, a region data storage unit 3, a region recognition unit 4, a document processing unit 5, a document storage unit 6, a work desk storage unit 7, a virtual display control unit 8, and a command. The control unit 9, the input / output control unit 10, the display 11, the keyboard 12, and the mouse 13 are included.

The data storage unit 1 is a storage unit for storing data input from the keyboard 12 and the mouse 13. The print control unit 2 has a function of printing a document by a printer or the like. The area data storage unit 3 also stores area data displayed on the display 11 for identifying a document storage area, which will be described later, and a position on a screen such as a monitor. Area recognition unit 4
Has a function of recognizing the specified document storage area based on the area data of the area data storage unit 3 when an arbitrary position on the screen is specified.

In the state where the area recognition section 4 recognizes an arbitrary document storage area, the document processing section 5 receives an arbitrary operation instruction including retrieval and storage of a document from the document storage area. The processing corresponding to the operation instruction is performed. The document storage unit 6 is a storage unit for storing a document stored in a wall storage described later, and the work desk storage unit 7 stores it in a work desk for processing a document, that is, performs a process. For storing document data for.

The virtual display control unit 8 is a control unit for displaying a virtual reality space including a plurality of document storage areas on the screen of the display 11. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of such a virtual reality space. In the virtual reality space displayed in this way, "base paper, section, department, department"
Indicates respective document storage areas. The base paper indicates a storage area of the base paper of the document of the standard format.

The pending box is an area for storing a document in an undecided state, which indicates that the document processing at the current location is not completed, and the pending box is the document processing at the current location. This is an area for storing a document in a determined state indicating that the document is being processed. Further, the work desk is an area for performing document processing such as document editing. The monitor is an area for confirming the location of the document, and the copying machine is an area for outputting such as printing and copying. The trash box is an area for deleting a document.

Further, in such a display of the virtual reality space, the area data storage unit 3 stores the coordinate data as each area data as described above. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of area data of each document storage area stored in the area data storage unit 3. That is, raw paper storage, section document storage, department document storage, department document storage,
Each area of the work desk is stored as coordinate data of four points.

The command control unit 9 is a control unit that interprets and executes inputs from the keyboard 12 and the mouse 13.
The operation recognition unit 9a is provided. This operation recognition unit 9a
In addition to recognizing a drag operation on the screen of the display 11, that is, a moving operation of the mouse 13 while the button is being pressed, a specific operation at an arbitrary position on the screen, a double-click operation of the mouse 13 in this embodiment ( The operation of pressing the button twice within a predetermined time) is recognized. The input / output control unit 10 is a control unit that controls input / output of the display 11, the keyboard 12, and the mouse 13.

The display 11 is composed of a CRT, a liquid crystal display, or the like, and displays the virtual reality space described above on this screen and also displays a list of documents corresponding to the respective document storage areas and a document content display. It is a department. The keyboard 12 and the mouse 13 are for performing input operations in the document storage system, for example, for performing an operation such as designating a certain position by the mouse 13.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation. First, the virtual display control unit 8 displays the virtual reality space as shown in FIG. 2 on the screen of the display 11, and when the mouse operation is performed in such a state, the operation recognition unit 9a It is determined whether or not the mouse operation is a click (step S1). In this step S1,
If the mouse operation is not a click but a drag, the process proceeds to step S2, the area recognition unit 4 acquires the current area from the area data storage unit 3, and the acquired address on the screen is stored in the wall surface. It is determined whether it is a warehouse or a work desk (step S3).

When the address is the wall storage in step S3, the document processing unit 5 stores the document in the area such as "section" or "section" of the corresponding wall storage (step S4). If the address is the work desk in step S3, the document is moved to the work desk (step S5).

On the other hand, in step S1, if the mouse operation is a double click, the area recognition unit 4
Similar to step S2 above, the address of the current area is acquired from the area data storage unit 3 (step S6,
S7). Then, in step S7, if the address is the wall storage, the document processing unit 5 displays the document list of the wall storage (step S8), and if it is the work desk, the list of work desks is displayed. (Step S
9). If the address is the document list of the work desk in step S7, the document processing unit 5 discloses the content of the document (step S10).

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be further described by a concrete example. Now, the virtual display control unit 8 is displaying a virtual reality space as shown in FIG. 2 on the screen of the display 11, and in such a state, a certain document A is taken out from the raw paper storage, edited, An example of storing in the storage box will be described. The document A is shown in FIG. That is, the document A has a standard format, and has columns for product information and appearance, and columns for person in charge and chief for indicating approval as a distribution point of the document.

First, when a mouse operation is performed in such a state, the operation recognition unit 9a determines whether or not the mouse operation is a click (step S in FIG. 4).
1). In step S1, if the mouse operation is a double click, the process proceeds to step S6, the area recognition unit 4 acquires the current area from the area data storage unit 3, and further, the acquired address on the screen. It is determined whether is a wall storage or a work desk (step S7).

Here, since the address is the "base paper" of the wall storage, the process proceeds to step S8, and the document processing unit 5
Displays a list of base paper in the wall storage. Then, the document A is dragged from the document list (the determination in step S1 is dragging, and the process proceeds to step S2), and the document A
When is overlaid on the work desk, the area recognition unit 4 recognizes the current area (step S2), and in this case, the document processing unit 5 moves the document A to the work desk (step S5). ). FIG. 6 shows this display state. That is, a list of documents in the raw paper storage is displayed in the dialog,
The icon of document A is dragged from the document list to the work desk.

Next, when the work desk is double-clicked, the area recognition unit 4 recognizes that the current area is the work desk (steps S6 and S7). Thereby, the document processing unit 5 displays the document list of the work desk (step S).
9). Then, by double-clicking the document A from the document list in the work desk, the area recognition unit 4 recognizes the current area (steps S6 and S7). Since this is the work desk document list, the document processing unit 5 discloses the contents of the document A (step S10), and FIG. 7 shows this display state.

Thereafter, the document A is edited using the mouse 13, the keyboard 12 and the display 11, and after the document is edited, the document is closed and the document is stored in the work desk.

Next, when the work desk is double-clicked, the area recognition section 4 acquires the current area (step S
6), since the address is the work desk, the document processing unit 5
Displays the document list of the work desk (step S9).
Then, by dragging the document A from the document list and stacking it on the storage compartment of the wall storage compartment, the area recognition unit 5 acquires the area (step S2), and the document processing unit 5 stores the document A. It is stored in the storage of the section (step S5). Figure 8
[Fig. 6] is a diagram showing an example of this display. That is, a list of documents on the work desk is displayed in the dialog, and the icon of the document A is dragged from the document list to the “section” area in the wall storage.

<< Second Embodiment >> FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the document storage system of the present invention. The system shown in the figure includes a data storage unit 1, a print control unit 2, a destination storage unit 14,
Origination processing unit 15, reception processing unit 16, area data storage unit 1
7, area recognition unit 18, document processing unit 19, transmission / reception data storage unit 20, work desk storage unit 21, virtual display control unit 8, command control unit 9, input / output control unit 10, display 11, keyboard 12, mouse 13 Consists of. Here, since the data storage unit 1, the print control unit 2, and the virtual display control unit 8 to the mouse 13 are the same as those in the first embodiment,
The description here is omitted.

The destination storage unit 14 is a storage unit for defining the destination of data stored in the data storage unit 1, and the transmission processing unit 15 is for processing transmission of data. Further, the reception processing unit 16 is for processing the reception of data. In addition, the area data storage unit 17
It stores area data for identifying the positions on the screen of areas such as open boxes, open boxes or work desks, which will be described later, displayed on the display 11.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of area data of each document storage area stored in the area data storage unit 17.
That is, each area of the open box, the open box, and the work desk is stored as coordinate data of four points. Area recognition unit 18
Has a function of recognizing the specified area based on the area data of the area data storage unit 17 when an arbitrary position on the screen is specified.

When the area recognition unit 18 recognizes an arbitrary area and an arbitrary operation instruction including extraction and storage of a document is given to the area, the document processing unit 19 gives the operation instruction. The corresponding processing is performed. That is, when the operation recognized by the operation recognition unit 9a is the drag operation of the mouse 13 and the position of the movement destination recognized by the area recognition unit 18 is the determined box, the document is undetermined box of the next destination. If the destination is the work desk, the document is moved to the work desk. On the other hand, the operation recognized by the operation recognition unit 9a is a specific operation (double-click operation in this embodiment) at an arbitrary position, and the operation position recognized by the area recognition unit 18 is an undecided box or an undecided box. If it is, a list of documents stored in the undecided box or the decided box is displayed, and if the operation position is the work desk, the document stored in the work desk is displayed.

The transmission / reception data storage unit 20 is a storage device for storing transmission / reception data for all users, and the work desk storage unit 21 stores it in the work desk for processing documents, that is, processing. For storing the document data for performing.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the operation.
First, the virtual display controller 22 controls the display 11
The virtual reality space as shown in FIG. 2 in the first embodiment is displayed on the screen of the above, and when a mouse operation is performed in such a state, the operation recognition unit 9a determines whether the mouse operation is a click. It is determined whether or not (step S1). In this step S1, if the mouse operation is not a click but a drag, the process proceeds to step S2,
The area recognition unit 18 acquires the current area from the area data storage unit 17. The above operation is similar to that of the first embodiment.

When the current area is obtained in step S2, it is determined whether the address on this screen is an undecided box, a decided box or a work desk (step S3). If the address is the undecided box in step S3, the document processing unit 5 stores the document in the transmission / reception data storage unit 20 (step S4). If the address is the undecided box, the document is sent to the destination. Yes (step S5). If the address is the work desk, the document is moved to the work desk (step S6).

On the other hand, when the mouse operation is a double click in step S1, the area recognition unit 18
Is the area data storage unit 1 as in step S2 above.
The address of the current area is acquired from step 7 (step S
7, S8). Then, in step S8, if the address is the undecided box, the document processing unit 19 displays the document list of the undecided box (step S9), and if it is the undecided box, the document list of the undecided box is displayed. (Step S10).
If the address is the work desk, a list of work desks is displayed (step S11). Further, when the address is the document list of the work desk in step S8, the document processing unit 19 discloses the content of the document (step S12).

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be further described by a concrete example. First, it will be described that the document B is distributed as a document in a plurality of places. FIG. 12 shows the document B. The document B is instructed to be distributed in the virtual reality space displayed on the screen of the display 11 shown in FIG.

Now, assuming that the document B is sent, the document B is stored in the transmission / reception data storage unit 20, and the reception processing unit 16 notifies the arrival of the document. In such a state, when the undecided box is double-clicked, the area recognition unit 18 acquires the area based on the area data of the area data storage unit 17 (step S7 in FIG. 11,
In step S8, the document processing unit 19 displays the list of documents in the undecided box (step S9). FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of the display state of the document list of this undecided box. Then, as shown in FIG. 13, the document B is moved to the work desk by dragging the icon of the document B from the document list in the open box to the work desk (operations of steps S1 to S4).

Next, when the work desk is double-clicked, a list of work desks is displayed (steps S1 to S11). By double-clicking the document B in the document list, the contents of the document B are displayed. It is disclosed (operations of step S1 to step S12). 14
Is an explanatory diagram of this state.

When the document B is edited using the keyboard 12, mouse 13 and display 11, the data is stored in the data storage unit 1. When the work desk is double-clicked in such a state, the area recognition unit 18 acquires the current area, and the document processing unit 19 displays a list of work desks (steps S1 to S1).
1 operation).

Next, when the document B is selected from the document list and is dragged to the determined box, the area recognition unit 18
Recognizes the area from the area data storage unit 17, and when the operator designates the destination, this destination data is stored in the destination storage unit 14. Then, the transmission processing unit 15 sends this document B to the destination stored in the destination storage unit 14 (operations of steps S1 to S4). FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a case where a document is dragged from the document list of such a work desk to a determined box.

As described above, in the second embodiment, the open boxes and the open boxes are displayed in the virtual reality space, and the documents are taken out / stored by these open boxes and the open boxes. Documents can be distributed as if they were documents.

In the first embodiment, the document storage area is the wall storage, but the present invention is not limited to this and any other area may be used as long as it is an area displayed in the virtual reality space. . Then, change the location of the document storage area to "base paper, section,
However, as long as the system distributes documents, the same effect can be obtained in other places. Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the specific operation at any position on the screen was double-clicked, but the operation is not limited to this operation, and if it is a predetermined operation, it may be another operation. Good. Furthermore, the mouse 1 is used as a pointing device to specify or drag the position on the screen.
Although 3 was used, other than this may be used.

[0038]

As described above, according to the document storage system of the present invention, a virtual reality space including a plurality of document storage areas is displayed on the screen, and an arbitrary document storage area is displayed in this virtual reality space. By specifying it, the document stored in the corresponding sentence storage area is displayed.
Documents can be stored and retrieved in the office as if they were real documents.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a first embodiment of a document storage system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a display example of a virtual reality space in the document storage system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of area data according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of document A according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of document extraction from the raw paper storage according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of document disclosure of the work desk according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of document storage in a section document storage according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the document storage system of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of area data according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 11 is an operation flowchart of the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of document B according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of document extraction from an undecided box according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of content disclosure of a document B according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a case in which a document is input to a determined box according to the second exemplary embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3, 17 area data storage section 4, 18 area recognition section 5, 19 document processing section 8 virtual display control section 9a operation recognition section

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A virtual display control unit for displaying a virtual reality space including a plurality of document storage areas on a screen, and an area for storing area data for identifying positions of the respective document storage areas on the screen. When a data storage unit and an arbitrary position on the screen are designated, the region recognition unit that recognizes the designated document storage region based on the region data of the region data storage unit, and the region recognition unit In the state where the document storage area is recognized, a document processing unit is provided for performing processing corresponding to the operation instruction when an arbitrary operation instruction including extraction and storage of a document is performed to the document storage area. A document storage system characterized by the above. 2. A virtual display control unit for displaying a wall storage as a document storage area and a work desk on the screen, a drag operation on the screen, and a specific operation at an arbitrary position on the screen. An operation recognition unit that recognizes, an area data storage unit that stores area data for identifying the position of each of the document storage areas on the screen, and when an arbitrary position on the screen is designated, An area recognition unit that recognizes a specified document storage area based on the area data of the area data storage unit, and the operation recognized by the operation recognition unit is the drag operation, and the movement recognized by the area recognition unit If the previous position is the wall storage, the document is stored in that area, and if the destination position is the work desk, the document is moved to the work desk, and operation If the operation recognized by the recognition section is a specific operation at the arbitrary position and the operation position recognized by the area recognition section is the wall storage, the document list stored in the area is displayed. A document storage system comprising: a document processing unit for displaying the stored document of the work desk when the operation position is the work desk. 3. An undecided box for storing a document in an undecided state, which indicates that the process of the document distributed in a plurality of places at the current place is not completed, and the process at the current place. Has been completed, a virtual box for storing a document in a document in a determined state, a work desk for performing the processing, a virtual display control unit, a drag operation on the screen, and a screen on the screen. An operation recognition unit for recognizing a specific operation at an arbitrary position, an area data storage unit for storing area data for identifying positions on the screen of the open box and the open box, and the work desk; When an arbitrary position above is specified, an area recognition unit that recognizes the specified area based on the area data of the area data storage unit, and the operation recognized by the operation recognition unit is the drag operation, and ,Previous Destination position recognized in the area recognition unit,
When the document is the already-determined box, the document is moved to the next-destination undecided box, and when the destination is the work desk, the document is moved to the work desk and the operation is performed. If the operation recognized by the recognition unit is a specific operation at the arbitrary position, and the operation position recognized by the area recognition unit is the undecided box or the already-decided box,
If a list of documents stored in the open box or the open box is displayed and the operation position is the work desk,
A document storage system comprising: a document processing unit for displaying a stored document of the work desk. 4. The document storage system according to claim 2 or 4, wherein the document processing unit displays a document list when a specific operation is performed on the document. A document storage system, characterized in that it is configured to display the contents of.