JP2713946B2 - Photo receiving system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to a system for receiving a photograph to be assembled under a newspaper plate, for example, when producing a newspaper.

(Prior Art) Photos attached to a newspaper edition include photos transmitted from a news agency. Conventionally, this type of photo receiving system is shown in FIG. (1) is a communication line connected to a communication company, and (2) is a device for receiving photo data transmitted via the communication line (1) by a photo receiving device. Reference numeral (3) denotes a printer which outputs photograph data received by the photograph receiving device (2) as a photograph. The operator selects an appropriate photo from all the photos output by the printer (3) as the photocopy (5), and selects this as the newspaper copy (4).
In a predetermined position. However, despite the fact that only a few of the received photos are used by newspaper companies, the photo receiving device (2) is an output-only device, so all the received data must be output. And it took a very long time to finish the output. In addition, the photographic composition (5) adopted was replaced with the newspaper composition (4)
There is a problem that the work of pasting into the is troublesome.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems.
An object of the present invention is to provide a photo receiving system capable of shortening a newspaper creation time.

[Configuration of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides an image storage unit in which all photo data transmitted from a communication company are stored together with individual identification data, a screen display command for displaying the received photo on a screen, and the reception Input means for inputting at least a transmission command with the identification data corresponding to a photograph to be published under the newspaper version of the photograph, and, based on the screen display command, read out the photograph data from the image storage unit and display the screen. And a transmission unit for reading only the photo data corresponding to the posted photo from the image storage unit based on the transmission command, and transmitting the data to the typesetting device.

(Operation) In the photo receiving system according to the present invention, photo data transmitted from a communication company is stored in the image storage unit. Then, when a screen display command is input from the input unit, all data stored in the image storage unit is read out by the screen display unit and displayed on the screen. Therefore, the operator can select only the photos to be allocated under the photo plate while viewing the screen. Further, when identification data corresponding to the photograph to be allocated is input, only the data of the photograph to be allocated is read from the image storage unit, and the data is controlled to be transmitted to the typesetting device.

Example An example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a photograph receiving system, in which (10) is an input unit composed of a keyboard and a cursor, and (11) is a CR, for example.
This is a display unit composed of a T display and an input unit (1
0) and the display unit (11) constitute a terminal device (1). (2) is a printing device configured by, for example, a facsimile. (3) is a photo receiving processor.

Next, the internal configuration of the photo receiving processor (3) will be described. (31) is a command decoding unit which decodes information such as a command input from the input unit (10) and converts it into command decoding data in a format applied in the photo receiving processor (3). Reference numeral (32) denotes an A / D converter, which is connected to a communication company (4) via a line (5) and a line (6).
Is also connected to the typesetting device (7). (33) is an image storage for storing pixel data of a photograph transmitted from the communication company (4). (34) is a compression unit, A / D conversion unit (32)
And has a function of generating compressed data in order to store the digital data digitally converted in step (1) in the image storage section (33). (35) is a screen display processing unit which is activated by a screen display command input from the input unit (1) and thins out the photograph data read from the image storage unit (33) and displays it on the display unit (11). (36) is a restoration unit, and the image storage unit (3
The compressed data stored in 3) is restored to the original data. (37) is an output processing unit which is activated when an output command accompanied by identification data corresponding to a specific photograph that the operator wants to check visually is input, and outputs the specific photograph data read from the image storage unit (33). The restoration unit (37) restores the original data, and outputs a photograph corresponding to the identification data to the printing device (2) based on the data. A transmission processing unit (38) is activated when a transmission command accompanied by identification data of a photograph to be transmitted to the typesetting device (7) is input. In response to the transmission command, the transmission processing unit (38) restores the specific photo data read from the image storage unit (33) to the original data, converts it into analog data by the A / D conversion unit (32), and converts the data into an analog data. (7)
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Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. This embodiment is roughly divided into the following four types of operations.

(1) Storage of photo data transmitted from a news agency (2) Screen display of the photo data (3) Output of desired photo (4) Transmission of desired photo to typesetting device 4) will be described in order.

(1) Storage of photo data transmitted from a communication company Photo data transmitted from a communication company (4) is received as analog data by an A / D converter (32) via a line (5). Here, it is converted into digital data. The digital data is image-compressed by a compression unit (34) to generate compressed data. Then, the compressed data is stored in the image storage section (33).

(2) Photo data screen display When a screen display command is input from the input unit (10),
It is converted into decoding data corresponding to the screen display command by the command decoding unit (31). The screen display processing unit (35) is activated by the decoded data. Screen display processing unit started (35)
Reads the compressed data of the photo from the image storage (33),
After performing the thinning process so that the data can be displayed on the display unit (11), the photograph data is displayed on the display unit (11). When the photo data is displayed on the display section (11), each photo data is given unique identification data, for example, a numeral.

(3) Output of Desired Photo By the screen display, the operator can confirm all the received photos on the display unit (11). An output command accompanied by identification data corresponding to a desired photograph is input from the input unit (10) in order to visually check the photograph to be published under the newspaper edition. When an output command is input, it is converted into corresponding decoded data by a command decoding unit (31). The output processing unit (37) is activated by the decrypted data. The output processing unit (37) reads out only the photograph data corresponding to the decrypted data from the image storage unit (33), and restores this data to the restoration unit (3
In step 6), the digital data is restored to the digital data before compression and output to the printing device (2).

(4) Transmission of a desired photo to the typesetting device Based on the screen display result and the printout result, the operator sends a transmission command with parameters corresponding to the photo in order to select a photo to be published under the newspaper. Input section (1
Enter 0). When this transmission command is input, it is converted into the corresponding decoded data by the command decoding unit (31).
The transmission processing unit (38) is activated based on the decrypted data. The transmission processing unit (38) reads out only the photograph data corresponding to the identification data from the image storage unit (33), and restores the photograph data to digital data before compression by the restoration unit (36). The restored digital data is stored in the A / D converter (3
The data is converted into analog data in 2) and transmitted to the typesetting device (7) via the line (6).

With the above configuration and operation, the operator can visually confirm the received photograph through the display unit (11). Therefore, desired photo data can be transmitted to the typesetting device only by inputting a transmission command accompanied by identification data corresponding to a photo to be published in the newspaper composition, and the work of pasting the photo under the newspaper composition can be performed. Can be omitted. Further, since the received photograph is stored as digital data, there is no need to output the received photograph data, and the time required to create a newspaper copy can be greatly reduced. In addition, photo data is compressed and stored once,
The capacity of the image storage unit (33) can be small.

In the above embodiment, the compression unit (34) and the restoration unit (36) are provided so that the capacity of the image storage unit (33) can be reduced.
The present invention is not limited to this, and the received photo data may be stored in the image storage unit without compression.

In the above embodiment, when a desired photograph is transmitted to the typesetting device, the photograph is transmitted in the same size as received, but the present invention is not limited to this. A photograph to be transmitted may be changed to a desired size by inputting a scaling command and a scaling ratio for changing the size of the photo data in accordance with the transmission command. To realize this, as shown in FIG. 2, in addition to the restoration unit (36), the scaling unit (3)
9) is provided. When the transmission processing unit (38) recognizes that the scaling command has been input, the data restored by the restoration unit (36) is converted by the scaling unit (39) according to the scaling factor.
It is scaled. Conversely, the transmission processing unit (38) is controlled so that the restored data is sent directly to the A / D conversion unit (32) unless a scaling command is input.

With the above configuration, the photograph can be scaled to the optimal size under the newspaper version and transmitted to the typesetting device. You only need to tweak the size of the photo.

Further, the scaling command may be input from the typesetting device to the photo receiving processor via the line (6). In this case, the signal received by the A / D converter (32) is
An image signal from the communication company (4) or a transmission command signal from the typesetting device (7). Accordingly, a flag for identification is set for each signal, and the command decoding unit (32) instructs the command decoding unit (32) to determine whether the received signal is an image signal or a transmission command signal. (31) is connected.

With such a configuration, a transmission command can be input from the input unit (10) or the typesetting device (7).

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, in the present invention, a received photograph is temporarily stored as photograph data, and the photograph data is displayed on the display unit by an input operation of the operator, and the received photograph can be confirmed on the display screen. By simply inputting a transmission command accompanied by identification data corresponding to the photo to be posted on the composition, the desired photo can be transmitted to the typesetting device. Creation time is reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing another embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing a conventional example. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Terminal device, 2 ... Printing device, 3 ... Photo receiving processor, 4 ... Telecommunication company, 5, 6 ... Line, 7 ... Typesetting device, 31 ... Command decoding unit, 32 ... A / D conversion unit, 33 ... Image storage Unit, 35: screen display processing unit, 37: output processing unit, 38: transmission processing unit

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An image storage means for converting all photograph data transmitted from a communication company into digital data and storing it together with individual identification data, a screen display command for displaying the received photograph on a screen, and a newspaper among the received photographs. Input means capable of at least inputting a transmission command accompanied by the identification data corresponding to a photo to be posted on the composition; and reading out a plurality of pieces of photo data from the image storage unit based on the screen display command and thinning out this data. Screen display processing means for displaying a screen, and transmission means for reading out only the photo data corresponding to the posted photograph from the image storage unit based on the transmission command, converting the data into analog data, and transmitting the analog data to the typesetting device. A photo receiving system.