Hitachi, Ltd.

Hirotoshi Ise

Haruo Takeda

Mototsugu Iwasa

Hirofumi Kondoh

Hiromasa Nemoto

Yoshihito Ohara

A simulation system in a work flow control system confirms whether or not prepared business process defining information is valid. The simulation system receives as an input thereto a false case including a name of a document, an attribute name belonging to the document, and attribute values to be selected; virtually moves the false case from a node to another node according to the business process defining information, simulates a process conducted in each node, and generates a journal of these processes.

Business process simulation system

Coded image data are supplied in the order of page units, and each page of the input coded image data is examined without being decoded as to whether it includes a predetermined coded separator pattern. If a separator sheet is included, that page is recognized as the coded image data of a separator sheet, and if a separator sheet is not included, that page is recognized as the coded image data of a document. Therefore, the document fed before the separator sheet and the document fed after the separator sheet can be classified to belong to different groups, and thus registered in different regions of a memory, respectively. Since the coded image data of documents can be classified without being decoded, a plurality of documents to be classified can be supplied even from a facsimile or the like to and registered in an electronic image filing system at a high speed. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an electronic system capable of hanging the transmission condition in accordance with the result of the recognition of the different types of documents.

Method and apparatus for processing coded image data

In an image information retrieval network system having a file station storing a plurality of images to be searched in the form of compressed data by means of coding and at least one terminal station connected to the file station via a transmission line, the file station includes a processor for decoding compressed image data read from an image file to restore an original image, an image processor for processing the restored image data such as extracting a partial area thereof, and a coding processor for data-compressing the processed image data by means of coding. When a user at the terminal station designates a search condition, display mode, and control information for image processing, the file station reads the images satisfying the search condition from the image file, and causes the searched images to be subjected to the image processing designated by the control information. The processed image data are transmitted to the terminal station in the form of compressed data by means of coding.

Image information retrieval network system

An image of a size exceeding a reading surface area of an image input temperature is divided into a plurality of image portions such that the image portions resulting from the division have respective overlap regions. A position detectable mark is attached to each of the overlap regions. The plurality of image portions are joined together into one image by making use of the marks.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hirotoshi Ise