JPH02121061A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To appropriately and promptly display the plural types of the pieces picture information on the areas of a display screen designated at the respective types by displaying picture information according to retrieved and outputted information related to the area. CONSTITUTION:In a CODEC 95, the retrieved picture information is restored by executing processing such as extension for the picture information, and the restored picture information is displayed through a display memory 73, etc., onto a display device 77. At this time, the picture information of picture attribute corresponding to the each area on the display screen which is set correspondingly to the picture attribute of the picture information is displayed on the area. Namely, while an applicable binary picture is displayed on the area of a display attribute set for displaying the binary picture, a dither picture corresponding to the area of another display attribute set for displaying the dither picture is displayed on the area. Thus, even when the plural types of the pieces of picture information respectively having different picture attributes coexist, these pieces of picture information can be appropriately and promptly displayed according to the picture attributes of these pieces of picture information.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention stores image information read from a document of multiple pages in a storage means, and also stores the image information stored in this storage means as necessary. Regarding an information processing device that searches and outputs the image information according to the image attributes, especially when displaying the image information that has been searched or the image information that has been read out on a display device, etc. The present invention relates to an information processing device that appropriately displays images.

(Prior Art) In recent years, many printed matter such as multiple manuscripts are sequentially read by an image scanning device and stored as image information in a storage device such as an optical disk device. Various information processing devices have been developed that search and output information as needed.

When displaying image information read by an image scanner device or image information searched and output 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 it.

In other words, if the image information to be displayed includes multiple types of image information with different image attributes, such as binary images such as character information or dithered images such as photo information, the binary image is not displayed. A specific display pattern is formed by specifying in advance the areas of the display screen for displaying the day 9 image and the display screen for displaying the Day 9 image.

(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 binary images or dithered images, on a display device, it is necessary to newly set the display pattern of the display screen each time according to such image attributes. It took a lot of effort.

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

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a supply means for supplying image information, and an area of a display screen corresponding to the type of image information supplied from the supply means. a setting means for setting the area, a storage means for storing information about the area set by the setting means, a search means for searching for information about the area stored in the storage means, and a storage means for storing information about the area to be searched by the search means. and display means for displaying the image information on a display screen in an area set by the setting means in accordance with the information.

(Function) The present invention provides an area of the display screen corresponding to the type of image information supplied from the supply means, for example, an area of the display screen for displaying a binary image and an area of the display screen for displaying a digital image. It has a setting means for setting the area, and information regarding the area set by the setting means is stored in the storage means. It also has a search means for searching for information regarding the area stored in the storage means, and image information is set by the setting means in accordance with the information regarding the area searched by the search means. I am trying to display it on the area display screen.

Therefore, even when a plurality of types of image information with different image attributes are mixed, it is possible to appropriately and quickly display them according to these image attributes.

(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 FIGS. 1 and 2.

The image scanner device 1 has a reading section configured with a COD image sensor or the like, and reads contents written on a manuscript such as a photograph or text 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 includes a DMA 13, a main memory 51, and a buffer memory 538 via a system bus 20.
1 page memory 53b1 code/image converter 71,
A display memory 73, an IPU 90, a CODEC 95, and the like are connected to each other.

The control unit 11 also includes an image bus 40 for transmitting image information.
buffer memory 53a1 page memory 53b1 via
Code/image converter 71, display memory 73, IP
U90 and (, OD E C95, 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, a mouse 103, and a time storage device 105 are connected to the control unit 11 via an interface circuit 11a. The keyboard 101 and mouse 103 constitute a data input device 100, which is used to input text information when creating a document using a word processing function, or to use the display device 77 to perform searches and image processing. Enter search information, various romantic information, array format, etc. for moving the cursor displayed on the screen and switching various functions.

Further, the data input device 100 is a setting means for setting an area of a display attribute corresponding to the image attribute of the image information when displaying the image information on the display device 77. 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.

The time storage device 105 is the keyboard 101 or the mouse 1.
This is a storage device that temporarily stores image processing requests, text information, image information, etc. due to interruptions from 03.

DMA (DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS)
S) 13 is a device composed of a magnetic disk device 31 and an optical disk device 33 via an interface circuit 13a, and is capable of transferring 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 specifies information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, or information regarding an area set by the specifying means, that is, desired area information from among a large amount of area information. Stores search information such as information for searching.

The optical disk device 33 stores the above-mentioned large number of image information and search information such as area 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.

The page memory 53b stores, for example, the number 1 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 converting section 71 performs reverse conversion, that is, converting image data into character code data, as necessary, to correct characters that have been converted into image data on the display screen.

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

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.

The CODEC 95 is an encoding/decoding circuit unit, and can reduce the storage area of a storage medium such as an optical disk used at the time of registration by compressing image information, that is, by reducing redundancy. 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 93 that rotates image information.
It has a built-in.

The interface circuit 95a also has an image switch 17.
Input/output devices such as a computer 1 and a printer 9 are connected.

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 the [automatic paper feeder] is used to continuously read the originals. ] mode, input information related to initial settings such as the document size, document density and reading density of this document using the keyboard 101 or image ski 1? input from the operating section 3 of the 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 record and arrangement format is input according to the format displayed on the screen of the display device 77.

This format is used to input and set items such as search keys to specify the document to be registered and 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
3 to the CODEC 95 via the interface circuit 13a and the buffer memory 53a.

The image information searched and output in this way includes, for example, a binary image Fa as shown in FIG. 3, and a dithered image Fb 1EC.
When the images are formed using the image attributes, information regarding the area of the display screen set according to these image attributes is retrieved and output at the same time.

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 point, image information with the corresponding image attributes is displayed in each area on the display screen that is set in correspondence with the image attributes 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, a case will be described in which a display screen area is set according to an image attribute of image information, that is, a case in which a gradation area is created.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3 (△), a gradation area is created for the image information to be displayed, which is formed by a binary image Ea such as character information and dithered images Eb and Ec such as photographic information. To explain this using an example, first, the keyboard 101 is operated to set the [gradation area registration] mode for creating a gradation area. When this "gradation area 0 recording" mode is set, the display device 7
A table for creating a gradation area as shown in FIG. 4(A), for example, is displayed on the display screen 7 (step S1).

Next, in step S3, the content of the registration flag FG in the table is determined. In step S3, the registration flag FG
If the content is on, it is determined that a gradation area has already been registered in the table with table number TBI as shown in FIG. 4(A), and the process proceeds to step S5. In step S5, the value of the table number set for each table is used as a display pointer as search information, and the value of the display pointer is scrolled by +1 using the mouse 103.

Subsequently, in step S1, as the value of the display pointer is scrolled by +1 at 85 as described above, a table with table number TB2 as shown in FIG. 4(B) is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. be done.

In step S3, the content of the registration flag FG for the table with table number TB2 is determined, and if the content of the registration flag FG is off, the process advances from step S3 to step S7.

In step S7, for example, the coordinates of the area for displaying the dithered image Eb shown in FIG.
Register to. Also, the coordinates of the area where the dithered image EC is to be displayed are registered in the coordinate number GP2. Subsequently, in step S9, the content of the registration flag FG of the double number TB2 is set to ON. As a result, an area, ie, a gradation area, for displaying a dithered image as shown in FIG. 3(A) is created. Information regarding the gradation area created in this way is stored in the magnetic disk device 31.

Similarly, for image information having image attributes as shown in FIG. 3(B), gradation areas corresponding to these image attributes are created. Therefore, for each piece of image information with different image attributes, gradation areas corresponding to these image attributes are created in sequence, and while the information size for each gradation area is table number TB1. TB2...Magnetic disk device 3 uses the contents of each table of TBN as area information.
1 is stored.

Next, referring to FIG. 6, the operation when searching and outputting information regarding gradation areas will be described.

In step 811, a command related to a gradation area search is input from the keyboard 101 to set the "gradation area" mode. As a result, when the table related to the gradation area is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77, in step 313, the registration flag F of the displayed table is set.
Determine the contents of G. If the content of the registration flag FG is off in step 813, the process advances to step 815, the display pointer is moved by +1, and the process returns to step S11. In step 813, the registration flag F
If the content of G is on, the process advances to step S17.

In step S17, for example, when displaying image information as shown in FIG. Execute processing based on.

That is, when the image information corresponding to FIG. 3 (Δ) is transferred from the page memory 53b to the display memory 73, the display memory 73 can display dithered images Eb and EC corresponding to the coordinate numbers GPI and GP2. Perform image processing as follows.

Further, when deleting the information regarding the gradation area mentioned above, a command is inputted from 101 to cause the display device 77 to display a table in which the corresponding gradation area is registered. When the corresponding table is displayed on the display device 77, the information regarding the registered gradation area is deleted using the mouse 103, and the contents of the registration flag FG of this table are set to OFF. As a result, information on the gradation area of the corresponding table is deleted.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, search output is achieved by setting an area of the display screen that corresponds to the type of image information, and searching and outputting information regarding this area as needed. Since the image information is displayed in accordance with the information regarding the specified area, it is possible to appropriately and quickly display a plurality of types of image information in the area of the display screen designated by each type phrase.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an information processing device to which the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the main parts of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows an example of image information. An explanatory diagram,
Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a table for creating a gradation area, Fig. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation when creating a gradation area: ~, Fig. 6 is a gradation area 12 is a flowchart showing an operation when searching and outputting information related to a search result. 1... Image scanner device 11... Control unit 31... Magnetic disk device 53b... Page memory 73... Display memory 75... Display control unit 77... Display device 101... Keyboard 103...Mouse

Claims (1)

[Claims] Supply means for supplying image information; setting means for setting an area of a display screen corresponding to the type of image information supplied from the supply means; and information regarding the area set by the setting means. a storage means for storing, a search means for searching for information regarding an area stored in the storage means, and a setting means for setting the image information according to information regarding the area searched by the search means. An information processing device comprising: a display means for displaying information on a display screen in an area where the information is displayed.