JPH0754623B2 - Image information memory retrieval system - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an image information storage / retrieval system capable of sequentially storing image information such as a document on an optical disk and retrieving and outputting the image information as needed.

[Technical background of the invention]

Recently, image information such as a large amount of documents generated by optical 2
It is read by dimensional scanning, and the read image information is sequentially stored in a storage medium such as an optical disk, and the search data for each piece of the image information is stored in a storage medium such as a floppy disk, and the search data is input to the optical disk. An image information file device for searching and reading out stored image information and outputting it in an output device, for example, a CRT display device or a recording device so as to be visually recognizable, has been developed and put into practical use.

[Problems of background technology]

However, in the above-described device, when storing the image information, the search data had to be input for each document using the keyboard or collectively, so the time required for the key input operation was increased. With the increase in the amount of image information stored in the memory, it has become a very big problem.

[Object of the Invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to perform a storage process of image information without performing a key input operation of a search code in the image information storage / retrieval device. An object is to provide an image information storage / retrieval system capable of shortening the storage processing time.

[Outline of Invention]

The present invention comprises an image information storage / retrieval device and a host computer connected to the image information storage / retrieval device via a communication line, wherein a plurality of search codes are registered in advance in a floppy disk in the host computer. In other words, the image code is registered in the optical disc by the search code supplied from the host computer through the communication line and the image information read by the scanner.

Example of Invention

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the image information storage / retrieval system of the present invention. That is, 11 is a main control device, which is a CPU 12 for performing various controls, a main memory 13, a buffer memory having a storage capacity corresponding to at least one unit (one page of an original document) of image information, such as a page buffer 14 and image information. A compression / expansion circuit 15, which performs compression (reduces the redundancy) and expansion (restores the reduced redundancy),
A pattern generator 16 in which pattern information such as characters and symbols is stored, a display interface 17, a title memory 18 for storing search data read from a floppy disk 28 described later, and a line for transmitting / receiving data to / from a host computer 29 described later. Made of interface 10 and so on. A reading device 20, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device, obtains an electric signal corresponding to image information on the original 21 by two-dimensionally scanning the original (document) 21 with a laser beam. Reference numeral 22 denotes an optical disk device, which sequentially stores the image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and supplied via the main control device 11 and the index information created by the main control device 11 on the optical disk 19. is there. As shown in FIG. 2, the optical disc 19 is divided into 32 sectors of "0 to 31" with the reference position mark 19 ₁ being "0". Reference numeral 24 denotes an output device, for example, a display unit, which is a cathode ray tube display device (hereinafter referred to as a CRT display device), which is read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and then the main control device 11
Information supplied via the optical disk or optical disk device
This is for displaying a search code, image information, etc. read from 22 and supplied via the main control device 11, and the display interface 17 in the main control device 11 constitutes a significant image information display device. There is. 25 is a recording device,
Image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device and supplied via the main control device 11 or search data or image information read from the optical disk device 22 and supplied via the main control device 11 as a hard copy 26. It is what is output.
A floppy disk device 27 is composed of a search code input by the keyboard 23 or a search code supplied from a host computer 29 described later and a storage address on the optical disk 19 in which image information corresponding to the search code is stored. Search data to Bloppy Disk 28 1
It is stored for each image information.

Reference numeral 29 is an external device, for example, a host computer, which stores a plurality of search codes and sequentially outputs them. The host computer 29 stores a CPU 30 that performs various controls, a main memory 31, a keyboard 32 that inputs a search code by a key, a CRT display device 33 that displays the search code that is input by a key, and a search code that is input by the keyboard 32. Floppy disk drive
34 and the line interface 10 in the main controller 11
And a line interface 35 for transmitting and receiving data. The search code, eg title data, stored in the floppy disk of the host computer 29 is constructed as shown in FIG. 3 (a).

FIG. 3 (b) shows the structure of search data. That is, for example, the title data supplied from the host computer 29, the length of the image information, that is, the number of image storage sectors L, and the track number T as the image information start address
A storage address consisting of ADR, sector number S / ADR, and image size S.

Next, the operation in such a configuration will be described. First, the storage of title data by the host computer 29 will be described. A title is input using the keyboard 32. As a result, the CPU 30 will transfer the title to the main memory 3
The title data is displayed on the CRT display device 33 while being stored in 1. Then, when the operator presses the confirmation key, the CPU 30 causes the title data stored in the main memory 31 to be displayed in the floppy disk device.
Use 34 to store it on the floppy disk. As a result, title data as shown in FIG. 3A is stored on the floppy disk. After that, by pressing the NEXT key and operating in the same manner as above, the same operation is performed.
The above operation is as shown in the flowchart of FIG.

In such a state, the operator selects and sets the registration mode using the keyboard 23. Then, the CPU 12 transmits a transmission permission signal to the CPU 30 via the line interfaces 10 and 35. As a result, the CPU 12 reads one title data from the floppy disk device 34 and transmits the title data to the CPU 12 via the line interfaces 35 and 10. Then, the CPU 12 stores the supplied title data in the main memory 13 and checks whether or not the structure of the title data is correct. If correct, CP
The U12 displays the title data on the CRT display device 24 and stores it in the title memory 18, and when it is incorrect, the CPU 12 displays an error on the CRT display device 24. Then, the operator corrects the correction data on the keyboard.
When input by 23, the CPU 12 corrects the title data in the main memory 13. Also, when there was no correction,
Alternatively, when the correction is completed, the operator scans the document corresponding to the displayed title data with the two-dimensional scanning device 20.
Set to. When CPU12 judges this set, CPU12
Activates the two-dimensional scanning device 20. The two-dimensional scanning device 20 two-dimensionally scans image information such as a set document and photoelectrically converts it. The photoelectrically converted line information is sequentially stored in the page buffer 14. When one page of image information is stored in the page buffer 14, the image information is stored in the display interface 17, and the image information is displayed on the CRT display device 24. By the way, C
If the image displayed on the RT display device 24 is satisfactory, a recording key (not shown) is turned on.
Then, the CPU 12 band-compresses the image information for one unit stored in the page buffer 14 by the well-known MR (Modified Read) conversion in the compression / expansion circuit 15 for each line information, and the compressed line information is recorded on the optical disc. Supply to the device 22. As a result, the optical disk device 22 stores the supplied image information in the corresponding track on the optical disk 19.
When the storage of the image information is completed, the CPU 12 stores the storage address such as the track number where the image information is stored, the start sector, the image length and the image size in the title memory 18 in association with the search code. Next, the CPU 12 causes the search data stored in the title memory 18, that is, title data,
The track number, start sector number, image length, etc. are supplied to the floppy disk device 27. As a result, the floppy disk device 27 stores the supplied search data on the floppy disk 28. Thereafter, other image information operates in the same manner and is stored on the optical disc 19. Flow charts for explaining the above operation are shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.

On the other hand, a search for the image information registered as described above will be described. First, the keyboard 23 is set to the search mode and title data is input. Then, the CPU 12 sequentially compares and collates the title data with the title data stored in the title memory 18, and sequentially checks whether the title data matches the input title data. For the matching title data, the track number and the start sector number of the image information corresponding to the title data are searched. And
The CPU 12 causes the optical disk device 22 to reproduce the track on the optical disk 19 corresponding to the track number. Then, the CPU 12 supplies the image information (compression information) from the optical disk device 22 to the compression / expansion circuit 15 for each scanning line, and the MR
The original image information is sequentially supplied to the page buffer 14 by performing band extension by inverse conversion. Thus, page buffer 14
When all the image information for one page reproduced in is stored, the CPU1
2 uses the display interface 16 to display the image information in C
The image is displayed on the RT display device 24 or the recording device 25 issues a hard copy 26 of the image information. After that, other searches are performed in the same manner.

It should be noted that in the above-described embodiment, the originals are manually input into the two-dimensional scanning device, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the originals may be input one by one using the auto feeder device. In this case, the auto-feeder device is designed so that every time the retrieval code from the CPU 31 is transmitted to the CPU 12, one original is supplied to the two-dimensional scanning device. Further, the case where one search code is transmitted from the host computer has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of search codes (title data) may be transmitted at once. In this case, the search code group is stored in the search code storing floppy disk provided in the image information storing and searching apparatus by the floppy disk device 27 'shown in FIG. 1 and read from this floppy disk.
Corresponding originals are stored according to the search code for each case. Alternatively, the same batch registration may be performed by directly inputting the floppy created by the host computer to the image information storage / retrieval device.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the image information storage processing can be performed without performing the key input operation of the search code in the image information storage / retrieval apparatus, and the operability and the storage processing time can be shortened. An information storage / retrieval system can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the overall structure, FIG. 2 is a plan view for explaining the structure of an optical disk, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a storage example of a search code, FIG. 3 (b) is a diagram showing a storage example of search data, and FIGS. 4 to 6 are flowcharts for explaining a main part of the operation. 11 ... Main controller, 12 ... CPU, 19 ... Optical disk, 23
...... Keyboard, 24 …… CRT display device, 28 ……
Floppy disk, 29 ... Host computer (external device), 30 ... RAM, 31 ... CPU, 32 ... Keyboard.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image information storage / retrieval device which retrieves desired image information from a plurality of image information by storing a plurality of image information in a storage medium and designating a search code for specifying the image information. And an image information storage / retrieval system comprising an external computer connected to the image information storage / retrieval device via a communication line, wherein the external computer is a plurality of image information newly stored by the image information storage / retrieval device. Input means for inputting a plurality of search codes corresponding to the first search means, first storage means for storing the plurality of search codes input by the input means, and the search code stored in the first storage means. In response to a transmission permission signal from the image information storage / retrieval device, an output device for outputting to the image information storage / retrieval device via the communication line. The image information storage / retrieval device further comprises means for setting a storage mode for newly storing image information, and when the storage mode is set by the setting means,
The means for transmitting the transmission permission signal to the external computer via the communication line, and the first storage means are newly stored corresponding to the plurality of search codes stored in advance. A plurality of image information is supplied from the output means via a communication line in response to a transmission permission signal which is stored in advance by the supply means and the first storage means and which is transmitted from the transmission means. A receiving means for receiving the search code, a means for checking whether or not the structure of the search code received by the receiving means is correct, and a display means for displaying an error when the check code is not correct. , Means for correcting and inputting the search code error-displayed by this display means, and the above when the check means is correct The search code received by the input means and the image information supplied by the supply means are stored in the storage medium in association with each other, and if the check means is not correct, the correction input means corrects the input. An image information storage / retrieval system, comprising: a second storage unit that stores the search code and the image information supplied by the supply unit in association with each other in the storage medium.