JPS62105270A - Retrieval and storage device for image information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To retrieve a desired document even when its titled structure and titled name at the time of its registration are not known by inputting an optional term as logical retrieval condition. CONSTITUTION:When an user sets a retrieval mode on a keyboard 5, the retrieved information of a floppy disk 10 is all stored in the memory of a controller 134. A dictionary file on a storage medium 12 is inputted to a controller 13 and various terms data are displayed on a CRT display device 6. the user selects necessary terms to generate combined logical operation retrieval condition. When the logical operation retrieval condition is inputted, the controller 13 lists information on selected registered documents, so only document numbers corresponding to necessary documents are inputted and proper keyboard operation is carried out to read the documents out of an optical disk 8 and display or printed out the documents.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

(Technical Field of the Invention) The present invention stores image information and 146 search information corresponding thereto, and stores a desired 111 image in this search information.
1 image information storage and retrieval device 4 for searching and outputting image information;
3.Search for IT interpretation information in the search information 1) Find the corresponding image by clicking. 91, ui = (t-ruK(
Concerning l'''t (Jrushinoguar. (Technical agreement of invention C'i4, +; Yobizo's problem fish) Lately, a lot of sentences 11) 4ρWhich picture t'Q information Ml
is read by optical scanning, and this reading −) jJ:
The image information t) L is sequentially stored in a storage medium, for example, a disk, and the image information is stored in the storage medium example λBonorotsubee fIsu'no1-7, and this search information is The image information stored on the optical disk 11 is retrieved and read out by the input, and is output to an output device such as a CRT.
2. Description of the Related Art Image information storage and retrieval devices capable of outputting images that can be visually viewed on a display device or a recording device have been developed and put into practical use. For example, one conventional search method for such a search device is as follows. In this search method, at the time of 0 record, each σ record document or σ record document is attached with tie 1 health information according to a predetermined rule, and at the time of search, the σ record tie 1 health information attached ( ) to the class lj is added. to be entered. By inputting the Ω record title 1 to 1 information, the device d performs a predetermined search process and displays a list of documents to which the registered Quittle information inputted in ) is attached. By inputting the document number corresponding to the desired document in the displayed document list, the user reads the image information of the desired document from the optical disk and displays or prints it as appropriate. Further, as a conventional search method, there is a method using annotation information in the search information. Annotation information includes title information such as a summary of document contents and background explanations'C:1. L display

[Information source, e.g. 2;
Men up to about 57! It is added to the title information in the form of - and recorded in Cσ. In this search method, when searching, the input category information is added by inputting registered Quittle information.1. : When a list of documents is displayed, by performing a predetermined operation tr ', ';, the annotation information corresponding to each of the selected bird species is displayed as a list. . The user visually checks the list to find the desired 78 categories while comparing the subtle differences in content, and then inputs (-) the number corresponding to the discovered 1 category to display or print the required document. Like 1-ru. However, both of these conventional methods require one to be familiar with the title information of the required document, and in particular to find the desired document. The disadvantage is that the range is limited and is limited to FJL. In addition, ■Multiple documents required in one series4
Even in the case of 'fQ', not knowing the common title part of these 'fQ number of documents has the disadvantage that it takes a very long time to find these related documents. In this way, in such conventional methods, the scope of use of each σ record is fixed and exclusive, and it takes a lot of operation [very inconvenient] for anyone to freely search for each randomly registered document. There was a problem that. (Purpose of the Invention) This invention was made based on the above circumstances, and it is possible to search for the target document without knowing the title of the required document or all the titles of the three related categories in advance. [1] It is an object of the present invention to provide an image information storage and retrieval device that can be used freely and extensively. In the present invention, when searching image information, logical search conditions consisting of 115 to more than 115 terms are input. With Jru, nQ
The above object is achieved by performing a logical search process in which annotation information is searched and image information corresponding to annotation information that satisfies the input logical search condition is selected. [Embodiment of the Invention] FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of an image information storage and retrieval device according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is an image input device that takes image information of a document 2, 3 is a printer that prints out the image information of the document as a hard copy 4, and 5 is an input device for inputting search information and various trust instructions, etc. 6 is a CRT display device for appropriately displaying image information, search information, etc.;
7 is an optical disk device that reads/writes image information to/from an optical disk 8; 9 reads search information to/from a floppy disk 10;
It is a magnetic disk device 11 for reading/writing pipe information, in which a list of terms for image information retrieval is stored; Write poems from memory data/＾
It is a dictionary file output device that covers a lot of places. Reference numeral 13 denotes a control device that controls each of these components, and although its internal configuration is omitted, it performs various controls, including a CPU, a buffer for storing image information, and a compression/expansion unit for image information. ,
It consists of a key generator that generates character patterns, and various mechanisms that store the search information, management information, term list, and the like. FIG. 2 shows the search information stored on the floppy disk 10 that is read and written via the magnetic disk device 9. This search information is assigned to each 0 record number, and is assigned a σ record number. , document title information, annotation information J3 in which information that cannot be expressed in the tile information is expressed in the form of a comment of about 25 characters, and the storage address on the optical disk B of the recorded document. It consists of image information address, etc. When a published patent publication is stored as an example of the annotation information, for example,
-123456. Comments such as "claims, drawings" are added to the title information as annotation information. Next, FIG. 3 shows an example of a dictionary stored in the storage medium 12 that is read and written via the dictionary file input/output device 11. The terms are memorized by name. in this case,
In order to improve the reference speed, the business data is stored separately, for example, by related field, department, or individual. When a user searches, the 46° control device 13 combines the above terms and inputs the search input data so that the user creates search input data that is considered to be related to the target document by appropriately combining such terms. In this case, the search input data to λ is matched with the annotation information in the search information -66, that is, in this case, the search pair 1 i, at the time of the search is not the title information in the search information but the annotation information. , 1 A concrete example of the operation of such a configuration will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 113 and FIG. 5. Note that FIG. 4 shows the display screen of the IT display equipment during search processing, where area 21 displays a list of terms from the dictionary file, and area 22 displays terms selected from the list of terms. Or save your number.
Area 23 is the area for assembling and creating the logic operation test strip f1, and area 24 is the function key Fl, F2 . F3. F4. This is the part that displays F5. In this case, the function key F1 is used to specify search disclosure, and the function key E2 is used to specify the selected term in the area 21.
F3 is for displaying the previous table in area 21, F4 is for displaying the next table in area 21, and 5 is the key for performing these operations.User When trying to retrieve one or more required documents 1!1, use the keyboard 5 to set 1 & stomach to search mode (step 100).As a result, the floppy disk 1
The search information stored in 0 (see Figure 2) is only i, II.
121! The data is captured and stored in a predetermined memory in the device 13. Next, the user controls the dictionary file (see FIG. 3) stored on the storage medium 12 via the dictionary file output device 11 by performing appropriate keyboard operations.
At this time, the various terminology data stored in the dictionary file are imported into the CR'T display device 6- and displayed on the screen of the CR'T display device 6- (step 110). , -L in Figure 4
)217. displayed in the indicated position. After this, the user will be able to use F3J.
3 and F 4 to display the term data one after another in area 21F and extract the essential terms when creating search conditions 1
(Step] 20). At the time of this selection, function 4--F2 may be used to move the river, :1j selected from the term list to the upstream 722, and it may be saved and displayed on the corresponding ball rear 22. Next, the user uses the terms selected from the list 10;n to create a logical operation search condition f'l that combines the selected terms in area 23. This logical operation search condition is 'F-Y' which is input when performing a logical search such as an AND search or an OL<searcher)NOT search. Incidentally, during this logical search process, AND search condition r
When AAND BAND CJ (A, [3. C: 川3n) is input, the term A is included in the annotation information. J8 with all B and 0 selected) is R. Also OR
Search condition f [If you input "80RB ORCJ, t1
In the station information, either the term Δ, ]3 or the back of C is used.
The right one is chosen with gold. In addition, in Figure 4, 43 is a logical operation of ``Waiting AND Publication AND Publication'' in order to select the 0-record class in which 0 records of 2f interpretation information are recorded, including ``Special) iT Publication-1''. What are your search conditions? After creating this J: Una logical operation p search condition f-t in 1 rear 23, f-, the user ministry uses the function key [1 to specify (1) during the search. 130)
By inputting F1, the control device 13 selects the station information as the search result from among the search information that has been read out in advance from the screen 10. (step 140), that is, each annotation information attached to each registered category is searched, and the input theory 111j operational search conditions are compared with all of these annotation information 1- By doing so, documents that satisfy the input search regulations are selected. In this case, as shown in Figure 4, the search condition is ``1-Patent AND Publication AND Publication'', so [Patent Publication Publication] is included in the annotation information.
υ:] All the documents in the σ record in which 61 ment literatures are written are selected 13f, and the control 21 + device 1:3 selects the selected l, = 0 record 3, the tile l - the tile index, the tile 1 le information,
113 and annotation information 9) l to CRT display 1. /I device (30 double-sided 10 - 4 viewers (step 150)
,. Shrine name (displayed 1. 'I Enter the document number corresponding to 1.6 for the document from the list of ancient fishes 5 (Step 16)
Step 170) Read out the corresponding document stored in the optical disk 8 by performing appropriate board operations 1-- after step 170), and send it to the art dealer of the display device 6 (e+<-r). display) or printing device i”f
, ``drive 1 to hard down] print output as 4., 1.: ') (step 180), and
If you display or print out the following documents, the usage fee will also be
Repeat the same operation from 150 to 4J, ) to F
I will. By the way, please leave your name to the above VA device.7)
1.1 Terms for creating search conditions, 1.1 for image information search. :6 keywords are searched for, so for example, if you extract it from the annotation information and make it exist in the IIV book def file at the appropriate time, the search process In the above embodiment, the search conditions for R: Theory PII are created and input by referring to the dictionary file displayed in (3t). Instead, input the logical search term f1 that combines arbitrary terms directly into the area 23 on the screen of the CRT display device 6. 1 with children
△N l) l t [Thu] 1OR' can be substituted with '1-1, and furthermore, the selected term itself can be A
- Instead of keying in, the number corresponding to the two selected terms may be keyed in. Theory 111 using numbers
j If there are many people in search condition n, example λpof 15;i'
r until the end of this publication, Publication 11 [1 tree 4 * 61 form becomes 1--・inri-61. Furthermore, in the Example 1, the combination of multiple terms ``J'' and ``J'' was used in the logic test fl and t), but from the 1 river edict of Ren and α. Narorano wo randanuki search article f1
Input as 1]ru1,1. You can do that. However, if a portion of the functions of the present invention are assigned to the host computer, the burden on the main unit can be reduced. In this case, it is thought to be effective to have the host handle the part related to man-machine operations such as inputting dictionary files or inputting search conditions1. As explained above, according to the 5-memory storage device of the present invention, any term can be input as a logical test JQ condition, and this allows the 0-record tile 1- Structure 1 - Know the name of the block
・Search for the desired document 1 document - 'r: Saru 3J
, become a snarl. 1) However, it is possible to utilize the documents in a wide range of ways, rather than just limiting them to a limited number of users, and it is also useful for collecting related documents. 6 power in one shot (゛・do. Also, search article 1'[
When inputting, use 1; to create a dictionary file. Perform search processing more quickly and reliably.
By the way, -V notation μm] should be divided into 111 minutes as appropriate, for example, by individual, 9 departments, 1 field, etc. Dew.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the image information storage and retrieval device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the format of search information, and FIG. 33 is a diagram showing an example of the storage contents of a dictionary file. , FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen display during a logical search, and FIG. 5 shows an example of the specific operation of the embodiment apparatus. 1... Image input device, 2... Document, 3... Printing device, 4... Hard copy, 5... Keyboard, 6...
... CRT display equipment, 7... Optical disk device, 8... Optical f disk, 9... Magnetic disk device, 1
0...Floppy disk, 11...Dictionary file input/output device, 13...ai'l fill device. Figure 1 Figure 2

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) At least title information corresponding to each image information,
An image information storage and retrieval device that stores annotation information and image information addresses in advance and searches for corresponding image information based on these information, comprising: a search condition input means for inputting a logical search condition consisting of one or more terms; An image information storage and retrieval device comprising: a search means for searching annotation information and selecting image information corresponding to annotation information that satisfies a logical search condition input by the search condition input means. (2) The search condition input means includes a storage device that stores a large number of terms used when searching for image information, a means for displaying the terms stored in the storage device on a screen, and a means for referring to the screen display. The image information storage and retrieval device according to claim 1, further comprising means for inputting a search condition consisting of the one or more terms.