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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koichi Sono, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711156 ; 711165 ; 711154 ; 711162 ; 711159 ;
Abstract
A large volume of images can be stored without sacrificing the fast retrieval of frequently used images of the images stored in a storage medium. A filing apparatus includes a first storage unit for storing an image, a second storage unit of fast access type having a smaller memory capacity than that of the first storage unit, a retrieval information storage unit for storing retrieval information for retrieving images stored in the first and second storage units and a control unit for transferring the image stored in the second storage unit to the first storage unit in response to the reading of the image from the first storage unit by the retrieval information.