JP2002288684A - Program and device for editing image - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a program for efficiently recording instructions on the editing of image data in a file and a program, capable of efficiently editing image data by using instructions recorded in the file. SOLUTION: A program for recording an editing instruction excludes a canceling instruction and an instruction to be canceled from the instructions recorded in a file, when given instructions include the canceling instruction, for canceling the instruction immediately prior to the instruction. An edit program excludes a canceling instruction and an instruction to be canceled from the instructions used for the editing, when given instructions include the canceling instruction to cancel the instruction, immediately prior to the instruction. For both programs, the last instruction and the instruction for canceling the instruction from among the preceding instructions are excluded which have not been excluded, when the instruction to cancel is included after the instruction to cancel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a process for editing image data representing an image captured by a digital camera or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Digital cameras, video cameras, image scanners, and the like capture an image by converting light into an electric signal and generate image data representing the captured image. The image data is recorded and stored as a file on a recording medium, and subjected to various editing processes such as enlargement, reduction, partial deletion, combination, rotation, and intensity adjustment according to the user's preference. Editing of image data is performed not only on an image capturing device such as a digital camera but also on other devices such as a personal computer.

Conventionally, after editing, the edited image data is stored regardless of what kind of editing processing has been performed. However, in this method, once the data before editing is erased, it is difficult or impossible to reproduce the image data before editing from the image data after editing. The data could not be accurately reproduced. Therefore, not only the edited image data but also the unedited image data are often stored so that another editing process can be performed on the unedited image data. However, when the image data before editing and the image data after editing are stored, the recording capacity of the recording medium required for recording the file increases in proportion to the number of image data, and it is difficult to manage the recording medium. Become.

In order to avoid such inconvenience, instead of storing the image data after editing, the contents of the processing used for editing, that is, the instruction given by the user at the time of editing, together with the image data before editing are stored. Recording in a file has been proposed (for example, JP-A-7-85237). In this method, it is possible to perform the recorded processing on the image data before editing at any time,
The edited image data can be obtained at any time. Since the instruction for the editing process is expressed by a short code, even when a large amount of processing is performed in one editing, the recording capacity required for recording the instruction is extremely larger than the recording capacity required for recording the image data itself. Less. Therefore, even if the same image data is edited many times, it is possible to effectively suppress an increase in required recording capacity.

[0005] Instructions for editing processing are recorded in the order given by the user, and in actual editing for generating image data, image data before editing is sequentially processed by referring to the instructions in the order in which they are recorded. Therefore, although the edited image data can be obtained at any time, it takes some time to obtain the image data.

[0006]

When giving an editing instruction, the user gives an instruction to cancel the instruction if the instruction is inappropriate. However, conventionally, both the canceled instruction and the cancel instruction are recorded, and in the actual editing, the process indicated by the canceled instruction is executed, and then the process of canceling the process is executed. For this reason, useless processing is performed, and the time required to obtain image data becomes longer than necessary. For example, when displaying an image represented by the edited image data, compared to a case where no canceled instruction or an instruction to cancel is given,
There is a problem that the start of display is delayed. Recording canceled or canceled instructions wastes storage capacity.

Conventionally, the recording of a series of editing processing instructions up to the middle of the instruction, the batch cancellation of all the instructions already given, and the like have not been considered, and there is room for improvement in the operation for giving the instructions. There is.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has been made in consideration of the above-described problems, and has been made in consideration of the above circumstances. And an apparatus for efficiently editing or preparing image data using these programs.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, an image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions related to editing of image data and recording the instructions in a reading order in a file is provided by When the cancel instruction indicating that the instruction is canceled is first read, the instruction immediately before the cancel instruction and the cancel instruction are excluded from the instructions to be recorded in the file. By not recording the cancellation instruction and the immediately preceding instruction, even if the program that edits the image data using the instructions recorded in the file in order executes the instruction regardless of the presence or absence of the cancellation instruction,
Editing can be performed efficiently. Further, waste of recording capacity can be avoided.

Here, when the cancellation instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction which has not yet been excluded and which is the instruction before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction are recorded in the file. You may want to exclude them. Even when a plurality of cancellation instructions are included in the read instruction, the cancellation instructions and the instruction to be canceled which are the targets of the instructions can be not recorded.

According to the present invention, an image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and recording the instructions in a file in the order of reading, stores the read instructions in a predetermined storage area, It is assumed that when a recording instruction indicating that is recorded is read, the stored instruction is recorded in a file. In this way, the number of accesses to the recording medium for creating the file can be minimized, and the processing speed is improved.

According to the present invention, an image editing instruction processing program which reads a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and records the instructions in a file in the order of reading is executed when an execution instruction indicating execution of the instruction is read. It is assumed that new image data is generated by editing the image data by sequentially using the instructions before the execution instruction, and the generated image data and the instruction after the execution instruction are recorded in a file. The image data according to the partial instruction of the series of instructions is recorded, and even when there are many partial instructions, the final image data can be promptly obtained in the image editing. .

According to the present invention, an image editing instruction processing program which reads a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and records the instructions in a file in the order of reading is provided when an unrecording instruction indicating that the instruction is not recorded is read. All instructions preceding the non-recording instruction and the non-recording instruction are excluded from the instructions to be recorded in the file.
This eliminates the necessity of individually giving a cancel instruction, and improves operability. Further, the efficiency of the actual editing process is improved, and the waste of the recording capacity can be avoided.

[0014] Each of the above programs may add information indicating a relation with image data to be edited to a file for recording an instruction. The relationship between the file in which the instruction is recorded and the image data targeted by the file is clarified, and file management becomes easy.

According to the present invention, an image editing program for reading a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and editing the image data using the instructions in the order of reading first reads a cancellation instruction indicating that the immediately preceding instruction is to be canceled. The instruction immediately before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction
It shall be excluded from the instructions used for editing. By not executing the canceled instruction, the editing can be performed efficiently even if the program that records the instruction in the file records the cancellation instruction and the target instruction.

Here, when the cancel instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction that has not yet been excluded and is the instruction before the cancel instruction and the cancel instruction are excluded from the instructions used for editing. It is better to do it. Even when a plurality of cancellation instructions are included in the read instruction, the efficiency of editing is reliably increased by not executing the instruction targeted by the plurality of cancellation instructions.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention further provides an operation unit operated for inputting a series of instructions related to editing of image data, and reads a series of instructions input from the operation unit to a file. In an image editing instruction processing device including a processing unit for recording, the processing unit reads an instruction and records the instruction in a file using any one of the image editing instruction processing programs described above. An efficient device that makes use of the features of each program.

According to the present invention, there is further provided an image reading unit for reading image data, and an editing unit for reading a series of instructions for editing image data from a file and editing the read image data using the read instructions. In the editing apparatus, the editing unit reads instructions and edits image data using any of the image editing programs described above. It is an efficient device that does not execute useless processing.

Here, a display unit for displaying an image represented by the image data edited by the editing unit may be provided. The image display device displays the edited image.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows an appearance of a personal computer 1 which is an embodiment of the present invention and serves both as an image editing instruction processing device and an image editing device. The function of the image editing instruction processing device is to receive an instruction of a process to be performed on image data and record the given instruction in a file. Further, the function as the image editing device is to perform a process according to the instruction on the image data to generate new image data.

The personal computer 1 includes a main body 11 having a CPU for performing arithmetic processing and ROM and RAM for storing information, a display section 12 for displaying images, a keyboard 13 and a mouse 1 operated by a user.
4 2 for attaching a recording medium to the main body 11.
Two insertion ports 15 and 16 are provided. A recording medium M1 on which an image editing instruction processing program and an image editing program are recorded is inserted into the insertion slot 15, and a recording medium M2 on which image data and instructions to be given to the image data are recorded is inserted into the insertion slot 16. You. The CPU performs the image editing instruction processing and the image editing according to the image editing instruction processing program and the image editing program of the recording medium M1. Note that, in the image editing instruction process, in order to facilitate the user's operation, image editing is also performed to display an image represented by the image data being edited.

FIGS. 2 to 9 show examples of display screens displayed on the display unit 12 in the image editing instruction process. The display unit 12 is used by being divided into a plurality of areas. In the area A1, the file name of the image data recorded on the recording medium M2 is displayed. The area A2 displays the image represented by the unedited image data read from the recording medium, and the area A3 displays the image represented by the image data being edited. In addition, area A
4 and A5, menus representing items selected by the user with respect to input of an editing instruction are displayed. The selection of an item is made by operating the keyboard 13 or the mouse 14.

FIG. 2 shows a display screen before the user inputs an editing instruction. The file name recorded on the recording medium M2, "processing", "cancel", and "save" are displayed.
Some items are displayed. FIG. 3 is a display screen when one file is designated, in which the designated file name is displayed in a size different from the other, and an image represented by image data of the file is displayed in the area A2. Have been.

FIG. 4 shows a display screen when an instruction to expand an image in the vertical direction is given. In an area A3, an image represented by image data after subjected to expansion processing to image data before processing is displayed. Have been. FIG. 5 is a display screen when an instruction to reduce the luminance to １ ／ is further given.
The image represented by the image data with the intensity reduced to half is displayed. FIG. 6 cancels the instruction to reduce the luminance by half,
Further, this is a display screen when an instruction to rotate an image by 45 ° is given, and an image represented by image data after performing rotation processing on image data before reducing the intensity to 表示 is displayed in an area A3. Have been.

In the file of the recording medium M2, an instruction given previously together with the image data is described. For the image displayed in the area A2, the image data is edited according to the described instruction. This is represented by the subsequent image data.

FIG. 10 shows a series of instructions corresponding to the image of the area A3 in FIG. In FIG. 10, numbers “1-1” to
The instruction "1-4" is an instruction recorded in the file together with the image data, and the instructions of the numbers "2-1" to "2-4" are given by the above operation. The number "2-
By adding and recording the instructions of "1" to "2-4" to the file, the image of the area A3 can be reproduced at any time.

Here, the instruction of the number "2-3" is a cancellation instruction indicating that the instruction of the number "2-2" immediately before is canceled, and similarly, the instruction of the number "1-3" is the number "2-3". 1-
This is a cancellation instruction for the instruction of "2." FIG. 11 shows a series of instructions excluding these four instructions.

The image can be edited without recording the cancellation instruction and the instruction of the object, and it is preferable not to record it in terms of effective use of the recording capacity of the recording medium M2 and efficiency of the image editing process. Therefore, when recording instructions,
The cancellation instruction and the instruction to be canceled are excluded from the recording instruction. However, since some users want to keep all the given instructions, it is also possible to record the cancellation instruction and the target instruction.

The processing for recording the instruction will be described below. FIG. 1 shows a processing flow when all instructions are recorded.
3 is shown in the flowchart. First, it is determined whether or not any instruction regarding editing of image data has been given, and if not, it is waited for being given (step # 1).
05). When the instruction is given, the instruction is stored in a predetermined area of the RAM (# 110). Then, image editing for performing the processing indicated by the instruction on the image data is performed (# 1).
15) Display the image represented by the generated image data (#
120).

The image data representing the image being displayed is R
The image data is stored in another area of the AM, and in the image editing of step # 115, the image data is processed. However, when the instruction is a cancel instruction, the image data read from the file and the instruction written in the file are added to the RAM.
The processing of the cancel instruction and all the instructions that are not the target among the instructions stored in.

Next, it is determined whether or not "save", that is, recording of the instruction is selected (# 125). When the save is selected, the instruction stored in the RAM is recorded after the instruction already written in the file of the recording medium M2 (# 130). At this time, even if the save is selected again, the same instruction is not recorded twice so that the same instruction is not stored.
A recorded flag indicating that the recording is already performed is set in the instruction recorded in.

After recording the instruction and when the save is not selected, it is determined whether or not "end" is selected (# 135). When the end is selected, all the processes are ended. If not selected, step # 105
And the process is repeated.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the flow of a process for recording an instruction excluding a cancellation instruction and an instruction to be canceled. First, it is determined whether or not any instruction relating to editing of image data has been given, and if not, it is waited for being given (step # 205). When the instruction is given, it is determined whether or not the instruction is a cancellation instruction (# 210). If it is not a cancellation instruction, the instruction is stored in RAM
In a predetermined area of the image data (# 215), image processing for applying the processing indicated by the instruction to the image data is performed (# 220),
Display the image represented by the generated image data (# 22
5). This image editing is performed on the image data of the RAM representing the image being displayed.

If it is determined in step # 210 that the instruction is a cancellation, the latest instruction stored in the RAM is deleted (# 230). Note that the cancellation instruction is not stored in the RAM. Next, image editing for reproducing the image data before the processing of the deleted instruction is performed (# 235),
The image represented by the reproduced image data is displayed (# 24
0). In the image editing at this time, all instructions except for the cancellation instruction and the instruction targeted for the instruction written in the file and the processing indicated by all the instructions stored in the RAM are read from the file. Applied to the image data.

Next, it is determined whether or not "save" is selected (# 245). When the save is selected, the instruction stored in the RAM is written in the file of the recording medium M2. Is recorded after (# 250). even here,
A recorded flag is set in the instruction recorded in the RAM so that the same instruction is not recorded again even if the save is selected again. After recording the instruction and when the save is not selected, it is determined whether or not "end" is selected (# 255). When the end is selected, all the processes are ended and no selection is made. When step # 20
Return to 5.

Here, the instructions are individually canceled, but all the already given instructions may be canceled collectively. For example, when a predetermined key of the keyboard 13 is operated, as shown in FIG. 7, a message for prompting the user to select whether or not to perform batch cancellation is displayed. When the batch cancellation is selected, all the instructions stored in the RAM are deleted.

Although the image data representing the image displayed in the area A3, that is, the image data being processed is not recorded in this case, it may be recorded. For example, when a predetermined key of the keyboard is operated, a message for prompting the user to select whether or not to record the image data being processed is displayed as shown in FIG. When the recording is selected, the image data representing the image displayed in the area A3 is recorded as a file on the recording medium M2, and all the instructions stored in the RAM are deleted as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 9, the area for displaying the image is changed from the area A3 to the area A2. When recording image data, no instruction is recorded. The image data may be recorded in the original file or may be recorded in a new file.

FIG. 15 shows a flow of an image editing process for applying a process represented by an instruction described in the file to the image data read from the file of the recording medium M2. First,
Reads image data and all instructions from the file,
It is stored in a predetermined area of the AM (step # 305). Next, it is determined whether or not the read instruction includes a cancel instruction (# 310).

When a cancellation instruction is included,
Of the instructions stored in the RAM, a deletion flag indicating that the instruction should be deleted is set in the cancellation instruction and the instruction targeted for the cancellation (# 315). Specifically, it is determined whether or not the instruction is a cancellation instruction in order from the beginning of the stored series of instructions. Among the instructions for which no deletion flag is set, the deletion flag is set for the instruction closest to the cancellation decision.

Next, the image data stored in the RAM is
Instructions for which the deletion flag is not set are sequentially processed (# 320). This completes the editing of the image data.
According to this image editing process, even when all the instructions including the cancellation instruction and the target instruction are recorded in the file as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 13, the processing of the canceled instruction can be excluded. Efficient.

The process of FIG. 14, which excludes the cancellation instruction and the instruction to record the instruction, can also be used to read and re-record the instruction already written in the file. That is, it can be used to delete the cancellation instruction and the instruction of the target from the instructions included in the original file. By using this function, it is possible to prevent the efficiency of image editing from lowering even in a conventional apparatus that performs all processes in the order of recorded instructions regardless of the presence or absence of a cancellation instruction.

In this embodiment, the instruction for editing the image data is recorded in the same file as the image data. However, the image data and the instruction may be recorded in different files. In this case, information indicating the relation with the image data is added to the file in which the instruction is recorded. For example, the file name of the file in which the image data is recorded is recorded in the file in which the instruction is recorded. By doing so, it becomes possible to edit the image only by specifying the file in which the instruction is recorded, and the operability is improved.
Also, file management becomes easy.

Although an example in which the personal computer uses the image editing instruction processing program and the image editing program has been described, the present invention can be used in other devices. For example, a device such as a digital camera that captures an image and generates image data can be used directly.

[0044]

According to the image editing method of the present invention, when a cancellation instruction indicating that the immediately preceding instruction is to be canceled is first read, the instruction immediately before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction are excluded from the instructions to be recorded in the file. In the instruction processing program, the efficiency of the image editing program can be improved even if the image editing program that performs processing on the image data executes the instruction regardless of the presence or absence of the cancellation instruction.
Further, it is possible to avoid recording a useless instruction, and it is possible to effectively use the recording capacity of the recording medium.

In particular, when the cancel instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction which has not yet been excluded and which has not yet been excluded before the cancel instruction and the cancel instruction are excluded from the instructions to be recorded in the file. By doing so, the above-mentioned effects are surely exhibited.

The image editing instruction processing program of the present invention stores the read instruction in a predetermined storage area and records the stored instruction in a file when the recording instruction indicating that the instruction is to be recorded is read. Thus, the number of accesses to the recording medium for creating the file can be minimized, and the processing speed is improved.

When an execution instruction indicating execution of an instruction is read, new image data is generated by editing the image data using the instructions preceding the execution instruction in order, and the generated image data and its According to the image editing instruction processing program of the present invention for recording an instruction subsequent to an execution instruction in a file, it is possible to quickly obtain final image data in image editing even when there are many instructions in the middle. .

When the non-recording instruction indicating that the instruction is not recorded is read, all the instructions preceding the non-recording instruction and the non-recording instruction are excluded from the file recording instruction according to the present invention. In the editing instruction processing program, it is not necessary to individually give a cancellation instruction, and operability is improved. The efficiency of the actual editing process is improved, and the waste of recording capacity can be avoided.

Further, by adding information indicating the relationship with the image data to be edited to the file in which the instruction is recorded, the relationship between the file in which the instruction is recorded and the image data to be edited is added. Clarity makes file management easier.

When an instruction for canceling the immediately preceding instruction is first read, the image editing program of the present invention for excluding the instruction immediately before the cancel instruction and the instruction for cancellation from the instruction used for editing is as follows. Even if the image editing instruction processing program that records the instruction in the file records the cancellation instruction and the instruction to be processed, the editing can be performed efficiently.

In particular, when the cancel instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction which has not yet been excluded and which is the instruction before the cancel instruction and the cancel instruction are excluded from the instructions used for editing. By doing so, the above-described effects are reliably exhibited.

An operation unit operated for inputting an instruction;
A processing unit for reading an instruction input from the operation unit and recording the instruction in a file, wherein the processing unit reads the instruction and records the instruction in the file according to any one of the image editing instruction processing programs described above. In the processing unit,
By utilizing the features of each program, the processing efficiency of another image editing apparatus, the utilization efficiency of the recording capacity of a recording medium, or the processing efficiency of the image editing instruction processing apparatus itself increases.

An image reading section for reading image data;
An editing unit that reads an instruction from a file and edits image data using the read instruction, wherein the editing unit reads the instruction and edits the image data according to any of the above image editing programs. The device is an efficient device that does not execute useless processing. Further, in a configuration in which an image display device is provided with a display unit, an image can be displayed quickly.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing the external appearance of a personal computer serving as an image editing instruction processing device and an image editing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in one step of an image editing instruction process.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of an instruction stored in one step of an image editing instruction process.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of an instruction stored in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an instruction stored in another step of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing an outline of a first flow of an image editing instruction process.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an outline of a second flow of the image editing instruction process.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing an outline of a flow of image editing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Personal computer 11 Main body 12 Display part 13 Keyboard 14 Mouse 15 and 16 Recording medium insertion port M1 Program recording medium M2 Image data recording medium

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Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. An image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions related to editing of image data and recording the instructions in a file in the order of reading, when an instruction for canceling the immediately preceding instruction is first read, An image editing instruction processing program characterized in that an instruction immediately before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction are excluded from instructions to be recorded in a file. 2. When a cancellation instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction which has not yet been excluded and which has not yet been excluded before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction are excluded from the instructions to be recorded in the file. 2. The image editing instruction processing program according to claim 1, wherein 3. An image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions for editing image data and recording the instructions in a file in the order of reading, storing the read instructions in a predetermined storage area, and recording the instructions. An image editing instruction processing program characterized by recording a stored instruction in a file when a recording instruction indicating the fact is read. 4. An image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and recording the instructions in a file in the order of reading, when an execution instruction indicating execution of the instruction is read, the execution instruction is read. Image editing instruction processing that edits image data using instructions earlier than the previous instruction to generate new image data, and records the generated image data and instructions after the execution instruction in a file. program. 5. An image editing instruction processing program for reading a series of instructions relating to editing of image data and recording the instructions in a reading order in a file. An image editing instruction processing program characterized in that all instructions preceding a recording instruction and its non-recording instruction are excluded from instructions for recording in a file. 6. The image editing instruction according to claim 1, wherein information indicating a relation with the image data to be edited is added to a file for recording the instruction. Processing program. 7. An image editing program for reading a series of instructions for editing image data and editing the image data using the instructions in the order in which the instructions have been read, when a cancellation instruction indicating that the immediately preceding instruction is to be canceled is first read. An image editing program for excluding an instruction immediately before the cancellation instruction and the cancellation instruction from instructions used for editing. 8. When the cancel instruction is read for the second time or later, the last instruction that has not yet been excluded and is the instruction before the cancel instruction and the cancel instruction are excluded from the instructions used for editing. The image editing program according to claim 7, wherein: 9. An image editing instruction process comprising: an operation unit operated to input a series of instructions relating to editing of image data; and a processing unit which reads a series of instructions input from the operation unit and records the instructions in a file. 7. An image editing instruction processing device, wherein a processing unit reads an instruction and records the instruction in a file using the image editing instruction processing program according to claim 1. 10. An image editing apparatus comprising: an image reading unit that reads image data; and an editing unit that reads a series of instructions for editing image data from a file and edits the read image data using the read instructions. 9. An image editing apparatus, wherein an editing unit reads instructions and edits image data using the image editing program according to claim 7. 11. The image editing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a display unit that displays an image represented by the image data edited by the editing unit.