JPH05342282A - Image information retrieval device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the picture information retrieval device capable of smooth picture information retrieval from the human engineering point of view and improving business processing efficiency of picture storage and retrieval. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a picture information storage part 2 for storing the picture information of plural pictures, a picture information storage part 15 for display for storing the desired picture information retrieved from the picture information storage part 2, a retrieval display control part 11 for performing the control for reading the picture information to the picture information storage part 15 for display by each page at a prescribed page interval to be successively displayed and a form feed number variable signal input part 13 for variably setting the page interval.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information retrieving apparatus capable of facilitating retrieval of an image apparatus and improving office work efficiency.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, image information storage / retrieval systems for the purpose of rationalizing office work have been drawing attention and variously developed. This type of system is used for filing information such as documents and drawings as image information, retrieving and duplicating it as needed, and using it for business processing. FIG. 2 shows the basic structure of the image input section 1. For example, various image information captured and input by the image input section 1 is stored in a storage section 2 including a microfilm, a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk and the like together with its search number. And store it in a hard copy in a duplication section 3 such as a printer for output, or a CRT.
The image is displayed on the image display unit 4 such as a display.

The system control unit 5 has the input unit 1 according to a control command input from a console unit 8 having a search information input unit 6 and a system sequence control mode setting unit 7.
It controls a series of operations of the storage unit 2 and the storage unit 2. The control mode is variously set according to the specifications required for the system.

In such an apparatus system, it is needless to say that its usefulness is greatly influenced by the performance and reliability of the hardware constituting each section.
Ease of handling, including search methods, is more important than ever for evaluation.

[0005]

However, in the prior art, the function of outputting the image information of the designated and input search address, or outputting the plurality of image information matching the input search information Most of them were equipped with, and they were not always ergonomically excellent in handleability. In order to sufficiently enhance this handling property, it is necessary to optimize the software for film management and the probability of a search method that focuses on ergonomic search, and various improvements have been attempted. Is the reality.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to perform smooth image information retrieval from an ergonomic point of view and to improve the work processing efficiency of image storage retrieval. An object is to provide a highly practical image information search device that can be measured.

[0007]

An image information retrieval apparatus of the present invention includes a first accumulating means for accumulating image information of a plurality of images, and image information of a plurality of desired images selectively from the first accumulating means. Searching means, a second storing means for storing the image information searched by the searching means, and the image information stored in the second storing means is read page by page at predetermined page intervals and sequentially. Display control means for performing display control and page spacing variable setting means for variably setting the page spacing are provided.

[0008]

According to the present invention, the page interval for displaying image information can be arbitrarily set by the page interval variable setting means. Therefore, for example, at first, several pages are turned, and when the required page is approached, the page is shifted by one page. It is possible to perform a search such as turning a page, and it is possible to greatly improve the handleability.

Since the first storage means is a large-capacity storage device using a microfilm, a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk, etc., as described above, the access speed is slow, and especially the page is separated from the image information read immediately before. It takes a relatively long time to read the existing image information. On the other hand, the second storage means for temporarily storing the image information of the plurality of images retrieved from the first storage means only needs to store the retrieved image information, and therefore has a small capacity and a slow access speed. A storage device is sufficient. According to the present invention, since the image information is read from the second storage means at the page intervals variably set by the page interval variable setting means and sequentially displayed, the image information is read from the first storage means and stored in the second storage means. Compared to the case where the page interval during storage is variable, even if the page interval is large, multiple pieces of image information can be read at high speed, and the time required to finally search for desired image information is shortened. , The handling is further improved.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of the apparatus of the embodiment, in which the same parts as those of the conventional apparatus shown in FIG. Here, the feature is that the display of image information from the image information storage unit 2 is read out by the control of the search display control unit 11. The search / display control unit 11 and the system control unit 5 are the page break speed variable signal input unit 1 newly provided in the console unit 8.
2. It functions to control the form of image display according to the control signal input from the variable page number signal input unit 13.
Further, an image search address storage unit 14 is provided in the control input unit of the image information storage unit 2 so that a plurality of search addresses for searching an image to be displayed for image storage are stored.
The search address stored in the storage unit 14 is sequentially read under the control of the search / display control unit 11 and given to the image information storage unit 2, whereby the search address is stored in the corresponding search address from the storage unit 2. The image information is sequentially read. And
The image information read from the storage unit 2 is temporarily stored in the display image information storage unit 14 and then read out by the display unit 4 under the control of the search / display control unit 11 and displayed as an image. It has become so.

The image search in the apparatus configured as described above is performed as follows, for example. Now, when the search mode is set in the system sequence control mode setting unit 7, the system control unit 5 controls each unit to set the search standby state and waits for the search information input unit 6 to input search information. .. Then, when a keyword for a desired image and information such as filing date and time are input from the input unit 6, the system control unit 5 creates a storage address list of the corresponding image information according to the film management software. , Is written in the image search address storage unit 14 via the search display control unit 11. When the writing of the storage address list is completed, the search display control unit 11 activates the image search address storage unit 14 under the control of the system control unit 5, and sequentially reads the stored storage addresses to store the image information. The addresses of the copy 2 are sequentially designated. As a result, the image information stored in the corresponding address is sequentially read and stored in the display image information storage section 15.

The image information temporarily stored in the display image information storage unit 15 in this way is displayed on the display unit 4 by the search display control unit 11 in accordance with a signal for controlling the display form from the page number variable signal input unit 13 as follows. Is read out and displayed as an image.

The page break speed variable signal input unit 12 is a variable speed for setting the display speed of the image on the image display unit 4 (the reciprocal of the image display time per page), that is, the page break speed during image display. A page speed variable signal is input.

A variable page number variable signal input unit 13 which is a variable page interval setting unit variably sets the page interval at which an image is displayed on the image display unit 4, in other words, the number of page breaks when turning pages. The image search address storage unit 1
A signal for variably setting the address extraction degree (interval of the extracted addresses) from the stored address list written in 4.
That is, the number of page breaks when the information of the storage address of the image information of each page is extracted from the storage address list (after the storage address of the image information of a certain page is extracted, the next page of the storage address of the image information of the next page. A value indicating whether or not to extract) is input.

The search / display control unit 11 sequentially supplies information of a plurality of storage addresses determined by the number of page breaks indicated by the number of page breaks signal input from the variable page number signal input unit 13 from the image search address storage unit 14. The extracted image information is given to the display image information storage unit 15 for addressing, so that the image information stored in these storage addresses is sequentially read from the display image information storage unit 15 and supplied to the image display unit 4. .. As a result, all the images accumulated in the display image information accumulating section 15 are sequentially displayed, or every other page designated by the page break number variable signal input section 13 such as every one sheet or every two sheets. Displayed in.

At this time, the search / display control unit 11 also inputs from the page feed speed variable signal input unit 12 a time interval for addressing the display image information storage unit 15, that is, a time interval for reading the display image information. The control is performed according to the page break speed displayed by the generated page break speed variable signal.

Thus, by controlling the search and display mode as described above, a search mode, such as a material file, a miscellaneous file, or a dictionary file, is set according to the operator's search intention, and an ergonomic search can be performed. Specifically, a list of the pages (image addresses) in which the desired image information exists is created with a rough estimate, and the desired image information is searched by an appropriate page turning operation according to the list. It will be. For example, an image is displayed every few pages, and in the vicinity of the address of the desired image information, page turning is performed page by page to reliably search for the desired image information. In this case, the page turning speed may be variably set as described above. Therefore, it is possible to quickly and efficiently perform an image search by changing the form of the search display from the confirmation of the display image, and it is possible to significantly improve the efficiency of the office processing. In addition, as described above, it is easy to handle and excellent in controllability, so that it is highly practical. Therefore, it can be widely applied to various image information retrieval. In addition, since the image information retrieved according to the list is temporarily stored in the display storage unit 15 and then displayed as an image, when the storage unit 2 is a magnetic tape, etc.
Even if it takes a long time to read the image, it does not hinder the image display. Further, after the desired image is displayed by searching for an image in this manner and then a hard copy of the desired image may be made, extremely economical use becomes possible.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the information from the variable signal input units 12 and 13 may be provided via the system control unit 5 instead of being provided directly to the search / display control unit 11. Further, the input means of these control information may be configured to be given by the operation of a switch, a variable resistor or the like, and can be variously modified according to the specifications. In short, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, the display form of the search image information can be variably set so that the image information search can be performed quickly and smoothly by the ergonomic handling operation. , The office processing efficiency can be greatly improved.

Further, in the present invention, the image information of the desired plural images retrieved from the first accumulating means is accumulated in the second accumulating means, and is variably set by the page interval variable setting means from the second accumulating means. Since the image information is read out at page intervals and sequentially displayed, the image information is read out from the first storage means and the second information is read out.
In comparison with the case where the page interval when storing in the storage means is changed, a plurality of image information can be read out at high speed even when the page interval is large, and it is necessary to finally search for desired image information. The time is shortened and the handleability is further improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a basic configuration diagram showing an example of a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image input part, 2 ... Image information storage part, 3 ... Image information duplication part, 4 ... Image display part, 5 ... System control part, 6 ... Search information input part, 7 ... System sequence control mode setting part, 8 ... Console part, 11 ... Search display control part, 12 ...
Page break speed variable signal input unit, 13 ... Page break number variable signal input unit, 14 ... Image search address storage unit, 15 ... Display image information storage unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first accumulating means for accumulating image information of a plurality of images, a searching means for selectively retrieving desired image information of a plurality of images from the first accumulating means, and a search means for searching by the searching means. The second to store the image information
Storage means, display control means for controlling the image information stored in the second storage means to be read page by page at predetermined page intervals and sequentially displayed, and page intervals for variably setting the page intervals. An image information retrieving apparatus comprising a variable setting means.