IMAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVING DEVICE, IMAGE DATABASE DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION STORING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH A PROGRAM PERFORMED BY THE IMAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVING DEVICE IS RECORDED

摘要

AN IMAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM INCLUDES A CIRCUIT CONTROL SECTION (602-1) HAVING MEANS TO CONTROL RESPONSE AT THE TIME OF LINE CONNECTION OF A FACSIMILE TERMINAL, TO OUTPUT VOICE GUIDANCE INFORMATION, TO ANALYZE PUSH BUTTON SIGNALS WHICH A USER INPUTS WITH A PUSH BUTTON, AND TO OUTPUT IMAGE INFORMATION TO A FACSIMILE TERMINAL; A WWW RETRIEVING SECTION (602-3) WHICH RETRIEVES DATA ON THE WWW SERVER, TO OBTAIN AN HTML FILE; A URL ADDRESS/NUMBER CONVERTING SECTION (602-4); A URL ADDRESS/NUMBER STORING SECTION (602-5) WHICH APPENDS A NUMBER TO AN EXTRACTED URL ADDRESS, AND TO A URL ADDRESS ALREADY REGISTERED THEREIN; AN HTML FILE/IMAGE CONVERTING SECTION (602-6) WHICH ANALYZES AND CONVERTS THE HTML TO IMAGE DATA TO BESENT TO FACSIMILE TERMINALS; A SERVICE CONTROL SCRIPT ANALYZING AND EXECUTING SECTION (602-7); A SYNTHESIZING SECTION (602-8), FOR CONVERTING VOICE GUIDANCE INFORMATION IN THE ANALYZED SERVICE CONTROL SCRIPT TO AUDIOINFORMATION TO BE OUTPUT TO FACSIMILE TERMINALS; AND A CONTROL SECTION (602-2) FOR CONTROLLING THE CIRCUIT CONTROL SECTION, THE WWW RETRIEVING SECTION, THE URL ADDRESS/NUMBER CONVERTING SECTION, THE HTML FILE/IMAGE CONVERTING SECTION, AND THE SCRIPT ANALYZING AND EXECUTING SECTION.