JPH027770A - Information processing unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the time for print out and to save the print paper by varying the position, size and arrangement or the like of plural supplied pictures so as to accommodate the pictures within an area of a prescribed size. CONSTITUTION:An IPU(Image Processing Unit) 90 has a magnification/reduction section 91 magnifying or reducing picture information and a longitudinal/lateral size conversion section 93 rotating the picture information in its inside, operates the magnification/reduction section 91 based on a control command from a control section 11 to reduce the picture information of each original by a prescribed magnification/reduction rate, operates the longitudinal/lateral size conversion section 93 to arrange the picture information of the reduced original of plural pages into an area corresponding to one original page. Thus, in the case of printing out the picture information of the original of plural pages onto print paper, the print paper is saved and the time required for print out is reduced.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention 1 (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention stores image information read from a plurality of pages of manuscript in a storage means, and also stores the image information stored in this storage means as needed. Information to be searched accordingly Regarding the α-printing device, information that is designed to reduce the amount of printing paper and the time required for printing out, especially when printing out the searched image information or the read image information using an output means such as a printer. This is related to the processing Vl position.

(Prior Art) In recent years, a large number of printed matter 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 such stored image information is 2. Description of the Related Art A variety of information processing apparatuses have been developed which perform search and output as needed.

In such a conventional information processing device, image information read by an image scanner device is stored in a -H page memory, and the redundancy of the image information stored in this page memory is compressed and stored in an optical disk Kffi. That's what I do. It also searches the image information stored in the optical disk device, decompresses the redundancy of the image information removed from the optical disk device, restores it to the original image information, and temporarily stores this restored image information in the page memory. do. The image information thus stored in the page memory is displayed on a display device or printed out from a printer.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, when printing out image information corresponding to a multiple page manuscript from a printer, each image information corresponding to one page of the manuscript is printed out sequentially from Print 1 to Print 1. . For example, when printing image information corresponding to a 4-page manuscript, that is, 4Ili image information, printing 1 to 1 is performed for each middle page, and printing to print arc 1 on 4 sheets of printing paper. Ru. Therefore, it requires a number of print sheets corresponding to the number of originals and time to make these prints 1 to 1 to print 1 to 1, leaving room for improvement.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and allows the user to print out searched image information or image information read by a reading device using an output device such as a printer. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that reduces the amount of time required for printing paper and printing when doing hair removal.

[Structure 1 of the Invention (Means for Solving the Problem) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a supply means for supplying a plurality of images, and an output means for outputting a plurality of images supplied by the supply means. , a first specifying means for specifying an output position of each of the plurality of images supplied by the supplying means, and a second specifying means for specifying an output size of each of the plurality of images supplied by the supplying means. and a processing means for outputting a plurality of images supplied from the supply means as a single image from the output means by specifying the first designation means and the second designation means. .

(Function) In the information processing apparatus according to the present invention, the output position of each of the plurality of images is specified by the first setting means, and the output position of each of the plurality of images is specified by the first setting means, and the output position of each of the plurality of images is specified by the first setting means. The output size occupied by the images on each side is appropriately designated by . Next, the image for which the output position and output size have been specified is displayed and outputted by the processing means from an output means, such as a display device or a printer, as a single image with the arrangement, orientation, and size of the image arranged.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.1 First, with reference to FIG. 1, an image information storage and retrieval device as an information processing device to which the present invention is applied. The overall u4 composition of is explained.

Image like X? A device 1 is a device for reading the contents written on a raw stone, such as a photograph or a document, as image information from a reading section constituted by an image sensor such as a COD. This image scanner device F71 reads)
) for setting parameters such as document size, document density, and reading density, a memory (not shown) for storing these set parameters, and control of this image scanner device 1. a display section 5 that displays input information such as setting conditions and processing time, and a display section 5 that displays input information such as setting conditions and processing time; Each automatic paper feed mechanism (ADF) 7 that performs reading is equipped with 016.

A control unit (CPU) 11 controls the overall operation and data flow of the information processing device.

That is, the control unit 11, the DMΔ13 (described later), the main memory 51, the buffer memory 53a, and the page memory 53b.
1 code/image converter 71, display memory 73, IP
IJ90, J3, C0DEC95, etc. are system bus 2
Connected via 0.

Similarly, in the control unit 11, a buffer 7 memory 53a, a page memory 53b, a code/image conversion unit 71, a display memory 73, an IPU 90, a CODEC 95, etc. are connected to each other via an image bus 4○ for transmitting image information. has been done.

Further, an external data input device 100 is connected to this control section 11 via an interface circuit 11a.

The data input device 100 can be used, for example, to input character information when creating a document using a word processing function, or to move a cursor displayed on the screen of the display device 77 when performing a search or image processing. A keyboard 101 and a mouse 1 that contain search information for switching functions, various command information, layout formats, etc.
03 are provided respectively.

Further, the keyboard 101 includes, in addition to the character keys and numeric keypad for inputting the character information mentioned above, a plurality of scale type function keys, for example, a function key having an editing function according to the present invention. When the function key having this editing processing function is operated, the control unit 11
The image information is stored in a predetermined size for a plurality of image information supplied from a supply means such as the image storage device 1, the data input device 100, or the storage device 30 described later. In order to automatically set the output position, that is, the arrangement and orientation, adjust the output size, and output from the output means, the first and second
The editing processing command is sent to the specifying means and the processing means.

DMA< D +rcct M emory A cc
The ess) 13 transfers data regardless of the operation of the control unit 11, and, for example, transfers data between the buffer 77 memory 53a and the 1fi 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, such as search information, and a magnetic disk device 31 that stores information for specifying desired image information from a large amount of image information, such as search information. It is composed of an optical disk device 33 and the like that stores corresponding search information and the like.

The main memory 51 stores an operation program for the control section 11 described above, specifically a control program related to editing processing, and the like.

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 reaches, for example, more than half of the storage capacity based on the layer value of this counter, The above code data is stored in the straw 64, and the data of 6/ik by 1- is sent to the optical disk device 33 via the system bus 20 and the interface circuit 13a in word units.
-ru.

Is the page memory 53b a memory that can accommodate several 10 pages of A41 size rough stone, for example? 5, and temporarily stores image information input from the image scanner device 1 or image information retrieved from the optical disk storage 33.

The page memory 53b also includes the control unit 11 described above.
Image information that has been edited based on control commands is stored.

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 M 77 displays an image based on the image information from the page memory 53b or the like.

The display control unit 75 controls the drive of a display device 77 such as a CRT, and controls the display of image information stored in the display memory 73.

To be more specific, the display device 77 has a so-called multi-window display function, that is, a plurality of display screens, and displays, for example, image information of a document The image information of the document Y is displayed on the display screen No. 2 along with the display offset on the display screen No. 2.

Furthermore, the display device 77 displays image information that has been edited based on control commands from the display control section 75.

For example, the image (p information of both originals X and Y) is displayed as image information in an area corresponding to one page of the original (^).

C0DE095 is an encoding/decoding circuit unit that performs compression processing of image information, and reduces redundancy to record data on a storage medium such as an optical disk used for zero recording.
Area can be saved.

Further, the COD LE C95 is a circuit unit that performs decompression processing of the compressed image information, returns the reduced redundancy to 9, and outputs it as the original image information.

This COI) E C95 has an IPU (Imag
e Process+ng Unit) g □ is connected.

The I)) U 90 incorporates an enlargement/reduction section 91 for enlarging and reducing image information, and an aspect/horizontal conversion section 93 for rotating image information.

This IPU 90 executes editing processing based on control commands 1.1 from the control section 11. To be specific, IPU9
0 is a page image [When each image information of a plurality of originals, for example, original X and original Y, is input from the page 53b,
is operated to reduce the image information of each document to a predetermined reduction ratio, and then the vertical/horizontal converter 93 is operated to arrange the reduced image information of the plurality of pages of the document in an area corresponding to one page of the document.

The above-mentioned reduction magnification is set to a value corresponding to the number of originals, for example, when image information of two originals is edited within the area of one original, 1/2 reduction (r1 rate) is set.

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

The printer 9 is an output means for printing out image information as visible information such as characters on a recording medium such as paper, and for example, a laser printer or the like is used.

Further, the printer 99 prints out the edited image information described above, for example, the image information of both document X and document Y on one sheet of print paper.

Next, when a large number of manuscripts are read in the image information storage and retrieval device to which the present invention is applied as shown in FIG. We will explain the operation procedure using this as an example.

First, when reading the image information that has been read, follow the instructions on the initial information processing screen displayed on the display screen of the display device 77 to read the document and load the predetermined optical disc of the read image information. A command or the like for continuous σ recording to 33 is input from the keyboard 101, and this image information storage and retrieval device is set to [Read 0 Record 1 [-] mode.

Next, the lI! ! In order to continuously read the stacked originals, the stacked originals are placed in a stacked manner.
After setting the DF) J7-mode, information related to the initial Iy1 settings such as the document size, document density, and reading density of this document is input from the keyboard 101 or the operation section 3 of the image scanner capacity 1.

Furthermore, image preference 1? After the image information from the device 1 is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b, the image information is stored in the buffer memory 5.
3a and the interface circuit 13a to the optical disk device 33 so that it can be recorded on an optical disk (not shown) which is a storage medium of the optical disk device 33.

Next, use the keyboard 101 to record the title of the manuscript,
Display device 7 displays search information such as information records and array formats.
Enter according to the formula displayed on both sides of 7.

This old method specifies the manuscript to be recorded and inputs and sets search items to facilitate the search process, and is used to store data when the image skit device 1 reads the manuscript. Various information such as the remaining capacity of the battery 30, a "table" for inputting the key items [ ] for the above search, and a keyboard 1
When inputting using the function key configured as 01, the function of the function key J3 is displayed.

When the reading of the original is started, the image information read from the image scanning device 1 is transferred to the interface circuit 95.
The data is temporarily stored in the page memory 53b via a. Subsequently, after the image information is compressed by the C0DEC 95, the buffer memory 53a and the interface circuit 13
The search information is registered in the magnetic disk device 31 via a, and the search information and image information are registered in the optical disk device 33.
will be registered.

When searching for specific image information from among a large number of image information registered in the optical disk device 33 and printing out the searched image information, use the keyboard 1° as in the case of registration. 1 to enter the search command and 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 number of search information recorded in the magnetic disk device 31, and apply the search information to the selected search information. Optical disc purchase based on 33
Search for the desired image information registered in . The image information retrieved in this way is sent from the optical disk device 33.
The signal is applied to the CODE C95 via the interface circuit 13a and buffer memory 53a.

The CODEC 95 performs processing such as decompression on the retrieved image information to restore it to C, and displays it on the display device 77 via the display memory 73 or the like.

When making a so-called hard copy of the displayed image information, use the keyboard 101 to specify the image information desired for hard copying, set the number of output copies, etc. Do the following.

Next, referring to FIGS. 2 to 5, the operation for editing the image information of the two-page document read from the images 4-1 apparatus 1 will be described.

First, when the imaging device 17 reads the image information of the document X, the read image rA information is given to the page system 43b via the interface circuit 95a. As shown in FIG. 5(A), the page memory 53b'c stores the image information of document x at address Δr)1, for example.
Ru. Further, the image information of the document
Go to 7! I can get it. In the display device 77, the display shown in FIG.
The image information of the document X is displayed as shown in Δ).

Next, when the image scanner device 1 reads the image information of the original IY, the image information of the original Y is stored in the address ΔD2, for example, in the page scanner 53b as shown in FIG. In addition, the display device 77
Image information of document Y is displayed as shown in Figure (B).

Next, when the function key with the editing function provided on the keyboard 101 is operated, the page memory 5 is
3b, as shown in FIG. 4(B), the image information of both the original X and the original Y rotated by 90 degrees in the rotation direction n, , 'i if is stored 7 at address AD3, for example. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the display device 77 displays the image information of the document X rotated by 90 degrees in the direction of rotation of the clock on both display surfaces 77a of No. 1, and also displays the image information of the document
Image information of document Y rotated by 0 degrees is displayed on display screen 7 of No. 2.
7b.

Next, when the printout function key () set on the keyboard 101 is operated, the image information of both document X and document Y is sent from the printer 9 to print f ((201 At this time, the number 1 indicating the page number is printed in the area where the image information of the original X is printed out, and the number 72 is printed in the area where the image information of the original Y is printed out. .

Further, when editing the image information of four originals in the area of one Ij14 original, the process is similar to that described in rf+'r. That is, as shown in FIG.
．． Each piece of image information 214 is reduced to a reduction ratio of 17/4 and printed on one sheet of printing paper 220. At this time, the area 220 of the print paper 220
a, 220b, 220c, and 220d have original 21
Image information 1, 212, 213, and 214 are printed in correspondence.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 7 to 10,
A case will be described in which editing processing is performed based on the image information retrieved from 3.

When the optical disk device 33 is searched and image information corresponding to a plurality of pages of originals, for example image information of originals A, B, and C, is read out, these image information are stored in the -H page memory 53b. Next, the display device [display screen 77 on the A77]
The image information of originals A, B, and C is displayed in correspondence with each other in a, 77b, and 77c. At the same time, the word processing function of the data input device 100 is used to create a sentence 11, and the created document and the image information read from the image scanner device 1 can be edited.

As shown in Figure 7, sea urchin display 8, 77
The document 231 created by the data input device 100 and the image information 233 read from the image scanner device 1 are displayed on the display screen 77d as the image information of the document.

Next, for the printout provided on the 4 kneeboard 101)
j? When you operate the link key, printers 9 to 9
As shown in the figure, the image information of originals A and B is printed out on one sheet of printing paper 235, and the image information of originals C and B is printed out on one sheet of printing paper 237.

In this way, when printing 1 to printing 1 are performed, each image information of original documents A, B, C, and D can be printed on one sheet of printing 1. For example, as shown in FIG.
.
1c and 241d, respectively.

Further, in the example shown in FIG. 10, the image information [ ] on the original is rotated 90 degrees in the clockwise direction, and the image information on originals B and C are rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. After that, areas 243a, 243 of one sheet of print paper 243
b, 243c, and 243d are manuscripts C, B, and B, respectively.
The image information of D and A is printed correspondingly.

In addition, in the examples shown in FIGS. 8, 9, and 10, original A,
In the areas of B, C, and D, there are numbers 1,
2.3.4 is printed.

As described above, in the examples shown in FIGS. 7 to 10, the image information retrieved from the optical disk device, the document created by the data input device, and the image information read by the image scanning device 1 are processed. Can be edited.

Further, in the example shown in FIG. 10, each piece of image information is appropriately rotated and placed at a specific position, which is convenient when binding a book, for example.

In this embodiment, the image information of a multi-page document is edited as image information in an area corresponding to one page of the document and printed from print 1 to output. Copy the image information onto the print paper.
- It is possible to reduce the time required for paper and printout to the printer 1 when printing.

According to the present invention, the position, size, arrangement, etc. of a plurality of images to be supplied can be changed so that they can be accommodated within an area of a predetermined size. , it is possible to easily increase the display output by changing visible information, for example, the efficiency of using image information when printing 1 to 7 puddings.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an information processing device to which the present invention is applied, FIGS. 2 to 5 are explanatory diagrams showing the operation of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an information processing device to which the present invention is applied. FIGS. 7 to 10 are explanatory views showing the effects of other embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Supply means for supplying a plurality of images; output means for outputting the plurality of images supplied by the supply means; and specifying an output position of each of the plurality of images supplied by the supply means. a first specifying means for specifying the output size of each of the plurality of images supplied by the supplying means; and a specification by the first specifying means and the second specifying means, An information processing apparatus comprising: processing means for outputting a plurality of images supplied from the supply means as a single image from the output means.