KR20010045296A - apparatus for recognigizing data on real time - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A real time data recognizer is provided to excerpt data which a user wants to input, to input the excerpted data at a cursor position on an application program, and to input user's voice data for a user verification in an electronic commerce without other specific system so that it can enhance a convenience. CONSTITUTION: The system comprises an input module, a controller, and a software driver. The input module enables a user to input voice data, finger print data and targeted block data. The controller controls the block data read by the input module and transmits the block data to a computer. The software driver offers the block data, transmitted by the controller, at a current cursor position of a corresponding software executed in the computer. The input module includes a light source(120), a photo sensor(130), a voice input module(140) and a movable roller(150). The controller includes a process circuit(220) and a control button(230). The process circuit(220) drives the photo sensor(130), converts the sensed analog data into digital data and transmits the converted data to the computer. The control button(230) enables a user to move the cursor, to input the user's voice and to switch on/off the photo sensor(130).

Description

Real-time data recognition device {apparatus for recognigizing data on real time}

The present invention relates to a real-time data recognition device capable of extracting and inputting only necessary portions of a document to be entered at a point where the cursor is currently located in an application program running on a computer.

Currently, the scanner is widely used as an input device peripheral of a computer. In particular, scanners are used for scanning photographs and text. In general, a scanner is a type of input device that reads a picture or photo, converts it into a code that can be recognized by a computer, and then displays it as an image on the screen. In addition, with the development of software production technology, a method of recognizing text in an image recognized by a scanner as text data on a computer has been developed.

In general, the most common type of scanner is a flatbed scanner, which converts an image into digital information using a series of electromagnetic coupling elements (CCDs) and reads the image into a series of bands. A general use method of such a flatbed scanner will be described.

First, the lid of the flatbed scanner is opened, the read object to be scanned is directed downward, and placed in the reader portion of the scanner. Then, press the scan button mounted on the scanner to operate the scanner. Then, the activated scanner reads a read object and transfers the read data into a computer through a SCSI (SCSI) cable attached to the scanner.

The transmitted data is displayed on a screen on a computer, and in the case of an image, it is used as a completed file through retouching or storing through an image processing program, and in the case of text, a data recognition program is driven after a scanning operation. Based on the scanned shape through the data recognition program, the matching character string is displayed on the screen, and it is recognized as a character value that can be processed by a computer. In addition, the data recognized as the character value as described above is located in one file, and the unit handled by the computer is also treated as a file. That is, the separately scanned contents are saved as files with different names.

Therefore, in order to work separately scanned data in one file, it is necessary to read the individual files on the computer and edit them by copying the parts required by the user and pasting them into the file to be worked on. There is an inconvenience.

In addition, in order to insert other contents into a file to be worked on, there is an inconvenience in that the work of the above method must be repeatedly performed until the user's work is completed.

The inconveniences described above are not limited to flatbed scanners, but are common to all conventional scanners.

In addition, in current electronic commerce or computer security, a user authentication process is performed. Accordingly, the user authentication process has been developed from a conventional user number (ID) and a password method, and is currently being developed in various ways such as fingerprint recognition and voice recognition.

However, the fingerprint recognition and voice recognition user authentication process as described above has a problem that a user must bear additional expenses because a fingerprint reader and a voice input device must be separately provided in addition to the computer peripherals.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a real-time data recognition device that is easy to work by inputting data directly to a cursor position on an application program driven by a computer in order to solve the above problems.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a real-time data recognition device that is simple in configuration because no additional peripheral device is required in the user authentication process of electronic commerce and computer security.

1 is a perspective view of a real-time data recognition device according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of the real-time data recognition device according to the present invention.

<Description of the reference numerals for the main parts of the drawings>

100: input means 110: input body

120: light source 130: light sensor

140: voice input unit 150: a moving roller

200: control means 210: control body

220: processing circuit unit 221: optical sensor driver

222: A / D converter 223: wired and wireless transmitter

230: control button unit 231: moving button

232: Voice button 233: Drive button

300: software driver

The present invention for achieving the above object, the input means for reading the block data of the object to be read, the control means for controlling and transmitting the block data read by the input means to a computer, and the block transmitted by the control means Including a software driver for providing data as input data of a corresponding application program in a computer; It is a real-time data recognition input device, characterized in that the input directly to the cursor position on the application program running in the computer.

The input unit includes an input main body, a light source mounted inside the input main body to inject light rays into a reading object, and mounted inside the input main body so that incident light of the light source contacts or approaches the read object and is reflected. A light sensor for receiving a signal, a voice input unit for receiving external sound, and a lower portion of the input body, the light source maintains linearity in a predetermined distance and a moving direction with respect to the object to be read, and the amount of movement of the input body. It consists of a moving roller for detecting the.

The control means may include a control body, a processing circuit part for processing a signal input through the input means, and a control button part for controlling the functions of the processing circuit part and the voice input part.

The processing circuit unit includes an optical sensor driver for driving an optical sensor of the input unit, an A / D converter for converting a signal received from the optical sensor into a digital signal, and a wired / wireless transmitter for transmitting the converted signal to a computer. It consists of.

Therefore, the object to be read may be scanned using the input means, the data input using the control means may be processed, and the data desired by the user may be extracted and input into a corresponding cursor of a computer application program using the software driver. There is an advantage to that. In addition, in the user authentication process of the computer, the voice of the user is input using the voice input unit of the input unit, and there is an advantage of using the software driver to check the voice of the user.

Next, with reference to Figures 1 and 2 showing a preferred embodiment of the present invention having the configuration as described above will be described in detail.

As shown, the real-time data recognition device according to the present invention is largely composed of the input means 100, the control means 200, the software driver 300.

First, the input means 100 will be described. The input means 100 is for recognizing a variety of data is configured to be composed of a voice input unit 140 for voice input and an image input unit for text data input according to the type of data provided. The voice input unit 140 and the image input unit are installed inside the input body. First, the voice input unit may be configured as a microphone capable of inputting a voice to receive a user's voice for user authentication and user ID verification. The image input unit recognizes a document or a fingerprint of a user and recognizes a change in light intensity according to the presence or absence of image data using a light source. The image input unit is largely composed of a light source 120, an optical sensor 130 and a moving roller 150.

The light source 120 is mounted inside the input body 110 and serves to irradiate light to the read object. In addition, since the light source 120 is the same as the light source of a conventional general scanner, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. The optical sensor 130 is mounted inside the input body 110, and serves to generate a detection signal by detecting a change in intensity of light reflected from the light source 120 and reflected on a read object. On the other hand, the movement roller 150 is mounted to the lower portion of the input body 110 to serve to maintain the light source 120 at a predetermined distance from the read object, and in the contact surface of the read object during the scanning process To linearly move the input body 110 in the scan direction and to detect the movement amount.

Next, the control means 200 will be described. The control means 200 is for controlling the operation of the input means and converts the input data into a form recognizable by a computer, and is largely controlled by the control body 210, the processing circuit unit 220, and the control button unit 230. To be configured.

The control body 210 is coupled to the input body 110, and serves as an external casing of the processing circuit unit 220, the control button unit 230 to be described later.

The processing circuit unit 220 is built in the control body 210, and consists of an optical sensor driver 221, an A / D converter 222 and a wired / wireless transmitter 223.

The optical sensor driver 221 will be described. The optical sensor driver 221 is mounted inside the control body 210, and the optical sensor driver 221 is the light source 120 and the optical sensor 130 under the control of the control button 230 to be described later. ) To drive.

The A / D converter 222 will be described. The A / D converter 222 converts a signal detected by the optical sensor 130 driven by the optical sensor driver 221 into a digital signal. In addition, the voice signal input through the voice input unit 140 serves to convert the digital signal.

The wired / wireless transmitter 223 will be described. The wire / wireless transmitter 223 transfers the digital signal converted through the A / D converter 222 to a computer. In addition, the wired / wireless transmitter 223 may be configured to be a wired, wireless transmission method selectively, and in particular in the case of a wired wire is configured with a conventional USB (Universal Serial Bus) port, in the case of a wireless infrared port.

Next, the control button unit 230 will be described. The control button unit 230 is mounted on the outer surface of the control body 210. The control button unit 230 controls the processing circuit unit 220 and the voice input unit 140. The control button unit 230 is a movement button 231 for moving the cursor between cells after the input is terminated in one cell in the cell-type input application program on the computer or when the cell is required, and the voice input unit ( The voice button 232 for turning on / off the operation of the 140 and the driving button 233 for switching the operation of the optical sensor driver 221 of the processing circuit unit 220 on / off.

Next, the software driver 300 will be described. The software driver 300 is a software driver 300 which is stored in an auxiliary memory device in a computer and operates according to the drive of the computer. The software driver 300 is largely composed of a character recognition algorithm, a voice recognition algorithm, a virtual keyboard input algorithm and a display algorithm. The text and speech recognition algorithm analyzes the data that has undergone digital conversion of the A / D converter 222 and recognizes the text as a corresponding text. The virtual keyboard input algorithm converts the data recognized by the character recognition algorithm into a string value on a computer. In addition, the display algorithm serves to control and configure the device, display input data, and the like.

Next, the input process of the application program in the real-time data recognition device according to the present invention having the configuration as described above will be described in detail.

When a user needs to do something with a computer, they use an application. For example, suppose you are using Microsoft's Excel program.

Generally, Excel program belongs to spreadsheet program. The spreadsheet program is a program method in which a user inputs data by using a keyboard, and the input is performed in units of cells, and moves to another cell after inputting each cell. . When a user wants to input data by moving a unit cell while using an Excel program, there are cases where a user wants to input some of the contents of a document for reference.

A user horizontally positions a document to be input and places the input body 110 on the document. Then, the driving button 233 of the control button unit 230 is pressed to operate the optical sensor driver 221. Accordingly, the optical sensor driver 221 drives the light source 120 and the optical sensor 130, the light source 120 is incident to the light to be read at the current position and the optical sensor 130 is the The detection signal is generated by detecting a change in light emission of the light reflected through the optical contact with the read object. The detection signal becomes an input signal to the A / D converter 222 of the processing circuit unit 220, and the A / D converter 222 converts the detection signal into a digital signal. The converted digital signal is input to the wired / wireless transmitter 223 and the wired / wireless transmitter 223 is transmitted to a computer.

When the wired / wireless transmitter 223 is using the universal serial bus (USB) port of the computer, the USB port is transferred into the computer, and the transferred data is transferred to the software driver 300 by the character recognition algorithm. The data recognized as the character value and the character value are converted into keyboard values used in the computer by the virtual keyboard input algorithm, and a keyboard input event is generated. The keyboard value data string is input to the current position of the spreadsheet by the keyboard message processing unit of the computer operating system or the application program. When the user wants to input another cell, the same operation as described above is repeated.

In addition, when a user wants to move to another cell, the user generally places a hand on a mouse or a keyboard, moves to a mouse, or moves to a keyboard. However, when using the apparatus according to the present invention, the user converts / inputs the movement button signal into the movement keyboard value of the application program using the movement button 231 of the control button unit 230. Will be moved to).

Next, the user authentication operation process on the network in the real-time data recognition device according to the present invention having the above configuration will be described briefly.

First, a user must first register his or her voice and fingerprint on a server of a network to be used. Next, the personal computer must be running and connected on a network such as the Internet. In addition, when a user wants to purchase or use information on a network to which he belongs, or perform an electronic commerce, a server of a network displays contents related to user authentication on a screen of a user's computer for user authentication. At this time, the user presses the voice button 232 of the control button 230. The voice input unit 140 operates according to the operation of the voice button 232, and the voice data input from the voice input unit 140 is converted into a digital signal through the A / D converter 222 and the wired / wireless transmitter. 223 is transmitted to the computer. Then, the transmitted voice data is transmitted to the software driver 300, and the user processed to compare the data processed in the software driver 300 with the voice data of the user registered in the server computer of the website through the Internet again Processed by an algorithm, the results are then passed back to the user's computer so that the user can engage in e-commerce related activities on the Internet.

In addition, in the user authentication process through the fingerprint, the user presses the drive button 233 of the control button unit 230 to operate the optical sensor driver 221, the portion of the user's finger fingerprints the light source 120 Scan through the optical sensor 130. The scanned content is converted into a digital signal through the A / D converter 222, and the digital signal is transmitted to the computer through the wire / wireless transmitter 223. And, the remaining authentication process is the same as the above voice recognition authentication process will be omitted.

And, in the use of personal computer, in general, the user is asked for a password during the booting of the computer. However, according to the present invention, the voice button 232 of the control button unit 230 is pressed, the user's own voice is input through the voice input unit 140, and the input voice data is the wired / wireless transmitter 223. The software driving unit 300 is driven through the software driving unit 300, and the software driving unit 300 continues the booting process when the inputted voice data and the inputted voice data of the user are matched and continue, and the voice is different. The computer will stop working.

In addition, in the use of a personal computer, the user presses the drive button 233 of the control button unit 230 to operate the optical sensor driver 221, the fingerprint portion of the user's finger to the light source 120 and the optical sensor Scan through 130. The scanned content is converted into a digital signal through the A / D converter 222, and the digital signal is transmitted to the computer through the wire / wireless transmitter 223. And, the remaining authentication process is the same as the above voice recognition authentication process will be omitted.

As described above, according to the present invention, in the real-time data recognition device, there is an advantage of providing a convenience that can be input to the corresponding cursor position on the computer application program by extracting the portion to be input by the user.

In addition, the real-time data recognition device has the advantage that the user can be authenticated without additional peripherals in the electronic commerce, etc. by receiving the user's voice input.

In addition, the use of a computer also has the advantage that security of a personal computer can be easily implemented.

Claims (5)

An input means (100) for reading the voice of the user, the fingerprint and the block data of the object to be read specified by the user; Control means (200) for controlling the designated block data read by the input means and transmitting it to a computer; A software driver (300) for providing the block data transmitted by the control means as input data at the current cursor position of the corresponding application program in the computer; And input directly to a cursor position on the application program running in the computer. The method of claim 1, wherein the input means 100, The input body 110, A light source 120 for injecting light rays into the fingerprint and the reading object of the user; An optical sensor 130 for receiving a signal reflected by the incident light of the light source contacting or approaching a user's fingerprint and a reading object; Voice input unit 140 for receiving a user's voice, A moving roller 150 mounted below the input body to maintain the light source at a predetermined distance from the read object and to move the input body; Real-time data recognition input device, characterized in that configured. The method of claim 1, wherein the control means 200, The control body 210, A processing circuit unit 220 mounted inside the control body 210, processing a signal input through the input means 100, and transmitting the signal to a computer; A control button unit 230 attached to the outside of the control body 210 and controlling the functions of the processing circuit unit 220 and the voice input unit 140; Real-time data recognition input device, characterized in that configured. The method of claim 3, wherein the processing circuit unit 220, An optical sensor driver 221 for driving the optical sensor of the input means; An A / D converter 222 for converting a signal received from the optical sensor 130 into a digital signal; A wired / wireless transmitter 223 for transmitting the converted signal to a computer; Real-time data recognition input device, characterized in that configured. The method of claim 3, wherein the control button unit 230, Move button 231 for moving the cursor in an application on the computer, Voice button 232 for inputting the user's voice, A driving button 233 for turning on / off an operation of the optical sensor driver; Real-time data recognition device, characterized in that to provide a scan to turn on the drive button (233), and the drive button to turn off the scan operation to scan the block data, including.