INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20190311195A1
• Filed: 03/15/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SHIMOKAWA, Noriyuki
• Granted Patent: US 11,068,710 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/123 Tax preparation or submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/40 Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/413 Classification of content, e.g. text, photographs or tables
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/33 based only on signature image, e.g. static signature recognition

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition section that acquires an image of a digitized document, a second acquisition section that acquires date information from the image acquired by the first acquisition section, a third acquisition section that acquires an application period different from an application period in a case where a recipient receiving the document is the same as an operator who has performed an operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, and a processing section that performs processing of preserving the image in a case where a current date and time satisfies a preset criterion for an application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first acquisition section that acquires an image of a digitized document;

a second acquisition section that acquires date information from the image acquired by the first acquisition section;

a third acquisition section that acquires an application period different from an application period in a case where a recipient receiving the document is the same as an operator who has performed an operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator; and

a processing section that performs processing of preserving the image in a case where a current date and time satisfies a preset criterion for an application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a specifying section that specifies the recipient using recipient name information extracted from the image acquired by the first acquisition section,

wherein the third acquisition section acquires the application period different from an application period in a case where the recipient specified by the specifying section is the same as the operator, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a check processing section that performs processing of checking whether or not autograph information is provided in the image acquired by the first acquisition section, in a case where the recipient receiving the document is the same as the operator who has performed the operation of digitizing the document.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a specifying section that specifies the recipient using autograph information extracted from the image acquired by the first acquisition section,

wherein the third acquisition section acquires the application period different from an application period in a case where the recipient specified by the specifying section is the same as the operator, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the specifying section specifies a user having autograph information which has been stored in advance and coincides with the extracted autograph information to be the recipient of the document.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the third acquisition section acquires the application period shorter than an application period in a case where the recipient receiving the document is different from the operator who has performed the operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the third acquisition section acquires the application period shorter than an application period in a case where the recipient receiving the document is different from the operator who has performed the operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first acquisition section acquires information indicating whether the operator is the recipient or a person except for the recipient, along with the image of the digitized document, and

the third acquisition section acquires the application period different from the application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator, in a case where the first acquisition section acquires information indicating that the operator is the person except for the recipient.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, the third acquisition section acquires the application period longer than the application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, the third acquisition section acquires the application period longer than the application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, the third acquisition section acquires the application period longer than the application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, the third acquisition section acquires the application period longer than the application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing section performs the processing of preserving the image, in a case where the application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section is later than the current date and time.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing section performs processing of adding a time stamp to the image and preserving the image having the time stamp, in a case where the current date and time satisfies the preset criterion for the application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage section that stores a first application period in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator and a second application period in a case where the recipient is different from the operator; and

a calculation section that calculates the application deadline from the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section,

wherein the third acquisition section acquires the first application period from the storage section in a case where the recipient is the same as the operator, and acquires the second application period from the storage section in a case where the recipient is different from the operator, and

the processing section performs the processing of preserving the image, in a case where the current date and time satisfies the preset criterion for the application deadline calculated by the calculation section.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein the storage section stores a third application period different from the first application period and the second application period, and

in a case where the current date and time does not have passed the application deadline based on the second application period, and but has passed the application deadline based on the third application period, the operator is notified of a message indicating the case.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notification section that notifies the operator of a message indicating that performing the processing of preserving the image is not possible, in a case where the current date and time does not satisfy the preset criterion for the application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the second acquisition section and the application period acquired by the third acquisition section.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the second acquisition section acquires issuer information from the image acquired by the first acquisition section, and

in a case where the issuer of the document specified using the issuer information is included in the preset list information, the notification section notifies the operator of a message indicating the case.

19. An information processing system comprising:

a first acquisition section that acquires date information from an image of a digitized document;

a second acquisition section that acquires an application period different from an application period in a case where a recipient receiving the document is the same as an operator who has performed an operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator; and

a processing section that performs processing of preserving the image in a case where a current date and time satisfies a preset criterion for an application deadline set based on the date information acquired by the first acquisition section and the application period acquired by the second acquisition section.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute:

acquiring an image of a digitized document;

acquiring date information from the acquired image;

acquiring an application period different from an application period in a case where a recipient receiving the document is the same as an operator who has performed an operation of digitizing the document, in a case where the recipient is different from the operator; and

performing processing of preserving the image in a case where a current date and time satisfies a preset criterion for an application deadline set based on the acquired date information and the acquired application period.