JPH02121026A - Information processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and properly display picture information, etc., such as a binary picture or a dither picture, etc., whose picture characteristic is different according to its picture characteristic by processing the picture information to be inputted correspondingly to the sort of the picture information to be displayed in an area preset beforehand. CONSTITUTION:When the picture information is displayed on a display device 77, a data inputting device 100 sets the area for a display attribute to which information related to the sort of the picture information to be displayed correspondingly to the picture attribute of this picture information is added simultaneously. Then, it processes the picture information to be inputted correspondingly to the sort of the picture information to be displayed on this area. Thus, even in the case where various kinds of picture information such as the binary picture and the dither picture whose picture attributs are different from each other are mixed, such the picture information is displayed easily and properly.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an information processing device, and in particular, to a display device that displays multiple types of image information with different image attributes such as binary images and dithered images. The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that appropriately displays image information according to each image attribute.

(Prior Art) In recent years, a large number of printed materials such as multiple manuscripts are sequentially read by an image scanner device and stored as image information in a storage device such as an optical disk device, and such stored image information is 2. Description of the Related Art Various information processing apparatuses have been developed that perform search and output as needed.

When a conventional information processing device processes image information such as a driver's license that contains a mixture of textual information and photographic information, if dither processing is uniformly executed to process only the photographic information, the textual information becomes blurred. On the other hand, if only the binarization process for processing character information and the like is uniformly performed, so-called moiré, such as photographic information becoming unclear, will occur.

Therefore, when displaying image information read by an image scanner device or retrieved from a storage device on a display device, such conventional information processing devices display the display screen according to the image attributes of the image information. I am trying to specify an area.

In other words, when the image information to be displayed includes multiple types of image information with different image attributes, such as binary images such as text information, or dithered images such as photo information, it is necessary to Areas of the display screen and the display screen for displaying dithered images are designated in advance to form a specific display pattern.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, when newly displaying image information with an image attribute different from such a display pattern on a display device, a display pattern corresponding to the image attribute of this new image information must be set. need has arisen. In other words, when displaying image information with different image attributes, such as a binary image or a dithered image, on a display device, it is necessary to newly set the display pattern of the display screen each time according to such image attributes, which saves time and effort. It took.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and even when image information with different image attributes such as binary images and dithered images are mixed, it is possible to easily and appropriately manage such image information according to the image attributes. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device capable of displaying information on images.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problem) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a display means having a plurality of window display sections for displaying manually generated image information, and a display means having a plurality of window display sections for displaying manually generated image information. a setting means for setting an area in which image information is to be displayed; and a setting means for processing input image information corresponding to the type of image information to be displayed in the area set by this setting means; and image processing means for sending information to the display means.

(Function) The present invention has a setting means for setting an area for displaying a specific type of image information for each window display section of the display means, and image information to be displayed in the set area. The input image information is processed according to the type of image information.

This processed image information is given to display means. Therefore, in each window display section of the display means, image information of the type corresponding to the set area is appropriately displayed in each set area.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

First, the overall configuration of an image information storage and retrieval device as an information processing device to which the present invention is applied will be explained with reference to FIG.

The image scanner device 1 has a reading section configured with a COD image sensor or the like, and reads the contents written on a manuscript such as a photograph or a document as image data.

This image scanner device 1 includes an operation unit 3 for setting parameters such as the document size, document density, and reading density of a document to be read, a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters, and an image scanner. CP (not shown) for controlling the entire scanner device 1
U, a display unit 5 for displaying input information such as setting conditions and processing time, and a display unit 5 for continuously conveying originals placed on an unillustrated original table to a reading unit for reading the originals. It is equipped with an automatic paper feed mechanism (ADF) 7.

The control unit (CPU) 11 has a DMA 13, a main memory 51, and a buffer memory 53a via a system bus 20.
1 page memory 53b1 code/image converter 71,
Display memory 73, display memory 74, IPU9
0 and CODEC95, etc. are connected to each other.

The control unit 11 also includes an image bus 4 for transmitting image information.
0 through buffer memory 53a1 page memory 53b
1 code/image converter 71, display memory 73, IP
U90, CODEC95, etc. are connected to each other.

This control unit 11 controls the overall operation and data flow of the information processing device via the system bus 20 or the image bus 40.

Further, a keyboard 101 and a mouse 103 are connected to the control unit 11 via an interface circuit 11a. The keyboard 101 and mouse 103 constitute a data input device 100, and the display device 77 can be used, for example, to enter character information manually when creating a document using a word processing function, or to perform searches and image processing.
Enter search information, various commanded information, array format, etc. for moving the cursor displayed on the display screen and switching various functions.

Furthermore, when displaying image information on the display device 77, the data input device 100 sets a display attribute area to which information related to the type of image information to be displayed is added at the same time in correspondence with the image attribute of the image information. This is a setting means. Specifically, among the image information to be displayed on the display device 77, there is a display screen area for displaying binary images such as character information, and a display screen area for displaying dithered images such as photo information. etc. according to each image attribute.

Further, when the display device 77 has, for example, four window display sections, the data input device 100 sets an area of the display attribute corresponding to the image attribute of the image information for each window display section as shown in FIG. .

DMA (DIRECT MEMORY ACCE,
5S) 13 is a device composed of a magnetic disk device 31 and an optical disk device 33 via an interface circuit 13a, and transfers data between, for example, a buffer memory 53a and a storage device 30 regardless of the operation of the control unit 11. is performed via the interface circuit 13a.

The magnetic disk device 31 stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, that is, search information and the like.

The optical disk device 33 stores the above-mentioned large number of image information and search information corresponding to each image information.

The main memory 51 stores the operation program of the control section 11 described above.

The buffer memory 53a has a storage capacity of, for example, 128 kilobytes, and sequentially stores code data whose redundancy has been compressed by the CODEC95. Further, the buffer memory 53a is provided with a counter for counting the amount of stored data, and when the amount of stored data based on the count value of this counter reaches, for example, more than half of the storage capacity, that is, 64 kilobytes or more. When the code data is stored, this 64 kilobyte data is sent to the optical disk device 33 in units of words via the system bus 20 and the interface circuit 13a.

For example, the page memory 53b stores a number of pages for an A4 size document.
It has a storage capacity that can accommodate 0 pages, and temporarily stores image information input from the image scanner device 1 or image information retrieved from the optical disk device 33.

For example, the code/image converter 71 converts the keyboard 10
The character code data inputted from 1 is converted into image data and output to the display memory 73. Further, the code/image converter 71 performs reverse conversion, that is, converts image data into character code data, as necessary, to correct characters converted into image data on the display screen.

The display memory 73 is a memory for temporarily storing image information, and temporarily stores this image information when displaying an image on the display device 77 based on the image information from the page memory 53b. .

The display memory 74 is connected to the data input device 1 described above.
The area information set by 00, that is, the information regarding the area of the display attribute corresponding to the image attribute of the image information as shown in FIG. 3 is stored.

Further, when the display device 77 has four window display sections, area information set for each window display section is stored.

The display control unit 75 controls the drive of the display device 77 and the like, and controls the display of image information stored in the display memory 73.

Control regarding display by the display control unit 75 will be specifically explained. When displaying image information on the display device 77, this image information is transferred from the page memory 53b to the display memory 7.
Transferred to 3. At this time, the display control unit 75 reads desired area information from among the plurality of area information stored in the display memory 74, and processes the image information stored in the display memory 73 according to the read area information. do. For example, image attributes of image information corresponding to an area set to display a binary image are processed as a binary image, and image attributes of image information corresponding to an area set to display a dithered image are processed as a binary image. Process as a dithered image. Since the image information processed in this manner is sent to the display device 77, the image information of the corresponding image attribute is appropriately displayed in the set display screen area on the display device 77.

The CODEC 95 is an encoding/decoding circuit unit, and by compressing image information, that is, reducing redundancy, it is possible to save the storage area of a storage medium such as an optical disk used at the time of registration. Also C0DEC95
The compressed image information is decompressed, that is, the reduced redundancy is restored to its original value, and the image information is output as the original image information.

This C0DEC95 has an IPU (IMAGEPROC
ESSING UNIT) 90 is connected. This IPU 90 includes an enlargement/reduction section 91 that enlarges and reduces image information, and an aspect/horizontal conversion section 9 that rotates image information.
It has a built-in 3.

Further, input/output devices such as the image scanner device 1 and the printer 9 are connected to the interface circuit 95a.

The printer 9 is a device that prints out image information as visible information such as characters on a recording medium such as paper, and is, for example, a laser printer.

Next, an explanation will be given of the operating procedure using an example in which an image information storage and retrieval device to which the present invention is applied reads a large number of manuscripts, registers the image information written in the manuscripts, and further searches and prints them out. .

First, when registering the read image information, follow the instructions on the initial information processing screen displayed on the display screen of the display device 77 to read the document and transfer the read image information to the predetermined optical disk device 33. The image information storage and retrieval device is set to the "read/registration" mode by inputting a command or the like for continuous registration from the keyboard 101.

Next, a large number of originals are stacked and placed on a predetermined position such as the original table of the image scanner device 1 constituting this image information storage and retrieval device, and an "automatic paper feeder" is installed to continuously read the originals. ” mode, information related to initial settings such as the document size, document density, and reading density of this document is input from the keyboard 101 or the operation unit 3 of the image scanner device 1.

Further, after the image information from the image scanner device 1 is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b, the buffer memory 53
The data is transferred to the optical disc device 33 via the interface circuit 13a and the interface circuit 13a, so that it can be registered in an optical disc (not shown) that is a storage medium of the optical device disc 33.

Next, use the keyboard 101 to register the title of the manuscript,
Search information such as information amount and arrangement format is input according to the format displayed on the screen of display device 77.

This format is for manually setting items such as search keys to identify the document to be registered and to facilitate the search process, and includes information such as the remaining capacity of the storage device 30 when the image scanner device 1 reads the document. A table for inputting various information, key items for the search, etc., and a keyboard 101
The function of this function key is displayed when inputting using the function key configured in .

When reading the document starts, the image information read from the image scanner device 1 is sent to the interface circuit 95a.
The data is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b via the page memory 53b.

Subsequently, after the image information is compressed by the C0DEC 95, the search information is registered in the magnetic disk device 31 via the buffer memory 53a and the interface circuit 13a, and the search information and image information are registered in the optical disk device 33. be done.

When searching for specific image information from a large amount of image information registered in the optical disk device 33 and printing out or displaying the searched image information on the display device 77, the above-mentioned reading and registration process is performed. Similarly, enter a search command using the keyboard 101 and press "Search".
Set to mode.

Next, use the keyboard 101 to input search information for specifying desired image information, select the desired search information from among the large number of search information stored in the magnetic disk device 31, and select the search information for the selected image information. The desired image information registered in the optical disk device 33 is searched based on the information.

The image information retrieved in this way is stored in the optical disk device 3.
3 to the CODEC 95 via the interface circuit 13a and the buffer memory 53a.

The CODEC 95 restores the searched image information by processing such as expansion, and displays it on the display device 77 via the display memory 73 or the like.

At this time, image information with a corresponding image attribute is displayed in each area on the display screen that is set corresponding to the image attribute of the image information described above.

In other words, the corresponding binary image is displayed in an area with a display attribute set to display a binary image, and the corresponding dithered image is displayed in an area with a display attribute set to display a dithered image. It is now possible to do so.

Further, when making a hard copy of the displayed image information, the user uses the keyboard 101 to designate the image information for which a hard copy is desired, sets the number of copies to be output, etc., and prints out from the printer 9.

Next, the action will be explained.

First, with reference to FIG. 5, the case of setting a display attribute area according to the image attribute of image information, that is, the case of creating a gradation area will be described.

The keyboard 101 is operated to set the "area registration" mode for creating a gradation area. When this "area registration" mode is set, a desired window display section is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. In step S1, a gradation area is set for the displayed window display section. For example, as shown in FIG. 4(A), for the window display area WA, as pattern 1, an area PA for displaying image information of image attributes of photo mode is used.
Set 4.

In step S3, the "area registration" mode is clicked using the mouse 103 or the like. As a result, the menus ``End'' and ``Registration'' are displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. When "Register" is selected again using the mouse 103, the gradation area of pattern 1 is registered for the window display area WA mentioned above, and step S
In step 5, the contents of pattern 1 are created in a table as shown in FIG.

As described above, pattern 1 regarding the window display area WA
When the registration of the gradation area is completed, the process proceeds from step S3 to step S7, and registration of the gradation area of the next pattern is executed for the window display section WA. For example, register areas PA8 and PA9 for displaying image information of image attributes in photo mode as pattern 2, and similarly pattern 3.
An area PAIO for displaying image information of image attributes in photo mode is registered as .

When the registration of gradation areas according to various patterns for the window display section WA is completed in this way, the registration of gradation areas for the other window display sections is executed in the same manner. For example, as shown in FIG. 4(B), the window display section W
Regarding B, area PB5 for displaying image information of the image attribute of text mode is registered as pattern 1, area PB7 is similarly registered as pattern 2, and
Areas PB9 and PBIO are registered as pattern 3.

Next, with reference to FIG. 6, a case will be described in which the corresponding image information is displayed based on the registered gradation area.

First, operate the keyboard 101 to set the [area call J mode] to call up information regarding the registered gradation area. As a result, a window display section based on the registered gradation area is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. At this time, "selection" and "next candidate" are displayed on the display screen, so when you specify "next candidate" using the mouse 103, window display sections set in the gradation areas of other patterns are sequentially displayed. be done. When the window display section set in the gradation area according to the desired pattern is displayed, "select" is designated using the mouse 103. For example, as shown in FIG. 2(B), a gradation area based on pattern M is specified for the window display area WA, and a gradation area based on pattern N is specified for the window display area WB as shown in FIG. 2(D). Specify.

In step 11, image information to be displayed is transferred from the page memory 53b to the display memory 73.

When displaying image information in step 313, information regarding image attributes based on the specified gradation area is added to this image information. To explain specifically, the third
As shown in the figure, for the image information displayed on the window display section WA, the image attributes of the portions corresponding to the areas PAL and PA2 are processed as a dithered image in photo mode. Similarly, regarding the image information displayed on the window display section WB, the image attributes of the portions corresponding to the areas FBI and PB2 are processed as a binary image in character mode (step 515).

In step S17, the image information processed according to the designated gradation area as described above is provided to the display device 77. Therefore, in the window display section, the
As shown in E), image information of image attributes corresponding to the designated gradation area is appropriately displayed.

As described above, by displaying image information according to gradation areas with different patterns using a plurality of window display sections, image editing processing can be easily performed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since input image information is processed in accordance with the type of image information to be displayed in a preset area, binary images and dithered images can be displayed. It is possible to easily and appropriately display image information having different image characteristics such as .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing processing when adding image attributes according to a preset gradation area, and Fig. 3 is a gradation diagram. An explanatory diagram showing an example of a table related to areas, Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the case of setting gradation areas with various patterns for each window display section, and Fig. 5 shows processing related to registration of gradation areas. The flowchart shown in FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing image processing and image display based on a designated gradation area.・Display memory ・Display memory ・Display control unit fist display device ・Keyboard mouse

Claims (1)

[Claims] A display means having a plurality of window display sections for displaying input image information, and an area for displaying a specific type of image information set for each window display section of the display means. a setting means; and an image processing means for processing input image information in accordance with the type of image information to be displayed in the area set by the setting means and sending the processed image information to the display means. An information processing device comprising: