JPH0455270A - Copy treating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operation efficiency extensively by providing a copy housing, a data reading stage, a confirming stage, a turnover member to turn over the front side and the rear side of a copy, and a conveying means, in a picture image process device to record the data of substance to be copied to a medium such as a microfilm. CONSTITUTION:A copy 11 is conveyed to a confirming stage 22 from a copy housing 21 by a conveyer 25. When the copy reaches a specific position on a confirming stage 22, the feeding operation is stopped. By operating a keyboard, the retrieval data of the frame number of the copy image and the like is outputted while watching visually the data of substance to be copied of the copy 11, and stored in an external memory medium. Then, the copy 11 in the confirming stage 22 is turned over through a turnover member 23, and then conveyed to a photograph position. In this case, the following copy 11 is started to be fed simultaneously. A photograph position detecting sensor decides that the copy 11 is conveyed to a specific photograph position in a photograph stage 18, the conveying of the copy 11 is stopped, and the data recorded on the copy 11 is photographed. After the photographing is finished, the copy 11 is exhausted and fed to a sheet exhaust tray 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for recording subject information recorded on a manuscript onto an information recording medium such as a microfilm.

Conventional technology In order to continuously photograph a large number of sheet-like documents and manuscripts on microfilm, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 54-4
As shown in Japanese Patent No. 8525, one document is transported by a conveying device from a document tray containing stacked documents.
The originals are fed sheet by sheet. A type of document photographing device in which a camera head and a photographing unit that supports the document to be photographed are built into a housing is called a reverse handheld type, and subject information recorded on the document is transmitted from the outside. It has the advantage of being able to take pictures without being affected by light.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention In such an inverted document photographing device, the front surface of the document, that is, the information recording surface, must face down in the photographing section, so the document is stored in the document tray with the front surface facing down. has been done. Therefore, the surface of the document transported by the transport device from the document tray to the photographing unit cannot be visually observed from the outside.

In recent years, in order to facilitate the search of image information recorded on microfilm, CAR-(computer
Image information retrieval devices, that is, readers and reader printers, are being developed that have the function of ``Oraided rctrivcr''. In such an image information retrieval device, what kind of subject information is recorded in each image frame recorded on microfilm is stored in a storage medium. The operator manually enters the desired image frame number while looking at the number of each image frame displayed on the CRT and keywords such as the table of contents, title, or summary of the recorded information, and the image information retrieval device is controlled by the computer. , the image is projected onto a screen, and the image information can also be printed on copy paper. This eliminates the need to search for a desired image frame while projecting the image information recorded on the microfilm onto a screen, making it easier to search for information.

To add CAR functionality to an image search device,
It is necessary to store the Komanaban-yumi and keywords used to search for subject information in a storage medium as search information, and if this work is done when copying the information from the manuscript onto microfilm, the search information can be saved. Manual work becomes easier. However, if you try to manually search for information while imprinting the information on the manuscript using the conventional inverted-type microfilm camera mentioned above, you will have to look at the surface of the manuscript from the outside to check it. Since it was not possible to do so, that work was done by Tanabe 1.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. For example, when recording information on a recording medium such as a microfilm, as in an inverted manuscript processing device, information is viewed from the outside. To improve the workability of a device by making information visually visible from the outside even when it is not possible to do so.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a document accommodating section that stores a document on which information is recorded, and a device that records information on the document with the information recording side of the document facing downward. an information reading stage for reading the recorded information; a confirmation stage for supporting the original with its information recording surface exposed to the outside; an inversion section for reversing the front and back of the original; and a reversing section for reversing the original from the original storage section. The document processing apparatus includes a conveyance means for conveying the document to a discharge section via the information reading stage, the confirmation stage, and the reversing section after being sent out.

In order to read the information on the document stored in the working document storage section at the information reading stage, the document is conveyed toward this stage. When this reading is performed, the information recorded on the document cannot be visually observed from the outside. At the confirmation stage where the information on the manuscript can be visually viewed from the outside,
The original is supported so that the information recording surface of the original is exposed to the outside. Therefore, at this stage, various tasks can be performed while checking the information recording surface of the document.

Example Next, the illustrated document processing apparatus will be described in detail.

A glass platen 12 for holding a document 11 is mounted within the housing 10 of the apparatus. The information recorded on the original document 11 is photographed on a microfilm while the original document 11 is held on the glass platen 12 with the surface on which the information is recorded facing downward. A camera 1 loaded with microfilm 13 for this photography.
4 is provided within the housing 10. Housing 1
An illuminator 15 is built into the inside of the document 11, and the light irradiated from the illuminator 15 onto the document 11 is reflected on the surface of the document.
The light enters the camera 14 via mirrors 16 and 17. Since no light from the outside enters the housing 10, even if the device is installed in a bright room, it will not be affected by external light and will be able to take pictures under constant illuminance conditions from the illuminator 15. Information can be imprinted onto the film, and since the photographing reference plane has a constant depth, information can be photographed with stable resolution. 1', the position of the glass platen 12 mentioned above, or the photographing stage for reading information] 8.

Auxiliary housing 20 located adjacent to housing 10
is provided with a document storage section 21, and this storage section 2
1, there are three originals spaced apart at a predetermined interval below L! - Rays 21a, 21b, and 21c are each detachably attached. Each original l/ray accommodates originals 11 having different sizes from each other in a stacked state.
In the illustrated embodiment, each document 11 is stored with the front side facing -1-.

The originals [1] in each of the original trays 21a to 21c are conveyed to a photographing stage [8]. A confirmation stage 22 and a reversing section 23 are provided between the document storage section 21 and the photographing stage 18 to hold the IJ''J1. document 11 ejected after the information has been photographed at the photographing stage ]8. (The paper is ejected to the downstream side of the photographing stage 18)
- Ray 24 is provided.

In order to convey the document 1 from the document storage section 21 to the confirmation stage 22, a conveyance section 25 is provided between them. The highest document tray in the document storage section 21 - two-stage document tray 21a
The conveyance mechanism for conveying the document [1 stored therein] to the confirmation stage 22 is shown in FIG. 2 in more detail. A pick-up roller 30 is rotatably mounted on -1-8 of the toy 21a. Let out. In order to push the JK draft toward this pickup roller 30, the JK draft L.
A receiving plate 32 is incorporated in the lay 21-a and is urged toward the 1st direction by a spring 31. The fed-out document 11 is conveyed to the confirmation stage 22 by conveyance rollers 34 while being guided by a guide plate 33 . the other two trays 21. The conveyance mechanism for feeding out the originals 1-1 in b and 21c is also the same as that shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the confirmation stage 22, in which a transparent glass 35 is fixed to the outside of the housing 1-0.20,
A plurality of rollers 36 mounted on the lower side are covered with conveyor rollers 37.

Therefore, the original 11 sent out from the original storage unit 21
is conveyed by the conveyor belt 37 while being sandwiched between the conveyor belt 37 and the transparent glass 35 with its surface facing 1-. This conveyance is performed by driving one of the rollers 36.

The document] 1 is conveyed to a predetermined position on the lower surface of the transparent glass 35 and then stopped. Therefore, the operator can confirm what kind of information is recorded on the document and perform various operations without visually checking the surface of the document 11 in the stopped state.

If the document 11 is conveyed as it is to the photographing stage 18 after the work is completed, the front side of the document 11 will remain facing the 1- side, and the subject information cannot be photographed on the photographing stage 18. The manuscript 11 is reversed in the reversing section 23. The details of the reversing section 23 are shown in FIG. Inside the reversing unit 23, a tonnoid plate 40 and a plurality of pairs of conveying rollers 41 to 44 are provided in order to convey the document 11- sent out from the confirmation stage 22 to the support plate 39 in the same posture. ing.

A sensor 45 is provided upstream of the pair of transport rollers 44 on the most downstream side in order to detect that the rear end of the document 11 has reached this position. This sensor 45 detects the original 1 by blocking the light from the light emitting element 45a.
When the trailing edge of document number 1 is detected, the leading edge of the document is located at -1- of the three support plates.

Between the transport roller pair 44 and the most downstream end of the guide plate 40, there is a switching plate 46 that can swing freely around a pin 47, and the switching plate 46 can swing to the position shown by the broken line in the figure. A reversing guide plate 48 is provided in the reversing portion 23, which becomes in communication when the reversing portion 23 is opened. The reversing guide plate 48 is provided with a pair of conveyance rollers 49 and 50, and the document guided by the guide plate 40 and conveyed to a predetermined position is transferred to the pair of conveyance rollers 49 and 50.
4 temporarily stops, and after the switching plate 46 swings to the position shown by the broken line, the pair of conveying rollers 44 rotates in the reverse direction, so that the photographing stage 18 is conveyed while being guided by the reversing guide plate 48. The original 11 in the reversing side plate 48 is conveyed by driving a pair of conveying rollers 49 and 50.

The details of the photographing stage 18 are shown in FIG.
A conveyor belt 54 passed around a plurality of rollers 53 is in contact with the glass platen 12.

The document 11 transported by the transport belt 54 stops at a predetermined position on the glass platen 12. In this state,
The front surface of the original 11 faces down, facing the glass platen 12, and the information recorded on the front surface is exposed onto the microfilm 13 by the camera 14. After the exposure is completed, the document 11 is conveyed to the paper discharge tray 24 by the conveyance belt 54 .

- As mentioned above, what is photographed is the information recorded on the surface of the document 11, and this surface is the information recorded on the glass platen 12.
Since the camera 14 is in contact with the object, the camera 14 always takes pictures of a constant shooting surface, and stable resolution with a constant depth can be obtained. It is not affected by external light. Then, on the confirmation stage 22, the operator can visually observe the front surface of the document 11 from the outside, so if there is a document that does not need to be photographed or a document whose front and back are reversed, the operator can do so without photographing the document. The paper can be ejected directly to the paper ejection tray 24. At this confirmation stage 22, the manuscript 11
There is no need to stop the document at this stage 22 if only to check whether information is recorded on the surface of the document.

In the illustrated document processing apparatus, a data input device 56 as a computer terminal is connected to 1- of the auxiliary housing 20 in order to store keywords such as frame numbers and titles of the information exposed on the microfilm 13 in the memory as search information. It is placed. The data input device 56 is shown in FIG. 6, and has a main body 57, a display 58, and five keyboards. Search information such as the piece number 5 is entered manually using the keyboard 59 while visually checking the information. Therefore, the operator must constantly check the manuscript and
The search information can be manually entered, and the confirmation stage 22 functions as a data entry stage.

As mentioned above, since the contents of the original 11 can be visually checked on the confirmation stage 22 before the original 11 is conveyed to the photographing stage 18, some originals in the original storage section 21 may be upside down. Even if the microfilm contains original documents with no information recorded on them, unnecessary image frames will not be captured on microfilm, and there will be no need to remove unnecessary image frames later. .

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the document processing apparatus, and in this figure, members common to those in the previous embodiment are given the same reference numerals. In this case, after the information on the document 11 is photographed on the photographing stage 18, the search information for the image frames recorded on the film is manually input.

A reversing unit 2 is provided between the document storage unit 21 and the photographing stage 18.
3 is provided, and the document 11 is first conveyed to the photographing stage 18 through the reversing section 23 in the same posture. Therefore, the document 11 is accommodated in the document storage unit 21 with the side on which information is recorded facing downward. Details of this document storage section 21 are shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, a paper feed roller 60 is provided on the bottom wall of the document tray 21a provided in the document storage section 21, and the document 11 is fed out from the lowest stage by this roller 60. In order to press the stacked original documents 11 against the roller 60, the pressure contact part (r)I62 becomes swingable around the pin 61, and a resilient force is applied to this pressure contact part (62) by the spring part)jA'63.・1 group has been defeated. The document 11 fed out from the document storage section 21 is sent to the reversing section 23 by a conveying roller 64.

The details of the reversing unit 23 are as shown in FIG. It is provided within the reversing section 23. These switching plates 65 and 66 assume the posture shown by the solid line in the figure when the document is sent from the document storage section 21 to the photographing stage 18, and when returning the document to turn it upside down after photographing. , the position is indicated by the dashed line. A reversing guide plate 67 is provided in the reversing section 23 to define the population section 67a and the exit section 67b of the returned J-K draft.
The document is moved within the path formed by a pair of transport rollers 68 and 69, and the forward and backward movement of the document within the reversing section 23 is carried out by a drive section 7 having three transport rollers.
done by 0. In order to detect that the leading edge of the document reversed by the reversing guide plate 67 has reached the exit section 67b, a limit switch 71 is installed at the exit section 67b.
is provided, and when the actuator of this switch 71 is actuated, the conveyor belt 54, which had been driven in the direction to return the document, is driven in the opposite direction to advance the document. The structure of the photographing stage 18 is the same as in the previous embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the control circuit of the document processing device, in which the CPU 75 includes a shooting start switch 76 provided on an operation panel (not shown), a data entry key 77 provided on a keyboard for data manual operation, and a data entry key 77 provided on a keyboard for data manual operation. 11
A data entry position detection sensor 78 detects that the document 11 is transported to a predetermined position on the confirmation stage 22, a photographing position detection sensor 79 detects that the document 11 is transported to a predetermined position on the photographing stage 18, and others. Switches, etc., can be operated manually or manually. For the transport mechanism 80 consisting of the transport section 25, transport belt 37, etc. described above, the CP
A control signal is sent from the CPU 75, and a control signal is also sent to the camera 14, and the shutter, film winding roll, etc. built into the camera 14 are controlled by the control signal from the CPU 75.

Next, the operating procedure of the document processing apparatus described in 1- will be explained with reference to a flowchart.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing the operating procedure of the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1. When the start switch 76 is turned on, first, in step S1, the document storage section
original]-1 is transferred to the confirmation stage 22 via the transport section 25
The document feeding operation is started in order to convey the document toward. As a result, if the ON state of the data sensor 78 provided in the data 22 is detected in step S2, the feeding operation is stopped in step S3. As mentioned above, by operating a predetermined key on the keyboard 58, the operator can input the frame number of the image of the document at one position in the data entry field and the keywords of the information recorded on the document. Predetermined search information is entered manually, and then by operating the data entry key 77 of the keyboard 58, the information is stored in the storage medium within the data entry type 56 or other external storage medium. When the operator operates the data entry key 77 as described in 1-, the human power is determined in step S4, and step S5 is executed. As a result, the document at the data entry position is turned over through the reversing section 23 and then transported toward the photographing position. At this time, in order to speed up the processing, the next document is fed at the same time. However, when transporting the original from the data entry position to the shooting position, the previous original still remains at the shooting position.]
7. If imaging has not been completed, in order to avoid collisions between originals, each original is transported from the confirmation stage 22 and the original storage unit 2 after the imaging of the previous original is completed.

If it is determined in step S6 that the document has been conveyed to a predetermined photographing position on the photographing stage 18 by turning on the photographing position detection sensor 79, the process proceeds to step S7.
The conveyance of the document is stopped at step S8, and the information recorded on the document is photographed at step S8.

If it is determined in step S9 that the photographing is finished, the document is ejected in step S10, and the document is sent to the paper output tray 24, and the subject information for each document is photographed and search information such as image frames is stored. is completed.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart 1 showing the operating procedure of the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. Feeding of the original begins. If it is determined in step S12 that the document has been fed to a predetermined photographing position, feeding of the document is stopped in step S13, and photographing is started in step S14. If it is determined in step S15 that the photographing has been completed, step S16 is executed, and after the original is turned over in the reversing section 23,
The photographing stage] 8 is conveyed to the confirmation stage, that is, the data entry position of the data entry stage 22. However, even if the photographing is completed, if the manual operation of data entry on the confirmation stage 22 for the previous document is not completed, the document is conveyed after waiting for the manual operation to be completed in order to avoid collision of the documents.

If it is determined in step S17 that the original has been conveyed to the first data entry position, the conveyance of the original is stopped in step 818, and data is manually input to the original. However, while this manual effort is being performed, the next document in the document storage section 21 is fed toward the photographing stage 18. If it is determined in step S19 that the data manual operation has ended, the document is ejected in step S20.
The photographing of subject information and the manual effort of searching information for one document are completed.

Although the illustrated embodiment shows a case where the confirmation stage functions as a data entry stage, it may also be used simply to check at a glance whether information is recorded on the surface of the document.

Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the information on the original may be photographed on microfilm, or may be recorded as electronic information using a scanner or the like at the photographing stage, that is, the information reading stage.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, the information of the manuscript stored in the manuscript storage section is read at the information reading stage, while the information of the manuscript can be visually observed from the outside at the confirmation stage. A manuscript with no information recorded is
Since the document is not read at the reading stage, unnecessary reading of the document is avoided, and the operability is greatly improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the entire image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the document storage section shown in FIG. 1, and FIG.・A sectional view showing the confirmation stage shown in FIG. 4; FIG. 4 is a sectional view showing the inversion section shown in FIG. 1; FIG. FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing an image processing device according to another embodiment; FIG. 8 is a sectional view showing the document storage section shown in FIG. 7; FIG. 7
10 is a block diagram showing the control circuit of the document processing device, and FIG. 11 is a flowchart 1 showing the operating procedure of the document processing device shown in FIG. 1.
・, FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the operating procedure of the document processing apparatus shown in FIG. 7. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11... Original document, 14... Camera, 18... Photographing stage (information reading stage), 21... Document storage section, 22... Data entry stage (confirmation stage), 23... Reversing section , 24... paper output tray.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A document storage unit that stores a document on which information is recorded, an information reading stage that reads information recorded on the document with the information recording side of the document facing downward, and the document. a confirmation stage that supports the document with its information recording surface exposed to the outside; a reversing unit that inverts the front and back of the document; and after feeding the document from the document storage section, the information reading stage and the confirmation stage , and a conveyance means for conveying the document to a discharge section via the reversing section.