JPH0887265A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an image information processor capable of performing an excellent display corresponding to various vertically long and horizontally long objects. CONSTITUTION: Two kinds of display formats of a vertical display format for vertical display and a horizontal display format for horizontal display are stored in a main memory 38, and the display is performed on a screen of a CRT display 24 by the vertical display format when the vertical display is selected, and by the horizontal display format when the horizontal display is selected.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information processing device such as an electronic filing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An electronic filing apparatus for optically reading drawings, documents and the like and recording them on a recording medium such as an optical disk is
A large amount of drawings and documents can be compactly stored in a recording medium.

In such an electronic filing device, a CRT or the like is used as a display means for displaying image information read by scanning an original with an optical reading device, a so-called scanner, or image information read from a recording medium such as an optical disk. Is provided with a display device. And
In addition to the image information display area, an area for displaying information for operating the device such as icons is provided at the end of the display screen of this display device to receive command input from the keyboard, mouse, etc. Many have been designed to improve operability. In the conventional electronic filing device, the display format (display format) of such icons is fixed for each device.

[0004]

However, the documents handled by the electronic filing device include a vertically long document and a horizontally long document. In the conventional electronic filing device described above, image information is displayed depending on a display area such as an icon. Since the display area of is small, depending on the documents to be handled, the image information may have to be reduced to a smaller size, or part of the image information may not be displayed, which may make the display screen difficult to see. was there.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an image information processing apparatus capable of excellent display corresponding to various vertically and horizontally long objects. There is.

[0006]

That is, the invention according to claim 1 is a display unit for displaying image information read by scanning an original or image information read from a recording medium, and a display screen of the display unit. Storage means for storing at least two display formats for displaying information for operating the device at the end of the display, and storage means for storing at least two types of vertical display format and horizontal display format. A processing means for displaying a horizontally-converted image, a selection means for selecting whether the image information is displayed vertically or horizontally on the display means, and a case where a vertical display is selected by the selection means. If the horizontal display format is selected as the vertical display format, the horizontal display format is displayed on the display means, and the image information is rotated by the image rotation processing means as necessary and displayed on the display means. Characterized by comprising a that control means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the image information processing apparatus according to the first aspect further comprises a reduction means for reducing the image information and displaying it on the display means.

Further, the invention according to claim 3 is based on claim 1
2. In the image information processing apparatus according to 2, the vertical display format is mainly for displaying information for operating the apparatus at a lateral end portion of a display screen, and the horizontal display format is for operating the apparatus. It is characterized in that the information is mainly displayed on the vertical end portion of the display screen.

Further, the invention according to claim 4 is based on claim 1
2. The image information processing apparatus according to 2, wherein the vertical display format is for displaying icons for operating the apparatus mainly at a lateral end portion of a display screen, and the horizontal display format is for operating the apparatus. It is characterized in that the icon is mainly displayed on the vertical edge of the display screen.

[0010]

In the present invention, the information such as the icon for operating the device is displayed in different display formats depending on whether the portrait display is performed or the horizontal display is performed.
That is, for example, when a vertical display for displaying a vertically long one is performed, an icon or the like is mainly displayed at the horizontal end portion of the display screen, while when a horizontal display for displaying a horizontally long one is performed, Since icons etc. are displayed at the vertical (vertical) end of the display screen, it is possible to secure an area for displaying image information according to the shape of the display target, and support various vertically and horizontally long targets. Therefore, good display can be performed.

[0011]

The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The electronic filing device shown in FIG. 1 includes a control module 10, a memory module 12, an image processing module 14, a communication control module 16, and a scanner device 1.
8, optical disk 19 and optical disk device 20, keyboard 23, CRT display device 24, printer device 25, magnetic disk 26 and magnetic disk device 27,
It is composed of a mouse 29, a system bus 30, and an image bus 32.

The control module 10 is a CPU 34 that performs various controls for storing, retrieving and editing images.
And an interface circuit 36 that connects the optical disk device 20 and the magnetic disk device 27 to the CPU 34. The keyboard 34 and the mouse 29 are connected to the CPU 34.

The memory module 12 has a main memory 38 for storing various control programs such as image storage, retrieval and editing, and management information, and a storage capacity corresponding to an image of several pages of A4 size originals. It has a page memory 40 as an image memory, a display memory 42 as a display interface, and a display controller 44. As will be described later, the main memory 38 stores two types of display formats: a vertical display format for vertical display (vertical display format) and a horizontal display format for horizontal display (horizontal display format). In addition, in a part of the page memory 40,
A buffer memory area 40a is provided. The page memory 40 stores the image data stored in the optical disc 19, for example.
It is a memory for temporarily storing the image data read from the data and the optical disk 19.

The display memory 42 temporarily stores the image data of the image displayed on the CRT display device 24. The display memory 42 includes a CRT display device 24.
The image data actually displayed in the display window in, for example, the image from the page memory 40 or the image from the buffer memory 40a has been enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted, or reversed in black and white. -Remember

The display control unit 44 controls the display processing of the CRT display device 24 and the like. The image processing module 14 is an enlarging / reducing circuit 4 for enlarging and reducing an image.
6. A vertical / horizontal conversion circuit 48 that performs image rotation processing, an encoding process that performs image compression (reduces redundancy) and a decoding process that performs decoding processing that restores (reduces the reduced redundancy). Circuit (CODEC) 50, scanner device 1
8 scanner interface 52, printer device 2
5, the printer interface 54, the enlargement / reduction circuit 46, the vertical / horizontal conversion circuit 48, and the compression / expansion circuit 5.
0, scanner interface 52, printer interface
It is composed of an internal bus 56 connecting to the face 54.

The communication control module 16 is, for example, a BCP (Bu) connected to a local area network (LAN).
s Communication Processor) etc.
It is composed of a space 58. The communication control module 16 includes
FCP (facsimile connection mechanism), UCP (Univer) that connects to external devices such as personal computers via an interface
sal Communication Processor) may be provided.

The system bus 30 is a bus for control signals of various devices, and connects the control module 10, the memory module 12, the image processing module 14, and the communication control module 16. To do.

The image bus 32 is a bus for image data, and includes a memory module 12 and an image processing module 14.
And the communication control module 16 are connected.

The scanner device 18 is, for example, a manuscript (document).
It is composed of a two-dimensional scanning device which obtains an electric signal corresponding to an image on a document by two-dimensionally scanning the upper part with laser beam light.

The optical disk device 20 includes a scanner interface.
The image data of the image read by the scanner device 18 via the face 20a is sequentially stored in the optical disc 19, and the image data corresponding to the search code designated by the keyboard 23 or the like is stored. Search from the optical disc 19.

The keyboard 23 is used to input various operation commands such as storage, retrieval, and edit processing.

The mouse 29 is, for example, a cursor (not shown) displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24, which can be moved vertically or horizontally to give an instruction at a desired position. -Used to select or indicate the display contents where the sol is located (various operation modes, titles or area designations or icons for image editing, etc.).

The CRT display device 24 includes an image data read by the scanner device 18 and the optical disk 19.
An image is displayed based on the image data retrieved from.
As will be described later, icons and the like are displayed at the vertical and horizontal ends on the display window of the CRT display device 24 as information for operating the device.

The printer device 25 prints out an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18, an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk 19 or an image displayed on the CRT display device 24 ( Hard copy).

The magnetic disk device 27 stores various control programs on the mounted magnetic disk 26, and stores a search code input by an operation described later and image data corresponding to the search code. Stored is search data (search information) including a storage address on the optical disk 19 stored, a screen size, a search frequency, and the like.

The search data stored on the magnetic disk 26 is managed by a document management table of a predetermined format. As shown in FIG. 2, the document management table includes a title management table 26a and a page management table.
It is composed of a bull 26b and a record management table 26c.

The title management table 26a stores one document number corresponding to each search code (image name) consisting of a plurality of search keys.

The page management table 26b stores a record number for each page of one document, and one record number is stored for each page.

The record management table 26c contains a record.
The storage address (storage start position) of the image data on the optical disk 19, the document size (image size), the image attributes such as the compression method and resolution, and the search frequency (access frequency) are stored for each code number. .

The storage address is a logical address, and the physical track address and the physical sector address are calculated from the storage address when accessing the image data.

In the electronic filing apparatus configured as described above, the image data read by the scanner device 18 is read.
The operation of displaying on the CRT display device 24 based on the data retrieved from the optical disc 19 and the image data will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

The image data sent from the scanner device 18 or the optical disk device 20 is stored in the page memory 40.
(201).

When the vertical display is set (202), the image data in the page memory 40 is reduced by the enlargement / reduction circuit 46 as necessary (203), and then combined with the vertical display format. Then, it is sent to the display memory 42 (204) and a vertical display as shown in FIG. 3 is performed on the screen of the CRT display device 24 (205).

In this embodiment, the display control unit 4
Vertical display is normally set in 4, and image information is vertically displayed on the CRT display device 24. Further, in FIG. 3, 100 is an image information display area, 101 is an icon display area arranged at the right end in the figure, and 102 is a display image based on image information.

On the other hand, if the horizontal display is set, (2
02), the image data in the page memory 40 is rotated by 90 degrees in the vertical / horizontal conversion circuit 48 to be vertically / horizontally converted (210),
After reduction by the enlargement / reduction circuit 46 as necessary (21
1) The horizontal display format stored in the main memory 38 is read (212), the horizontal display format and the image information are combined (213), and then sent to the display memory 42 for CRT.
Horizontal display as shown in FIG. 4 is performed on the screen of the display device 24 (205).

In FIG. 4, 100 is an image information display area, 101 is an icon display area arranged at the lower end of the figure, and 102 is a display image based on image information. The horizontal display is selected by the horizontal display designating switch provided on the scanner device 18 or the keyboard 2
3. It is performed by operating the mouse 29.

As described above, according to this embodiment, in the case of the vertical display for displaying a vertically long document or the like, as shown in FIG. 3, the icon display area 101 is displayed at the horizontal end (right end) of the display screen. In the case of the horizontal display for displaying a horizontally long document or the like, the icon display area 101 is displayed at the vertical end (lower end) of the display screen as shown in FIG. Therefore, the image information display area 100 can be effectively used, for example, the image information can be displayed in a larger size and more overall, and a better display can be performed as compared with the related art.

[0040]

As described above, according to the image information processing apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to perform excellent display in correspondence with various vertically and horizontally long objects.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an electronic filing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the electronic filing device in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a display screen of the electronic filing device in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of a display screen of the electronic filing device in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Control module, 12 ... Memory module, 14
Image processing module, 18 scanner device, 19 optical disk, 20 optical disk device, 26 magnetic disk, 27 magnetic disk device.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A display unit for displaying image information read by scanning a document or image information read from a recording medium, and information for operating the apparatus at an end portion of a display screen of the display unit. Storage means for storing at least two types of display formats for vertical display format and horizontal display format; processing means for rotating the image information to display an image whose height and width have been converted on the display means; Selecting means for selecting whether the image information is displayed vertically or horizontally on the display means; and the selecting means for selecting the vertical display format when the vertical display is selected, and when the horizontal display is selected for the vertical display format. An image comprising a horizontal display format on the display means and a control means for rotating the image information by the image rotation processing means as necessary and displaying the image information on the display means. Broadcast processing apparatus. 2. The image information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reduction unit that reduces the image information and displays it on the display unit. 3. The image information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the vertical display format is for displaying information for operating the apparatus mainly at a lateral end portion of a display screen, and the horizontal display format. The format is an image information processing apparatus, characterized in that information for operating the apparatus is mainly displayed at a vertical end portion of a display screen. 4. The image information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the vertical display format is for displaying icons for operating the apparatus mainly at a lateral end portion of a display screen, and the horizontal display. The format is an image information processing apparatus, characterized in that icons for operating the apparatus are mainly displayed on the vertical end portion of the display screen.