JP2001197283A - Image editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image editing device which can generate the caption frames and also can discriminate the vertical writing attributes from the horizontal writing attributes to display them. SOLUTION: An oblong caption frame is generated to add a caption to an image, and the vertical and horizontal lengths of oblong area of the caption frame are compared with each other. When the vertical length is longer than the horizontal length, a caption frame vertical/horizontal writing setting means 31 sets a vertical writing attribute. Meanwhile, the means 31 sets a horizontal writing attribute when the vertical length is shorter than the horizontal length respectively.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image editing apparatus, and more particularly, to an image editing apparatus for generating a new caption frame for an image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the advance of image editing technology and character editing technology, it has become possible to generate a caption frame even in an image editing apparatus.

[0003]

When a new caption frame is generated, a rectangle is generated by intentionally instructing vertical writing and horizontal writing, or the generated caption frame is written vertically or horizontally. It was difficult to understand.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and in an image editing apparatus, a caption frame is generated.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image editing apparatus which determines and displays attributes of vertical writing and horizontal writing.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, an image editing apparatus according to the present invention generates a rectangle of a caption frame for adding a caption to an image, and generates a rectangular area of the caption frame. A vertical / horizontal setting means for comparing vertical and horizontal lengths, setting a vertical writing attribute when vertical> horizontal, and setting a horizontal writing attribute when vertical <horizontal And

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the image editing apparatus according to the first aspect, when the vertical writing attribute is set by the caption frame vertical writing / horizontal writing setting means, the vertical writing attribute is set. A vertical writing attribute display means for displaying the fact.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the image editing apparatus according to the first aspect, when the horizontal writing attribute is set by the caption frame vertical writing / horizontal writing setting means, the horizontal writing attribute is set. Is displayed on the screen.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an image editing apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the image editing apparatus includes an MPU (microprocessor unit) 1 for controlling the entire apparatus, develops a program shown in a flowchart described later, temporarily stores attributes of an image frame and a caption frame, and the like. , R, which is the execution area for calculation and comparison
AM (random access memory) 2, a program shown in a flowchart to be described later, HD (hard disk) 3, which is a storage medium for image data created by the image editing apparatus, and an operator inputs text, and inputs attributes of an image frame and a caption frame. (Keyboard) 4 for giving instructions to perform operations and operations, a CRT (cathode ray tube) 5 as a display for displaying image frames, caption frames, attributes of the caption frames, and the like edited by the operator, and an image frame and a caption frame for the operator. A mouse 6 for designating a rectangular area, designating a desired image, and giving an instruction for editing; a printer 7 for printing images and documents created by an operator;
And a system bus 8 for connecting them.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a system program of the image editing apparatus developed in the RAM 2 of FIG.
The processing procedure from when the power of the apparatus is turned on to when the respective programs for image editing, recalling, saving, and the like are selected is known, and therefore the description thereof is omitted.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a main program of the image editing apparatus, which controls the state of the entire image editing apparatus and controls branching to a caption frame editing program or the like. 22
Is a caption frame editing program, which performs processing such as generating a new caption frame and controlling text input to the generated caption frame. An image frame editing program 23 pastes an arbitrary image on the image frame, performs trimming, and performs color correction. The details are publicly known and therefore will be omitted. Reference numeral 24 denotes a caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting program. When a new caption frame is generated by the caption frame editing program 22, it is newly generated when vertical writing is determined by vertical writing / horizontal writing determination processing described later. Set the vertical writing attribute to the caption frame. Similarly, when it is determined to be horizontal writing, the attribute of horizontal writing is set to the newly generated caption frame. A vertical writing attribute display program 25 displays the vertical writing attribute on the CRT 5 when the caption frame set as vertical writing by the vertical / horizontal writing caption setting program has focus. A horizontal writing attribute display program 26 displays the horizontal writing attribute on the CRT 5 when the caption frame set as horizontal writing by the caption frame vertical writing / horizontal writing setting program 24 has focus.

Next, FIG. 3 shows an outline of the processing of the MPU 1 which performs the processing according to the control procedure of the system program developed in the RAM 2 with the above-described configuration. FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram of functions of the image editing apparatus shown in FIG.

Caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting means 3
1 generates a new rectangular area of the caption frame using the mouse 6, displays the layout on the CRT 5, automatically obtains the aspect ratio of the rectangular area, and sets the vertical writing attribute when vertical> horizontal. Is set, and control is passed to the vertical writing attribute means 32. Similarly, if vertical <horizontal, a horizontal writing attribute is set, and control is passed to the horizontal writing attribute display unit 33. Vertical writing attribute display means 32
Then, it is determined whether or not the corresponding caption frame has the focus. If the focus is available, the sample image of the vertical writing caption frame shown in the display example of FIG.
Display on T5. FIG. 7 is a view showing a display example of the vertical writing attribute. The horizontal writing attribute display means 33 determines whether or not the corresponding caption frame has focus. If the caption has focus, a sample image of the horizontal writing caption frame shown in the display example of FIG. 6 is displayed on the CRT 5. FIG.
14 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a horizontal writing attribute. FIG.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to the flowcharts in FIG. 5, the display example of the horizontal writing attribute in FIG. 6, and the display example of the vertical writing attribute in FIG. FIG.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of vertical / horizontal writing setting processing of a caption frame, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart of vertical / horizontal writing determination processing. Here, after the apparatus is turned on, various programs of the image editing apparatus are called from the HD 3 and are stored in the RAM.
2, and the procedure until the control is transferred to the vertical / horizontal caption frame setting process is omitted.

In the vertical / horizontal writing setting process of the caption frame, first, the user operates the mouse 6 to generate a new caption frame to generate a caption frame (step S41). Next, the coordinates of the generated rectangular area of the caption frame are stored in the work area of the RAM 2 (step S42). Next, vertical / horizontal writing determination processing is called (step S43), and it is confirmed whether the return value is vertical writing (step S44). In the case of vertical writing, a vertical writing attribute setting process is called (step S441), and the attribute of the newly generated caption frame is set to vertical writing. Since the details of the vertical writing attribute setting process are known, the description in this specification is omitted.

Next, a vertical writing attribute display process is called (step S442), a vertical writing attribute display example shown in FIG. 7 is displayed on the CRT 5 beside the newly generated caption frame, and the routine returns. Also, in step S44, vertical writing
If the return value of the horizontal writing determination process (step S43) is not vertical writing, it is determined whether the return value is horizontal writing (step S45). If the return value is horizontal writing, a horizontal writing attribute setting process is called (step S451), and the attribute of the newly generated caption frame is set to horizontal writing.
Since the details of the horizontal writing attribute setting process are publicly known, the description in this specification will be omitted. Next, a horizontal writing attribute process is called (step S452), a horizontal writing attribute display example shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the CRT 5 next to the newly generated caption frame, and the process returns.

If the return value in step S45 is not horizontal writing, a system default setting process is called (step S46), and the attribute of the system default value is set.
Since the default is horizontal writing in this embodiment by the default attribute processing, the horizontal writing attribute display example shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the CRT 5 and the routine returns. In the present embodiment, the default is horizontal writing, but the larger attribute may be set by comparing the number of vertical writing caption frames and the number of horizontal writing caption frames.

In the vertical writing / horizontal writing determination processing, first, the vertical length is obtained from the rectangular coordinates of the caption frame developed in the RAM 2 in the processing of creating the rectangular area of the caption frame (step S51). Similarly, the horizontal length is obtained from the rectangular coordinates of the caption frame developed in the RAM 2 in the process of creating the rectangular area of the caption frame (step S52). And
The vertical length and the horizontal length are compared (step S53). If they are equal, a default value is set as a return value (step S531), and the process returns. Next, if the vertical length is not equal to the horizontal length in step S53, it is determined whether the vertical length is larger than the horizontal length (step S53).
54) If the vertical length is longer than the horizontal length, vertical writing is set as the return value (step S541), and the process returns. If the horizontal length is longer than the vertical length in step S53, horizontal writing is set as the return value (step S5).
5) Return.

As described above, the caption frame vertical writing / horizontal writing setting means generates the caption frame, the vertical writing / horizontal writing attribute of the caption frame is automatically determined, and the vertical writing / horizontal writing attribute is automatically set. When the attribute is set, whether the caption frame is vertical writing is displayed by displaying the vertical writing attribute by the vertical writing attribute display unit.
The operator can make an instantaneous decision. Similarly, when the horizontal writing attribute is set by the caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting unit, the horizontal writing attribute is displayed by the horizontal writing attribute display unit, so that the operator can instantly determine whether the caption frame is horizontal writing. Becomes

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When the caption frame is generated, the user can set an appropriate attribute of the caption frame without uniquely specifying vertical writing and horizontal writing. Further, since the attributes of the vertical and horizontal writing of the generated caption frame are also automatically displayed, the operation of the operator can be greatly simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an image editing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a system program of an image editing device developed in a RAM 2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram of functions of the image editing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a vertical / horizontal writing determination process.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a horizontal writing attribute.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a vertical writing attribute.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 MPU 2 RAM 3 HD 4 KB 5 CRT 6 Mouse 7 Printer 21 Image editing device main program 22 Caption frame editing program 23 Image frame editing program 24 Caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting program 25 Vertical writing attribute display program 26 Horizontal writing attribute display program 31 caption frame vertical / horizontal writing setting means 32 vertical writing attribute display means 33 horizontal writing attribute display means

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A rectangle of a caption frame for adding a caption to an image is generated, the length of the rectangular area of the caption frame is compared with the length of the width, and if length> width, a vertical writing attribute is set. An image editing apparatus comprising a caption frame vertical / horizontal setting means for setting a horizontal writing attribute when vertical <horizontal. 2. A vertical writing attribute display means for displaying that the vertical writing attribute has been set when the vertical writing attribute is set by the vertical / horizontal writing caption frame setting means. The image editing device according to claim 1. 3. A horizontal writing attribute display means for displaying that the horizontal writing attribute is set when the horizontal writing attribute is set by the vertical / horizontal writing setting means for caption frame. An image editing apparatus as described in the above.