JP3031072B2 - Document processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus which enables a created document or an overwritten document to be temporarily saved, and which can display the screen on an instruction.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Means for recovering a document after it has been completed without being registered in a storage device at the end of creation and editing of the document, or by editing an updated document and assigning the same name as the update source document name When registering, a document having the same document name as the registered document has been deleted from the storage device, but no means for restoring the document has been provided.

[0003] The document is automatically registered in the temporary registration area of the storage device according to the user's designation during the document editing and as the number of characters increases or decreases. In the case of terminating without registering in the temporary registration area, the document can be recovered by calling the document registered in the temporary registration area. However, the temporarily registered document was not necessarily the final result of editing.

[0004]

However, in such conventional temporary registration means, not only can a target document not be recovered by a single keyboard operation, but recovery can be performed in the same manner as a normal document update. There was a drawback in that the operation was difficult to understand because it was selected and called from the document name list screen. In addition, when editing an updated document and registering it with the same name as the update source document, the document deleted (overwritten) because it has the same document name as the registered document will not be targeted and will be recovered It was impossible.

An object of the present invention is to provide a document creating apparatus capable of storing a document having the same document name as a newly registered document without deleting the document.

[0006]

The present invention is characterized in that an input section for inputting document data such as characters described in a document, a storage section for storing the document data input by the input section, A document creation apparatus having a display unit for displaying document data stored in a storage unit, a storage device for managing the document data as a document file, and a control device for controlling the storage unit, the display unit, and the storage device And (1) a function of storing document data of a document file read from the storage device in a document creation memory area and a document recovery memory area provided in the storage unit when updating a document. (2) displaying the document data in the document creation memory area on the display unit so that the document data of the document file in the document creation memory area can be updated; Function and a function of returning to the initial screen the display unit registers the document data of the memory area for word processing in the storage apparatus when registering to update the document data (3) memory areas for the document creation,
(4) When there is a request for restoring the document data before updating while returning to the initial screen, the document data before updating stored in the memory area for document recovery is moved to the memory area for document creation and stored. (5) a function of initializing the document recovery memory area while displaying it on the display unit so that the document can be updated, and (5) when there is no request to recover the original document data before the update while returning to the initial screen. And a function of initializing the memory area for document recovery when the process proceeds to the next processing.

[0007]

According to the document processing apparatus of the present invention, when updating and registering the document data in the document creation memory area, the document data in the document creation memory area is registered in the storage device and the display unit is returned to the initial screen. When there is a request for restoring the document data before update in the state where the screen is returned to the initial screen, the document data before update stored in the memory area for document recovery is moved to the memory area for document creation and stored and displayed. The document recovery memory area is initialized and the document recovery memory area is initialized, and if there is no recovery request for the document data before update in the state where the initial screen has been returned, the document recovery Operates to initialize the memory area.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied.

Reference numeral 1 denotes an input unit of a keyboard for inputting characters, commands, and the like. Reference numeral 2 denotes a display unit such as a CRT display for displaying document information such as characters and graphics, and reference numeral 3 denotes a printing unit such as a printer for printing inputted contents.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a storage unit such as a semiconductor memory or a magnetic storage device.
Memory 41, where document data is stored, and document data 7
There is an auxiliary memory 42 which is a place for temporarily storing.
Reference numeral 5 denotes a file management unit that manages registration of a document in the storage device 51.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a control unit such as a microprocessor for controlling the above-mentioned units. The control unit 6 includes an input analysis unit 61 for analyzing data input from the input unit 1 by the user, an edit control unit 62 for controlling creation and editing of various documents, and control of characters such as modification of characters in the documents. , A display control unit 64 that controls screen display, a print control unit 65 that controls printing of a document,
A graphic control unit 66 for controlling graphics, a data control unit 67 for managing the document memory 41 in the storage unit 4, and a data recovery control for recovering a document saved in the auxiliary memory 42 of the storage unit on the screen. Part 68 and the like.

Next, a keyboard as an input unit in the Japanese word processor of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

The keyboard includes a character key 11, a scroll key 12, a cursor key 13, an execution key 14, and a cancel key 15, a screen operation key 16 for operating a screen, an edit end key 17 for ending the editing of a document, and There is a recovery key 18 for recovering the overwritten document, and the corresponding processing is performed by pressing these keys.

Next, the flow of document data in a Japanese word processor to which the present embodiment is applied will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, a case in which an updated document is edited and registered with the same document name as the update source document will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the document data 7 is composed of a document name 71 and data 72 composed of text, key lines, and the like. It is in the middle. From among them, the document data of the document name "document A" specified by the user's instruction is called as it is into the document memory 41 in the storage unit 4, displayed on the screen, and becomes editable.

As shown in FIG. 4, the auxiliary memory 42 includes saved document presence / absence information 43 and a saved document area 44. Document data is stored in the evacuation document area 44. If a save document exists in the save document area 44, 1 is entered in the save document presence / absence information 43, and 0 does not exist.
However, when the document data is first called from the storage device 51, 0 is set in the save document presence / absence information 43.

Then, the document data of "document A" called into the document memory 41 is copied to a save document area 44 in the auxiliary memory 42, and the save document presence / absence information 43 is set to "1".

Next, if a document edited based on "Document A" called from the storage device 51 is to be registered in the storage device 51 with the document name "Document A", the edited document is changed. The document data with the name “document A” is overwritten on the original document, the registration process is completed, and the screen shifts to the initial menu screen.

When the recovery key 18 of the input unit 1 is pressed, the original document data having the document name "Document A" saved in the auxiliary memory 42 is moved to the document memory 41, and further saved in the auxiliary memory 42. The document area 44 is initialized and 0 is set in the save document presence / absence information 43.

The recovered document data is displayed on the screen and can be edited again. If the recovery key 18 is not input while 1 is set in the save document presence information 43, the save document presence information 43 is initialized and set to 0 at the time of moving to the next process.

Next, the flow of document data when editing is completed without registering a newly created or updated document will be described with reference to FIG.

The document data being edited is in the document memory 41 as shown in the figure, and the saved document presence / absence information 43 of the auxiliary memory 42 is set to 0 for new creation and 1 for document update. Have been. The edited document is stored in the storage device 51.
If the user tries to end the editing without registering the edited document, the document data of the edited document is stored in the save document area 44 in the auxiliary memory 42, the save document presence / absence information 43 is set to 1, and the edit ends.

When the recovery key 18 of the input unit 1 is pressed, the saved document in the auxiliary memory 42 is restored to the document memory 41, the auxiliary memory 42 is initialized, and 0 is entered in the saved document existence information 43. . The recovered document data is displayed on the screen and can be edited again.

Next, a process of starting a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied, and creating, editing, and registering a document will be described with reference to FIG.

When the Japanese word processor is started, first, the editing control unit 62 is started, and the document memory 41 in the storage unit 4 is initialized (step 101).
2 is determined based on the saved document presence / absence information 43 (step 1).
02) Determine whether there is a document to be recovered.

When there is no recovery document, a work menu screen
(FIG. 13) is displayed (step 103). If there is a recovery document, a recovery operation menu screen (FIG. 14) is displayed (step 104) and an edit instruction from the input unit 1 is waited for (step 105). .

On the recovery work menu screen (FIG. 14), a message (14-1) indicating that a recovery document exists is displayed. Here, an input instruction from the user is determined (step 106), and when a new document is instructed, a document editing process of the new document is performed (step 110).

When a document update or a document print is instructed in step 105, a document name list screen (FIG. 1)
5) is displayed (step 107), and an input waiting state is set (step 108). On the document name list screen (FIG. 15), the user can specify a document to be updated or printed by inputting a document number. Here, an input instruction from the user is determined (step 10).
9) When a document update is instructed, the registered document is edited (step 110).

When printing of a document is instructed in step 105, the registered document is printed (step 111).
Further, if the recovery key 18 is input in step 105, it is determined whether or not there is a saved document by the determination of the saved document presence / absence information 43 of the auxiliary memory 42 (step 11).
2) If there is, the recovery processing of the saved document is performed (step 113), and the document editing processing is performed (step 110).

If it is determined in step 112 that there is no recovery document, the process returns to the work menu input waiting state (step 10).
5). When the document editing (step 110) and document printing (step 111) processes are completed, the process returns to the process of determining whether or not there is a recovered document in the auxiliary memory 42 to display the work menu screen again (step 102). ). Further, even if cancellation is instructed in step 108, step 1
Return to 02.

Next, the document editing process of a newly created document and a registered document will be described with reference to FIG.

The edit control unit 62 firstly stores the document memory 41
And the initialization of the auxiliary memory 42 (step 11).
4) Further, whether the user's instruction is new creation or document update,
Alternatively, the recovered document is determined (step 115).
In the case of new creation, document data 7 of only one page is created as initial data (step 116). In the case of updating a document, first, the document data to be updated is called from the storage device 51 to the document memory 41 (step 117), and the saved document presence / absence information 43 of the auxiliary memory 42 is set to 1 (step 118). ), The document data in the document memory 41 is copied to the save document area 44 (step 11).
9). In the case of the recovered document, the document data is displayed on the display unit 2 as it is (step 120).

When these processes are completed, the editing control unit 62
Displays the document on the display unit 2 (step 120), and waits for an editing instruction from the input unit 1 (step 121).

If there is an input from the user, the content is determined by the edit control unit 62 (step 122). When a character is designated, the character control unit 63 is activated to perform character input and edit processing (step 122). Step 123) When a figure is designated, the figure control unit 66 is activated to perform figure input / edit processing (step 124). When a screen operation is designated, the display control unit 6 is activated.
4 is started and the display is controlled by the screen operation processing (step 125).
To print the document being edited (step 12).
6) When the edit end key 17 is input, the edit control unit 6
2 starts and performs an editing end process (step 127).

Next, an editing end process for finishing editing a document will be described with reference to FIG.

When the editing end key 17 of the input unit 1 is input, first, a registration selection screen (FIG. 16) for registering a document in the storage device 51 and selecting whether to end editing or to end without editing. Is displayed (step 128).

Waiting for user input (step 12)
9) The input is determined (step 130), and if the input instruction is to register an edited document, a registered document name input screen (FIG. 17) is displayed (step 131).

On this registered document name input screen (FIG. 17), the user can input the document name of the target document to be registered.

If there is an updated and edited original document, the original document name is displayed as an initial value.

Then, the process waits for the user to input the document name of the document to be registered (step 132), determines the input document name (step 133), and stores the document having the same document name as the document name in the storage device. If the number is 51, a confirmation message (FIG. 18) indicating "the same document exists" is displayed on the screen (step 134), and an input wait state is set (step 135).
An input determination is made (step 136), and registration processing is performed when "delete and re-execute" is selected (step 13).
9).

If the "processing end" of 0 is selected, the editing end processing is completed and the screen returns to the editing screen (step 137).
When the "change document name" of item 2 is selected, the registered document name input screen (FIG. 17) is displayed again and the user waits for an input (step 132).

In the state of waiting for input after pressing the edit end key 17 (step 129), if the input instruction is not to register the document being edited (step 130), a confirmation message is displayed on the screen (FIG. 19). Is displayed (Step 14
0) The input wait state is entered (step 141).

The input is determined in accordance with the message (step 142), and when the execution key 14 is input, the edited document is saved (step 143) and the process is terminated. If the cancel key 15 is input in the input waiting state of step 141, the process returns to the document editing screen (step 120).

Next, the registration process in step 139 in FIG. 9 will be described with reference to FIG.

First, it is determined whether or not a document having the same name as the document name of the document to be registered by the user input exists in the storage device 51 (step 144). 43 is set to 0 (step 145), and the document data in the document memory 41 is registered in the storage device 51 (step 146). If there is, the document data is registered in the storage device 51 while 1 is set in the save document presence / absence information 43, and the registration process is terminated.

Next, the saving process of the edited document in step 143 in FIG. 9 will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the saved document presence / absence information 43 of the auxiliary memory 42 is set to 1 (step 147), and the document data in the document memory 41 is stored in the saved document area 44 of the auxiliary memory 42 (step 148) for editing. The document saving process ends.

Next, the document recovery processing in step 113 in FIG. 7 will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the document data of the saved document in the auxiliary memory 42 is moved to the document memory 41 (step 14).
9) The backup document presence / absence information 43 in the auxiliary memory 42 is set to 0 (step 150), and the recovery process ends.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the document is edited based on the document in the storage device and the document is registered with the same document name as the original document, the document of the document to be overwritten is By automatically saving the data, it is possible to prevent the original document to be saved from being deleted due to an incorrect key input.

It is also possible to automatically save a document that has been edited without being registered in the storage unit. In addition, since a key dedicated to document recovery is provided in the input section, users can display overwritten or edited documents without registration with a single key input on the screen and edit them again Becomes

[0054]

As described above, in the document creation apparatus of the present invention, when a user finishes editing a document without registering the document in a storage device, the document is automatically converted to a dedicated file. When registering in the storage device with the same document name as the document saved in the area or edited based on the
Similarly, since the original document to be overwritten is automatically saved in the dedicated area, it is possible to prevent the document to be saved from being erased by an incorrect instruction.

Further, the saved document is recovered on the screen and can be edited again or registered in the storage device when the user gives an instruction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an input unit of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of document data according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an auxiliary memory in a storage unit according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow of document data in the case where the same document name as the original document is given and the original document is overwritten and registered in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flow of document data in a case where the process ends without registering an edited document in the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a document initial menu selection flow according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a document creation / edit flow according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an editing end processing flow according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a registration processing flow according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of an edit document save process according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a document recovery process according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is an initial menu screen for selecting whether to create, update, or print a document in the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an initial menu screen for selecting whether to create, update, or print a document when a document to be saved exists in the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a document list screen for specifying a target document to be edited when update is selected in the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a view showing a screen for selecting whether to register a target document in a storage device and finish or not to register the document when finishing editing the document in the present invention.

FIG. 17 is an input screen for inputting a document name of a target document when editing of a document is registered in a storage device and terminated in the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a confirmation message screen when the same document name as the document to be registered exists in the storage device in the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a confirmation message screen in the case of ending without registering an edited document in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Input part, 2 ... Display part, 3 ... Printing part, 4 ... Storage part, 5
... File management unit, 6 ... Control unit, 7 ... Document data, 11
... Character keys, 12 ... Scroll keys, 13 ... Cursor keys, 14 ... Execution keys, 15 ... Cancel keys, 16 ... Screen operation keys, 17 ... Edit end keys, 18 ... Recovery keys, 41 ... Document memories, 42 ... Auxiliary memories 43, saved document presence information, 44, saved document area, 51, storage device, 71, document name, 72, document data.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Chizuru Imaizumi 1-1-1, Higashitaga-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Inside the Taga Factory, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Tetsuro Tozaki 1-1-1, Higashitaga-machi, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture No. 1 Inside the Taga Plant, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Akio Shiga 1-1-1, Higashitaga-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Inside the Taga Plant, Hitachi, Ltd. (56) References JP-A-58-195959 (JP, A) JP-A-4-52858 (JP, A) JP-A-2-297272 (JP, A) JP-A-2-43666 (JP, A) JP-A-63-292264 (JP, A) (58) Field (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 17/21

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An input unit for inputting document data such as characters to be described in a document, a storage unit for storing the document data input by the input unit, and a display for displaying the document data stored in the storage unit And a storage device for managing the document data as a document file, and a control device for controlling the storage unit, the display unit and the storage device, wherein the control device comprises: A function of storing the document data of the document file read out from the storage device in the storage unit in the memory area for document creation and the memory area for document recovery provided in the storage unit when updating; A function of displaying the document data in the document creation memory area on the display unit so that the document data of the document file can be updated; and (3) the document creation memory. When updating and registering the document data in the area, registering the document data in the document creation memory area in the storage device and returning the display unit to an initial screen;
(4) When there is a request for restoring the document data before updating while returning to the initial screen, the document data before updating stored in the memory area for document recovery is moved to the memory area for document creation and stored. (5) a function of initializing the document recovery memory area while displaying it on the display unit so that the document can be updated, and (5) when there is no request to recover the original document data before the update while returning to the initial screen. And a function of initializing the document recovery memory area when the process proceeds to the next process.