JPH02148364A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To suitably display picture information read from an original having arbitrary forms, such as a vertically long form, long sideways form, in accordance with the form of the original by displaying the picture information of the original based on the information regarding the form of the original. CONSTITUTION:When reading of an original is started by means of an image scanner device 1, read picture information is successively sent to a displaying memory 73. At the memory 73, the picture information inputted from the scanner device 1 is successively stored in a vertically long (or long sideways) form in accordance with the information regarding the form (vertically long or long sideways) of the original from a main memory 51. The stored picture information is supplied to a display device 77. The display device 77 displays the picture information of the original in the vertically long (or long sideways) form. When the picture information cannot be displayed on the device 77 due to the size of the original, the picture information is contracted before display by means of an expanding and contracting section 91.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an information processing device that inputs and displays image information in any format such as portrait or landscape. The present invention relates to an information processing device that displays images appropriately.

(Prior Art) In recent years, a large number of printed materials consisting of multiple manuscripts, etc. are sequentially read by an image scanner device and stored as image information in a storage device such as an optical disk device, and this stored image information is used as needed. Various information processing apparatuses have been proposed that search according to the information and output it to a printer or display device.

The display devices used in such conventional information processing devices are either so-called wi-length display devices with a length of 1 inch in the vertical direction and longer than the length in the horizontal direction, or display devices with a length of 1 inch in the horizontal direction and 1 inch in the horizontal direction. Use one of the so-called horizontal display devices that are longer than the vertical length,
Image information of a document read by an image scanner device can be displayed directly on a display device.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in an information processing device using a vertically long display device, if the document read by the image scanner device is in a so-called portrait format, that is, the document is created in a vertically long state. However, if the document is in a so-called landscape format, that is, if it was created in a landscape format, the image information read from this landscape document cannot be displayed as is on the display device. occurs. In such a case, the image information read from the horizontally long document is reduced to avoid being displayed on the vertically long display device, which is inconvenient.

Similarly, in an information processing device using a horizontally long display 5A, if a document read by an image scanner device is in a vertically long format, the image information read from the vertically long document is reduced and displayed on a horizontally long display. However, there were problems such as the image information on the display screen becoming difficult to see, leaving room for improvement.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that can appropriately display image information read from a document in any format such as portrait or landscape, depending on the format of the document. shall be.

[Structure of the Invention J (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the information processing device provided by the present invention has an input device for inputting image information of a document in any format such as portrait or landscape. means, an information output means for outputting information relating to the form of a manuscript input by the input means, and an information output means for outputting image information of the manuscript input by the input means according to a form of the manuscript output from the information output means. The present invention is characterized by having a display means that displays image information of the entire document by enlarging or reducing the entire vertically long original and the entire horizontally long original at the same magnification when displaying the original, and has 15 shape display areas. shall be.

(Function) The present invention inputs image information by reading from a document in any format such as portrait or landscape, and outputs information related to the format of the input document. In addition, the image information of the input document is displayed on the display means according to the format of the document, and when displaying the image information of the document input from the input means, the display means displays the entire document in portrait orientation. It has a shape display area that can display image information of the entire document by enlarging or reducing the entire horizontally long document at the same magnification. Therefore, image information read from a manuscript in any format such as portrait or landscape can be appropriately displayed according to the format of the manuscript.

(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, which is an input means, 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 is capable of measuring the original size of the original to be read. an operation unit 3 for setting parameters such as density and reading density; a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters; and a CPU (not shown) for controlling the entire image scanner device 1. , a display section 5 for displaying input information such as setting conditions and processing time, and an automatic display section 5 for continuously transporting originals placed on a document mounting table (not shown) to a reading section for reading the originals. Equipped with an anti-paper feed mechanism (ADF>7).

The operation section 3 and the display section 5 form an operator panel 6.

Next, the operator panel 6 will be explained with reference to FIG.

The photographic density setting keys 3a and 3b are used to set the reading density for the photographic area, and the density set by operating these keys is displayed in five levels on the display section 5a. The mode switching key 3C is a key for specifying the photo reading mode of photo fine, standard, and text clear.
Displayed in 5e. The character density setting key 3f 130 is a key for setting the reading density for the character area, and the set density is displayed on the display section 5[5PA]. The original size specification keys 3Ill and 3n are keys for specifying the original size, and the specified original size is displayed on the display section 5n. The automatic paper feeding key 3p is a key for selecting automatic paper feeding, and the display 5p lights up during automatic paper feeding. The portrait setting key 3q is operated when reading a portrait-oriented document. The landscape setting key 3r is operated when reading a landscape document.

Further, the image scanner device 1 can read image information of a document in any format, such as portrait or landscape, depending on the format of the document placed thereon. For example, if text information, etc. is recorded in the vertical format of the document for a △4 size document, the document will be placed on the document device stand in a vertical format.
The document is conveyed in the vertical direction and read sequentially.

At this time, the user operates the operation section 3 to input information regarding the format of the document.

The control unit (CPIJ) 11 is connected to a DMA 13, a main memory 51, and a buffer memory 5 via a system bus 2°.
3a1 page memory 53b1 code/image converter 7
1. Display memory 73, IPU90 and C0DEC95
etc. are connected.

The control unit 11 also includes an image bus 4 for transmitting image information.
0 to the buffer memory 53a and page memory 53b.
, code/image converter 71, display memory 73, rp
u9o and CODEC95 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. This 4-board 101 and the mouse 103 constitute a data input device 100, and can be used, for example, to input character information when creating a sentence m using a word processing function, or to perform search and image processing. When searching, the user inputs search information, various command information, array formats, etc. for moving the cursor displayed on the display screen of the display device 77 and switching various functions.

Further, the keyboard 101 is used to input information regarding the format of the document to be read by the image scanner device 1 . Information related to the format of the document inputted using the keyboard 101 is sent to the interface circuit 11a and the system bus 20.
The data is output to the main memory 51 via.

1) MA(+) [RECT MEMORY ACC
The ESS) 13 is a device composed of a magnetic disk device 31J3 and an optical disk device 33 via an interface circuit 13a, and is a device that transfers data between, for example, a buffer memory 53a and a storage device 30, regardless of the operation of the control section 11. is transferred via the interface circuit 13a.

The magnetic disk device 31 stores search information such as information for specifying desired image information from among a large amount of image information.

The optical disk unit JIJ33 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 main memory 51 also has a management area for storing information related to the format of the document read by the image scanner device 1, and sequentially stores information related to the format of the document output from the operation unit 3 or the keyboard 101. do.

The buffer memory 53a has, for example, 128 kilobytes of memory 'aFlt', and sequentially stores code data whose redundancy has been compressed by the CODEC95. In addition, the buffer 7 memory 53a is equipped with a counter for counting the stored data (2), and when the amount of stored data reaches, for example, more than half of the storage capacity based on the count value of this counter, the When 64 kilobytes or more of code data is stored, this 6/It'II byte 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 it stores image information (>L<
temporarily stores image information and the like retrieved from the optical I-isk device 33.

”-The code/image conversion unit 71 converts the keyboard 10 into
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 when displaying an image based on the image information from the image memory 35 or the page memory 53b in the display device 77, this image information is temporarily stored. remember exactly.

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.

Further, the display device 77 displays image information of the document read by the image scanning device 1 according to the format of the document. The shape of the display screen of the display device 77 is a square with one inch on each side, and when displaying the image information of the read original on the display screen, if the originals are the same size but different in shape, the original is vertically long. It is possible to display each image information of a horizontally long document enlarged or reduced at the same magnification. For example, A4→J
The image information of a vertically long original is enlarged at 1x magnification.
! It is possible to display the image information in the format 1, and also to display the image information in the horizontal format, which is obtained by enlarging the image information of an A4 size horizontally long document at a magnification of 1.

The pattern generator 79 stores pattern information such as characters or symbols.

The C0DEC95 is an encoding/decoding circuit unit that performs compression processing 1 of image information, that is, reduces redundancy, thereby reducing the storage area of a storage medium such as an optical disk used during zero recording. . 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 I]]()(IM8 to FPRO
CESSrNG UNIT) 90 is connected.

This I P LJ 90 has built-in an enlargement/reduction section 91 that enlarges and reduces image information and an aspect/horizontal conversion section 93 that rotates image information.

Further, the enlarging/reducing section 91 has a reduction processing means for directly reducing the image information read by the image scanner device 1. This reduction processing means has a built-in product-sum calculation circuit, and reduces each piece of data to be reduced, which is made up of a predetermined number of pixels in which black bits or white bits are arranged in a grid pattern in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction. Execute processing. That is, point bits are set for performing weight calculation for reduction processing for each data to be reduced. Next, set the value of the point bit to 1″,
The product of I ``1'' of this point bit and the reciprocal of the distance to the black bit existing around the point bit is calculated, and the sum of these products is calculated by the product-sum calculation circuit. I try to do that. The value calculated by this product-sum calculation circuit is compared with a predetermined reference value by a comparison circuit. This comparison circuit outputs a signal corresponding to 1 bit of a pixel obtained by reducing the data to be reduced.

Note that the processing of such a reduction processing means may be configured to be executed based on a control program stored in the main memory 51, for example.

Further, the value of the reduction rate directly reduced by the reduction processing means can be specified as an appropriate value using a management table stored in the main menu 51 or the like or the data input device 100.

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 uses, for example, a laser printer.

The communication control device 97 is connected to an external device or a LAN (not shown).
OCAL AREA NETWORK> Which communication is performed with the control device, etc. For example, it sends a pictorial search request signal, search information, etc. from an external device to the control unit 11, and outputs the searched information to the external device.

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. A command or the like for continuous registration is input from the keyboard 101 to set the image information storage and retrieval device to the "read/register j mode."

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. After setting the J mode, information regarding initial settings such as the document size, original M11 degree, reading density, etc. of this document is input from the keyboard 101 or operations r, ++3 of the image scanner device 1.

Roughly speaking, after the image information from the image L1p device 1 is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b, the image information is stored in the buffer 7 memory 5.
3aJ3 and the interface circuit 13a to the optical disk device 33 so that it can be registered on an optical disk (not shown) that is a storage medium of the optical disk device 33.

Next, use the keyboard 101 to register the title of the manuscript,
Information m and search information such as the array format are 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 the key items for the search, 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.
-H page memory 53b via -H 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 retrieved image information by performing processing such as image processing, and displays it on the display device 77 via the display memory 73 or the like.

When making a hard copy of the displayed image information, the user uses the keyboard 101 to designate the image information desired to be made into a hard copy, sets the number of copies to be output, etc., and prints out the image from the printer 9.

Next, the operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

For example, a case where a vertically long original PA as shown in FIG. 2(A) is read by the image scanner device @1 and displayed on the square display device 77 will be described.

First, a vertically long original PA is placed on the original placing table of the image scanner device 1. Next, the operation unit 3 or keyboard 101
, and input information indicating that the document P A b is in portrait orientation. Information regarding the form of this original ['A is stored in the main memory 51.

Do you like the image? When the reading device 1 starts reading the original [PA, the image information read from the original PΔ is sequentially sent to the display memory 73 via the interface circuit 95a and the system bus 20.

The display memory 73 sequentially stores image information input from the image scanner device 1 in a vertically long format according to the format information from the main memory 51 under control from the control unit 11. The image information stored in the vertically long format in this way is sent to the display device 77 via the display control section 75.
3 can be obtained. This approximately square display device 77 displays image information P[3] of the document PA as shown in FIG.
Display in portrait format.

Next, a case where a horizontally long original PC as shown in FIG. 2(B) is read by the image scanner device 1 and displayed on the display device 77 will be described.

As described above, the image information of the document PC read by the image scanner device 1 is sequentially sent to the display menu 73. The display memory 73 sequentially stores this image information in a horizontally long format. The square display device 77 displays image information Pl) of the original PC as shown in FIG. 3(B).
The horizontal shape! Displayed in bud.

Also, because the size of the original PA or PC is large, this is
(1) +ilj image information i4J P 13 t, L
1) If I) cannot be displayed on the snow G'H person C display device 77, the enlargement/reduction section 9
Display device 7 after performing the reduction process ill according to 1.
I am trying to display it on page 7.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above in iJ2, according to the present invention, image information of a document is displayed based on information from an information output means for outputting information regarding the format of the document. Therefore, image information in any format such as portrait or landscape can be appropriately displayed depending on the format of the entire document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the case of reading with a device that displays image information displayed on a display device in the form of a document. The explanatory diagrams shown in , @, and FIG. 4 are explanatory diagrams of the A Vereta panel. 1...Image skiing device 3...Operation unit 77...>' f-spray device 101...Keyboard Figure 1 Figure 2 (A) Figure 3 (A) Figure 2 (B) Funeral diagram 3 (B)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Input means for inputting image information of a manuscript in any format such as portrait or landscape; Information output means for outputting information related to the format of the manuscript input by the input means; and the input means When displaying the image information of the input document according to the format of the document output from the information output means, the entire vertically long document and the entire horizontally long document are enlarged or reduced at the same magnification. An information processing device comprising: a display means having a shape display area capable of displaying entire image information.