JPS6165363A - Keyword register system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automate easily the registration of a keyword as well as picture information by supplying keyword information to a two-dimensional scanner together with picture information. CONSTITUTION:A paper presence/absence detection switch sensor 7 detects paper, and transports an original paper or partition paper to an original setter part B from an original feeder part A. A bar-code read switch sensor 9 detects and reads the code of a bar-code type. If the bar-code keyword transmitted to an electronic file system 114 is a new one, it is registered. An original is read out by a two-dimensional scan part 110, and its signal is transmitted to the electronic file system 114 through a picture data bus 112. The picture data is registered in a file where the keyword belongs.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field] The present invention reads, encodes, and registers image information representing documents, images, etc. added on a recording medium to an electronic file device, and also encodes and registers the same. The present invention relates to a keyword registration method in which the code of a keyword used for searching encoded image information is also registered through an operation, and in particular, keyword information can be registered through a simple operation.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, as a registration device for registering and storing image information such as documents and images on a recording medium, such as recording paper, and retrieving it when needed, there has been a system for recording image information in a reduced size on microfilm and registering it.
There is a device to store it. Furthermore, recently, as an alternative to this, laser elements or charge-coupled devices (CODs) have been proposed.
) uses a two-dimensional scanning device that utilizes photoelectric conversion technology to decompose image information into pixels and convert them into electrical image signals. Image information registration and retrieval devices have been developed that allow high-density storage in a file system.

In this type of device, a storage device for stored image information and search data such as codes or keywords representing the contents of the image information are also stored in a storage device such as a magnetic disk, and as needed, By inputting a search code or keyword, image information corresponding to each of the search data can be searched and output as a hard copy.

However, in this type of device, when storing a plurality of pieces of image information and the corresponding search data in respective storage media, for the image information, the original of the image information is set in the two-dimensional scanning device. Then, the image information can be automatically read and stored on the storage medium, whereas the search data can be read when the original image information is set on the two-dimensional scanning device, or After storing a plurality of pieces of image information, the operator must input search data by operating keys on the keyboard. Therefore, the more image information there is, the more complicated and time-consuming the key operations for inputting search data become.

〔the purpose〕

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional technology, and to extremely easily and easily input and register keywords as search data at the same time as registering image information, which was previously an extremely complicated process. To provide a keyword registration method which enables an operator to work quickly without getting tired.

[Structure of the invention]

The keyword registration method of the present invention has the advantage of being able to quickly and accurately manually input keyword information represented by a barcode or the like, together with image information. By supplying the image information to a two-dimensional scanning device, it is possible to easily and automatically register keywords at the same time as image information.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

An embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 to 5. Prior to explaining its circuit configuration, the automatic sheet document feeder according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

FIG. 4 shows a perspective appearance of the entire automatic sheet document feeder, and FIG. 5 shows a longitudinal section.

As shown, document feeder section A and document setter section B
In a two-dimensional scanning device C equipped with an automatic sheet document feeder, a platen, that is, a glass document platen 2 is fitted and fixed in a window hole provided in the first plate of the exterior casing, and the document exposure section is fixed. Configure.

As shown in FIG. 5, the automatic sheet document feeder is disposed on one side of the platen 2, and can be roughly divided into document stacking trays, that is, sheet document stacking table 1. A feeder section, that is, a document #lI transport section A, a document setter section B, a document reversing section 5, and a paper output tray 6.
It consists of

In the document feeder section A, the document stack L/ray 1-F
, the originals stacked with the image side facing downward are separated one by one from the top and delivered to the original setter section B in green.

Further, a sensor 7 in the form of a microswitch or the like is provided on the document stacking tray l to detect the presence or absence of a document.

On the other hand, the document setter section B includes a pickup roller mechanism 8 connected to the document feeder section A, and an endless conveyor connected to the pickup roller mechanism 8 and arranged facing each other in close proximity to or in contact with each other over the entire upper surface of the platen 2. It is equipped with a belt 3. The originals fed out one by one from the original feeder section A are picked up by the pickup roller mechanism 8, and then pressed against the upper surface of the platen 2 by the conveyor belt 3, while sliding the upper surface of the platen 2 from the right to the left in FIG. , the document is transported until the leading edge of the document reaches the reference position 4 on the upper surface of the platen 2. Next, place the document set on the platen 21 side with the image side facing downwards on the platen 2 made of a transparent plate.
is scanned by the two-dimensional scanning device main body C, and the image information is read.

Next, the platen? The document -1- is transferred to the document setter B by the re-rotation of the endless conveyor belt 3 of the document setter B and the document reversing unit 5 disposed at the end of the belt 3.
Invert and transport the paper to the top of the paper output tray 6 installed on the - side.
The image surface is oriented to -L and the paper is searched for on the paper discharge tray 6-H.

1-The document conveyance process as described above is carried out on the document loading tray 1-1.
The bordering process is executed sequentially for each original document that has been marked -fl tl&, and the reading is performed sequentially and continuously for all original documents.

In this embodiment, a keyword information reading device, for example, a barcode reader 9 when providing keyword information in the form of a barcode, is disposed between the document feeder section A and the pick-and-roller mechanism 8.

In this case, while the sheet document automatic feeder is feeding and conveying the partition paper (see FIG. 3) on which keywords represented by barcodes are written from the document feeder section A to the document setter section B, While the barcode reader 9 provided according to the present invention distinguishes and reads the keyword written or printed on the partition paper, the partition paper is conveyed as it is by the conveyor belt 3 and placed on the upper surface of the platen 2. The paper passes through the reference position 4, is conveyed to the paper discharge tray 6, and is discharged toward the paper discharge tray 6.

Next, an example of the circuit configuration of a keyword registration device in such an automatic sheet document feeder embodying the present invention will be described in a first section.
As shown in the figure.

In the figure, +01 is a central control circuit of the two-dimensional scanning device C, and 7 is a paper presence/absence detection switch sensor provided on the document stacking tray 1 described above. 102 is a control line for sending a paper presence/absence detection output from the paper presence/absence detection switch sensor 7 to the central control circuit 101; 103 is a control circuit for the automatic sheet document feeder;
04 and +05 are control lines for exchanging signals between the control circuit 103 and the central control circuit 101. 9 is the aforementioned barcode reader; 10B is a data bus for transmitting barcode data read by the barcode reader 9; 107 is a decoding circuit for the barcode data; 108 is a connection from the decoding circuit 107 to the central control circuit 101; A control line 103 is a data bus that sends barcode data from the decoding circuit 107 to the electronic file system 114. 110 is a two-dimensional scanning unit that reads the original;
111 is a control line from the two-dimensional scanning section 110 to the central control circuit 101, and 112 is an image data bus for sending image data read from the two-dimensional scanning section 110 to the electronic file system 114. 113 is a "registration j switch" which starts the operation of keyword registration according to the present invention.

The electronic file system +14 described in 1-1 is equipped with a large-capacity storage device and has functions such as keyword registration and search and image data registration.

-1- The operation of the keyword registration device according to the present invention having the configuration described above can be controlled, for example, by the control process shown in the flowchart shown in FIG. The details will be explained below.

In the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, first, in step a, the "registration" switch 113 is operated to send a registration command to the central control circuit 101. In the next step b, the paper presence/absence detection switch sensor 7 detects the presence or absence of papers such as originals and partition sheets on the original loading tray l, and the detection result is transmitted to the central control circuit 101 via the control line 102. do.

At this time, if no paper is loaded on the document loading tray 1, no further operation will be performed, and if it is loaded, the control circuit 103 of the automatic sheet document feeder is sent from the central control circuit 101 to the control circuit 104 via the control line 104. A conveyance command is sent to convey the document sheet or partition sheet from the document feeder section A to the document setter section B as described above.

Next, in step C, when the original paper or partition paper passes through the barcode reading switch sensor 9 during conveyance, the code in the form of a barcode written on the paper is detected and read. The read data is transmitted to the decoding circuit 107 via the data bus 10B. Here, if it is determined that it is not a keyword, the process moves to step g. On the other hand, if it is determined that it is a keyword, the process proceeds to step d.

In step d, the decoding circuit 107 sends a barcode command to the central control circuit 101 via the control line 108, and the central control circuit 101 sends the sheet to the control circuit 103 of the automatic sheet document feeder via the control line 104. The command is sent, and as mentioned above, the partition paper is directly delivered to the paper output tray 6.
be discharged.

Furthermore, at the same time, the decoded keyword data is transmitted from the decoding circuit 107 to the electronic file system 114 via the barcode data line 109. Next, in step e, it is determined whether the keyword transmitted to the electronic file system 114 is new or not, and if it is not new, the process directly proceeds to step g, and if it is new, the process proceeds to step f. The keyword is stored in the electronic file system 114.
After registering, proceed to step g.

In this step g, feed the next document sheet or divider sheet from the document stacking tray L to the document setter section B in the same manner as described above, and if it is not a document sheet but a divider sheet, return to step C. 1] Repeat the two consecutive processes,
If it is original paper, proceed to step h.

In step h, the original is two-dimensionally scanned.

and transmits the read image data to the electronic file system 114 via the read image data bus 112.

In the next step i, the information has already been registered in the electronic file system 114, and this electronic file system 114
The image data of the original is registered in the file to which the keyword read from or the keyword newly registered immediately before belongs.

Next, it is determined whether or not any manuscript paper or partition paper remains in the manuscript stacking tray l, and as long as any manuscript paper or partition paper remains, the above-mentioned registration operation is repeated. When the paper presence/absence detection switch sensor 7 detects that there is no original paper or partition paper in the original loading tray l, the detection output is transmitted to the control line 1.
02 to the central control circuit 101, and the entire series of registration processes is completed at step 02.

Next, FIG. 3 shows an example of a partition paper on which barcodes representing keywords are written.

As shown in the figure, bars are arranged on the partition paper 301 in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the partition paper 301 so that the barcode 302 can be read along the movement of the partition paper 301. It is listed.

Note that the position where the barcode 302 is written is on the partition paper 30.
The position should be close to the leading edge of the document 1 in the direction of movement, so that it is difficult to confuse it with the image on the original paper.

Note that in the above explanation, keywords are expressed in the form of information barcodes, but the keywords are not limited to this example; keywords can also be expressed in a mark sheet method, a card league method in which holes are punched in cards, etc. Of course, the relevant portions in each of the configuration examples described above can be changed appropriately depending on the expression method of the keyword.

〔effect〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, 1. For example, a partition sheet representing keyword information using a barcode is sent together with an image document sheet to an image reading device such as a two-dimensional scanning device equipped with an automatic sheet document feeder. By doing so, it is possible to automatically register keyword information along with image information through a similar operation. Therefore, in addition to being able to automatically and easily perform a registration operation in a device that registers and stores a large amount of data, such as an electronic file system, special effects such as being able to prevent erroneous registration can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a keyword registration device according to the present invention. Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the control process of keyword registration according to the method of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of partition paper used for keyword registration in the method of the present invention, and Fig. 4 is a sheet document automatic feeder. FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an example of the structure. FIG. 5 is a sectional view similarly showing an example of the structure. 1... Original loading tray, 2... Platen, 3... Endless conveyor belt, 4... Reference position, 5... Original reversing section, 6... Output tray, 7... Paper Presence detection switch sensor, 8... Pickup roller mechanism, 9... Barcode reader, 101... Central control circuit, 102.104, 105, 108, 111... Control line, 103... Control Circuit, 108, 109, 112... Data bus, 107...
- Decoding circuit, 110... Two-dimensional scanning unit, 113... "Registration" switch, 114... Electronic file system.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic file device that scans, reads, and registers image information on a recording medium, keyword information representing keyword information used to search for registered image information is added to the recording medium, and the recording medium is scanned. A keyword registration method characterized in that the keyword information is read and registered in the electronic file device.