Information storage, retrieval and display system
AssigneeComputer Entry Systems Corporation
InventorLouis H. Sharpe, II
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing and selecting image information to be stored from a document only when the information on the document is relevant and associating the selected information with machine-read information from the document for either on-line or off-line adjustment of previously stored information in a main data base.
Claims15
An information system for storing relevant information on a document comprising:
- a digital image forming means outputting a digitized representation of all information on a document;
- a digital data compression means for compressing said digitized representation of said information;
- means for detecting the size of said compressed representation;
- means for comparing said detected size with a threshold value and outputting a store signal only when said compressed size exceeds said threshold value;
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- storage means for storing as relevant information said compressed digital representation of said information in response to said store signal.
An information retrieval system for retrieving and displaying information from relevant documents comprising:
- an image forming means outputting a digitized representation of information contained on at least one face of each of at least one document;
- image sizing means connected to the output of said imaging forming means for determining the size of said digitized representation of information;
- means for storing said digitized representation of information only when said size exceeds a reference value size;
- means for displaying said stored digital representation as a video image of one of said relevant documents.
A method of storing all information contained on selected documents comprising the steps of:
- forming a digital image of all information on each of a plurality of documents;
- compressing said digital image of each document;
- detecting the size of said compressed image of each document;
- comparing the size of said compressed image with a reference value and storing said compressed image only when said size exceeds said reference value to thereby store information contained only on said selected documents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.