Document storage apparatus

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US006040920A
Ulllted States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 6,040,920
Ichiriki [45] Date of Patent: *Mar. 21, 2000
[54] DOCUMENT STORAGE APPARATUS 5,644,404 7/1997 Hashimoto et al. .................. .. 358/403
5,666,210 9/1997 Yanai et a1. ........................... .. 358/468
[75] Inventor: Hldekl lchlrlkl, KanagaWa, Japan OTHER PUBLICATIONS
[73] Assignee? Fuji Xerox CO-a Ltd» Tokyo, Japan Ed Krol, “The Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog,”
_ _ _ _ Second Edition, pp. 409—457.
[*] Notice: This patent issued on a continued pros
ecution application ?led under 37 CFR Primary EX?min€r—YOn J. COllSO
1,53(d), and is subject to the twenty year Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Finnegan, Henderson, FaraboW,
patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. Garrett & Dunner, L-L-P
5499(2) [57] ABSTRACT
[21] Appl. No.: 08/802,567 A document storage apparatus of a document reading sys
_ _ tern. The document storage apparatus has a document stor
[22] Flled' Feb‘ 19’ 1997 age section Which stores a document created by a document
[30] Foreign Application Priority Data Preating apparatus flnd having a plllrality 0f pagffs by _f0rm
ing the document into an electronic document in WhlCh at
Feb. 20, 1996 [JP] Japan .................................. .. 8-032484 least one Set of image data is Stored in page units When a
Feb. 20, 1996 [JP] Japan .................................. .. 8-032490 read demand has been issued from a document reading
[51] Int CL? _________ __ H04N 1/00 apparatus, a read demand receiving and analyzing section
[52] us CL __________ __ 358/403. 382/305 receives the read demand to analyZe the required contents.
[58] Field of Search 3SS/Zm3 458_ The required electronic document is, in page units, acquired
' """ " 38’2/305’ from the document storage section so as to be processed into
a format meeting the required contents by a document
[56] References Cited processing section. Then, a response data generating section
generates response data in Which reference information With
US. PATENT DOCUMENTS Which page instruction is enabled When a neXt read demand
5 200 830 4/1993 Imaizumi et al 358/468 is issued is embedded. The response data formed in page
5’222’157 6/1993 Yoneda et a1 ' 358/4O3 units is transmitted to a document reading apparatus by a
5:408:340 4/1995 Edamura ..... .. 358/468 document transmitting Section
5,528,383 6/1996 Tezuka et a1. 358/468
5,532,841 7/1996 Nakajima et a1. .................... .. 358/468 8 Claims, 23 Drawing Sheets
1a~1 INPUT SECTION | | DISPLAY SECTION }» 1c
DOCUMENT
1b READING APPARATUS 1d
READ DEMAND DOCUMENT
TRANSMITTING SECTION RECEIVING SECTION
3
T 1
T 2
2a 2e
READ DEMAND RECEIVING DOCUMENT
AND ANALYZING SECTION TRANSMITTING SECTION
2d
RESPONSE DATA
GENERATING SECTION 4
2, DOCUMENT
CREATING APPARATUS
DOCUMENT 4a
PROCESSING SECTION
APPLICATION
SOFTWARE
h
DOCUMENT STORAGE SECTION ELECTRONIC
2b DOCUMENT
CREATING SECTION
ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT STORAGE APPARATUS
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 1 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 1
Ia~| INPUT SECTION I 1 DISPLAY SECTION I'VIC
I
DOCUMENT
1b READING APPARATUS 1d
/ I
READ DEMAND DOCUMENT
TRANSMITTING SECTION RECEIVING SECTION
r“. I_I H——r“|
\_| \__| \_| \_,_|
2
2a 2e
[1 /
READ DEMAND RECEIVING DOCUMENT
AND ANALYZING SECTION TRANSMITTING SECTION
I
2d
RESPONSE DATA
GENERATING SECTION 4
II
26 DOCUMENT
CREATING APPARATUS
DOCUMENT 4a
PROCESSING SECTION
APPLICATION
SOFTWARE
I 4b
DOCUMENT STORAGE SECTION ELECTRONIC
2b < DOCUMENT
CREATING SECTION
ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT STORAGE APPARATUS

U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 3 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 3
V
N DETERMINE COORDINATES
INSTRUCTED TO BE INPUT
S2 N DECIDE READ DEMAND
READ DEMAND
ss~ TRANSMIT READ DEMAND —>< TRANSMITTING SECTION >
S4~ RECEIVEPAGEIMAGE <——< RECEDIOVCIUNGMSEENCTT ION >
S5 N DISPLAY PAGE IMAGE
86
NO
YES
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 4 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 4
TRANSMIT READ DEMAND
READ DEMAND
TRANSMITTING SECTION
DETERMINE COMMUNICATION
$11M
PROTOCOL FROM READ DEMAND
DETERMINE ADDRESS OF READ
S12 "w DEMAND RECEIVING SECTION ON
NETWORK FROM READ DEMAND
TRANSMIT READ DEMAND
S13 N WITH INSTRUCTED PROTOCOL
TO INSTRUCTED ADDRESS
A
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 5 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 5
RECEIVE PAGE IMAGE
I
<DOCUMENT RECEIVING SECTION>
Pk
S21 “1 WAIT FOR RECEPTION
S22
DOCUMENT
IMAGE RECEIVED
?
823 N RECEIVE TRANSFERRED FILE
S24
NO RECEPTION
COMPLETED
?
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 6 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 6
V
7
< RECEPTION OF READ DEMAND >
WAIT FOR RECEPTION N 831
OF READ DEMAND
S32
RECEIVED?
YES
BRANCH IN ACCORDANCE N S33
WITH PROTOCOL
S34
DETERMINE
SUBJECT TO BE READ
SUBJECT
IS ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
?
I 837
NO PROCESS OF INFORMATION
FOR TRANSMITTING
S36 N CONVENTIONAL HTML ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
TRANSMITTING PROCESS
TRANSMIT RESULTS N 838
OF PROCESS
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 7 0f 23 6,040,920
FIG. 7
DETERMINATION OF
SUBJECTED TO BE READ
S41 N EXTRACT LOCATION INFORMATION
FROM READ DEMAND
S42
AT THE LOCATION
STORED?
S43 M CUT ONE ELEMENT OF PASS
OF LOCATION INFORMATION
s44
STORED
YES
FILE IS ELECTRONIC
DOCUMENT?
7 DETERMINE TO
848 w DETERMINE S47 N DETERMINE TO S45 N BE ELECTRONIC
TO BE ERROR BE NORMAL FILE DOCUMENT
A A A
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 8 0f 23 6,040,920
PROCESS OF INFORMATION FOR
TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT
AIN EXTENSION PORTIO F LOCA N INFORMATION N S51
IN PROCESS FOR DETER NG SU J CT TO BE READ
I 852
BRANCH PROCESS IN ORDANC
WITH CONTENTS OF EXT ON PCRT
EXTRACT INST TED
\ PAGE |M
EXTRACT IMAGE DATA IN
\ INSTRUCTED FORMAT
——<NSTRUCT DISPLAY RECIC
INSTRuCT DISPLAY
\ MAGNIFICATION
ACQUIRE DATA FILE
\
$58 I
<DETERMINE ACCESS RIGH>
S59
CREATE REFERENCE INFOMATION
TO FRONT AND REAR PAGES
S60 PROCESS DATA TO RESPONSE DATA FORMAT
U.S. Patent Mar. 21,2000 Sheet 9 0f 23 6,040,920
5‘ N PHOFILING PORTION
PDT-1 REOORO
RECORD OF PAGE 1 P D12 RECORD
PD2-1 REOORO
RECORD OF PAGE 2 P022 RFCORD
52 ~ PAGE PORTION
PD3-1 REOORO
RECORD OF PAGE 3 W32 RECORD
DOCUMENT REOORO
53 N DOCUMENT DATA PORTION