JP3363471B2 - Image processing device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention makes it possible to display an input image in a predetermined
It relates view Zosho management apparatus for outputting in the form.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an image storage means for storing image information read from an original by a scanner in a storage medium such as a magneto-optical disk, and the stored image information is read out from the storage medium to output an image such as printing paper. An image information processing apparatus having an image forming unit that prints on a medium is known.

In this type of image information processing apparatus, when processing a double-sided image, the front side and the back side are alternately printed, such that the front side is printed once, then the printing paper is reversed and the back side is printed. . In addition, the device as described above
For example, the images of a plurality of read originals are shown in FIG.
Side by side on one sheet as shown, i.e.
Have been proposed to print.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, since the front surface and the back surface are unconditionally alternately printed, the original prints an image group in which a single-sided print image and a double-sided print image are mixed. If you do, for example, three single-sided images,
In the case of one double-sided image, the first one-sided image is printed on the front side of the first sheet of printing paper, the second one-sided image is printed on the back side of the first sheet, and the one-sided image is printed on the front side of the second sheet. The third side is printed, the back side of the double-sided image is printed on the back side of the second sheet, and the back side of the double-sided image is printed on the front side of the third sheet. There is a problem in that the front side and the back side are switched such that the back side of the sheet and the front side of the third sheet are printed, which causes confusion in managing the image file.

Further, in the above-mentioned device, the reading
Arrange the images of the multiple originals taken on one sheet, and
That is, in the case of combining and printing, the printing direction is determined based on the scanning direction at the time of reading the image.

Therefore, for example, as shown in FIG. 12, when the relationship between all the scanning directions of the image to be composite printed and the vertical direction of the original does not match, as shown in FIG. The printed image is output with the top and bottom reversed, and the output result in which multiple images are lined up is 1
Is difficult to see when viewed as one image by the user.
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[0007]

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided input means for inputting a series of image data including image data on the front side and image data on the back side of a document, and the above-mentioned input means.
Storage means for storing said series of image data including the image data of the image data and the back surface of the surface, and <br/> Ru instructing means instructs the orientation of the image data of the surface in the sequence of image data, after the instruction means instructs the direction for the image data of the surface, based on the determination result of Taka any orientation is instructed to the image data of the surface <br/> by said instructing means, the image data of the back surface Orientation above
Instructed by the indicating means to the image data of the surface
Image data on the back side so that it is in the same direction as
Same and a rotating means for performing rotation processing and the image data of the image data and the back surface of the surface in the series of image data which the memory means has stored, the image forming apparatus of one sheet on the surface, the image data of the surface in the indicated direction by the instruction means, the image data of the back surface <br/> is the finger with respect to the image data of the surface
Up so that it is in the same direction as indicated by the indicating means.
Form images side by side in the direction rotated by the rotating means .
An image processing apparatus according to claim and this.

[0009]

[0010]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram conceptually showing the characteristic function in the first embodiment of the present invention.

The image information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment reads an image on a document and stores the image data in a memory, and an image storage unit that stores the image data stored in the image storage unit 1. Image forming means 2 for printing on
And have.

The image storage means 1 includes a single-sided image / double-sided image management storage means 11 for separately managing and storing single-sided images and double-sided images, and a front-side image / back-side surface for separately managing and storing front-side images and rear-side images. A first mode in which the image management storage unit 12 and the image forming unit 2 form a double-sided image without distinguishing between a single-sided image and a double-sided image, and a second mode in which the single-sided image and the double-sided image are distinguished from each other to form a double-sided image.
And a mode switching means 13 for selecting the mode.

On the other hand, the image forming means 2 is a first mode processing means 21 for forming a single-sided image and a double-sided image of a document image as a double-sided image in a mode in which the single-sided image and the double-sided image are not distinguished, and a double-sided image for distinguishing the single-sided image and the double-sided image. And a second mode processing means 22 formed as.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the first embodiment.

The apparatus shown in FIG. 2 uses an electronic file system 3 as the image storage means 1 and a laser beam printer 4 as the image forming means 2. The image storage unit 1 may be a combination of a personal computer and a scanner. On the other hand, as the image forming means 2, a facsimile machine or a copying machine may be used.

The electronic file system 3 has a RAM 31a as information storage means for storing information and a ROM storing the programs shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
31b, a CPU 31 for controlling them, a magneto-optical disk 32 for storing image data, and a mode switching means 1
A mode changeover switch 33, which is a dip switch used as 3, and a scanner control unit 34 for reading the document 5 are configured.

The laser beam printer 4 has a RAM 41a for data storage and a ROM 4 for program storage.
1b, a CPU 41 for controlling them, and a printer control unit 42 for recording the front surface and the back surface, and the laser beam printer 4 processes the image data sent from the electronic file system 3. Print on the recording paper 6.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a storage process of image data.

First, the presence or absence of a document in the scanner section is checked (S1), and if there is no document, the process ends. If there is a document, it is checked whether the document is a one-sided document or a two-sided document (S2). This is checked by the state of the operation switch (not shown). If the original is a one-sided original, the one-sided storage mode is stored in the RAM 31a (S6),
The image on the surface is read and the image data is stored in the magneto-optical disk 32 (S7). Then, the process returns to the check of the presence or absence of the document (S1).

If the original is a double-sided original in S2, the fact that the mode is the double-sided storage mode is stored in the RAM 31a (S2).
3), reading the image on the front side and the image on the back side, storing each image data in the magneto-optical disk 32 (S4, S5),
The process returns to the check for the presence or absence of the original (S1). In this way, the original is stored in the magneto-optical disk 32 while checking the single-sided storage mode or the double-sided storage mode for each sheet.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the print processing of image data.

First, the presence or absence of image data to be printed is checked (S8), and if there is no image, the process ends. If there is image data to be printed, the storage mode registered during the above-described storage processing is checked for this image data, and it is checked whether it is the single-sided storage mode or the double-sided storage mode (S9). 6 is fed (S10), and an image is printed on the surface (S11).

Then, the presence or absence of the next image data to be printed is checked (S12), and if not, the printed recording paper 6
Is ejected (S22), and the printing process ends.

If there is image data to be printed next, it is checked whether the storage mode is the single-sided storage mode or the double-sided storage mode (S13). If the single-sided storage mode is selected, the front side image is printed on the back side (S20). The printed recording paper 6 is discharged (S21), and the presence or absence of an image to be printed is checked (S21).
Return to 8). That is, in this embodiment, when a single-sided document continues, the image of each document page is printed on both sides of the recording paper 6.

In S13, if the storage mode is the double-sided storage mode, the state of the mode changeover switch 33 is checked (S14), and if it is the mode that does not distinguish between single-sided / double-sided, the front side image is printed on the back side ( In step S15, the printed recording paper 6 is ejected (S16), the process returns to paper feeding (S10), and the back side image is printed on the front side (S11).

If the mode is one-sided / two-sided discrimination in S14, the recording paper 6 printed only on the front side is discharged (S17), and the next recording paper 6 is fed (S18).
The front side image is printed on the front side (S19), the back side image is printed on the back side (S20), the printed recording paper 6 is ejected (S21), and the presence or absence of an image to be printed is checked (S8).
Return to.

If the double-sided storage mode is selected in the storage mode check in S9, the recording paper 6 is fed (S1).
8), the front side image is printed on the front side (S19), the back side image is printed on the back side (S20), the printed recording paper 6 is ejected (S21), and it is checked whether or not there is an image to be printed (S).
Return to 8).

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the outline of the configuration of the second embodiment of the present invention.

The image information processing apparatus of the second embodiment has a CPU 51 that controls the entire apparatus and a ROM 52 that stores a control program for operating the CPU 51.
A RAM 53 for constructing search information, a keyboard 54 for inputting search keywords and the like at the time of image reading and search, and a printer 62 for printing image data on recording paper.

Further, as an image reading device, an image reading section 56 on the front side of the subject, which is equipped with a line image sensor composed of a plurality of light receiving elements, an image reading section 57 on the back side, and these 2
The control unit 55 controls the two image reading units 56 and 57.

As a storage device for various data, there is provided an optical disk 58 for storing image data read by the image reading device, search data input from the keyboard 54, and the like. The compression / decompression unit 61 is a circuit that performs data compression when storing raw data on the optical disc 58 or decompresses data when the compressed image data stored on the optical disc 58 is read.

Further, the display device includes a liquid crystal display panel 60 for displaying the keyword under search and the searched image information, and a control section 59 for controlling the liquid crystal display board 60. In addition,
The control unit 59 has a VRAM for expanding an image to be displayed.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing a storage process of image data in the second embodiment.

The double-sided original image is read and the optical disk 5 is read.
In the case of storing in the document No. 8, first, as shown in FIG. 7, the keyword 70 for searching the original to be read this time later is input from the keyboard 4 (S31). Then, the input keyword 70 is temporarily stored in the RAM 53 (S32).

Next, when the image reading operation is started (S33), the image reading units 56 and 57 provided on both the front and back sides of the document traveling path read the front and back images of the document 0, respectively. For each line, the corresponding analog electric signal is converted and output to the reading control unit 55 and the display control unit 59.

The reading control section 55 synthesizes the image data of each line into one set on both sides (S34), compression-encodes it (S3).
5), temporarily store in RAM 53 (S36). On the other hand, the display control unit 59 transfers the read image data to the VRAM.
And is displayed on the liquid crystal display board 60. A method described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-179159 is used as a method for combining the image signals on both sides.

When the reading of the original image is completed (S37), the CPU 51 takes out the compression-coded image information from the image reading control section 55, and the image information area 90 on the optical disk 58 as shown in FIG. The empty area is searched for (in this case, the area 91b), and the image information in which the front side image and the back side image are combined is written on the optical disc 58 (S38). Further, an empty area of the search information area 80 on the optical disk 58 (in this case, the area 81b)
The keyword 82b stored in the RAM 53, the attribute of image information (compression method, storage date, etc.) 83b, and the address number 84b of the image information storage area are written in (S3).
9).

If an image is read using the same keyword as the one already stored, it is considered that the image read later is continuous with the image read previously, For example, like the area 81c with respect to the area 81b, the same keyword has search information having pointer information to another image information.

In this way, when the images on both sides are combined and stored, the state of the stored images in the vertical direction is as shown in FIG. 11 or 12. Here, the arrow a indicates the main scanning direction of the scanner, and the arrow b indicates the moving direction of the document, that is, the sub-scanning direction. 11 shows the case where the sub-scanning direction and the vertical direction of the document match, and FIG. 12 shows the case where they do not match.

Next, FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing an operation for retrieving necessary information from the optical disk 58.

As shown in FIG. 10, first, the keyboard 5
Input the search information of the image to be searched from No. 4 (S4
1). For example, when a keyword is input and a list of search information matching the keyword is desired, the input search information is temporarily stored in the RAM 53 (S42).

Here, the CPU 51 searches for a matching keyword in the search information area 80 on the optical disk 58 based on the keyword 90 stored in the RAM 53 (S43). If a match is found (S
44), retrieve the matched search information, and display control unit 59
Send to. The display control unit 59 sequentially displays the received search result information on the liquid crystal display panel 60 (S45). Note that the search can use not only the keyword but also other attributes such as the date.

If it is desired to view the searched image information (S47), after finding the search information with the matching keyword, the image information is taken out from the optical disk 58 using the number of the image information area in the search result information. (S48), the data compression / expansion unit 61 expands and decodes (S49), stores the expanded image information in the RAM 53 (S50), sends it to the display control unit 59, expands it in the VRAM, and displays it on the liquid crystal display panel 60. Yes (S51).

At this stage, the decompressed data is as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 12, the data on the front and back sides are connected. Then, the keyboard is used to give an instruction as to which direction the image on the surface is in the upward direction (S52). Then, when the instruction in this direction is given, the printing operation is started (S5).
3).

At this time, for example, if the upward direction of the designated document is in the direction of arrow b (corresponding to FIG. 11), first, only the image data on the front side is cut out and sent to the printer 62 in that direction. Then, only the image data on the back side is cut out and sent to the printer 62 in the same direction. This enables printing as shown in FIG.

If the upward direction of the designated document is in the direction of the arrow a (corresponding to FIG. 12), first, the image data on the front side is cut out and sent to the printer 62 in that direction. However, the image data on the back side is sent to the printer 62 as data rotated by 180 degrees. As a result, even when the sub-scanning direction does not match the vertical direction of the original as shown in FIG. 12, composite printing in the vertical direction can be performed as shown in FIG.

After this, if there is a next image (S5
4) and returns to S48 and repeats the same processing.

16 and 17 are flow charts showing the processing operation in the third embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, when the image data is stored, as shown in FIG. 16, the print instruction direction is given together with the keyword (S61), and this is stored in the disk (S6).
9). Other processes are the same as those in FIG. At the time of printing, as shown in FIG. 17, the print instruction direction is read from the disk (S82), and printing is performed based on the read instruction direction (S83). The image information is stored in the RAM 53.
The operation up to storing and displaying in (S80, S81) is
This is common to FIG. 9 above.

In the case of the present embodiment, since the direction is specified at the time of storage, there is an advantage that it is possible to save the trouble of specifying the direction at the time of printing.

[0052]

According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the image data on the front side and the image data on the back side of a document from being output in different directions from each other in a series of image data for forming images side by side on one sheet. When the user sees the output result in which these images are lined up as one image, it is possible to prevent it from becoming difficult to see, and after the direction of the surface with respect to the image data is instructed by the instructing device,
The orientation of the back side image data is determined based on the result of the judgment as to which orientation was specified for the front side image data.
The same direction as the direction specified for the above image data
Rotate the rotation processing of the image data on the back side as described above
Image data of the front side and the image of the back side.
And an image data, on the same surface of a sheet, the image data of the surface, in which is instructed by the instruction means the orientation, the image data of the back side, the image data of the surface
The direction is the same as the direction specified by the above-mentioned instruction means.
By forming images side by side in the direction rotated by the rotating means, the image data of the front surface and the image data of the back surface formed on one sheet are output in different directions. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an appropriate output result without requiring the operator to specify the direction for each image data of the front surface and the back surface, and to obtain the image data of the front surface and the image data of the back surface. It is possible to prevent the output from being output in different directions on one sheet even if the input is input in different directions.

[0053]

[0054]

[0055]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram conceptually showing a characteristic function in a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a storage process of image information in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a printing process of image information in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an outline of a configuration in a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a storage process of image information in the second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a data flow when a keyword is input in the second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the flow of image information and keywords during image storage in the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a search and print operation in the second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the flow of image information and keywords at the time of search in the second embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a stored image in the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a stored image in the second embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an output image in the second embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an output image in the second embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a conventional output image.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing an operation at the time of storing image information in the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing a printing operation in the third embodiment.

[Explanation of Codes] 51 ... CPU, 52 ... ROM, 53 ... RAM, 55 ... Read
Pickup control section, 58 ... Optical disk, 59 ... Display control section,
62 ... Printer.

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] Image data and the back of the surface where the input means inputs; 1. A input means and for inputting a sequence of image data including image data and back side image data of the surface of the document
And instruction means for instructing the orientation of the image data of the surface in the sequence of image data; storage means and for storing the series of image data including the image data of the face orientation said indicating means to the image data of the surface Finger
After indicated, based on the judgment result of Taka is any orientation instruction for the image data of said surface by said instructing means, by the instruction means the orientation of the image data of the back surface
The same direction as the direction specified for the above image data
Rotate the image data on the back side as described above.
And Cormorant rotating means; has, the image data of the image data and the back surface of the surface in the series of image data which the memory means has stored, the image forming apparatus on the same side of one sheet , image data of the surface, in the direction indicated by the instruction means, the image data of the back side is the same as indicated orientation by the instruction means to the image data of the surface
In the direction rotated by the above rotating means to become the direction,
Side by side image processing apparatus according to claim and this for the image formation. 2. The image according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a plurality of image data including the image data of the front surface and the image data of the back surface stored in the storage means. Processing equipment. The series, including the image data of the image data and the back surface of the input said surface; wherein the original image data and the back side input step and for inputting a sequence of image data including the image data of the surface of the a storage step of storing the image data; instruction step and instructing the orientation of the image data of the surface in the sequence of image data; after orientation with respect to the image data of the surface is indicated by the instruction step, the instruction step based on whether the judgment result any orientation with respect to the image data of the upper Symbol surface is instructed by said instructing the orientation of the image data of the back surface
The direction specified for the image data of the surface in step
The image data on the back side above
A rotation step for performing a rolling process ; and the image data of the front surface and the image data of the back surface in the series of image data stored in the storage step are processed by the image forming apparatus to form the same surface of one sheet. above, the image data of the surface in the indicated orientation in the instruction step, the image data of the back side, the same direction as indicated orientation in the instruction step for the image data of the surface
In the direction rotated by the above rotation step ,
Side by side image processing method characterized that you be imaged.