JPS58192143A - Picture and document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To retrieve a document in a file efficiently, by displaying the present position of the document under processing on a display screen of a device processing the document file. CONSTITUTION:A system processor 41 transmits a coordinate location for display and a data address to a window management/address generating section 412 of a video processor 42. The video processor 42 starts a DMA transfer section 414 based on this data. The DMA transfer section 414 transfers a document data from a storage section 2 to a video RAM43 based on the address from the window management/address generating section 412. Further, the system processor 41 informs it to the address generating section 412 to which location the transferred data exists in the document file. A drawing section draws a diagram simulating a file easily understood by a man visually on a screen. The man retrieves the inside of the file based on a vague memory about the file.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an apparatus for electronically processing documents (including images), and is particularly suitable for searching for a target document in a file based on a narrow memory. related to image/document processing devices.

In a document processing device that searches for a target document in an electronically filed file, there has been little effort to display position information of a specific document within the file. For this reason, sentences 11F-? are neatly grouped? There is no problem when dealing with only a small number of documents, but when dealing with documents that cannot be grouped well or a large number of documents, the disadvantage of searching is that it takes a lot of time.

In other words, in order to know the entire location of the document displayed on the display in the file, there is only information about the number of pages starting from the beginning of the file, and it is possible to know the entire location of the document displayed on the display section, and it is possible to know the number of pages starting from the beginning of the file. This is very inconvenient when searching for information based on memory of the last few pages.

The purpose of the present invention is to enable efficient retrieval of a desired document using the limited memory possessed by humans, even if the stored information is sparse.
VCT provides me with a document processing device.

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Iruma's memory-based information retrieval relies not only on logical correspondence, but also on spatial and temporal correspondence. For example, even if you don't remember the name of a document, you do have a good memory of when it was created and where in the file it is located. Making it possible to search documents even with the inconsistent memory information that humans have, the number of documents is increasing rapidly.
This is very useful when there are many documents that are difficult to group.

For this reason, when information in a file is displayed on the display section, the present invention provides a graphical display on the 1 Ifi screen displaying the document and the screen showing where in the file the document being displayed is located. This feature enables efficient information retrieval.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram of an apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

This device includes a human power section 11 for inputting data, a storage section 4 for storing data, a processing section 4 for processing the data, a display section 5 for displaying input data or processing results, and a display section 5 for displaying input data or processing results. It consists of an output section 3 that prints out the data.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the human power s1.

The human power section 1 includes a 7-axis IJII for inputting personal information, a tablet 13 for inputting coordinates and specifying commands when performing m collections of documents in images, and a tablet 13 for inputting commands manually and typing. It is composed of a keyboard 15. Each device connects W! to processing s4 through its respective adapter 2.14.16. It is continued.

FIG. 3 shows a detailed block diagram of the storage unit 2.

The storage unit 2 only has a storage capacity for several 1iii pages, but it is a high-speed 5AM (FLILndomAael M6
mor7) 21, an inexpensive floppy disk device with a storage capacity of several tens of screens 26, a hard disk device with a storage capacity of several hundred screens 22.1IiiiUfl, an optical device that can only be written once and has a storage capacity of tens of thousands of screens Equipped with a disk device 24 etc., each disk device 22, 24
26 are connected to the processing unit 4 via adapters 23, 25, and 27, respectively. However, normally, it is not necessary to use all of these, and they are used as appropriate (depending on the purpose).

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the output section 3, which consists of a facsimile 31, a laser beam printer 33, and adapters 32 and 34 for connecting these to the processing section 4.

The facsimile 31Fi is often the same as the facsimile 11 of the human resources department 1. Laser beam printer 3
3Fi is used when you want to obtain high-speed, high-resolution print output.

FIG. 5 is an overall block diagram centered on the processing section 4. The system human power section 4111 exchanges data with the human power section 1, storage section 2, and output section 3, and manages the entire neck attachment. Video processor 42Fi is mainly responsible for display control and is used for video R and A
It is composed of a refresh section 411 of the M43, a display window management section 412, a graphic generation section 413, and a DMA transfer section 414, and outputs data to the CRT of the display section 5, etc. The video RAM 43 is a 1 m memory for storing display information contents [not only for fi but also for work use, and may have several other memory pieces. Since a dynamic RAM is used for this RAM 43#i, it is necessary to refresh it.

Next, the exterior of the video processor 42 will be explained in more detail.

System processor 41F'i video processor 42
Sends the seated image position and data address for which the aSS is to be displayed to the window management/address generation 5412. Based on this, the video processor 42 activates DM person transfer number s41.

The DMA transfer unit 414 performs line/ρ management and address generation 5
1 memory based on the address sent from 412, f152
The document data is transferred to the video RAM 43 from there. - When data transfer for screen display is completed, DMA transfer 541
4 stops. 6 Next, the window management/address generation unit 412 is informed of the position in the file of the data transferred to the system processor 41.

At t-1, the drawing unit 413 draws a figure on the screen that is visually comprehensible to humans.

In addition, since K, which displays the information contents of the video RAM 43, needs to be read periodically, the signal from the refresh address generator 5411, which also serves to refresh the memory, and the signal from the window fill/address generator 412 are sent to the controller 414. The data read from the video RAM 43, which is processed by the multiplexer 415, undergoes parallel-to-serial conversion by the P/8 converter 44 and is sent to the display unit 5 such as a CRT.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the display screen 51. Data 512 of nine tatami mats inside the document display window 511 is displayed. Also, a graphic 513 that visually indicates where in the file this document should be placed is added to the external window feature, and this graphic is updated every time the page changes.

FIG. 7 shows a more detailed block diagram of the drawing section F'1 413. When the total number of pages and the number of pages of the document being displayed are sent from the system Brosena 41, the drawing section 413r1 page number calculation section 701 This data is used to calculate the parameters to be plotted.
The data is sent to the raw section 703 , where the II line generation section 704 creates write-in data, and the data is written into the address of the write-in address generation section 705 . In this way, the graphic 513 can be easily generated outside the window.

The figure 513 to be drawn is something like (not limited to,
An hourglass-like shape may be displayed in one corner, or a simple scale may be displayed and an arrow or the like may be used to indicate @fabric.

However, according to the embodiment shown in Figure 6, a two-dimensional document is displayed three-dimensionally, as if you were looking at an actual book, and the display has the effect of making the display more familiar.

As described above, according to K14 of this invention, not only the contents of the nine documents on the display section but also the position information of the documents in the file are graphically displayed. The effect is that documents can be searched.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a block diagram of the entire device, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the human power section, Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the storage section, and Fig. 4 is a block diagram of the 1 output section. 5 is a block diagram of the processing section, FIG. 6 is a front view of the display-1, and FIG. 7 is a block diagram of the drawing section. l...Manpower department, 2...Storage unit, 4...Processing unit, 5
...Display section, 42...-Video processor, 51...
・Display 1m surface, 512... Sentence data, 513...
The displayed document data is... 'Wife' 1st month

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Equipped with a storage unit that stores document file data, a processing unit that processes the data, a human power unit that instructs the processing unit to process contents, and a display unit that displays the target document based on the processing result. In an image/document processing device, a figure is displayed on the exhibition screen of the display section on the same screen as the document, indicating where in the file the displayed document is located. IIl featuring i
My sentence processing device.