JPH11122444A - Image reading system and image information storage method for the system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To refer to image information only from a client device that is owned by a person himself who reading is performed by a server device storing the image information whose personal identifier is inputted, read and sent in an individual storing means that corresponds to a client identifier when the personal identifier corresponds to a registered client identifier. SOLUTION: When a personal identifier is inputted by a ten key pad 202 and a scanner 201 executes image reading, the personal identifier and image information that is read by the scanner 201 are sent to a server device 203. The device 203 collates the personal identifier with a client identifier which is registered on a client identifier/personal identifier correspondence table and stores an image in an individual image information storage area corresponding to the client identifier when it is discriminated that the personal identifier has been already registered. Thus, it is possible to scan even an image that you do not want others to see securely by a scanner 201 that is shared in an image read system.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image reading system and a method for storing image information in the image reading system, and more particularly, to a method for sharing a scanner connected to a network between a plurality of users. The present invention relates to a client / server type image reading system and a method for storing image information in an image reading system, which are suitable for storing read image information individually in a server device and making it possible to refer to the image information from a client device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a client / server type image reading system in which a scanner connected to a network is shared by a plurality of users, image information read by the scanner is stored in a specific storage means (storage area) of a server. Was to be stored. Therefore, when the storage means of the server is shared between the clients, the image information is disclosed to other clients.

On the other hand, if the storage means of the server is not shared among the clients, the server administrator or the like moves / copy / changes the access right to / from the respective image information to the storage means for each client. It is necessary to provide the means described above in the server device.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, image information read by a scanner shared by a plurality of users via a network is stored in a specific storage means (storage area) of a server. If the storage means of the server is shared between the clients, the image information will also be disclosed to other clients, so documents that you do not want to show to others will be stored. There was a problem that it could not be read by a scanner.

On the other hand, when the storage means of the server is not shared between the clients, after the image is read by the scanner, operations such as moving / copying / changing the access right of the image information are performed on the server. There is a problem in that it is complicated because it needs to be performed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has been made in consideration of the fact that an individual who has read an image without performing any special operation after reading the image with a scanner or a copying apparatus shared on a network. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image reading system and an image information storing method in the image reading system, which make it possible to refer to image information only from an owning client device.

[0007]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image reading system capable of communicating image information and the like via a network, comprising: an input means for inputting a personal identifier; An image reading device equipped with a transmission unit, a server device storing registration information indicating a correspondence between a client identifier and a personal identifier, and at least one client device accessible to the server device, The server device, when the personal identifier is input from the input unit in the image reading device and the image is read and transmitted, if the personal identifier matches the registration information, the read image information corresponds to the client identifier. And a control means for storing the data in the individual storage means.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to a second aspect is characterized in that the control means is arranged such that, when an image is read and transmitted without a personal identifier being input from the input means by the image reading device, the reading is performed. The image information is stored in the shared storage means.

In order to achieve the above object, according to a third aspect of the present invention, when the client device receives a reference request for image information from the client device, the control device includes an individual storage device corresponding to the client identifier of the client device and a shared storage device. The content of the storage means is controlled to be transmitted to the client device.

[0010] In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that, when the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device does not match the registration information, the control means informs the server that the personal identifier is not registered. It is characterized in that control is performed so as to be displayed on display means provided in the device.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the client device has display means for displaying image information transmitted from the server device.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the input means is means for inputting a symbol as a personal identifier.

[0013] To achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 7 is characterized in that the input means is a magnetic card reader for reading a magnetic card storing data as a personal identifier.

To achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 8 is characterized in that the input means is an IC card reader for reading an IC card storing data as a personal identifier.

In order to achieve the above object, a ninth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the image reading device is a scanner.

In order to achieve the above object, a tenth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the image reading device is a copying machine.

To achieve the above object, an invention according to claim 11 is an image information storage method in an image reading system capable of communicating image information and the like via a network,
The image is read by inputting the personal identifier by the image reading device, and is transmitted to the server device which stores the registration information indicating the correspondence between the client identifier and the personal identifier, which is accessible from at least one client device. In this case, when the personal identifier matches the registration information, a control step of storing the read image information in an individual storage means corresponding to the client identifier is provided.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the control step, when an image is read without transmitting a personal identifier in the image reading device and transmitted to the server device, the reading is performed. The image information is stored in the shared storage means.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the control step, when a reference request for image information is made from the client device to the server device, an individual corresponding to the client identifier of the client device is provided. The content of the storage means and the shared storage means is controlled to be transmitted to the client device.

In order to achieve the above object, in the invention according to claim 14, in the control step, if the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device does not match the registration information, it is not registered. Is displayed on the server device.

[0021] In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 15 is characterized by comprising a display step of displaying image information transmitted from the server device to a client device on the client device.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 16 has an input step of inputting a symbol as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 17 has a reading step of reading a magnetic card storing data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. .

[0024] In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 18 has a reading step of reading an IC card storing data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. .

In order to achieve the above object, a nineteenth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the image reading device is a scanner.

In order to achieve the above object, a twentieth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that the image reading device is a copying machine.

[0027]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an overall schematic configuration of the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention. The image reading system according to this embodiment includes a ten-key 202
, A server device 203, a plurality of client devices 204, and a client device 20
5, ..., LAN (local area network)
206 is provided. The image reading system according to the present embodiment is constructed on a LAN 206 as shown in the figure, and indicates that the respective devices are connected via a network.

The configuration of the image reading system is not limited to the illustrated one. For example, the number of client devices on the LAN 206 can be any number as needed. Further, the image reading device connected to the LAN 206 is not limited to the scanner, and a configuration in which a copy device or the like is connected to the LAN 206 may be used.

The structure of each of the above components will be described in detail.
Reference numeral 01 has a built-in LAN interface and is equipped with a numeric keypad 202 for inputting an employee number (personal identifier). In this case, the numeric keypad 2
For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a magnetic card reader 501 for reading a magnetic card storing data for identifying an employee or an IC card for reading an IC card storing data for identifying an employee, as shown in FIG. Device 50
It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the scanner 201 is equipped with another input device such as 1.

When the user inputs the employee number correctly using the numeric keypad 202 and causes the scanner 201 to read an image, the employee number input from the numeric keypad 202 and the image information read by the scanner 201 are sent to the server via the LAN 206. It is transmitted to the device 203. On the other hand, when an image is read by the scanner 201 without inputting the employee number from the numeric keypad 202, only the image information is stored in the server device 20.
3 is sent.

The server device 203 is equipped with a display device 207, and stores the image information transmitted from the scanner 201, and also stores the image information based on requests from the client devices 204, 205,. .. Are transmitted to the client devices 204, 205,... Via the LAN 206.
The details of the process of storing the image information transmitted from the scanner 201 to the server device 203 will be described later with reference to FIGS.

The client device 204 is a device that outputs a reference request and receives image information from the server device 203, and stores a shared image information storage area (described later) in the server device 203 and an individual image associated with the client identifier. A display device 208 capable of displaying image information stored in the information storage area is provided. The client identifier of the client device 204 is set to, for example, “01”.

Similarly to the client device 204, the client device 205 outputs a reference request and
A display device 209 which receives image information transmitted from the server device 03 and is capable of displaying image information stored in a shared image information storage area and an individual image information storage area associated with a client identifier in the server device 203 which will be described later. Equipped. The client identifier of the client device 205 is set to, for example, “02”. Similarly, other client devices also have unique client identifiers. Illustration of other client devices is omitted.

Each of the client devices 204, 205,.
When trying to refer to the image information stored in the server device 203 from the client device 204,
Are configured to transmit their client identifier to the server device 203 and start a reference process, and display only image information that can be referenced by the client device on the display device. I have.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the server device 203 constituting the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention. Server device 20 according to the present embodiment
3 is a CPU 110, a keyboard (KB) 111,
A mouse 112, a display device 113, a floppy disk drive (FDD) 114, a LAN (local area network) interface 115,
16, the RAM 117, and the hard disk drive (H
DD) 118 and a data bus 119. The above-described units are connected via a data bus 119, and transmit and receive information via the data bus 119.

The structure of each part will be described in detail.
0 is the keyboard (K) via the data bus 119.
B) 111-Hard Disk Drive (HDD) 118
The central processing unit is connected to the hard disk drive (HDD) 118 and performs various processes including a process shown in a flowchart (image information storage process) of FIG. Execute.

A keyboard (KB) 111 is an input device, and transmits an electric signal based on depression of various keys to the data bus 1.
19 is output. The mouse 112 is a pointing device as an input device, and outputs an electric signal based on the operation on the data bus 119. In the present embodiment, a mouse is taken as an example of the pointing device, but the present invention is not limited to this.

The display device 113 (corresponding to 207 in FIG. 2) performs various displays on the screen under the control of the CPU 110. The administrator of this system determines the progress of the operation and the result based on the display on the display device 113. The floppy disk drive (FDD) 114 is used for inputting and outputting information.

The LAN (local area network) interface 115 is connected to the scanner 2 shown in FIG.
01 and the client devices 204 and 205 and the LAN 20
6 for transmitting and receiving information between the server device 203 and the scanner 201, the client devices 204, 205,...

The ROM 116 is a read-only memory for outputting a character font used for display and printing, and a character code corresponding to an electric signal output when a key is pressed from the keyboard 111 as an input device. It stores a character code table, a preset value, and the like. In this case, the control program shown in the flowchart of FIG.

The RAM 117 is a random access memory, and has a work area required during each processing by the CPU 110. In this case, the information in the hard disk drive (HDD) 118 may be temporarily transferred to the RAM 117 to speed up the processing. A hard disk drive (HDD) 118 is a device for storing information. The hard disk drive (HDD) 118
The internal configuration of the storage area will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a detailed configuration of a storage area inside a hard disk drive (HDD) 118 in the server device 203 in the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention. The hard disk drive (HDD) 118 according to the present embodiment includes a client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 and a shared image information storage area 32.
0, an individual image information storage area 321, a control program storage area 322, and the like.

The client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 is an area in which the correspondence between the client identifier and the employee number is stored. Client identifiers 205,...
This area is used to enter an employee number of an employee who uses each of the client devices 204, 205,.... The process of inputting information from the keyboard 111 to the hard disk drive 118 is realized by a known technique, and a description thereof will be omitted.

The shared image information storage area 320 can store a plurality of pieces of image information that can be commonly referred to by each of the client devices 204, 205,... The individual image information storage areas 321 correspond to the individual image information storage areas (1, 2,...) Sequentially corresponding to the client identifiers (01, 02,..., N) in the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319. n)
Each individual image information storage area can store a plurality of pieces of image information. The control program storage area 322 corresponds to FIG.
And the control program of the server device 203 executed by the CPU 110 is stored.

Next, the operation of the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an image information storage process executed when an image is read by a scanner device 1 and information transmitted from the scanner 201 is received by a server device 203.

In this embodiment, the server device 203
Since the process of receiving information from the scanner 201 via the LAN 206 can be realized by a known technique, a detailed description thereof will be omitted, and a process immediately after the completion of the reception process will be described below.

First, the CPU 110 of the server device 203 in the image reading system determines whether or not the employee number has been transmitted together with the image information from the scanner 201 via the LAN 206 (step S401). If it is determined that the employee number has been transmitted together with the image information, the process of step S402 is performed. If it is determined that the image information has been transmitted but the employee number has not been transmitted, the process of step S405 is performed. I do.

At step S401, the scanner 201
When the CPU 110 of the server device 203 determines that the employee number is transmitted together with the image information from the client device, the received employee number is compared with the client identifier registered in the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 of the hard disk drive 118. (Step S40)
2). If it is determined that the received employee number is registered, the process of step S403 is executed, and if it is determined that the received employee number is not registered,
The processing of step S404 is performed.

In step S402, the scanner 201
If it is determined that the employee number received from the server device 203 is registered, the CPU 110 of the server device 203 transmits the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 3 of the hard disk drive 118 in which the received employee number is registered.
19, the individual image information storage area 3 corresponding to the registered position
21 is stored with the received image information (step S40).
3), a series of processing ends.

For example, when the employee number is “1234”, the employee number corresponds to the client identifier “01” in the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 in FIG. 3, and in the present embodiment, the client identifier “ 0
The main image information can be referred only from the client device 204 having “1”.

In step S402, the scanner 201
When the CPU 110 of the server device 203 determines that the received employee number is not registered, the CPU 110 of the server device 203 displays trouble information indicating that the received employee number is not registered on the display device 113 of the server device 203. Error processing (step S404), and a series of processing ends.

In step S401, the scanner 201
If it is determined that the image information has been transmitted but the employee number has not been transmitted from the
The hard disk drive 1 receives the received image information.
Then, the image is stored in the shared image information storage area 320 in the storage unit 18 (step S405), and a series of processing ends.

For example, from the client device 204 to the LAN
When a request for reference to image information is made to the server device 203 via the client device 206, the server device 203
04, the shared image information storage area 320 and the client identifier “0” are received.
The content of the individual image information storage area 1 in the individual image information storage area 321 corresponding to “1” is transmitted to the client device 204.

In the present embodiment, transmission / reception processing of information for identifying a client device can be realized by a known technique relating to information access processing according to an access right in a client / server system, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted. .

Further, in this embodiment, the case where the scanner 201 equipped with the numeric keypad 202 for inputting the employee number is connected to the LAN 206 is taken as an example, but as shown in FIG. Numeric keypad 2
The present invention is also applicable to a case where the copy apparatus 601 equipped with the “02” is connected to the LAN 206. Also in this case, instead of the numeric keypad 202 as described above, another input device such as a magnetic card reader or an IC card reader for identifying employees may be used.

In this embodiment, the case where the employee number is input as the personal identifier has been described as an example. However, the personal identifier is not limited to the employee number, and the individual using the image reading system can be identified. It is also possible to use another identification number.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the image reading system includes a ten-key 202 for inputting an employee number (personal identifier), a scanner 201 equipped with a LAN interface, and a plurality of client devices 204. , 205 and the numeric keypad 20
If the employee number is input from the second and the image is read and transmitted, and if the employee number is registered in the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 of the hard disk drive 118, the read image information is stored in the client identifier / employee. CPU stored in individual image information storage area 121 corresponding to the client identifier in number correspondence table area 319
Since the server device 203 includes the server device 203 equipped with the server 110, the following effects are obtained.

With the above configuration, when reading an image with the scanner 201, the user inputs an employee number (personal identifier) from the numeric keypad 202 provided on the scanner 201, and the image information and the employee number are output from the scanner 201. It is transmitted to the server device 203. The server device 203 checks the employee number transmitted from the scanner 201 with the client identifier in the client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 319 of the hard disk drive 118. When the employee number is registered, the individual image information storage area 321 of the hard disk drive 118 corresponding to the client device associated with the employee number is a storage destination of the image information read by the scanner 201.

Accordingly, since the client device cannot refer to the individual image information storage area of another client device, an image that the user does not want to show to others can be scanned by the scanner 201 shared by the image reading system. Becomes Further, an image to be shared with another individual is stored in the shared image information storage area 320 of the hard disk drive 118 in the server device 203 by being read by the scanner 201 without inputting the employee number (personal identifier). It is possible to easily read and save the shared document and the private document separately.

That is, when an image is read by the scanner 201 (or a copying device or the like) shared on the LAN 206 and stored in the server device 203, an employee number (personal identifier) is input from the numeric keypad 202 and the client device is read. Hard disk drive 1 assigned to each
Image information can be stored in the 18 individual image information storage areas 321. As a result, the image information can be referred only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the scanner 201 (or a copying device or the like). It becomes possible not to refer.

The storage destination of the image information in the server device 203 can be easily switched between the individual image information storage region 321 for each client device and the shared image information storage region 320 that can be shared by each client device. Becomes possible. This makes it possible to read and store, for example, a private document and a shared document separately.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. A storage medium storing software program codes for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or the apparatus executes the program code stored in the storage medium. Needless to say, this can also be achieved by executing the reading.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD
-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, or the like can be used.

When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also an OS or the like running on the computer is actually executed based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that a part or all of the above-described processing is performed, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instructions of the program code, It goes without saying that the CPU included in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

[0068]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image reading system capable of communicating image information and the like via a network, wherein input means for inputting a personal identifier and transmission means are provided. Equipped image reading device, a server device storing registration information indicating a correspondence relationship between the client identifier and the personal identifier, and at least one or more client devices accessible to the server device, the server device In the case where an image is read and transmitted by inputting a personal identifier from the input means in the image reading device and the personal identifier matches the registration information, the read image information is stored in an individual storage corresponding to the client identifier. Means for storing images (for example, private documents) by an image reading device shared on a network, To store device, enter the personal identifier from said input means, by transmitting to the server apparatus together with the image information, it is possible to store the image information in a separate storage means assigned to each client device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the image reading device, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It is possible to do so.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the image is read and transmitted without the personal identifier being input from the input means by the image reading device, the control means of the image reading system transmits the read image. Since the information is stored in the shared storage means, for an image (for example, a shared document) which may be referred to from another client device, the image can be read by the image reading device without inputting the personal identifier. By storing the image information in the shared storage unit that can be shared by each client device, each client device can refer to the image information in the shared storage unit. Also,
The storage destination of the image information in the server device can be easily switched to the individual storage device for each client device and the shared storage device that can be shared by each client device. This makes it possible to read and store, for example, a private document and a shared document separately.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the control means of the image reading system, when receiving a reference request for image information from the client device, the individual storage device and the shared storage device corresponding to the client identifier of the client device. In order to control the contents of the means to be transmitted to the client device, the owner of the client device may refer to the image information in the individual storage means or the image information in the shared storage means of the server device as necessary. Can be.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device does not match the registration information, the control means of the image reading system informs the server device that the personal identifier has not been registered. In order to control the display to be displayed on the display device provided in the server device, the administrator of the server device informs the client device that the client identifier transmitted from the image reading device has not been registered in the server device based on the display of the display device. It can be recognized, and appropriate measures can be taken based on this.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the client device of the image reading system has display means for displaying the image information transmitted from the server device. The image information in the individual storage means or the image information in the shared storage means of the server device can be referred to based on the display of the display means.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, since the input means of the image reading system is a means for inputting a symbol as a personal identifier, the image is read by an image reading apparatus shared on a network and a server apparatus is used. In the case of storing the image information in the personal storage device, a symbol as a personal identifier is input from the input unit and transmitted to the server device together with the image information, whereby the image information can be stored in the individual storage unit allocated to each client device. . Thereby, without performing a special operation after reading the image with the image reading device,
The image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who has performed the reading, and cannot be referred to from other client devices.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, since the input means of the image reading system is a magnetic card reader for reading a magnetic card in which data as a personal identifier is stored, an image reading apparatus shared on a network When an image is read by a device and stored in a server device, data as a personal identifier is read from the magnetic card by the magnetic card reading device and transmitted to the server device together with the image information, whereby the individual device assigned to each client device is read. The image information can be stored in the storage unit. This allows
After reading an image with the image reading device, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who made the reading without performing any special operation, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It becomes possible.

According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, since the input means of the image reading system is an IC card reading device for reading an IC card storing data as a personal identifier, an image reading device shared on a network When an image is read by a device and stored in a server device, data as a personal identifier is read from the IC card by the IC card reading device and transmitted to the server device together with the image information, whereby the individual device assigned to each client device is read. The image information can be stored in the storage unit. This allows
After reading an image with the image reading device, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who made the reading without performing any special operation, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It becomes possible.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, since the image reading device of the image reading system is a scanner, when an image is read by a scanner shared on a network and stored in the server device, the image is read from the input means. By inputting the personal identifier and transmitting it to the server device together with the image information, the image information can be stored in the individual storage means allocated to each client device. This allows
After reading an image with a scanner, image information can be referenced only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation, and cannot be referenced from other client devices. It becomes possible.

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, since the image reading device of the image reading system is a copying machine, when the image is read by the copying machine shared on the network and stored in the server device, the input is performed. By inputting the personal identifier from the means and transmitting it to the server device together with the image information,
The image information can be stored in the individual storage means assigned to each client device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the copying machine, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It becomes possible to.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image information storage method in an image reading system capable of communicating image information and the like via a network, wherein an image is read by inputting a personal identifier by an image reading device. A case where the personal identifier matches the registration information when the personal identifier matches the registration information when the personal identifier is transmitted to a server device which is accessible from at least one or more client devices and stores registration information indicating a correspondence relationship between the client identifier and the personal identifier. Has a control step of storing the read image information in an individual storage unit corresponding to the client identifier. Therefore, when an image (for example, a private document) is read by an image reading device shared on a network and stored in a server device, By inputting a personal identifier from the input means and transmitting it to the server device together with the image information, The image information can be stored in a separate storage means assigned to each winding device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the image reading device, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It is possible to do so.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the control step of the image information storing method in the image reading system, the image reading device reads an image without transmitting a personal identifier and transmits the image to the server device. Stores the read image information in the shared storage means, so that an image (for example, a shared document) which may be referred to from another client device can be read by the image reading device without inputting a personal identifier. By reading the image information, the image information is stored in the shared storage unit that can be shared by each client device, so that each client device can refer to the image information in the shared storage unit. Further, the storage destination of the image information in the server device can be easily switched between the individual storage device for each client device and the shared storage device that can be shared by each client device. This allows
For example, a private document and a shared document can be read and stored separately.

According to the thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the control step of the image information storing method in the image reading system, when the client device requests the server device to refer to the image information, the client identifier of the client device In order to control the content of the individual storage means and the shared storage means corresponding to the client device to be transmitted to the client device, the owner of the client device may use the image information or the shared storage in the individual storage means of the server device as necessary. The image information in the means can be referred to.

According to the fourteenth aspect of the invention, in the control step of the image information storing method in the image reading system, when the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device does not match the registration information, In order to control the server device to display the fact that it has not been registered, the server device administrator determines, based on the display, that the client identifier transmitted from the image reading device is not registered in the server device. It can be recognized, and appropriate measures can be taken based on this.

According to the fifteenth aspect, the image information storing method in the image reading system has a display step of displaying the image information transmitted from the server device to the client device on the client device. The owner can refer to the image information in the individual storage unit or the image information in the shared storage unit of the server device based on the display as needed.

According to the sixteenth aspect, the image information storing method in the image reading system has an input step of inputting a symbol as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. When an image is read by the shared image reading device and stored in the server device, a symbol as a personal identifier is input in the inputting step, and transmitted to the server device together with the image information. The image information can be stored in the individual storage unit. Thereby, without performing a special operation after reading the image with the image reading device, it is possible to refer to the image information only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading,
This makes it impossible to refer from other client devices.

According to the seventeenth aspect, the image information storage method in the image reading system has a reading step of reading a magnetic card storing data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. Therefore, when an image is read by an image reading device shared on a network and stored in a server device, by reading data as a personal identifier from a magnetic card in the reading step and transmitting the data to the server device together with image information,
The image information can be stored in the individual storage means assigned to each client device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the image reading device, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It is possible to do so.

According to the eighteenth aspect, the image information storing method in the image reading system has a reading step of reading an IC card storing data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. Therefore, when an image is read by an image reading device shared on a network and stored in a server device, by reading the data as an individual identifier from the IC card in the reading step and transmitting it to the server device together with the image information,
The image information can be stored in the individual storage means assigned to each client device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the image reading device, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It is possible to do so.

According to the nineteenth aspect, since the image reading device to which the image information storing method in the image reading system is applied is a scanner, the image is read by a scanner shared on a network and stored in the server device. In this case, by inputting a personal identifier from the input unit and transmitting the personal identifier together with the image information to the server device, the image information can be stored in the individual storage unit assigned to each client device. Thus, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the scanner, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It is possible to do.

According to the twentieth aspect, since the image reading apparatus to which the image information storing method in the image reading system is applied is a copying machine, an image is read by a copying machine shared on a network and a server device is used. When the personal information is stored in the client device, the personal information is input from the input device and transmitted to the server device together with the image information, whereby the image information can be stored in the individual storage device assigned to each client device. As a result, the image information can be referred to only from the client device owned by the person who performed the reading without performing any special operation after reading the image with the copying machine, and cannot be referred to from other client devices. It becomes possible to.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a server device constituting an image reading system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an overall schematic configuration of an image reading system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a storage area inside a hard disk drive in the server device in the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an image information storage process executed when information transmitted from a scanner configuring the image reading system according to the embodiment of the present invention is received by a server device.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration example when a magnetic card reader or an IC card reader according to a modification of the embodiment of the present invention is provided in a scanner of an image reading system.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example when a copying apparatus according to a modification of the embodiment of the present invention is connected to a LAN of an image reading system;

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 110 CPU 113 Display device 115 LAN interface 118 Hard disk drive 201 Scanner 202 Numeric keypad 203 Server device 204, 205 Client device 206 LAN 207, 208, 209 Display device 319 Client identifier / employee number correspondence table area 320 Shared image information storage area 321 Individual image Information storage area 322 Control program storage area 501 Magnetic card reader or IC card reader 601 Copy device

Claims (20)

[Claims] 1. An image reading system capable of communicating image information or the like via a network, comprising: an image reading apparatus equipped with an input unit for inputting a personal identifier and a transmitting unit; and a correspondence between a client identifier and a personal identifier. A server device storing registration information indicating a relationship, and at least one client device accessible to the server device, wherein the server device receives a personal identifier from the input unit at the image reading device; An image reading unit that stores the read image information in an individual storage unit corresponding to the client identifier when the personal identifier matches the registration information when the image is read and transmitted. system. 2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the image reading device stores the read image information in a shared storage device when an image is read and transmitted without inputting a personal identifier from the input device. 2. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The control means, when receiving a reference request for image information from a client device, transmits the contents of the individual storage device and the shared storage device corresponding to the client identifier of the client device to the client device. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein the image reading system performs control. 4. When the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading apparatus does not match the registration information, the control means displays on the display means provided in the server device that the personal identifier is not registered. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein the system is controlled. 5. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein the client device has a display unit that displays image information transmitted from the server device. 6. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein said input unit is a unit for inputting a symbol as a personal identifier. 7. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein said input means is a magnetic card reader for reading a magnetic card storing data as a personal identifier. 8. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein said input means is an IC card reading device for reading an IC card storing data as a personal identifier. 9. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein the image reading device is a scanner. 10. The image reading system according to claim 1, wherein said image reading device is a copying machine. 11. An image information storage method in an image reading system capable of communicating image information and the like via a network, wherein an image is read by inputting a personal identifier by an image reading device, and at least one client If the personal identifier matches the registered information when transmitted to a server device that stores registration information indicating the correspondence between the client identifier and the personal identifier that is accessible from the device, the read image information is A method for storing image information in an image reading system, comprising a control step of storing data in an individual storage unit corresponding to a client identifier. 12. In the control step, if an image is read and transmitted to the server device without inputting a personal identifier in the image reading device, the read image information is stored in shared storage means. The image information storing method in the image reading system according to claim 11, wherein 13. In the control step, when a client device requests a reference to image information from the client device, the contents of the individual storage means and the shared storage means corresponding to the client identifier of the client device are stored in the client device. 13. The image information storing method in the image reading system according to claim 11, wherein the image information is transmitted to the image reading system. 14. In the control step, when the personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device does not match the registration information, control is performed so as to display on the server device that the personal identifier has not been registered. 14. An image information storage method in the image reading system according to claim 11, wherein: 15. The image information in the image reading system according to claim 11, further comprising a display step of displaying, on the client device, image information transmitted from the server device to the client device. Storage method. 16. The image information in the image reading system according to claim 11, further comprising an input step of inputting a symbol as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. Storage method. 17. The image according to claim 11, further comprising a reading step of reading a magnetic card storing data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device. Image information storage method in reading system. 18. An IC in which data as a personal identifier transmitted from the image reading device to the server device is stored.
16. The image information storing method according to claim 11, further comprising a reading step of reading a card. 19. The image information storage method according to claim 11, wherein the image reading device is a scanner. 20. The method according to claim 11, wherein the image reading device is a copying machine.