JPH0220960A - Copying machine with optical disk device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:Not only to copy information of an object to be copied to paper but also to simply reserve it in an optical disk by providing a selecting part for selecting whether digital image information is printed by a printing part or not and whether it is recorded by an optical part or not. CONSTITUTION:When a paper copy mode for copying to paper is selected by a paper/disk selecting switch 37, a selecting 36 outputs digital image information to only a laser printing part 40, and does not output it to an optical disk device 50. That is, when a disk recording mode for recording to an optical disk is selected by the paper/disk selecting switch 37, and also, a recording mode is selected by a recording/erasion selecting switch 64, the selecting part 36 outputs the digital image information to only the optical disk device 50, and does not output it to the laser printing part 40. In such a way, an object to be copied not only can be copied to paper but also can be reserved simply in the optical disk.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a copying machine with an optical disc device, in which an optical disc device is integrally provided in the copying machine.

[Prior Art] In recent years, copying machines have been used in every corner of offices, making it easy to copy documents that people want to copy. Because of this ease of copying, offices are overflowing with large numbers of duplicated documents, and this is causing problems. Therefore, efficient storage that saves space is required. Furthermore, there are growing calls for offices to become vapor-free, by completely eliminating paper from the office. On the other hand, the amount of information is steadily increasing with the development of information technology, and it is necessary to access a large amount of information in the course of work.

As described above, while work requires a large amount of documents, there is a contradictory demand to keep the number of documents from increasing as much as possible from the standpoint of the office environment.

Furthermore, there is an electronic file system that allows documents to be stored on an optical disk. Storing documents in an electronic filing system can help save space in your office.

However, recording documents in conventional electronic file systems requires fairly large-scale equipment, requires complicated registration/search keys to store documents, and requires a dedicated operator. .

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, even if a large amount of documents are required, it is difficult to have them all on paper, and storing them on a large-capacity optical disk is too large and impractical.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a copying machine with an optical disk device that can copy an object on paper and easily store it on an optical disk.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above objective is to provide a light receiving unit that converts an optical image of a subject to be copied into digital image information, an image storage unit that stores digital image information converted by the light receiving unit, and a printer unit that prints digital image information on paper; an optical disc device that records the digital image information on an optical disc housed in a replaceable optical disc cartridge; and an optical disc that records whether or not the digital image information is printed by the printer unit; This is achieved by a copying machine equipped with an optical disk device, characterized in that it includes a selection section for selecting whether or not to record depending on the section.

The above object also includes a copying section that has an optical system for forming an optical image of the object to be copied and that copies the formed optical image onto paper, and A light receiving section extracts an optical image of a copy and converts it into digital image information; an image storage section stores the digital image information converted by the light receiving section; and an optical disk stored in a replaceable optical disk cartridge. An optical disk device comprising: an optical disk device for recording digital image information; and a selection section for selecting whether or not the digital image information is to be copied by the copying section and whether or not to be recorded by the optical disk section. Accomplished by a copier.

[Operation] Since the present invention is constructed as described above, the image of the object to be copied can be printed on paper or recorded on an optical disc by selecting the selection section.

[Embodiment] A copying machine with an optical disk device according to a first embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is an external view of the copying machine with an optical disk device, and FIG. It is a block diagram.

The copying machine with an optical disc device according to this embodiment is a so-called digital copying machine that converts a video signal from an object to be copied into digital image information and prints this digital image information to perform copying, and is equipped with an optical disc device. It is something.

As shown in FIG. 1, the copying machine with an optical disk device according to the present embodiment, like a normal digital copying machine, is provided with an original table 12 on the top surface of the main body 10 on which the object to be copied is placed. A H'a cover 14 is provided for holding down the original document.

A cassette 16 containing copy paper is mounted on the right side of the main body 10, and a copy receiver 18 for receiving the copied paper is provided on the opposite left side.

A cartridge insertion slot 20 is provided at the top of the cassette 16 on the right side of the main body 10.
The optical disc cartridge is inserted from 0. When the bushing button 21 is pressed, the inserted cartridge is removed.

A power switch 22 and an operation panel 24 for normal operation of the copying machine and operation of the optical disk device are provided on the upper surface of the main body 10 in front of the document table 12.

The copying machine with an optical disk device according to this embodiment will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG.

The light receiving unit 30 converts the image of the object 26 on the document table 12 into digital image information. The linear sensor 31 reads an image of the object 26 to be copied, and is moved by a drive unit 32 so as to operate the entire surface of the object 26 to be copied. Preamplifier 33 amplifies the image signal from linear sensor 31. The amplified analog image signal is converted into a digital image signal by the A/D converter 34.

The digital image information of the object to be copied converted by the light receiving unit 30 is stored in the image memory 35. The selection unit 36 selects whether to print the digital image information stored in the image memory 35 on paper or record it on an optical disk. You can select whether to print on paper or record on an optical disc. This selection is made using a paper/disc selection switch 37 provided on the operation panel 24.

The laser printer section 40 prints digital image information on paper. The laser scanning unit 41 irradiates the rotating photosensitive drum 42 with a laser beam while scanning and turning it on and off.
It forms a bright and dark image according to the digital image information output from the selection section 36. The bright and dark image formed on the photosensitive drum 42 is transferred to paper 43 in a conventional manner. The printed paper is discharged to the copy receiver 18.

The optical disc device 250 records digital image information on the optical disc device 50. The optical disc 51 is a cartridge 5
It is stored in 2. When the cartridge 52 is inserted through the cartridge insertion slot 20, the optical disc 51 is moved by the motor 5.
At the same time, the magnetic field generating coil 54 is lowered to a predetermined position on the cartridge 52.

The motor drive unit 55 drives and controls the motor 53 to rotate the optical disc 51 at a predetermined speed. The coil drive unit 56 drives the magnetic field generating coil 54 to generate a predetermined magnetic field.

The digital image information output from the selection section 36 to the optical disc device 50 is data compressed by a data compression section 57 for recording. For example, modified READ is an international facsimile standard.
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The compressed image information is subjected to processing such as amplification by the signal processing circuit 58 in order to be recorded on the optical disc 51. The signal-processed image information is recorded on the optical disc 51 by the optical head 59.

The optical head 59 is driven by a head drive unit 60 to select a track, and is controlled to eliminate focus errors, tracking errors, etc., and image information is recorded on the optical disc 51.

The control unit 61 includes a motor drive unit 55, a coil drive unit 56,
The head driving unit 60 is controlled so that image information is recorded on a predetermined track of the optical disc 51. In this embodiment, image information is written on the optical disc 51 in units of pages, and an image to be copied on the object 26 is recorded sequentially as one page. In other words, the images are simply recorded in order, without the need for complex code input unlike conventional image files.

A page number counter 62 is provided in the MmIs 61 to indicate which page of the optical disc 51 the currently recorded image information is on. Each time image information is recorded on the optical disc 51, this page number counter 62 is counted up. The contents of this page number counter 62 are as follows:
The information is written in a predetermined position on the control track and displayed on the page number display section 63 provided on the operation panel 24. When the cartridge 51 is installed, the number of recording pages written on a predetermined control track of the optical disc 51 is read and stored in the page number counter 62. However, if there is no more empty area on the optical disc 51, this fact is displayed on the page number display section.

The optical disc device rI150 of this embodiment has an optical disc 51
In addition to recording image information on the memory, it is also possible to initialize by erasing the image information that has already been recorded. The record/erase selection switch 64 provided on the operation panel 24 allows
These recording and erasing are selected.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

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When the paper copy mode for copying onto paper is selected by the disc selection switch 37, the selection section 36 outputs the digital image information only to the laser printer section 40, and does not output it to the optical disk device 50. 26 on manuscript table 1
2 and press a copy switch (not shown), the laser printer section 40 copies the image information onto the paper, as in a normal copying machine.

When a disc recording mode for recording on an optical disc is selected by the 1-mode disc selection switch 37 and a recording mode is selected by the recording/erase selection switch 64, the selection unit 36 transfers the digital image information to the optical disc. device 50
It is not output to the laser printer section 40.

Before setting the copy object 26 on the document table 12, the cartridge 52 is first inserted through the cartridge insertion slot 20.

Then, the optical disc 51 is attached to the motor 53, and the rotation of the optical disc 51 increases to a predetermined number of revolutions. When the predetermined rotational speed is reached, the contents of the control track are read by the optical head 59, and the number of the last page currently recorded is set in the page number counter 62.

When an object 26 to be copied is placed on the document table 12 and a copy switch (not shown) is pressed, the image information is read by the light receiving section and converted into digital image information. The converted image information is stored in the image memory 35. The selection unit 36 outputs the image information only to the optical disc device 50 as described above. This image information is data compressed by a data compression section 57, further subjected to signal processing by a signal processing circuit 58, and outputted to an optical head 59.

The control unit 61 instructs the head drive unit 60 to specify the number of pages following the final page number stored in the page number counter 62.

Based on this instruction, the head driving section 60 moves the optical head 59 to position it on the track to be recorded, records the 100 m information, and updates the number of pages at the predetermined position on the control track. When the recording is completed, the control section 61 increments the page number counter 62 by 1 in preparation for the next recording.

When the paper copy/disc recording mode in which copies are made on paper and is also recorded on an optical disc is selected by the paper/disc selection switch 37 of and the optical disk device 50.

In this mode, the above-described paper copying mode and disc recording mode operations are performed simultaneously.

- When the disc recording mode for recording on an optical disc is selected by the small paper/disc selection switch 37 and the erasure mode is selected by the recording/erase selection switch 64, the control unit 61 controls the coil drive unit 56 and the head drive. The optical disc 51 is initialized by controlling the unit 60.

Initialization is performed by sequentially erasing all tracks on the optical disc 51 one track at a time. During initialization, the page number display section 6
Note that information indicating that no image information is recorded at all (for example, "OJ") may be recorded on the control track of the optical disc 51.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the image of the object to be copied can be printed on paper or recorded on an optical disk, so information that needs to be filed but will not be viewed immediately can be recorded on the optical disk. This allows information to be accumulated without causing a flood of papers. Furthermore, since information can be freely recorded and erased on the optical disc of this embodiment, it is economical to initialize the optical disc and use it again when it is no longer needed.

A copying machine with an optical disk device according to a second embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 3. The same components as those of the first embodiment shown in FIGS. The explanation will be omitted.

This embodiment is also a digital copying machine equipped with an optical disk device, but the main feature is that it reads the image information recorded on the optical disk 51 and prints it on paper, and also displays the image information stored in the image memory 35. This is different from the first embodiment.

The optical disc device 50 of this embodiment can also perform recording and erasing on the optical disc 51 as well as playback. Recording, erasing, and reproducing are selected by a recording/erasing/reproducing selection switch 65 provided on the operation panel 24. The operation panel 24 is further provided with a reproduction page designation section 66 for specifying the number of pages to be reproduced. The playback page designation section 66 includes, for example, a numeric keypad for directly inputting the number of pages and a search key for searching the number of pages to be played back.

The image/[a report] read from the optical disc 51 by the optical disc 59 is subjected to predetermined signal processing by the signal processing circuit 58, and then data is developed by the data development unit 67.
The image is stored in the image memory 35.

The image information stored in the image memory 35 is then printed on paper by the laser printer section 40.

In this manner, the copying machine with an optical disc device of this embodiment can easily obtain a hard copy of the image information recorded on the optical disc 51.

This embodiment further includes a flat display 70. This flat display 70 is provided to display image information stored in the image memory 35. This flat display 70 is connected to the image memory 35 via an image display section 71, and the image information stored in the image memory 35 is always displayed. Note that the flat display 70 may be provided with an on/off switch to select whether or not to display the information.

This flat display 70 may be provided anywhere in the copying machine with an optical disk device. For example, it may be provided on the document cover 14, on the side surface of the main body 10, or on the operation panel 24.

Note that the flat display 70 may be any display means such as a liquid crystal display panel, an EL display panel, or a plasma display panel.

In this manner, the contents of the image memory 35 can be displayed on the flat display 70 in this embodiment. Therefore, if the image inputted by the light receiving section 30 is checked in advance on the flat display 70 when recording on the optical disc 51, recording of an input defective image can be avoided. Further, when reproducing the optical disc 51, if the reproduced image is checked in advance before printing on paper, it is possible to prevent unnecessary hard copies. Furthermore,
If the image input by the light receiving unit 30 is checked in advance on the flat display 70 during normal copying, unnecessary copying can be prevented.

A copying machine with an optical disk device according to a third embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 4. Components that are the same as those in the first and second embodiments are designated by the same reference numerals, and their explanations will be omitted.

In this embodiment, an optical disk device is provided in a so-called analog copying machine that directly irradiates an image from an object to be copied onto a photosensitive drum using an optical system.

The copying machine with an optical disk device of this embodiment is basically an analog copying machine, and a copying object 26 placed on a document table 12 is copied by a copying section 80.

While the object 26 to be copied is irradiated with the light source 81, the reflected image is formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum 87 by an optical system composed of mirrors 82, 83, 84, 86 and a lens 85. That is, the image of the object 26 reflected by the mirror 82 moved together with the light source 81 has its optical path bent by the mirrors 83 and 84 and is guided to the lens 85. The image light converged by the lens 85 is transferred to the photosensitive drum 87 by the mirror 86.
guided by. A bright and dark image is formed on the photosensitive drum 42 according to the image light, and this bright and dark image is transferred to paper using a normal method. The transferred paper is transported by a transport belt 88,
The image is fixed by the fixing unit 8 and discharged to the copy receiver 18.

In this embodiment, the mirror 86 is configured as a half mirror to transmit a portion of the image light, and the transmitted image light is received by the linear sensor 91 of the light receiving section 90. The linear sensor 91 is driven by a drive section 92, the image signal from the linear sensor 91 is amplified by a preamplifier 93, and the amplified analog image signal is converted into a digital image signal by an A/D conversion section 94. The digital image information of the object converted by the light receiving section 90 is stored in the image memory 35.

The selection unit 36 selects whether the digital image information stored in the image memory 35 is to be copied onto a zero sheet of paper, recorded on an optical disk, or whether to be copied onto a zero sheet and recorded on an optical disk. This selection is made using a paper/disc selection switch 37 provided on the operation panel 24.

A shutter 95 is connected to the selection section 36 via a shutter drive section 96. The shutter 95 is provided between the half mirror 86 and the photosensitive drum 87, and is configured to block image light from reaching the photosensitive drum 87 depending on whether or not copying is to be performed on paper. The shutter 87 may be an electrically openable/closed shutter such as a liquid crystal, or a mechanically opened/closed shutter.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

When the paper/disc selection switch 37 selects the copy mode for copying onto paper, the selection section 36 opens the shutter 95 to transmit the image light, and also controls the 'R1 control of the copy section 80. issue instructions for copying to a department (not shown);
When the object 26 to be copied is placed on the document table 12 and a copy switch (not shown) is pressed, the copying section 80 is activated as in a normal copying machine.
The image is copied onto paper.

The disc recording mode for recording on the optical disc is selected by the paper/disc selection switch 37 of Smo 2, and the recording/erase selection switch 64 is used to select j[! When the recording mode is selected, the selection unit 36 outputs the digital image fn information to the optical disc device 50. At the same time, the shutter 95 is closed and shielded to prevent an image from being formed on the photosensitive drum 87, and the i? Copying instructions are not output to the IJ control section (not shown).

Since the recording on the optical disc is the same as in the first and second embodiments, the explanation will be omitted.

When the paper/disc selection switch 37 at -S' - selects the paper copy/disc recording mode in which copies are made on paper and are also recorded on an optical disc, the selection section 36 opens the shutter 95 and Information on optical disc! Output to 50.

In this mode, the above-described paper copying mode and disc recording mode operations are performed simultaneously.

As described above, according to this embodiment, even an analog copying machine can record image information on paper and on an optical disc in the same way as in the case of a digital copying machine.

A copying machine with an optical disk device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 5. Components that are the same as those of the previously described embodiments are designated by the same reference numerals, and their explanations will be omitted.

This embodiment is also an analog copying machine provided with an optical disk device, but differs from the third embodiment in that image information stored in the image memory 35 is displayed.

The optical disc device 50 of this embodiment can also perform recording, erasing, and reproduction on the optical disc 51 as in the second embodiment. A recording/erasing/reproducing selection switch 65 provided on the operation panel 24 selects recording, erasing, and reproduction, and a reproduction page specifying section 66 specifies the number of pages to be reproduced.

The image information read from the optical disk 51 by the five optical heads is subjected to predetermined signal processing by the signal processing circuit 58, and then data is developed by the data development section 67 and stored in the image/memory 35.

This embodiment is provided with a flat display 70 as in the second embodiment, which is connected to the image memory 35 via an image display section 71, so that the image information stored in the image memory 35 is always displayed. be done.

This flat display 70 may be provided anywhere on the copying machine with an optical disk device, for example, it may be provided on the document cover 14, on the side of the main body 10, or on the operation panel 24. good.

In this way, in this embodiment, the contents of the image memory 35 can be displayed on the flat display 70, so that when recording on the optical disc 51, the image input by the light receiving section 30 can be checked in advance on the flat display 70. By doing so, it is possible to avoid recording defective input images.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and various modifications are possible.

For example, in the first to fourth embodiments, a magneto-optical disk that can be erased is used as the optical disk, but a phase change type optical disk that can also be erased may also be used. A writable write-once optical disc may also be used.

When a write-once optical disc is used, information recorded on paper can be stored compactly, similar to conventional microfilm.

Further, in the third and fourth embodiments, the optical image is guided to the light receiving section by a half mirror, but the optical image may be received by other methods.

Furthermore, in the third and fourth embodiments, when the optical image is not copied onto paper, the optical image is shielded by the shutter, but even if the optical image is formed on the photosensitive drum without providing the shutter, the optical Avoid copying target images onto paper.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, information on an object to be copied can be copied onto paper, and can also be easily stored on an optical disc.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a copying machine with an optical disk device according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the same copier with an optical disk device, and FIG. 3 is a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a copying machine with an optical disk device according to a third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a copying machine with an optical disk device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the machine. 10...Main body, 12...Document stand, 14...K8 cover 16...Cassette, 18...Copy receiver, 20
...Cartridge insertion slot, 21...Button button, 22...Power switch, 24...Operation panel, 2
6... Subject to be copied, 30... Light receiving unit, 31... Linear sensor, 32... Drive unit, 33... Preamplifier,
34... A/D conversion section, 35... Image memory, 36
... Selection section, 37... Paper/disc selection switch,
40... Laser printer section, 41... Laser scanning section, 42... Photosensitive drum, 50... Optical disk device,
51... Optical disc, 52... Cartridge, 53
...Motor, 54...Magnetic field generating coil, 55...
Motor drive section, 56... Coil drive section, 57... Data compression section, 58... Signal processing circuit, 59... Optical head, 60... Head drive section, 61... Control section, 6
2... Page number counter, 63... Page number display section, 64... Record/erase selection switch, 65... Record/erase/reproduction selection switch, 66... Reproduction page designation section, 67. ...Data development section, 70...Flat display, 71...Display control section, 80...Copying section,
81...Light source, 82.83.84...Mirror, 85
... Lens, 86 ... Half mirror - 87 ... Photosensitive drum, 88 ... m feeding belt, 89 ... Fixing section, 9
0... Light receiving section, 91... Linear sensor, 92...
Drive section, 93... Preamplifier, 94... A/D conversion section, 95... Shutter 96... Shutter drive section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A light-receiving section that converts an optical image of an object to be copied into digital image information; an image storage section that stores the digital image information converted by the light-receiving section; an optical disc device that records the digital image information on an optical disc housed in a replaceable optical disc cartridge; and a printer unit that records the digital image information on an optical disc housed in a replaceable optical disc cartridge; 1. A copying machine with an optical disk device, comprising: a selection section for selecting whether or not to use the optical disc device. 2. A copying section that has an optical system for forming an optical image of the object to be copied and copies the formed optical image onto paper; a light-receiving unit that extracts a target image and converts it into digital image information; an image storage unit that stores the digital image information converted by the light-receiving unit; and an optical disc that stores the digital image information in a replaceable optical disc cartridge. A copying machine with an optical disk device, comprising: an optical disk device for recording; and a selection section that selects whether or not the digital image information is to be copied by the copying section and whether or not to be recorded by the optical disk section. 3. A copying machine with an optical disk device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the optical disk device erases information recorded on the optical disk. 4. The copying machine with an optical disk device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the optical disk device reproduces information recorded on the optical disk and stores the reproduced image information in the image storage section. Copy machine with attached. 5. The copying machine with an optical disk device according to claim 1, further comprising a display section for displaying image information stored in the image storage section.