JP3198640B2 - Multicolor document editing 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 multi-color document editing apparatus capable of editing a color document having an appropriate color use even by a creator who does not have knowledge of the color use of the document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional multi-color document editing apparatus, when specifying a color, a creator selects an arbitrary color from a color palette or the like in which as many colors as possible are displayed from all available colors. I was coloring. However, such multi-color document editing has no guidelines on what color should be used when the creator has no knowledge of color usage. In many cases, inappropriate color use is performed as compared with a color document, and there is a problem that it is difficult to create an effective color document.

[0003] Such a technique for editing a multicolor document is disclosed in, for example, JP-A-61-262980 or JP-A-3-144866. In the former, a palette set is specified for each area on the screen, and V
An image display device capable of increasing the number of colors that can be displayed on a screen at one time without increasing the number of planes of a RAM is described. The latter has a plurality of color map tables for generating display color data for determining a simultaneous display color displayed on a display screen based on a color code output from the pixel memory means in the bitmap display method. Each color map table includes display color conversion means for generating data of display colors of different display color systems, and further includes control means for selecting necessary simultaneous display color data from the number of simultaneous display colors; A color display control device capable of increasing the number of simultaneously displayed colors without increasing the number is described. That is, these multi-color document technologies aim at providing many colors at one time, and do not solve the above-mentioned problems.

[0004]

As described above, in conventional multicolor document editing, there is no guideline regarding color use, so even if many colors are provided to the creator at one time, improper color use is not achieved. In some cases, it may not be possible to create an effective color document. Therefore, no matter how many colors are displayed at once, there is a problem that an appropriate multi-color document cannot be generated.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible for even a creator who does not have knowledge about the use of colors of a document to create a color document with an appropriate color use and to create an effective multicolor document. It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-color document editing device capable of performing the above.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a multi-color document editing apparatus for editing a multi-color document composed of components such as line drawings and character strings while interacting with an operator. A color palette holding unit, a component specifying unit that specifies the component of the multicolor document to be edited, and a component attribute determining unit that determines a component attribute of the component specified by the component specifying unit. ,
A color attribute specifying unit that specifies a color attribute obtained by grouping the plurality of color pallets; and a plurality of color attributes specified by the color attribute specifying unit and a component attribute determined by the component attribute determining unit. A color palette extracting means for extracting a color palette, a color palette selecting means for selecting a color palette from the plurality of color palettes extracted by the color palette extracting means, and Color setting means for setting the color of the component.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a line drawing,
When editing a multicolor document composed of components such as character strings,
When the component designating means to be edited is designated by the component designating means, the component attribute judging means judges the component attribute of the designated component, and further retains it in the color palette holding means by the color attribute designating means. By specifying a color attribute that groups a plurality of color palettes that have been selected, the color palette extracting unit determines a plurality of color palettes appropriate for the coloring of the component from the determined component attribute and the specified color attribute. Is extracted and presented to the operator. Then, when one color palette is selected from the plurality of presented color palettes by the color palette selection means, the color of the selected color palette is set as the color of the component.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a multicolor document editing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a multi-color document editing apparatus includes an external storage device 8 having a color palette holding unit 9 for holding a plurality of color palettes,
A main storage unit 5 for reading and storing the multicolor document editing program stored in the external storage device 8; a display unit 4 for displaying a multicolor document by activating the multicolor document editing program;
A keyboard 2 and a mouse 3 for inputting instructions based on the display and editing screen of multicolor document editing displayed on the display unit 4, and a component of the multicolor document to be edited specified by the keyboard 2 or the mouse 3 is determined. A component pallet judging unit 6 for extracting a color pallet of the judged component attribute held in the color pallet holding unit 9 and the color pallet of the designated color attribute by selecting and specifying the color attribute displayed on the editing screen It is composed of an extraction unit 7 and a control unit 1 that performs overall control.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an extracted data structure of the color palette extracting section 7. As shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, the extracted data has a matrix structure of the component attributes related to the color determined by the component attribute determining unit 6 and the selected color attribute. As shown in FIG. 2, the component attribute relating to color is classified into, for example, a character color system, a line color system, a surface color system, and a background color system. Here, the constituent element attributes refer to a character attribute, a line attribute, a surface attribute, and a background attribute. The color attribute is, for example, a character attribute is an attribute relating to a typeface in addition to an attribute relating to a color, and an attribute relating to a size. This is because they have other sub-attributes. In the present embodiment,
The constituent element attributes are divided into four types: a character color system, a line color system, a face color system, and a background color system. The color attributes included in these constituent element attributes are determined by an expert such as a document designer based on the following guidelines. In other words, text color, dark color, line color, dark color, surface color, vivid colors including primary colors, background color, and lighter colors.Each color palette has a color attribute selected by the creator, such as red or blue. Has been classified. In the case of red, specific colors such as red, dark red, scarlet, and wine red belong. Then, for each specific color, a table is stored as to whether or not the color matches the component attribute of the color. Therefore, when the creator instructs multi-color editing of a character, the character is determined to be a character color system, and a color appropriate for the character color is extracted and displayed on the display unit by specifying the color attribute by the creator. Will be.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for selecting colors in the multicolor document editing apparatus. In FIG. 3, when the creator of the multi-color document starts the multi-color document editing apparatus, the multi-color document editing program stored in the external storage device 8 under the control of the control unit 1 is stored in the main storage unit 5. The read multicolor document editing program is executed. The creator inputs one of the components to be edited from the multicolor document displayed on the display unit 4 with the mouse 3
(Step 31), the component attribute determining unit 6 determines the attribute of the specified component (step 32). Further, the creator specifies a color attribute to be selected (step 33). Next, based on the component attributes determined by the component attribute determining unit 6 and the color attributes selected and designated, the color palette extracting unit 7 extracts a plurality of matching specific colors from the extraction table, It is displayed on the display unit 4 (step 34). When the creator designates a color from among a plurality of specific colors displayed on the display unit 4 (step 35), the color pallet designated from the color pallet holding unit 9 based on the selection designation. Is acquired (step 36), and the specific color selected and designated is set as the color of the designated component (step 37).

The multicolor document created in this way has an appropriate color scheme.

Next, the operation of the multicolor document editing apparatus will be described based on a specific example. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of editing by the multicolor document editing apparatus. In the specific example in FIG. 4, the edit target is a character string 41 of the character “This character is colored” on the edit screen 40 of the display unit 4.
This shows a case where this character string is colored.

First, when a character string 41 is selected with the mouse 3, a character attribute sheet 42 is opened. When a menu selection button 43 for selecting color-related editing from the opened character attribute sheet 42 is designated, a character attribute color attribute menu 44 is displayed. Further, when the user selects a color attribute to be colored from the color attribute menu 44, here, a red color is selected,
A specific color menu 46 of red and text color is extracted and displayed. When the creator selects a color from the color menu 46, the selected color is displayed on the selected color display section 47. For example, when a red color is selected, the red color is displayed on the selection display section 47, and by selecting the apply button 48, the character string 41 is colored in the red color.
When the user selects the completion button 49, the character attribute sheet is closed.

In this embodiment, the color pallet extracting unit 7 extracts a plurality of appropriate color pallets according to an extraction data structure. However, information stored in the color pallet extracting unit 7 is used as a database as an external storage device. Alternatively, a plurality of appropriate color palettes may be searched.

Further, in this embodiment, first, a component attribute relating to a color to be edited is designated, a color attribute is selected and designated, and an appropriate color belonging to the presented selected designated color attribute is created. Since the color is designated by the user himself / herself, for example, the color of the character itself and the background color of the character are designated independently.

Therefore, for example, when the color of the character itself is designated, it is possible to present and select a background color suitable for the color of the character. When a color is specified, a relative color is included so that the color of the character suitable for the background color can be presented and selected, so that a more detailed multi-color document editing can be performed. You may. Also, at the beginning of multicolor document editing, an effective multicolor document may be created by designating in advance what kind of multicolor document is to be edited. For example, "calm documents", "stimulating documents", "spring documents", "summer documents", "autumn documents"
After selecting the category of the edited document such as "winter document", the multi-color document may be colored. This allows
A well-balanced or effective multicolor document as created by an expert such as a document designer can be created.

That is, knowledge about colors is directly acquired from a document designer or the like, and further, knowledge is acquired indirectly by means of a neural network or the like, and the acquired knowledge is used effectively to achieve effective multi-color. A document editing device may be configured.

[0018]

As described above, the present invention relates to a multi-color document editing apparatus which edits a multi-color document composed of components such as line drawings and character strings while interacting with an operator. The component attribute determining means determines the component attribute of the specified component, and further determines the component attribute of the specified component by the color attribute specifying means. By specifying a color attribute that groups the color palettes, the color palette extracting unit extracts a plurality of color palettes appropriate for the coloring of the component from the determined component attribute and the specified color attribute, When one color palette is presented to the operator and selected from the plurality of presented color palettes by the color palette selection means, the selected color is selected. Since the color of the let is set as the color of the component, even a creator who does not have knowledge of the color usage of the multicolor document creates an appropriate color document and creates an effective multicolor document. It has the advantage of being able to.

Further, by storing knowledge about colors of other categories so that an appropriate color is relatively extracted from the relative relationship between the color of the character itself and the background color,
It has the advantage that a fine-grained multicolor document can be created.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a multicolor document editing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an extracted data structure of a color palette extracting unit 7;

FIG. 3 is a color selection flowchart of the multicolor document editing apparatus.

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining a specific example of editing by the multicolor document editing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control part 2 Keyboard 3 Mouse 4 Display part 5 Main storage part 6 Component attribute determination part 7 Color palette extraction part
Reference Signs List 8 external storage device 9 color pallet holding unit 10-1 to 10-4 input / output interface

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI H04N 1/46 H04N 1/40 D 1/60 1/46 Z (56) References JP-A-1-309187 (JP, A) JP-A-3-109874 (JP, A) JP-A-3-278224 (JP, A) JP-A-4-14170 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06T 11/60 G06T 1/00 510 H04N 1/387 H04N 1/46 H04N 1/60 G06F 17/21

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A multi-color document editing apparatus for editing a multi-color document including components such as line drawings and character strings while interacting with an operator, comprising: a color palette holding unit for holding a plurality of color palettes; A component specifying unit that specifies the component of the multicolor document to be configured; a component attribute determining unit that determines a component attribute of the component specified by the component specifying unit; and a group of the plurality of color palettes Color attribute specifying means for specifying the converted color attribute; and a color for extracting a plurality of appropriate color pallets from the color attribute specified by the color attribute specifying means and the component attribute determined by the component attribute determining means. Palette extracting means, and a color palette selecting from the plurality of color palettes extracted by the color palette extracting means. Pallets selecting means, multicolor document editing apparatus characterized by comprising a color setting means for setting the color of said selected color palette as a color of the component.