JPH0787437A - Picture information management device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate version management or a picture by adding version number management information to retrieval information such as a title, registering the resulting information and providing an output of a version number next to a newest version of a picture of a document or the like or the newest version number at the retrieval of the information. CONSTITUTION:For example, when a document is registered by using a title already defined, a document number 1 is inputted to a key item by which version management is designated. Then key data in a database are searched and an input check attribute 5 is found out in a storage position m11. The attribute 5 is information representing version management and automatically acts like a version number key. That is, when a material number is entered by the key on a display screen, version number storage positions m12, m22 of the same document name as storage positions m13, m23 are searched and a maximum value 2 representing a newest version number is found out. Furthermore, the content resulting from incrementing the newest version number 2 found out succeedingly by 1 is registered on an optical disk. the version number obtained by incrementing the newest version number by 1 is set automatically and the newest version number is retrieved as required at the retrieval.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information management apparatus for managing a document by registering a document as image information page by page in a large-capacity memory such as an optical disk and reading it out as needed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An image information management apparatus manages a document by registering it as image information page by page in a large-capacity memory such as an optical disk and reading it out as needed. In the case of replacing the page to be registered, instead of the page read out, the specified page of the registered document is retrieved, read and displayed on the screen. Since only the page information of the latest content is always registered, it is relatively easy to search and read the latest registered content, but when saving all the revised contents from the oldest to the latest version, It is necessary to manage the version number for each page of each document, specify a desired version number, and search for and read it for convenience. That is, when registering the image being edited which is currently displayed on the screen as the latest version, the version number of the latest version among the already registered revised versions is checked and 1 is added to the version number. It is necessary to register the version number as the latest version number, and the operation is troublesome. Also,
Since the operation becomes complicated if the revision management is performed in page units, there has been a demand for an image information management apparatus capable of performing revision management in document units.

[0003]

The conventional image information management apparatus has only the function for replacing pages, cannot manage the version number of each document, and can update the latest version number when registering / retrieving a revised version. It was necessary to operate it manually to find out.

Therefore, according to the present invention, when the image is registered, the version number of the latest version of the image can be automatically output plus 1, and at the time of the search, the latest version of the images to be searched can be added if necessary. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image information management device configured to search for.

[0005]

An image information management apparatus according to the present invention includes means for adding and registering search information to predetermined image information and means for selectively adding a version number to one or a plurality of search information. A means for adding instruction information, a means for judging whether or not version number addition instruction information is added to the input search information, and a latest version from the search information to which version number addition instruction information is added. It is characterized by comprising means for searching the search information including the version number and means for displaying the version number of the latest version searched.

[0006]

According to the present invention, in the above-described structure, version number management information is added to search information such as a title and the like, and at the time of registration and search, the next version of the latest version of the image of the document or the version of the latest version. It is possible to output the number and to easily manage the version number of the image.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of an electronic filing apparatus to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 3 is a block configuration diagram of each section showing a flow of information inside the electronic filing apparatus. 2 and 3, 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, an optical disk 19 and an optical disk device 22, a keyboard 23, a CRT display device 24, a printer device. 25, a magnetic disk 26 used as a search database, a magnetic disk device 27, a mouse 29, a system bus 30, and an image bus 32.

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. Further, the CPU 23 has a keyboard 23
And a mouse 29 is connected.

The memory module 12 serves as a main memory 38 for storing various control programs for image storage, retrieval, editing, etc., and management information, and as 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 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 using the address control circuit 44a.

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 (recovering 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 is a MH (Modified Huff).
Band compression or band expansion is performed using the man) method or MR (Modified Read) method. The communication control module 16 is, for example, a BCP connected to a LAN.
It is configured by a communication interface 58 such as (Bus Communica-tion Processor). Further, the communication control module 16 includes an FCP (facsimile connection mechanism),
A UCP (Universal Communication Processor) that is connected to an external device such as a personal computer via an interface 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 a 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. The mouse 29 is moved to a desired position by moving the cursor C (see FIG. 1) displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24 in the vertical and horizontal directions, and giving an instruction at a desired position. The displayed contents (various operation modes, area designation or icon for image editing, etc.) are selected or instructed.

The CRT display device (cathode ray tube display device) 24 displays an image read by the scanner device 18 and an 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 (hardcopy) 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 also stores a search code input from the keyboard 23 and an image corresponding to the search code. It is a database that stores search data (search information) including a storage address on the optical disc 20, an image size, a search frequency, and the like.

The search data is managed by a document management table, which is composed of a title management table, a page management table, a record management table, etc., which are not shown. In the title management table, one document number for each binder name is stored together with the title system for revision management. This will be described later.

In the page management table, record numbers are stored page by page of one document, and one record number is stored corresponding to each page. The record management table stores, for each record number, a storage address (storage start position) of an image on the optical disc 20, a document size (image size), image attributes such as a compression method and resolution, and a search frequency (access frequency). ing.

The storage address is a logical address, and the physical track address and the physical sector address are calculated from this at the time of access.
Next, an operation of image storage and retrieval processing in the electronic filing device having such a configuration will be described.

First, the image storage process will be described.
For example, now, the registration mode is selected and set by the keyboard 23, and the search code of the image to be stored in the optical disc 20 is input. This search code is composed of multiple items of search keys, and the contents of this search key item are as follows:
It is set in advance. The CPU 34 checks the validity of the input search code according to a format defined in advance. Further, the double registration is checked by comparing with the search code already registered in the optical disc 20. Depending on the result of this check, the entered search code is stored in the main memory 38.
Memorized in.

Next, the original is set on the scanner device 18, and the CPU 34 operates the optical disk device 22 and the scanner device 18. The scanner device 18 two-dimensionally scans and photoelectrically converts an image of a set document or the like. The line information of the photoelectrically converted image is sequentially stored in the page memory 40. The image stored in the page memory 40 is stored in the display memory 42 and displayed on the CRT display device 24. The skew, density, resolution, etc. of the image displayed on the CRT display device 24 are confirmed, and when the displayed image is satisfactory, a memory key (not shown) is input. Then, the CPU 34 causes the compression / expansion circuit (CODEC) 50 to process the image stored in the page memory 40 for each line information by a known MR (Modified).
Encoding processing is performed by band compression using the Read method. This encoded image is the optical disc device 2
2 and is stored in the optical disc 20.

When the storage of the image on the optical disk 20 is completed, the CPU 34 stores a logical address determined from the physical track address and the physical sector address where the image is stored,
The image length represented by the block length, the image attribute, and the like are stored in the main memory 38 in association with the search code (search information). Then, the CPU 34 supplies the search data stored in the main memory 38 to the magnetic disk device 27. As a result, the magnetic disk device 27 stores the supplied search data in each table such as the title management table in the magnetic disk 26.

Next, the search processing of the image stored in the optical disk 20 will be described. First, the search mode is set by the keyboard 23, and the search code corresponding to the image to be searched is input. The CPU 34 sequentially compares and collates the input search code with the search code stored in the title management table of the magnetic disk 26, and sequentially checks whether or not the search code that matches the input search code is stored. Extract the relevant document number.
As a result, the CPU 34 stores the extracted candidate document numbers in the main memory 38.

Then, the CPU 34 refers to the document numbers of the candidates in the main memory 38, creates a list (search code) of the relevant documents with the data read from the title management table, and uses the CRT display device 24. indicate. With this display, if the operator does not find the document to be searched, the search code is input again. If found, the image to be searched is specified from the list (specified by the document number, etc.) and the search execution is instructed.

The CPU 34 reads the record number corresponding to the designated image using the page management of the magnetic disk 26, reads the logical address corresponding to the read record number from the record management in the magnetic disk 26,
The physical track address and the physical sector address corresponding to this address are calculated, and the optical disk device 22 reproduces the image including the search code from the optical disk 20 using these addresses.

The CPU 34 also supplies the image (compression information) for each scanning line supplied from the optical disk device 22 to the compression / expansion circuit 50, performs band expansion processing, and sequentially supplies the page memory 40. The image stored in the page memory 40 is reduced by the enlargement / reduction circuit 46 and output to the display memory 42, and the image is stored in the display memory 42. Therefore, the display control unit 44 controls the display memory 4
The stored contents of No. 2 are displayed on the CRT display device 24.

The revision management of this embodiment, that is, the operation of registering and retrieving the revised document will be described in more detail below. FIG. 4 shows a display screen on the CRT display device 24 of the electronic filing device of this embodiment, on which a title for managing documents is defined. In FIG. 4, it is the title structure of a document belonging to the binder name AAA, the key name of the key number “1” is “document number”, and the key type is “2” because it is a character and the number of digits is “8”. , And the method is set to “5”. This method "5" is the information indicating the revision management used in the present invention. When the registered document should be revision-managed, the numeric key "5" is operated from the keyboard 23 when setting the title structure to "revise revision". It is added as search information designating "addition". By specifying "5", the next key item (key number 2)
Automatically becomes the revision number key and is automatically set and managed. Then, as the key numbers 2, 3, and 4, "revision number", "document name", "creation date", etc. are input, and the setting of the title structure is completed. Therefore, when a certain document (here, the document with document number 1) is registered and searched, if the "method" part of this title structure is read and there is "5", it is understood that this document is under revision control. .

This "5" is stored in the key 1, key 2, and key 3 of the database shown in FIG. 5A as input check attribute information, respectively. In the key information memory, "title key name", "key attribute", "key type", "key length", "tree code", etc. are stored together with the "input check attribute".

The key data shown in FIG. 5A is stored in the document attribute data memory shown in FIG. 5B. In the figure, document A
The key 1 relating to the document number is the material number (DF0340-G), and the key 2 indicates the revision number, that is, the edition number "1". The key 3 indicates the document name "product specifications", and the key 4 indicates the registration date. Similarly, the keys 1 to 4 for the document B have the same contents as the document A, but only the version number of the key 2 is "2".

Next, referring to FIG. 1, the operation at the time of registering a document whose revision is managed will be described with reference to FIG. Figure 6
Is a flowchart of a registration process of a key in which version number management is designated.

When registering a document with a title already defined, if "document number 1" is entered in step S1 of FIG. 6 in the key item designating revision management, the process flow of FIG. 6 is executed in step S2. When the key data of the database shown in FIG. 5 is searched and the input check attribute "5" is found in the storage position m11, the screen as shown in FIG. 1 (a) is displayed. Here, according to the cursor C as the material number, "DF
When "0340-G" is keyed in, the cursor C moves to the "version number" input position in FIG. 1B, and when the return key is operated here, the process moves to step S3 and "DF0340".
-G ", the database is searched and the version number storage position m1 for the same document name in the storage positions m13 and m23.
2, m13, are searched to find the maximum value "2" indicating the latest version number. Then, the process proceeds to step S4, and the content "3" obtained by adding 1 to the latest version number "2" found is shown in FIG.
It is displayed as the next key item as in (c).

In step S5, the document to be registered is set in the scanner device 18 and the operator operates the keyboard 2
When the next key item "3" displayed from 3 is input, the document set in the scanner device 18 is registered in the optical disc 20 in step S6.

Next, when it is desired to retrieve the latest version of the registered document, the material number "DF0340-G" is first input in step S11 of FIG. 8 as shown in FIG. 7A. Similarly, it is checked whether or not the key item input in step S12 is the revision addition designation, and the cursor C is moved to the position of the version number key. Where step S
In FIG. 7, a special symbol, here a question mark “?”, Is used as the latest version number search key from the keyboard 23 in FIG.
When input as shown in (b) and the return key is pressed,
In step S14, the search data “DF0340-
The data base is searched by "G", for example, as shown in FIG.
The latest version number data "2" at the position of the key 2 of the document B in (b) can be searched. This latest version "2" is the display device 2
No. 4 is displayed, and step S
At 15, the corresponding image is retrieved and output.

[0037]

As described above in detail, according to the image information management apparatus of the present invention, the version number added to the latest version number of the image can be automatically output at the time of registration of the image, and at the time of retrieval. It is possible to provide an image information management device configured so that the latest version of images to be searched can be searched as needed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an image registration operation in an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the entire apparatus of the one embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a title structure of a document to be registered.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a memory structure of registered search information.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation when registering a document.

FIG. 7 is a search screen diagram for explaining an operation at the time of document search.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining an operation when searching a document.

[Explanation of symbols]

Key 1 ... Title key with version addition specified, Key 2 ... Version number, Key 3 ... Document name, Key 4 ... Registration date.

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A means for adding search information to predetermined image information and registering it, a means for selectively adding version number addition instruction information to one or a plurality of search information, and input search information Means for determining whether or not the version number addition instruction information is added to the search information, means for searching the search information including the latest version number from the search information to which the version number addition instruction information is added, and searching An image information management apparatus comprising: a unit for displaying the version number of the latest version that has been created. 2. A means for searching the search information including the latest version number from the search information includes means for inputting a predetermined symbol or character for searching for the latest version, and means for inputting the input symbol or character. The image information management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for retrieving relevant search information from a database. 3. A means for adding search information to predetermined image information and registering the same, a means for selectively adding version number addition instruction information to one or a plurality of search information, and input search information. Means for determining whether or not the version number addition instruction information is added to the search information, and means for searching the search information including the latest version number from the search information to which the version number addition instruction information is added, An image information management apparatus comprising: means for adding one to the version number of the latest version and designating the next version number. 4. The adding means of the instruction information for adding the version number,
4. The image information management apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising means for inputting as version number addition instruction information by operating a predetermined key on the keyboard. 5. The means for designating the next version number by adding 1 to the version number of the latest version when registering the image information includes means for displaying the next version number. The described image information management device. 6. The apparatus further comprises means for inputting the displayed next version number, and means for registering data indicating the input next version number together with image information to be registered. Item 3. The image information management device according to item 3.