JP2021026630A - Information management device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide an information management device and program which improve the convenience for management of information about business cards.SOLUTION: A server device 1 being an information management device comprises: an authentication processing unit 101 which is connected to a client device 6 and scanner devices 7a, 7b and authenticates a user of the client device in response to an authentication request from the client device 6; and a business card processing unit 107 which acquires a business card image obtained by imaging a business card by the scanner devices in response to the instruction of the authenticated user, extracts business card information including a character string on the business card image on the basis of the business card image, and manages a user ID uniquely indicating the authenticated user or another user in association with the business card information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to a technique for managing information related to business cards.

Conventionally, various information described on a business card image obtained by scanning or imaging a business card is extracted by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and centrally managed.

JP-A-2018-160278

One issue is to improve the convenience of managing information related to business cards.

One embodiment is an information management device that can be connected to a client device and a scanner device, and is an authentication processing unit that authenticates a user of the client device in response to an authentication request by the client device, and responds to an instruction of the authentication user. Then, the business card image obtained by imaging the business card is acquired by the scanner device, the business card information including the character string on the business card image is extracted based on the business card image, and the authenticated user or another user is uniquely indicated. It includes a business card processing unit that manages the user ID in association with the business card information.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the overall structure of the information management system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware configuration of a server device. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of a server device. It is a schematic diagram which shows the extraction element in a business card image. It is a flowchart which shows the operation of the person determination process. It is a flowchart which shows the operation of the visit correspondence processing. It is a figure which shows the correlation diagram based on a business card DB. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the information management system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the minutes processing part which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the information management system which concerns on 3rd Embodiment.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

<First Embodiment>
(Configuration of information management system)
First, the overall configuration of the information management system according to the present embodiment and the hardware configuration of the server device in the information management system will be described. FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing the overall configuration of the information management system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the server device.

As shown in FIG. 1, the information management system according to the present embodiment includes a server device 1, a plurality of client devices 6, two scanners 7a, 7b, and a printer 8 connected to the server device 1 via a network, respectively. And. The server device 1 provides a groupware function for managing information that can be shared among a plurality of client devices 6, and also controls the scanners 7a and 7b and the printer 8. In the present embodiment, the information management system is operated in a business facility where members who directly or indirectly belong to an organization such as a predetermined company or organization are engaged, and a person who is not a member is a guest in this business facility. It is assumed that the situation will be visited as. In the office area where the constituent members are engaged in this business facility, a server device 1, a plurality of client devices 6, and one scanner 7a are installed, and a constituent member is assumed as a user of each of the plurality of client devices 6. Further, it is assumed that the other scanner 7b and printer 8 are installed in the reception area which is the entrance to the business facility for guests. In addition, it is assumed that guests can enter the office area from the reception area through the passage gate 9.

The server device 1 provides a groupware function that manages various types of information that can be shared by a plurality of users, and controls two scanners 7a and 7b and a printer 8. The client device 6 is at least a terminal device capable of activating a web browser, and the user of the client device 6 uses the groupware function provided by the server device 1 via the web browser. The scanners 7a and 7b both scan business cards, the scanner 7a can scan a plurality of business cards in succession, and the scanner 7b scans the business cards and at the same time performs the scanning operation. It is assumed that a camera 71 capable of photographing a face is provided. The printer 8 prints an introductory certificate for passing through the passage gate 9, as will be described in detail later.

The server device 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 12, a storage device 13, an input / output I / F14, and a network I / F15 as hardware. The CPU 11 and the RAM 12 cooperate with each other to execute various functions. The storage device 13 is a non-volatile storage device, and stores various data used for processing executed by various functions. The input / output I / F 14 inputs / outputs data to / from an input device such as a keyboard connected to the server device 1 and an output device such as a display. The network I / F 15 performs wired communication or wireless communication with other devices such as the client device 6, the scanner 7, and the printer 8. In the present embodiment, the client device 6 has a hardware configuration substantially similar to that of the server device 1, and the description thereof will be omitted.

(Functional configuration of server device)
The functional configuration of the server device will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the server device.

As shown in FIG. 3, the server device 1 includes a groupware 10, a web server 20, a mail server 30, a scanner control unit 40, and a printer control unit 50 as functions. Groupware 10 is an application that improves the efficiency of communication within an organization and supports collaborative work. The web server 20 transmits a file or data to the web browser 60 of the client device 6 which is a WWW (World Wide Web) client in response to a request. The mail server 30 realizes functions such as a message sending / receiving function, a mailbox function, and a message management function for configuring an e-mail system, and mails to and from a mail client 90 executed on an arbitrary terminal device. Can be sent and received. The scanner control unit 40 controls scanning of business cards by the scanner 7, and the printer control unit 50 controls printing of an introductory certificate by the printer 8.

The groupware 10 is realized by the CGI (Comon Gateway Interface) program 100 and the data area 110 secured in the storage device 13 of the server device 1. The CGI program 100 returns an execution result in response to a request from the web browser 60 of the client device 6 to the web browser 60, and is an authentication processing unit 101 that authenticates the user and a schedule management unit 102 that manages the schedule information of the user. , Document management unit 103 that manages document information, notification processing unit 104 that notifies users of information about meetings, minutes processing unit 105 that manages various information about meetings, and message processing that processes messages between users. The unit 106, the business card processing unit 107 that scans the business card by the scanner 7, processes the scanned business card, and the personal network processing unit 108 that processes information about the personal network based on the processing result by the business card processing unit 107 are provided as functions. Various information managed and processed by the CGI program 100 is stored in the data area 110.

The authentication processing unit 101 authenticates the user by using the user ID as the identification information uniquely indicating the user and the password as the authentication information corresponding to the user ID. By this authentication, the login process to the groupware 10 for the client device 6 used by the user is performed. After the login process, the schedule management unit 102, the document management unit 103, the notification processing unit 104, the minutes processing unit 105, the message processing unit 106, the business card processing unit 107, and the personal connection processing unit 108 perform processing corresponding to the authenticated user. Do.

According to the groupware 10, the user can set the schedule reservation screen for the user to register the date and time and place of the meeting, the meeting name, the participants, etc., the agenda of the meeting, the handouts, the minutes showing the contents of the meeting, and the like. The minutes registration screen for registration is displayed on the client device 6. Of these, the date and place of the meeting, the meeting name, the agenda of the meeting, and the handouts are registered in advance, and the minutes are registered during or after the meeting.

The minutes processing unit 105 manages the registered meeting date and time, meeting name, participants, agenda, handouts, and minutes as minutes information in association with each other. The schedule management unit 102 sets a schedule based on the date and time and place of the meeting, the meeting name, and the participants in the minutes information and manages it as the schedule information. As a result, the meeting schedule is registered in the schedule corresponding to the user as a participant.

The document management unit 103 manages the minutes information regarding the completed meeting. Here, the document management unit 103 further generates a minutes image obtained by converting the minutes, which is text data, into image data, and manages the minutes in association with the minutes information. According to this minutes image, since it is more difficult to edit the contents than the text data, falsification of the minutes contents is prevented.

The notification processing unit 104 notifies the user of the meeting before and after the meeting. The pre-meeting notice indicates that the meeting will be held, and the post-meeting notice indicates that the minutes have been created. The minutes information includes an e-mail address as a notification destination set by the user on the schedule reservation screen or the minutes registration screen, and the notification processing unit 104 uses the mail server 30 to set the notification destination. Notify the meeting by e-mail.

The message processing unit 106 performs processing related to messages input by a plurality of users who use the groupware 10 executed on the same server device 1. This message is mainly text data, and according to the message processing unit 106, a chat function for sending and receiving messages between users, an electronic bulletin board function for publicizing the message to the entire organization, and the like are realized. Messages sent and received on the chat function and electronic bulletin board function correspond to the user ID (source user ID) of the user who sent the message and the user ID (destination user ID) of the user who can view the message as a message log. It is attached and stored in the data area 110.

The business card processing unit 107 scans the business card with the scanner 7, extracts the business card information from the business card image by scanning, and manages the business card image and the business card information. The personal connection processing unit 108 displays the connection between people as a personal connection based on the business card information.

(Identification and classification of business cards)
The identification and classification of various information on business cards will be explained. FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing the extracted elements in the business card image.

First, the business card processing unit 107 acquires the business card image scanned by the scanner 7a installed in the office area, and extracts various information based on the business card image. Here, the business card image is a business card portion extracted from the scanned image by the scanner 7a. The scanned image includes the front surface and the back surface of the business card, and the business card processing unit 107 attaches a time stamp to the scanned image, so that evidence that the front surface and the back surface belong to the same business card can be recorded. The business card image includes a front image and a back image obtained by extracting each of the front and back business card portions included in the scanned image, and the business card processing unit 107 includes various extraction elements described later for each of the front image and the back image. The information is extracted as business card information.

The business card processing unit 107 scans the business card with the scanner 7a in response to an instruction from the logged-in user, and uses the scanned image, the business card image, the business card information, and the identification information uniquely indicating the business card obtained by the scanning. A certain business card ID is associated with the business card ID, and the business card ID is associated with the user ID of the user who performed the scan instruction operation and registered in the business card DB (Data Base) stored in the data area 110. As a result, various information about the business card and the acquirer of the business card are automatically associated with each other. Here, it is assumed that one business card information is associated with one business card ID, and at least one or more scanned images, business card images, and user IDs are associated with each other.

In the business card scanning execution instruction, the business card processing unit 107 presents the logged-in user to the other user of the groupware 10 in a selectable manner, and sets the user ID and business card ID of the other user. To associate. As a result, even if a person other than the business card acquirer is in charge of scanning the business card, various information related to the business card and the business card acquirer can be appropriately associated with each other. For example, the president's secretary may register the business card acquired by the president in the business card processing unit 107.

In Japan and the like, a business card management system has been independently developed for groupware 10. In FIG. 3, a business card processing unit 107 is provided as one function of the groupware 10, but due to its function and the simplicity of the system configuration, it is a single application (hereinafter, business card application) corresponding to the business card processing unit 107. Often developed and distributed. As described above, when a secretary or the like registers on behalf of the user, one countermeasure is to link and register the user ID in the groupware 10 and the noun ID in the business card application. In this embodiment, the user ID indicating the user of the business card application is not individually provided, but the login to the groupware 10 is prioritized, and the information of the business card DB is also managed in an integrated manner by the user ID of the groupware 10. It was decided to. Further, as described above, when the agent registers the business card information, the agent information (agent ID) is registered in the business card DB together with the business card ID and the like. With such a configuration, for example, all the data registered by the user in the organization in which the groupware 10 is introduced is registered in the data area 110 of the groupware 10.

For example, assume a situation in which a secretary registers a business card exchanged by the president and at the same time registers a business card acquired by a member of the sales department. At this time, if the persons indicated by the business cards acquired by both parties are the same person, the business card information of the same person, which is registered by the secretary and exchanged by the president, and the information registered by the members of the sales department are mixed. It will be. A countermeasure for such a situation, that is, when the business card is scanned on behalf of the customer and when there are multiple business cards of the same person, will be described later.

When a user acts as a proxy for scanning business cards acquired by multiple other users, multiple business cards are stacked for each acquirer, and a separator that is a scan target other than the business card is sandwiched between two business cards for which the acquirer is different. Other users can be set as business card acquirers. At this time, the business card processing unit 107 detects the separator, presents the business cards before and after the separator in a selectable manner, and associates the user ID of the selected other user with the business card ID. Store in the data area 110. As a result, the user acting on behalf of the scan can set a plurality of other users for various information related to the business card in one scan operation. The recognition information indicating the user ID may be printed on the separator, and the business card processing unit 107 may recognize the recognition information on the separator so that the user ID shown in the recognition information is associated with the business card ID. Further, the business card of another user in the same organization as the user may be used as a separator, or a predetermined business card which is determined to be used as a separator in advance may be used as a separator and arranged before or before or after the business card to be scanned. .. The business card processing unit 107 may recognize the user of the business card used as the separator and associate it with a business card ID other than the separator.

Further, the business card processing unit 107 basically stores all of the scanned image, the business card image, and the business card information in the data area 110 so as to be accessible to all users who use the groupware 10, but at the request of the user. Depending on the business card ID, options including a plurality of public ranges are presented, and users who can access the scanned image, business card image, and business card information associated with the business card ID are restricted based on the selected public range.

As shown in FIG. 6, the business card processing unit 107 extracts a logo, an organization name, a department, a job title, a name, an address, a telephone number, an e-mail address, and a handwritten memo as extraction elements from the surface image of the business card image. Here, "name" indicates the name of a person. The "organization name" indicates the name of the organization to which the person indicated by the name (hereinafter referred to as the person) belongs. "Logo" is a design representation of an organization represented by an organization name and includes at least one of a logotype or logo mark. "Department" indicates the department to which a person belongs in the organization. "Title" indicates the title of a person in an organization. "Address" indicates the location of the organization. "Telephone number" indicates the contact information of the organization or department. The "email address" indicates an e-mail address as a person's contact information. A "handwritten memo" is originally not printed on a business card, but indicates a memorandum written by hand by the person who obtained the business card.

Of these extracted elements, the organization name, affiliation, job title, name, address, telephone number, and email address are extracted as text data by OCR, and the logo and handwritten memo are extracted as image data. Further, the business card processing unit 107 also extracts text data and image data in the back image of the business card image, and the extraction element (text extraction element) extracted as text data in the back image is the text extraction element in the front image. When it is written in another language, the text extraction element of the front image and the text extraction element of the back image are associated with each other based on the correspondence of the arrangement positions. In the business card processing unit 107, the text extraction element on one side contains ideographic characters whose phonetic sounds are not uniform like Japanese Kanji, and the text extraction element on the other side has one phonetic sound like English. If it contains a street phonetic character, it will automatically generate a phonetic for the ideographic character based on the corresponding text extraction element.

When the business card processing unit 107 extracts the business card information, the business card processing unit 107 extracts the business card information that is already stored when the organization name, name, and e-mail address are all the same and other information is different. The business card information is updated by associating the business card information with the business card ID. Here, the operation of the person determination process will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the person determination process. In FIG. 5, it is assumed that the surface image has been acquired.

As shown in FIG. 5, first, the business card processing unit 107 extracts business card information from the surface image of the business card image (S101), and the business card whose organization name and name are extracted from the business card information already registered in the business card DB. It is determined whether or not there is business card information that is the same as the organization name and the name included in the information (S102).

When there is business card information having the same organization name and name (S102, YES), the business card processing unit 107 uses the business card information in which the e-mail address included in the extracted business card information has the same organization name and name in the business card DB. It is determined whether or not the e-mail address is the same as the included e-mail address (S103).

When the e-mail addresses are the same (S103, YES), the business card processing unit 107 extracts the business card information in the business card DB when there is a difference between the extracted business card information and the business card information having the same e-mail address in the business card DB. Update to business card information (S104).

On the other hand, when the e-mail addresses are not the same (S103, NO), the business card processing unit 107 adds a new business card ID to the extracted business card information and newly registers it in the business card DB (S105).

Further, in step S102, when there is no business card information having the same organization name and name (S102, NO), the business card processing unit 107 adds a new business card ID to the extracted business card information and newly adds a new business card ID to the business card DB. Register (S105).

In this way, by determining whether or not a person with the same organization and the same name is the same person as the person shown in the extracted business card information using the e-mail address, there are a plurality of people with the same name in the same organization. Can respond to the situation. When a new business card ID is newly registered in the business card DB by the business card processing unit 107, the message processing unit 106 sends the message processing unit 106 to the e-mail address included in the business card information associated with the newly registered business card ID. On the other hand, the user may be presented with a choice as to whether or not to send an e-mail inviting participation in the chat room realized by the chat function.

A scan log DB in which scan log information is registered is stored in the data area 110, and in the scan log information, a user ID, a business card ID, and a user whose user ID indicates a scan of the business card shown in the business card ID. It is associated with the date and time (scan date and time) made by. The business card processing unit 107 registers scan log information including the corresponding user ID and business card ID in the scan log DB each time the business card information is newly registered or the business card information is updated. It is preferable that the above update is basically updated when the scan date and time is newer. However, since the acquisition date and the scan date of the business card itself may be different, the user may be asked to reconfirm when updating.

The logo in the business card information is used to classify the business card information. The business card processing unit 107 includes a logo (new logo) included in the business card information associated with the newly registered business card ID and a logo (existing logo) included in the business card information associated with the already registered business card ID. Calculate the degree of similarity with. When the similarity is less than a predetermined threshold, the business card processing unit 107 attaches a logo ID, which is identification information uniquely indicating the logo, to the new logo, while when the similarity is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold, the business card processing is performed. Section 107 attaches a logo ID attached to the existing logo to the new logo. This makes it possible to search the business card DB by the logo ID, and for example, the user can find a company that has a completely different company name but belongs to the same group.

The handwritten memo in the business card information is used as attribute information about the person shown in the business card information. Further, by recognizing a handwritten memo of a predetermined type according to the shape, color, etc., the processing by the business card processing unit 107 for the business card information including the handwritten memo is made different according to the type of the handwritten memo. Is also good.

(Recommended for ordering business cards)
The recommendation for ordering business cards will be explained.

As described above, since the user ID and the business card ID are associated with each other in the scan log information, it is possible to grasp the number of times the user exchanged the business card indicated by the user ID, and from this number of times, the user has passed his / her own. You can roughly grasp the number of business cards. Therefore, the business card processing unit 107 subtracts the number of business cards exchanged by the user based on the scan log information associated with the user, that is, the number of business cards held by the user preset by the number of business cards passed by the user, and the subtraction result. Is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the client device 6 used by the user presents a message recommending that the user's business card be ordered. As a result, it is possible to prevent the remaining number of business cards of the user from becoming zero.

(Automatic response to visiting guests)
We will explain the function that automatically responds based on the scanning of business cards when a guest visiting a business facility enters the office area from the reception area. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the visit response process.

As shown in FIG. 6, first, the business card processing unit 107 determines whether or not the business card has been scanned by the scanner 7b (see FIG. 1) installed in the office area (S201).

When the business card is scanned by the scanner 7b (S201, YES), the business card processing unit 107 extracts the business card information from the scanned business card image (S202), and the extracted business card information is combined with the business card information registered in the business card DB. It is determined whether or not they match (S203).

When the extracted business card information matches (S203, YES), the business card processing unit 107 includes the name included in the extracted business card information as a participant of a meeting, an event, or the like in the schedule information managed by the schedule management unit 102. Whether or not it is determined (S204).

When the name included in the extracted business card information is included as a participant in the schedule information (S204, YES), the business card processing unit 107 is scheduled to include the name included in the extracted business card information as a participant. It is determined whether or not it is within a predetermined time range including (S205).

When the scheduled date and time is within the predetermined time range (S205, YES), the business card processing unit 107 sends a QR code (registered trademark) as an introductory certificate to the printer 8 installed in the reception area via the printer control unit 50. ) Is printed (S206). The passage gate 9 opens the passage gate 9 so that guests can enter the office area from the reception area by reading the introductory certificate by the built-in reading unit.

After printing the introductory certificate, the notification processing unit 104 notifies that the guest has visited in the client device 6 in which the user registered as a participant of the conference or event in which the visiting guest participates logs in.

On the other hand, when the scheduled date and time is not within the predetermined time range (S205, NO), the business card processing unit 107 ends the visit response process without opening the passage gate 9.

Further, in step S204, when the name included in the extracted business card information is not included as a participant in the schedule information (S204, NO), the business card processing unit 107 can perform the visit response process without opening the passage gate 9. finish.

Further, in step S203, if the extracted business card information does not match (S203, NO), the business card processing unit 107 ends the visit response process without opening the passage gate 9. Here, the business card processing unit 107 may provide the guest with a response by telephone.

In this way, by issuing an introductory certificate for opening and closing the passage gate 9 by collating the business card, it is possible to automate the response of the guest who visits the business facility.

If the business facility is not only a business card but also a facility that requires you to bring another ID such as a driver's license, such as a government office facility, you may use a driver's license instead of the business card. In addition, at the same time as scanning the business card by the scanner 7b in the reception area, the guest's face photo is taken by the camera 71 provided in the scanner 7b, and this face photo image is managed in association with the business card ID, so that the guest visits from the next time onward. In the above, an introductory certificate may be issued by face recognition.

Further, a lamp may be installed at the entrance of a room where an event such as a meeting is held in the business facility, and the lamp may be turned on after passing through the passage gate 9. Further, such collation using a business card may be used not only for opening and closing the gate 6, but also for authentication when using a room or equipment in a shared facility such as a shared office.

(Display of personal connection information)
The display of personal connection information based on the business card DB will be described. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a correlation diagram based on the business card DB.

The personal connection processing unit 108 causes the client device 6 to display the search result in response to the search request of the business card DB from the client device 6. When a character string indicating the organization name, name, etc. included in the business card information is used as the search condition in this search request, the personal network processing unit 108 uses the business card ID included in the business card information corresponding to the search condition in the business card DB. Is acquired, the scan log information including the business card ID acquired from the scan log information in the scan log DB is selected, and the information associated with the user ID included in the selected scan log information and the scan date and time is used as the search result for the client. Displayed on the device 6. As a result, it becomes possible to grasp the user who digitized the business card and the date and time when the digitization was performed.

Further, the personal connection processing unit 108 uses the business card information registered in the business card DB to show the connections between the user of the groupware 10 and the person indicated by the business card information as a correlation diagram as shown in FIG. Display on 6. In this correlation diagram, each person is shown as a node, and the connections between each person are shown as edges. In FIG. 6, users A to C of the groupware 10 including the selected user described later and customers A to C who are persons indicated by the business card information registered in the business card DB are shown as nodes, and the user and the customer The connection is shown as an edge. Here, the connection indicates the correspondence between the user ID and the business card ID, and specifically, indicates that the user has acquired the customer's business card, that is, the user has met with the customer. The correlation diagram of FIG. 6 is for the case where the user A is used as the search condition, but the correlation diagram may be displayed with a predetermined organization as the search condition. In this case, for all users of the organization that uses the groupware 10, the personal connections with the organization used as the search condition are visualized.

A node has a predetermined shape, and the type of the node is indicated by its color. The types of nodes are broadly classified into, for example, users and customers of groupware 10, and users include selected users and other users, and customers are displayed in different colors for each organization to which they belong. Among the users of the groupware 10, the personal connection processing unit 108 sets a predetermined user selected by the client device 6 as the selected user, and shows a person who is directly or indirectly connected to the selected user by a correlation diagram. Here, the persons who are directly connected are the customers A to C, and the persons who are indirectly connected are the other users B and C who are connected to the customers A to C.

Edges are displayed as lines connecting nodes, and their thickness indicates the strength of the connection. Here, the strength of the connection is calculated as a value based on the number of acquisitions of the business card, the scan date and time of the business card, etc., and the larger the number of acquisitions and the newer the scan date and time, the larger the value, that is, the stronger connection is calculated. Is good.

Further, the personal connection processing unit 108 acquires the organization name and the name appearing in the activity log in the groupware 10 in response to the heat map display request by the client device 6, and quantifies the activity value with these as axes. It is calculated, and a heat map based on this activity value is generated and displayed on the client device 6. In addition, the personal connection processing unit 108 is associated with the user ID related to the selected user ID, that is, the user ID selected in the activity log, in response to the heat map display request in which the predetermined user ID is selected. The activity values for each external person and organization are calculated, and based on these activity values, a heat map for the user and the entire organization to which the user belongs is generated and displayed on the client device 6.

Here, the activity log is various data stored in the data area 110, and specifically, various events such as meetings, business trips, and guest visits included in the schedule information managed by the schedule management unit 102. Schedule, minutes information managed by the minutes processing unit 105, mail on the mail server 30, message logs related to chats and bulletin boards managed by the message processing unit 106, and document information managed by the document management unit 103. In addition, the activity value indicates a numerical value of the degree of communication with an external person or organization.

In addition, the network processing unit 108 recommends a person who has a strong network for a predetermined organization, industry, or field selected by the user. Here, a person having a strong personal connection means a person having a relatively large total strength of direct or indirect connection to all persons belonging to the selected conditions (organization, industry, field). When classifying an industry or field, the business card information includes the organization classification as meta information indicating the industry or field to which the organization belongs. In this tissue classification, for example, when the tissue extracted from the business card does not exist in the business card information registered in the business card DB, the business card processing unit 107 prompts the user to input or select the tissue classification in the client device 6. Is added by. As an algorithm for selecting a person having a strong personal connection, any known recommendation algorithm may be used.

Further, by linking the various functions of the personal connection processing unit 108 described above with the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system and the SFA (Sales Force Automation) system, it is possible to confirm whether or not there is any bias in the activity. As an example of cooperation with such other systems, presentation of correction items in accounting information managed in the ERP system using the latest business card information, activity values related to users in charge of sales, and sales managed in the SFA system. Analysis of the relationship with grade information can be mentioned.

In addition, the personal network processing unit 108 uses a known method such as web scraping to search a web page containing information about an organization appearing in an activity log or an article on an SNS (Social Networking Service), and its URL (Uniform). The Resource Locator) may be displayed on the client device 6. Here, examples of the information displayed include negative information such as bankruptcy, deterioration of business performance, and decline in stock prices, and positive information such as announcement of new products, popularity information, improvement of profits, and rise in stock prices.

(Estimation of the same organization)
Explain the estimation of the same organization corresponding to the change of the organization name due to the change of the organization name and the consolidation and abolition of the organization.

The name of an organization, such as the name of a company, may be changed in response to changes in capital relationships, consolidation, etc. in the group to which the organization belongs, or for the purpose of improving awareness and image. In response to such a change in the organization name, the business card processing unit 107 has the same organization before the name change and the organization after the name change based on the business card information registered in the business card DB. It may be estimated that it is an organization of.

In addition, based on this estimation, when searching the minutes information managed by the document management unit 103, the minutes including the organization name before the change are searched by searching by the changed organization name, and the minutes are also searched. By selecting the organization name before the change in, the transition of the organization name may be displayed.

<Second embodiment>
By the way, in a web conferencing system that uses a camera, a microphone, and a display to hold a conference with a remote location, for example, in a conventional web conferencing system, unless each participant in the remote location is logged in to the web conferencing system. It is not possible to distinguish between individual participants. The information management system having a web conferencing function according to the present embodiment distinguishes individual participants by using a business card without logging in. FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing the configuration of the information management system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the minutes processing unit according to the present embodiment. Note that, in FIG. 8, the client device, the scanners 7a and 7b, and the printer 8 are omitted for the sake of explanation.

The information management system according to the present embodiment includes a server device 1a instead of the server device 1, and further includes a camera 121, a microphone array 122, and a display 123 connected to the server device 1a, and is abbreviated as an information management system. It differs from the first embodiment in that a web conference is held with a remote location having a similar system. The information management system is connected to the remote system by a network.

The camera 121 captures the participant P on the side where the server device 1a is installed (hereinafter, the first base). It is desirable that the camera 121 has a relatively wide angle of view so that all the participants P who participate in the web conference at the first base can be easily included in the imaging region. The microphone array 122 includes at least two or more microphones, and is configured so that the sound source direction can be estimated from the difference in the sounds collected by each of the plurality of microphones. It is assumed that the camera 121 and the microphone array 122 are configured so that their relative positions can be grasped, and in the present embodiment, they are connected to each other so that their relative positions are fixed.

The display 123 displays an image captured by a camera installed on a remote location side (hereinafter, a second base). It is assumed that the participant P in the web conference wears his / her own business card M so that the camera 121 can take an image by, for example, inserting the business card into the card holder on the neck. Further, it is assumed that the business card Ms of all the participants P at least at the first base are scanned in advance and the business card images are registered in the business card DB.

The server device 1a differs from the server device 1 in that the minutes processing unit 105a is provided in place of the minutes processing unit 105 as a function, and as shown in FIG. 8, the minutes processing unit 105a recognizes a business card as a function. It has a unit 1051, a voice recognition unit 1052, and a minutes management unit 1053.

The business card recognition unit 1051 recognizes the position of the participant P's business card M on the captured image based on the image captured by the camera 121, and collates with the business card image registered in the business card DB to perform a business card. Acquires the business card information associated with the business card image that matches M. The voice recognition unit 1052 calculates the sound source direction of the voice collected in the microphone array 122, specifically, the remark of the participant P, and converts it into a character string.

The minutes management unit 1053 was acquired by the business card recognition unit 1051 based on the position of the business card M on the captured image recognized by the business card recognition unit 1051 and the sound source direction of the remark recognized by the voice recognition unit 1052. The minutes are created by associating the business card information with the character string converted by the voice recognition unit 1052, and the minutes information including the minutes is managed.

In this way, by associating the speaker with the business card information using the business card, the speaker in the minutes can be automatically identified.

<Third embodiment>
The information management system according to the present embodiment is different from the second embodiment in that a smartphone is used instead of the camera and the microphone array. FIG. 10 is a schematic view showing the configuration of the information management system according to the present embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 10, the information management system according to the second embodiment is provided with a smartphone 13 corresponding to each of all the participants P in place of the camera 121 and the microphone array 122. different. It is assumed that each of the smartphones 13 is provided with at least a camera 131 and a microphone 132, and an application for realizing a web conference is pre-installed. Further, it is assumed that the server device 1a and each smartphone 13 are communicably connected by a wireless LAN.

Each of the smartphones 13 captures the corresponding participant P and the business card M of the participant P with the camera 131, and collects the remarks of the corresponding participant P with the microphone 132, and the image captured by the camera 131 and the image captured by the camera 131. The sound collected by the microphone 1312 is associated with the sound and transmitted to the server device 1a.

The business card recognition unit 1051 recognizes the position of the participant P's business card M on the captured image based on the image captured by the camera 132, and collates it with the business card image registered in the business card DB to perform a business card. Acquires the business card information associated with the business card image that matches M. The voice recognition unit 1052 converts the voice collected by the microphone 132, specifically, the remark of the participant P into a character string.

The minutes management unit 1053 records the minutes in which the business card information acquired by the business card recognition unit 1051 based on the image and the character string converted by the voice recognition unit 1052 based on the voice corresponding to the image are associated with each other. Create and manage the minutes information including this minutes.

In this way, by using the smartphone 13, it is possible to realize a web conferencing system that identifies the speaker by the business card M without using the camera 121 and the microphone array 122. Instead of the microphone 132 of the smartphone 13, a microphone 14 having a relatively high directivity, that is, a relatively narrow sound collecting range may be connected to the smartphone 13.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other embodiments, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are also included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

1 Server device (information management device)
6 Client device 7a Scanner device 101 Authentication processing unit 107 Business card processing unit 108 Personal connection processing unit

Claims (5)

An information management device that can be connected to a client device and a scanner device.
An authentication processing unit that authenticates a user of the client device in response to an authentication request by the client device,
In response to the instruction of the authenticated user, a business card image obtained by imaging a business card by the scanner device is acquired, and based on the business card image, business card information including a character string on the business card image is extracted, and the authenticated user or An information management device including a user ID that uniquely indicates another user and a business card processing unit that manages the business card information in association with each other. The information management device according to claim 1, wherein the other user is a user designated by the authenticated user. The business card processing unit manages the user ID uniquely indicating the authenticated user or another user and the acquisition history of the business card image in association with each other as log information, and possesses the log information and the preset authentication user. The information management device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a message recommending the ordering of business cards of the authenticated user is presented to the authenticated user based on the number of business cards. A personal network display unit for displaying the user ID and the person indicated by the business card information associated with the user ID as a node connected by an edge to the Klein and the device is further provided.
The information management device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the thickness of the edge is based on the number of acquisitions of the business card of the person indicated by the user ID. An information management program that runs on a computer that can connect to a client device and a scanner device.
The computer
An authentication processing unit that authenticates a user of the client device in response to an authentication request by the client device,
In response to the instruction of the authenticated user, the scanner device acquires a business card image in which the business card is imaged, and based on the business card image, the business card information including the character string on the business card image is extracted, and the authenticated user or An information management program that functions as a business card processing unit that manages a user ID that uniquely indicates another user and the business card information in association with each other.

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