JPH022289A - electronic file system - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an electronic file system that includes an image data file and has a facsimile communication function.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in an electronic file system capable of facsimile communication, image data to be sent to a facsimile is searched for from an image data file stored in the electronic file system, and the image data is simply sent to the other party's facsimile in sequence. Ta.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, there are few cases where only the searched image data is sent to a facsimile as in the conventional example described above, and some image information is often added to the search results. For example, when sending an image by facsimile, you may want to add various notes to the first page as a transmission slip, or you may want to add annotations to intermediate pages. , it was necessary to make edits such as creating a new image for the annotation or inserting text into a specific page of search results.

The present invention was made to solve the above problems, and
An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic file system that adds image information to an arbitrary position of image data retrieved from an image data file and transmits the resultant image data.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the electronic file system of the present invention has the following configuration. That is, the electronic file system includes an image data file and has a facsimile communication function, and includes an image input means for inputting image information, a search means for searching for desired image data from within the image data file, and the search means. a storage means for adding and storing the image information input from the image input means at an arbitrary position of the image data retrieved by the image data; and a transmission means for transmitting the image data stored by the storage means to the other party's facsimile machine. .

[Operation] The above configuration operates to search for image data within an image data file, and to send image data to the other party's facsimile machine with image information added to an arbitrary position of the searched image data.

[Embodiment 1] Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Description of Configuration (Figure 1)] Figure 1 shows the four components of the electronic file system in this embodiment.
1 is a block diagram showing 13 components, 1 is a display unit (CRT) which is a high resolution CRT display, 2 is a CR
Video RAM (VRAM), which displays images on TI, 3
4 is a pit manipulation unit (BMU) that performs bit manipulation of image data, and 4 is a printing device 6 (printer).
and the interface (R,
PI/F), 5 is a reader, 6 is a printer, 7 is an optical disk device 8 interface (ODI/F), 8 is an optical disk device, 9 is a CPU that performs main control of the system, 10 is a processing procedure of the CPU 9, which will be described later. 11 is an image memory (IMEM), and 12 is a general communication interface (GCI/F) for communicating with the outside.
), 13 indicates an adapter for connecting data from the communication board to the telephone network 16. 14 is a companding circuit (MMR/RL) that compresses and expands image data; 15 is an I
10 is a telephone network, 16 is a telephone network, 17 is a facsimile, 18 is a hard disk, 19 is a keyboard (KB) for inputting data such as operation commands, and 20 is a pointing device (PD) for indicating coordinates on the CRTI. be.

[Description of Data Processing (FIG. 2)] Next, image data processing in this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG.

As shown in the figure, in this embodiment, the image data 30 read by the reader 5 is transferred to the IMEMII if the deterioration of the image quality is within a reference value. However, if the reference value is exceeded, a message is written to the VRAM 2 so as to be read again, and a message to that effect is displayed on the CRTI. Further, the image data 32 stored in the optical disk 8 (image data file) is searched based on the index information input from the KB 19 and read out using 001/F7. However, since the image data 32 is compressed data, it is transferred to the IMEMII after being decompressed by the MMR/RL 14. Next, IMEMI
The image data 30 transferred to the facsimile 17
Data is thinned out by 8MU3 in order to match the resolution (8 pels) of the transmitted image to be sent to
It is expanded to a free area in MEMII. Next, the edited image data 31 is converted into encoded data for facsimile transmission. This conversion requires the above-mentioned MMR/RL14
performs encoding using the MH method, and temporarily stores the compressed encoded data in the hard disk 18. All image data stored in the hard disk 18 is then
12 to the other party's facsimile 1 via the adapter 13.
7.

[Description of Operation (FIG. 3)] Next, the operation from image data search to facsimile transmission in this embodiment will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S10, index information of the image data is input from the KB 19 by an operator's operation.Next, image data in the image data file is searched based on the input index information.

Then, the retrieved image data to be displayed on the CRTI is written into the VRAM and transferred to the IMEMll. Then, in step S12, whether or not there is an image to be attached is displayed on the CRTI, and as a result, if "no" is input as the image to be attached from the KB 19, the process advances to step S16. On the other hand, if "Yes" is input, in step S14,
Step Input from KB19 whether to attach the image data searched by SIO at the beginning or end, and depending on the input result, select the image to be attached to the specified location in the above-mentioned reader 5.
Load more. Next, in step S16, the BMU
3, the image data in IMEMII is thinned out. When the thinning in 8MU3 is completed, the encoding of the thinned image data is performed in step S1B using MMR/RL.
14 will do it.

Then, in step S20, the encoded image data is temporarily stored in the hard disk 18. Next, in step S22, whether or not to continue searching for image data is written in the VRAM 2. If the search is to be continued (displayed on the CRTIC), the process returns to step 510. On the other hand, if the process ends, all image data stored in the hard disk 18 is transmitted to the other party's facsimile machine in step S24, and the operation ends.

In this embodiment, a reader is used as an input means, but
The attached image information may be read using a microfilm scanner.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, image information can be added to any position of image data in an image data file and transmitted to a destination facsimile by a simple operation.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic file system that is an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram explaining data processing of image data in this embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment. It is. In the figure, 1...CRT, 2...VRAM, 3...B
MU, 4...R, PI/F, 5...Reader, 6...
・Printer, 7...ODI/F, 8...Light disk, 9...CPU, 10...ROM, 11...I
MEM, 12...GCI/F, 13...Adapter, 14...MMR/RL115...I10 bus, 1
6...Telephone network, 17...Facsimile, 18...
Hard disk, 19...KB120...PD. Patent applicant Canon Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An electronic file system comprising an image data file and having a facsimile communication function, comprising an image input means for inputting image information, a search means for searching for desired image data from within the image data file, and a search from the search means. The present invention is characterized by comprising a storage means for adding and storing image information input from the image input means at an arbitrary position of the image data, and a transmission means for transmitting the image data stored by the storage means to a destination facsimile machine. Electronic file system.