JP3179760B2 - Apparatus for producing data for visualizing images under visible light and / or ultraviolet light, and recording medium recording a program for producing data for visualizing images under visible light and / or ultraviolet light - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to the under visible light and / or ultraviolet under the image revealing data creation device, relates to a recording medium body which records visible light under and / or under ultraviolet light the image revealing data creation program, Especially the two different types of visible light and ultraviolet light
Apparatus for producing data under visible light and / or ultraviolet light, which makes it possible to operate whether or not an image can be displayed using a type of light as a reference light, and a data generating program for displaying image under visible light and / or ultraviolet light about the recording medium body that was recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows a description example of a manuscript of a speaker. When the content described on the paper or the OHP sheet is projected on the screen by the projection display, first, the content of the portion A (hereinafter, referred to as A portion) described on the paper 10 is shown, and then the content of the B portion (hereinafter, referred to as B) is compared with the content. It is often seen in lectures to show the department at the same time as part A.

[0003] This operation is usually performed as follows.
If the object to be projected is paper, first, the part B is hidden by blank paper and only the part A is projected. Then, take blank sheet and project part A and part B at the same time.

On the other hand, when the object to be projected is an OHP sheet, the same method as in the case of paper is used, or the portion A is described on the first sheet 1 and the portion B is described on the second sheet 2. It describes in. The speaker first uses the sheet 1 to show the part A, and then overlaps the sheet 2 on the sheet 1 to simultaneously show the parts A and B.

As described above, by making the contents displayed on the screen different according to the progress of the lecture, the contents of the lecture can be easily understood by the listener and appealed to the listener effectively.

However, while these works make the contents of the lecture effective, there are also the following problems. That is, the speaker must first speak about the part A, and then take the blank sheet or the sheet 2 which has been hidden so as to show the part B additionally.

At this time, the lecture is temporarily stopped. 2
The sheets may not stack well, disrupting the rhythm of the lecture and reducing the quality of the lecture. Even if these tasks are performed by two people, communication may not be successful. Further, under such usage conditions, it cannot be said that paper or OHP sheets are always used effectively.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional problem, and has been made under visible light and under which visible light and ultraviolet light can be used to determine whether an image can be displayed or not. / or under ultraviolet light the image revealing data creation apparatus, and an object thereof is to provide a recording medium body which records visible light under and / or under ultraviolet light the image revealing data creation program.

[0008]

Accordingly, the present invention provides a visible light recognizable ink which is recognizable under visible light, and an ultraviolet light which is difficult or unrecognizable under visible light and which is recognizable under ultraviolet light. A printer having a lower recognizable ink and a work area for editing at least one of visible light data of characters, numbers, graphics, symbols, colors and images for printing with the visible light recognizable ink. A certain visible light data working area, and at least one of the data under the ultraviolet light among the characters, numerals, figures, symbols, colors and images for printing with the ultraviolet recognizable ink or the data under the visible light By attaching the data under visible light edited in the work area, the data under visible light work area is a work area in which the data under visible light can be edited as the data under ultraviolet light; An image display unit that performs a display display in a state where the data under ultraviolet light edited in the lower data work area and the visible light data edited in the lower visible light data work area are mixed or superimposed and correspond to the print target. For the under-ultraviolet data displayed on the image display unit, the object to be printed is printed with the under-ultraviolet recognizable ink on the printing object, and for the under-visible data, the under-visible light recognizable ink with the recognizable ink. A print driver for sending a print command and print data to the printer so as to print on a print target.

There are two types of printers, a recognizable ink under visible light, recognizable under visible light, and an ink recognizable under ultraviolet light, which is difficult or unrecognizable under visible light and recognizable under ultraviolet light. Prepare ink. In the visible light data working area, at least one of visible light data of characters, numerals, figures, symbols, colors, and images to be printed with visible light recognizable ink is edited.

Here, the data under visible light is data in which printed characters and the like can be recognized under visible light (hereinafter, the same). The data working area under visible light is edited while being displayed on the display. The visible light data work area is defined to be distinguished from the ultraviolet light data work area described below. However, since ordinary application software edits only the visible light data, the data work area naturally exists. is there.

However, while the normal data application work area for visible data is one, the work area for visible light data of the present invention is divided into one or a plurality of framed areas. They differ in that they can be split.

On the other hand, in the under-ultraviolet data work area, at least one under-ultraviolet data of characters, numbers, figures, symbols, colors, and images for printing with ink recognizable under ultraviolet is edited.

Here, the data under ultraviolet light is data that is difficult or unrecognizable for a printed character or the like under visible light and is recognizable under ultraviolet light (hereinafter the same). In addition, in this ultraviolet light data work area, the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area is copied, cut,
It is also possible to attach by work such as moving.

By performing this operation, data under visible light can be edited as data under ultraviolet light. The edited data under ultraviolet light can be attached again to the data working area under visible light. At this time, even in the data working area under visible light, the data returned after being pasted to the data working area under ultraviolet light once remains as it is as the data under ultraviolet light.

However, even if the data working area under ultraviolet light is not incorporated in the data working area under visible light, the data working area under visible light and the data working area under ultraviolet light can coexist.

A page image is displayed on the display. This page image is laid out and formatted according to the printing object. In the page image, the under-ultraviolet data edited in the under-ultraviolet data work area and the under-visible light data edited in the under-visible data work area are displayed in a mixed or superimposed state.

At this time, the character color, the font, the character decoration, the line color, the line type, etc. may be changed in order to easily distinguish the two data. Alternatively, the range of the data work area under visible light and the data work area under ultraviolet light can be expanded and reduced,
A plurality of regions of an appropriate size may be mixed, superimposed, included, or the like in a state of being distinguished by colors or the like.

The page image is laid out on A4 paper if the printing object is one A4 paper.
Even when a plurality of sheets are printed side by side or printed in a reduced size, the layout can be made in such a manner.

The print driver sends a print command and print data to the printer to print the data under ultraviolet displayed on the page image on the display with the ink recognizable under ultraviolet. Then, with respect to the data under visible light, a print command and print data are sent to the printer so as to print on the print target with the ink recognizable under visible light.

As described above, it is possible to easily create a page image in which whether or not an image can be displayed can be operated by using two different types of light beams, visible light and ultraviolet light, as reference light. In addition, the data described in this page image is modified, added,
Deletion etc. can be easily performed on the display.

According to the present invention, there is provided a computer having a function of editing at least one of characters, numerals, figures, symbols, colors and images on a display and printing the edited data. A recording medium that records a program for adding a function of editing and printing under-ultraviolet data recognizable under ultra-violet light to installed application software. At least one of letters, numbers, figures, symbols, colors and images for printing with recognizable ink under recognizable visible light is edited. Characters, numbers, and figures for printing with UV-recognizable ink that is difficult or unrecognizable under the UV and recognizable under the UV By editing at least one of the symbols, colors and images under the ultraviolet light data or pasting the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area, the visible light data as the ultraviolet light data. Editable and displayed on the display corresponding to the print target in a state where the under-ultraviolet data edited in the under-ultraviolet data work area and the under-visible light data edited in the under-visible light data work area are mixed or superimposed. For the data displayed under the ultraviolet light displayed on the display, the object to be printed is printed with the ink recognizable under the ultraviolet light, and the data under the visible light is printed using the ink recognizable under the visible light. The print command and the print data are sent to the printer to print on the printer.

The application software includes letters, numbers,
It has a function of editing at least one of graphics, symbols, colors, and images on a display, and printing the edited data.

And this application software is
It is pre-installed on the computer. The recording medium of the present invention records a program for adding a function of editing and printing data under ultraviolet light recognizable under ultraviolet light to this application software.

As described above, by installing an additional program from the recording medium of the present invention to commercially available application software capable of editing page images, it is also possible to edit and print data under ultraviolet light which can be recognized under ultraviolet light. Function can be added as follows.

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[0032]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows how data recognizable under ultraviolet light is edited and printed. In FIG. 1, application software capable of editing characters, numbers, figures, symbols, colors, images, and the like is installed in a computer 20.

The application software is, for example, word processing software, spreadsheet software, accounting software, data management software, CAD software, or the like. In such software, in addition to conventional data recognizable under visible light, data recognizable under ultraviolet light can be edited. A page image is displayed on the display 21. The display 21 corresponds to an image display unit.

The page image edited on the display 21 is sent to the printer 30 based on a print command. In addition to the visible light recognizable ink 31 filled with ordinary black and color inks, the printer 30 also recognizes under the ultraviolet light that is difficult or unrecognizable under visible light and that can be recognized under ultraviolet light. A possible ink 33 is provided.

The ink 33 that can be recognized under ultraviolet light is filled with, for example, a fluorescent material ink. The printer 30 is an inkjet printer. In the printer 30, the page image is printed on the paper 10 to be printed using the visible light recognizable ink 31 and the ultraviolet recognizable ink 33, and then discharged.

Next, a method for editing and printing data recognizable under ultraviolet light will be described. With conventional software,
Only data that can be recognized under visible light is edited, and the edited result is printed. In the present invention, in addition to this function, data that is difficult or unrecognizable under visible light and that can be recognized under ultraviolet light can be edited, and the edited result can be printed.

As for the page image, only the data recognizable under visible light can be edited as in the conventional operation environment. Then, when it is desired to edit the data by adding data recognizable under ultraviolet light, a data work area under ultraviolet light stored in a tool or the like is called. The data working area under ultraviolet light can be arbitrarily enlarged or reduced in size, and its position can be moved by dragging a mouse so as not to disturb the editing work.

In order to distinguish from this data working area under ultraviolet light, a data working area that can be recognized under the conventional visible light is defined as a data working area under visible light. The data working area under ultraviolet light can be set as one or a plurality of areas. The data work area under visible light can be set to only one as in the past, but can also be set as a plurality of areas.

The data working area under visible light and the data working area under ultraviolet light can both be edited and recognized in a framed form. The data edited in the UV data working area is recognized as UV data. Then, the data under ultraviolet light is attached to a data work area under visible light. Attachment is performed by operations such as copying, cutting, and moving.

On the other hand, in the data working area under ultraviolet light,
It is also possible to paste the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area. By performing this operation, the data under visible light can be edited as data under ultraviolet light. The edited ultraviolet data is returned to the visible light data working area again.

At this time, even in the data working area under visible light, the data returned after being pasted to the data working area under ultraviolet light once remains as it is as the data under ultraviolet light.

However, the data under ultraviolet light is not pasted or returned to the data work area under visible light, but the data under ultraviolet light and the data under visible light coexist on a page image described below in small area units. Is also good.

In the visible light data work area, the ultraviolet light data can be copied, cut, moved, and deleted in the same manner as the visible light data. The work such as copying may be performed directly, or may be performed by once calling the data working area under ultraviolet light by an operation such as double-clicking a mouse.

The data under ultraviolet light and the data under visible light edited in this manner are displayed on the page image in a mixed or superimposed state. That is, it is also possible to create large and small complicated patterns and figures by combining the data under ultraviolet light and the data under visible light.

The data of the page image created in this way is sent to the printer 30 by the print driver when there is a print command. The print driver sends a print command and print data to the printer 30 so that the UV data displayed on the display of the page image is printed on the paper 10 using the UV-recognizable ink 33. Then, for the data under visible light, a print command and print data are sent to the printer 30 so as to print on the paper 10 with the ink 31 that can be recognized under visible light.

As described above, it is possible to easily create a page image in which whether or not an image can be displayed can be operated by using two different types of light beams, visible light and ultraviolet light, as reference light. In addition, the data described in this page image is modified, added,
Deletion and the like can be easily performed on the display 21.

It should be noted that the introduction of the above-mentioned data working area under ultraviolet rays and a print driver for printing data under ultraviolet rays can be achieved by adding C to the commercially available application software already installed on the computer 20 as an additional function.
It is possible by installing from a D-ROM or the like.
However, it is also possible to provide these functions by adding them to the application software in advance in a CD-ROM or the like.

Next, FIG. 2 shows an example of an optical data processing apparatus for displaying data using a sheet on which data under ultraviolet light and data under visible light are described. In FIG. 2, a lower portion of a document mounting glass table 41 of the projector 40 includes:
An ultraviolet light source 45 is provided in addition to the visible light source 43. The visible light source 43 has a wavelength of 400 to 780 nm, and the ultraviolet light source 45 has a wavelength of 250 to 400 nm.

The ultraviolet light source 45 is provided on the glass table 4 for placing the original.
The paper 10 placed on the top of the paper 1 is evenly arranged so as to be able to irradiate the paper evenly. The content described on the paper 10 is enlarged and displayed on the screen 50. The projector 40 and the screen 50 are examples of an optical data processing device.

Next, a method of displaying data recognizable under ultraviolet light will be described. The speaker first gave the visible light source 43
Is turned on, and only the portion A printed with the visible light recognizable ink 31 recognizable by visible light is displayed on the screen 50. At this time, the portion B printed with the ink 33 recognizable under ultraviolet light is simultaneously irradiated with visible light on the paper 10, but cannot be visually recognized.

Subsequently, the speaker turns on the ultraviolet light source 45. At this time, in addition to the part A, the part B is also displayed on the screen 50 at the same time. This switch operation may be performed at hand, or may be performed using a remote controller.

In this manner, by operating, characters or the like written on the paper 10 can be easily optically revealed or erased. Project this paper 10
In the case where a lecture or the like is given using the
After projecting a given lecture area and giving a lecture,
(Or switch) operation to quickly project the next lecture
come. Therefore, the speaker can give a high-quality lecture with good rhythm. You can also save your talk time. In addition,
No need for concealment papers during lectures
Only one HP sheet is required. This saves resources.
You.

It should be noted that the print object can be freely set with a page image.
Ink 33 that can recognize identification marks etc. edited under UV light
Can be easily inserted using the
In addition, the identification mark as hidden information that you do not want others to know
This is extremely effective when you want to attach a mark or the like. in this case,
Since the identification mark and the like are easily enlarged and displayed by the projector 40, the identification mark and the like can be easily identified .

The present invention is applicable to a copying machine, a scanner, and the like in addition to the projector 40. The configuration in which an ultraviolet light source 45 is added as a light source to a copy machine or the like is the same. Even if it is unknown at a later date what kind of data under ultraviolet light is described on the paper 10, it can be easily confirmed through a copier or a scanner.

[0055]

As described above, according to the present invention, since a data working area under ultraviolet light is provided for creating data under ultraviolet light, a page image can be easily created in the same manner as conventional data under visible light. is there. In addition, data printed based on this page image can be easily or not allowed to appear as an image by using two different types of light beams, visible light and ultraviolet light, as reference light.

[0056]

[Brief description of the drawings]

Fig. 1 Recognizable data is edited under ultraviolet light,
Diagram showing how it is printed

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an optical data processing apparatus that performs data display using a sheet on which data under ultraviolet light and data under visible light are described.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a description example of a speaker's manuscript

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 paper 20 computer 21 display 30 printer 31 ink recognizable under visible light 33 ink recognizable under ultraviolet 40 projector 43 visible light source 45 ultraviolet light source 50 screen

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A printer comprising a visible light-recognizable ink recognizable under visible light, an ink recognizable under ultraviolet light that is difficult or unrecognizable under visible light, and recognizable under ultraviolet light, Under visible light data work area, which is a work area for editing at least one of visible light data among letters, numbers, figures, symbols, colors and images for printing with visible light recognizable ink, Edit at least one of the ultraviolet data under the ultraviolet light data of letters, numbers, figures, symbols, colors and images for printing with the ultraviolet recognizable ink or the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area. By pasting, the under-visible data working area is a working area in which the data under visible light can be edited as the data under ultraviolet, and the purple working area edited in the data working area under ultraviolet light. An image display unit that performs display display in correspondence with the print target in a state where the data under visible light and the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area are mixed or superimposed, and a display display on the image display unit For the under-ultraviolet data, print on the printing object with the ultraviolet-recognizable ink, and for the under-visible data, print on the printing object with the visible-light recognizable ink. A data generating device for image display under visible light and / or ultraviolet light, comprising: a print driver for sending a print command and print data to a printer. 2. An application pre-installed in a computer having a function of editing at least one of characters, numerals, figures, symbols, colors, and images on a display and printing the edited data. A recording medium that stores a program for adding a function of editing and printing data under ultraviolet light recognizable under ultraviolet light to software, and a visible light recognizable under visible light by a data work area under visible light. Letters, numbers,
Edit at least one of visible data among figures, symbols, colors, and images, and use the UV data work area to make it difficult or unrecognizable under visible light, and to be recognizable under ultraviolet light. Edit at least one of the data under ultraviolet light of characters, numbers, graphics, symbols, colors and images for printing with the lower recognizable ink or paste the data under visible light edited in the visible light data work area. By doing so, the visible light data can be edited as the ultraviolet light data, and the ultraviolet light data edited in the ultraviolet light data work area and the visible light data edited in the visible light data work area are mixed. Or, in a superimposed state, the display is displayed in correspondence with the printing object, and the ultraviolet light data displayed on the display is
Sending a print command and print data to a printer to print on the print target with the ultraviolet-recognizable ink and to print on the print target with the visible-light recognizable ink for data under visible light. A recording medium recording a program characterized by the following.