Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Nobuhisa Yoda

Tatsuya Haraguchi

Kazuaki Kidokoro

Kazuhiro Ogura

Shiro Takagi

Hiroshi Watanabe

Takeshi Ogaki

Akinori Iwase

Hiroyuki Kato

Akihiko Fujiwara

Yoshifumi Takayama

The hierarchy of an operation screen of a digital PPC (scanner device) used as an image fetching device is set to correspond to the hierarchy of a directory in a file server for recording a scanned image file. That is, the hierarchy of the operation screen and the hierarchy of the directory are set to have a correspondence relation with respect to each other and changing points of the respective hierarchies reflect on the opposite hierarchies.

Image processing system

This invention provides a document input system comprising at least a digital copier for inputting a document image and information relating to the document image, the information relating to the document image including information about a transmission destination, at least a system serving as a transmission destination of a document image inputted by the digital copier, storage means for storing the document image inputted by the digital copier and information relating to the document image, and transmitting means for reading the information relating to the document image stored in the storage means periodically and transmitting a document image corresponding to the information relating to the document image stored in the storage means based on the information relating to the read document image.

Document input system and document input method

A division/coupling process section refers to item 'DOCUMENT PROCESS' in a division/coupling set information DB. If a document division/coupling process needs to be executed, division/coupling set information from the division/coupling set information DB is referred to. If scan parameters need to be referred to, the division/coupling process section refers to scan parameters from a scan parameter DB. If an inquire process needs to be executed by referring to item 'EXCESS DOCUMENT PROCESS' in the division/coupling set information DB, necessary information is acquired from an input/output section through a division/coupling inquire process section. Thus, the document division/coupling is determined and executed. Information on the divided/coupled document is temporarily stored in a division/coupling buffer and also information on document registration is stored in the division/coupling buffer. The divided/coupled document is then registered into document management systems through a register process section.

Document process system

The present invention employs an instruction button for inputting an instruction to simultaneously executing registration, in a full-text-search database, of a document scanned by one scanning operation and subjected to OCR processing, and registration of the document in a designated folder contained in a database of a folder tree structure. This single instruction button enables the user to simultaneously register read images in a folder, and text data resulting from OCR processing executed on the read images.

Information input device

A digital copying machine provided with both a scanner function and a printer function is used. The use of this type of machine enables a scanner apparatus to have a printout function as well. An input image can be transmitted to a final registration destination or a transfer destination and printed by operating only the scanner apparatus. Owing to this feature, the user need not check the image output to the final registration destination, the user is only required to confirm the printed image. Hence, the burden imposed on the user by the confirmation of captured images is significantly reduced.

Image processing apparatus

A user prepares a registration destination database, a title and field map information with respect to a transfer profile. The right of access to the database by the user is confirmed. A transfer profile is registered in a transfer profile setting section. Subsequently, an operation button function setting section of a digital scanner is activated, and a transfer profile name applied to an operation button is selected. A user name as a registrant, a format of attachment of a document image, an image format at a time of document registration are set. A display icon of the operation button and a button name are input, and the operation button is registered in an operation button management database.

Information processing system and method for displaying an operation button

Processes from the scanning of a document in a preset scan mode to a process executed for the scanned image are set as scan jobs. When an icon associated with the scan job is selected, the scan job is executed. Thereby, the processes from the scanning of the document to the process executed for the scanned image can be automatically executed by selecting the associated icons, and the user operations are simplified and made easier.

Image capturing system

In this invention, a function is added to a digital copying machine or a function of the digital copying machine is changed from a remote terminal by using a window image displayed on an operation unit of the digital copying machine. This allows an operator of the remote terminal to check the arrangement and shapes of actual operation buttons by which functions are displayed on the operation unit. It is possible to avoid choosing a wrong icon for assigning or changing a function and present changes of functions readily understandable by an operator.

An image reading system includes an image reading device and a terminal device which are connected via a network. The image reading device includes a setting unit for setting parameters, a first storage unit for storing a series of parameters set by the setting unit as one template, and an image reader for reading an image on the basis of the parameters set in the template. The terminal device includes a second storage unit for storing the template stored in the first storage unit.

Image reading system for reading image based on various parameters

A document management system records an operation history associated with an electronic document. When output of a document is instructed, it is determined whether an output history associated with the document exists in the recorded operation history. When it is determined that the output history associated with the document exists, a user is informed of the fact that the document has already been output, who output the document in the past, and when the document was output. The following operation errors can be prevented. That is, a specific document is repeatedly output by a plurality of users, and each operation is repeatedly performed.

Document management system and document management method applied thereto

An information storage system having a volume managing function and including a magnetooptical disk auto-changer, the system having data location optimizing means for, in accordance with access speed at which an access of data is made from each of disks, performing an optimizing function for optimizing data location in a case where data is stored in the disk, a volume management table for collecting and storing statistical information of data accesses for determining validity of the optimizing function when each of the disks has made an access to data, and data optimization determination means for determining validity of the optimizing function in accordance with the statistical information of data accesses.

Storage system with selective optimization of data location

Document information on each document is registered On the other hand, a journal of operations by a user is acquired, where the journal of operations involves the contents of a job indicating which document and how it has been used during the job execution. Job information on each job is registered such that the job information includes, as an attribute, the contents of the job in the acquired journal of operations. Use of such job information and document information enables a job to be retrieved from the documents or a document to be retrieved from the jobs in accordance with the specification by the operator.

Document management method, document retrieval method, and document

There is provided a print apparatus which prints a plurality of pieces of linked document information of those that are distributed to and stored in a plurality of external document servers. The apparatus includes an extraction unit for extracting link information indicating second document information, which is linked to first document information, from the first document information received from the corresponding document server, a second reception unit for receiving the second document information indicated by the extracted link information from the corresponding document server, a print unit for assigning serial page numbers to the first document information and the second document information, and printing the first document information and the second document information, and a recurring information detection unit for detecting that the already printed second document information is linked again to the first document information. Hypermedia documents are printed in the form that it is easy for the user to use.

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Kamakura, Japan

Nobuhisa Yoda