JPH0227667B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a composite information recording device, and particularly to a composite information recording device for recording a composite image by combining a document to be recorded and information input in the form of an electrical signal. The present invention relates to a composite information recording device that facilitates editing work.

[Background of the invention]

Recently, an external information source such as a computer output printer is coupled to an electrophotographic copying machine, and the external information is input into the copying machine in the form of an electrical signal, and the information is transmitted by scanning and reproducing means such as an optical fiber tube installed inside the copying machine. A method has been developed in which an electrostatic image is formed on a photoreceptor and then subjected to normal electrophotographic processing to be recorded as a visible image on recording paper.This method can be combined appropriately with the original image obtained by the conventional original exposure method to create a composite image. You can create images. Such a recording device is called a composite information recording device.

Here, electrophotographic processing is a series of processes in which an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoreceptor is developed into a visible image, and this visible image is transferred and fixed onto recording paper to form a recorded image. The electrostatic latent image can be formed by optically projecting a light image of the original onto a photoreceptor, or by scanning the original as an electrical signal and forming it on the photoreceptor using an optical fiber tube or the like. It may be formed by any method.

When creating a composite image using a composite information recording device, a composite image text is created by editing an image based on external information and a document image in advance on a display device such as a cathode ray tube. As an example, when trying to create a composite image in which a document image A is arranged in the center of a recording paper 1 as shown in FIG. , conventionally in the system shown in Figure 2,
The operator OP first creates character information B using the keyboard 2, stores it in the internal memory, and displays it on the text creation display device 3 as B'. Next, an area A' for inserting the original image A is left on the display device 3, and character information C is created again using the keyboard 2, stored in the internal memory, and displayed as C' on the display device 3. In this case, the operator leaves an area A' for the original image A on the composite information recording device 4.
The document width is read from the scale 4c according to the position of the slider 4b, which is fixed in advance to match the width of the document 5 placed on the document table 4a, and the line feed operation is performed on the keyboard 2 by only the number of lines corresponding to the area A'. An area A' had to be created on the display device 3.

Note that the area A' on the display device 3 merely remains blank and does not display the original image.

Now let the boundary between the original image A and the character information B on the recording paper 1 be _P1 , and the boundary between the original image A and the character information C be
P ₂ , it was not easy to define these boundaries P ₁ and P ₂ on the display device 3 when creating the text. Particularly in the case of a composite image in which an external information image and a document image are arranged in a complicated manner, determining the boundaries between such images requires considerable effort, making the text creation work inefficient.

[Purpose of the invention]

In view of the inconvenience of conventional editing work when recording composite images, the present invention provides a composite information recording system that automatically displays boundary positions on a display device to facilitate text creation work. The purpose is to provide equipment.

[Structure of the invention]

The above purpose is to confirm each recording area using a display device that externally combines the information on the original on the original platen and the information input in the form of electrical signals, and then the original is exposed using an original exposure method. , in the composite information recording apparatus, in which information based on the electric signal is formed as an electrostatic image on a photoreceptor by an optical scanning and reproducing means, and is subjected to electrophotographic processing to be recorded as a composite image by combining the two on recording paper; At least two setting members are provided for setting the leading and trailing ends of the recording range of the document on the document table, and a recording area setting signal that changes depending on the setting position of the setting member is detected, and the obtained at least two Based on a recording area setting signal, a display is made on the display according to a recording range of the document, and information on the document on the document table and information based on the electric signal can be edited. Composite information recording device.

This is achieved by

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 is an electrical circuit for implementing the device of the present invention. Two sliders SL ₁ slide along the side edges of the document table on the resistor R in the composite information recording device 4,
SL ₂ will be provided. Here, the slider is a setting member for setting the recording range, and the sliders SL ₁ and SL ₂ (which may be interpreted as the same meaning as the slider 4b in FIG. 2) are used to adjust the area of the document placed on the document table. Since it is placed according to the width, the resistor R is connected in series to the power supply V, and the voltage appearing between the slider SL ₁ and one end N of the resistor R is at a position representing one edge of the document. The information signal (recording area setting signal) is applied to the amplifier A ₁ , and the voltage appearing between the slider SL ₂ and one end N of the resistor R is a position information signal (recording area setting signal) representing the other edge of the document. one of the range setting signals) and is applied to amplifier _A2 . The outputs of amplifiers A ₁ and A ₂ are analog.
The signals are supplied to digital converters AD ₁ and AD ₂ and converted into digital quantities. A-D converter AD ₁ ,
The output from AD ₂ is a digital quantity representing the width of the document. The two digital quantities obtained in this way are supplied to the multiplexer M and processed, and then processed as the same digital signal as other letter information, and then edited and processed on the screen as the same digital signal as other letter information, and displayed on the display device 3. As shown in FIG. 4 above, boundaries P ₁ and P ₂ of the recording range of the original image are displayed. As a method for displaying area A' on a display device, in addition to the method shown in FIG. 4, there is also a method for displaying only one point. In this case, the operator cannot check the relative area of the document image area, but since the amount of information that can be recorded is constant, displaying an end mark for this on the display device will help in creating composite images. There is no problem.

In FIG. 1, the original image A spans the entire width of the recording paper 1, but as shown in FIG. This area can also be displayed on a display device when recording an image. To do this, two sliders are provided that slide along one side edge and one end edge of the document table of the composite information device, and each slider is a setting member that sets the recording range. By extracting a voltage (recording area setting signal) corresponding to the position and supplying it to a multiplexer for processing, it is possible to visually display it in exactly the same way as in the above embodiment.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when editing text for recording a composite image, the operator can display the area for the original image on the display device with a simple operation, making the text editing work very efficient. A complex information recording device has now been provided that is widely used and realizes a significant leap forward in complex image recording technology.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings is an example of a composite image, FIG. 2 is a composite information recording device for recording composite images, FIG. 3 is an embodiment of a document position display circuit in the composite information recording device according to the present invention, and FIG. The figure shows a display example of a display device in a composite information recording apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 shows another example of a composite image to which the composite information recording apparatus according to the present invention can be applied. 1...Recording paper, 2...Keyboard, 3...Display device, 4a...Original table, 4b...Slider, 4c
...Scale, 5...Document, A...Document image, B, C...Character information, A', B', C'...Area, _P1 , _P2 ...Boundary,
SL ₁ , SL ₂ ... slider, A ₁ , A ₂ ... amplifier, AD ₁ ,
AD ₂ ...A-D converter, OP...operator, R...resistor.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. After confirming each recording area using a display device that externally combines information on the document on the document table and information input in the form of electrical signals, the document is A composite information recording device that uses an exposure method to form information based on the electric signal as an electrostatic image on a photoreceptor using an optical scanning and reproducing means, and performs electrophotographic processing to record the two on recording paper as a composite image. At least two setting members are provided for setting the leading and trailing ends of the recording range of the document on the document table, and a recording area setting signal that changes depending on the setting position of the setting member is detected, and the obtained at least Based on the two recording area setting signals, a display is made on the display according to the recording range of the original, so that information on the original on the original table and information based on the electric signal can be edited. A composite information recording device characterized by: