JPH0877200A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an image infomation processor which can easily execute the registration of a revised document and the retrieval of the registered document, and it addition, can reduce registering time and retrieving time by updating retrieval information by adding the retrieval information to retrieve by a document unit the image information of the revised document to be recorded. CONSTITUTION: While referring to the image of the latest edition document, the document to be inputted and recorded is selected. A CPU 34 calls the retrieval information out of the document management table 26a of a magnetic disk 26 loaded in a magnetic disk device 27. Next, the image of the latest edition document is registered successively in an optical disk 19 through an optical disk device 20. At that time, the update processing of the document management table 26a by the CPU 34 is executed. The document management table 26a is generated by this update processing of the document management table 26a, and the images of all the pages of the latest edition document are stored in the optical disk 19, and the registration is completed. Accordingly, since the revised edition is registered by the document unit at the time of retrieving the revised edition, the selection of the revised edition need be executed only once, and the reduction of labor and time is attained.

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 apparatus such as an image filing apparatus which registers and retrieves image information obtained by reading information such as documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a large amount of information such as documents is read by a scanner device (two-dimensional scanning device), the read image information is stored in an optical disc, and any stored image information is searched. An image filing device has been put into practical use, which reads out and outputs it in a state in which it can be viewed by an output device such as a CRT display device or a printer device.

If the number of pages of the old edition document and the latest edition document is the same, the document stored in the optical disc of the image filing apparatus is revised by repeating the page revision process by the number of pages, and the old edition document is obtained. If the number of pages in the latest version of the document is different, it is dealt with by adding the page for the shortage and deleting the excess.

However, when the old edition document and the latest edition document have the same number of pages, the revised edition is attached to each page, and therefore, in order to retrieve the old edition document, it is necessary to perform a search on a page-by-page basis. It was hanging. When the number of pages of the old version of the document and the number of pages of the latest version of the document are different, it is necessary for the operator to manage what version of which page corresponds to what version of this document, and delete the surplus page. If it happened, the original page could not be searched.

As described above, revisions are made only on a page-by-page basis, and even when revisions are made on a document-by-page basis, page-by-page revisions are performed, which takes time and time for document revision registration, and registration documents. It took a lot of time to search for each page, and it took time to search for the old and new editions.

[0006]

As described above, revisions are made only on a page-by-page basis, and even when revisions are made on a document-by-page basis, the revisions are made page by page.
There was a problem that it took time to register the revised documents and to search the registered documents.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an image information processing apparatus that facilitates registration of revised documents and retrieval of registered documents, and can reduce registration time and search time.

[0008]

The image information processing apparatus of the present invention is an image information processing apparatus for recording image information of a document in a recording medium and searching the image information of the document recorded in the recording medium. Storage means for storing search information for searching the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium in document units, and image information of the document recorded on the recording medium using the search information stored in the storage means Reading means for reading, the revising means for revising the image information of the document read by the reading means, the recording means for recording the image information of the revised document revised by the revising means on the recording medium, and the recording means. And update means for updating the search information stored in the storage means in addition to the search information for searching the image information of the revised document recorded on the document basis.

The image information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a first recording means for recording image information of a document on a recording medium, and image information of the document recorded on the recording medium by the first recording means on a document-by-document basis. And a reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium using the search information stored in the storage means, and a storage means for storing the search information to be searched for by the reading means. A revising means for revising the image information of the document, a second recording means for recording the image information of the revised document revised by the revising means on the recording medium, and a revising document recorded by the second recording means. It is composed of updating means for updating the search information stored in the storage means in addition to the search information for searching the image information in document units.

The image information processing apparatus of the present invention is an image information processing apparatus for recording image information of a document on an optical disc and searching for image information of the document recorded on the optical disc. A storage means for storing information for searching information by document, a document revision number, a document revision number, a page number in a document, and an image number, and a search information stored in this storage means are used. The reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the optical disc, the revising means for revising the image information of the document read by the reading means, and the image information of the revised document revised by the revising means for the optical disc. The recording means to be recorded in the storage means and the search information stored in the storage means in addition to the search information for searching the image information of the revised document recorded by the recording means in document units. And a and updating means for updating the information.

The image information processing apparatus of the present invention comprises a first recording means for recording image information of a document on an optical disc, and a document direct number and a revised edition number of the document recorded on the optical disc by the first recording means. A reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the optical disk by using the storage means for storing the page number in the document and the image number, and the document direct number and the revision number stored in the storage means. Means, a revising means for revising the image information of the document read by the reading means, a second recording means for recording the image information of the revised document revised by the revising means on the optical disc, and the second recording. An update for storing the document direct number, the revision number, the page number in the document, and the image number of the revised document recorded by the means in the storage means, and updating the revision number stored in the storage means. It is composed of a stage.

[0012]

According to the present invention, in an image information processing apparatus for recording image information of a document in a recording medium and retrieving the image information of the document recorded in the recording medium, the image information of the document recorded in the recording medium is recorded. The search information to be searched for each document is stored in the storage means, the image information of the document recorded in the recording medium is read using the stored search information, and the image information of the read document is revised and revised. The image information of the revised document is recorded in the recording medium, and the search information stored in the storage means is updated by adding search information for searching the recorded image information of the revised document for each document. Is.

According to the present invention, the image information of a document is recorded on a recording medium, the search information for searching the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium in document units is stored in the storage means, and the stored search information is stored. The image information of the document recorded on the recording medium is read by using, the image information of the read document is revised, the image information of the revised revised document is recorded on the recording medium, and the revised document recorded is recorded. The search information stored in the storage means is updated by adding search information for searching the image information for each document.

According to the present invention, in an image information processing apparatus for recording image information of a document on an optical disk and retrieving the image information of the document recorded on the optical disk, the image information of the document recorded on the optical disk is recorded in document units. The search information composed of the document direct number to be searched, the document revision number, the page number in the document, and the image number is stored in the storage means, and the stored search information is used to store the documents recorded on the optical disc. Read the image information, revise the read image information of the document, record the revised image information of the revised document on the optical disc, and add the search information to search the image information of the revised document recorded in document units. The search information stored in the storage means is updated.

According to the present invention, the image information of a document is recorded on an optical disc, and the document direct number, revision number, page number in the document, and image number of the document recorded on the optical disc are stored in the storage means. The image information of the document recorded on the optical disc is read using the document direct number and the revised edition number, the image information of the read document is revised, and the revised image information of the revised document is recorded on the optical disc. Then
The document direct number, the revision number, the page number in the document, and the image number of the revision document to be recorded are stored in the storage means, and the revision number stored in the storage means is updated. is there.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an image filing apparatus as the image information processing apparatus of the present invention.

That is, the image filing apparatus includes a control module 10, a memory module 12, an image processing module 14, a communication control module 16 and a scanner apparatus 1.
8, optical disk (recording medium) 19, optical disk device (recording means, first and second recording means) 20, keyboard 23, CRT display device 24, printer device 2
5, a magnetic disk 26 and 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 storing, retrieving and editing images.
And keyboard 23, mouse 29, optical disk device 2
0, a magnetic disk device 27 and an interface circuit 36 connecting the CPU 34.

The memory module 12 is a main memory 38 for storing various control programs such as image storage, retrieval and editing, and management information, and an image memory having a storage capacity corresponding to images of several pages of A4 size document. Page memory (storage means) 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. Page memory 4
0 is a memory for temporarily storing, for example, an image stored in the optical disc 19 or an image read from the optical disc 19.

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 and the like.

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 (restoring the 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 / decompression circuit 50 uses an MH (Modified Huff).
Band compression or band expansion is performed using a man (man) method, an MR (Modified Read) method, or the like. The communication control module 16 is, for example, a BC connected to a local area network.
It is configured by a communication interface 58 such as P (Bus Communication Processor). Further, the communication control module 16 is connected to an external device such as an FCP (facsimile connection mechanism) or a personal computer through an interface, and a UCP (Universal Communication Pro).
cessor) 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 light.
The optical disk device 20 outputs the image read by the scanner device 18 via the interface circuit 36 to the optical disk 1
9 are sequentially stored. Further, the optical disc 19 is searched for an image corresponding to the search data designated by the keyboard 23 or the like.

The keyboard 23 is used to input unique search data corresponding to an image stored on the optical disk 19 and various operation commands for storage, search, edit processing and the like. Further, the mouse 29 moves the cursor (not shown) displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24, for example, vertically and horizontally to give an instruction at a desired position so that the cursor is positioned. The display contents (various operation modes, title or area designation or icon for image editing, etc.) are selected or designated.

The CRT display device (cathode ray tube display device) 24 displays the image read by the scanner device 18 and the image retrieved from the optical disk 19. 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 19 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 the document identification number as search data which will be described later and is input from the keyboard 23 and this document identification number. The image number on the optical disc 19 in which the image information corresponding to is stored.

The search data (search information) is managed by a document management table (storage means) 26a stored in the magnetic disk 26. The document management table 26a includes "document direct number", "document revision number", "document page number", and "image number".

The "document direct number" is a number uniquely given to each document, and is given a number starting from 0 and updated one by one each time a new registration of the document is performed. The “document revision number” is a number that represents what version each image of the document corresponds to, and the latest version is set to 0 and incremented by 1 each time the image becomes an old version.

The "page number in document" is a number assigned in each document, and is incremented by 1 starting from 0 for each document and for each subsequent page. The "image number" is the image id of each page, there is no page having the same "image number", and image information is stored on the optical disc 19 in correspondence with this "image number".

FIG. 2 shows an example of the structure of the document management table 26a. For newly registered documents (documents that do not have a revised version), the "Document revision number" is 0, as shown in Figure 2.
, And is represented by multiple (or singular) pages. For example, the document in FIG. 2 has two pages and shows a document without a revised edition.

Here, the relationship between the "document direct number" and the "document revision number" will be described. If two documents have a relationship between the latest version and the old version of the same document, they have the same “document direct number”. On the contrary, unless there is a revised version of the same document, there is no document with the same “document direct number”, and there is no omission of the “document direct number”. That is, a plurality of documents having the same “document direct number” are always related to the revised version of the same document.

FIG. 3 shows a document management table 26 showing two documents having a relationship between the latest version and the old version of the same document.
It shows a configuration example of a. The portion A of the document management table 26a shown in FIG. 3 is "the document revision number is 1, so it is an old document and the number of pages in the document is 2. The portion B is the portion A. And the "Document Direct Number" match and the "Document Revision Number" is 0,
You can see that it is the latest version of part A. In addition, the number of pages in the document of the portion B is three.

Next, the operation of registering a revised document version and the updating of the document management table 26a associated with the registering operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Here, specifically, the document management table 26 of FIG.
It will be explained that the document represented by a is registered as the revised version of the document with the latest version of the 3-page document, and as a result, the document management table 26a becomes as shown in FIG.

First, the operator refers to the image of the latest version of the document and inputs the "document direct number" to the keyboard 23 to select the document to be revised (step ST1). CP
The U34 retrieves the search data of the document having the same "document direct number" (0 in this example) as the "document direct number" of the selected document, and manages the document of the magnetic disk 26 mounted on the magnetic disk device 27. Call from the table 26a.

Next, the operator sequentially registers the images of the latest version of the document on the optical disc 19 via the optical disc device 20 (step ST2). At this time, the CPU (update means) 3
The update processing (step ST3) of the document management table 26a according to No. 4 can be classified into the case of the first image and the case of the subsequent images. First, when the first document image is registered, the following two processes are performed.

FIG. 5 is for explaining the updating process of the document management table 26a. In the first process, the CPU 34 has the same “0” as the selected document in the “document direct number”, 0 indicating the latest version in the “document revision number”, and the first page in the “page number in document”. 0 to indicate that
The "image number" is set to the sequentially arranged number 3 (C in FIG. 5).

In the second process, the CPU 34 adds one to the "document revision number" because the documents having the same "document direct number" that have been registered up to now become one old version (FIG. 5). Symbol D column). Other configurations are unchanged.

Thereafter, the CPU 34 adds a tuple as shown in the item E of FIG. 5 every time the latest version of the second and subsequent pages of images are registered. "Document direct number" is the same as the selected document, 0, "Document revision number" is 0 indicating that it is the latest version, "Page number in document", "Image number" are each incremented by 1. Set the number. The document management table 26a shown in FIG. 3 is created by the updating process of the document management table 26a, and the images of all the pages of the latest version document are stored in the optical disc 19 and the registration is completed (step S).
T4).

In addition, in this registration, the operator selects a document for which document revision is to be performed (step ST1),
Only the registration of the image of the latest version of the document (step ST2) contributes greatly to the simplification and labor saving of the revision of the document unit. In addition, the functionality can be greatly improved in that it can be registered regardless of the number of pages of the latest version, the old version, and both documents.

FIG. 6 shows the registration of the revised version of the document as described above.
Document management table 26 after new registration is repeated several times
It shows a. In FIG. 6, the F, H, and J parts are the same “document direct number” 0, so it can be seen that they are revised versions of the same document. In addition, "Document revision number"
The order is J, H, F from the latest version to the old version.

FIG. 7 is a document management table constructed according to the above procedure when the latest version document consisting of two pages is revised to the G document (“Document Direct Number” 1) in the document management table 26a of FIG. 26a is shown. That is, the pages of the documents of F, H, and J are not changed, and the “document revision number” of the document of G is incremented by 1 to be 1 and K
The latest two pages of "Document Direct Number" 1 are added to the section.

Next, a document revision edition search operation and the flow of the search on the document management table 26a associated with this search operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. now,
It is assumed that the document management table 26a shown in FIG. 6 is used to search for a document with "document direct number" 0 and "document revision number" 1.

First, the operator inputs the "document direct number" 0 to the keyboard 23 and selects the document for which the revised edition is searched (step ST5). The CPU 34 has the same "document direct number" as the "document direct number" of the selected document.
The retrieval data of the document having (0 in this example) is retrieved from the document management table 26a of the magnetic disk 26 mounted on the magnetic disk device 27 and displayed on the CRT display device 24.

Subsequently, the operator selects the document by inputting the "document revision number" 1 of the "document revision number" to be searched for on the keyboard 23 (step ST6).
The CPU 34 extracts an image number satisfying the two conditions of “document direct number” 0 and “document revision number” 1 on the document management table 26a, and sets the corresponding image information to the optical disc device 20.
It is read from the optical disk 19 via the and displayed on the CRT display device 24 (step ST7). in this case,
A document consisting of one page of image number 6 is displayed.

In this search, the operator does
Only the selection of the document for performing the document revision search (step ST5) and the selection of the "document revision number" (step ST6) greatly contribute to simplification and labor saving of the document revision search. In addition, even if the number of pages of the latest version of the document is smaller than the number of pages of the old version of the document, it can be revised without deleting it, so that all pages can be searched and the functionality is greatly improved. .

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, since the revised version is registered for each document when performing the revised version search, the operator only needs to select the revised version once, which reduces labor and time (time reduction). Is achieved. Also, when registering the revised version, it is sufficient to select the document once, and the same effect can be obtained.

Further, in the management by the document management table,
Since the number of pages for each revision of the same document is completely irrelevant, it is not necessary for the operator to manage the number of revision pages, thus saving labor and time (time reduction) for both registration and retrieval of revisions. .

[0050]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide an image information processing device that facilitates registration of revised documents and search of registered documents, and that can reduce registration time and search time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of an image filing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a document management table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a document management table showing two documents having the relationship between the latest version and the old version of the same document.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining a document revision registration operation and a document management table update accompanying the registration operation.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a document management table update process.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a document management table after registration of a revised document version and new registration are repeated several times.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a document management table configured according to the procedure when the latest version document is registered as a revised version.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining a document revision edition search operation and a flow of a search on the document management table associated with this search operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 34 ... CPU 23 ... Keyboard 27 ... Magnetic disk device 26 ... Magnetic disk 26a ... Document management table 20 ... Optical disk device 19 ... Optical disk 24 ... CRT display device 25 ... Printer device 18 ... Scanner device

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An image information processing apparatus for recording image information of a document on a recording medium and searching for image information of the document recorded on the recording medium, wherein the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium is a document unit. And a reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium using the search information stored in the storage means, and a storage means for storing the search information to be searched for by the reading means. Revision means for revising the image information of the document, recording means for recording the image information of the revision document revised by this revising means on the recording medium, and image information of the revision document recorded by this recording means in document units. An image information processing apparatus comprising: an update unit that adds search information to be searched and updates the search information stored in the storage unit. 2. A first recording means for recording image information of a document on a recording medium, and search information for searching for image information of the document recorded on the recording medium by the first recording means on a document-by-document basis. And a reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the recording medium by using the search information stored in the storage means, and the image information of the document read by the reading means is revised. Revision means, second recording means for recording the image information of the revision document revised by the revision means on the recording medium, and image information of the revision document recorded by the second recording means for each document. Image information processing apparatus, comprising: update means for updating the search information stored in the storage means in addition to the search information. 3. The image information of a document is recorded on an optical disc,
In the image information processing apparatus for retrieving the image information of the document recorded on the optical disc, the document direct number, the document revision number, the page number in the document, the image for retrieving the image information of the document recorded on the optical disc in document units Storage means for storing search information composed of a number; reading means for reading out image information of a document recorded on the optical disk using the search information stored in the storage means; Revision means for revising the image information of the read document, recording means for recording the image information of the revision document revised by this revision means on the optical disc, and image information of the revision document recorded by this recording means for each document unit. 2. An image information processing apparatus, comprising: an updating unit that updates the search information stored in the storage unit by adding the search information to be searched for. 4. A first recording means for recording image information of a document on an optical disc, and a document direct number, a revision number, a page number in the document, and an image of the document recorded on the optical disc by the first recording means. Storage means for storing the number, reading means for reading the image information of the document recorded on the optical disk using the document direct number and the revised edition number stored in the storage means, and the reading means. Revision means for revising the image information of the read document, second recording means for recording the image information of the revision document revised by the revising means on the optical disc, and the revision document recorded by the second recording means. The document direct number, the revision number, the page number in the document, and the image number are stored in the storage means, and the updating means for updating the revision number stored in the storage means is provided. Image information processing device for collection.