JPS61281368A - Picture information retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten time for retrieving by combining a character index and a number index with several kinds of directories and separating a storage device into a picture information storage device and a control information storage device. CONSTITUTION:In the case of retrieving by registration numbers, the number of a registered person is obtained from picture ID number from a number index corresponding to registration number inputted from a keyboard 2 and the position of current directory calculated by information of a header. When this coincides with inputted number of registered person, block number of individual directory that indicates storing position of picture information is received from the current directory and recorded. When only control information is to be referred, control information of the current directory in a control information storage device 5 is displayed on a CRT display unit 1. When it is desired to see picture information, picture information in a picture information storage device 4 is retrieved from stored block number and displayed.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to an image information retrieval device.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional image information retrieval devices, management information such as titles and registration numbers and image information are stored in the same device.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the conventional image information retrieval device described above, management information such as titles and image information are stored in the same device.
In order to find certain data, even if the desired data is one piece of management information, it is necessary to search through all image information and management information, and since image information is a huge amount of information, The drawback is that the search speed is slow.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention aims to shorten search time by combining a character index and a number index with several types of directories, and by separating the storage device into an image information storage device and a management information storage device.

That is, the image information retrieval device of the present invention includes one or more image information storage devices that store a directory consisting of at least an image ID number and an image data, and at least an image information storage device ID number and the image information storage device. a header containing the block number of the final directory stored and the number of directories in the final block; a character index containing a part of the registered joint name and the image ID number; a number index containing a part of the registrant number and the image ID number; A management information storage device storing image management information consisting of a current directory including at least a registered joint name, a registrant number, an image ID number, and an individual directory block number.

Keyboard, CRT display device, In the case of a search by registered joint name or registrant number, the image ID number is received from the character or number index corresponding to the registered joint name or registration number entered from the keyboard, and the image ID number and Calculates the location of the current directory where the information of the image ID number is stored from the header information, receives the registered joint name or registrant number from the calculated current directory, and compares it with the registered joint name or registrant number entered. If they match, receive and store the block number of the individual directory indicating the storage location of the image information in the image information storage device from the current directory.If you want to refer only to the management information, the block number is stored in the current directory next time. management information is displayed on the CRT display device, and when the above matching does not match, the process advances to the next image ID number and the above process is repeated for all image rD numbers, and if you want to see more image information, press the keyboard. The image information in the image information storage device is searched based on the block number of the stored individual directory corresponding to the image ID number input from , and displayed on the CRT display device. The main control device receives the block number of the individual directory from the image ID number and header information input from the image information storage device in the same manner as in the above case, searches for image information in the image information storage device, and displays it on the CRT display device. .

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an image information retrieval device according to the present invention.

The image information retrieval device of this embodiment includes a CRT display device 1, a keyboard 2, a main control device 3, and an image information storage device (
The management information storage device (magnetic disk device) 5 comprises an optical disk device) 4 and a management information storage device (magnetic disk device) 5.

The image information storage device 4 stores a directory (image information) consisting of an image ID number, image data, image quality conditions, and image size, as shown in the format shown in FIG.

The management information storage device 5 stores a header section, a character index, a number index, and a current directory, as shown in the format shown in FIG. The header contains the optical disk ID as shown in the format shown in Figure 4.
It includes the number, sub ID number, block number of the final directory, and number of directories in the final block. In addition,
The combination of optical directory rD number and sub ID number is an image! The 0 character index and number index equal to the D number contain the initial letter of the registrant's name and the image ID number, as shown in the respective formats in Figures 5 and 6.
It includes the last two digits of the registrant number and the image ID number.

As shown in the format of FIG. 7, the current directory includes a registrant name, registrant number, image ID number, individual directory block number, registration date, image size, and comment for the image.

The main control device 3 searches the management information storage device 5 and the image information storage device 4 using the search specification items (image ID number, registrant name, registrant number) entered from the keyboard 2 and retrieves the stored information. Necessary information is extracted and displayed on the CRT display device 1.

Next, the image information search operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, enter the search specification item from keyboard 2 (process 1
1) The input search specification item is determined by the main control device 3 (process 12), and the main control device 3 subsequently performs processing according to the input search specification item.

First, the case where the search specification item is the registrant number will be explained.

Match the last two digits of the input registrant number with the number index and receive one image ID number (process 13n) From the header information and the received image ID number, determine which image information of the image ID number is in the current directory. (Processing ID゜ Receive all digits of the registrant number from the calculated current directory position and check it against the input registrant number. Process 15n), if they do not match, jump to process 19n to repeat the same process for the next image ID number of the number index;
Process if it matches! Step 7 (process 16n) receives the block number of the individual directory indicating the image information storage location in the image information storage device 4 from the current directory and stores it (process 17).Next, the registrant name is received from the current directory. , registrant number.

The image I[1 number, registration date, image size, and comment on the image are received and displayed on the CRT display device (processing 18), and it is checked whether all image ID numbers have been verified (processing 18n). If “NO”, the process returns to step 15n; if “Yes”, the management information for all images with the input registrant number is
This will be displayed on the RT display device 1.

If you only want to refer to the management information, the search ends with the processing up to this point. In other words, there is no need to access the image information storage device 4 at all.

If you want to actually see the image, use the CRT display device 1.
Select and input one of the image ID numbers displayed above (process 20n) a. Then, the following process is performed in the management information storage device 5 and the image information storage device 4: C
This is followed by the display of management information on the RT display device l. Based on the block number of the individual directory corresponding to the input image ID number, the image information in the image information storage device 4 is searched for (process 21) and displayed on the CR display device l (process 22); The directory block number is the management information display! This is stored when the registrant number input in step 5 matches the registrant number in the current directory.

If a registrant name is entered, a character index is used. In this case, the number index is the last two numbers of the registrant number.
The subsequent process is the same as the search by registrant No. 1 (processing 13th place, 14th, 15th shift, 16th place, 17th).
,18. till place, 20. , 21°22).

When an image ID number is input, the process starts with calculating the storage location in the current directory from the input image ID number without using an index and the header information (process 17), and from then on, the registrant number is used. and the same as for the search by registrant group (Process 1B, 21.22
).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention has the effect of allowing high-speed searching by combining a character index and a number index with several types of directories, and by separating the storage device into an image information storage device and a management information storage device. There is.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the image information retrieval device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the process flow of image information retrieval, and FIG. 3 is a management information directory format in the management information storage device 5. Figure 4 shows the format of the header in the management information directory, Figure 5 shows the format of the character index in the management information directory, Figure 6 shows the format of the number index in the management information directory, and Figure 7 shows the format of the number index in the management information directory. The format of the current directory, Figure 8 is the image information storage device 4
Shows the directory format within. ■...CRT display device, 2...Keyboard. 3... Main control device, 4... Image information storage device, 5... Management information storage device. Figure 1 Figure 4 Figure 8

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] One or more image information storage devices that store a directory consisting of at least an image ID number and image data, and at least an image information storage device ID number and a block of the final directory stored in the image information storage device. a header containing a number and the number of directories in the final block; a character index containing a part of the registrant name and an image ID number;
a management information storage device storing image management information consisting of a number index including a part of a registrant number and an image ID number, and a current directory including at least a registrant name, a registrant number, an image ID number, and an individual directory block number; , a keyboard, a CRT display device, and in the case of a search by registrant name or registrant number, receives an image ID number from a character or number index corresponding to the registrant number, and determines the image ID from the image ID number and header information. When the location of the current directory where the number information is stored is calculated, the registrant name or registrant number is received from the calculated current directory, and when these are compared with the input registrant name or registrant number and a match is found. receives and stores the block number of the individual directory indicating the storage location of image information in the image information storage device from the current directory, and if you want to refer only to the management information, CR the management information stored in the current directory.
T display device, and if the above comparison does not match, proceed to the next image ID number and repeat the above process for all image ID numbers, and if you want to see more image information, the image input from the keyboard The image information in the image information storage device is searched based on the block number of the stored individual directory corresponding to the ID number and displayed on the CRT display device, and in the case of a search based on the image ID number, the image information input from the keyboard is searched. An image information retrieval device having a main control device that receives a block number of an individual directory from ID number and header information in the same manner as in the above case, searches for image information in an image information storage device, and displays the searched image information on a CRT display device.