JP3276099B2 - Image information handling equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information handling apparatus, and more particularly to an image information handling apparatus capable of recording, reproducing, and copying information on an information recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various types of recording media (information recording media) are used in conventional image file devices and the like, which are image information handling devices for recording and reproducing images on and from recording media. It is used properly according to. For example, as such an image file device, 2
2. Description of the Related Art An image file apparatus conforming to an electronic camera standard capable of analog recording 25 to 50 still images on an inch VF (video floppy disk) is known. In such a still image file device, a multi-screen playback display function for displaying recorded images in an index manner is useful as a function that greatly enhances convenience in performing image search and selection. there were.

On the other hand, in recent years, with the advance of electronic circuit technology,
A digital image file device that compresses digitized image data, records it on a recording medium, and reproduces it is provided at relatively low cost.

[0004] Such a digital image file device is
Since data of a digitized image file is handled, there is an advantage that the image quality does not deteriorate at all even when copying (copying the image file).

Further, in the digital image file device, when the reproduced image data is expanded in the frame memory or the field memory, a reduced image is generated by thinning out or filtering the data, and a multi-image display is performed to perform image search and selection. It is easy to do. In such an image file device, two or more types, or
It is easy to provide two or more external storage media, transfer image data between the media, and perform backup.

Various digital storage devices such as an FD (floppy disk), a memory card, and an HD (hard disk) can be considered as external storage media for recording means such as a RAM incorporated therein. There are advantages and disadvantages such as speed, running cost, and the like, and a medium with low running cost is used for backup.

As a copying method, all image data files on one medium are transferred to the other medium, and all copies (ALL COPY) for copying and one image data file on one medium are copied. One-frame copy (COPY) for transferring to the other medium and copying is conceivable.

[0008]

However, in the above-described one-frame copying in the image file device which is a conventional image information handling device, the image data of the copy source is checked and a copy frame is selected. Since copying is performed one by one, the copying operation is quite complicated.

Further, if all the copies are made, the copying can be performed at once, and the operation can be performed only once. However, the copying is performed up to the unnecessary frames, and the operation of erasing the unnecessary frames is required later. Met.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and provides an image information handling apparatus which can easily copy image data in order to easily sort and arrange the data of image files. The purpose is to do.

[0011]

The present invention has a plurality of information recording medium mounting portions or an information recording medium mounting portion adapted to a plurality of types of information recording media, and is mounted on the information recording medium mounting portion. An image information handling apparatus in which an image file can be copied between information recording media, and a plurality of information recording media stored in an information recording medium mounted on the information recording medium mounting unit on an applied monitor screen. Multi-screen display means for displaying images as a multi-screen in a list, and copying for executing the copying in accordance with the selected order with respect to an image file specified as a copy target by selecting an arbitrary image from the multi-screen An image information handling apparatus comprising an order setting means.

[0012]

According to the present invention, an image information handling apparatus having a plurality of information recording medium mounting portions or an information recording medium mounting portion adapted to a plurality of types of information recording media is provided. Image files can be copied between recording media. The multi-screen display means displays a plurality of images stored in the information recording medium mounted on the information recording medium mounting unit as a multi-screen on the applied monitor screen. The copy order setting means executes the copy in accordance with the selected order with respect to an image file specified as a copy target by selecting an arbitrary image from the multi-screen.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an image file handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, in a state where a remote controller transmitter, a modem, a memory card (PC card), an FD and the like are connected or mounted. It is a block diagram.

As shown in FIG. 1, a recording medium, which is an information recording medium for image information of an image file applicable to the image file device 1, includes a memory card 3 and a floppy disk (hereinafter referred to as FD). 5, a memory card and a memory card I / O serving as a plurality of information recording medium mounting units for the FD, as described later.
It has the same slot as F19 and an FDD (floppy disk drive) 21. In this embodiment, the memory card 3 and the FD 5 are used as the recording media. However, a removable hard disk, a magneto-optical disk, or the like can be used as the recording medium. Media, for example, memory cards may be used.

The image file device 1 of this embodiment includes an A / D block 11 for digitizing a video input signal and converting it into digital video data;
D / A block 12 for A-converting and outputting an analog video signal, digital video data for one screen is stored, and companding block 13 for compressing and expanding the stored video data, and A / D blocks 11 and D / A block 1
2. A system controller (system controller) block 14 for controlling the operation of the companding block 13 to control recording and reproduction on the medium, a remote control light receiving unit 15, an operation switch group 16, and a display unit 17 for displaying an operation state. , An RS-232 CI / F section 18 serving as an information recording medium mounting section, a memory card I / F 19, a hard disk drive (HD) 20, and a floppy disk drive (FD).
D) 21 and a reproduced image display monitor 30.

The A / D block 11 includes an RGB matrix circuit, a chroma decoder, a Y / C separation circuit, and an A / D block.
It is composed of a converter, TBC and the like. Then, a composite video signal, Y / C separation signal, R
The BG signal and the like are converted into Y / CR / CB data, digitized, and supplied to the video bus 24.

The D / A block 12 is a multi-screen display means for displaying a reproduced image, and includes a chroma encoder,
It comprises an RGB matrix circuit, a D / A converter, a video driver and the like. And the video bus 24
Receiving the Y / CR / CB digital data supplied from the controller, a composite video signal, a Y / C separated signal, RGB
The video signal is converted into a signal, and the video signal is output from a video output terminal to a reproduced image display monitor 30 which is a multi-screen display unit.

The companding (compression / expansion) block 13 comprises a RAM / A 13a as a compression data memory, a CODER 13b as a coder, and a VRAM 13 as a frame memory.
c. However, the companding block 13 is
A configuration other than the above may be used.

The video bus 24 stores video data for one screen in the VRAM 13c, which is the frame memory, outputs the stored video data to the video bus 24, and compresses and decompresses the video data.
3b compresses the video data and outputs the compressed data to the RAM-A 13a which is a compressed data memory.

On the other hand, the compressed data is read from the RAM-A 13a which is a compressed data memory, decompressed by a coder 13b which is a coder, and expanded in a VRAM 13c which is a frame memory.

The system controller block 14 includes a CPU 14
a, a CG (character generator) 14b, a RAM-B 14c as a random access memory, a read only memory 14a, an EEPROM 14e, an FDC (floppy disk controller) 14f, a hard disk controller (not shown), and the like.

The CPU 14a also has a built-in image file selection / copying means. Based on the code described in the ROM 14d, the A / D block 11, D / A
The block 12 and the companding circuit 13 are controlled. This control
Switch group 16, remote control light receiving unit 15, RS-232C
This is performed by a signal specified by the I / F 18. And
The CPU 14a sends the R
OM14a, RAM-B14c, EEPROM14e,
The A / D block 11, the D / A block 12, the access to the FDC 14f, etc.
By accessing the mode setting / readout register of the companding circuit 13, the RAM-A 13a of the compressed data memory, the VRAM 13c, and the like, the mode control, recording, reproduction, and the like of the apparatus are executed.

FIG. 2 shows an operation panel 1 of the main body 1 of the apparatus.
3A is a diagram illustrating a state of arrangement of a switch group 16, a display unit 17, a media insertion slot, and the like in FIG.

The POWER switch 101 shown in FIG.
Press to turn power on or off. SET
The button 102 is pressed to display the setting menu screen on the monitor 30. The DISPLAY button 103 is pressed to switch the information display such as the recording status, and at that time, the frame NO. Remaining capacity is CG (character generator) 14
b. The ↑ button 104, which is a direction key,
Press to change frame order, change cursor / item, contents. The ↓ button 105, which is also a direction key,
Press to change cursor / item / contents. The ← button 106, which is a directional key, is pressed during cursor / item and two-screen scrolling. The direction button → button 107 is
Press when cursor / item and two-screen scroll.

The COMP2 button 108 is a vertically divided 2
Press to change screen playback / operation screen. COMP
The 4 button 109 is pressed when the 4-screen comparison reproduction / operation screen is changed. The MULTI 16 button 110 is pressed at the time of search during 4 × 4 multi-screen reproduction. FRM / FLD button 11
1 is pressed when switching between the frame mode and the field mode, the frame mode is selected by the operation, and the FRM LED 112 is turned on when a frame image is reproduced. When the field mode is selected and a field image is reproduced, the FLD LED 113 is turned on. P
The LAY button 114 is pressed during one-frame playback. IN
The T PLAY LED 115 lights up during the interval playback standby mode and interval playback. STO
The P button 116 is pressed when the operation is stopped, and a through image is displayed on the screen by this operation. However, the initialization process cannot be stopped halfway.

Further, the COPY button 117 is pressed at the time of one-frame copy (COPY), and one frame is reproduced by this operation, and a copy standby mode is set. ALL COPY
The button 118 is pressed at the time of all-frame copying (ALL COPY), and this operation enters the all-frame copying standby mode. The FORMAT button 119 is pressed when the medium is initialized, and the operation enters the initialization standby mode. The ERASE button 120 is pressed when erasing one frame,
With this operation, one frame is reproduced, and one frame erasure standby mode is set. The ALL ERASE button 121 is pressed when erasing all frames, and the operation switches to a standby mode for erasing all frames. The REC button 122 is pressed during single-frame recording, and a freeze image is displayed on the screen by this operation, and a recording standby mode is set. The INT REC button 123 lights up during interval recording standby and interval recording. The START button 124 is pressed when executing processing from each standby mode.

Further, the CARD / FD button 125 is pressed at the time of media selection / copy direction selection. CARD L
The ED 126 selects a memory card and lights up when the memory card is a copy source. The FD LED 127 selects a floppy disk and lights up when the floppy disk is a copy source. CARD ← FD LED128
Is lit when the copy direction is from a floppy disk to a memory card. CARD → FD LED129
Lights when the copy direction is from a memory card to a floppy disk. CONST QUALITY LED13
0 lights up when the compression mode is the constant quality mode. NORMAL SIZELED 131 is
Lights when the compression mode is the normal size mode. E
The CONOMY SIZE LED 132 is lit when the compression mode is the economy size mode. Fine L
The ED 133 lights when the compression mode is the fine mode.

Further, a frame number LED 134 displays a current frame number. Remote control light receiving window 135 receives communication light of the remote control.

The card insertion slot 136 is an insertion slot for the memory card 3, and the card access LED 137 is turned on when the memory card 3 is being accessed. The card insertion surface display 138 is a display for inserting the memory card 3 so that the memory card insertion surface and the surface of the memory card 3 face each other.
The card eject button 139 is an eject button for taking out the memory card 3. The FD insertion port 140 is
D5 insertion slot, and the FD eject button 142
5 is an eject button for taking out 5. And FD
The access LED 141 is turned on when the FD 5 is being accessed.

Display of a multi-image in the image file device of the present embodiment configured as described above is performed as follows. That is, the data of each frame of the memory card 3 is read out via the memory card I / F 19, and is transferred via the internal bus 22 and the external bus 23 to the RAM-A 13.
a. VRAM1 sent from CPU 14a
The image is reduced and expanded on the VRAM 13c starting from the address on the address 3c.

As a specific key operation at the time of reproducing a multi-image, first, selection of a frame to be reproduced at the beginning of multi-image display is performed by operating the ↑ button 104 and the ↓ button 105. The image is reproduced and displayed on the monitor 30 like the multi-image display screen M1 in FIG. Note that unrecorded frames and frames other than image data are displayed on a blue screen.

Subsequently, when the MULTI 16 button 110 is pressed, a display scene M2 of 16 frames of the multi-image after the selected frame is reproduced and displayed on the monitor 30 from the multi-image display screen M1 as shown in FIG.

In this way, image data for 16 frames is developed on the VRAM 13c, and a 4 × 4 16-screen multi-image is displayed. The number of frames on the multi-display screen is not limited to 4 × 4, but may be in the form of 3 × 3, 5 × 5, 6 × 6, or the like.

Next, a description will be given, with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 5, of the operation of selecting the frame for copying and erasing and executing the copying and erasing in the multi-image display state.

First, it is checked in step S1 whether another mode button has been pressed.
Jump to step 4 and proceed to other mode processing. If it is not pressed, the flow advances to step S2 to check whether the cursor has moved, that is, whether the cursor has moved along with the operation of the ↑ button 104, ↓ button 105, ← button 106, → button 107 on the multi-screen 16. If there is a movement, the process proceeds to step S5 to perform a cursor moving process, and then returns to step S1. If there is no movement, the process proceeds to step S3, and the frame NO. Check whether the START button 124 for registering is pressed,
If pressed, the process proceeds to step S6. Step S above
6, the frame No. at the current cursor position is displayed. Register

After step S6, the process proceeds to step S7 to check whether the mode button is pressed. If pressed, the process proceeds to step S13 described below. If it is not pressed, the process proceeds to step S8, where it is checked whether or not the cursor has moved on the multi 16 screen. If there is a movement, the process proceeds to step S16, performs a cursor moving process, and returns to step S7. If there is no movement, the process proceeds to step S9, where the frame NO. It is checked whether or not the START button 124 for registering or deleting is pressed.
Go to 10.

In step S10, the frame No. It is determined whether the process is a registration process or a deletion process. Register If it is a deletion process, jump to step S12,
Frame No. To delete. Note that the above frame No. The registration process is performed for the currently unregistered frame number. When the START button 124 is pressed while the cursor is positioned above, the frame No. at the cursor position is pressed. Is registered.

On the other hand, the above frame No. The deletion process is performed for the already registered frame number. When the START button 124 is pressed with the cursor positioned at the top, this frame No. Is executed.

Thereafter, a plurality of frames are registered or
In the case of erasing, after returning to step S7, the frame NO. Will be registered or deleted.

The registration processing in step S11 is as follows.
In accordance with the designation of either the sequential (S) or the random (R) selected by the copy processing option in the mode setting processing to be described later, the frame NO. Is registered. In the case of the sequential (S) designation, the frame No. designated by the cursor movement is selected. Are copied in ascending order. In the case of random (R) designation, the frame numbers are assigned in the order of selection and designation. Is registered. When copying, the copying is performed according to the registration order.

When jumping to step S13,
Check the press mode button and press the COPY button 117 or ERA
If the SE button 120 has been pressed, the process proceeds to step S15. When another mode button is pressed, the process proceeds to step S14, and the corresponding mode process is executed. Step S above
In step 15, the registered frame No. The image data of the frame is copied or deleted. The order of the copy is determined by the frame number registered in the sequential (S) or random (R). Are executed in the order of registration.

As described above, when the copy process is performed, the number of the frame to be copied to the copy destination medium is determined. Or
Frame No. for erasure Can be specified on the multi-screen. In particular, when copying a plurality of frames, the frame number Frame No. in the order of the youngest or multi-screen Can be copied in the designated order, so that the image data can be edited efficiently such as changing the order.

Further, when a plurality of frames are copied or erased, the frame number on the multi-screen is changed. Can be specified by a single copy or delete operation.

Next, the present image file apparatus can set a mode such as an input mode and a compression processing mode.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the set button 102 is pressed, and the display screen is set to the setting menu screen M10 of the first page in FIG. 6 and the setting mode is set. In this state, it is possible to set an interval for interval recording, an interval for interval reproduction, or a compression mode.
Therefore, in step S21, it is determined whether or not the current setting screen is to be switched. If the current setting screen is to be switched, the process jumps to step S28 to switch the setting menu screen. After the switching, the setting screen M20 of the second page in FIG. 7 is displayed. In this setting mode, the user can move to the sub-setting screen of the RS-232C, move to the sub-setting menu screen of clock setting, set the file name, set the copy mode, and the like.

In step S22, an instruction to end the setting on the setting menu screen is sent to the END on the setting screens M10 and M20.
Is specified, the setting process ends.

When the process proceeds to steps S23, S24 and S25, it is checked whether there is a copy mode setting or a subdirectory generation setting. In the setting operation, in the display state of the setting menu screen M20 in FIG. 7, the cursor in which the character color is displayed in red is moved to the item portion to be set by pressing the ↑ button 104 and the ↓ button 105, and further, → Press the button 107 to move the cursor to the right. So ↑ button 104, ↓ button 1
Press 05 to specify the setting value or setting mode.

In step S23, it is determined whether or not the sequential (S) or random (R) copy order mode is designated. If specified,
Jumping to step S29, the sequential (S) or random (R) is set by switching the display on the right side of the display COPY / ACCESS on the setting menu screen M20 in FIG. I do.

In step S24, it is checked whether a subdirectory for storing image data on the copy destination medium is created. If it is to be created, the process jumps to step S30 to create a subdirectory described later.

In this case, by setting the display on the right side of the display COPY / SUB DIR on the setting menu screen M20 of FIG. 7 to ON or OFF, it is set whether to generate or not to generate.

In step S25, a check is made as to whether a subdirectory name is to be set.
Jump to 1 and set the subdirectory name.

In step S26, it is checked whether or not to specify the mode of another item. If the mode is specified, the flow advances to step S27 to set another item.

Next, the subdirectory generation processing on the copy destination medium in step S30 will be described. Prior to the description, the processing of the medium in the DOS (DISK OPERATION SYSTEM) applied to the image data processing of this apparatus will be described. The logical structure will be described.

FIG. 9 is a memory map on a logical structure of a recording medium such as a memory card. As shown in this figure, the memory area is a boot sector reserved area 20 which is a management area.
1, a FAT area 202, 202A, a root directory entry area 203, and a data area 204 as a main information recording area. However, copy data of the FAT data in the FAT data 202 is recorded in the FAT data 202A, and is referred to when the data in the FAT data 202 is broken. FIG. 9 shows the volume of each area in sector units and the start address of each area.

The boot sector 201 contains BP, which is logical structure data of a recording medium such as the logical sector length, the number of tracks, and the number of sectors per track of the memory card.
B (BIOS PARAMETER BLOCK) information is recorded.

The FAT information recorded in the FAT area 202 is recorded in each FAT entry, and indicates the reservation information of the system and the configuration of a series of clusters in the data area 204 in which the data body of each file is stored. And the chain format information shown. F other than the above reservation information
The AT entry number has a one-to-one correspondence with the cluster number in which the file data body is divided and stored. Also,
The cluster is a unit of a memory in which the data body is divided and stored, and the size of the cluster is a predetermined number of sectors defined in the boot sector 201, for example, two sectors. You.

The FAT data in the above-mentioned chain format means that, of a set of cluster numbers in the data area constituting each file data body, the succeeding cluster numbers are written in the FAT entry corresponding to each cluster. It is a thing. Therefore, by reading the FAT data, it is possible to know where and in which cluster a series of data of each file is stored in the data area 204, and to read the data of each file from the data area 204. it can.

However, the leading cluster number of the series of cluster numbers of each file is written in a directory entry described later. To search the data body of the file, the FAT entry is calculated from the leading cluster number. Are sequentially searched.

The root directory area 203 records the entry information of the root directory, and the root directory also includes information of the generated subdirectory.

Then, in order to improve the searchability of the image data of the copy destination medium, a subdirectory is generated on the data area of the memory of the medium, and the image data is copied to the subdirectory. This subdirectory is generated in the data area 204 on the memory area of the memory card 3 in FIG. Then, the image file main body corresponding to the subdirectory is written in an unrecorded data area which is the remaining capacity of the medium.

The generation of the subdirectory is automatically performed in step S30 of the mode setting process shown in FIG. 8, and the subdirectory name is automatically set at the same time.

The automatically set subdirectory name is composed of a device-specific part and a serial number part. For example,
It becomes "J6ISB A 01". In this case, "J6I
“SB” is a unique code indicating the image file device,
"A" is a part indicating the corresponding subdirectory,
“01” is a serial number portion of the corresponding subdirectory. The part "A" can be separately designated by the user ("FI" on the setting menu screen M20 in FIG. 7).
LE NAME ”).
When a name is automatically generated, a code registered in the CPU 14a is sequentially assigned. Then, the image file to be copied is registered in the generated subdirectory.

In this way, the image files are grouped by copying them on the subdirectory,
Registration becomes possible, and image data can be efficiently arranged.

It is also possible for the user to specify whether or not to create this subdirectory. In this case, the user presses the COPY button 117 to enter the copy standby state, and FIG. Is displayed, and the display on the right side of the display "SUB DIR" can be switched ON or OFF and designated.

In the case of this embodiment, the size of the area of the generated subdirectory is set in cluster units corresponding to the number of frames of the image file that can be recorded in the unrecorded data area at the time of generation. The size of one image file at that time is determined by the image file size according to the compression mode. In a personal computer or the like, when a sub-directory is generated, usually only one cluster is reserved. When the number of files recorded in the sub-directory increases, the arrangement of the sub-directory may vary. . However, in the apparatus of the present embodiment, the size of the subdirectory is determined in consideration of the remaining capacity of the medium, so that the area of one generated subdirectory is not dispersed, and the FAT data of the subdirectory is discontinuous. And the speed of accessing the image file does not decrease.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the operation of the image file apparatus.
15 is a flowchart of a subdirectory generation process for setting a subdirectory area for a copy destination medium.

In steps S41 and S42, it is determined whether there is a subdirectory already registered, and if a subdirectory has been registered, whether the subdirectory is a subdirectory generated by the image file apparatus. To check. Then, if there is no registered subdirectory, or even if there is a registered subdirectory, the subdirectory is not generated by the apparatus, the subdirectory is allocated in step S45, and the subdirectory 1 is generated. FIG. 11 shows a setting state of the data area 204 of the medium at that time.

The registered subdirectory 1
If the subdirectory 1 has been created by the image file device, the process proceeds to step S4.
Proceed to 3. Therefore, it is checked whether there is an unregistered cluster in the subdirectory. If there is an unregistered cluster, the sub directory is allocated in step S46, and the sub directory 2 is generated. FIG. 12 shows a setting state of the data area 204 of the medium at that time. In this case, unrecorded clusters are allocated to the sub directories 1 and 2 at a predetermined ratio.

Further, if there is no unregistered cluster, the process proceeds to step S44, where it is checked whether there is any remaining cluster even if an area in which an empty cluster can record one frame is secured. If it is determined that there is a surplus, the sub directory is allocated in step S47, and the sub directory 2 is generated. Data area 204 of the media at that time
FIG. 13 shows the setting state of. In this case, the subdirectory 2 is provided on a data area which is not adjacent to the area of the subdirectory 1 but is separated.

If it is determined in step S44 that there is no extra cluster, the process jumps to step S48 to perform processing such as a display indicating that a subdirectory cannot be created.

As described above, there are the following two methods for setting the subdirectory area based on the remaining capacity, which can be selected and set by the user.

In the first method, the number of files that can be registered in the data area is determined based on the file size created in the currently set compression mode, and an area that allows the file to be registered in all subdirectories is determined. This is a method of assigning to a subdirectory.

The second method is to determine the number of files that can be registered in the data area when the fixed length mode for compressing with the minimum file size that can be set in the image file device is selected, This is a method of allocating an area that can be registered to a subdirectory to a subdirectory.

In the first and second setting methods, the assumed number of files F is expressed by the following equation. The size of one entry in the directory is 32 bytes.

Assumed number of files F = number of clusters in data area D / number of clusters E occupied by assumed file size Then, when the number of clusters E occupied by the assumed file size is calculated, for example, the first method is used. If
At present, when the frame mode is selected in the normal size mode, the file size of one frame is 96 KB, and the number of clusters occupied by the assumed file size E = 96 K
B / cluster size (KB) (rounded up to the decimal point) On the other hand, in the case of the second method, in the economy size mode, and in the case of field recording, the file size of one frame is 48 KB, and the number of clusters occupied by the assumed file size E = 48K
B / cluster size (KB) (rounded up below the decimal point). The assumed number of files F is obtained based on the number of clusters E.

Therefore, assuming that the size of the area to be secured as a subdirectory is G, G = the expected number of files F × 32 bytes. The number of clusters H occupied by the size G of the area to be secured as the subdirectory is H = G / cluster size (rounded up to the decimal point).

In a file copy process, when a conventional personal computer or the like executes one-frame copy (COPY) or all-copy (ALL COPY),
When the capacity of the copy destination media became insufficient, the operation was stopped. However, in the image file device of this embodiment, even if it is detected that the copy destination medium has insufficient capacity, the copy mode or the full copy mode is not canceled. Then, when the copy destination medium is exchanged, when the START button 124 is pressed,
Since the copying is restarted and continued, the copying operation becomes very easy.

When continuing the copy operation,
Display the setting menu screen, and instruct the automatic format (AUTO FORMAT) there,
The above copy operation can be continued.

FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of the copy processing. The copy processing is executed by the processing from step S51 to step S60. The main process is to check whether a sufficient unrecorded data area remains in the copy destination medium (step S52), and execute the copy (step S5).
1).

If the unrecorded data area is not left, the process for shifting to another mode process is checked (step S54 and the like), and after the exchange of the media is confirmed (step S56), the loaded media is checked. Check the input of the instruction to execute the format (step S57),
An initialization process is performed (Step S57). Thereafter, a copy process is executed (step S60).

[0082]

According to the image information handling apparatus of the present invention, in an apparatus capable of copying image files between information recording media, a plurality of images are displayed as a multi-screen at a glance,
By selecting an arbitrary plurality of images from the multi-screen, based on the selected order, it is possible to collectively execute the copying for a plurality of image files,
Classification and arrangement of image file data can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an image file handling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a state where an FD, a modem, and the like are connected.

FIG. 2 is a layout diagram of a front panel of the image filing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a multi-screen display state of a monitor in the image filing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a view showing a switching state of a multi-screen display on a monitor in the image filing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a frame selection process in the image file device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a view showing a first page of a setting menu screen in the image file device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a second page of a setting menu screen in the image file device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a mode setting process in the image file device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a memory map of a medium applied to the image file device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a subdirectory generation process in the image file device of FIG. 1;

11 is an example showing a map of a data area when a subdirectory of a medium is generated in the image file device of FIG. 1;

12 is another example showing a map of a data area when a subdirectory of a medium is generated in the image file device of FIG. 1;

13 is still another example showing a map of a data area when a subdirectory of a medium is generated in the image file device of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart of a copy process in the image file device of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 image file device (image information handling device) 3 memory card (information recording medium) 5 FD (information recording medium) 12 D / A block (multi-screen display means) 14a CPU (copy order setting means) 19 memory card I / F (Information recording medium mounting section) 21 FDD (Information recording medium mounting section) 30 Monitor (multi-screen display means)

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An information recording medium mounting portion adapted to a plurality of information recording medium mounting portions or a plurality of types of information recording media;
An image information handling apparatus in which an image file can be copied between information recording media mounted on the information recording medium mounting portion, wherein the image file is mounted on the information recording medium mounting portion on an applied monitor screen. Multi-screen display means for displaying a plurality of images stored in the information recording medium as a multi-screen in a list, and selecting the image file specified as a copy target by selecting an arbitrary image from the multi-screen And a copying order setting means for executing the copying in accordance with the order.