JP2003058898A - Photograph processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photograph processor, with which the size of a character can be freely selected when printing a plurality of kinds of information in an image on the basis of a preset priority order, further, print processing is performed by appropriately deleting one part of information data before print processing when the information can not be printed within one line in the image. SOLUTION: A controller for the photograph processor for printing the image on photographic paper comprises a data synthesizing function for synthesizing a plurality of kinds of information data mainly presented with characters to image data in the preset priority order, a display function for displaying data synthesized by the data synthesizing function on the screen of a monitor, a character size calculating function for calculating the size of the character so that the information data synthesized by the data synthesizing function can be displayed within one line in the image, and an information data deleting function for partially deleting the information data synthesized by the data synthesizing function.

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a photographic processing apparatus for printing an image on photographic paper. 2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a photographic processing apparatus of this type, a scanner for reading an image of a developed film, for example, and an image are printed on photographic paper based on image data read by the scanner. An image print processing mechanism and a front print processing mechanism for printing various information expressed in characters in an image printed by the image print processing mechanism, and an image of a developed film read by a scanner, Images are printed by an image print processing mechanism, and characters are printed by a front print processing mechanism so as to overlap a part of an image, thereby finishing a photograph. [0005] In the above-described photographic processing apparatus, when printing various types of information represented by characters by the front print processing mechanism, a predetermined position in an image is set at a predetermined position. Print processing is performed with characters of different sizes superimposed, but there is a problem that the state of the print cannot be confirmed until the print is completed. [0004] That is, for example, when there are a plurality of types of information to be printed by the front print processing mechanism, it is good to be able to display all of the plurality of types of information in a print. Even when printing is difficult, it is not possible to confirm whether all of these types of information have been printed unless the print is finished, and the completed print may be wasted. . The present invention has been developed in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to print a plurality of types of information mainly composed of characters in an image based on a preset priority order. If the size can be freely selected and it is not possible to print one line in the image, a part of the information data is appropriately deleted before printing. An object of the present invention is to provide a photographic processing device capable of performing a printing process. [0006] In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, an image is printed on photographic paper by a print processing means under the control of a control means. In the processing device, the control means includes a data synthesizing function for synthesizing a plurality of types of information data, which are mainly represented by characters, with image data in a predetermined priority order, and a data synthesizing function using the data synthesizing function. A display function for displaying on the screen, a character size calculating function for calculating the size of the character so that the information data synthesized by the data synthesizing function can be displayed in one line in the image, and a data An information data deleting function for partially deleting information data synthesized by the synthesizing function is provided. An embodiment of a photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The photographic processing apparatus shown in FIG.
A scanner 1 for reading a frame image of the developed film F as an image reading mechanism, a recording information reading device 2 for reading magnetic information recorded on the developed film F, and an image or recording information reading device 2 for reading by the scanner 1 A display device 3 for displaying various information and the like read by the printer on the color monitor screen 30, and a print for printing an image read by the scanner 1 and various information and the like read by the record information reading device 2 on the photographic paper P. A printing device 4 as processing means, and a control device 5 as control means for mainly controlling these constituent members 1, 2, 3, 4.
And a keyboard 6 as input means for inputting various information and the like to the control device 5. The print processing device 4 mainly converts an image of each frame of the film F read by the scanner 1 and a plurality of types of information data mainly expressed by characters into photographic paper P.
And a developing mechanism 4b for developing the photographic paper P exposed by the digital exposure mechanism 4a. An image or the like is printed by the digital exposure mechanism 4a. After the printing, the photographic paper P is developed by the developing mechanism 4b to finish the print. The control device 5 is equipped with a microcomputer, and a plurality of types of information data mainly represented by characters are read by the scanner 1 on a program of the microcomputer with a preset priority. A data synthesizing function 51 for synthesizing the image data, and data synthesized by the data synthesizing function 51, various information read by the recording information reading device 2, various information input from the keyboard 6, and the like are displayed on the display device 3.
Display function 5 for displaying on the color monitor screen 30
2, a character size calculation function 53 for calculating the size of the character so that the information data synthesized by the data synthesis function 51 can be displayed in one line in the image, and a data synthesis function 51 An information data deletion function 54 for deleting a part of the information data; an arrangement position setting function 55 for setting an arrangement position of information data characters and the like with respect to the image of the image data; A font setting function 56 for setting a font and a character size setting function 57 for setting the size of characters and the like of information data
And a color setting function 58 for setting the color of characters and the like of information data, and an interval setting function 59 for setting the interval of characters and the like of information data. The memory of the microcomputer constituting the control device 5 stores a plurality of types of fonts and characters, figures and symbols having different sizes. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, A, A,
B and C are prepared, and the priority order is A, B,
C is set in order. A = Information data such as a title arbitrarily registered by the user; B = Information data selected by the user from title data registered in advance in a camera or the like C = Information data A / B equal to or more than the information data of the shooting date C is recorded as magnetic information on the film F when photographing with a camera. In the above-described photograph processing apparatus, the data synthesizing function 51, the arrangement position setting function 55, the font setting function 56, the size setting function 57, the color setting function 58 or the information data deleting function 54 are operated by operating the keys of the keyboard 6. Is transmitted to the color monitor screen 30 in a desired font, size, and color by the setting function, and the character S2 representing various information is displayed by the printing device 4 together with the image S1. Like that. The arrangement position of the character S2 representing various types of information is set via the arrangement position setting function 55 by operating the keys on the keyboard 6 in the image displayed on the color monitor screen 30. Like that. The space setting function 59 includes a character S in the space of the arrangement position set by the arrangement position setting function 55.
In the case where 2 cannot be accommodated as it is, the character S
2 also has a function of rearranging 2 over a plurality of rows. Reference numeral 7 in the figure denotes a film mask unit. In the above-described photographic processing apparatus, the image of each frame of the developed film F set in the film mask unit 7 is read by the scanner 1 and various information written on the developed film F is read. Is read by the recorded information reading device 2. The operator selects the type of information data to be printed by operating the keyboard 6 (in the embodiment shown, A and B are selected), and inputs the type of information data to the control device. Accordingly, the image data read by the scanner 1 and the selected information data are synthesized by the data synthesizing function 51 by the data synthesizing function 51, and as shown in FIG.
Is displayed on the color monitor screen 30 of the display device 3.
Are sequentially displayed, and the type of information data is selected by operating the keyboard 6 to search for the selected information data in accordance with the flowchart shown in FIG. 3. Based on the searched information data, “ In process X, the composite image data (information data) is edited according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 4 to generate composite image data (information data), and then a composite photograph is printed based on the composite image data. It is done. That is, in step 101, the character size calculating function 53 first calculates a character size that can be displayed in one line in an image in which the selected information data is synthesized by the data synthesizing function 51. It is determined whether or not the character size is larger than the minimum printable character size at the time of preset printing,
If the character size is larger than the preset minimum printable size character, the composite image is printed by the printing device 4 as it is, while the character size is set to the preset printable minimum size. In other words, if the size of the character is smaller than the size of the character, in other words, if the character of the minimum size set in advance does not fit in one line, it is asked in step 103 whether or not to forcibly proceed to the printing process as it is. . When the operator selects a mode in which the print processing is forcibly performed by operating the keyboard 6, the composite image is printed by the printing apparatus 4 using the minimum printable size characters set in advance. In this case, the latter half of the character information that does not fit on one line is not printed. On the other hand, if the compulsory print processing mode is not selected in step 103, it is rearranged into, for example, two lines by the interval setting function 59 (step 104). Is displayed on the monitor screen 30, and in step 105, it is asked whether or not to print using the composite screen displayed on the display screen. When the operator selects the print processing mode by operating the keyboard 6, the composite photograph is printed by the printing apparatus 4 using the composite image, while the characters are rearranged into two lines, for example. If the print processing mode is not selected in step 105, for example, when a part of the character overlaps with the main part in the image, in step 106, the characters arranged in two lines are A part is appropriately deleted through the information data deletion function 54, and
After the composite image data (information data) contained in the line is created, a composite photograph is printed using the composite image data (information data). In the above-described photographic processing apparatus, the operator appropriately views the color monitor screen 30 shown in FIG. 2 on which the composite image S of the image S1 and the character S2 is displayed.
By the key operation of the keyboard 6, the arrangement position of the character S2 to be printed in the image is set via the arrangement position setting function 55, the type of the font to be printed is set via the font setting function 56, and the character size is set to the character size. Through the setting function,
The colors of the characters are appropriately adjusted via the color setting function 58, and the images and characters adjusted by these functions are displayed on the color monitor screen 30. The printing of the synthesized image is performed by exposing the synthesized image synthesized by the data synthesizing function 51 to the photographic paper P by the digital exposure mechanism 4a and then developing it by the developing processing mechanism 4b. Thus, a print in the same mode as displayed on the monitor screen 30 is completed. As described above, according to the above embodiment, three types of information written on the film F can be printed in an image based on a preset priority. Before the print processing, the user can freely select the character size and the like while viewing the image S displayed on the color monitor screen 30 via the display function 52, and can perform the print processing in one line in the image S. If it is not possible to do so, it is possible to arbitrarily delete a part of the information data on the monitor screen 30 via the information data deletion function 54 and print the desired composite image. is there. In the above embodiment, the scanner 1 for reading the image of the developed film was used as the image reading mechanism. However, the present invention is not limited to this. May be used. As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the image is mainly represented by characters in the control means of the photographic processing apparatus which prints an image on photographic paper by the print processing means. A data synthesizing function for synthesizing multiple types of information data with image data in a preset priority, a display function for displaying data synthesized by the data synthesizing function on a monitor screen, and a data synthesizing function. A character size calculation function for calculating the size of the character so that the combined information data can be displayed in one line in the image, and a part of the information data combined by the data combining function is deleted. Of the information data deletion function, it is of course possible to print a plurality of types of information in an image based on a preset priority. Before this print processing, the size of the character being printed can be freely selected while viewing the image displayed on the monitor screen via the display function, and the print processing can be performed in one line in the image. If it is not possible to perform the print process after deleting a part of the information data on the monitor screen through the information data deletion function as appropriate, It has improved.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a state in which an example of a composite image is displayed on a color monitor screen. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the photographic processing device according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the photographic processing device according to the present invention. [Description of Signs] 3 Display device 30 Color monitor screen 4 Printing device (print processing means) 5 Control device (control means) 51 Data synthesis function 52 Display function 53 Character size calculation function 54 Information data deletion function

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Claims (1)

1. A photographic processing apparatus in which an image is printed on photographic paper by a print processing means under the control of the control means, wherein the control means includes a plurality of types mainly represented by characters. A data synthesizing function for synthesizing the information data into image data with a preset priority, a display function for displaying the data synthesized by the data synthesizing function on the monitor screen, and a data synthesizing function by the data synthesizing function. A character size calculation function for calculating the size of the character so that the information data can be displayed in one line in the image;
A photograph processing apparatus comprising: an information data deleting function for partially deleting information data synthesized by a data synthesizing function.