Method for automatically linking index data with image data in a search system

• US 5,930,802 A
• Filed: 11/29/1996
• Issued: 07/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WIPS Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Company Limited (Dayou Holdings Co.,Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lee, Min-Jae
• Primary Examiner(s): Amsbury, Wayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pardo, Thuy N.
• Application Number:
  US08/758,487
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 345/331, 386/124, 707/7, 707/104, 707/102, 707/2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/917 Text
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method for automatically linking index data with image data is disclosed. A first recording medium has both an index data base and first link data recorded thereon, and a second recording medium has both an image data base and second link data recorded thereon. The separate first link data which is not related to a search item, is added to each of record units of the index data base. The second link data is a label or a key chord which is connectively operated with the first link data. Accordingly, in the search system, the index list which is obtained by the search operation, is linked at a high rate with the image data which is recorded on the majority of recording media. Therefore, the minority of the first recording media having the index data base recorded thereon is linked automatically by the first and second link data with the majority of the second recording media having the image data base or a different form of data base recorded thereon so that the search operation is performed at a high rate. Also, when the search system is introduced into a network system, a separate linking software is not required.

Claims

1. A method for automatically linking index data with image data, said method comprising the steps of:

(i) inputting a search data such as a keyword;

(ii) performing a search on the basis of the search data inputted in step (i);

(iii) outputting a result of the search performed in step (ii);

(iv) determining whether or not an image display command is inputted;

(v) loading a relevant compact disc read only memory into a drive when it is determined in step (iv) that the image display command is inputted;

(vi) determining whether or not a first link data of a first recording medium is connected with a second link data of a second recording medium when it is determined in step (v) that the relevant compact disc read only memory is loaded into the drive; and

(vii) outputting a linked image data such as drawings recorded on the second recording medium when it is determined in step (vi) that the first link data is connected with the second link data,

wherein the first recording medium has both an index database and the first link data recorded thereon, where said first link data is a separate link signal which is added to each of record units of the index database and is not related to a search item, and said second recording medium has both an image database and the second link data recorded thereon.

2. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step (iii) comprises the substeps of:

(A) displaying an index list included in the result of the search performed in step (ii); and

(B) storing a corresponding search result on a recording medium or printing the corresponding search result on a print medium when an item is selected among the index list displayed in step (A).

3. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step (v) comprises the substeps of:

(D) determining whether or not the relevant compact disc read only memory is loaded into the drive when it is determined in step (iv) the image display command is inputted;

(E) displaying the message that the relevant compact disc read only memory has to be loaded into the drive when it is determined in step (D) that the relevant compact disc read only memory is not loaded into the drive, and returning to step (D); and

(F) proceeding to step (vi) when it is determined in step (D) that the relevant compact disc read only memory is loaded into the drive.

4. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step (vii) comprises the substeps of:

(K) displaying the linked image data of the second recording medium when it is determined in step (vi) that the first link data of the first recording medium is connected with the second link data of the second recording medium; and

(L) storing the image data displayed in step (K) on a recording medium or printing the displayed image data on a print medium.

5. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein controlling means repeats step (iii) when it is determined in step (iv) that the image display command is not inputted.

6. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein controlling means repeats step (vi) when it is determined in step (vi) that the first link data is not connected with the second link data.

7. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second link data is a label or a key chord which is connectively operated with the first link data which is added to each of record units of the index data base.

8. A method for automatically linking index data with image data, said method comprising the steps of:

(i) inputting a search data such as a keyword;

(ii) performing a search on the basis of the search data inputted in step (i);

(iii) displaying an index list included in the result of the search performed in step (ii);

(iv) storing a corresponding search result on a recording medium or printing the corresponding search result on a print medium when an item is selected among the index list displayed in step (iii);

(v) determining whether or not an image display command is inputted;

(vi) returning to step (iii) when it is determined in step (v) that the image display command is not inputted;

(vii) determining whether or not a relevant compact disc read only memory is loaded into a drive when it is determined in step (v) that the image display command is inputted;

(viii) displaying the message that the relevant compact disc read only memory has to be loaded into the drive when it is determined in step (vii) that the relevant compact disc read only memory is not loaded into the drive, and returning to step (vii);

(ix) determining whether or not a first link data of a first recording medium is connected with a second link data of a second recording medium when it is determined in step (vii) that the relevant compact disc read only memory is loaded into the drive;

(x) repeating step (ix) when it is determined in step (ix) that the first link data is not connected with the second link data;

(xi) displaying the linked image data such as drawings recorded on the second recording medium when it is determined in step (x) that the first link data of the first recording medium is connected with the second link data of the second recording medium; and

(xii) storing the image data displayed in step (xi) on a recording medium or printing the displayed image data on a print medium,

wherein said first link data is a separate link signal which is added to each of record units of the index database and is not related to a search item.

9. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 8, wherein said first recording medium has both an index data base and the first link data recorded thereon, and said second recording medium has both an image data base and the second link data recorded thereon.

10. The method for automatically linking index data with image data as claimed in claim 9, wherein said second link data is a label or a key chord which is connectively operated with the first link data which is added to each of record units of the index data base.