JPS62135383A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable patterns in various display forms to be used for displaying and printing, by providing displaying patterns and printing patterns in different dot densities, and providing a pattern data switching means. CONSTITUTION:A displaying font for one character stored in a font pack 1a is constituted of, for example, 12X12 dots, whereas a printing font for one character stored in the font pack 1a is constituted of, for example, 24X24 dots. After data are inputted through an input device 3, a printing font corresponding to a displaying font displayed on a display device 4 is read from a printing pattern 1c to be sequentially outputted to a printer 5 only when it is discriminated that the operating mode is a printing mode. Accordingly, by preparing memory packs in various display forms, patterns in various forms can be outputted to the display device and the printer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image information processing apparatus equipped with a printing device such as an electronic typewriter or a Japanese word processor, and a display device.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, devices of this type have only patterns such as characters for display, and only use patterns of a single display form.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] In addition, since the display font pattern built into the main body had only one font for one character,
It has not been possible to output to a display device a number of character formats that are printed on printing devices, such as pyrographs, Fourier characters, and the like.

The present invention aims to eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art described above.

[Means for Solving the Problem] As a means for solving this problem, the image information processing apparatus of this embodiment uses pattern data that is divided into a display pattern to be displayed on a display device and a printing pattern to be printed on a printing device. The apparatus has a switching means that has patterns having different dot densities, and that when outputting the pattern data to a display device and a printing device, switches between reading the display pattern and the printing pattern and outputting them to the respective output devices.

[Operation] In the configuration of the image information processing apparatus of this embodiment, a pattern of the same type as the character form of a pattern displayed on a CRT or the like is outputted to a printing device.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Further, in this embodiment, a case will be described below in which a removable memory pack storing display patterns and printing patterns having different dot densities is attached to the main body.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the equipment configuration of this embodiment.

In the figure, 1a is a font pack containing built-in fonts for printing and display, 1b is a display pattern section that stores display patterns in font pack 1a, and 1c stores print patterns. This is the printed pattern section. 3 is an input device such as a key, and after receiving data from the key input device 3, 2 searches for the font of the character from the font pack and notifies the display device 4 of the display data; This is a control unit that outputs print data to. 6 is an RO in which the operation program of the flowchart in FIG. 4, which will be described later, is stored.
7 is a RAM used as a work area, etc.

FIG. 2 shows the detailed contents of the font pack 1. A display font for one character is represented by, for example, a 12×12 dot structure, and a print font for one character is represented by, for example, a 24×24 dot structure.

FIG. 3(a) shows an example of the display font "Aoo" of the font pack 1 shown in FIG. 2 when it is output to the display device 4.

Further, FIG. 3(b) shows how the printing font A'' of the font pack shown in FIG. 2 is printed on the printer.

When the font pattern "A" is input manually from the input device 3, the control unit 2 catches the input character "Ao" and inputs the data of the display font "A" and the print font "A" in the font back 1. I'm going to check it out.

Inside the font pack 1, bits 1 to 8 of the first column of the display font "A" shown in FIG. 12 or β
The part goes into address 2. 2nd and 3rd rows below...
Up to the 12th column has been entered, and the display font for one character consists of 24 pieces of data.

In the display font, in the case of an even address, that is, only 4 bits are required for the β part, so the upper 4 bits are ignored.

The data of printing font A'' shown in Fig. 3(b) is as follows:
Inside font pack 1, as shown in Fig. 2, the
The data from bits 1 to 8 of the column goes into the address, and from 9 to 1
6-bit data enters x+1 address, 17 to 24
Bit data is stored at x+2 address. Hereinafter, the data from the 2nd column, 3rd column, .

The central processing unit reads the data of the font pack 1 having the above configuration one by one and transfers it to the printing device 5 and the display device 4.

FIG. 4 is an example of a flowchart showing the progress of processing related to the operation explanation of this embodiment. The operation will be explained below according to this flowchart.

First, in step S1, display fonts that will become various display patterns and print fonts that will become printing patterns to be output to the printing device are loaded into the main body or wait until they are connected, and once they are connected or read, step S2 is performed. Manually input data from a human-powered device such as a keyboard. Here, for example, when a predetermined key is specified on the keyboard, the print mode is set. Next, in step S3, it is determined whether the input data is in the print mode or not, and if it is not in the print mode, the process moves to step S4, and the display font corresponding to the input data is read from the display pattern 1b and displayed. This operation is repeated until the output is output to the device 4 and the border printing mode is entered again in step S2. Also, step S3
When it is determined that it is in print mode, step S
The process moves to step 5, where the printing font corresponding to the display font displayed on the display device 4 is transferred to the printing pattern IC.
The data is read in and sequentially output to the printing device to complete the series of processing.

By performing the above operations, for example, when using an elite character pattern, which is one of the display formats, for the display pattern and print pattern stored in the memory pack, the elite Characters will be output.

As described above, according to this embodiment, by preparing memory packs with various display formats, it is possible to output patterns of various formats to the display device and the printing device.

In addition, the same type of character or symbol pattern displayed on a display device such as a CRT will be output on the printing bag surface, so when printing, etc. You can see what will be printed, and there will be no confusion.

In addition, by using a memory pack, there is no need to have memory for display fonts on the main unit side, which saves memory and allows characters that match the printing font to be output to the display font. This allows you to know the layout of the print.

In this embodiment, the display font is 12x12 dots, and the printing font is 24x24 dots, but the present invention is not limited to these.

Further, in this embodiment, a memory pack storing a display pattern and a print pattern has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and an external storage device such as a magnetic disk may be used instead of the memory pack. The same effect can be obtained even if the display and print patterns are read into the memory from the external storage device. At this time, by preparing patterns of various display formats on the magnetic disk etc., for example, when a pattern such as elite characters is specified, the display pattern and printing pattern corresponding to the elite characters can be read into the memory. become.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, patterns of various display forms can be used for display and printing.

Furthermore, when printing or the like, it is known in advance which type of characters or symbols will be printed, thereby eliminating confusion.

In addition, since there is no need to have memory for display fonts on the main body side, the amount of memory is saved, and characters that match the printing font can be output to the display font, and it is also possible to know the print layout from the display. can.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is an overall configuration diagram of this embodiment, Figure 2 is a diagram showing the storage state of patterns in the ROM, Figure 3 (a) is a diagram showing patterns for display, and Figure 3 (b) is a diagram showing the storage state of patterns in the ROM.
) is a diagram showing a pattern for printing, and FIG. 4 is an example of a flowchart according to this embodiment. In the figure, 1a... Font pack, 1b... Display pattern, IC... Printing pattern, 2... Control device, 3... Human power device, 4... Display device, 5... -Printing device, 6...ROM, 7...RAM. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 (0) Display fusund Fig. 3 (''b) AR official fusund Fig. 4

Claims (5)

[Claims] (1) An image information processing device that reads pattern data from the outside and outputs it to a predetermined output device. Change and hold,
When outputting the pattern data to the display device and the printing device, there is provided a switching means for switching and reading the display pattern and the printing pattern and outputting them to the respective output devices; An image information processing apparatus characterized in that when printing the display pattern displayed on the apparatus, the printing pattern corresponding to the display pattern is read and output to the printing apparatus. (2) The image information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display pattern and the print pattern have the same display form. (3) The image information processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pattern data is stored in a memory pack, and the memory pack is removable from the image information processing device. . (4) The image information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pattern data is stored in an external storage device. (5) The image information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the pattern data is a font pattern of characters or symbols.