JPH03167661A - Image processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the division and synthesization of documents by providing a display device, a range setting device, and a document preparing device and preparing the document information equivalent to one page with use of the images, characters and the graphic data included within a partial range set by the range setting device. CONSTITUTION:A divided area display frame 23 is produced by an arrow head cursor 22 to enclose a desired part of an original image. Then a document 21 having a size equal to the frame 23 is produced with the data included in the frame 23. When the frame 23 is produced within the document 21, it is decided whether a button of a pointing device 6 is pushed or not. When this button is pushed, an oblong frame including a diagonal line containing a point of the cursor 22 set in the first ON state of the button and the point of the present cursor 22 at both ends of the diagonal line is produced with the cursor 22 kept displayed. The oblong frame is used as a frame 23. Then a specific key is continuously pushed on a keyboard 5 for synthesization of documents. Thus a document 24 to be synthesized is turned into a shift state document 26. The document 26 moves on a display 20 in accordance with the shift of the cursor 22 and synthesized at a position adjacent to the document 25.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, and particularly to an image processing apparatus having a function of editing and saving document information.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of device, in order to combine two A4 size pages of document information (images, characters, graphics), it takes two
I cut out all the document information from each page and pasted it onto a newly created A3 size sheet. Also A3
To divide the document information of a page of size A4 into two pages of A4 size, divide the document information of a page of A3 size into two, cut out each document information twice, and divide it into two pages of A4 size. Pasting was the norm.

[Problem that the invention is trying to solve]

However, in the conventional example described above, in order to combine two pages of document information into one page, or to divide one page of document information into two pages, it is necessary to cut and paste the document information. , the problem arises that the processing is complicated and time-consuming.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and is an image processing device that can divide one page of document information into two pages without performing cut/paste processing, and can combine two pages of document information into one page. This is what we are trying to provide.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve this problem, the present invention includes the configuration shown below.

That is, a display means for displaying a document composed of images, characters, graphic data, etc., a range setting means for setting a desired partial range in the displayed document, and a partial range set by the range setting means. It has document creation means for creating one page's worth of document information using image, character, and graphic data within the document.

[Function] With the above structure, one document can be divided into multiple documents or multiple documents can be combined into one document by a simple operation.

(Embodiments) Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1. Description of the Structure> FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an image editing apparatus according to an embodiment, which includes a processing apparatus main body 1 (the contents of which will be described later) and the following components.

A display 2 mainly displays images to be edited in the embodiment. 3 is an image scanner that reads images to be edited. Further, 4 is a printer that prints out the m collection results, 5 is a keyboard for inputting commands and characters related to various operations, and 6 is a pointing device for specifying any position of the image completely displayed on the display 2. . Further, as external storage means of the image editing apparatus of the embodiment, a floppy disk device 7, an optical disk device 8, and a hard disk device 9 are provided. The floppy disk device 7 is for storing image files, document files, etc., and is for reading and writing personal files. The optical disk device 8 and the hard disk device 9 store common information such as character fonts, common image files, personal files, and the like.

FIG. 2 is an internal block diagram of the processing device main body 1. As shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a CPυ that controls each device related to the processing device main body 1 and the image editing device through a bus 18.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a ROM that stores programs related to image editing processing by the CPU 10, and programs related to flowcharts shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, which will be described later, also form part of the ROM. A RAM 12 is used as a work area for the CPU 10 and as a buffer for temporarily storing data input from the image scanner. Further, 13 is a memory management unit that manages each memory, and 14 is a VRAM that develops images to be displayed on the display 2. Further, 15 is a LAN interface for exchanging data with other terminal devices. Reference numeral 16 denotes a companding circuit that compresses or expands image data, and outputs the compressed data to the outside via the LAN ink interface, or expands the received data to form display data. be. Note that similar processing is performed when storing data in an external storage device. 17 is the image displayed on the display 2 (V
This is a raster operation section that controls the rotation, movement, etc. of images developed in the RAM 14.

<Explanation of Processing Overview> The operating principle of the image editing apparatus of this embodiment with the above-described configuration will be described below.

First, document division processing will be explained.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3(a), first, the document 21 displaying the entire original image and the arrow cursor 22 that moves in conjunction with the operation of the pointing device 6 are displayed on the display 2. It is displayed on the screen 20. By using this arrow cursor 22 to create a divided area display frame 23 (displayed in Fig.
The purpose is to create a document with the same size as the divided area display frame 23 using graphic data).

In this embodiment, the process of creating the divided area display frame 23 within the document 21 is determined based on whether a button (not shown) provided on the pointing device 6 is pressed. That is, the information output from the pointing device 6 includes, in addition to coordinate data, information on button on/off status. Then, at the time when the press of the button described above is detected, the arrow cursor 22 is kept displayed, and a rectangle whose diagonal ends are the arrow cursor point when the button was first turned on and the current arrow cursor point Create a frame and use this frame as divided area display frame 2
Set it to 3. It is assumed that this divided area display pattern 23 is redisplayed every time there is a change in the position of the arrow cursor 22.

FIG. 3(b) shows a case where two divided area display frames 23 are displayed by operating the arrow cursor 22 using the pointing device 6. In this case, the horizontal document
You are trying to divide the image data section from the center into two, an image data section on the right and a character data section on the left.

FIG. 3(c) shows a state in which new documents 24 and 25 each having the same size as the divided area display frame 23 are created according to the divided area display frame 23 specified in FIG. 3(b). At this point, what was one document in FIG. 3(a) has been divided into two.

Next, document creation will be explained.

FIG. 4(a) represents the same state as FIG. 3(C). That is, one document is equally divided into two, and two documents 24 and 25 are generated. This time, the two divided documents 24 and 25 are combined into one document.

FIG. 4(b) shows a state in which a document 24 recording image data of a picture of a chimney is being merged to the right side of a text 25 recording character data describing a chimney. Specifically, by pressing a specific key on the keyboard 5, it is indicated that a synthesis source document is to be specified, by operating the voicing device 6, moving the arrow cursor 22 onto the document 24, and by turning on a button on the voicing device 6. , it is determined that the document 24 is to be the synthesis source document. Next, document 25 is designated as the synthesis destination text. Then, the arrow cursor 22 is moved onto the synthesis source document 24, and the button of the pointing device 6 is held down to remain in the on state. Then, the original document 24 becomes the moving state document 2.
6, and can be moved freely on the display 20 in conjunction with the arrow cursor 22. Destination document 2
If you want to combine adjacent to the right side of 5, use Figure 4 (b
), the moving state document 26 is moved to a position adjacent to the right side of the destination document 25.

Once the position of the moved document 26 is determined, the button of the pointing device 6 is turned off, and the combining destination document 25 and the combining source document 24 are combined. Figure (C) shows the state in which the two documents 24 and 25 have been transformed into one document 21 after the amalgamation has been completed.

In this way, one document can be easily and quickly divided into multiple documents or multiple documents can be combined into one document without cutting/pasting document data.

<Description of Processing Procedures> The processing of this embodiment described above is shown in the flowcharts of FIGS. 5 and 6.

Hereinafter, according to this flowchart, the CPU 1 of this embodiment
The control processing operation of No. 8 will be explained. Incidentally, FIG. 5 is a flowchart for document division, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart for document composition.

The process will be explained starting from the flowchart of document division shown in FIG.'tS5.

First, to start dividing the document into 3S, step S1
The original image (image read from the image scanner 3, data read from an external storage device, data currently being edited, etc.) is displayed on the display screen (display 2). Next, the process advances to step S2, and the arrow cursor 22 is displayed at a predetermined position (for example, the center) within the display 2.

Then, the coordinate data is entered manually from the pointing device 6, and the minute'#U is displayed on the document 21 in step S4 according to the coordinate data.
The area display frame 23 is displayed. In step S5, it is determined whether or not to divide the document by pressing a specific key on the keyboard 5 to create a new document. If it is not desired to carry out the divided execution yet, the process returns to step S3 and the above-described process is repeated. In step S6, one document is divided into documents as many as the number of divided area display frames 23, and the process before the above-mentioned process is returned.

Next, the flowchart of document synthesis shown in FIG. 6 will be explained.

First, in starting the document composition process, step S10
Display multiple original images on the display screen (Display 2). Next, the process proceeds to step S11, and the arrow cursor 22 is displayed at a predetermined position (for example, the center) within the display 2. Then, in step S12, by pressing a specific key on the keyboard 5, an instruction is given to designate a synthesis source document from now on, and coordinate data is inputted from the pointing device 6. At this time (when the button on the pointing device 6 is pressed), the document where the arrow cursor is located is designated as the synthesis source document (step S13). The compositing destination document is specified in the same way. In step 514, a specific key on the keyboard 5 is pressed to instruct that a document to be synthesized is to be specified from now on, coordinate data is input from the pointing device 6, and a document to be synthesized is determined (step S15>. After that, Move the arrow cursor onto the compositing source document (step S18) and enter the coordinate data manually from the bointing device 6 (step S17).While the button of the bointing device 6 is on, the compositing source document becomes a moving document. , can be moved freely on the display 2 by being operated by the pointing device (step 318).Then, when the combination destination document and the combination source document (moving state document) are aligned in the positional relationship desired to be combined, the pointing Turn off the button on the device 6. Then, a new composite document with the positional relationship displayed on the display 2 is created (step S19), step S20
Then, if you want to continue the gathering process, return to step 512,
Repeat the above process. If the user wants to finish the process, he or she presses a specific key on the keyboard 5 to return to the process before the above process.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, when creating a divided document, an operation (Fig. 3 (b)) to create a divided area display frame was required. Also, when documents were to be merged, an operation (Fig. 3 (b)) was required to move the synthesis source document. Figure 4 (b)> was necessary.
These two operations use a bointing device and are therefore time consuming. Therefore, a case will be explained in which this part of the operation is changed to input from the keyboard.

Specifically, when dividing a document, use the keyboard to specify how many equal parts to divide vertically and how many equal parts to divide horizontally. The number of divisions may be O. If the number of divisions is O, no division is performed, and if it is (vertical: O divisions, horizontal division into 20), no division is performed and a document equivalent to the original document is created.

When composing documents, by pressing a specific key on the keyboard, it is specified whether the compositing document is to be merged adjacent to the right side of the compositing destination document or below it.

As described above, according to this embodiment, document division and composition processing can be performed quickly.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, one document can be divided into multiple documents and multiple documents can be combined into one document quickly and easily.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the configuration of the image processing device of this embodiment, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the main body of the processing device in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating document compositing in the embodiment, FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the document division processing procedure, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating the document merging processing procedure. In the figure, 1...processing device main body, 2...display,
3... Image scanner, 4... Printer, 5...
・Keyboard, 6... Pointing device, 7・
...Floppy disk device, 8...Optical disk device, 9...Hard disk device, io...CPU,
11...ROM, 12...RAM, 13...memory management unit, 14...VRAM, 15...LA
N interface, 16... companding circuit, 17... rask operation section, 18... bus

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Display means for displaying document information composed of images, characters, graphic data, etc.; Range recognition means for setting a desired partial range within one page of the displayed document information; and the range setting means. An image processing apparatus comprising: a document creation means for creating a new page of document information using data within a partial range set in . (2) The document creation means creates two new pages of document information from data within the partial range set by the range setting means and data outside the partial range. The image processing device according to item 1.