JPH0793320A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce trouble to manage image data of documents and data files and labor to generate and correct the documents. CONSTITUTION:An image processing part 51 processes a data file of papers such as documents and drawings generated on a word processor or in a spread sheet, etc., into images. A CPU 34 writes the data file and image data on an optical disk by an optical disk device 22. The optical disk is stored with the image data and the data file relating to the image data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information processing device such as an electronic filing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Prior Art Optically reading documents such as drawings and documents,
An electronic filing device for recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk can store a large amount of drawings, documents, etc. in the recording medium in a compact manner.

In such an electronic filing apparatus, generally, when a document such as a document or a drawing created by a word processor or the like is stored, the document is printed out and then recorded as an image on an optical disk, and the document is also recorded. The data file of is also saved. Conventionally, this data file has been stored on a magnetic disk such as a hard disk or a floppy disk by recording it separately from the recording of the image data.

[0004]

However, as described above, in the conventional electronic filing apparatus, since the image data of the document and the data file are recorded in different recording media, it takes time and effort for management. There is a problem, and there is a possibility that the correspondence between the image data and the data file may be lost.

In addition, when newly registering a document or modifying the contents of a stored document, after creating the document or reading the data file from the magnetic disk and modifying the contents, the data file of the document is deleted. There is a problem in that the procedure is complicated because the document must be printed out and recorded on the optical disc as well as being recorded on the magnetic disc.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an image capable of reducing the time and effort required for managing image data and data files of a document and the time required for creating and modifying a document. An object is to provide an information processing device.

[0007]

In order to solve such a problem, a first aspect of the present invention provides a first input means for inputting information created by an information processing apparatus as image information, and the information processing apparatus. Second input means for inputting the encoded information as encoded information, storage means for storing the image information input by the first input means and the encoded information input by the second input means, and Correcting means for correcting the coded information stored by the storing means, and when the coded information is corrected by the correcting means, the image information stored by the storing means corresponding to the coded information is automatically corrected. And means for doing so.

A second invention is a first input means for inputting information created by an information processing device as image information,
A second input unit for inputting information created by the information processing device as encoded information, image information input by the first input unit, and encoded information input by the second input unit. Storage means for storing in a continuous area, correction means for correcting the coded information stored by the storage means, and when the coded information is corrected by the correction means, the storage means corresponding to the coded information And means for automatically correcting the image information stored by.

A third invention is a first input means for inputting information created by an information processing device as image information,
Second input means for inputting information created by the information processing device as encoded information, image information input by the first input means, and encoded information input by the second input means are stored. First storage means, correction means for correcting the coded information stored by the first storage means, and when the coded information is modified by the correction means, the first storage means corresponding to the coded information is stored. Means for automatically modifying the image information stored by the first storage means;
A second storage unit for storing search information for the image information and the encoding information stored by the first storage unit.

A fourth invention is a first input means for inputting information created by an information processing device as image information,
Second input means for inputting information created by the information processing device as encoded information, image information input by the first input means, and encoded information input by the second input means are stored. And a third input means for inputting the correction information for correcting the coded information stored by the storage means from the information processing device, and the correction information input by the third input means. When the coded information is modified, there is provided means for automatically modifying the image information stored in the storage means corresponding to the coded information.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the image data of the document and the data file are recorded on the same recording medium, so that the image data is recorded.
Data and data files can be managed centrally,
As a result, it is possible to reduce the time and effort required for data management and correction of documents.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic filing apparatus 1 shown in the figure is connected to a personal computer 3, a word processor 4, etc. via a network 2. The electronic filing device 1 includes a control unit 10 and a scanner device 1.
8, optical disk device 22, keyboard 23a, mouse 2
3b, CRT display device 24, printer device 25
And a magnetic disk device 27. The keyboard 23a and the mouse 23b are CPs of the control unit 10.
It is connected to U34.

The control unit 10 stores and retrieves image data,
And a CPU 34 that performs various controls for editing processing and the like
, An optical disk interface 36 for connecting the optical disk device 22 and the CPU 34, and a magnetic disk device 27.
And a magnetic disk interface for connecting the CPU 34 to the CPU 34
And a main memory 3 for storing various control programs for storing, searching, and editing image data, management information, and the like.
8, a display memory 42 which is a display interface for temporarily storing an image displayed by the CRT display device 24, an image memory 50, and an image processing unit 5.
1, a scanner interface 52 for the scanner device 18, and a printer interface for the printer device 25.
A network 54 and a network interface 58 for connecting to an external device such as a personal computer. The respective units are connected by the system bus 30.

The scanner device 18 is composed of a two-dimensional scanning device, and two-dimensionally scans a document (document) with light to generate an electric signal (image data) corresponding to an image on the document.
To get

The optical disk device 22 is a scanner device 18.
The images of the original document read in step 1 are sequentially stored on the optical disc. Also, the image data corresponding to the retrieval code designated by the keyboard 23a or the like is retrieved from the optical disc.

The keyboard 23a is used to input a specific search title corresponding to the image data stored on the optical disk and various operation commands for storing, searching, and editing the image data. To do.

The mouse 23b is used, for example, to arbitrarily move a cursor displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24 to select or instruct various operation modes and area designation for image editing. To use.

The CRT display device 24 displays an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18 and an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk.

The printer device 25 prints out an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18, an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk, or an image displayed on the CRT display device 24. (Her
Make a copy).

The magnetic disk device 27 stores various control programs on the magnetic disk mounted on the magnetic disk device 27, and a search key for searching the image data stored on the optical disk, and the search. The record address (search data) including the storage address of the image data corresponding to the key on the optical disk and the image size is stored.

Here, the image processing unit 51 of the control unit 10
Image data files such as documents and drawings created by word processors and spread sheets. Further, a predetermined process is performed on the created image data. Thereby, for example, a plurality of data files can be combined to form one image. Further, the image processing unit 51
When the data file is modified, the image data is modified to correspond to the data file. The image created by the image processing unit 51 is temporarily stored in the image memory 50. Processing such as image composition is performed on the image memory 50.

FIG. 2 shows an example of an image image created by the image processing section 51. This figure shows an image 60 in which a document created by a word processor and a chart created by a spread sheet are combined. In the figure, reference numeral 61 is the address of the image image of the document created by the word processor, 6
2 is the number of pixels in the horizontal direction (X direction) of the same image, 63
Is the number of pixels in the vertical direction (Y direction), 64 is the address of the image image in the chart created by the spread sheet, 65 is the number of pixels in the X direction of the image image, and 66 is the number of pixels in the Y direction. Is.

The optical disk used in this embodiment is composed of image data as shown in FIG. 2 and a data file related to this image, that is, a data file of a word processor or a spread sheet. Stores the data file.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure on such an optical disc. As shown in FIG.
A data 71 and a data file 72 related thereto are stored for each image.

Further, these image data are recorded on the optical disc.
A data base 80 for managing data and data files is stored. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structure of the data base stored on the optical disk. As shown in the figure, the data base 80 has one record for each record 80a.
The management data of the image data and the data file for the image is stored. Each management data includes a file name 81 recorded in a common format, an address 82 on the optical disk, an address 83 on the image memory 50,
The number of pixels in the X direction is 84 and the number of pixels in the Y direction is 85. In addition,
The format of the optical disk may be any format, but it is considered appropriate to use a DOS format having a high degree of freedom and a format for saving files in the TIFF format.

Next, the data registration operation in the electronic filing apparatus 1 configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, a word processor and spread sheet
A data file of a document such as a document or a chart created in step 1 is stored in the optical disc (step 501). The data file is saved by the CPU 34 in accordance with an instruction input from the keyboard 23a or the mouse 23b. CPU3
4 controls the optical disk device 22 based on the image storage control program stored in the main memory 38,
The data file sent from the main memory 38 is stored in the optical disc. The data file may be directly stored in the optical disk from the main memory 38, or may be stored once in the magnetic disk and then in the optical disk.

Next, the image processing unit 51 converts the data file of the document into an image (step 502). Then, the image data of the document imaged by the image processing unit 51 is sent to and stored in the image memory 50 (step 50).
3). At this time, the address of the image data, the number of pixels in the X direction, and the number of pixels in the Y direction that can be stored in the image memory 50 are determined.
Then, under the control of the CPU 34, these data are written by the optical disk device 22 as the management data of the data file in the data base 80 of the optical disk.

Next, the CPU 34 sends the image data stored in the image memory 50 to the display memory 42 and displays the image of the document on the CRT display device 24 (step 504). The user uses the CRT display device 24
Perform necessary editing work for this document while looking at the display. Editing documents is done by keyboard 23a or mouse 2
It is performed by input from 3b. CPU 34 is a keyboard
According to the input of the mouse 23a or the mouse 23b, the image processing unit 51 is controlled based on the image editing control program stored in the main memory 38 to edit the image data. The user confirms the edited result by looking at the display on the CRT display device 24.

Next, the CPU 34 edits the edited image data.
Data to the image memory 51 again (step 505). At this time, the address of the image data, the number of pixels in the X direction, and the number of pixels in the Y direction on the image memory 50 are updated, and the management data of the data file in the data base 80 of the optical disc is corrected.

After that, the CPU 34 controls the optical disk device 2
2 is controlled to store the image data stored in the image memory 50 on the optical disc (step 506). And
The CPU 34 has an address on the optical disk storing the image data, an address on the image memory, the number of pixels in the X direction, and Y.
The number of pixels in the direction is written as management data for image data in the data base 80 of the optical disk. The address of the image data on the optical disk is also written as management data of the data file.

As described above, the image data can be stored in the optical disk without printing the prepared document. Further, since the created document is stored on the optical disk as both the image data and the data file, it can be managed in a unified manner.

Next, the operation for correcting the document stored in the optical disc as described above will be described.

After reading the data file recorded on the optical disk and making corrections, the file data is updated by registering on the optical disk as in the case of the above new registration. Then, the image processing unit 51 images the file data.

Next, the CPU 34 refers to the data base 80 of the optical disk to obtain the address, the X direction pixel number, and the Y direction pixel number of the image data corresponding to the corrected data file on the optical disk. Identify.

Then, based on these management data,
The image data of the corrected document is stored on the optical disc.

In this way, when the document already stored on the optical disk is to be corrected, the image data can be automatically corrected by correcting the data file. It is not necessary to print out the document and read it again by the scanner device 18 or the like.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment.

For example, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the documents to be stored on the optical disk are created by the word processor and the spread sheet. However, the documents created by the data base software and the drawing software are also stored. But it doesn't matter.

Further, the data base 80 and the data file stored in the optical disk may be stored in the magnetic disk as in the conventional case.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, the data file and the image data of the same document can be centrally managed and the labor can be reduced.

Image data of the created or modified document
Since the data is stored on the optical disk, it is not necessary to print out the document, and the labor of image data registration can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a structure of an electronic filing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing image data of a document stored on an optical disc.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of an optical disc.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of a data base stored on an optical disc.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a data registration operation of the electronic filing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Electronic filing device, 10 ... Control part, 22 ... Optical disk device, 34 ... CPU, 50 ... Image memory, 51 ...
Image processing unit.

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A first input means for inputting information created by an information processing device as image information, a second input means for inputting information created by the information processing device as encoded information, Storage means for storing the image information input by the first input means and the encoded information input by the second input means, a correction means for correcting the encoded information stored by the storage means, and this correction An image information processing apparatus, comprising means for automatically correcting the image information stored in the storage means corresponding to the encoded information when the encoded information is corrected by the means. 2. A first input means for inputting information created by an information processing apparatus as image information, a second input means for inputting information created by the information processing apparatus as encoded information, Storage means for storing the image information input by the first input means and the coded information input by the second input means in a continuous area, and a correction for correcting the coded information stored by the storage means. Image information comprising means and means for automatically correcting the image information stored in the storage means corresponding to the coded information when the coded information is corrected by the correcting means. Processing equipment. 3. A first input means for inputting information created by an information processing apparatus as image information, a second input means for inputting information created by the information processing apparatus as encoded information, First storage means for storing the image information input by the first input means and the encoding information input by the second input means, and the encoding information stored by the first storage means is modified. Modifying means; means for automatically modifying the image information stored in the first storage means corresponding to the coded information when the coded information is modified by the modifying means; An image information processing apparatus, comprising: a second storage unit that stores search information for the image information and the encoded information stored by the unit. 4. A first input means for inputting information created by an information processing apparatus as image information, a second input means for inputting information created by the information processing apparatus as encoded information, The information processing includes storage means for storing the image information input by the first input means and the encoding information input by the second input means, and correction information for correcting the encoding information stored by the storage means. When the coded information is modified by the third inputting means for inputting from the device and the modification information inputted by the third inputting means, the image stored in the storing means corresponding to the coded information An image information processing apparatus comprising: means for automatically correcting information.