FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20150062660A1
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US14/014,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/403
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/164 File meta data generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, a file management apparatus for managing a file name of a file of an image information includes a title name extraction section configured to extract a plurality of different individual title names, a combined title name generation section configured to combine the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section to generate a combined title name, an individual title name selection section configured to select one individual title name from the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section, a file name determination section configured to select processes which determine the combined title name generated by the combined title name generation section as a file name or processes which determine the individual title name selected by the individual title name selection section as a file name and add the determined file name to the original image information.

Claims

1. A file management apparatus for managing a file name of a file of an image information based on the information of an original image read by a scanner unit, comprising:

an image processing section configured to carry out an image processing for the original image information read by the scanner unit;

a title name extraction section configured to extract a plurality of different individual title names based on the processing information processed by the image processing section;

a combined title name generation section configured to combine the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section to generate a combined title name;

an individual title name selection section configured to select one individual title name from the plurality of individual title names extracted by the title name extraction section;

a file name determination section configured to select processes which determine the combined title name generated by the combined title name generation section as a file name or processes which determine the individual title name selected by the individual title name selection section as a file name and add the determined file name to the original image information; and

a storage section configured to store the original image information added with the determined file name.

2. The file management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a template section configured to add a name representing an attribution in front of the determined title name, wherein

the image information is stored in a folder arranged in the storage section corresponding to the attribution.

3. The file management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the individual title name selection section includes a plurality of individual title display sections for respectively displaying a plurality of individual title names and is capable of selecting one individual title name from the individual title names displayed on the plurality of individual title display sections.

4. The file management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the individual title name selection section selects characters of a high use frequency in the read original as the individual title name.

5. The file management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the scanner unit is arranged in a compound machine.

6. A file management method for managing a file name of a file of an image information based on the information of an original image read by a scanner unit, including:

carrying out an image processing for the original image information read by the scanner unit;

extracting a plurality of different individual title names based on the processed information;

combining the plurality of extracted individual title names to generate a combined title name;

selecting one individual title name from the plurality of extracted individual title names;

selecting processes which determine the generated combined title name as a file name or processes which determine the selected individual title name as a file name and adding the determined file name to the original image information; and

storing the original image information added with the determined file name.

7. The file management method according to claim 6, further including:

adding a name representing an attribution in front of the determined title name; and

storing the image information in a folder arranged in the storage section corresponding to the attribution.

8. The file management method according to claim 6, wherein

a plurality of individual title names are displayed on the individual title name selection section, and

one individual title name is selected from the individual title names displayed on the plurality of individual title display sections.

9. The file management method according to claim 6, wherein

a character of a high use frequency in the read original is selected as the individual title name.