JP2001229082A - Picture data processor, picture data transmitting method and computer readable recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picture data transmitting device by which picture data received by mail is easily processed. SOLUTION: A transmission side device 100 transmits picture data which is generated in a picture generating part 111 from a picture transmitting part 114 to a reception picture developing part 201 of a reception side device 200. The part 201 stores picture data in the temporary storage data 202 of the device 200 and displays it in the display part of the device 200.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium, an image data processing apparatus, and an image data transmission method for causing a computer to transmit electronic image data by e-mail, and in particular, to easily transmit data. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a recording medium, an image data processing device, and an image data transmission method capable of transmitting electronic album data that can be manipulated by e-mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, image data is transmitted using electronic mail. In conventional image data transmission by e-mail, when image data is attached to an e-mail and transmitted, the receiving side develops and views the received image data.

[0003]

In the conventional transmission of image data by e-mail, the receiving side must intentionally store the received image data in a storage location that can be managed by itself. In addition, when browsing the received image, it is necessary to select and activate an application capable of browsing the image, and then perform a complicated operation of browsing the image.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and has a recording medium, an image data processing apparatus, and a computer which operate as a computer as an image data processing apparatus which does not require complicated data management on the receiving side. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting image data.

[0005]

A recording medium according to the present invention, in which a program for processing image data is recorded, has a computer capable of transmitting an e-mail to a receiving apparatus, which has an image editing function. An image creating means for creating image data, and, when the image data created by the image creating means is received by the receiving apparatus, the receiving apparatus expands the image data to a predetermined storage position and displays the image data. In this case, a receiving image developing unit is attached to the transmitting side device so as to function as an image transmitting unit.

[0006] When the received image data is received by the receiving device, the received image expanding unit expands the image data received by the receiving device to a predetermined storage location and displays the image data. give.

As a result, the computer-readable recording medium capable of relieving the user from the cumbersome work of intentionally storing and managing the received electronic album data in a storage location under user management, and selecting and starting an application for browsing. Can be provided.

[0008] Here, the recording medium is not limited to a CD-ROM or FD, but may be a communication medium downloaded via a network.

[0009] Even if the receiving apparatus has not introduced the same "electronic album software" as the transmitting apparatus, the contents can be confirmed by the display function of the received image developing unit. Also,
Since it is automatically stored in the storage location that can be managed by "Electronic Album Software", after the "Electronic Album Software" is introduced,
The stored electronic album data can be easily handled.

[0010] Here, the electronic album data is
This refers to data that electronically created image data is handled like a normal photograph and stored in an electronically created album. The user can create an electronic album by dividing it into desired titles, and electronic album data can be stored in a desired electronic album.

Preferably, the image data is page data of an electronic album, the electronic album can include a plurality of page data, and the image data stored at a predetermined position developed by the received image developing unit is Data stored in the electronic album, the recording medium being a received image search means for searching a storage location of the electronic album in a computer; an electronic album management means for managing the electronic album;
When an electronic album is designated, a function of an image browsing unit for displaying image data included in the electronic album is executed.

[0012] The user can easily use the electronic album because the computer is made to search the storage location of the electronic album, manage the electronic album, and display the image data included in the electronic album when the electronic album is designated.

[0013] More preferably, the recording medium causes the computer to operate so that the image transmitting means transmits the electronic album in page data units, a plurality of page data units, or the electronic album unit.

[0014] More preferably, the computer operates the computer so that the recording medium further includes electronic album management means for displaying a list of page data of the electronic album and permitting movement of the page data between electronic albums.

[0015] In another aspect of the present invention, an image data processing apparatus capable of transmitting an e-mail to a receiving apparatus has an image editing function, an image creating means for creating image data, and an image creating means. When the receiving device receives the image data created in step 2, the receiving device expands the image data in a predetermined storage position and displays the image data. The received image developing unit is attached and transmitted to the receiving device. And an image transmitting means for performing the operation.

When the created image data is received by the receiving side device, the image data is developed in a predetermined storage position of the receiving side device, and a received image developing unit for displaying the image data is attached to the receiving side device. Since the transmission is performed, it is possible to provide an image data processing apparatus that can deliberately accumulate and manage received image data in a storage location under user management and relieve the user from the cumbersome operation of selecting and starting an application for viewing.

Preferably, the image data is page data of an electronic album, and the electronic album is configured to include a plurality of page data, and is stored at a predetermined position developed by the received image developing unit. The image data is data stored in the electronic album, and the image data processing device specifies the received image search means for searching the storage location of the electronic album, the electronic album management means for managing the electronic album, and the electronic album. And image browsing means for displaying image data included in the electronic album.

The image data transmitting apparatus can search the storage location of the electronic album data developed by the received image developing unit, manage the electronic album data, transfer the electronic album data to a desired electronic album, and browse the contents of the electronic album. Therefore, the stored electronic album data can be easily handled.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an image data transmitting method for attaching image data to an electronic mail and transmitting the image data to a receiving device includes the steps of creating image data; Automatically transmitting the image data to the receiving device together with the predetermined process executing unit capable of performing the predetermined process. The predetermined process executing unit expands the image data to a predetermined storage position when the image data is received by the receiving device. And display the image data.

Along with the image data, the receiving device expands the image data to a predetermined storage location, and a receiving image developing unit for performing a process of displaying the image data is automatically attached to the electronic mail and transmitted to the receiving device. Send.

As a result, there is provided an image data transmission method capable of releasing the user from the cumbersome work of intentionally storing and managing received image data in a storage location under user management, and selecting and starting an application for browsing. it can.

[0022]

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

FIG. 1 shows a transmitting apparatus 100 and a receiving apparatus 2 which embody an image data processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.
FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram in which main parts of 00 are expressed by functions.

Referring to FIG. 1, a transmitting apparatus 100 and a receiving apparatus 200 are connected to each other by a modem or the like (not shown) via a telephone line or the like. Both the transmitting device 100 and the receiving device 200 are specifically electronic devices capable of electronic data processing, such as personal computers, portable information terminals, and mobile phones. Therefore, although not specifically shown in FIG. 1, a display unit such as a normal display and a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse are provided, and by operating them, a desired operation can be performed on the apparatus. Can be.

Electronic album software 101 is installed in the transmitting apparatus 100. When the electronic album software 101 is introduced into the transmission-side apparatus 100, the transmission-side apparatus 100 creates an image creating unit 111 that creates a desired image.
Then, the image data created by the image creation unit 111 is stored in the electronic album data store 113 via the electronic album management unit 112 as electronic album data.

Here, the electronic album software 101 is generally supplied in the form of a CD-ROM or FD, but may be downloaded via a network or the like.

The electronic album management section 112 can divide the electronic album data store 113 into a plurality of areas by user's arbitrary setting and manage the plurality of areas as a plurality of electronic albums. Details of this content will be described later.

The transmitting device 100 also has a function as an image transmitting unit 114, and transmits the electronic album data created by the image creating unit 111 to the receiving device 200 using a modem or the like (not shown).

When the image transmitting unit 114 transmits the electronic album data, the receiving side developing unit 201 records the procedure of performing a predetermined operation for expanding and storing the image data received by the receiving side device 200 as the receiving side image developing unit 201. Device 2
Data activated at 00 is also transmitted at the same time.

In the receiving device 200, first, the received image developing unit 201 is stored based on the transmission data transmitted from the transmitting device 100, and the transmitted electronic album data is stored in a part of the memory of the receiving device 200. Is stored as temporary storage data 202.

Next, the operation of the received image developing unit 201 will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the received image developing unit 201. It is determined whether or not the receiving device 200 already has the temporary storage data 202 for storing the electronic album data (step S11, steps are omitted). If there is no temporarily stored data (NO in S11),
A temporary storage directory is created, and the created address is stored in the registry (S12). Here, the registry is W
A file that centrally stores information such as various environment settings, designation of drivers, association of applications, and the like in Windows 95/98 / NT.

If the temporary storage data already exists (YES in S11), or after S12, the received electronic album data is stored in the temporary storage directory with a name that does not overlap with the file name already received (S13). .

The received image developing unit 201 stores the temporarily stored data 2
The electronic album data stored in 02 can be expanded according to the operation of the user.

Even if the receiving-side apparatus 200 does not install the same “electronic album software” as the transmitting-side apparatus 100, the contents can be confirmed by the display function of the received image developing unit 201. In addition, since the electronic album data is automatically stored in a storage location that can be managed by the “electronic album software”, the stored electronic album data can be easily handled after the “electronic album software” is introduced.

On the other hand, the receiving apparatus 200 can introduce the electronic album software 211. Receiving device 20
When the electronic album software 211 is introduced into the electronic album software 211, the receiving-side apparatus 200 receives the electronic album data stored in the temporary storage data 202, and stores the received electronic album data in the electronic album data store 213. In addition to memorizing according to user needs,
The operation as an electronic album management unit 212 for performing predetermined management and an image browsing unit 214 for browsing desired electronic album data in the electronic album data store 213 is enabled.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the received image search unit 215. The received image search unit 215
First, it is determined whether or not there is temporarily stored data (S21). If there is already temporarily stored data (S21
YES), the received album page data is extracted from the temporary storage directory stored in the registry, and output to the "electronic album management unit" (S22). If there is no temporarily stored data (NO in S21), no processing is performed because there is no image data.

Next, the operation of the electronic album management section 212 will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic album management unit 212.

Referring to FIG. 4, electronic album management section 21
2 first determines whether or not the temporary storage data 202 already exists (S31).

If the temporary storage data already exists (S31)
YES), the received album page data input from the received image search unit 215 is displayed as a thumbnail and displayed in a list (S32). If the user moves the data displayed in the list to the electronic album data store 213 using a key operation or a pointing device such as a mouse (YES in S33), the electronic album data store 2
The received album page data in the temporary storage data 202 is added to the corresponding album in 13 (S34). Next, the received album page data in the temporary storage data 202 moved to the electronic album 213 is deleted and deleted from the list display (S35).

The processing is continued until this processing is completed (S36). If the list data has not been moved to the album (NO in S33), the process ends without performing any particular process.

Here, the electronic album data store 213
Of the corresponding electronic album will be described. The electronic album data store 213 can record data for a plurality of electronic albums according to the user's preference, and can assign a desired name to each electronic album. The recorded electronic album named here is referred to as a corresponding electronic album.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state in which an electronic album is displayed on a display screen in a data processing device in which the electronic album software 211 is installed. As shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of corresponding electronic albums 221 with desired names can be displayed. On the display screen, a plurality of corresponding electronic albums 221 with desired names are displayed in the upper part, and the thumbnail 222 of the received album page data input from the received image search unit 215 is displayed in the lower part.

The user operates the thumbnail 22 displayed at the bottom.
The image can be recorded on the desired electronic album 221 by dragging and dropping 2 on the desired electronic album 221 on the upper stage.

When the user designates a desired electronic album 221 on the screen by the image browsing unit 214, the contents of the electronic album 221 can be browsed.

The embodiments disclosed this time are to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the description above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing functions of an apparatus for transmitting electronic album data.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing contents of a received image developing unit.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating processing contents of a received image search unit.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing contents of an electronic album management unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a list display state of received images on a screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 100 transmitting device, 111 image creating unit, 112 electronic album management unit, 113 electronic album data store, 114 image transmitting unit, 101 electronic album software, 200 receiving device, 201 received image developing unit, 2
02 Temporary storage data, 211 electronic album software,
212 Electronic album management unit, 213 Electronic album data store, 214 Image browsing unit, 215 Received image search unit.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A recording medium on which a program for processing image data is recorded, wherein a computer capable of transmitting an e-mail to a receiving device has an image editing function and creates image data. When the image data created by the image creating means and the image data created by the image creating means are received by the receiving device, the image data is expanded at a predetermined storage position in the receiving device, and the image data is displayed. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program having an image transmission unit attached to a reception-side device and attached to a reception image developing unit. 2. The image data is page data of an electronic album, wherein the electronic album can include a plurality of page data, and is stored at the predetermined position developed by the received image developing unit. The image data is data stored in the electronic album, a received image search unit that searches for a storage location of the electronic album, an electronic album management unit that manages the electronic album, and when the electronic album is designated, The recording medium according to claim 1, further comprising: an image browsing unit configured to display image data included in the electronic album. 3. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the image transmitting means operates the computer to transmit the electronic album in page data units, a plurality of page data units, or electronic album units. 4. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the computer is operated to further include electronic album management means for displaying a list of page data of the electronic album and permitting the page data to be moved between electronic albums. . 5. An image data processing device capable of transmitting an e-mail to a receiving side device, the image data processing device having an image editing function, generating image data, and generating the image data. When the receiving device receives the image data, the receiving device expands the image data at a predetermined storage position, and attaches a received image developing unit that displays the image data to the receiving device. An image data processing device comprising: an image transmission unit that transmits an image. 6. The image data is page data of an electronic album, the electronic album is configured to be able to include a plurality of page data, and at the predetermined position developed by the received image developing unit. The stored image data is data stored in an electronic album; a received image search unit that searches for a storage location of the electronic album; an electronic album management unit that manages the electronic album; and the electronic album is designated. 6. The image data processing device according to claim 5, further comprising: an image browsing unit that displays image data included in the electronic album. 7. A method of transmitting image data to a receiving device by attaching image data to an e-mail, comprising: creating the image data; and determining the created image data in the receiving device. Automatically transmitting to the transmission side together with a predetermined processing execution unit capable of performing the processing described above, wherein the predetermined processing execution unit stores the image data in a predetermined storage position when the image data is received by the reception side device. Unfold,
An image data transmission method for displaying the image data.