CN1037975A - The graphic display system of energy cutting out partial images - Google Patents

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CN1037975A
CN1037975A CN89102279A CN89102279A CN1037975A CN 1037975 A CN1037975 A CN 1037975A CN 89102279 A CN89102279 A CN 89102279A CN 89102279 A CN89102279 A CN 89102279A CN 1037975 A CN1037975 A CN 1037975A
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Graphic display system comprise have the source image storage area, the APA storer of working storage territory and purpose storage area.Draw the contour of from source image, wanting separated partial images with the contour drawing apparatus, and the dot pattern of this contour of expression is write the working storage territory.By shadow data maker checkpoint pattern, generate shadow data, according to shadow data, the partial images write device is read source image from the source image storage area, and the selected part in the source image is write the purpose storage area.In most preferred embodiment, the partial images write device comprises raster manipulation circuit and step-by-step operation circuit.

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The graphic display system of energy cutting out partial images
The present invention relates to a kind of graphic display system of energy cutting out partial images, more particularly, relate to a kind of by isolate the graphic display system of any required partial images with raster manipulation.
In the image processing field that comprises figure,, carry out as separation with by this generic operation often by specified portions image on the video screen of display (particularly color monitor).In the prior art, by with software or specialized hardware cutting out partial images.For example, application number is that the not patented claim of examination as to substances as yet (this patented claim and the present invention transfer same assignee) of the Japanese publication of 61-32888 discloses a kind of software engineering, adopt this technology cutting out partial images, And shows with the ratio of amplifying it on the diverse location on the video screen." IBMTecknical Disclosure Bulletin " the 24th volume of publishing in September, 1981, the 4th phase, the 1778th page to the 1782nd page technology that discloses the special-purpose AND circuit cutting out partial images of a kind of usefulness.
If use the software cutting out partial images, the raising of its speed is limited.On the other hand, if, then might carry out high speed processing with the separation of specialized hardware operating part image, but because its function fix, so lack expandability and dirigibility.In addition, because additional hardware is housed, its price is higher.
Therefore, the objective of the invention is the raster manipulation function that had by with the generic graphic display system, any required partial images can both be separated.
Graphic display system that can cutting out partial images according to the present invention comprises: image storage device, be used for drawing the contour of wanting separated partial images the contour drawing apparatus, be used for according to this contour generate the shadow data generator unit of shadow data and only be used for source image not the part of conductively-closed data mask write the partial images write device of image storage device.Image storage device is all points addressable (APA) storer, distributes a source image storage area in this storer, is used to store source image: a working storage territory is used for the dot pattern of storage representation contour; With a purpose storage area, be used for the storage area image.The shadow data generator unit generates shadow data, therefore be placed in non-shielding state with contour dot pattern region surrounded, and remaining zone is placed in masked state.The partial images write device can pass through built-up section image and scheduled mode data, and the two is write the purpose storage area.
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Fig. 1 is the block scheme according to the embodiment of graphic display system of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the block scheme of the content of APA storer 10.
Fig. 3 is the circuit diagram of the embodiment of shadow data maker 14.
Referring to Fig. 1, there is shown according to a kind of graphic display system of the present invention.This system comprises: the APA storer 10 that is used to store source image, cutting out partial images from source image, be used to draw the contour drawing apparatus 12 of the contour of wanting separated partial images, be used for generating the shadow data maker 14 of shadow data according to the contour data of drawing by contour drawing apparatus 12, the step-by-step operation circuit 16 of bitwise operation is carried out in permission to the pictorial data of reading from APA storer 10, raster manipulation circuit 18, traffic pilot (MUX) 20, be used to select it is offered the data input pin of APA storer 10 from the shadow data of shadow data maker 14 or from the pictorial data And of raster manipulation circuit 18, be used for the pictorial data of reading from APA storer 10 is converted to the video circuit 22 of the signal that is used to show, be used for the controller 26 that signal from video circuit 22 provides the display device 24 of demonstration directly perceived and is used to control total system.Though the present invention both can be used for color display system, can be used for monochromatic display system again, will only illustrate that below by embodiment its pixel comprises the color display system of n position (for example n=4).
In color display system, the APA storer comprises n memory board as everyone knows.By being located at the toning circuit in the video circuit 22, the color data , And with m position (for example m=6) that each pixel data with n position of reading from APA storer 10 is converted into expression actual displayed color offers display device 24 after the digital-to-analog conversion.
Referring now to Fig. 2,, the lock out operation of carrying out by the graphic display system of Fig. 1 to partial images is described.Fig. 2 shows the content of APA storer 10, comprising source image storage area 10A, is used to draw the working storage territory 10B and the purpose storage area 10C of the contour of wanting separated partial images, and the separated portions image is sent to the purpose storage area.These zones of 10A-10C big or small identical.APA storer 10 may further include mode data 10D and 10E.In raster manipulation circuit 18, these mode datas and source image data combination.
When the needs cutting out partial images, the user at first draws a contour (for example circle) with contour drawing apparatus 12, and this contour limits the user and want isolated that partial images in the source image of storing among storage area 10A.Contour drawing apparatus 12 can be the hardware drawing tool that provides usually in the graphic display system.It is a kind of by draw the technology that comprises round quafric curve with this hardware drawing tool that application number is that the not patented claim of examination as to substances as yet (this patented claim and the present invention transfer same assignee) of the Japanese publication of 61-261779 discloses.Contour is drawn on person-machine dialogue ground when observing display device 24 if desired, can be " mouse " device as contour drawing apparatus 12.The dot pattern 11 of representing the contour drawn by contour drawing apparatus 12 in all cases all is written into working storage territory 10B.Partial images 11 among the position of contour dot pattern 11 and the source image storage area 10A among the 10B of working storage territory ' the position corresponding.In the present embodiment, a point comprises the n position, but with regard to contour point, it can be one.Under the sort of situation, write the contour point in the memory board of in n memory board, selecting.Comprise under the situation of n position that at a point it is enough to contour point is specified the particular color code with n position.
When transverse observation write the contour dot pattern 11 of working storage territory 10B, there was even number contour point every provisional capital.Be under the situation of circle for example, be easy to tell except high-end and low side that counting of starter is two of every row at contour.At high-end and low side, carry out when writing the operation of working storage territory 10B, make two adjacent or close points by starter.Though may make point adjacent more than two by starter in order to approach a curve with common drawing tool, when drawing the contour of this partial images, the outmost point of starter only.This is the condition of even number with regard to having satisfied the number that makes every capable contour point.In order on every row, to differentiate starting point and end point, need this condition with the contour region surrounded.In the present embodiment, comprise the even number point expression starting point of numeral 0, and odd point is represented end point.
After contour dot pattern write operation was finished, the content of working storage territory 10B was read shadow data maker 14 in following APA storer 10 of the control of controller 26.Here suppose that the unit to the APA memory access is a word (16).From address or its start address in the 10B upper left corner, working storage territory, 26 1 words of controller meet a word ground Du , And it are offered shadow data maker 14.Shadow data maker 14 checks that the word of reading is to comprise even number contour point, still comprises odd number contour point.It generates shadow data then, so that on every row the zone of putting next odd number contour point from the even number contour is changed to non-shielding state, and remaining zone is changed to masked state.
Fig. 3 shows the circuit diagram of shadow data maker 14.In illustrated embodiment, shadow data maker 14 is by 16 exclusive-OR gate 30-i(i=0, and 1 ... 15) and latch 32 form.Exclusive-OR gate 30-i connects by cascade system, i.e. the output of each all becomes the input of next door.The output of last exclusive-OR gate 30-15 is fed to first exclusive-OR gate 30-0 by latch 32.Corresponding position BO-B15 from the word that working storage territory 10B reads is offered second input end of each.The output M0-M15 of exclusive-OR gate 30-i forms a word of shadow data.
When wanting operation shield Data Generator 14, before this operation, at first remove latch 32.Under the situation of not reading working storage territory 10B, because the Q of BO-B15 and latch 32 output all is 0, so shadow data position MO-M15 also is 0.As long as 16 B0-B15 of each word of reading from working storage territory 10B are 0, this state just keeps always.Word of reading of supposition comprises first or is numbered 0 contour point now.So corresponding position Bi is 1, makes this output Mi as the exclusive-OR gate 30-i of its input of reception become 1.Because this output Mi is fed to next exclusive-OR gate 30-(i+1), so as long as its second input Bi+1 is not 1, promptly do not comprise next odd number contour point, its output Mi+1 also becomes 1.Equally, only otherwise comprise next odd number contour point, exclusive-OR gate 30-15 to the last generates Mi-M15 and is 1 shadow data.When finishing the operation that writes APA storer 10, (below will illustrate), and produce an enabling signal , And it is added to the input end of clock C of latch 32 with this shadow data.This home position signal latch 32 then is added to first exclusive-OR gate 30-0 to the Q output that is 1.This has just kept state formerly, for the read operation to next word is prepared.In this case, even then read one complete 0 word, also generate complete 1 shadow data.
If a word comprises even number contour point, or its follow-up word comprises next odd number contour point, and receiving corresponding at Bj is that the output Mj of 1 exclusive-OR gate 30-j becomes 0, because also be 1 from another input of prime.Therefore as long as identical word does not comprise next even number contour point, generation Mj-M15 is 0 shadow data.When M15 became 0, latch 32 was eliminated, and it is that 0 Q output is added to first exclusive-OR gate.In this case, generate 0 mask bit, detect an even number contour point up to next time.
Can clearly be seen that from above-mentioned shadow data maker 14 generates 0 mask bit of expression masked states, be used to write the outside of the contour dot pattern 11 of working storage territory 10B; Generate 1 mask bit of expression non-shielding state, be used for the inboard of contour dot pattern 11.Be added to the data input pin of APA storage 10 by traffic pilot 20 appropriate mows 8 from the word of the shadow data M0-M15 of shadow data maker 14.
In the present embodiment, APA storer 10 is the dynamic RAM with step-by-step write capability, and the data input pin that only is received as 1 mask bit in this storer can be carried out write operation.Whenever generating a shadow data word, controller 26 is read 16 corresponding bit image data word , And it is added to step-by-step operation circuit 16 from source image storage area 10A.Step-by-step operation circuit 16 is hardware units, and it allows to transmit from only carrying out bit boundary in 10 pairs of pictorial data of APA storer of word boundary visit.Known this hardware in blit technology (being commonly referred to BitBlt) has therefore omitted detailed description thereof.
Pictorial data from step-by-step operation circuit 16 is input to raster manipulation circuit 18.18 couples of pictorial data and specific logical operation , And of other pictorial data (for example scheduled mode data) execution that read from APA storer 10 of raster manipulation circuit are added to traffic pilot 20 to its result.By the logical operations of controller 26 regulation, for example by (make selected pictorial data by original appearance by), and or and exclusive-OR function.Therefore, can not add any variation by original appearance, or with designated mode in overlapping mode, partial images is separated from source image.The example of this raster manipulation circuit discloses in following file, application number is the not patented claim of examination as to substances as yet (this patented claim and the present invention transfer same assignee) of the Japanese publication of 62-245375, with " IBM Technical Disclcsure Bulletin " the 27th volume of publishing in Dec, 1984, the 7A phase, the 4019th page to the 4020th page.
Be added to the data input pin of APA storer 10 by traffic pilot 20 and bus 28 from the pictorial data word of raster manipulation circuit 18.Controller 26 sends to APA storer 10 to the proper address of a write command and a purpose storage area 10C at that time.Therefore be the write operation of the data input pin execution graph image data of 1 mask bit what receive the expression non-shielding state.
(1) reads a word from working storage territory 10B in order, (2) generate shadow data, (3) read corresponding pictorial data word from source image storage area 10A, ((4) write purpose storage area 10C to non-mask apertures image data position, repeat aforesaid operations, the last character in arriving each storage area.When aforesaid operations is finished, write purpose storage area 10C from the isolated partial images of source image.
Though the working storage territory 10B of APA storer 10 is arranged with source image storage area 10A and purpose storage area 10C branch in the above-described embodiment, the working storage territory can be distributed in the zone identical with one of these two zones.But attention: if working storage territory 10B is distributed in the identical zone with source image storage area 10A, because the contour point is to represent by the color code with n position, so must use untapped a kind of color code in source image for contour point.Under the situation of monochromatic system, working storage territory 10B can not be identical with source image storage area 10A.
In addition, the contour of partial images is round in the above-described embodiments, but can draw any required all wire shaped, for example ellipse, rectangle or annular.Yet under the situation of rectangle, two horizontal sides do not write working storage territory 10B up and down.Shadow data to the top generates places non-shielding state to the zone between the most significant end point of the right and left; Shadow data to bottom generates places non-shielding state to the zone between the minimum end points of the right and left.
As mentioned above, the present invention's burden of need not to increase the weight of software just can be isolated any required partial images from the source image high speed.

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1, a kind of graphic display system of energy cutting out partial images is characterized in that comprising:
Memory storage has the source image storage area that is used to store source image, be used for storage representation want from described source image separated partial images contour dot pattern the working storage territory and be used to store the purpose storage area of described partial images;
The contour drawing apparatus, the contour , And that is used to draw described partial images writes described working storage territory to its dot pattern;
The shadow data generator unit is used to read described working storage Yu , And and generates shadow data, placing non-shielding state by described dot pattern region surrounded, remaining zone is placed masked state;
The partial images write device is used for reading source image , And from described source image storage area and is only placed described source image the part of non-shielding state to write described purpose storage area by described shadow data.
2, graphic display system according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the dot pattern that writes described working storage territory comprises every capable even number contour point.
3, graphic display system according to claim 2 is characterized in that: when described shadow data generator unit was read described working storage territory, it was placing non-shielding state from the zone that an even number contour is put between the next odd number contour point.
4, according to the described graphic display system of claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that: described partial images write device comprises the raster manipulation circuit, is written into described purpose storage area at partial images described in the raster manipulation circuit and scheduled mode data combination , And.
5, according to the described graphic display system of claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: described source image storage area also can be used as described working storage territory.
6, according to the described graphic display system of claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: described purpose storage area also can be used as described working storage territory.
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