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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image filing system which uses, in addition to main document identification data in the form of a keyword assigned to a given document, auxiliary document identification data formulated to be representative of a characterizing portion of the image read from a given document, wherein the image data representative of the whole image read from the document is stored in one data storage area of a memory and the image data representative of the characterizing portion of the image is stored in another data storage area of the memory for use as the auxiliary document identification data. When the documents accessed as a result of the searching on the basis of a keyword or keywords, the auxiliary document identification data is displayed for each of the documents in addition to the keyword or keywords assigned to each of the documents listed on the display. This will help the operator of the system select and call the target document from among the listed documents by referencing the auxiliary document identification data as well as the main document identification data. The auxiliary document identification data is thus useful for distinguishing one document from another or others when the documents have a common keyword as the main document identification data.