JPH10289137A - Information processor, file name generation method and recording medium recording file name generation control program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To view an index supplied to an image file even in a general purpose file system and to omit an index file. SOLUTION: This processor is provided with an image input part 5 for inputting character/image information, an operation part 3 for inputting the plural pieces of index information for the inputted character/image information, a file name generation program 9 for adding a prescribed delimiter between the character strings of the inputted respective pieces of the index information and generating a file name and a control part 1. Since the generated file name is provided with the index information, the index is viewed even in the general purpose file system. Further, an index program 10 for extracting the respective pieces of the index information provided in the file name by detecting the position of the delimiter from the file name generated by the file name generation program 9 is provided. Thus, a display part 4 displays the extracted index information in a table form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus for recording, classifying, and storing image information by generating a file name, a file name generation method, and a recording medium storing a file name generation control program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a conventional device called an image file device. The image file device includes a control unit 1, a storage unit 2, an operation unit 3, a display unit 4, an image input unit 5, a removable media drive 6, and a removable medium 7. The control unit 1 includes a well-known CPU or MPU, and controls the entire apparatus according to an instruction from the operation unit 3.
A well-known keyboard or touch panel is used for the operation unit 3. The storage unit 2 uses a solid-state memory element or a magnetic recording device, stores a program in which the control contents of the CPU are described, and is used as a work area and a temporary storage unit required for executing the program. The display unit 4 is a well-known CRT monitor or a liquid crystal display device.
The image information described later is displayed. The image input unit 5 is a part generally called an image scanner for reading a document image using a well-known photoelectric conversion element such as a charge-coupled device (CCD). The detachable medium 7 is a recording medium that can be attached to and detached from the image file device.
e; writable CD) or the like is used. The detachable media drive 6 is a drive device for inserting the detachable media 7 and writing and reading information on and from the media.

When an operator gives an instruction from the operation unit 3, the control unit 1, which performs control in accordance with a program stored in the storage unit 2, firstly instructs the operator to index an image to be recorded. The display as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 is output on the screen of the display unit 4 in order to prompt the input of information to be an index. Here, an example is given in which a place related to the document, a date when the document was recorded, and three indexes indicating the contents of the document are input.

When the input of the index from the operation unit 3 by the operator is completed, the control unit 1 drives a CCD (not shown) included in the image input unit 5. At the same time, a document image transport mechanism (not shown) included in the image input unit 5 is driven to read the image information of the original fringe image into the control unit 1.
The read image information is written into the removable medium 7 such as the above-mentioned magneto-optical disk or CD-R via the removable medium drive 6 in the form of a well-known image file. At that time, the control unit 1 gives a serial number as a file name of the written image file. In this example, 0001. What is described later as TIF is the serial number. Image files include well-known TIFF (Tag
Image File Format (Image file standard format)
Format or JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts
Group; still image code standardization work group) format and the like are used. The file name is the name of a file used in a known file system.

Next, the control section 1 creates an index file 8 as shown in FIG. The index file 8 has a file name of the written image file, for example, "0001.TIF", and an index given by the operator to the image file, for example, "Osaka", "January 12" as shown in FIG. , Such as “society materials”.

When searching for recorded image information, when the operator instructs to perform a search from the operation unit 3, the control unit prompts the user to input an index for search as shown in FIG. The display is output to the display unit 4. As in the example shown in FIG. 7, for example, when the operator inputs “Osaka” as the “place” and starts the search execution, the control unit 1
"Location" from the index file shown in Fig. 6 above
Search for a row in which the index "Osaka" is stored in the column of. Next, the image file name stored in the column of “image file” in that row, “00” in the example of FIG.
01. After obtaining the information “TIF”, the image file is displayed on the display unit 4.

[0007]

However, the detachable medium 7 created by the above-mentioned conventional image file apparatus is transferred to an information processing apparatus comprising a well-known general-purpose file system, for example, a so-called PC (personal computer). ) Is usually controlled by an operating system that operates the file system, and thus, for example, as shown in FIG. The image file is displayed only by its file name.

This is because the information of the index file in FIG. 6 is not related to a general-purpose file system. Therefore, unless a means for searching the contents of the index file as described above is used, it is impossible to see the index given at the time of image recording.

Further, since it is necessary to provide the above-mentioned index file 8 in the detachable medium 7, the capacity of the detachable medium 7 is wasted.

[0010] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to allow an index given to an image file to be viewed on a general-purpose file system.

A further object of the present invention is to eliminate the use of an index file so that the capacity of a recording medium such as a removable medium can be used without waste.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information input means for inputting character / image information, and a plurality of index information for the information input from the information input means. Operating means for inputting, and file name generating means for generating a file name for the information input from the information input means by adding a predetermined delimiter between character strings of each index information input from the operating means. It is characterized by having.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information input means for inputting character / image information, an operation means for inputting a plurality of index information for the information input from the information input means, and an input means for inputting a plurality of index information. File name generating means for generating a file name for the information input from the information input means by adding a predetermined delimiter between the character strings of each index information, and generating the file name from the file name generated by the file name generating means. Index extracting means for extracting each index information included in the file name by detecting the position of the delimiter.

Here, it is possible to include index information output display means for displaying the index information extracted by the index extraction means in a predetermined display format.

Further, it is possible to provide a file search means for searching for a file having a file name including the search target index information inputted from the operation means, based on the index information extracted by the index extraction means. .

Further, the file name generating means includes:
The file name may be generated by adding a predetermined file extension to the index information sequence.

Still further, the file extension may not be handled as index information.

[0018] Still further, there may be provided an index information input display means for displaying a prompt for inputting index information in response to an instruction to create a file name from the operation means.

The invention according to claim 8 is an information input step of inputting character / image information, an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information for the information input in the information input step, and an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information for the information input in the information input step. A file name generating step of generating a file name for the information input in the information input step by adding a predetermined delimiter between character strings of each index information.

The invention according to claim 9 is an information input step of inputting character / image information, an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information for the information input in the information input step, and an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information for the information input in the information input step. A file name generating step of adding a predetermined delimiter between the character strings of each index information to generate a file name for the information input in the information input step, and obtaining the file name from the file name generated by the file name generating step. An index extracting step of extracting each index information included in the file name by detecting a position of a delimiter.

Here, it is possible to further include an index information output display step of displaying the index information extracted in the index extraction step in a predetermined display format.

Further, the method may further include a file search step of searching for a file having a file name including the search target index information inputted from the operation means, based on the index information extracted in the index extraction step. .

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium recording a control program for generating a file name by a computer, the control program causing the computer to input character / image information, and Is input, and a file name is generated by adding a predetermined delimiter between character strings of the input index information.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium recording a control program for generating a file name by a computer, the control program causing the computer to input character / image information, and By inputting the index information of the file, adding a predetermined delimiter between character strings of the input index information to generate a file name, and detecting the position of the delimiter from the generated file name, Each index information included in the name is extracted.

Here, the control program may cause a computer to display the extracted index information in a predetermined display format.

Further, the control program may cause the computer to search for a file having a file name including the search target index information input from the operating means, based on the extracted index information.

In the present invention, with the above configuration, an index character string (index information) given at the time of image recording
Since the file name is generated from, the index given to the image file can be viewed on a general-purpose file system. According to the present invention, a file name is generated from the index character string, and the index character string is extracted from the generated file name. Therefore, the index file can be omitted, and the capacity of the recording medium can be used without waste.

[0028]

FIG. 1 shows an example of a configuration of an information processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied. The control unit 1, the operation unit 3, the display unit 4, the image input unit 5, the removable media drive 6, and the removable media 7 are almost the same as those in the conventional example of FIG.

The storage unit 2 stores a file name generation program 9 and an index extraction program 10 described later.

When the operator gives an instruction from the operation unit 3, the control unit 1, which performs control in accordance with the programs 9, 10 stored in the storage unit 2, first sends an image to be recorded to the operator. The display as shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 4, and FIG. Here, an example is described in which a place (area) related to the document, the date (date and time) when the document was recorded, and three indexes indicating the contents of the document are input.

When the input of the index from the operation unit 3 by the operator is completed, the control unit 1 generates a file name by the file name generation program 9 having the procedure shown in FIG.

That is, in step 1 shown in FIG. 9, the first index, the character string "Tokyo" in the example shown in FIG. 3, is first extracted from the input index character string (index information). In step 2, a delimiter (delimiter), for example, a comma "," is added to the end of the first index.

Similarly, in step 3, the second index, a character string "March 23" in the example shown in FIG. 4, is extracted and added to the trailing end of "Tokyo." The character string “Tokyo, March 23” is thus generated.

Next, in step 4, a delimiter character, for example, a comma “,” is added to the end of the second index again. In step 5, the third index, a character string “minutes” in the example shown in FIG. Add.

Finally, in step 6, a well-known file extension indicating that the file is an image file, ".TIF" in this example is added. As a result of this file name generation procedure processing, in this example, “Tokyo, March 23, minutes.
IF "is generated.

Next, the control section 1 drives a CCD (not shown) included in the image input section 5. At the same time, a document transport mechanism (not shown) included in the image input unit 5 is driven to read image information of a document image into the control unit 1. The read image information is written into a removable medium 7 such as a magneto-optical disk or a CD-R via a removable media drive 6 in the form of an image file. At this time, the control unit 1 uses the file name “Tokyo, March 23, Minutes.T” generated using the above-described file name generation program 9 as the file name of the written image file.
IF ”is used.

The image file generated in this manner is transferred to an information processing apparatus comprising a well-known general-purpose file system and an apparatus controlled by a general-purpose operating system (eg, Windows 95) for operating the file system. For example, when it is loaded into a device commonly called a PC (personal computer) or the like, FIG.
Is displayed so that the index can be read as a part of the file name as shown in. Therefore, there is no need to use an index file at that time.

Next, instead of displaying the image file list as shown in FIG. 10 by the operating system when loaded into a device commonly called a PC or the like, the above-described device according to the present invention is applied to the device to which the present invention is applied. A case will be described in which an index list as shown in FIG. 11 is displayed by using an index extracting means for extracting an index from a file name as described above.

The index extracting means is constituted by an index extracting program 10 in the storage unit 2 of FIG. FIG. 12 shows an operation procedure of the index extraction program 10. First,
In steps 11 and 12, the values of the counters N and K are initialized to one.

Next, in step 13, the file name (for example, "Tokyo, March 23, minutes.
F ”) is extracted from the Nth character. It is checked whether the character extracted in step 14 is a delimiter, that is, a comma“, ”in this example. , And the extracted character is a dot. To see if the dot ".""Is a character that separates a well-known extension and a file name in a well-known file system. If not, the character is stored in the K-th character of the buffer in step 16, and the count N and the value of the counter K are set to 1 in steps 17 and 18 respectively.
And returns to step 13.

If the extracted character is a delimiter in step 14, the first to Kth characters in step 19 are displayed on the display unit 4, and 1 is added to the value of the counter N in step 20. , And return to step 12.

If the extracted character is a dot "." In step 15, the file name has been extracted up to the end except for the extension as a file name. The contents of the buffer are displayed on the display unit 4 from the first character to the K-th character, and the process ends.

As a result of the above-described index extraction processing, a list of indexes displayed on the display unit 4 is as shown in FIG. 11, for example. In other words, even when using a well-known general-purpose operating system,
The index can be displayed as shown in FIG. When an index list is displayed on an apparatus using the index extracting means of the present invention, an index portion is extracted from a file name and displayed. For example, a file named “Tokyo, March 23, minutes. Even if it is a name, it is displayed as shown in FIG. 11 omitting the delimiters “,” and dots “.” And the file extension, for example, “.TIF”. It will be easier to see.

(Other Embodiment) Based on the index information extracted by the above-described index extracting means, a file having a file name including the search target index information (see FIG. 7) input from the operation unit 3 is searched. be able to.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus. In this case, by reading out a recording medium storing a program represented by software for achieving the present invention to the system or the apparatus, the system or the apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. Becomes

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since there is provided a file name generation means for generating a file name from an index character string given at the time of image recording, the created detachable medium can be operated by an information processing apparatus comprising a well-known general-purpose file system and an operation of the file system. The index information can be displayed even when the file list is displayed by the operating system. Further, it is possible to search for a desired file by specifying an index using a well-known file name search function or the like included in a well-known general-purpose operating system.

When displaying a list in the apparatus to which the present invention is applied, index extraction means for extracting only index information from the file name generated by the file name generation means can be used. When displayed using the extraction means, the index is displayed in a manner that is easy to visually recognize, as in the case where the conventional index file is used.

Further, by applying the present invention, the index information can be held as a part of the file name without having the index file, so that, for example, the capacity of the removable medium can be effectively used. is there.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an information processing apparatus to which the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional device called an image file device.

FIG. 3 is a plan view illustrating an example of an image displayed on a display unit in order to prompt an operator to input information serving as an index of an image to be recorded.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of an image displayed on a display unit following (or together with) the display of FIG. 3 in order to prompt an operator to input information serving as an index of an image to be recorded; FIG.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an example of an image displayed on a display unit following (or together with) the display of FIG. 4 in order to prompt an operator to input information serving as an index of an image to be recorded; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an index file created on a removable medium in a conventional image file device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example in which a control unit instructs a search from the operation unit when searching recorded image information.
FIG. 9 is a plan view showing an example of a display that prompts an input of an index for a search to be displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a display example of a file name on a display unit when a detachable medium created by a conventional image file device is loaded into an existing information processing device comprising a general-purpose file system.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a file name generation procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a display example of a file name on a display unit when an image file generated by the file name generation unit of the present invention is loaded into an information processing apparatus including an existing general-purpose file system. is there.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a display example on a display unit when an index list is displayed using an index extracting unit that extracts an index from a file name generated according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an index extraction procedure according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control part 2 Storage part 3 Operation part 4 Display part 5 Image input part 6 Removable media drive 7 Removable medium 8 Index file 9 File name generation program 10 Index extraction program

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. An information input unit for inputting character / image information, an operation unit for inputting a plurality of index information for information input from the information input unit, and a character of each index information input from the operation unit An information processing apparatus comprising: a file name generation unit that generates a file name for information input from the information input unit by adding a predetermined delimiter between columns. 2. An information input unit for inputting character / image information, an operation unit for inputting a plurality of index information for information input from the information input unit, and a character of each index information input from the operation unit File name generating means for adding a predetermined delimiter between columns to generate a file name for the information input from the information input means; and determining the position of the delimiter from the file name generated by the file name generating means. An information processing apparatus comprising: an index extracting unit configured to detect each piece of index information included in the file name by detecting the index information. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: an index information output display unit that displays the index information extracted by the index extraction unit in a predetermined display format. 4. A file search means for searching for a file having a file name including the search target index information input from the operation means, based on the index information extracted by the index extraction means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein 5. The file name generating unit according to claim 1, wherein the file name generating unit generates the file name by adding a predetermined file extension to the index information sequence. Information processing device. 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the file extension is not handled as index information. 7. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an index information input display unit for performing a display prompting input of index information in response to an instruction to create a file name from said operation unit. An information processing apparatus according to any one of the above. 8. An information input step of inputting character / image information, an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information for the information input in the information input step, and a character of each index information input in the operation step A file name generating step of adding a predetermined delimiter between columns to generate a file name for the information input in the information input step. 9. An information input step of inputting character / image information, an operation step of inputting a plurality of index information corresponding to the information input in the information input step, and a character of each index information input in the operation step A file name generating step of adding a predetermined delimiter between columns to generate a file name for the information input in the information input step; and determining a position of the delimiter from the file name generated by the file name generating step. An index extraction step of extracting each index information included in the file name by detecting the index information. 10. The file name generating method according to claim 9, further comprising an index information output displaying step of displaying the index information extracted in the index extracting step in a predetermined display format. 11. A file search step for searching a file having a file name including the search target index information input from the operation means based on the index information extracted in the index extraction step. The file name generation method according to claim 9. 12. A recording medium recording a control program for generating a file name by a computer, the control program causing a computer to input character / image information, and inputting a plurality of index information for the input information. A file name generation control program for recording a file name by adding a predetermined delimiter between character strings of the input index information to generate a file name. 13. A recording medium recording a control program for generating a file name by a computer, wherein the control program causes a computer to input character / image information and input a plurality of index information for the input information. Then, a file name is generated by adding a predetermined delimiter between the character strings of the input index information, and the position of the delimiter is detected from the generated file name, whereby each file included in the file name is detected. A recording medium recording a file name generation control program for extracting index information. 14. The recording medium according to claim 13, wherein the control program causes a computer to display the extracted index information in a predetermined display format. 15. The control program according to claim 13, wherein the control program causes the computer to search for a file having a file name including the search target index information input from the operation means, based on the extracted index information. Or a recording medium recording the file name generation control program according to 14.