JPS63263569A - Adding and inserting method for image in electric filing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To quickly add and insert an image while the flow of the image between documents and between pages is grasped by using an image index. CONSTITUTION:Some conditions are designated, a document to meet the conditions is selected out of document control files and the image index of the peak page of a selected document is displayed up to maximum 6 indexes on a display. One out of the image indexes of the peak pages of 6 displayed documents is selected and adding and inserting are executed and a page is displayed. An image reader 7 and a micro reader 6 are used, and the image to execute the adding inserting processing is read and displayed. Here, it is designated whether the image is added or inserted.. By matching to an above- mentioned processing, the document control file and page control file are renewed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a method for adding and inserting images in an electronic filing system.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, when adding or inserting a new image in this type of device, a search keyword is specified.

The document you want to add/insert (a document is a collection of one or more images, and one search keyword is attached to one document) Each image in the document is the image on the 1st page, the image on the 2nd page, etc.
It can be specified as the image on the page. ), display the page in the document that you want to add/insert on the display, confirm on the display that the user wants to add/insert a new image to this page of this document, and then add the original image.・I had to start the insertion work. With this conventional method, when adding/inserting operations are performed continuously across various documents, the image must be redisplayed each time, and since only one image is displayed on the display, adding/inserting operations are difficult. The drawback was that it was difficult to grasp the flow between documents and pages, making it difficult to perform the work.

[Objective] The object of the present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned points. To provide an electronic filing system that allows the relationship of images between documents and pages to be understood at a glance.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 to 9 show examples of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a configuration diagram of this system. 1 is the main unit that controls the entire system, CPU, and various devices connected to the outside.
/F, has built-in memory. A display device 2 displays image information and the like. Reference numeral 3 denotes an external memory that is an optical disk drive and stores various information such as image information 1 and keywords for image search. 4 is a keyboard for actually operating this system; 5 is a pointing device for specifying coordinates on the display and inputting commands to assist the operation; 6 is a pointing device for handling microfilm as image information. Micro image file soda is used to photoelectrically read microfilm images using an imaging device such as a CCD. 7 is books and documents.

An image reader unit photoelectrically reads information such as . . . , and a printer unit 8 outputs registered image information.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the main unit of 1 in FIG. 2 - a circuit for enlarging/reducing an image, 10 a circuit for reducing an image, 11 a 4 Mbytes memory, 12 an image reader, a printer, a micro 13 is a circuit for compressing and decompressing image information; 14 is a CPU board in charge of system control; 15 is a circuit for managing memory; 16 is a memory section used for displaying; 17 is a circuit for compressing and decompressing image information; 5-inch or 8-inch floppy disk drive, 18 is an interface section based on the R5-232C standard.

19 connects this system to a local area network (LA
20 is an address, data,
This is a system bus for control. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the 14 CPU boats of FIG. 21 is a central processing unit. 22 is a ROM containing the minimum necessary programs for starting the system; 23 is a counter used for refreshing the memory; and 24 is a circuit that operates a clock that stores the date and time.

Reference numerals 25 and 26 are buffer memories used for input/output with external memory, and 2F is a circuit for controlling input/output with the hard disk, in which image search keywords are held as a database. 28 is a circuit that controls input/output with the floppy disk.

Figure 5 shows an index of images corresponding to the keyboard that is obtained by searching for image search keywords under certain conditions (hereinafter referred to as image index). .) is displayed on the display. However, six or more image indexes may be displayed on one screen, 29 indicates a display screen, 30 to 35 are image indexes of image information selected by search,
arranged in order.

FIG. 6 shows the screen on the user's display when the user is about to actually add or insert an image.

36 indicates an image to be newly added/inserted. This display is performed using multiple windows.

FIG. 7 is an example of an image index that is displayed when multiple pages of images are registered in one document. Area 3
Part 7! lI'g2 If you specify with the pointing device 5 in Figure 2, the image index one page before the currently displayed image index will be displayed, and if you specify the area 38 with the pointing device 5 in Figure 2, the current image index will be displayed. An image index one page after the currently displayed image index is displayed.

FIG. 8 shows an example of a document management file. In this file, keyword information for each document and an address containing information on the first page of each document are recorded. 39 indicates the entire document management file. 40 is a search keyword attached to each document, and in this figure, 3 search keywords are attached to each document.
An example is shown in which two search keywords are registered.

41 indicates how many pages of images are registered in each document. 42 is the image information on the first page of each document (
Indicates the start address of the area where the page management file code) is recorded.

FIG. 9 is an example of a page management file.

The code of the page management file contains necessary information about the image on a certain page of a certain document (the address where the image data of the image index is recorded, the address where the image data of the actual image is recorded, the page of the next page, etc.) management record address, page management record address of the previous page) are recorded.

43 indicates a page management file. 44 indicates the address of each record in the page management file. 45 is
The address 46 indicates the address where the image data of the image index of each page is stored, and 46 indicates the address where the image data of the actual image of each page is stored. 47 indicates the address of the page management record of the next page, and 48 indicates the address of the page management record of the previous page.

FIG. 1 shows the operational procedure for adding and inserting images. First, a certain condition is specified, a document meeting the condition is selected from the document management file, and up to six image indexes of the first page of the selected document are displayed on the display (Sl). The screen at this time is shown in FIG. Select one of the image indexes of the first pages of the six documents displayed here, and display the page you want to add or insert using the method shown in the explanation of Figure 7 (S2
．． S3). Then, using the image reader 7 or the microreader 6 in FIG. 2, the image to be added/inserted is read and displayed (S4). The screen at this time is shown in FIG. Here, the document management file shown in Figure 8 and the page management file shown in Figure 9 are updated in accordance with the process 6 or more for specifying whether to add or insert this image (S6).
, Sl.

S2. The image index display section specified in the process of S3 is redisplayed with the index of the newly added/inserted image (S7), and if the process is desired to be continued, repeat from S1.

In this way, you can check the flow of images before and after.
You can quickly add and insert tasks.

Furthermore, since humans originally remember registered images as images rather than search keywords, it is easier to search for the desired image and there are fewer mistakes.

In addition, in the above embodiment, it was explained that the image index of the first page of six documents is displayed, a certain target document is specified, and the image to be added/inserted is searched for while turning the page. There is also a method in which when one of these is specified, an image index of six pages from the first page of the document is redisplayed on the screen, and the desired image is searched for and added/inserted from there. This method allows you to easily see the flow of images between pages.

In the above explanation as well, the basic configuration of this system is the same as in the previous example.

[Effect] As explained above, according to the present invention, by using an image index, it is possible to quickly add and insert images while grasping the flow of images between documents and between pages. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a flowchart showing the image addition/insertion operation, Figure 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of this system, and Figure 3 is the main unit 1.
4 is a block diagram of the CPU board 14, FIGS. 5 and 6 are diagrams showing image index display screens, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an image index.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a document management file, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a page management file. 30 to 35 are image indexes, 39 is a document management file, and 43 is a page management file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic filing system that handles image information that has the function of displaying multiple search images used for search on the screen at once, multiple search images are subject to addition/insertion processing while still being displayed on the screen. Specify the search image,
A method for adding and inserting images in an electronic filing system, characterized in that adding and inserting processes are performed continuously by repeating the process.