JPH0785078A - System for displaying image data - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily display the required image data by retrieving the required one based on the page information showing the contents of image data. CONSTITUTION:A page information input means 1 inputs the page information of the specific image data among image data comprising a document and registers it as retrieval information of image data in an image data storage 4. A page information display means 2 displays the page information list display being a screen showing the list of page information registered in the storage 4. An image data display means 3 displays the required image data based on the specification of the page information for the page information list display displayed on the means 2. It registers the collection of image data corresponding to the page as a document in the image data storage 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image data display system, and more particularly to a "desired image data" in an electronic filing device for managing document data composed of a plurality of image data in an image data storage device (optical disc device or the like). (Image data desired to be displayed by the operator) ”and is displayed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A general electronic filing apparatus constructed as shown in FIG. 3 regards each image data as each "page" and treats a set of several pages as a "document".

In the conventional image data display system in such an electronic filing apparatus, the retrieval information used for retrieval when displaying the image data is only the information given to each document.

FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 are views showing a concrete example of a screen for performing a search (search for desired image data) by the conventional image data display method of this kind (such a screen is shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the screen display device 31).

Here, in order to retrieve the desired image data, the operator has to perform the following operation or.

Until the desired image data is displayed, the operation of designating the menu item “previous page” or “next page” in the menu screen shown in FIG. 7 is repeated.

By designating the menu item “page designation” in the menu screen shown in FIG. 7, the page designation screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed. Next, the image data corresponding to the page number is displayed by directly inputting the identification number (desired page number, not meaningful search information) of the desired image data into the input field on the page designation screen.

Here, in general, since it is not known in advance what kind of content the image data having the page number has, it is not possible to know in advance the search. , It was necessary to carry out the operation by trial and error.

[0009]

In the above-mentioned conventional image data display system, only the search information indicating the contents of the document is adopted, and therefore, in order to specify the desired image data in a certain document, one page is required. There is a drawback that it is necessary to search while displaying each image data one by one and specifying an outline based on uncertain prediction (trial and error operation is required).

In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to search image data to be displayed by using page information, which is search information indicating the contents of image data, and to easily obtain desired image data. It is to provide an image data display method capable of displaying.

The prior art relating to the search for displaying the image data in the electronic filing apparatus includes "Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-174660 (electronic filing apparatus equipped with a document title searching function based on image data)" and "Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei. No. 2-252060 (image storage device and image retrieval device) "has been published. But,
Although the former technique uses image data as search information, it differs from the present invention in that search information is added to each document. The latter technique is different from the present invention in which information indicating the contents of image data is used as search information in that display attribute information such as display area coordinates is used as search information.

[0012]

According to the image data display system of the present invention, in the image data display system in an electronic filing apparatus, page information of specific image data in image data forming a document is input and the page information is input. And a page information list screen showing a list of page information registered in the image data storage device by the page information input device for registering the image data as search information of the image data in the image data storage device. It has a page information display means and an image data display means for displaying desired image data based on designation of page information on the page information list screen displayed by the page information display means.

[0013]

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the image data display system of the present invention. The image data display method of the present embodiment is the page information of the specific image data (in this embodiment, it is assumed that the image data corresponds to a delimited page) in the image data forming the document. Information indicating the content of the page information input in this embodiment), and the page information is registered in the image data storage device 4 as the search information of the image data. A page information list screen, which is a screen showing the means 1 and a list of page information registered in the image data storage device 4 by the page information input means 1 (list of page information regarding a specific document designated in advance), is displayed. The page information display means 2 and the page information list screen displayed by the page information display means 2 The image data display means 3 displays desired image data based on the designation of page information to be displayed, and the image data storage device 4 in which a set of image data corresponding to a page is registered as a document. .

FIG. 2A shows a page information input process by the image data display method of the present embodiment (page information of specific image data in image data forming a certain document is input and the page information is used as the image. 6 is a flowchart showing a process of registering as search information of data in the image data storage device 4). This processing includes a page information input designation determination step 21, a page information input screen display step 22, a page information input step 23, a page information registration step 24, and a page information re-input determination step 25.

FIG. 2B shows the page information designation process (the process of displaying the page information list screen and displaying the image data to be displayed based on the designation of the page information) by the image data display method of this embodiment. It is a flow chart. This processing includes a page information display designation determination step 210, a page information list screen display step 220, a page information designation step 230, a designated page information corresponding image data display step 240, and a page information redesignation determination step 250. .

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a general electronic filing apparatus to which the image data display system of this embodiment is applied. This electronic filing device includes a screen display device 31, an electronic filing system body 32, a keyboard 33, a mouse 34, and an optical disk device 35.
And an image scanner device 36 and a printing device 37. Here, the page information input means 1,
Page information display means 2 and image data display means 3
Is realized by the screen display device 31, the electronic filing system body 32, the keyboard 33, and the mouse 34. The image data storage device 4 is realized by the optical disc device 35.

4 to 6 are views showing screens displayed by the image data display system of this embodiment. When the menu screen of FIG. 4 is compared with the conventional menu screen of FIG. 7, “page information input” and “page information display” are added as menu items to the menu screen of FIG.

Next, the operation of the image data display system of the present embodiment thus constructed will be described.

First, the operation of the page information input process will be described (see FIG. 2A).

The general screen display function of the electronic filing device displays a menu screen as shown in FIG.

The page information input means 1 determines whether or not the menu item "page information input" is designated on the menu screen of FIG. 4 (step 21), and the operator inputs "page information input". When the menu item is designated, a page information input screen as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed (step 22).

As shown in FIG. 5, on the page information input screen, specific image data (here, image data corresponding to a page separated by two pages in the image data forming the document to be processed is displayed. Enter a title that indicates the content of (something) (words that briefly express the content of the image data, etc.) and various keywords (in addition to content keywords, there may be expression-form keywords such as language). There is an input field for
When the operator inputs a title and a keyword in these input fields, page information including the title and the keyword can be input. Needless to say, when inputting the page information, the information (page number or the like) for specifying the image data to which the page information is added is designated in advance.

Here, when the operator inputs a title and a keyword relating to certain image data as page information (step 23), the page information input means 1 associates the page information with the image data in the image data storage device 4. Register (step 24).

After this, the page information input means 1 judges whether or not there is an instruction for "re-input of page information" by the operator (step 25), and when it is judged that there is such an instruction, step 23 is executed. Return control to the process (continue entering the next page of information).

If it is determined in step 21 that the menu item "page information input" is not specified, or if it is determined in step 25 that there is no "page information re-input" instruction, the page information input means 1 The page information input process is ended.

Secondly, the operation of the page information designation process will be described (see FIG. 2B).

The general screen display function of the electronic filing device displays a menu screen as shown in FIG.

The page information display means 2 determines whether or not the menu item "page information display" is designated on the menu screen of FIG. 4 (step 210),
When the operator designates a menu item "display page information", a page information list screen as shown in FIG. 6 (the image data storage device 4 which is added to the image data forming a specific document designated in advance. A screen showing a list of page information registered in () is displayed (step 220).

As shown in FIG. 6, on this page information list screen, for each page information, a page number, a title (for example, "US" in the page information whose page number is "1"), and a first (Keyword indicating the description language of the image data. For example, “English” in the page information whose page number is “1”) and the second keyword (keyword indicating the content of the image data).
For example, "politics" in the page information whose page number is "1" is displayed.

When the operator designates page information of desired image data on the page information list screen (step 230), the image data display means 3 stores the image data corresponding to the page information as image data. It is taken out from the device 4 and displayed (displayed on the screen display device 31 in FIG. 3) (step 240).

After this, the page information display means 2 judges whether or not there is an instruction of "redesignation of page information" by the operator (step 250), and if it is judged that there is such an instruction, step 230 is executed. The control is returned to the processing (the image data corresponding to the next page information is displayed based on the designation of the next page information).

If it is determined in step 210 that the menu item "page information display" has not been designated, or if there is no "page information redesignation" instruction in step 250, the page information display means 2 The page information designation processing is ended.

Even in the image data display method of this embodiment, a search operation for displaying each image data page by page as in the conventional method and a page designation screen (see FIG. 8).
It is possible to perform a search operation according to the reference). In this case, the menu item "previous page" or "next page" or the menu item "page designation" is designated on the menu screen shown in FIG.

In the present embodiment, the "specific image data" to which the page information is added has been described as the image data corresponding to the delimited page, but all the image data are regarded as "specific image data". It goes without saying that it can be set. further,
It is also possible to set image data that is considered to be frequently displayed as "specific image data".

Further, in the present embodiment, the case where the page information is composed of the title and the keyword has been described. However, if the information can be used for the retrieval by showing the content of the corresponding image data, the page information may be other information. It is also possible to

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the desired image data is displayed, the desired image data is searched based on the page information indicating the contents of the image data (based on the reference of the page information list screen). Performing a search almost eliminates the need for trial and error operations (for example,
This eliminates the need for an operation of searching each image data while displaying each page one by one), and has an effect that desired image data can be easily displayed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process (page information input process and page information designation process) of the image data display method shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a general electronic filing device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a menu screen displayed by the image data display method shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing an example of a page information input screen displayed by the image data display method shown in FIG.

6 is a diagram showing an example of a page information list screen displayed by the image data display method shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a menu screen displayed by a conventional image data display system.

8 is a diagram showing an example of a page designation screen displayed by the conventional image data display system and the image data display system shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 page information input means 2 page information display means 3 image data display means 4 image data storage device 31 screen display device 32 electronic filing system body 33 keyboard 34 mouse 35 optical disk device 36 image scanner device 37 printing device

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. In an image data display method for an electronic filing device, page information of specific image data in image data forming a document is input, and the page information is used as search information of the image data storage device. Page information input means to be registered in the page information, page information display means for displaying a page information list screen showing a list of page information registered in the image data storage device by the page information input means, and the page information display means An image data display method, comprising: an image data display unit for displaying desired image data based on designation of page information on the displayed page information list screen. 2. The image data display system according to claim 1, wherein the page information comprises a title and a keyword. 3. The image data display method according to claim 1, wherein the "specific image data" to which the page information is added is image data corresponding to a page in a document. 4. The image data display method according to claim 1, wherein the “specific image data” to which the page information is added is all image data forming a document.