JP3346317B2 - Image editing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an image editing apparatus that outputs an image in a specified range when a part of an image displayed on a display device is specified.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is known an image editing apparatus which displays an image read by a reading device on a screen of a display device, and partially outputs the image when an output range is designated by an operator. Such an image editing device is used, for example, in a local government to edit and issue a family register excerpt or a resident's card from an original.

[0003] Such a device is generally configured to display a reduced original image on a screen and to specify the position of an output area with respect to the reduced display. It is difficult to specify a region more precisely than the determined accuracy. Further, when a touch panel is used as an input device for position specification, the operator cannot recognize the state of the fingertip on the contact surface, and it is difficult to specify the position accurately on the screen displayed in a reduced size. is there.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 4-359311 describes a configuration in an information processing apparatus using a touch panel as an input device, in which an image around a touched fingertip position is displayed in an enlarged manner and a position is designated with respect to the enlarged image. Have been. According to such a configuration, the operator can specify a relatively accurate position.

However, when editing a family register excerpt or resident's card from the original, it is desirable that the position be specified along the ruled line of the original, and a delicate specification such as matching the specified position to the ruled line is touched to the end. It is difficult to do. As a technique for solving such a problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
There is an image editing device described in Japanese Patent No. 2691515.

The image editing apparatus has a configuration in which an enlarged display created by touching a reduced display can be scrolled up, down, left, and right, and the position of the display area is specified by matching the center of the display area to a desired position. . Therefore, the operator can finely adjust the designated position, and can perform accurate position designation.

[0007]

Since the conventional image editing apparatus is configured as described above, even when a family register excerpt or a resident's card is edited from an original, it is required to be compared with a case where an enlarged display is simply performed. The operator can easily specify the cutout position along the ruled line of the original. However, since the position designation is left to the operator to the end, the operator must repeat fine adjustment in order to perform accurate position designation, and as a result, it takes time to edit the image.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and provides an image editing apparatus capable of accurately and quickly specifying a position for specifying a range of an image to be cut out. The purpose is to do.

[0009]

According to the present invention, there is provided an image editing apparatus, comprising: a delimiter recognizing means for detecting a delimited part in an image; and an output area designation mark displayed on a display means at a position designated as an output area of the image. And mark display means for moving the output area designation mark to a breakpoint closest to the position when the position is input to the input means.

[0010] separated recognition means, Ru border recognition means der recognizes the borders of the image. Therefore , the break detecting means can detect the break by a relatively simple process.

[0011] mark display means, that is configured to be displayed on the display means a straight bar displayed in the direction of the ruled line extends as an output area designation mark. A mark is displayed that extends in the same direction as the ruled line as a separator.
The operator can easily recognize the separation portion and can easily recognize an error in the output area indicated by the mark.

The input means may be a touch sensor.
When a touch sensor is used, the output area designation mark moves to an appropriate position even if the touch position deviates from the partition.

[0013] The image editing device may be applied to a local government certificate issuing device. In that case, the certificate issuance operation can be performed easily and accurately as compared with the conventional device.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an image editing device according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a document is read by an image reading device 1 such as a scanner. The read image data of the document is stored in the input image storage unit 21 of the storage device 2. The ruled line recognition means 31 in the data processing device 3 detects a ruled line from the image data in the input image storage unit 21 and stores data indicating the ruled line position in the ruled line position storage unit 22 in the storage device 2.

Further, a display device 5 and an input device 4 such as a touch sensor provided on a display surface of the display device 5 are provided. Position specifying means 32 in data processing device 3
Causes the display device 5 to display the image data in the input image storage unit 21, and causes the display device 5 to display a straight bar indicating the designated position input from the input device 4. Also,
Data indicating the output area is stored in the output area storage unit 23 of the storage device 2.

Image editing means 3 in data processing device 3
3 cuts out the image data in the input image storage unit 21 based on the data in the output area storage unit 23 and outputs the cut out image data to the output image storage unit 24 in the storage device 2. The image data in the output image storage unit 24 is printed out from the output device 6 such as a printer.

The data processing device 3 can be realized by a microcomputer system, for example. In that case, the ruled line recognition means 31, the position designation means 32 and the image editing means 33 are constituted by a CPU, a program for realizing the respective functions, and an input / output interface.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to the explanatory diagrams of FIGS. 2, 3, and 5 and the flowchart of FIG.
Here, taking a certificate issuing device installed in a local government as an example, a case will be described in which a family register excerpt shown in FIG. 2B is created from the original family register shown in FIG. 2A.

The certificate issuing device is provided with a user interface for issuing various certificates. For example, a menu is displayed on the screen of the display device 5, and the operator selects a corresponding process on the menu screen. Input device 4
If is a touch sensor, the user touches a button for the corresponding process. In this case, the operator sets the original family register on the reading device 1 and touches the button for registering the family register.

Then, for example, an abstract preparation section selection menu is displayed on the screen of the display device 5. The abstract book creation column selection menu is a menu for selecting which of the columns in the original family register, that is, the basic column and the column of each person, is to be described in the family register abstract. In the example shown in FIG. 2A, there are a basic column and columns (1) to (3). Therefore, the menu provides a display from which the basic column and the columns (1) to (3) can be selected. In this example, it is assumed that the operator has selected the basic column and the column (3). After the selection, the operator designates a “confirm” button provided in the abstract preparation section selection menu.

When "confirm" is designated, the reading control means (not shown in FIG. 1) in the data processing device 3
It instructs the reading device 1 to perform a scanning operation. The reading device 1 reads the set original family register and stores the image data in the input image storage unit 21.

When the image data is stored in the input image storage section 21, the ruled line recognition means 31 detects a ruled line in the image. For example, the number of black pixels in each line in the ruled line direction (Y direction) is counted. Then, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, the coordinates x1 to x5 of the ruled line are determined, and the coordinate values are stored in the ruled line position storage unit 22. In the example shown in FIG. 3, an x coordinate value where the right end of the image is (x = 0) is stored. If the scanning direction (sub-scanning direction) of the reading device 1 is from right to left of the image shown in FIG. 2A, the first line corresponds to x = 0.

Then, the position specifying means 32 outputs the image data in the input image storage section 21 to the display device 5. When the screen size of the display device 5 is small, the reduced image data is supplied to the display device 5 by thinning the image data or the like. Therefore, the display device 5 displays the image of the original family register shown in FIG.

The position designating means 32 generates images of linear output range designating bars 51 to 54 extending in the ruled line direction, and outputs the image data to the display device 5. In this example, selection is made to output the basic column and the column (3). Although the coordinates of each column in the original family register are not fixed by each local government, the number of ruled lines is basically the same. Therefore, if the coordinates of the ruled line are detected, the position specifying means 32 can recognize the coordinates of the left and right ends of the basic column and the coordinates of the left and right ends of the column (3) in the image. Therefore, in this case, the position specifying means 32 sets the bar 5 to the left and right ends of the basic column and the left and right ends of the column (3) with respect to the displayed image.
Place 1-54.

If the positions of the bars 51 to 54 are not correct, the operator can correct the positions of the bars by a simple operation. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the bar position correction process. FIG. 5 shows a bar 5 for specifying an output range.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a state where the position of No. 1 is corrected.

In the example shown in FIG. 5A, the position of the bar 51 for specifying the start position of the basic column is incorrect. In this case, when the input device 4 is a touch panel, as shown in FIG. 5B, the operator touches a correct ruled line corresponding to the start position of the displayed basic column with a finger.

The touched position is input from the input device 4 to the data processing device 3. When the position is designated by the operator (step S11), the data processing device 3 takes in the coordinate value X indicating the designated position by the position designation means 32 (step S12). Then, the position specifying means 32 sets the ruled line counter n to "1", which is the initial value, and sets the comparison value MIN to the initial value (step S13). The initial value set in MIN is a value larger than the maximum ruled line interval.

Next, the position specifying means 32 calculates a distance D between x (n) stored in the ruled line position storage section 22 and the specified position X (step S14). x (n) is
This is the coordinate value of each ruled line. Then, the calculated distance D is compared with a comparison value MIN (step S15). If the distance D is smaller than the comparison value MIN, the distance D is set to the new comparison value M.
IN and set the value of the ruled line counter n to +1
Then (step S16), the processing of step S14 is performed again. When the distance D becomes greater than or equal to the comparison value MIN, it means that the ruled line to be compared is separated from the desired ruled line. Therefore, with respect to the value n of the ruled line counter at that time,
The bar 51 is moved to the position of x (n-1).

As described above, the bar 51 moves to the position of the ruled line closest to the position designated by the operator. In this case, since the position specifying means 32 searches for the closest ruled line, the operator does not need to strictly touch the ruled line position. That is, the operability is improved, and the time required to determine the image cutout position is reduced.

After confirming that the bar 51 has reached the correct start position, the operator touches the "OK" button displayed on the screen (step S18). Then, the image editing unit 33 determines that the portion surrounded by the bars 51 and 52 and the bar 5
Data indicating an area surrounded by 3 and 54 is set in the output area storage unit 23.

Thereafter, when the operator performs an output operation, the image data of the area set in the output area storage section 23 is taken out from the input image storage section 21 and is output from the output image storage section 2.
4 is set. Then, the image data in the output image storage unit 24 is output to the output device 6. The output device 6 performs a print output based on the input image data.

As described above, in this embodiment, when the output field of the original family register is designated, the bars 51 to 54 indicating the designated range are displayed on the certificate issuing device, and when the operator designates the position. Since the bar is moved to the ruled line position closest to the specified position, the operator can obtain an image in a desired range without strictly specifying the position.

In this embodiment, the certificate issuing device is taken as an example, but the image editing device according to the present invention is not limited to the case where the image editing device is applied to the certificate issuing device. The present invention can be applied to other devices as long as the device can cut out an image having a boundary such as a ruled line at the boundary.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, an image editing apparatus displays an output area designation mark at a position designated as an output area of an image and, when a position is input to an input means, displays the mark. Since the output area designating mark is moved to the delimiter closest to the position, the position of the output area when the image is partially output can be accurately and easily specified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an image editing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an original family register and an abstract of a family register to be created.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the position of a ruled line.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a bar position correction process.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which the position of a bar for designating an output range is corrected.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 reading device 2 storage device 3 data processing device 4 input device 5 display device 21 input image storage unit 22 ruled line position storage unit 23 output area storage unit 24 output image storage unit 31 ruled line recognition means 32 position designation means 33 image editing means

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] An image storage unit for storing a read image; a display unit for displaying a read image; an input unit for inputting an arbitrary position in the image; the image editing apparatus and output means for outputting an image from said image storage means to recognize the borders as a separator portion of the image border recognition hand
A step , the display means displays an output area designation mark at a position designated as an output area of an image, and, when a position is inputted to the input means, an output area designation mark at a breakpoint closest to the position. Mark display means for moving, wherein the mark display means includes a ruled mark as an output area designation mark.
A straight bar displayed in the direction in which the line extends
Image editing apparatus characterized by display. 2. The input means is a touch sensor.
An image editing apparatus as described in the above. 3. Applied to a local government certificate issuing device
Image editing apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein. (4)Image shows family register including basic column and individual column
The original, The mark display means displays the rule closest to the position specified by the operator.
Move linear bar to line position Claim 3 Described picture
Image editing device.