JPS61271573A - Register and retrieval system for picture information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate easy jobs needed for input of pictures through registration of pictures in an outdoor place or in the middle of a shift curse, by using a movable picture reader which records the read-out picture data and its corresponding identification code in a storage medium. CONSTITUTION:A prescribed picture is coded after photoelectric conversion by a shutter optical system/photoelectric conversion/coding part 1. This coding data is stored in a floppy disk 5. Here an identification code is supplied through a key input device 4 and at the same time the date and hour when the picture data is supplied is given by a timepiece 30. At the same time, a local picture pointer which can supply the desired comments and shows the recorded position of the picture data on a disk 5 is stored in the disk 5. The disk 5 thus obtained is stored in a photomagnetic disk via a picture register and retrieval device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an image information registration and search system.

[Prior Art] In conventional image information registration and retrieval systems, the image input unit is connected to the system online, and in this case, it is difficult to directly input images outdoors or while on the move.

If you want to input an image outdoors or while on the move, for example, you can take a predetermined image on film with a still camera, develop it, and then read the developed image from an online image input section. It's working.

Therefore, in the conventional system described above, there is a problem in that it is complicated to input images taken outdoors or while moving into the image information registration and search system.

In addition, in the conventional system described above, when inputting the identification code corresponding to individual image data, a memo is created at the time of the above-mentioned photographing, and the operator manually inputs the key by looking at the memo when registering the image in the system. Therefore, since a predetermined period of time elapses from when an image is photographed to when the image is registered, there is a problem in that a correspondence relationship may not be maintained between the image data and the identification code.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made by focusing on the problems with the conventional devices described above, and can facilitate the work from image input to image registration outdoors or while on the move, and can also improve image data processing. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image information registration and retrieval system in which there are fewer errors in inputting identification codes.

[Embodiment of the Invention] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image reading device according to the present invention.

The image that has passed through the shutter optical system is binary coded in a photoelectric conversion/encoding section 1, temporarily stored in a memory 3 as still image data of one screen, and then recorded on a floppy disk 5.

In FIG. 1, the key input unit 4 inputs the identification code, etc., the clock 30 provides the date and time code as part of the identification code, and the CPU 2 controls the entire image reading device. It is something to control.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the recording format of the floppy disk 5. As shown in FIG.

This recording format is composed of a media ID area 12, an identification code area 13, and a single image data area 14. In the n separate code area 13, ? f number of identification codes 15 are stored, and a plurality of image data 16 are stored in the image data area 14.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the identification code format of the floppy disk 5. As shown in FIG.

The identification code 15 includes a code 19, a date/time code 20 indicating the date and time when the corresponding image data was input, and a comment 2.
1, and a local image pointer 22 indicating the recording position of image data on the floppy disk 5. In addition, a code 19 for identifying the image, and a comment 21 regarding the image. is input from the key human power section 4.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the image registration and search device.

In FIG. 4, in the image reading device shown in FIG.
The identification code and image data recorded on the floppy disk 5 used as a movable recording medium are read by the floppy disk device 118. and,
The read information is recorded on the magneto-optical disk 9. Note that the CPU 6 controls the entire image registration and search device, and the memory 7 stores programs and the like that control the image registration and search device.
0 displays a predetermined image, and key human power section 1
1 is for an operator to operate the image registration and search device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a recording format of a magneto-optical disk.

This recording format is composed of an identification code area 25 and an image data area 26. The identification code area 25 is for recording a plurality of identification codes 23, and the image data area 26 is for recording a plurality of image data 24.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the identification code format of a magneto-optical disk.

In this format, code L9a, date and time code 2Qa, comment 21a, and local image pointer 22a are respectively code 19, date and time code 20, comment 21, and local image pointer 22 shown in FIG.
This corresponds to Further, the identification code e format of the magneto-optical disk includes a media pointer 28 indicating the floppy disk 5 and an image pointer 29 indicating the recording position of image data on the magneto-optical disk 9.

When using the above embodiment to input an image outdoors or while on the move, the image reading device shown in FIG. Convert the data to floppy disk 5.
to be memorized. In this case, the identification code is input from the key input unit 4, and the date and time when one image data was input is input to the clock 3.
0 gives. At the same time, a necessary comment 21 can be input, and a local image pointer indicating the recording position of the image data on the floppy disk 5 is stored on the floppy disk 5.

After reading a predetermined image in this way, the 70-tube disk 5 used at that time is inserted into the floppy disk device 8 of the image registration and retrieval apparatus shown in FIG. Under the control of the CPU 6, the image data, identification code, etc. stored on the floppy disk 5 are stored on the magneto-optical disk 9.

As a result, the image can be reliably read outdoors or while on the move, and can also be reliably stored on the magneto-optical disk 9, which is the storage device of the system. Furthermore, since the same identification code inputted when the image is read by the single image reading device is stored in the magneto-optical disk 9 of the image registration and retrieval device, errors in inputting the identification code during image registration are eliminated. In other words, errors in inputting identification codes for image data are eliminated.

In the above embodiment, it is also possible to record only the identification code 23 on the magneto-optical disk 9 and leave one image data on the floppy disk 5. In this case, the value of the image pointer 29 is set to "0".

When that image is selected during a search, the image data on the floppy disk 5 is pointed to by the media pointer 28 and the local image pointer 22g. Here, the media pointer 28 has the following information:
The unique code of the floppy disk 5 recorded in the media ID area 12 is contained.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to easily perform operations from image input to image registration outdoors or while on the move, and to provide an identification code for image data. This has the effect of reducing input errors.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image reading device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a recording format of a floppy disk in the image reading device. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the identification code format of the floppy disk. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of an image registration search device according to the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the recording format of the magneto-optical disk in the image registration and search device. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the identification code format of the magneto-optical disk. 1...Shutter optical system, photoelectric conversion/encoding section. 4... Key personnel department, 5... Floppy disk, 8... Floppy disk device, 9... Magneto-optical disk. Patent Applicant Canon Co., Ltd. Figure 2 1 Self-Man Rico Iμ゛15

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A movable image reading device that stores read image data and an identification code corresponding thereto in a first storage medium; an image registration and search device for storing the identification code in a storage medium and searching for the identification code; (2) In claim 1, the image reading device has an image reading means and an identification code input means for inputting an identification code corresponding to the image data read by the image reading means. Image information registration and search system.