JP2872457B2 - Image editing method and apparatus - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image editing method and apparatus capable of pasting image data into a document and storing the data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of method and apparatus, when it is desired to select only image data pasted in a certain document, for example, image data registered in this system as shown in FIG. Is displayed so that the user can select image data pasted in a desired document from the image data list window 20 according to the stored image data name. .

[0003]

However, in the above-described method and apparatus, unless the user himself / herself remembers the names of all the image data pasted in the document, the image data is pasted in the document. There is a problem that only image data cannot be selected.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided an image editing apparatus comprising: a document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents; and a plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit. An image data storage unit for storing image data, a correspondence storage unit for storing a correspondence between a document and image data included in the document, and a list of image data names stored in the image data storage unit are displayed. Image data list display means to be displayed on the screen, document designation means for designating a desired document among a plurality of documents stored in the document storage means, and a correspondence stored in the correspondence storage means. Display control for displaying, in a list displayed on the display screen, the name of image data included in the document specified by the document specifying means so as to be distinguishable from the names of other image data It provided the stage. Preferably, based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage, counting means for counting the number of image data included in the document specified by the document specifying means, and an image counted by the counting means. Image data number display means for displaying the number of data on the display screen.

Further, another image editing apparatus of the present invention comprises a document storage means for storing a plurality of documents, and an image data storage means for storing image data contained in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage means. A correspondence storage unit for storing a correspondence between a document and image data included in the document, and an image data list display unit for displaying a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen. A document designation unit for designating a desired document among the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit; and a list displayed on the display screen based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit. Instead, there is provided display control means for displaying the name of image data included in the document specified by the document specification means. According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image editing method, comprising: a document storage unit configured to store a plurality of documents; and an image data unit configured to store image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit. What is claimed is: 1. An image editing method in an image editing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit; and a correspondence storage unit configured to store a correspondence relationship between a document and image data included in the document. First to display a list of names on the display screen
Display step, a document designation step of designating a desired document among the plurality of documents stored in the document storage means, and display on the display screen based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage means. A second display step of displaying the name of the image data included in the document specified in the document specification step in the list so as to be distinguishable from the names of other image data.

Preferably, based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage means, a counting step of counting the number of image data included in the document specified in the document specifying step; And displaying an image data number on the display screen. Further, another image editing method of the present invention includes:
A document storage unit that stores a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit that stores image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, and a correspondence relationship between the document and the image data included in the document. An image editing method in an image editing apparatus having a correspondence relationship storage unit for storing, wherein a first display step of displaying a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen, and the document A document designation step of designating a desired document among the plurality of documents stored in the storage means, and, based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage means, in place of the list displayed on the display screen, A second display step of displaying a name of the image data included in the document specified in the document specification step.

[0007]

With the above arrangement, a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage means is displayed on the display screen, and when a desired document is designated from among a plurality of documents stored in the document storage means. In the list displayed on the display screen, the name of the image data included in the specified document is displayed so as to be distinguishable from the names of other image data based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit. Further, based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit, the number of image data included in the designated document is counted, and the counted number of image data is displayed on the display screen. Also, a list of the names of the image data stored in the image data storage means is displayed on the display screen, and when a desired document is designated from among the plurality of documents stored in the document storage means, the correspondence relation storage means is displayed. Based on the stored correspondence, the name of the image data included in the designated document is displayed instead of the list displayed on the display screen.

[0008]

【Example】

Embodiment 1 An embodiment according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. As long as the functions of the present invention are performed, a single device, a system including a plurality of devices, and a system in which processing is performed via a network such as a LAN may be performed. It goes without saying that the present invention is applied.

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of an image processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is the system
A bus, and each component block to be described below is connected to the system bus. 2 is CPU (Cent
ral Processing Unit). 3
Is a program memory (hereinafter referred to as PMEM).
A program for various editing processes including the processing procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 9 is selectively read from the hard disk 14 as appropriate, and is executed by the two CPUs. Data input from the keyboard 8 is stored as code information in PMEM which is also a text memory. 4 is an image memory (hereinafter referred to as IMEM), 5 is an image memory
A scanner, 6 is an image input / output control unit, and 7 is a printer. The image data read from the image scanner 5 is expanded on the IRAM 4 and then expanded on the VRAM 11 and displayed on the CRT 13. The print image is developed as bitmap data into the IMEM 4 and then output to the printer 7 under the control of the image input / output controller 6. An input control unit 8 includes a keyboard 9,
An input device such as a pointing device (hereinafter referred to as a PD) of 0 is connected. The operator operates the keyboard 9 to issue a system operation command or the like. Also P
D10 is for selecting image information on the 13 CRTs and instructing processing, and in this embodiment, a mouse is used. Thus, the mouse cursor on the CRT 13 is arbitrarily moved in the X and Y directions to select a menu, select image data and graphic data, and edit. 11 is video image
A memory (hereinafter referred to as VRAM), 12 is a display output control unit, and 13 is a CRT. The data displayed on the 13 CRTs is developed as bitmap data on 11 VRAMs. For example, if it is graphic data, its position,
A graphic pattern corresponding to the attribute information is developed on the VRAM, and a cursor can be directly generated and displayed on a display area of the VRAM by software control. Reference numeral 14 denotes an external storage device control unit, and reference numerals 15 and 16 denote disks for data files, which are a document 90, image data 91 pasted on the document, and correspondence management for managing the correspondence between the document and image data managed in page units. Information 92, file management information 93 for managing files of documents and image data, and inversion management information 94 for managing image data to be inverted and displayed are stored. FIG. 12 shows this state.

The correspondence management information includes image data names, vertical and horizontal sizes, display positions, and image data corresponding to each page of each document.
The file name of the image in the document is included. The file management information includes a file name corresponding to each document and each image, an address on a memory, and a size of each document and each image. Also, the inversion management information determines image data in the selected document in the image data list, and according to the determination result,
A plug indicating whether or not to invert each field is stored.

For example, 15 is a hard disk (hereinafter referred to as HD)
16 is a floppy disk (hereinafter referred to as F
D).

The operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When an instruction to display a list of image data recorded in the present system is issued from the keyboard 9, an image data list window 31 is displayed on the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in step S1. FIG. 3 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 3 shows a display screen 30 of the CRT 13.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 31 denotes an image data list window for displaying a list of image data registered in the present system, 32 and 33 indicate the sizes and names of the respective image data, and 34 is pasted in the document. This is a field of a command for selecting the present image data. Next, in step S2, it is determined whether an in-document image data selection command has been instructed. If instructed, the process proceeds to step S3. If not, the process loops until instructed in step S2. The instruction of the in-document image data selection command is issued by moving the mouse cursor operating in conjunction with the PD 10 on the field of the in-document image data selection command 34 and pressing the button of the PD 10 or pressing a key on the keyboard 9. It shall be done by inputting.
When the in-document image data selection command is instructed, the display screen 3 of the CRT 13 is used to indicate in which document the image data pasted is selected in step S3.
0, a document file list window 40 is displayed. FIG. 4 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 4 shows a display screen 32 of the CRT 13 in which a document file list window 40 is displayed in order to designate a document image data selection 34 to indicate which document image data is to be selected. Is shown.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 40 denotes a document file list window for displaying a list of document files registered in the system, and reference numeral 41 denotes a document file icon displayed in the document file list window 40. Corresponds to one document file.
Reference numeral 42 denotes a document file name given to the document file icon 41. Then, in step S4, one document is selected from the document file list window 40. The document is selected by moving the cursor operating in conjunction with the PD 10 on the field of the document file icon 41 and pressing the button of the PD 10. FIG. 5 shows the state at this time, and the selected document file is highlighted as shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in a state where one document file icon is selected from the document file list window.

In the figure, a document file icon 50 whose background is inverted to black indicates the selected document file. When a document file is selected in step S4, the document file list window 40 is deleted, and step S5
In the reverse management information stored in the data file disks 15 and 16, the image data stored in the corresponding management information in which the image data is stored corresponding to each page in the selected document. Is compared with the name of the image data in the image data list, and the field of the same image data name is highlighted in the image data list window 31.
FIG. 6 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 6 shows a CRT 13 in which one document file icon is selected from the document file list window 40 and the name and size of image data pasted in the selected document file are highlighted. 2 shows a display screen 30.

In the figure, reference numerals 60 and 61 denote image data attached to the selected document file.

[Embodiment 2] In the first embodiment, the field of the image data name in the image data list window 31 is highlighted to indicate the image data attached to the document. In the above, only the selected image data is displayed in the image data list window 31.

The present embodiment will be described below.

FIG. 8 shows a case where one document file icon is selected from the document file list window 40 and only the name of the image data pasted in the selected document file is displayed in the image data list window 31. 2 shows a display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in a state where the user is in a state of being in a state.

In the figure, reference numerals 80 and 81 denote the names and sizes of the image data pasted in the selected document file.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of this embodiment.

Steps S11 to S14 correspond to steps S1 to S1 in the first embodiment.
The same applies up to 4. In step S15, the name and image data of the image data stored in the correspondence management information 92 in the data file disks 15 and 16 storing the image data corresponding to each page in the selected document. Are compared, and only the same image is displayed in the image data list window.

FIG. 8 shows the state at this time.

Third Embodiment Next, a third embodiment will be described. In the first embodiment, the field of the name of the image data in the image data list window 31 is highlighted to indicate the image data pasted in the document.
If all the image data registered in this system is not displayed on the screen, scroll through the image data list and check if all the image data is highlighted. There was no problem.

In this embodiment, in order to solve the above problem, the image data in the selected document in the image data list is determined, and it is determined whether or not to invert each field according to the determination result. Management information 94 for storing a flag indicating
Is generated, the flag is counted, the total is displayed as the total number of image data, and the field of the name of the corresponding image data is highlighted.

The present embodiment will be described below.

FIG. 10 shows that one document file icon is selected from the document file list window, and the name of the image data pasted in the selected document file is highlighted in the image data list window 31. At this time, the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 showing the selected image data total number window A0 is shown.

FIG. 11 shows the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in a state where the image data list in the image data list window 31 is scrolled by one line from the state of FIG.

In the figure, B0 indicates image data pasted in the selected document file.

A flowchart for explaining the operation of this embodiment is the same as that in FIG.

In this embodiment, however, FIG. 10 shows the state of step S5 instead of FIG. In the present embodiment, the number of selections is displayed as 3 in the selected image data total number window A0, but in FIG. 10, only two image data names are highlighted. Therefore, there is still selected image data not displayed in FIG. here,
A key input is performed from the keyboard 9 to scroll the image data list in the image data list window 31 to one line. FIG. 11 shows the state at this time. In FIG. 11, since the image data names of all the selected numbers are displayed, the undisplayed image data names no longer exist.

Although only image data has been considered as data to be handled up to the above embodiment, external character data and the like may be used.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is easy to select all image data pasted in a certain document. As a result, there is an effect that it is easy to store only the image data pasted in a certain document in a device such as a floppy disk by a simple operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of a graphic processing apparatus according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a conventional technique.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the third embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the third embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state in a data file disk.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 System bus 2 CPU 3 PMEM 4 IMEM 5 Image scanner 6 Image input / output control part 7 Printer 8 Input control part 9 Keyboard 10 Mouse 11 VRAM 12 Display output control part 13 CRT 14 External storage control part 15 Hard disk 16 Floppy disk 90786

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit for storing image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, a document and image data included in the document A correspondence relationship storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship with the image data; an image data list display unit that displays a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen; A document designation unit for designating a desired document from among the documents of the above, and a document specified by the document designation unit in a list displayed on the display screen based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit. And a display control means for displaying the name of the image data included in the image data in a manner distinguishable from the names of other image data. 2. A counting unit for counting the number of image data included in a document specified by the document specifying unit based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit, and an image counted by the counting unit. 2. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising image data number display means for displaying the number of data on said display screen. 3. A document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit for storing image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, a document and image data included in the document A correspondence relationship storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship with the image data; an image data list display unit that displays a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen; A document designation unit for designating a desired document among the documents, and, based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit, a document designated by the document designation unit instead of the list displayed on the display screen. And a display control means for displaying a name of image data included in the document. 4. A document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit for storing image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, a document and image data included in the document An image editing method in an image editing apparatus, comprising: a correspondence storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship between the image data and a first display that displays a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen A document designation step of designating a desired document among a plurality of documents stored in the document storage means; and a document designation step displayed on the display screen based on the correspondence relation stored in the correspondence relation storage means. The list includes a second display step of displaying the name of the image data included in the document specified in the document specification step so as to be distinguishable from the names of other image data. Image editing method. 5. A counting step of counting the number of image data included in the document specified in the document specifying step based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit, and an image counted in the counting step. 5. The image editing method according to claim 4, further comprising an image data number displaying step of displaying the number of data on the display screen. 6. A document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit for storing image data included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, a document and image data included in the document An image editing method in an image editing apparatus, comprising: a correspondence storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship between the image data and a first display that displays a list of names of image data stored in the image data storage unit on a display screen A document designation step of designating a desired document among a plurality of documents stored in the document storage means; and a document designation step displayed on the display screen based on the correspondence relation stored in the correspondence relation storage means. A second display step of displaying, in place of the list, the names of image data included in the document specified in the document specification step.