JPH10171816A - System for processing data - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data processing system in which the reading of object data can be efficiently attained. SOLUTION: Plural object data are grouped based on the grouping information data of each object data and a preliminarily decided result, and the grouped object data are stored so as to be made correspond to the identification data of the group. Retrieval data corresponding to the attribute of each object data are stored so as to be made correspond to the group identification data. The object data belonging to the group corresponding to the inputted retrieval data are retrieved, and the retrieved data are outputted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing system which can be used when reading out object data such as character data, graphic data, image data, etc. from a database when preparing a printing original such as an article catalog.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when creating a printing master for an article catalog, object data for displaying article information is read from a database stored in a storage device of a computer system and used for creating a composition. I have. As the object data, image data for displaying the appearance of the article, graphic data for displaying a dimensional drawing of the article, character data for displaying the product number and price of the article, and the like are read out. Processing such as layout is performed on the screen of the display device.

Conventionally, each object data is stored in association with article identification data such as a product number so that the object data can be read efficiently, and the price and color of each article are used as search data in the article identification data. By storing the data in association with each other and inputting the search data, corresponding object data is searched and output.

[0004]

However, in the conventional configuration, since the price, color, etc. of the article are used as the search data, it is not possible to perform a search according to the attribute of the object data. For example, a search such as reading out image data in a specific format and object data of an article related to the image data could not be performed.
Therefore, the object data cannot be read efficiently.

An object of the present invention is to provide a data processing system capable of solving the above-mentioned problem.

[0006]

A data processing system according to the present invention comprises: means for grouping a plurality of object data based on grouping information data of each object data and a predetermined grouping rule; Means for storing the divided object data in association with the identification data of the group, means for storing search data corresponding to the attribute of each object data in association with the group identification data, An input unit, a unit for searching for object data belonging to a group corresponding to the input search data, and a unit for outputting the searched object data are provided.

According to the structure of the present invention, object data belonging to a group corresponding to the input search data can be output. The search data corresponds to the attribute of the object data, and a rule for grouping the object data can be arbitrarily determined. Therefore, it is possible to read out the object data corresponding to the attribute of the target object data and according to an arbitrarily defined rule. That is, the object data can be searched according to the attribute, and the search rule can be flexibly changed.

Preferably, the object data includes a plurality of data of different format types, and each format type is stored as search data.
As a result, it is possible to search for and read object data of a specific format.

When one object data belongs to a plurality of groups, it is preferable that the object data belonging to all of the groups corresponding to the plurality of input search data can be output. Thereby, the object data can be searched more efficiently.

[0010]

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

FIG. 1 shows a printing data processing system used for preparing a printing original plate of an article catalog.
An input device 2 such as a keyboard, an output device 3 such as a printer, an external storage device 4 such as a hard disk device, and a display device 5 are provided.

A plurality of object data are grouped in the external storage device 4 based on grouping information data attached to each object data and a predetermined grouping rule, and are stored in association with identification data of the group. Is done.

In the present embodiment, the object data indicates image data for displaying the appearance of the article, graphic data for displaying a dimensional drawing of the article, and the like, article number, price, color, and size of the article. Character data. The image data, the graphic data, and the character data have different formats from each other, and further include image data having different formats.

In the present embodiment, the grouping of the object data is performed on the basis of the rule that object data relating to articles having the same part number belong to the same group. The grouping rules for the object data can be set arbitrarily. For example, the rule that object data relating to articles listed in the same type of catalog belong to the same group, or the rule stored in the external storage device 4 on the same date It is possible to set a rule that the given object data belongs to the same group.

In the present embodiment, the association between the object data and the group identification data is made via the file name of the object data, the ID of the object data, and the type of the object data. That is, the image file name 11 and the image ID unique to the image data
2 is stored as data in a table format as shown in FIG. 2A, and in the example shown in FIG.
1 is associated with image ID 1 and gazo
The file name of u2 is associated with the image ID2. Also, a graphic file name 13 and a graphic ID unique to the graphic data
14 is stored as data in a table format as shown in FIG. 2 (2). In the example shown in FIG.
1 is associated with the graphic ID 1. The correspondence between the character data 15 itself and the character ID 16 is stored as tabular data as shown in (3) of FIG. 2, and in the illustrated example, the product number A0001, the price 28,000 yen,
The fairness and size M are associated with the character ID 1 and the product number B0
001, price 12,000 yen, color red, and size free are associated with character ID2. As shown in (4) of FIG.
Each image ID 12, graphic ID 14, and character ID 16 is associated with a corresponding object data type 17 and a group ID 18, which is group identification data, and is stored as character data in a table format.

Further, search data corresponding to the attribute of each object data is stored in the external storage device 4 in association with the group identification data.

In this embodiment, the search data is composed of the image content and the format type for the image data, the data type and the format type for the graphic data, and the character data is the data itself. Be composed.

In the present embodiment, the search data and the group identification data are associated with each other via a search ID for each object data. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, for image data, an image title 21 and a format type 22 which briefly represent the contents of the image, for graphic data, an object type 23 and a format type 24, and for character data, The part number 25, the article price 26, the article color 27, and the article size 28 indicating the object data itself are respectively associated with the search ID 30 as search data and stored as table format data. As shown in FIG.
Are associated with the corresponding group IDs 18 and stored as character data in a table format. In the illustrated example, the image title is a main body image and a mounting image, and the image format type is Handsha.
ke and eps, and its graphic format type is D
XF.

The search data 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, and 28 are input from the input device 2 to the processing device 1. The processing device 1 searches for object data belonging to a group corresponding to the input search data. The searched object data is output from the output device 3 and displayed on the display device 5.

The procedure for storing data by the data processing system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, the initial values of the search ID and the group ID are set to zero (step 1). Next, each object data is stored in the storage device 4, and in this case, it is stored in association with the accompanying information (step 2). Each object data and additional information
The data may be input to the system from the input device 2 and stored in the storage device 4 by the processing device 1, or a separately created product may be directly read into the storage device 4. The additional information is
As shown in FIG. 6, for image data, the file name, object data ID, object data type, related part number, image title, and format type are used. For graphic data, the file name, object data ID, object The data type, the related product number, and the format type are used. The character data is the object data ID and the object data type. Thus, if the type of object data is image, the correspondence between the image file name and the image ID is used. If the object data is a graphic, the correspondence between the graphic file name and the graphic ID is used. Is stored as data in a table format as shown in (1) to (3) in FIG. In the present embodiment, since the object data related to the article having the same part number belongs to the same group, the related part number, which is supplementary information, and the part number of the character data correspond to the grouping information data corresponding to the object data grouping rule. become. In the present embodiment, since one of the image data is related to a plurality of product numbers, the image data belongs to a plurality of groups. This is because a plurality of articles may be displayed by one image in an article catalog or the like. Next, the processing device 1 reads out one piece of incidental information of the stored object data (Step 3). next,
One is added to the value of the search ID (step 4). Next, if the read additional information is for image data, if the image title and format type are for graphic data, if the object data type and format type are for character data, The part number, price, color, and size, which are the data itself, are associated with the search ID as search data, and are stored as character data in a table format as described above (step 5). Next, it is determined whether or not search data is stored with respect to another object data having the same part number as the related part number of the additional information read in step 3 as additional information (step 6).
If search data of another object data related to the article having the same part number is not stored, 1 is added to the value of the group ID (step 7). Next, the search ID associated with the search data in step 5 is replaced with the group ID
And stored as data in a table format as shown in FIG. 4 (step 8). In step 6, if search data of another object data related to the article of the same product number is stored, the search data in step 5 is associated with the group ID associated with the search ID of the search data of the other object data. Is stored in association with the search ID (step 9).
Next, in step 8 or step 9, search ID
Is associated with the group ID associated with the object ID of the object data having the search data associated with the search ID as supplementary information. As shown in (4) of FIG. (Step 10). Thus, the object data is grouped based on a predetermined rule. FIG. 7 shows a conceptual diagram of the grouping of the object data. Next, it is determined whether or not the supplementary information of all the stored object data has been read (step 11). If all the additional information has not been read, the process returns to step 3, and if it has been read, the process ends.

The data output procedure by the data processing system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, search data is input from the input device 2 (step 1). Thereby, the processing device 1 reads out the search ID corresponding to the search data from the storage device 4 (step 2), and reads out all the group IDs corresponding to the search ID (step 3). Next, the read group I
The object type and the object ID corresponding to all of D are read (step 4). It is determined whether or not the read object type is character (step 5). If the read object type is character, the output device 4 outputs character data corresponding to the object ID. (Step 6) If the object type is a figure or an image, the file name of the object ID is read (Step 7), and the object data of the file name is output to the output device 4 (Step 8). Next, it is determined whether or not all the object data corresponding to the object IDs corresponding to all of the group IDs read in step 3 have been output (step 9). If not, the process returns to step 4 and all the data has been output. If so, the process ends.

According to the above configuration, object data belonging to a group corresponding to the input search data can be output. The search data corresponds to the attribute of the object data, and a rule for grouping the object data can be arbitrarily determined. Therefore, it is possible to read out the object data corresponding to the target attribute and according to an arbitrarily defined rule. That is, the object data can be searched according to the attribute, and the search rule can be flexibly changed. In addition, since the object data includes a plurality of data of different format types, and each format type is set as search data, object data of a specific format can be searched and read. Furthermore, when one object data belongs to a plurality of groups, the object data belonging to all the groups corresponding to the plurality of input search data can be output, so that the object data can be searched more efficiently. . That is,
In the flowchart of FIG. 8, when there are a plurality of input search data, a plurality of group IDs may be read in step 3. In this case, step 4
The object data ID read out in is assumed to correspond to all group IDs. This allows
When one object data belongs to a plurality of groups, it is possible to output object data belonging to all of the groups corresponding to the plurality of input search data. For example, in the above illustrated example, the price is 12000
When the object data with the image format of eps is taken out in a circle or less, the price is 12000 as search data.
And eps of the image format are input, step 3
Since the group IDs read out in step 1 are 1 and 2, the object data whose image ID belongs to both groups is 2 is output.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the number of object data and the rules for grouping object data are not particularly limited.

[0024]

According to the present invention, a data processing system capable of efficiently reading object data can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the configuration of a data processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating a relationship between an image ID and an image file name, FIG. 2B is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a graphic ID and a graphic file name, and FIG. And FIG. 4D is a diagram showing a relationship between a group ID, an object type, and an object ID.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between a search ID and search data according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a relationship between a search ID and a group ID according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when data is stored by the data processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of supplementary information of object data according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating grouping of object data according to the embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure at the time of retrieval by the data processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 arithmetic processing unit 2 input device 3 output device 4 external storage device

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Watanabe 1-5-1 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo Toppan Printing (72) Inventor Takao Iwata 1-15-1 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo 1-5-1 Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A means for grouping a plurality of object data based on grouping information data of each object data and a predetermined grouping rule, and identifying the grouped object data by identification data of the group. Means for storing the search data corresponding to the attribute of each object data,
Means for storing in association with the group identification data; means for inputting the search data; means for searching for object data belonging to the group corresponding to the input search data; and outputting the searched object data A data processing system comprising: 2. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein the object data includes a plurality of data of different format types, and each format type is stored as search data. 3. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein when one object data belongs to a plurality of groups, the object data belonging to all the groups corresponding to the plurality of input search data can be output. .