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Data management apparatus

  • US 4,653,021 A
  • Filed: 06/15/1984
  • Issued: 03/24/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data management apparatus comprising:

  • scanning means for scanning a document image to provide digital document image data;

    document image memory means for storing said document image data;

    input means for entry of attribute data relevant to said document image data;

    management data memory means for storing classification data and an attribute occurrence frequency table in which plural attribute data are assigned to each of the classification data, and in which frequency of occurrence data equal to the number of documents having a particular attribute j (j;

    an integer equal to or greater than

         1) in classification i (i;

    an integer equal to or greater than

         1) is appended to each of the attribute data;

    a central processing unit for accessing said management data memory means using said attribute data entered through said input means as a parameter, for computing the frequency of occurrence of the attribute data entered by the input means, for calculating the sum of the frequency of occurrence data of each of said attribute data for each of the classification data, and for selecting classification data having attribute data with a predetermined large sum of frequency of occurrence data; and

    display means for displaying said plural classification data selected by said central processing unit, whereby the operator can select a single of the classification data and thereby efficiently classify a document.

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