JPH03154158A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow plural kinds of images whose mediums are different to coexist on a document by providing an image management table on every image whose mediums are different, and allowing each table to store information of the image kind. CONSTITUTION:In a floppy disk device 21, an ordinary image is stored, and in an illustraction image area 34 of a ROM 12, an illustration image is stored by a format being different from the ordinary image, and when the ordinary image or the illustration image is selected, the kind of the selected image is stored in table areas 31, 32 of a RAM 11. Based on this information, the image is called onto a document from the floppy disk device 21 or the illustration image area 34 of the ROM 12. In such a way, plural kinds of images whose mediums are different can be allowed to coexist on the document.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document creation device with an image editing function.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, a document creation device equipped with an image editing function has called out an image stored in a floppy disk (hereinafter referred to as FD), which is an external memory, onto a document.

Here, the image is retrieved based on the image information stored in the FD (image vertical size, image horizontal size, etc.) and the information specified by the user (recall position).
Various information (start line position,
This is achieved by setting the start digit position, end row position, end digit position, etc.).

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the structure of a conventional image management table. A 2-byte area (image pointer) for images is provided in the page management table of the called page, and a pointer to the image management table is stored in this area. For example, five image management tables are prepared with each 32-byte entry. Each image management table has a next pointer (next
Various information such as image document data name, start line position, and start digit position are set. Note that the numbers in parentheses indicate the number of bytes in each area.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As mentioned above, in the past, images were called up using an image management table constructed for images stored on FDs, so multiple types of images on different media were called up. I couldn't call it.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and is a document creation method that allows multiple types of images of different media to coexist on a document, and that can control whether or not to display each image of different media at all times. The purpose is to provide equipment.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means and Effects for Solving the Problems) That is, the present invention provides a document creation device having an image editing function, in which a normal image is stored in a first image storage means, and a second image is stored in a document creation device having an image editing function. The illustration image is stored in the storage means in a format different from the above-mentioned normal image,
When the above-mentioned normal image or the above-mentioned illustration image is selected, the type of the selected image is stored in the image type storage means, and based on the information in the image type storage means, the above-mentioned first or second image The first feature is that a plurality of types of images of different media can coexist on a document by loading the image onto the document from the storage means.

Further, the present invention specifies constant display for each of the above images, stores the type of the specified image in a constant display designation storage means, and performs the above call based on the information in the constant display designation storage means. The second feature is that by constantly displaying the displayed image, it is possible to control whether or not to display the image at all times for each different image of the medium.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to the same embodiment. In the figure, 10 is a microprocessor (CP
U), 11 and 12 are memories (RAM) accessed by the microprocessor 10.

ROM).

The microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU) IO is
It controls the entire device, RAM 11, RO
By accessing M12 and starting a program according to manual instructions, document creation processing, image editing processing, etc. are executed.

The RAM 11 has two areas in addition to a document area (not shown), external character registration area, word registration area, a cursor position register that stores the cursor position on the document display screen, and other areas for storing control information. A table area 31, 32 and an image development area 33 are provided. One table area 31 stores a normal image management table 41 shown in FIG. The other table area 32 stores an illustration image management table 42 shown in FIG. These image management tables 4L 42
will be explained later. Also, image development area 3
3 is an area where a normal image or an illustration image is developed when an image is called.

The ROM 12 includes a program area 13 that stores various processing programs that determine the operation of the CPU 10,
A character pattern area 14 in which font data is stored, a dictionary area 15 in which various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or Roman characters into kanji are registered, and an illustration image area 34 in which illustration images are stored are provided. It is being

Also, 16 is a keyboard (KB), 17 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF), 1g is a display, 1
9 is a display controller (display-CNT), 20 is a display dot memory, and 21 is a floppy disk device (FD).
D), 22 is an FDD interface (FDD-IF
), 23 is a printer device (PRT), and 24 is a printer interface (PRT-IF).

The keyboard (KB) 1B outputs input information necessary for document creation etc. to the CPU10 via the keyboard interface (KB-IF) 17.

This keyboard IB has "character" keys "cursor"
In addition to the keys, "Image" key for image editing, "Select/Execute" for instructing confirmation of various settings, etc.
"Delete" used for key, document creation, editing/proofreading, etc.
Keys Various function keys are provided, including an "insert" key.

The display device 18 is composed of, for example, a 10-line liquid crystal display, and the bottom line (10th line) is set as an area exclusively for guide display (guide line). Display-CNT19 is C
Under the control of PUl0, the display of the display 18 is controlled using the display dot memory 20.

The floppy disk device (FDD) 21 is a CPU
The FDD interface (FDD-
Through the IF) 22, the created document is saved, and external characters (characters, symbols, marks, etc. other than JIS 1st level characters and 2nd level characters), 2nd level characters, etc. are stored. In this embodiment, this floppy disk device (FDD)
) 21 stores in advance a normal image read by an image scanner, for example.

The printer device (PRT) 23 includes, for example, a serial printer. This PRT23 is connected to a printer interface (PRT-IF) 24 under the control of CPU10.
A document stored in the document area in RAMII via
Alternatively, it executes print processing such as printing document information read into the main body from the floppy disk device (FDD) 21 and stored in the document area on paper, or transporting the paper.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of the normal image management table 41. This normal image management table 41 is
This is a table for managing normal images stored in 21, and for example, five entries are prepared with 32 bytes each. Note that the numbers in parentheses indicate the number of bytes in each area. In the same table 41, the next pointer (ne
xtpointer) consists of 2 bytes of information and indicates the next table. The image document data name is 16
It consists of byte information and usually indicates the document data name of the image. The start line position and column position, and the end line position and column position each consist of 2-byte information and indicate the coordinates of the start and end points of the normal image on the document. The actual image horizontal size and vertical size consist of 2-byte information and usually indicate the size of the image.

Here, in this embodiment, information indicating the image type is provided in the normal image management table 41. This information consists of 1 byte and includes a normal image flag and a constant image display flag, which will be described later. Further, 0 clear is an empty area consisting of 1 byte.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the illustration image management table 42. This illustration image management table 42 is stored in the ROM
This is a table for managing illustration images stored in advance in the image management table 12, and similarly to the normal image management table 41, five entries are prepared, each having, for example, 32 bytes each. Note that the numbers in parentheses indicate the number of bytes in each area.

In the same table 42, the next pointer (nextpoi
The start line position and column position, the end line position and column position, and the actual image horizontal size and vertical size are the same as those in the normal image management table 41, so their explanation will be omitted. The illustration number and data corresponding to each illustration consist of a total of 16 bytes of information, including a 2-byte illustration number, 6-bytes of various data, and 8-bytes of 0 clear.

Here, in the same embodiment, the illustration image management table 42
Similarly to the normal image management table 41, information indicating the image type is also provided in the normal image management table 41. This information consists of one byte and includes a flag for illustrated images and a flag for constantly displaying illustrated images, which will be described later. Further, the vertical magnification and the horizontal magnification are made up of 1 byte of information and indicate the magnification when enlarging/reducing the illustration. Here, in one byte, the upper 4 bits indicate the vertical magnification, and the lower 4 bits indicate the lateral magnification.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. Here, explanation will be given assuming two types of images, an illustration image and a normal image, as multiple types of images of different media.

The illustration image is stored in the illustration image area 34 in the ROM 12.
It is preserved in the form shown in Figure 9.

That is, in the illustrated image, one character (24×24 dots) is composed of 72 bytes of data, and each byte of data is arranged in numerical order in the figure. An illustration image is formed by a combination of data of 24×24 dots for one character. By developing this illustration image data in numerical order as shown in FIG. 10 (here, developing it in the image development area 33 of RAM II), it can be called up as an image.

On the other hand, a normal image is stored in advance in the FDD 21 through an image scanner in the form shown in FIG. 10. That is, in the case of this normal image, since each data is arranged in an expanded state, it can be called as an image as is.

When dealing with different illustration images and regular images of such media, unillustrated "images" on KBlB
When a key is operated, CPU10 first displays an image menu screen (step At), as shown in the flowchart of FIG.

With this, the indicator! 8, select the selection items of ``Image recall'', ``Illustration recall'', ``Move'', ``Copy'', ``Delete'', ``Display'', ``Reset'', and ``Display mode'' as shown in Figure 5. The image menu screen will be displayed.

Here, the user clicks the unillustrated "cursor" on KB1B.
Operate the keys or press the desired "numeric" key,
Select one of the above selection items (Step A2
). If "call illustration" is selected (step A3), the CPU 10 displays a list (-list) of illustration images stored in the ROM 1Z (step A4). The user selects an illustration image to be called up on the document from this list (Step A5), and specifies its calling position (Step A6).

When the calling position of the illustration image on the document is specified in this way, the CPU 10 stores various information necessary for managing the illustration image (start line position) in the illustration image management table 42 shown in FIG. , start digit position, end row position, end digit position, etc.) (
Step A7).

At this time, the CPU 10 sets an illustration image flag as the image type. Thereafter, the CPU 10 refers to the illustration image management table 42, calls up an illustration image on the document, and displays it (step A).
8).

On the other hand, if "Image recall" is selected in step A3-, a process similar to that for the above-mentioned illustration image is performed to store the normal image in the normal image management table 41 shown in FIG. Various necessary information (start line position, start digit position, end line position, end digit position, etc.) and a normal image flag are set as the image type, and the normal image is called and displayed based on the same table 41. (Step A9~
A13). If an item other than "call illustration" or "call image" is selected in steps A3 and A3-, other processing is executed in accordance with the selected item (step A14).

In this manner, when handling illustrated images and regular images of different media, by storing the selected image type, the two types of images can coexist on the document.

Next, the second feature of the present invention, which is the constant display of different images of a medium, will be explained.

When "display mode" is selected on the image menu screen of FIG. 5, CPU10 first displays a constant display mode switching screen (step B1), as shown in the flowchart of FIG. As a result, through the display 18, an image as shown in FIG.
A constant display mode switching screen is displayed that has mode designations of "no display" and "on"/"no display" of illustrations at all times.

Here, the user operates the "cursor" key on the KB1B to specify either the constant display mode "on" or "no" for each of the normal image and the illustration image (step B2). If the illustration constant display mode "Yes" is specified (step B3), C
PU10 sets an illustration constant display flag in the illustration image management table 42 (step B4). Also,
If the illustration constant display mode "no" is specified (step B3), the CPU10 resets the flag (
Step B5).

Similarly, the image constant display flag set in the normal image management table 41 is set or reset in accordance with the mode designation at step B2 (steps 86 to B8).

Thereafter, when displaying an image, the CPU 10 first refers to the image management tables 41 and 42 to determine what image is to be displayed (step c1), as shown in the flowchart of FIG. For example, if it is an illustration image (step C2), CPU10 checks the set state of the illustration constant display flag (step C3).
, if the same flag is set, the illustration image is displayed as something that is always displayed (step C4). At this time, if the illustration constant display flag is reset, the CP
Ul0 shows only the image area and erases the illustrated image from the normal screen.

On the other hand, even in the case of a normal image, CPU1O is
Similar to the illustrated image, depending on the set state of the image constant display flag, the illustrated image is displayed or only the area of the image is erased from the normal screen (steps 05 to C7).

In this manner, by storing the type of image designated as the constant display mode when displaying an image, it is possible to control whether or not to constantly display illustration images and normal images of different media.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, an image management table is provided for each image on a different medium, and information on the image type is stored in each table. can coexist on top. Furthermore, by storing information on the types of images designated for constant display in each of the above tables, it is possible to control whether or not to always display images of different media.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of a normal image management table of the embodiment, and Fig. 3 is an illustration image of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the image display operation of the same embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the image menu screen. FIGS. 6 and 7 are the same embodiment. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the constant display mode switching screen of the same embodiment, FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the data array of the illustrated image, and FIG. 10 is the normal image. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the structure of a conventional image management table. lO...Microprocessor (CPU) 11...
・RAM, 12...ROM513...Program area, 14...Character pattern area, 16...Keyboard (KB), 18...Display unit, 20...Dot memory for display, 2■...・Floppy disk device (FDD)
), 31 and 32... table area, 33... image development area, 34... illustration image area, 41.
...Normal image management table, 42...Illustration image management table.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A document creation device equipped with an image editing function, comprising: a first image storage means that stores a normal image; a second image storage means that stores an illustration image in a format different from the normal image; an image selection means for selecting the normal image or the illustration image; an image type storage means for storing the type of image selected by the image selection means; A document creation device comprising: image recall control means for recalling an image onto a document from a second image storage means. (2) A document creation device equipped with an image editing function, comprising: a first image storage means that stores a normal image; a second image storage means that stores an illustration image in a format different from the normal image; an image selection means for selecting the normal image or the illustration image; an image type storage means for storing the type of image selected by the image selection means; an image recall control means for calling an image onto a document from a second image storage means; a constant display specifying means for specifying constant display for each image; and storing the type of image specified by the always display specifying means. A document creation device comprising: a constant display designation storage means; and a constant display control means for constantly displaying an image recalled by the image recall control means based on information in the always display designation storage means. .