JP2017073176A - Image processing apparatus and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an item application device capable of acquiring information by an instruction of a representative previously requested with an application procedure from an applicant if it is necessary to acquire the information required on application processing when the applicant performs the application procedure of an application item to an approver, and to provide an item processing system and a program.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus 4 comprises: an identification information reception part 70 for receiving user's identification information; a delegator information reception part 74 for receiving information about a delegator who entrusts a user having the received identification information to perform a procedure for item processing; an image acquisition part 82 for acquiring an image; and an image transmission part 84 for transmitting the acquired image as an image about the delegator on the basis of a transmission instruction from the user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9

Description

  The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and a program.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a login permission unit that permits login with a card capable of paying costs, a reception unit that accepts an input of a prior application related to a payment schedule by a card before the cost payment by the card permitted to log in, and the login The card corresponding to the advance application by comparing the acquisition means for acquiring the payment history data of the card used for the card from the card payment history server, the acquired card payment history data and the contents of the advance application relating to the payment schedule A specifying means for specifying payment history data, a selecting means for selecting payment history data to be settled from the specified card payment history data, and for paying out payment history data selected by the selecting means And a transmission means for transmitting a settlement request to the settlement system. It discloses an image processing apparatus that.

  Patent Document 2 discloses that a mobile terminal possessed by an employee, a terminal device possessed by an input management center, a terminal device possessed by an accounting office, and a data management server possessed by a data center via a communication network. An expense settlement processing system is disclosed in which a data management server and each terminal device sequentially process data in response to an expense settlement application message transmitted from the portable terminal.

JP 2009-187498 A JP 2008-225958 A

  The purpose of the present invention is to provide an instruction from an agent who has previously requested an application procedure from the applicant when it is necessary to obtain information necessary for processing the application during the application procedure to the approver of the application case. It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and a program capable of acquiring information according to the above.

The present invention according to claim 1 is an identification information receiving means for receiving information for identifying an agent who is requested by the applicant to perform at least a part of the procedure of the application;
Applicant information acquisition means for acquiring information about an applicant who has previously requested an agent identified by the information received by the identification information reception means to perform an application procedure;
Image acquisition means for acquiring an image based on an operation of the applicant or the agent;
An image storage unit by applicant for storing an image acquired based on the operation of the applicant as an image for the applicant;
A control unit that controls to store the acquired image as an image for the applicant in the image storage unit for each applicant when the proxy acquires the image as a proxy operation of the applicant. An image processing apparatus.

The present invention according to claim 2 is an identification information receiving step for receiving information for identifying an agent who is requested by the applicant to perform at least a part of the procedure of the application;
An applicant information acquisition step of acquiring information about an applicant who has previously requested an agent identified by the information received in the identification information reception step to perform an application procedure;
An image acquisition step of acquiring an image based on the operation of the applicant or the agent;
When the agent acquires an image as the applicant's proxy operation, the acquired image is used as the image for the applicant, and the image acquired based on the operation of the applicant is used for the applicant. It is a program for causing a computer to execute a control step of controlling to store in an image storage unit for each applicant stored as an image.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the application procedure to the approver of the application case is required, when the information required for the processing of the application needs to be obtained, the application procedure is requested in advance by the applicant. It is possible to provide an image processing apparatus capable of acquiring information in accordance with an instruction from an agent who is present.

  According to the present invention according to claim 2, when the application procedure to the approver of the application case is required and the information necessary for processing the application needs to be obtained, the applicant is requested in advance to apply. It is possible to provide a program capable of acquiring information in accordance with an instruction from an agent who is present.

It is a mimetic diagram showing application processing system 2 concerning an embodiment of the present invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the image processing apparatus 4 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the image processing apparatus 4 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus 4 realized by executing a program in the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the display screen of UI apparatus 11 displayed by control of the display control part 76, (a) shows the example of a display when not acquiring the acquisition condition of evidence documents, (b) The example of a display in the case of reflecting the acquisition condition of evidence documents is shown. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when an evidence document is read by the image reading device 14. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a hardware structure of the application processing apparatus 6 which concerns on embodiment of this invention. In the 1st Embodiment of this invention, it is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the application processing apparatus 6 implement | achieved by running a program. It is a sequence chart which shows an example of operation | movement of the application process system 2 from the registration of the application in 1st Embodiment to the approval process. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the image processing apparatus 4 of 2nd Embodiment implement | achieved by running a program. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of the UI device 11 displayed under the control of a display control unit 76 in the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when reading an evidence document by the image reading device 14 in the second embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the application processing apparatus 6 of 2nd Embodiment implement | achieved by running a program. It is a sequence chart which shows an example of operation | movement of the application process system 2 from the registration of the application in 2nd Embodiment to an approval process.

Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an application processing system 2 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the application processing system 2 is composed of an image processing device 4, an application processing device 6, and a terminal device 8. Each device is connected to a network 10 such as a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. doing. The application processing system 2 is a system that performs processing for an application. Specifically, for the registered application, the application processing system 2 acquires an image of the evidence document for the application and performs a process of approving the application. In the present embodiment, the application processing system 2 will be described with respect to an application for expense settlement, taking as an example a case where an image of evidence such as a receipt is acquired and the settlement process is performed.

  The image processing apparatus 4 is an apparatus that acquires an image of evidence documents required for processing an application, and includes an image reading apparatus such as a scanner that reads evidence documents, or a photographing apparatus such as a camera that captures evidence documents. ing. In the present embodiment, an image forming apparatus provided with an image reading apparatus will be described as an example of the image processing apparatus 4.

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the image processing apparatus 4. The image processing device 4 includes a UI device 11, a printing device 12, an image reading device 14, and a communication device 16.

  The UI device 11 is a device that includes a display device that displays information and an input reception device that receives input made by an operator, and includes, for example, a touch panel. The operator can input his / her identification information such as an ID via the UI device 11. The UI device 11 may read a recording medium such as an IC card and acquire the operator identification information stored in the recording medium, or may acquire the identification information by an input operation of the operator. . In addition to the identification information, a password or the like may be acquired.

  The printing device 12 is a device that performs printing. The printing apparatus 12 includes, for example, three stages of recording medium supply cassettes 18, and each of the recording medium supply cassettes 18 is provided with a supply head 20.

  When one of the recording medium supply cassettes 18 is selected, the supply head 20 is actuated and supplied from the selected recording medium supply cassette 18 to the image forming mechanism 24 via the recording medium supply path 22.

  The image forming mechanism 24 is provided with yellow, magenta, cyan, and black photoconductors 26 and an intermediate transfer belt 28.

  Around each photoconductor 26, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a primary transfer device, a cleaning device, and the like (not shown) are arranged, and a toner image formed on each photoconductor 26 is transferred to the intermediate transfer belt 28. Transcribed. When black and white is set, only black is enabled.

  The toner image on the intermediate transfer belt 28 is transferred to the sent recording medium by the secondary transfer roll 30 and fixed by the fixing device 32, and the recording medium on which the toner image is fixed passes through the recording medium discharge path 34. And discharged to the discharge unit 36.

  However, when duplex printing is set, the recording medium whose surface is fixed by the fixing device 32 is sent from the recording medium discharge path 34 to the reversing device 38, reversed by the reversing device 38, and recorded on the recording medium reversing path 40. To the recording medium supply path 22 again and sent to the image forming mechanism 24 to print the back side.

  The image reading device 14 has an automatic document feeder 42 capable of reading a double-sided document. The automatic document feeder 42 feeds a document to a platen 44, and a reading unit 46 made up of a CCD or the like on the platen 44. The original image is read.

  A document set detector 48 for detecting whether or not a document is set on the automatic document feeder 42 is provided. The automatic document feeder 42 also serves as a platen cover, and the document can be placed on the platen 44 by opening the platen cover. The opening / closing of the platen cover can be detected by a platen cover opening / closing detector 50.

  The communication device 16 is a device that communicates with an external device via the network 10, and is configured by, for example, a data line termination device. For example, the image processing device 4 transmits the image data read by the image reading device 14 to the application processing device 6 and transmits / receives information to / from the application processing device 6.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the image processing apparatus 4.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the image processing device 4 has a configuration in which a CPU 60, a memory 62, and a storage device 64 are connected by a bus in addition to the above-described printing device 12, image reading device 14, UI device 11, and communication device 16. It has become.

  As described above, the image processing apparatus 4 includes a component as a computer that can communicate with other apparatuses via the network 10.

  The CPU 60 controls the operation of the image processing device 4 by executing a program written in the memory 62 or the storage device 64. In addition, an input received via the UI device 11 is transmitted to the CPU 60, and display information from the CPU 60 is transmitted to the UI device 11.

  The CPU 60 may execute a program stored in a portable storage medium such as a CD-ROM (not shown), or may execute a program provided through the communication device 16.

  The storage device 64 stores data in a hard disk or the like so as to be able to write and read data.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus 4 realized by executing the program.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the image processing apparatus 4 according to the present embodiment includes an identification information receiving unit 70, an identification information transmitting unit 72, a delegate information receiving unit 74, a display control unit 76, and an acquisition status receiving unit. 78, a selection receiving unit 80, an image acquisition unit 82, an image transmission unit 84, a billing unit 86, and a request information transmission unit 88.

  The identification information receiving unit 70 receives identification information such as a user name or ID input via the UI device 11. In the present embodiment, password information input via the UI device 11 is received together with the identification information.

  The identification information transmitting unit 72 transmits the user identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70. In the present embodiment, password information is transmitted to the application processing device 6 together with the identification information, and a process for logging in to the application processing device 6 is performed.

  The delegate information receiving unit 74 receives information about the delegate. Specifically, information about a delegate who has been delegated to perform a necessary procedure for the approval process for the application is received by the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70. In the present embodiment, for the expense reimbursement application, the application processing device 6 receives information about the delegate who delegated the procedure for submitting the receipt image required for the approval process of the application to the delegate. In the present embodiment, the identification information of the delegator is received as information about the delegator. The delegate information receiving unit 74 may also acquire information on the authority of the delegate's proxy action.

  For example, when the delegate BBB delegates the procedure in its application to the delegate AAA, when the delegate AAA enters identification information via the UI device 11, the delegate information receiving unit 74 The identification information of the delegator BBB is received. In addition, when there exists a delegate for the delegate AAA in addition to the delegate BBB, the delegate information receiving unit 74 also receives identification information about those delegates.

  The display controller 76 controls the information received by the delegate information receiver 74 to be displayed on the UI device 11 as a display device.

  FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of the UI device 11 displayed by the control of the display control unit 76, and FIG. 5A illustrates a display example when the acquisition status of evidence documents is not reflected. FIG. 5B shows a display example when reflecting the acquisition status of evidence documents. In the example shown in FIG. 5, the identification information of the delegate received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 is displayed together with the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70. In FIG. 5, a display image 90 shows the operator's own identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70, and a display image 92 shows the delegate's identification information received by the delegate information receiving unit 74. Yes. Here, as shown in FIG. 5, the display control unit 76 may display the delegator across a plurality of pages. In this case, another page is displayed by changing the screen.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5B, the display control unit 76 includes the user information received by the identification information receiving unit 70 and the information received by the delegate information receiving unit 74. Control is performed to display the acquisition status of the evidence document image related to this information. In the example shown in Fig. 5 (b), if there is an application for which the receipt has not been submitted among the applications for expense reimbursement of the user or the delegator, the receipt will be displayed together with the identification information of the user or the delegator. A display image 94 indicating that there is an application that has not been submitted is displayed. In the example shown in FIG. 5B, the display image 94 indicating that there is an application for which no receipt has been submitted is displayed together with the identification information of the delegator. You may comprise so that it may display clearly.

  The acquisition status receiving unit 78 receives information related to the acquisition status of the evidence document image referred to in the approval process for the application. In the present embodiment, information on whether or not an image of a receipt required for approval of an expense settlement application is acquired from the application processing device 6. Here, the acquisition status reception unit 78 of the present embodiment determines, for each user or delegate, whether there is an application for which no receipt has been submitted among applications for the user or the delegate, for example. The information shown is received as the acquisition status.

  The display control unit 76 preferentially displays information received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 that has not been acquired by the acquisition status receiving unit 78 related to this information. You may control so. For example, when the information received by the delegator information receiving unit 74 is identification information about the delegator as in the present embodiment, the identification information of the delegator who has an application for which no receipt has been submitted, It may be controlled to display with priority over the identification information of a delegate who does not have an application for which is not submitted. For example, identification information about the delegator may be displayed on the first page on the display screen.

  The selection receiving unit 80 receives a selection operation for the information displayed by the display control unit 76. In the present embodiment, the selection operation via the UI device 11 for the identification information of the delegate displayed by the display control unit 76 is accepted. The operator who is the delegate selects, for example, from the list of the identification information of the delegate displayed as shown in FIG. 5, which delegate's receipt image acquisition is to be performed. The operator selects his / her identification information from the identification information displayed on the display screen shown in FIG. 5 when acquiring a receipt image for his / her expense application. In this case, the selection operation of the operator's own identification information is accepted.

  The image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image. In the present embodiment, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image of the evidence document referred to in the approval process for the application. For example, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data of a receipt read by the image reading device 14 from the image reading device 14.

  FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when reading the evidence document by the image reading device 14. In the example shown in FIG. 6, an example is given of a screen when the assignee AAA, who is an operator, reads evidence documents for the application of the delegator BBB. It is possible to set the reading condition of the evidence document. FIG. 6 shows an example in which the read image data is transmitted to BBB @ xxx, which is a dedicated address of the delegator BBB, and the address of the transmission destination is displayed on the screen.

  The image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as an image of the delegate who has received information by the delegate information receiving unit 74. In the present embodiment, the image transmission unit 84 sends the receipt image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 to the application processing device 6 as evidence of the delegator identified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80. And send. For example, when the transmission destination address of the image of the evidence document is different for each applicant, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image data to the dedicated transmission destination address specified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80. . For this reason, evidence documents are collected even if it is not an operation of the applicant himself. In the present embodiment, the image transmission unit 84 performs transmission based on a transmission instruction input from the user via the UI device 11, for example.

  In addition, as a method for the image transmission unit 84 to transmit as evidence for the delegator whose information has been received by the delegator information reception unit 74, the method is not limited to the example of transmitting to the destination address dedicated to the delegator as described above. Alternatively, other methods may be used. For example, when the storage area of the image of the evidence document is divided for each applicant in the application processing device 6, the image transmission unit 84 stores the storage area dedicated to the delegate specified by the selection operation received by the selection reception unit 80. The image data may be transmitted so as to be stored. For example, the position information of the storage area dedicated to the delegate is acquired as information received by the delegate information receiving unit 74. Further, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image data and notifies the application processing device 6 that the image data is the image data for the delegator specified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80. You may do it. In this case, the application processing device 6 distributes the image data to a storage area dedicated to the delegate by the notified identification information of the delegate.

  The charging unit 86 charges according to the image acquisition by the image acquisition unit 82. For example, the billing unit 86 accumulates the amount according to the image acquisition by the image acquisition unit 82. The charging unit 86 may charge each time an image is acquired by the image acquisition unit 82, or may be charged every time the image acquisition by the image acquisition unit 82 reaches a predetermined number of times. In the present embodiment, the accounting unit 86 is described as a function of the image processing apparatus 4, but may be a function of the application processing apparatus 6.

  The request information transmission unit 88 transmits information for requesting execution of the approval process for an application in which an image of the evidence document referred to in the approval process is acquired. In the present embodiment, the request information transmission unit 88 transmits information requesting execution of the expense adjustment process to the application processing apparatus 6, but it may be transmitted to another apparatus. For example, in order to notify the approver in charge of the checkout process, it may be transmitted to a terminal device used by the approver.

Next, the application processing apparatus 6 will be described.
FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the application processing apparatus 6.
As shown in FIG. 7, the application processing device 6 transmits and receives data to and from an external device or the like via the CPU 100, a memory 102, a storage device 104 such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and the network 10. The server includes a communication interface (IF) 106 and an input / output device 108. These components are connected to each other via a control bus 110.

  The CPU 100 executes processing based on a program stored in the memory 102 or the storage device 104 and controls the operation of the application processing device 6.

  In the present embodiment, the CPU 100 has been described as reading and executing a program stored in the memory 102 or the storage device 104, but the program is stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM and provided to the CPU 100. It is also possible to do.

  FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the application processing apparatus 6 realized by executing the program.

  As shown in FIG. 8, the application processing apparatus 6 of the present embodiment includes a user registration unit 120, a user / delegation information storage unit 122, a delegation registration unit 124, an application registration unit 126, and application information storage. Unit 128, identification information receiving unit 130, delegator specifying unit 132, delegator information transmitting unit 134, acquisition status transmitting unit 136, image receiving unit 138, and image storage unit 140 for each applicant A registration unit 142, a correspondence relationship storage unit 144, and an application approval unit 146 are provided.

  The user registration unit 120 registers information about the user of the application processing device 6. In this embodiment, the user registration unit 120 includes identification information and the like of the applicant, a person who performs the application procedure (acceptor), and a person who approves the application (authorizer). 122.

  The delegation registration unit 124 registers information about a delegate who is entrusted with a procedure for an approval process in an application of the applicant (delegator). In the present embodiment, the delegation registration unit 124 stores identification information about the delegation destination user (trustee) for each delegator in the user / delegation information storage unit 122. As described above, the user / delegation information storage unit 122 stores information indicating the correspondence between the delegator and the delegate. The delegation registration unit 124 may further register information on the authority of the delegate's proxy action. For example, only the image acquisition authority may be given to the person in charge, or the image acquisition authority and the authorization request authority may be granted.

  The user / delegation information storage unit 122 stores information registered by the user registration unit 120 and the delegation registration unit 124.

  The application registration unit 126 registers information about the application. In the present embodiment, the application registration unit 126 stores information on the expense reimbursement application in the application information storage unit 128. For example, the application registration unit 126 registers information such as date, use of expense, and usage amount as information on the expense settlement application.

  The application information storage unit 128 stores information about an application for each user who is an applicant.

  The identification information receiving unit 130 receives the user identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus 4. Specifically, the identification information transmitted by the identification information transmitting unit 72 of the image processing apparatus 4 is received.

  The delegate identifying unit 132 identifies the delegate who delegated the procedure to the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 130 based on the information registered by the delegation registration unit 124. For example, the delegator specifying unit 132 searches the delegator delegated to the user from the information indicating the correspondence relationship between the delegator and the delegate stored in the user / delegation information storage unit 122, and the delegator Is identified.

  Delegator information transmission unit 134 transmits information about the delegate specified by delegator specifying unit 132. In this embodiment, the identification information of the delegator is transmitted as information about the delegator. The delegate information transmission unit 134 may also transmit information on the authority of the delegate's proxy action.

  The acquisition status transmission unit 136 transmits the acquisition status of the image of the evidence document referred to in the approval process for the application. In the present embodiment, information indicating whether or not an image of a receipt necessary for approving the expense settlement application is acquired is transmitted to the image processing apparatus 4. Here, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the present embodiment, for each delegator identified by the user and the delegator identification unit 132, for example, an application for which no receipt has been submitted among the applications for the delegator. Information indicating whether or not it exists is transmitted as an acquisition status. For example, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 uses the information on the correspondence between the application and the image that is the evidence document for the application stored in the correspondence storage 144 described later, It is determined whether there is an application for which no receipt has been submitted, and the determination result is transmitted.

  The image receiving unit 138 receives an image as evidence for the delegator whose information has been transmitted by the delegator information transmission unit 134. In the present embodiment, it is determined which of the delegates the image is based on the transmission information from the image transmission unit 84 of the image processing apparatus 4, and is stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant as an image of the receipt of the determined delegate. Store.

  The application-specific image storage unit 140 stores image data, which is documentary evidence for an application, for each applicant. In the present embodiment, the receipt image is stored in a storage area divided by applicant.

  The association registration unit 142 stores information about the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 and the application-specific image storage unit 140 according to an instruction by an input operation via the input / output device 108 or an instruction from the terminal device 8. Associate the stored image. Also, the association registration unit 142 stores information indicating the correspondence between the two in the correspondence storage 144. For example, the applicant or a delegate entrusted to the applicant gives an instruction for association using the terminal device 8, and the association registration unit 142 performs the association based on this instruction.

  The correspondence relationship storage unit 144 stores information on the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 and information indicating the correspondence relationship between the images stored in the application-specific image storage unit 140.

  The application approval unit 146 performs an approval process for an application associated with an image stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant. In the present embodiment, the application approval unit 146 performs expense adjustment processing according to an instruction by an input operation via the input / output device 108 or an instruction from the terminal device 8. For example, the approver uses the terminal device 8 to confirm the application to be approved and the receipt for the application, and if there is no problem, instructs the expense settlement process.

  The terminal device 8 is a computer having the same configuration as the hardware configuration shown in FIG. 7, and registration of a user, registration of a delegation relationship, registration of an application to the application processing device 6 via the network 10, This is a terminal that gives instructions for registering the correspondence between the application and the document image, requesting approval, and executing approval. For example, the terminal device 8 gives the above-described instruction to the application processing device 6 based on a user's input operation.

Next, the operation of the application processing system 2 in this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 9 is a sequence chart showing an example of the operation of the application processing system 2 from application registration to approval processing in the present embodiment.

  In step 100 (S100), the applicant logs in to the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8. For example, if the identification information of the applicant input to the terminal device 8 is transmitted to the application processing device 6 and the identification information is stored in the user / authorization information storage unit, the login is successful.

  In step 102 (S102), information about an application to the application processing apparatus 6 is registered through the terminal device 8. In the application processing device 6, the application registration unit 126 stores information on the expense application in the application information storage unit 128 based on an instruction via the terminal device 8.

  In step 104 (S104), the applicant logs out from the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8. As for Step 100 to Step 104, the applicant may be the subject of the operation, or the delegate delegated to the applicant may be the subject of the operation.

  In step 106 (S106), the supervisor logs in to the application processing device 6 via the image processing device 4. In the image processing device 4, the identification information receiving unit 70 receives the identification information of a supervisor who is the user of the image processing device 4, and the identification information transmitting unit 72 transmits the identification information to the application processing device 6. For example, if this identification information is stored in the user / authorization information storage unit, the login is successful.

  In step 108 (S108), the image processing apparatus 4 requests the application processing apparatus 6 to provide information on the delegate who delegated the procedure to the delegate who is the user of the image processing apparatus 4. This request may be made together with the transmission of identification information by the identification information transmission unit 72, for example.

  In step 110 (S110), in the application processing device 6, the delegate identifying unit 132 identifies the delegate based on the identification information of the delegate from the image processing device 4 received by the identification information receiving unit 130. The identification information of the delegate specified by the information transmission unit 134 is transmitted to the image processing apparatus 4. On the other hand, the transmitted identification information is received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 of the image processing apparatus 4. Here, in step 110, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the application processing device 6 also transmits information about the acquisition status of the document of evidence of the delegate and the delegate to the image processing device 4.

  In step 112 (S 112), in the image processing device 4, the identification information received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 is displayed on the UI device 11 under the control of the display control unit 76. Here, the acquisition status of the document of evidence of the delegate is transmitted, and the information received by the acquisition status receiving unit 78 is also displayed on the UI device 11.

  In step 114 (S114), in the image processing apparatus 4, when the selection receiving unit 80 receives the selection operation, selection of the receipt for which application is to be acquired (selection of the payment target person) is performed.

  In step 116 (S116), the acquisition status of the evidence document for the payment target person selected in step 114 is determined, and the images of the evidence documents are acquired and associated with all the applications of the payment target person. The process proceeds to step 138. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step 118.

  In step 118 (S118), the image processing apparatus 4 displays a screen as shown in FIG. In step 120 (S120), the image processing apparatus 4 proceeds to step 122 upon receiving an operation of a reading instruction from the operator.

  In step 122 (S122), the receipt as the evidence document is read by the image reading device 14, and the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data.

  In step 124 (S124), the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 to the application processing apparatus 6 as the document for the settlement target selected in step 114. For example, if a delegate is selected in step 114, the image transmission unit 84 transmits the document as evidence for the delegate.

  In step 126 (S126), the image receiving unit 138 stores the received image in the applicant-specific image storage unit 140. For example, when the delegate is selected in step 114, the image receiving unit 138 stores the image in the applicant-specific image storage unit 140 as an image of the evidence document for the delegate. In addition, the image processing apparatus 4 transmits to the image processing apparatus 4 a registration result of the received image (for example, information indicating which applicant's image has been stored, storage success / failure information, etc.).

  In step 128 (S128), the image processing apparatus 4 displays the registration result on the UI apparatus 11 as transmitted from the application processing apparatus 6. Note that the image processing apparatus 4 may output the registration result from the printing apparatus 12.

  In step 130 (S 130), the applicant or the supervisor logs in to the application processing device 6 through the terminal device 8.

  In step 132 (S132), the association between the application to the application processing device 6 and the image of the receipt is registered via the terminal device 8. The association registration unit 142 of the application processing device 6 associates the information about the application stored in the application information storage unit 128 with the image stored in the application-specific image storage unit 140 according to an instruction from the terminal device 8. In addition, information indicating the correspondence between the two is stored in the correspondence storage 144.

  In step 134 (S134), information requesting execution of the approval process for the application is transmitted to the application processing device 6 via the terminal device 8.

  In step 136 (S136), the applicant or the supervisor logs out from the application processing apparatus 6 via the terminal apparatus 8.

  Note that for an application that has already been associated with an image of a receipt, a request for execution of an approval process may be made via the image processing device 4. In this case, in step 138 (S138), the image processing apparatus 4 displays a screen for confirming whether or not the request for executing the approval process may be requested on the UI apparatus 11, and in step 140 (S140), the approval is made. When receiving an operation for instructing a request for execution of processing, the request information transmission unit 88 of the image processing apparatus 4 transmits information requesting execution of the approval process for the application to the application processing apparatus 6. By doing so, a request to execute the approval process is made without moving to the terminal device 8. For an application that has already been associated with the image of the receipt, the request information transmitting unit 88 of the image processing device 4 automatically performs the approval process for the application without going through steps 138 and 140. The information for requesting execution may be transmitted to the application processing device 6.

  In step 142 (S142), the application processing device 6 carries out expense settlement processing as approval processing. The application processing device 6 executes the approval process when, for example, the approver confirms the application to be approved and the receipt for the application, and instructs the expense settlement process. If the application processing device 6 has received the approval processing execution request from the image processing device 4, the application processing device 6 transmits the result information of the approval processing to the image processing device 4 (step 144). The received result information is displayed on the UI device 11 (step 146). The image processing apparatus 4 may output the received result information to the printing apparatus 12.

  In step 148 (S148), the supervisor logs out of the application processing apparatus 6 via the terminal apparatus 8.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the second embodiment, the first embodiment is such that the information about the application and the image of the evidence document corresponding to the application are associated on the image processing apparatus 4 side when the image of the evidence document is acquired. And mainly different.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the image processing apparatus 4 according to the second embodiment that is realized by executing a program.

  In the image processing apparatus 4 according to the second embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 10, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150, the acquisition condition setting unit 152, and the association unit are compared with the first embodiment illustrated in FIG. 4. 154, an inspection result receiving unit 156, a notification unit 158, and an acquisition condition changing unit 160 are added. Further, the first point of the delegator information receiving unit 74, the acquisition status receiving unit 78, the display control unit 76, the selection receiving unit 80, the image acquiring unit 82, and the image transmitting unit 84 is described below. This is different from the embodiment.

Hereinafter, differences from the first embodiment will be described.
In the first embodiment, the delegate information receiving unit 74 received the identification information of the delegate as information about the delegate. In the second embodiment, the delegate information receiving unit 74 The following information is received as information. That is, the delegator information receiving unit 74 sends information about the application of the delegator who has been entrusted to the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70 to perform the necessary procedure for the approval process for the application. Receive. The delegator information receiving unit 74 may further receive information about the user's application having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 70.

  In the first embodiment, the acquisition status reception unit 78 has received the acquisition status for each delegate, but the acquisition status reception unit 78 in the second embodiment is for each application received by the delegate information reception unit 74. Receive image acquisition status.

  The display control unit 76 of the second embodiment controls to display information about the application received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 on the UI device 11 as a display device.

  FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of the UI device 11 displayed under the control of the display control unit 76 in the second embodiment. In the example shown in FIG. 11, information about the application of the delegator BBB entrusted to the operator AAA of the image processing apparatus 4 is displayed. In FIG. 11, the display image 170 represents the application of the delegator BBB, the display image 172 indicates that an image as evidence document has not been acquired for the application, and the display image 174 represents the application It has shown that the image as evidence document has been acquired. Here, the display control unit 76 may perform control so as to preferentially display a document that has not been acquired as an evidence document.

  The selection receiving unit 80 according to the second embodiment receives a selection operation via the UI device 11 for the application displayed by the display control unit 76. For example, the operator selects which application to obtain the receipt image from the application list displayed as shown in FIG. Further, the selection receiving unit 80 notifies the application processing apparatus 6 which application is the selected application.

  In the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 14 described later, the following configuration may be used. First, the delegate information receiving unit 74 receives identification information about the delegate who delegated the procedure to the operator, the display control unit 76 displays the received identification information about the delegate, and the selection receiving unit 80 Then, the selection operation of the payment target person is accepted, and then the delegate information receiving unit 74 receives information about the application of the selected payment target person, and the display control unit 76 displays the information about the received application. Then, the selection receiving unit 80 may be configured to receive an application selection operation.

  The acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives an image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 from the application processing device 6. Specifically, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives, for example, information about the reading conditions of the image reading device 14. In the present embodiment, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives an acquisition condition corresponding to the content of the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80. Details of the acquisition conditions according to the contents of the application will be described later.

  The acquisition condition setting unit 152 sets the acquisition condition received by the acquisition condition receiving unit 150. Specifically, the acquisition condition setting unit 152 sets the reading condition of the image reading device 14 based on the reading condition received by the acquisition condition receiving unit 150. In the present embodiment, the configuration for receiving from the application processing device 6 the acquisition condition corresponding to the content of the application designated by the selection operation accepted by the selection accepting unit 80 is illustrated, but the image processing device 4 itself The reading conditions corresponding to the contents of the application may be determined and set as the reading conditions of the image reading device 14.

  The image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image of the evidence document according to the acquisition condition set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152. FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen displayed on the UI device 11 when reading the evidence document by the image reading device 14. The example shown in FIG. 12 shows a screen for setting a receipt reading condition for an application designated by the selection operation accepted by the selection accepting unit 80.

  The association unit 154 associates the information about the application received by the delegate information receiving unit 74 with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82. In the present embodiment, the associating unit 154 includes the application specified by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80 among the applications received by the delegate information receiving unit 74, the image acquired by the image acquiring unit 82, and Associate.

  The image transmission unit 84 of the second embodiment transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as evidence for the application associated by the association unit 154. Specifically, the image transmission unit 84 transmits to the application processing apparatus 6 information indicating the correspondence relationship associated by the association unit 154 together with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82.

  In addition, the inspection result receiving unit 156 sends, from the application processing device 6, an inspection result as to whether or not the image associated with the application by the associating unit 154 satisfies a predetermined condition as evidence for the application. Receive.

  The notification unit 158 notifies the inspection result received by the inspection result receiving unit 156. For example, the inspection result may be displayed on the UI device 11 or notified by voice or the like. Further, the inspection result may be output by the printing device 12.

  The acquisition condition changing unit 160 changes the image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 based on the inspection result of the inspection result receiving unit 156. Specifically, if the image associated with the application by the associating unit 154 does not satisfy the predetermined condition as evidence for the application, the acquisition condition changing unit 160 sets the predetermined condition. Change to the acquisition conditions required to meet.

  For example, when it is a condition that the application processing device 6 can recognize characters in the OCR (Optical Character Reader) process as the resolution of the acquired image, when the inspection result indicates that the resolution of the image is lower than the condition, Change the image resolution to be higher than the current setting. Further, for example, when a color image is a condition, if the inspection result indicates that the image is a monochrome image and does not satisfy the condition, the reading condition is changed to color reading.

  In the above description, the inspection result is received by the inspection result receiving unit 156, but the image processing apparatus 4 itself may have an inspection function.

  Next, the application processing apparatus 6 of 2nd Embodiment is demonstrated.

  FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the application processing apparatus 6 according to the second embodiment that is realized by executing a program.

  In the application processing device 6 of the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 13, compared to the first embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the application selection information receiving unit 180, the acquisition condition determining unit 182, and the acquisition condition A transmission unit 184, an inspection unit 186, and an inspection result transmission unit 188 are added. Further, the delegator information transmission unit 134, the acquisition status transmission unit 136, and the image reception unit 138 are different from the first embodiment in the points described later.

  The delegate information transmission unit 134 of the second embodiment transmits information about the application of the identified delegate as information about the delegate identified by the delegate identification unit 132. In addition, the delegate information transmission unit 134 includes information about the application of the delegator specified by the delegator identification unit 132, or instead of the information about the application of the user having the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit 130. May be sent. Regardless of the specification by the delegate specifying unit 132, the delegate information sending unit 134 may send information on the application of the payment target requested from the image processing apparatus 4.

  The acquisition status transmission unit 136 according to the second embodiment transmits the acquisition status of the image for each application of the delegate or user transmitted by the delegate information transmission unit 134.

  The application selection information receiving unit 180 receives which application is the application specified by the selection received by the selection receiving unit 80 of the image processing apparatus 4.

  The acquisition condition determination unit 182 determines an acquisition condition corresponding to the content of the application for the application specified by the reception result of the application selection information reception unit 180. In the present embodiment, the acquisition condition determination unit 182 determines an acquisition condition according to the content of the application in accordance with a predetermined rule. For example, for an application that requires that a revenue stamp be attached to a receipt (for example, an application for a predetermined amount or more, an application for a predetermined use, etc.), a color image with a resolution of 300 dpi is used. Acquisition is determined as an acquisition condition, and for other applications, acquisition as a monochrome image with a resolution of 200 dpi is determined as an acquisition condition. Moreover, about the content of the predetermined application, you may determine as acquisition conditions acquiring the image of both sides of a receipt.

  The acquisition condition transmission unit 184 transmits the acquisition condition determined by the acquisition condition determination unit 182 to the image processing apparatus 4.

  In addition, the image receiving unit 138 according to the second embodiment receives an image of the evidence document associated with the application whose information has been transmitted by the delegate information transmitting unit 134 from the image processing device 4. In the present embodiment, the image data transmitted from the image transmission unit 84 of the image processing apparatus 4 and information indicating the correspondence between the image data and the application are received. Further, the image receiving unit 138 stores the received image data in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant, and stores the received information indicating the correspondence relationship in the correspondence relationship storage unit 144.

  The inspection unit 186 inspects whether the image received by the image reception unit 138 satisfies a condition that is predetermined as evidence documents.

  For example, the inspection unit 186 inspects whether the image received by the image reception unit 138 has the same content as another image already associated with an application different from the application associated with the image. Also good. As a result, for example, a fraud in which the same receipt is reused for a plurality of settlement applications is discovered. For example, the inspection unit 186 may inspect whether or not the content of the image associated with the application is compatible with the content of the application. For example, it may be inspected whether the amount of money, date, and the like match between the receipt and the settlement application.

  The inspection result transmission unit 188 transmits information on the inspection result by the inspection unit 186 to the image processing apparatus 4.

Next, the operation of the application processing system 2 in the second embodiment will be described.
FIG. 14 is a sequence chart showing an example of the operation of the application processing system 2 from application registration to approval processing in the second embodiment. In the following description, Step 100 to Step 114 and Step 138 to Step 148 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and thus description thereof is omitted.

  After step 114, in step 200 (S200), the application processing apparatus 6 is requested for information about the application of the payment target designated by the selection operation received by the selection receiving unit 80.

  In step 202 (S202), the delegator information transmission unit 134 of the application processing apparatus 6 transmits information about the requested application of the payment target person to the image processing apparatus 4. On the other hand, the delegate information receiving unit 74 of the image processing apparatus 4 receives information about the application. Here, in step 202, the acquisition status transmission unit 136 of the application processing device 6 also transmits information about the acquisition status of the evidence document to the image processing device 4, and the acquisition condition transmission unit 184 of the application processing device 6 also. , Send the acquisition conditions for each application.

  In step 204 (S204), the display control unit 76 controls the UI device 11 to display information about the application received by the delegate information receiving unit 74.

  In step 206 (S206), the selection receiving unit 80 receives a selection operation for the application displayed by the display control unit 76. At this time, the acquisition condition receiving unit 150 receives the image acquisition condition by the image acquisition unit 82 from the acquisition condition transmission unit 184 of the application processing apparatus 6 for the selected application. The acquisition condition of the received image is set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152 for the application.

  In step 208 (S208), the acquisition status of the evidence document for the application specified in step 206 is determined, and if an image of the evidence document is acquired, the process proceeds to step 138. The process proceeds to step 210.

  In step 210 (S210), the image processing apparatus 4 displays a screen as shown in FIG. In step 212 (S212), the image processing apparatus 4 proceeds to step 214 upon receiving an operation of a reading instruction from the operator.

  In step 214 (S214), the receipt as the evidence document is read by the image reading device 14, and the image acquisition unit 82 acquires the image data. At this time, the image acquisition unit 82 acquires an image according to the acquisition conditions set by the acquisition condition setting unit 152.

  In step 216 (S216), the associating unit 154 associates the application designated by the selection operation accepted by the selection accepting unit 80 with the image obtained by the image obtaining unit 82.

  In step 218 (S218), the image transmission unit 84 transmits the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 82 as evidence for the application associated by the association unit 154.

  In step 220 (S220), the image receiving unit 138 of the application processing device 6 receives the image data transmitted from the image processing device 4 and information indicating the correspondence between the image data and the application, and receives the image data. The information is stored in the image storage unit 140 for each applicant, and information indicating the correspondence relationship is stored in the correspondence relationship storage unit 144. In this case, it is not necessary to associate the image data with the application by the terminal device 8. In addition, the inspection unit 186 inspects whether the image received by the image reception unit 138 satisfies a predetermined condition as evidence documents, and the inspection result transmission unit 188 transmits the inspection result to the image processing device 4. .

  In step 222 (S222), the image processing device 4 displays the inspection result on the UI device 11 as transmitted from the application processing device 6. Note that the image processing device 4 may output the inspection result by the printing device 12.

  As described above, in the second embodiment, the case where there is a delegator who delegates the procedure to the operator of the image processing apparatus 4 has been described as an example, but the delegation relationship may not be present. That is, the operator may perform an operation so as to obtain an image of the evidence document regarding his application. In this case, the above-mentioned delegate information transmitting unit 134 functions as an application information transmitting unit that transmits information about the operator's own application, and the delegate information receiving unit 74 is information about the operator's own application. It will function as an application information receiving unit that receives.

  Further, in the embodiment described above, the system that performs the application process has been described. However, the system is not limited to the application process, and any system that processes a case may be used, and the processing content is not limited. For example, for each processing target item, a process in which an image for the item is referred to at the time of processing may be used. In this case, the delegate is the person who delegated the procedure for processing the case to the delegate.

2 Application Processing System 4 Image Processing Device 6 Application Processing Device 8 Terminal Device 11 UI Device 14 Image Reading Device 70 Identification Information Receiving Unit 72 Identification Information Transmitting Unit 74 Delegate Information Receiving Unit 76 Display Control Unit 78 Acquisition Status Receiving Unit 80 Selection Acceptance Unit 82 image acquisition unit 84 image transmission unit 86 charging unit 88 request information transmission unit 120 user registration unit 122 user / delegation information storage unit 124 delegation registration unit 126 application registration unit 128 application information storage unit 130 identification information reception unit 132 delegation Person identification unit 134 Delegator information transmission unit 136 Acquisition status transmission unit 138 Image reception unit 140 Applicant-specific image storage unit 142 Correlation registration unit 144 Correspondence relationship storage unit 146 Application approval unit 150 Acquisition condition reception unit 152 Acquisition condition setting unit 154 Association unit 156 Inspection result reception unit 158 Notification unit 160 Acquisition condition change unit 180 Application selection information Reception unit 182 Acquisition condition determination unit 184 Acquisition condition transmission unit 186 Inspection unit 188 Inspection result transmission unit

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An identification information receiving means for receiving information for identifying an agent who is requested by the applicant to perform at least a part of the procedure of the application;
Applicant information acquisition means for acquiring information about an applicant who has previously requested an agent identified by the information received by the identification information reception means to perform an application procedure;
Image acquisition means for acquiring an image based on an operation of the applicant or the agent;
An image storage unit by applicant for storing an image acquired based on the operation of the applicant as an image for the applicant;
When the agent acquires an image as the applicant's proxy operation, a control unit that controls to store the acquired image in the image storage unit for each applicant as an image for the applicant;
An image processing apparatus. An identification information receiving step for receiving information for identifying an agent who is requested by the applicant to perform at least a part of the procedure of the application;
An applicant information acquisition step of acquiring information about an applicant who has previously requested an agent identified by the information received in the identification information reception step to perform an application procedure;
An image acquisition step of acquiring an image based on the operation of the applicant or the agent;
When the agent acquires an image as the applicant's proxy operation, the acquired image is used as the image for the applicant, and the image acquired based on the operation of the applicant is used for the applicant. A control step for controlling to store in the image storage unit for each applicant stored as an image;
A program that causes a computer to execute.

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