JPH02183872A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability relating to the enlargement or reduction of picture information by providing a parameter setting means and executing the enlargement or reduction in correspondence to a set parameter. CONSTITUTION:The reduction rate of the picture information to be stored to a display memory 73 and a page memory 53b is designated by using a keyboard 101 or a mouse 103 and the reduced picture information are set to display on a display device 77. The parameter such as this set reduction rate, etc., is read from a main memory 51 and the picture information read by an image scanner 1 are inputted through an interface circuit 95a. An enlargement/ reduction part 91 is operated and the picture information are reduced in correspondence to the reduction rate. Then, these information are stored to the display memory 73 and page memory 53b. Thus, the operability relating to the enlargement or reduction of the picture information can be improved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention facilitates processing related to enlargement or reduction when processing image information read by a reading means such as an image scanner device. The present invention relates to an information processing device that is configured to obtain information.

(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.

In conventional information processing devices, when reading a document with an image scanner device, if parameters such as the document size, document density, and reading density are set for the document, the image information read according to the set parameters is displayed at the same size. -H page memory as image information. The image information stored in this page memory is transferred to and registered in a registration device such as an optical disk device.

Furthermore, when image information read by an image scanner device is enlarged or reduced and displayed on a display device,
The same size image information read by the image scanner device is enlarged or reduced on a display memory and then displayed on a display device.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in conventional information processing devices, the image information read by the image scanner device is stored as it is in the page memory as image information of the same size. Enlarge image information,
Also, if you reduce the size and register it on the registration device, add a new "
This requires a step of enlarging or reducing the image information stored in the page memory by setting the image information to "edit mode", which requires time and effort.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that improves operability related to enlarging or reducing image information.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) An information processing device provided by the present invention to achieve the above object includes a reading means for reading image information, and an enlargement of the image information read by the reading means. or parameter setting means for setting parameters for reduction, enlargement/reduction means for enlarging or reducing the image information according to the set parameters, and storage means for storing the enlarged or reduced image information; A display means for displaying the image information stored in the storage means is also provided.

(Function) The present invention has a parameter setting means for setting parameters for enlarging or reducing the image information read by the reading means, and stores the image information enlarged or reduced according to the set parameters. Store in the means. Since the enlarged or reduced image information is stored in the storage means and displayed in this manner, it is possible to improve the operability related to the enlargement or reduction of the image information.

(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 unit configured with a CCD image sensor or the like, and reads the contents written on a document such as a photograph or a document as image data. An operating section 3 for setting parameters such as document size, document density, and reading density; a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters; and a control section 3 for controlling the entire image scanner device 1. C (not shown)
PU, 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.

This image scanner device 1 is a reading means for reading contents written on a document or the like as image information.

The control unit (CPU) 11 includes a DMA 13, a main memory 51, and a buffer 7 memory 53 via a system bus 20.
a1 page memory 53b, :+-to/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 53a1 and the page memory 53b.
1 code/image converter 71, display memory 73, ■P
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 2o 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 the mouse 1-03 constitute a data input device 100, and the display device 7 is used, for example, when inputting character information manually when creating a document using a word processing function, or when performing searches and image processing.
Search information, various command information, array formats, etc. for moving the cursor displayed on the display screen of 7 and switching various functions are manually generated.

The input device 100 also sets parameters for enlarging or reducing the image information read by the image scanner device 1.

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 data is transferred between, for example, a bath memory 53a and a storage device 30 regardless of the operation of the control unit 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 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 for 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 reaches, for example, more than half of the storage capacity based on the count value of the twenty counter, it reaches 64 kilobytes. When the above code data is stored, this 64 kilobyte data is sent to the optical disk device 33 via the system bus 20 and the interface circuit 13a in word units.

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 the image information manually input from the image scanner device 1 is stored on an optical disc. The image information retrieved from the search device 33 is temporarily stored.

This page memory 53b is a storage means for storing image information enlarged or reduced by an enlargement/reduction means described later.

For example, the code/image converter 71 converts the keyboard 10
The character code data manually entered from 1 is converted into image data and output to the display memory 73. Further, the code/image converter 71 converts the image data on the display screen by performing reverse conversion, that is, converting image data into character code data, as necessary. Perform temporary text corrections, etc.

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.

Further, the display device 77 is a display means for displaying the image information stored in the display memory 73.

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 during registration by compressing image information, that is, by reducing redundancy. Also CODEC95
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 CODEC95 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.

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 performs reduction processing for each data to be reduced, which consists of a predetermined number of bits in which black bits or white bits are arranged in a grid pattern in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction. Execute. 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 the value "1°" of this point bit and the reciprocal of the distance to the black bits surrounding the point bit is calculated, and the sum of these products is calculated by the product-sum calculation circuit. The value calculated by this product-sum calculation circuit is compared with a predetermined reference value in a comparison circuit.From this comparison circuit, a signal corresponding to one pixel bit obtained by reducing the data to be reduced is output. Output.

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

The enlarging/reducing unit 91 is an enlarging/reducing means for enlarging or reducing image information read from the image scanner device 1 described above according to parameters set by the 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 reproduction information such as characters on a recording medium such as paper, and is, for example, a laser printer.

Next, the 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 according to the operating procedure. explain.

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 manually inputting commands for continuous registration of images from the keyboard 101.

Next, a large number of originals are stacked and placed on a predetermined position such as the original table A 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 document niceness, 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.

Furthermore, 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 specify the document to be registered and to facilitate the search process. various types of information such as, a table for human power such as the key items for the search, and a keyboard 10.
1] The function of this function key at J time is displayed.

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, use the keyboard 101 to enter the search command manually and select "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.

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 operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

For example, a case will be described in which image information read from a document as shown in FIG. 4A is reduced, displayed on the display device 77, and registered in the optical disk device 33.

In step S1, parameters such as the size, density, and reading density of the document shown in FIG.

In step S3, a table or the like is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77, and the read image information is enlarged.
It is being decided whether or not to reduce the sentence, and if the user selects to reduce the sentence using the mouse 103 or the like, the process advances to step S5.

In step S5, the user uses the keyboard 101 or the mouse 103 to specify the reduction ratio of the image information to be stored in the display memory 73 and the page memory 53b.

In step S7, various parameters such as the reduction ratio specified or selected in steps 81 to S5 are set, and settings are made to display the reduced image information on the display device 77.

In step S9, parameters such as the reduction rate set in step S7 are stored in the main memory 51.

In step Sll, parameters such as the reduction ratio stored in the main memory 51 are read, and the image tlti? read by the image scanner device 1 is read. The information is manually input via the interface circuit 95a.

In step 313, the enlarging/reducing unit 91 is operated to reduce the image information according to the read parameter, that is, the reduction ratio. Subsequently, in step 515, this reduced image information is stored in the display memory 73 and page memory 53b.

In step S17, reduced image information as shown in FIG. 4(B) is displayed on the display screen of the display device 77. Further, the image information stored in the page memory 53b is stored in the optical disk device 3 as the reduced image information.
Registered to 3.

By reducing the image information read by the image scanner device 1 and registering it in the optical disk device 33 as described above, the storage capacity of the optical disk device 33 can be reduced.

Incidentally, the case where the image information read by the image scanner device 1 is enlarged and stored in the display memory 73 and the page memory 53b is the same as the case where the image information is reduced above, and a detailed explanation will be omitted.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, image information read by an image scanner device is enlarged or reduced, and the enlarged or reduced image information is stored in a storage means such as a page memory. Therefore, it is possible to improve the operability related to enlarging or reducing image information.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the main parts of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing related to enlargement or reduction. , FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the processing according to the flowchart of FIG. 3. 1... Image scanner device 33... Optical disk device 53b... Page memory 73... Display memory 77... Display device 91... Enlargement/reduction unit 100... Input device agent j key Figure 2 Figure 4 (B) Figure (A)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A reading means for reading image information; a parameter setting means for setting parameters for enlarging or reducing the image information read by the reading means; and a parameter setting means for setting parameters for enlarging or reducing the image information read by the reading means; Information processing characterized by comprising: an enlargement/reduction means for enlarging or reducing the image information; a storage means for storing the enlarged or reduced image information; and a display means for displaying the image information stored in the storage means. Device.