JPH01145690A - Image editing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To improve workability and operability at the time of confirming or correcting a designated area by displaying the contour of the area designated by a coordinate input device corresponding to that input. CONSTITUTION: This device is provided with a means for designating the image area related with editing and a display means 6 for displaying the contour of that image area corresponding to the designation at least. Namely, any coordinate is inputted by pushing a pen switch 4 on a tablet 3 of a coordinate input device 2. Besides, the display part 6 for displaying required information, area designate key 7, area fix key 8 and ten key 9 or the like are arranged at an operating part 5. Therefore, corresponding to the designation from the image area designating means such as a coordinate input device 2, its contour is displayed at least for clearly showing the spread of that area. Thus, the designated image area is easily confirmed or corrected.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an image editing device, and more specifically, the present invention relates to an image editing device, and more specifically, a region desired to be recorded in a document or in image data read and stored from a document is edited using a coordinate human-powered device or the like. The present invention relates to an image editing device that is suitable for application to an image recording device that is capable of manual instruction and is capable of recording the area based on the manual instruction.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of device has been configured to accept an input specifying an image area using a coordinate system, but it has also been configured to display the extent of the area for the operator's confirmation work. was not configured.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Therefore, there are problems in workability and operability when confirming or correcting an area specified by the coordinate input device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of these problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide an image recording device with high workability and operability when confirming or modifying a designated area.

[Means for Solving the Problems] To this end, the present invention is characterized by comprising means for specifying an image area to be edited, and display means for displaying at least the outline of the image area in accordance with the specification. shall be.

[Function] According to the present invention, in response to a designation from an image region designation means such as a coordinate system, at least the outline of the region is displayed to clearly indicate the extent of the region. Therefore, it becomes easy to confirm or modify the designated image area.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 to 8 show one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an image recording apparatus to which the image editing apparatus of the present invention can be applied, and an image recording apparatus main body 1 has a function of copying a document. 2 is a coordinate input device, and coordinates are input manually by pressing a pen switch 4 on a tablet 3. 5 is an operation unit, and a display unit 6.5 displays necessary information. Area designation key 7, area confirmation key 8. Numeric keypad 9
etc. are arranged.

FIG. 2 is an example of the configuration of a control system applicable to the device shown in FIG.
9 is a microcomputer-type CPU that controls the main body of the image recording apparatus and the display section 6. 12 is CPU113
M115 is a driver for display lighting. Furthermore, 1tA, 13A and L4
3(A) executed by CPIJll, respectively.
This ROM stores programs corresponding to the processing procedure shown in FIG. 2, the processing procedure shown in FIG.

FIGS. 3A to 3C show an example of a processing procedure when specifying an area by the control system shown in FIG. In this example, as shown in FIG. 4, the document size is specified manually at two points on the document M, and the area AI (circular shape) on the document M is
An example will be explained in which area A2 (rectangular) and area A3 (triangular) are manually constructed.

When area designation key 7 is pressed (step 525),
The signal is transmitted to the CPt 113, and the procedure shown in FIG. 3(B) is activated. At this point, the CPU 13 waits for the document size data from the coordinate system M2.

When the operator manually adjusts the document size, he uses the pen switch 4 on the tablet 3 to adjust the document size as shown in FIG.
Press two points, point a as the upper right point and point b as the lower left point (step 521). In response, the procedure shown in FIG. 3(A) is started, and signals corresponding to the coordinates of point a and point b are transmitted to the CPU II (step 522),
1ll performs appropriate transformation on the coordinate values (step 523
) and is sent to the CPU 13 (step 524).

The CPU 13 recognizes the document size based on the data, and stores this in a predetermined storage area on the RAM 12 (step 536). Next, when an area number is specified using, for example, the numeric keypad 9 (step 537), the CPU 13 reads data related to the area of that number, which was previously manually stored in the RAM 12, and sends it to the C and PI 114. (step 526). In response, the CPU 14 activates the procedure shown in FIG. 5C, converts the sent data into display data (step 532), and displays it on the display unit 6 via the driver 15 (steps S33 and 534).

After transmitting the data in the RAM 12 (step 526), the CPt 113 determines whether or not the area confirmation key 8 has been pressed (step 527). If the determination is negative here, the process waits for coordinate data to be received from the coordinate input device 2 (step 528).

When the operator wants to specify a new area, for example, if the area layer shown in FIG. The data of the pressed position of the pen switch 4 is read at short intervals. Alternatively, the area is regarded as a polygon and its vertices are picked up in order and the data is read (steps 521 and 522).

The CPU II converts it into coordinate values (step 523).
, coordinate data is sent to the CPU 13 (step S24.5
28).

When changing the magnification, the CPU 13 performs arithmetic processing such as multiplying the magnification by the magnification (step 529), and converts the coordinate data etc. into RA.
It is stored in the thrown area corresponding to the area numbered "1" in M12 (step 530). After this process, the process returns to step 526 and the coordinate data etc. in the RAM 12 are transmitted to the display unit 6. That is, at this time, the contents of the coordinates etc. are displayed as shown in FIG.

Next, when setting the area number to "2" and inputting area A2 manually, and further when setting the area number to "3" and inputting area A3, the same procedure can be performed.

The operator looks at the display at this time, and if the area he or she intends to match matches the displayed area, presses the area confirmation key 8 (step 527);
3 recognizes the shaded area in FIG. 4 as the designated area (step 535).

Next, the CPU 13 detects the magnification ratio and the selected recording medium (transfer paper) size (step 538).
Further, the optimum transfer paper size is calculated from the specified area and magnification ratio (step 539).

Here, if the transfer paper size and optimal paper size are equal (
Step 540), completes the area specification, and if different, sends data on the optimum paper size to the CPU 14 (steps 541 and 531), displays the optimum paper size or the cassette size containing the paper on the display section 6. .

The operator looks at this display, and if the currently selected transfer paper size is acceptable, manually inputs this using an appropriate key (step 542), and ends the area designation. If this is not convenient, you can select iJ size paper as the transfer paper.

The display contents at this time will be explained using FIGS. 6 to 8.

Even at the same magnification, for example, if the specified area is small and close to a corner, and there is a paper size suitable for that area, a display as shown in FIG. 6 is performed. Furthermore, if the area specified during enlargement exceeds the already selected transfer paper size, a warning to that effect is displayed as shown in FIG. 7. Further, if the area designated at the time of reduction is considerably smaller than the paper size already selected and there is a paper size suitable for that area, a display as shown in FIG. 8 is performed.

It should be noted that the present invention is of course not limited to the top peeling configuration, and can of course be made into various configurations. for example,
The human coordinate device may be a combination of a tablet such as a tablet and a pen switch, or a mouse or the like.

In addition, as long as the extent of the specified area is clear, only the outline of the area may be displayed as a line or a series of dots, or the area may be displayed with hatching or filled in. It may also be displayed in the state.

Furthermore, the detection of the message such as the optimum paper size is not limited to displaying it in text as in the top cover, but may be in any other manner. For example, it is also possible to provide display lamps corresponding to each of the selectable paper sizes, and to make the lamp blink when there is an optimal paper size.

In addition, after displaying the outline of the image area and confirming it, the process of displaying a message regarding the size of the recording medium based on the extent of the outline of the image area is performed, but it is not possible to move the area, etc. Various editing processes may be performed.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, the outline of the area designated by the coordinate system is displayed according to the human power, so when confirming or modifying the designated area, etc. The effect of improving workability and operability was obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration example of an image recording device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a control system of the device shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 3 Mutsumi is a flowchart showing an example of the processing procedure when specifying an area by the control system shown in Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining how to specify an area, and Fig. 5 is an example of display when specifying an area manually. FIGS. 6 to 8 are explanatory diagrams showing examples of display of designated areas and messages, etc. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Image recording device body, 2... Coordinate manual device, 3... Tablet, 4... Pen switch, 5... Operating unit, 6... Display unit, 7... Area specification key, 8... Area confirmation key, 9... Numeric keypad, lO... 110 parts, 11.13.14-CPU. 12...RAM. 15...driver. Figure 4 Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] An image editing device comprising: means for specifying an image area to be edited; and display means for displaying at least the outline of the image area in accordance with the specification.