Digital data producing system

• US 20020080424A1
• Filed: 12/13/2001
• Published: 06/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsushita, Masahiro, Suzuki, Takumi
• Granted Patent: US 6,814,298 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/474
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers

Abstract

A digital data producing system includes a keyboard, a mouse, a data saving memory for saving sets of produced digital data, an additional character string memory for storing at least two sets of additional character strings, and a data file name assigning section for assigning to the sets of produced digital data a data file names produced by selecting one set of additional character strings from among the at least two sets of additional character strings stored in the additional character string memory in accordance with instructions input using the mouse when a naming rule is selected and serially adding members of the thus selected set of additional character strings to a basic data file name. According to the thus constituted digital data producing system, it is possible to simply assign to sets of digital data correlated with each other file names composed of, for example, a common character string plus additional character strings to clarify the correlation between (among) the sets of digital data.

Claims

1. A digital data producing system comprising input means, data saving means for saving sets of produced digital data, additional character string storing means for storing at least two sets of additional character strings, and data file name assigning means for assigning to the sets of produced digital data data file names produced by selecting one set of additional character strings from among the at least two sets of additional character strings stored in the additional character string storing means in accordance with instructions input through the input means when a naming rule is selected and adding members of the thus selected set of additional character strings to a basic data file name.

2. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein a data saving region having a data region name associated with the data file names is produced in the data saving means and the sets of digital data assigned the data file names are saved in the data saving region having an associated data region name.

3. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to serially add, when a continuative assigning mode is selected by the input means, members of the set of additional character string selected in accordance with instructions input through the input means to the basic data file name entered through the input means, thereby creating the data file names and to assign the thus created data file names to the sets of produced digital data.

4. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 3, wherein when a continuative assigning mode is selected by the input means, defined data saving regions are serially created in the data saving means, members of the set of additional character strings selected in accordance with instructions input through the input means are serially added to the basic data file name entered through the input means, thereby creating data region names and assigning them to the data saving regions and the sets of digital data assigned the data file names are saved in the data saving regions having data region names associated with the assigned data file names.

5. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to repeatedly with a predetermined unit of repetition and serially add, when a repetitive assigning mode is selected by the input means, members of the set of additional character string selected in accordance with instructions input through the input means to the basic data file name entered through the input means, thereby creating data file names and assign to the thus created data file names to the sets of produced digital data.

6. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 5, wherein when a repetitive assigning mode is selected by the input means, defined data saving regions are serially created in the data saving means, members of the set of additional character strings selected in accordance with instructions input through the input means are repeatedly with a predetermined unit of repetition and serially added to the basic data file name entered through the input means, thereby creating data region names and assigning them to the data saving regions, and the sets of digital data assigned the data file names are saved in the data saving regions having data region names associated with the assigned data file names.

7. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to create data file names in accordance with data file names entered through the input means and assign the thus created data file names to the sets of produced digital data when a naming rule is not selected.

8. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 7, wherein a data saving region having the same data region name as a basic data file name is created in the data saving means for each basic data file name entered through the input means.

9. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises a display means and wherein the at least two sets of additional character strings stored in the additional character string storing means are displayed on the display means when the naming rule is selected.

10. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 9, wherein the input means is constituted so as to select one set of additional character strings from among the at least two sets of the additional character strings displayed on the display means.

11. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 9, wherein a warning is displayed on the display means when the same basic data file name as one already entered through the input means is entered through the input means.

12. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 9, wherein the input means is constituted of a keyboard and a mouse, the basic data file name is entered through the keyboard and stored in the additional character string storing means, an additional character string selection signal is input to the data file name assigning means when the one set of additional character strings is selected by the mouse from among the at least two sets of additional character strings, and the data file name assigning means selects the one set of additional character strings from among the at least two sets of additional character strings stored in the additional character string storing means, adds them to the basic data file name to create a data file names and assigns them to the sets of produced digital data.

13. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to add the additional character strings to the terminal end of the basic data file name entered through the input means.

14. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to add the additional character strings to the front end of the basic data file name entered through the input means.

15. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises at least one laser stimulating ray source for emitting a laser beam, a sample stage on which at least one sample containing a labeling substance is to be placed, scanning means for moving the sample stage so that the sample placed on the sample stage can be scanned with the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser stimulating ray source, a light detector for photoelectrically detecting light released from the labeling substance contained in the sample upon being scanned with the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser stimulating ray source and excited thereby and producing analog data, and an A/D converter for digitizing the analog data produced by the light detector to produce digital data, and wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to add a designation indicating wavelength of the laser beam scanning the sample to the basic data file name entered through the input means or a data file name created by adding a member of the set of additional character strings to the basic data file name entered through the input means to create a final data file name and assign the final data file name to the set of digital data produced by the A/D converter.

16. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the set of digital data assigned the final data file name created by adding the designation indicating wavelength of the laser beam used for scanning the sample to the basic data file name entered through the input means or the data file name created by adding a member of the set of additional character strings to the basic data file name entered through the input means is saved in a data saving region having a data region name associated with the basic file name entered through the input means or the data file name created by adding a member of the set of additional character strings to the basic data file name entered through the input means.

17. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 15, which comprises two or more laser stimulating ray sources for emitting laser beams having different wavelengths.

18. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the data file name assigning means is constituted so as to assign data file names that differ only in the designations indicating wavelengths of the laser beams to the sets of produced digital data when the same sample is scanned with the laser beams having different wavelengths.

19. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 5, wherein the sample carrier is constituted so as to carry a plurality of the samples and the number of members in the set of the additional character strings in a unit of repetition is set equal to the number of the samples to be carried by the sample carrier.

20. A digital data producing system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the sample is constituted as a micro-array in which a plurality of spots selectively labeled with a fluorescent dye are formed on a slide glass plate.