JPH0212524A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To confirm whether or not the whole of image information can be housed in a prescribed area by displaying information related to the releasing width area of recording paper based on indication from an indication means. CONSTITUTION:A mouse 103 and a keyboard 101 are indicating means to indicate the information related to a limitation area, and furthermore, they are provided with a function as the indication means to indicate select and indicate an ordinary mode and a confirmation mode. In other words, when an operation relating to the confirmation mode is performed, the releasing width area to limit print-out on the recording paper of a print sheet, etc., is displayed on the screen of a display device 77 with the image information. In such a way, it is possible to confirm whether or not the whole of the image information can be housed in a prescribed print frame.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention 1 (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention provides a method for printing out images read by a reading device or images registered in a storage device on recording paper using a printer or the like. The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus according to the present invention, and particularly relates to an information processing apparatus capable of confirming whether or not the entire visible information falls within a predetermined area before printing out.

(Prior Art) In recent years, a large number of printed materials 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 searched and output as necessary. Various so-called information processing devices have been developed.

In the conventional information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 6, when a document is placed on the document table of the image scanner device in steps 501 and 503, the image read by the image scanner device is temporarily stored in the page memory, and The redundancy of the image stored in the page memory is compressed and stored in the optical disk device. Further, the image stored in the optical disk l1it is searched, the redundancy of the image read from the optical disk device is expanded and restored to the original image, and this restored image is stored in the -H page memory. In step 505, the image thus stored in the page memory is displayed on the display device. If the function key for printing out is operated in step 507, the process advances to step 509, and the image is printed out from the printer.

In addition, conventional information processing devices have an editing processing function, and can edit images read by an image scanner device, or images from an optical disk device obtained by searching these images, etc. [! The resulting image is then printed out from the printer.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) By the way, when a printer prints out an image onto recording paper, it prints out within a predetermined print frame of the recording paper. That is, this is because printing operations such as printing are restricted outside the print frame of the recording paper.

If the image is edited without taking into account the so-called margin W4, which limits the print quality of such printing, etc., then part 1! Among the processed images, printing of the image corresponding to the margin area is restricted, and a problem arises in that the entire image cannot be printed out.

Furthermore, when printing out an image on recording paper, whether or not the entire image will fit within a predetermined print frame depends on the operator's experience; for example, if the area occupied by the image to be printed out is If it exceeds the area of
Of these images, the parts that exceed the print frame area,
That is, the printout of the portion of the image corresponding to the blank area is limited to 11lIj, resulting in the inconvenience that the entire image is not printed out. In addition, in such cases, recording paper is wasted,
There was still room for improvement.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the entire image information to be printed out has a predetermined f! It is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing device that can easily confirm whether or not the information falls within the four-range framework.

[Structure 1 of the Invention (Means for Solving the Problems) To achieve the above object, the information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a supply means for supplying an image, and a display means for displaying image information supplied by the supply means. , an output means for printing out the image displayed on the display means on recording paper; a processing means for processing information regarding the margin area of the recording paper;
and an instruction means for selecting 1 to display on the display means information relating to the margin area of the recording paper processed by the processing means.

(Function) In the information processing apparatus according to the present invention, when an image is supplied by the supply means, the display means displays this image. Further, the output means prints out the image onto recording paper. Further, a processing means for processing information related to the margin area on the recording paper, and a processing means for selectively instructing that the information related to the margin area on the recording paper processed by the processing means be displayed on the display means. and an instruction means, and according to instructions from the instruction means, information related to the cross-over area is displayed on the display means.

(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 111 is a device for reading the contents written on a manuscript such as a photograph or a document as image information from a reading unit configured by an image sensor such as a COD. The image scanner device 1 includes an operation section 3 for setting parameters such as the document size, document density, and reading density of the document to be read, a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters, and the like. A CPU (not shown) that controls the entire image scanner device 1;
A display section 5 displays input information such as setting conditions and processing time, and an automatic paper feeding mechanism (V) that continuously conveys documents placed on a document table (not shown) to a reading section and reads the documents.
ADF) 7.

The control unit (CPU) i i controls the overall operation and data flow of the information processing device.

That is, a control unit 11, a DMA 13 (to be described later), a main memory 5, a buffer memory 5381 and a page memory 53b.
1 code/image converter 71, display memory 73, rP
U90, C0DE095, etc. are connected via the system bus 20.

Similarly, the control section 11 is connected to a buffer memory 53a, a page memory 53b1, a code/image conversion section 71, a display memory 73, an IPU 90, a CODEC 95, and the like via an image bus 40 for transmitting image information.

Further, an external data input bag ai oo is connected to this control unit 11 via an interface circuit 11a. The data input device 100 is used to input character information when creating a document using a word processing function, for example.
Alternatively, a keyboard 101 and a mouse 1 are used to enter search information, various command information, array formats, etc. for moving the cursor displayed on the screen of the display device 77 and switching various functions when performing searches and image processing.
03 are provided.

Further, the mouse 103 and the keyboard 101 are instruction means for instructing the display of information related to a restricted area, which will be described later.
Furthermore, it has a function as an instruction means for selecting and instructing the normal mode and the confirmation mode. In other words, when an operation related to the confirmation mode is performed, the entire image information is displayed on the screen of the display device@77 along with the image information, as well as a blank area that restricts printing out on recording paper such as print paper. You can check whether the image fits within a predetermined print frame. Further, when an operation related to the normal mode is performed, the image information displayed on the display device W177 is directly printed out from the printer 9 without checking whether the entire image information described above fits within a predetermined print frame. In this case, the image information is sequentially output to a print area of the print paper, that is, within a predetermined print frame of the print paper in which visible information is printed out.

Further, the keyboard 101 has a function as a processing means for processing information related to the margin area of printing paper. That is, when the size of print paper to be output from the printer 9 is specified by a key operation on the keyboard 101, the above margin area is determined according to the size of the print paper, and the margin area for the print paper is determined. Information related to is sent.

DMA (D 1rect Memory Accesses
s) 13 C. Transfers data regardless of the operation of the control unit 11, for example, transfers data between the buffer memory 53a and the storage device 30 via the interface circuit 13a. .

The storage device 30 includes a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from a large amount of image information, that is, search information, etc., and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information, and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information. It is composed of an optical disk device 33 and the like that stores search information and the like.

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 bytes, and sequentially stores code data whose redundancy has been compressed by the CODEC95.

Further, the buffer 7 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 When more than 64 bytes of code data is stored in , the data of 64 bytes is sent to the optical disk device 33 via the system bus 20 and the interface circuit 13a in word units.

For example, the page memory 53b stores a number of pages for an A4 size document.
It has a storage capacity corresponding to 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
It converts the character code data input from 1 into image data and outputs it to the display memory 73, and if necessary, by performing reverse conversion, the characters converted into image data on the screen are corrected, etc. .

The display memory 73 is a memory that temporarily stores image information when the display device ff177 displays an image based on the image information from the page memory 53b or the like.

The display control unit 75 includes a display device 177 such as a CRT.
The image information stored in the display memory 73 is displayed.

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 both image information, that is, by reducing redundancy.

Further, C0DEC:95 is a circuit unit that performs decompression processing of the compressed image information, that is, restores the reduced redundancy and outputs the image information as the original image information.

This C0DEC95 has an IPU (Iaae Pr
0CeSSinR U 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 built-in 3.

Furthermore, output devices such as an image scanner @1 and a printer 9 are connected to the interface circuit 95a.

This printer 9 is a device that prints out image information as visible information such as characters on recording paper such as print paper, and includes:
For example, a one-norther printer or the like is used.

Next, the image information storage and retrieval device to which the present invention is applied, shown in FIG. The following describes the operation procedure using a case as an example.

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 177 to read the document and transfer the read image information to the predetermined optical disk device 33. A command or the like for continuous registration is input from the keyboard 101 to set this image information storage search @stomach to the "read registration" mode.

Next, the number of originals is placed on a predetermined position such as the original table of the image scanner device It1 constituting this image information storage and retrieval device, and the speed of the stacked originals is further increased. [Automatic feed (AD)] to continue reading
F) The original size of this original,
Hara i dando, read! Information regarding initial settings such as the degree of rotation is input from the keyboard 101 or the operation unit 3 of the image scanner device i11.

Furthermore, the buffer memory 5 stores the image information from the image scanner @111 once in the page memory 53b.
3a and the interface circuit 13a to the optical disk IL device 33, and this optical disk device! 33 storage medium (not shown).

Next, use the keyboard 101 to register the title of the manuscript,
Display device 7 displays search information such as information amount and arrangement format.
Enter according to the format displayed on the screen in step 7.

This format specifies the document to be registered and inputs and sets search key items to facilitate the search process. Displays various information such as capacity, a "table" for inputting key items for the above-mentioned search, and 1lllE of this function key when inputting using the function keys configured on the keyboard 101. .

When reading the document starts, the image scanner vR
The image information read from i11 is sent to the interface circuit 9.
5a, and is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b. After the image information is compressed by the C0DEC95, the buffer memory 53a and the interface circuit 1 are
The search information is registered in the magnetic disk device 31 via the optical disk drive 3a, and the search information and image information are registered in the optical disk device [3a].
Registered in 3.

When searching for specific image information from a large amount of image information registered in the optical disk device 33 and printing out the searched image information, the keyboard 101 is used as in the case of reading and registering described above. Enter the search command to set it to “Search” mode.

Next, use the keyboard 101 to input search information for specifying desired image information, select the desired search information from a large amount of search information recorded on the magnetic disk storage 31, and select the selected search information. Optical disk device 33 based on
Search for the desired image information registered in . The image information retrieved in this way is transferred from the optical disk unit W133 to the interface circuit 13a and the buffer 7 memory 53a.
It is given to CODEC95 via.

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

Further, when making a so-called hard copy of the displayed image information, the keyboard 101 is used to designate the image information desired to be made into a hard copy, set the number of output sheets, etc., and then print out using the printer 9.

Next, display control and related operations in one embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

In step 301, the original Il of the image scanner installation @1!
Place the original on the holder. When the image scanner device 1 reads the image information of the document in step 303, step 30
5, the read image information is displayed on the display device 77. That is, the display device 77 displays the read 1III image information in the display area DA1 as shown in FIG. 3, and displays various selection information in the display area DA2.
will be displayed. For example, using mouse 103, code F2
By selecting , the image information displayed in the display area DAI is printed out from the printer.

In step 307, the code F is entered by the mouse 103 mentioned above.
2 is selected, or when a function key related to printout is operated on the keyboard 101, the process advances to step 309, where it is determined whether or not to display information regarding the cross-over area, that is, display the cross-over area. Discern. For example, when the confirmation mode is selected by operating a key on the keyboard 101, the process advances to step 311, where a cross-cut area is displayed. Also step 3
In 09, as shown in FIG. 4, the display screen of the display device 77 displays selection information as to whether or not to display the cross-over area, and the mouse 103 is used to display the cross-over area. When this selection is made, the process advances to step 311 to display the cross-over area in the same manner as described above. In step 311, as shown in FIG. 5, image information is displayed in the display area DA1, and the printing area 201 of the printing paper and the margin area 203 of the printing paper are displayed simultaneously. For example, the brightness of the overlap area 203 and the brightness of the print area 201 are set to be different from each other. At this time, it may be performed by blinking to change the brightness.

In step 313, it is determined whether or not to print out. For example, when the code F1 in the display area DA2 shown in FIG. 5 is selected using the mouse 103,
Proceeding to step 315, the printer 9 prints the image. The selection as to whether or not to execute this printout can also be made using an appropriate means such as a keyboard.

Here, in step 313, the image information is transferred to the print area 20.
If more than 1 is displayed, the part beyond this print area will not be displayed, so in step 313, select code F2 in display area OA2 shown in FIG. 5 with the mouse 1°3. This causes the process to return to step 3.1 again. Thereby, the position of the image, etc. can be corrected so that the entire image falls within the range of the print area 201.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, since the information related to the blank area of the recording paper is displayed based on the instruction from the instruction means, the entire image information is displayed in a predetermined manner. You can easily check whether it falls within the range of .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image information storage and retrieval device to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing display control and related operations, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are display devices. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the conventional example. 9...Printer 11...Control unit 77...
・Display device

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A supply means for supplying an image; a display means for displaying the image supplied by the supply means; an output means for printing out the image displayed on the display means on recording paper; processing means for processing information related to the margin area of the recording paper; and instruction means for selectively instructing the display means to display information related to the margin region of the recording paper processed by the processing means; An information processing device characterized by having the following.