JP5237773B2 - Image group editing apparatus and electronic device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention edits the image group used in a system in which a group of images, such as comics, which develop a story in units of frames, is used by transmitting the image group from a communication device such as a server to an electronic device such as a mobile phone. The present invention relates to an image group editing apparatus and an electronic device that enables browsing of the image group.

  As a system for using a group of images such as comics for story development, for example, a writer terminal and a manga editing server device are connected using a communication line, and a frame screen provided from the manga editing server device is used. A system is known that transmits image data to be embedded in a frame after determining a rough layout of the frame (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In addition, as a device that supports comic editing, the display control unit displays digital comic images, and the functions of each module of the editing support unit perform frame frame setting, balloon setting, and text insertion processing. Possible devices are also known (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

JP 2005-38164 A JP 2004-78923 A

  In general, the manuscript manuscript production process requires the procedure of first dividing the frame and deciding the frame layout of each frame, and writing the illustration and the balloon frame directly to each determined frame. In particular, when the browsing device is an electronic device having a relatively small display screen such as a mobile phone, when text information such as dialogue is written in an image and processed, Depending on the screen size of the electronic device, the text may be too small or it may not be readable due to degradation caused by compression or expansion of the image data. For mobile phones, only editing operations that are not easy to use were possible.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the circumstances described above, and uses, for example, a group of images such as comics that are developed in story units from a communication device such as a server to an electronic device such as a mobile phone. An object of the present invention is to provide an image group editing apparatus for editing an image group used in the system into a predetermined good format and an electronic apparatus for browsing.

In view of the above technical problem, an image group editing apparatus according to the present invention includes a document image group storage unit that stores a document image group for story development in frame units, and each frame of the image group stored in the storage unit. Set by the frame arrangement setting means, a frame setting setting means for setting the position and text information of the photosetting of each frame of the image group set by the frame arrangement setting means, and the frame arrangement setting means. Frame arrangement information storage means for storing the frame arrangement information, and photosetting information storage means for storing the photosetting information including the position and text information of the photosetting set by the photosetting setting means, and the photosetting information storage means text information stored in, the independent of the original images are editable by the user, the frame sequence setting means, scaling factor depending on the size of the piece, disk Characterized by freely setting the Lumpur direction and method automatically.

  According to a preferred embodiment of the image group editing apparatus of the present invention, the frame arrangement setting means can set the position of the frame of each frame of the image group and can set the enlargement / reduction and scroll of each frame, Further, the photosetting setting means can set the photosetting position and text information. Furthermore, the text information set by the photosetting setting means can be translated into different languages, and the predetermined format can be viewed on a mobile phone.

  The electronic apparatus of the present invention further includes display means for displaying the converted image group data edited by the above-described image group editing apparatus, and subtitle display means for displaying subtitles on a part of the display means. For example, it may be configured to include language switching means for switching the language of the caption displayed by the caption display means, and the caption displayed by the caption display means You may comprise so that it may edit by operating.

  According to the image group editing apparatus of the present invention, in addition to information relating to the frame arrangement as processing for the image group that develops a story in units of frames, the typesetting information of each frame is also stored in parallel, which can be viewed by the user. Even if images are provided, the photo composition information corresponding to each frame enables clear display, display in other languages, or editing by the viewing user, and can increase the pleasure of browsing the image group. .

  A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system in which a user who edits a manga manuscript that is a group of manuscript images that develop a story in frame units and accesses the manga by using a mobile phone or the like using the image group editing apparatus of the present embodiment. FIG.

  A server 15 for storing comic originals as data is connected to a public communication network 10 such as the Internet. The public communication network 10 is a personal computer 13 or 14 of a comic artist or editor, or a mobile phone of a user who views comics. 11 and 12 are also connected by wire or wireless. These personal computers 13 and 14 and mobile phones 11 and 12 are merely examples, and for example, the user can use a portable information terminal such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). The server 15 can store the manuscript manuscript or proceed with the work of converting to the format for the mobile phone, and can send the comic to the user's mobile phones 13 and 14 in response to a request from the user. it can.

  In the image group editing apparatus according to the present embodiment, a person who handles comics such as a comic artist or an editor (hereinafter referred to as an editor) installs the personal computer 13 or 14 or operates an application on the server side. This is an apparatus executed in a format, and here, an example in which a manga artist edits using his / her personal computer will be mainly described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an image group editing apparatus according to the present embodiment and a server-side configuration corresponding thereto.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment is configured to start up as an application of a personal computer, and the CPU is connected via an input / output unit 21 that controls input and output of data with the outside. Each processing unit realized by the function realizes each function, and has a storage unit for storing data and the like. Specifically, the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment, as a frame arrangement setting means for processing the arrangement information of the comic manuscript frame, a frame frame position setting unit 22 for setting the position of the frame frame, and a frame enlargement. A frame enlargement / reduction setting unit 23 for setting the frame size and reduction, and a scroll setting unit 24 for setting the scroll speed and direction of the frame. Further, the typesetting of each frame of the comic document set by the frame arrangement setting means. A photosetting position setting unit 25 for setting the photosetting position as a photosetting setting unit, a photosetting text setting unit 26 for setting the text to be set, and a comic document received from the server 15 and temporarily modified for correction. A document image processing unit 27 for storing and providing a document image to be processed for each of the setting units 22 to 25 is provided. A specific user interface of the setting units 22 to 25 will be described later with reference to FIGS.

  The image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment further temporarily stores frame arrangement information from the frame frame position setting unit 22, the frame enlargement / reduction setting unit 23, and the scroll setting unit 24, and sends the frame arrangement information to the server. The frame arrangement information storage unit 28 is capable of outputting. Further, the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment temporarily stores the photosetting information from the photosetting position setting unit 25 and the photosetting text setting unit 26, and stores the photosetting information that can output the photosetting information to the server 15. A portion 29 is provided. Here, in this specification, the frame arrangement information is the frame frame position information about the position of the frame frame of the document, the frame enlargement / reduction information about the enlargement / reduction ratio for the frame, and the speed when scrolling each frame. It includes certain scroll speed information and scroll direction information that determines the scroll direction. The photosetting information includes photosetting position information about the photosetting position and photosetting text information about the text to be set up. In particular, the photosetting text information has a feature that it is stored as text expressed by a predetermined code in the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment and the entire system, and the text information itself is converted into image information. Therefore, it is convenient for translation into other languages and for editing by mobile phone users who are comic readers.

  The image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment is devised by these setting units 22 to 25 so as to provide a screen suitable particularly when browsing with a mobile phone. For example, the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment is provided. In the case where the editing by the image group is not accompanied, there may be a problem that the line portion is too small to be seen well. However, by using the editing by the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment, the photosetting information or the like is used. As a result, the dialogue portion can be reliably browsed, and the user of the mobile phone can easily browse.

  The configuration of the lower part of FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the server side. A document for storing the original document image group via the image processing unit 33 is input to the input / output unit 31 of the server 30 indicated by a broken line. An image group storage unit 35 and a converted data storage unit 34 for converting into a format for a mobile phone via the format conversion unit 32 are provided. With such a configuration, the server 30 can receive and store a comic document from a comic artist via the Internet, present the stored comic document to an editor or a writer, and the image group editing device 20 or the like. Editing is possible using the editing device. Furthermore, the server 30 can proceed with the conversion to the format for the mobile phone via the format conversion unit 32, so that the user of the mobile phone who is a comic reader can smoothly browse using the mobile phone. Can do.

  Next, the flow of main processing operations when a comic document is edited using the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. First, a comic document created by a comic artist is uploaded from the personal computer 13 or 14 of the artist to the server 15 (30) (step S1). At this time, for example, the size of the document is, for example, about 3048 × 4840 as an example, and has a predetermined number of pages. The server 15 (30) stores the comic document in the document image group storage unit 35 while performing predetermined compression or addition of a control signal by the built-in image processing unit 33 (step S2).

  With the comic document thus stored in the document image group storage unit 35, manual editing or automatic editing is selected (step S3). When automatic editing is performed, the process proceeds to step S4, and when manual editing is performed, the process proceeds to step S5. After the manual editing or the automatic editing is advanced, automatic format conversion for the mobile phone is performed in step S6, and browsing on the mobile phone can be smoothly advanced by this format conversion.

  In the case of editing a comic document, the automatic editing operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when proceeding with automatic editing, first, the server automatically determines the frame of a frame (S11). Next, the enlargement / reduction ratio, scroll direction, and scroll method are automatically set according to the frame size (S12). For example, when a frame is a rectangle that is long horizontally, by setting right scroll or left scroll, all images in the frame are sequentially displayed on the screen of the mobile phone. After such setting of the enlargement / reduction ratio and scrolling, the server automatically determines whether the document type is color or monochrome (S13). In this case, the server can read either color or black and white from the color information of the comic document.

  Finally, it is used to save data such as frame frame position, scaling ratio, and scroll setting data for further editing of comics and for automatic format conversion for mobile phones. The

  When editing a manga manuscript, it can be selected to proceed by automatic editing, but it is also possible to proceed with editing manually. The manual editing will be described with reference to FIG. An example of an application mainly used for this manual editing is the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment, and an example of advancing manual editing using the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment is shown in the flowchart of FIG. Description will be made with reference to 6 and 7 GUI (Graphical User Interface).

  First, a specific cartoon manuscript is read from the server 15 to the editor's personal computer 13 using a predetermined ID or the like, and the personal computer 13 activates the image group editing device 20 which is an application for manual editing. First, the frame position of the frame of the original is set while referring to a predetermined page of the read comic original (S21). As shown in the screen of FIG. 6, when setting the frame position of the frame, the frame button 41 in the edit tool box located on the left side of the screen 40 is selected with a pointing device such as a mouse and the selection button 43 is selected. For example, the frame position of the frame is set by a method of designating the frame frame 44 with points while overlapping the designated layers on a translucent screen.

  Next, the enlargement / reduction ratio, scroll direction, and scroll method according to the frame size are automatically set (S22). In this part, the enlargement / reduction ratio, scrolling direction, and scrolling method are set by the method that the computer determines to be optimal by the same method as the automatic editing in the server. Subsequently, in the case of manual operation, the process proceeds in a form that corrects the automatically set scaling ratio, scroll direction, and scroll method (S23). Specifically, manual correction is performed by operating a selection box 50 that can be switched by a tab on the lower right side of the screen 40 on the screen of FIG. In this selection box 50, in order to set the frame portable enlargement / reduction ratio button 51 for setting the portable enlargement / reduction ratio (50% to 200%) of the slide type frame and the scroll speed (2 seconds to 0.5 seconds). Slidable scroll speed button 52, radio button 53 for selecting the scroll direction (up / down / left / right, none, N or Z shape, etc.), and document type (default, black and white, color) There are a radio button 54 and a radio button 55 for selecting an image quality (default, size priority, image quality priority). During automatic setting, a default value, a median value of a sliding button, and the like are selected. By operating 55, a predetermined setting is performed. The lower end of the selection box 50 is a display unit 56 for the current setting, and displays the frame enlargement / reduction ratio, the size of the original document, the size on the mobile phone, the scroll speed, the document type, the image quality, and the like. Is done. In the screen center 46, a preview screen 47 for thumbnail pages is displayed for each page.

  The operation for operating the frame frame 44 on the screen 40 is the operation in the frame frame position setting unit 22 described above, and among the setting operations using the buttons 51 to 55, the operation for operating the frame frame 44 on the screen 40 will be described. Setting by the frame portable enlargement / reduction ratio button 51 is an operation in the frame enlargement / reduction setting unit 23, and setting by the scroll speed button 52 and the radio button 53 for setting the scroll direction is an operation in the scroll setting unit 24.

  After such manual enlargement / reduction ratio, scroll direction, and scroll method correction work, in this embodiment, photosetting can be set (step S24). This photosetting setting includes two settings: a photosetting position setting and a text setting at the photosetting position. When setting the photosetting position, in detail, on the screen of FIG. 7, select the dialogue button 42 in the edit tool box located on the left side of the screen 40 with a pointing device such as a mouse, and select In a state where the button 51 is selected, for example, a line position, that is, a typesetting position, is set by a method in which a line frame 48 is designated by a point while overlapping a designated layer on a translucent screen. Similarly, the text 49 can be directly written in the window opened in the serif frame 48 in this layer. For example, if the original comic manuscript is too small, the text can be overwritten to make it easy to see. You can browse.

  The description will be made in correspondence with the image group editing apparatus 20. The setting operation of the serif frame 48 is performed by the above-described typesetting position setting unit 25, and the operation of directly writing the text 49 is performed by the typesetting text setting unit 26. . The photosetting information from the photosetting position setting unit 25 and the photosetting text setting unit 26 is temporarily stored in the photosetting information storage unit 29 and provided to the server when editing is completed.

  In the screen of FIG. 7, when the selection box 50 that can be switched by the tab on the lower right side of the screen 40 is operated, manual correction is performed, and when the tab is switched from the frame to the story, the comic title Check box 57 for automatic frame insertion, check box 58 for automatic insertion of frame titles, radio button 59 for the orientation of the original (right open, left open), and the original type (automatic determination, black and white, color) A radio button 60, a radio button 61 for the image quality (size priority, image quality priority) at the time of mobile distribution, and a radio button 62 for the insertion position of a new frame are provided, and these buttons are manually operated by operating these buttons. Setting will be made. Note that the lower end portion of the selection box 50 is a display portion 56 for the current setting, and displays the size, the number of pages, the total number of frames, the total number of frames in the page, and the like.

  When such a comic manuscript is edited, it is browsed by a mobile phone viewer (S25). At this stage, the data can be transferred to the server and checked on the actual mobile phone. For example, the editor can visually check the comic document edited by the viewer 63 simulating the screen of the mobile phone. Highly accurate editing is possible.

  When the predetermined editing is finished and confirmed by the viewer 63 simulating the screen of the mobile phone, it is determined whether or not the editing is completed (S26). If not completed (no), the process returns to step S21 and again. Edit the manga manuscript. If completed (yes), frame arrangement information and phototype information are transmitted from the editor's personal computer 13 from the editor's personal computer 13 to the server 15 in the next step S27. Is done. The server 15 stores the frame arrangement information such as the received frame frame position, enlargement / reduction ratio, and scroll setting, and the text composition information including the text information (S28).

  Furthermore, since the photosetting information includes text information, automatic translation is possible as required (S29). For example, if a line in a comic is “Thank you” in Japanese, it will be translated into an English translation such as “Thanks” and converted to a language like “Xie Xie” in Chinese. . Such automatic translation can be added on the server side.

  Next, the format conversion for the cellular phone after the editing will be described with reference to FIG. 8. First, a photograph (line) is combined on the original (step S31), and then the frame is separated from the original. (Procedure S32). When the frames are separated, an appropriate export format is automatically determined for each frame according to the type of document and the content of the frame image (step S33), and each frame is automatically converted into a mobile phone format and the image file is stored in the database. Output (step S34). After output to this database, a predetermined browsing is performed by the mobile phone viewer to confirm whether the work has been properly performed (step S35). For example, the format conversion unit 32 on the server side proceeds with the format conversion work for the cellular phone. An application similar to the editing application is started on the editor's personal computer, and the format for the cellular phone is set there. It is also possible to perform conversion work. Finally, it is confirmed in step 36 whether or not editing has been completed. If completed, the process ends (yes). If not completed (no), the process returns to the editing of the document and the same processing is repeated. It will be.

  The above is a description of the case where a comic document is edited and a phototypesetting is added. Further, a comic document edited by the image group editing apparatus 20 of the present embodiment has a flow as shown in FIG. Can be viewed.

  First, in the mobile phone, a user can operate to request a predetermined comic to be transmitted to the server, and this is sent to the server as a comic browsing request (S41). The server side determines the data format suitable for the mobile phone or carrier format and language required for the browsing request (S42), and transmits appropriate data.

  Upon receiving the data transmission from the server, the mobile phone side browses the comic (S43). Whether the subtitle display is necessary or unnecessary is selected (S44) when browsing the comic or after the start of browsing, and in the case of YES, the subtitle in the appropriate language stored in the server is extracted in S45. The data is transmitted to the mobile phone side as data. Here, the subtitle characters in an appropriate language stored in the server are, for example, text information transferred from the phototype information storage unit 29 to the server, or automatic translation performed by the server. .

  On the mobile phone side, subtitles are displayed on the comic (S46). As such a display example, for example, a screen as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed. A semi-transparent zone for subtitles is provided as a subtitle display unit 71 on the screen 70, and a subtitle 72 in a text format is displayed on the subtitle display unit 72. Here, the subtitle 72 is a language such as English, but may be another foreign language. The selection of whether the previous caption display is necessary or not can be selected by switching the caption display by selecting the caption button 73 on the left side of the screen. By operating the menu button 74, it is possible to display a menu screen and exit from the comic viewing mode.

  When the caption is displayed on the comic, in the system according to the present embodiment, the caption itself is text information or translation of the text information, so that the user of the mobile phone can easily edit the caption. First, it is determined whether or not subtitle editing is to be performed (S47). If subtitle editing is not performed, the process returns to comic viewing. If subtitle editing is performed, subtitle input is performed (S48).

  As a specific example, as shown in FIG. 11, a thumbnail display cartoon display unit 81 is formed in a display screen of a mobile phone, and a caption text is displayed in a caption field 82 on the thumbnail display. The caption text displayed in the caption field 82 may be text information transferred from the photosetting information storage unit 29 to the server, or may be automatic translation performed by the server. Here, by pressing the edit button 83 of the edit button 83 and the return button 84 provided at the bottom of the screen, the mobile phone itself shifts to the subtitle edit mode, and for example, characters can be written in the box 90. Operated. In order to reflect the editing of the subtitle, by selecting “Save” from the pop-up menu 92, the processing at the time of YES is performed in Step 91 with a change, and the changed subtitle is saved. In the flow of FIG. 9, this subtitle storage means that the subtitle is transmitted to the server (S49). After the transmission, the phototypesetting data is stored (S50), and the server side converts it into a cellular phone format. Is also stored (S51).

  As described above, this system can output text information added to a manga manuscript in the form of subtitles on a mobile screen, modify the subtitle format text information itself, or become a manga reader. It can also be replaced with a story. In addition, the subtitles themselves are text information that has been transferred to the server, or automatic translation performed by the server, so it can be easily replaced with another language and delivered in a different language. Is very advantageous.

1 is a schematic overall view of a system in which a user who edits a comic document using an image group editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention and accesses it with a mobile phone or the like can view the comic. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an image group editing apparatus and a server side according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the main processing work at the time of editing a comic original using the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the automatic edit of a manuscript when editing a comic manuscript using the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the manual edit of the original in the case of editing a comic original using the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of GUI in the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention, and shows the screen at the time of the setting of a frame. It is a figure which shows an example of GUI in the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention, and shows the screen at the time of setting of photocomposition. It is a flowchart about format conversion in the case of editing a comic manuscript using the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow at the time of the user who accessed the comic original edited with the image group editing apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention with the mobile telephone etc. browsing a comic. It is a figure which shows the screen as which the subtitle was displayed when the user who accessed with the mobile telephone etc. in the system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention browses a comic. It is a figure which shows the flow in the case of correcting a subtitle in the system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention with a screen.

Explanation of symbols

10 Internet 11, 12 Mobile phone 13, 14 Personal computer 15 Server 20 Image group editing device 21 Input / output unit 22 Frame frame position setting unit 23 Frame enlargement / reduction setting unit 24 Scroll setting unit 25 Photographic position setting unit 26 Photographic text setting unit 27 Document Image processing unit 28 Frame arrangement information storage unit 29 Photographic composition information storage unit 30 Server 31 Input / output unit 32 Format conversion unit 33 Image processing unit 34 Converted data storage unit 35 Document image group storage unit

Claims (10)

Manuscript image group storage means for storing manuscript image groups for story development in frame units;
Frame arrangement setting means for setting the arrangement of each frame of the image group stored in the storage means;
Photosetting setting means for setting the photosetting position and text information of each frame of the image group set by the frame arrangement setting means;
Frame arrangement information storage means for storing frame arrangement information set by the frame arrangement setting means;
A photosetting information storage means for storing photosetting information including the position and text information of the photosetting set by the photosetting setting means;
The text information stored in the typesetting information storage means can be edited by the user independently from the document image group , and the frame arrangement setting means can perform the enlargement / reduction ratio, scroll direction and method according to the size of the frames. An image group editing apparatus characterized in that the setting can be automatically set . 2. The image group editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the text information stored in the photosetting information storage means can be automatically translated into different languages. 2. The image group editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frame arrangement information includes information relating to a position of a frame frame, enlargement / reduction of the frame, a speed when scrolling each frame, and a direction. Each data from the original image group storage means, the frame arrangement information storage means, and the photosetting information storage means is transmitted to a server, converted into a predetermined format on the server side, and held so that it can be shared by a plurality of users. The image group editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 5. The image group editing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined format is capable of being viewed on a mobile phone. An electronic apparatus comprising: display means for displaying converted image group data edited by the image group editing apparatus according to claim 1; and caption display means for displaying a caption on a part of the display means. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the converted image group data is transmitted from a server. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a language switching unit that switches a language of the subtitle displayed by the subtitle display unit. 7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the subtitle displayed by the subtitle display means can be edited by a user operating the electronic device. 7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the caption information edited by the user is stored in a data server that stores the converted image group data.