JPH0357502B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a graphic information processing device, and in particular, to a graphic information processing device that is used when performing work such as printing the same graphic or changing a graphic that has already been created. The present invention relates to a graphic information processing apparatus that can simplify the input work of graphic information by using paper having a magnetic recording band, and can also ensure the content of the graphic information.

[Prior art] In recent years, computers have been used to electrically process figures such as graphs, waveforms, and designs.
Various graphic information processing devices have been used that cause the synthesized figure to be drawn on a cathode ray tube or printed on paper. This electrically created graphic information is stored in a storage device such as a magnetic disk or floppy disk,
It was used to print the figure at a later date or to modify a part of it.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Recalling the graphical information stored in this storage device requires a unique operation, and both magnetic disks and floppy disks have the drawback of being inconvenient to operate.

That is, on a magnetic disk, a file number is attached to each piece of graphic information, and after confirming the graphic that has already been printed on the paper and its file number, the file number is input and the memory of the corresponding number is recalled. was. In this method, it is troublesome to check the file number, and it takes time to select a graphic file that has already been printed on paper and stored.

In addition, in the method using a floppy disk, the name of the graphic information file on the floppy disk may not always match its contents, or if multiple files exist, it is easy to give similar names to files with similar contents. In the information sorting process, a file different from the target file is often called up, which makes the process inefficient.

Furthermore, the graphics to be sorted cannot be identified on the floppy disk itself and must be relied on by name or file number, making it difficult to identify the graphics at a glance.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a graphic information processing device that eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, simplifies input work of graphic information, and allows stored graphics to be identified at a glance.

[Means for solving problems]

In the present invention, information for determining the creation mode of a document or figure, a keyboard for inputting other control information or information of the document or figure, information necessary for creating the document or figure, and information input from the keyboard are provided. A display device for displaying, a light pen for changing and editing the graphic information displayed on this display device and other necessary information, a creation/editing means for electronically creating and editing graphic information, graphic information, and file number. , a storage means for electronically storing control information such as format, coordinate position, line feed, line spacing, character size, pitch, etc., a printing means for printing graphic information on the surface of the paper while transporting the paper, and a paper. a reading/writing means for magnetically reading or writing the graphic information and the control information using a plurality of magnetic heads disposed in a direction close to the conveyance direction and orthogonal to the conveyance direction; the creation/editing means; and the printing means. , and a control means for controlling the operation of the reading/writing means and for controlling storage in the storage means or reading from the storage means, and capable of printing graphic information on the surface,
In a graphical information processing device that uses an information input/output sheet having a magnetic recording band attached to the back side along the conveying direction, the control means is configured to:
The graphic information and control information are read from the storage means, the graphic information is given to the printing means to print on the information input/output paper, and the graphic information and control information are given to the reading/writing means to print on the information input/output paper. When recording the same graphic information as the graphic information printed on the surface of the information input/output paper, the information input/output paper is conveyed by the printing means and stored on the magnetic recording belt. The present invention provides a graphical information processing apparatus characterized in that the graphical information processing apparatus is configured to read graphical information and control information that are displayed in the graphical information processing apparatus through a reading/writing means and write them into the storage means.

[Effect]

In the present invention, the printing means of the graphic information processing apparatus is provided with a magnetic reading/writing means, and the information input/output paper is provided with a magnetic recording band along the direction of conveyance thereof, and both are used to process the graphic information of the graphic information. This greatly simplifies input to the device and makes it easier to confirm stored graphic information. That is, on the surface of the information input/output paper to which the magnetic recording strip is attached, the content of graphical information is printed so that it can be visually determined, and at the same time, information with the same content as the printed graphical information is written on the magnetic recording strip. Write and record magnetically. When inputting graphical information to the graphical information processing device, the content of the inputted graphical information is visually confirmed, the information input/output form is transferred by the printing device, and the information is stored in the magnetic recording band by the magnetic reading device. It is possible to read and input the graphical information displayed. Therefore, inputting graphic information into the graphic information processing device becomes extremely easy, and confirmation of the recorded graphic information becomes reliable and easy.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows the appearance of a graphical information processing device (which also functions as a Japanese document processing device), which consists of a desktop-type control/display section 1 and an input/output/print section 2. The display section 1 and the input/output/print section 2 are connected by a data bus. The upper part of the front surface of the control/display section 1 is inclined nearly vertically, and there is a cathode ray tube 3 for displaying graphic information, document information, or control information, and a floppy disk device 4 for recording programs and external type. It is provided.
Further, the lower front surface of the control/display section 1 is gently inclined, and a full keyboard 5 is provided in the center thereof, a function keyboard 6 is provided above the full keyboard 5, and a control keyboard 7 is provided on the right side. It is provided. A light pen 8, which can be connected to the surface of the cathode ray tube 3 to set its coordinate position, is connected to the control/display unit 1 by a curl cord 9.

Next, the input/output/printing section 2 has a flat three-dimensional shape, and a rectangular opening 10 is formed in the upper part of the front surface, and a cylindrical platen 11 is installed horizontally within this opening 10. The printer head 12 is mounted close to the platen 11 so as to be movable parallel to the surface thereof. A C-shaped paper inserter 13 located above the platen 11 is fixed to the main body of the input/output/printing section 2, and a plurality of magnetic heads 14 capable of magnetic writing and reading are fixed to the paper inserter 13. It has been done. Further, 15 is a special paper used in this embodiment, and the front side of this paper 15 has the same paper quality as normal printing paper, and a part of the back side has a magnetic recording band in the insertion direction of the paper 15. 16 is integrally provided by means of coating, pasting, etc.

Figure 2 shows the platen 11 of the input/output/printing section 2.
This is a cross-section of the vicinity, and there are outer rubber guide rollers 17 and 18 on the lower left and right sides of the platen 11.
are in pressure contact with each other, and a guide plate 19 is provided between the guide rollers 17 and 18 at a distance from the platen 11. A guide rail 20 is provided parallel to the front surface of the platen 11 (on the right side in the figure), and a roller 21 that is pivoted at the bottom of the printer head 12 (which may be of any type such as wire dot or ink jet) is mounted on this guide rail 20. are in contact with each other, and the printer head 12 is moved parallel to the platen 11 by the guide rails 20 and rollers 21.
Document information can be printed on the paper 13.
Further, the paper inserter 13 is provided with a lamp 22 and a photodiode 23 at opposing positions, so that the paper 15 can pass between the lamp 22 and the photodiode 23.
Further, the tip of the magnetic head 14 is arranged so as to be able to come into contact with a magnetic recording band 16 provided on the back side of the paper 15.

Next, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the system of the control/display section 1 in this embodiment. In this system, an input conversion circuit 25 is connected to the full keyboard 5 and the light pen 8 via an input control circuit 24, and a conversion dictionary file 26 is connected to the input conversion circuit 25. Input conversion circuit 2
A graphic character generating section 29 having a built-in character generating circuit 27 and a graphic generating circuit 28 is connected to the output of 5, and a character pattern file 30 and a graphic pattern file 31 are connected to this graphic character generating section 29. It has been done. The output of this graphic character generating section 29 is connected to a control circuit 32, and at the same time, a function keyboard 6 and a control keyboard 7 are connected. A part of the output of the control circuit 32 is connected to the cathode ray tube 3 via a display circuit 33, and the other output is connected to a data output storage circuit 34. The display circuit 33 includes a hard copy circuit 35.
is connected to the hard copy circuit 35, and a hard printer 36 is connected to the hard copy circuit 35. The data output storage circuit 34 is connected to the magnetic head 14 via a switching circuit 37, to which a control signal from the control circuit 32 is input. A data input storage circuit 38 is connected to the switching end of the switching circuit 37.
An input control circuit 24 is connected to.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

To operate the graphic information processing device of this embodiment, a full keyboard 5, a function keyboard 6,
Various functions can be performed individually by operating the control keyboard 7 and light pen 8, respectively. Each function will be explained below.

(b) Creating and modifying figures by hand Set the function keyboard 6 to drawing mode, and use the control keyboard 7 and light pen 8 to draw the required figures (graphs, curves, etc.) on the cathode ray tube 3. (including various figures such as structural diagrams and perspective three-dimensional diagrams). In this case, if the figure to be drawn can be programmed in advance, such as a graph, the figure is selected using the control keyboard 7 (for example, a bar graph, pie chart, volume graph, etc.), and the data to be compared is selected using the full keyboard 7. It can be typed in by .
In addition, in order to draw mechanical figures or perspective figures with the light pen 8, the light pen 8 is connected to the cathode ray tube 3.
The coordinate position is set by touching the surface of the coordinate position, and the setting of whether it is a straight line, a curved line, a circle, or an ellipse connecting the coordinate positions is performed by selecting with the control keyboard 7. be exposed. In any case, the drawn figure is displayed on the screen of the cathode ray tube 3. The data from the full keyboard 5 and the set value of the coordinate position by the light pen 8 are input to the input control circuit 2.
A command signal from the control keyboard 7, which is simultaneously transmitted to the input control circuit 27 via the control circuit 27, is input to the input control circuit 24, and both signals are transmitted to the input conversion circuit 2.
5 to the graphic character generating section 29. This signal is input to the graphic generation circuit 28 in the graphic character generation section 29, and according to the input signal, a corresponding graphic pattern is extracted from the graphic pattern file 31, transmitted to the control circuit 32, and transmitted via the display circuit 33. Figures such as graphs and structural diagrams are drawn on the screen of the cathode ray tube 3. Also, even if a figure is drawn on the cathode ray tube 3, the full keyboard 5
Modified using control keyboard 7 and light pen 8,
You can also add notes.

(b) Manual document input, editing, and proofreading In addition to drawing and displaying figures, this embodiment also has a built-in function for creating Japanese documents containing Chinese characters.
This Japanese document can include an explanation of the figure, an explanation, or a part of the figure to add part names, units, numerical values, etc. First, the function keyboard 6 is set to a document creation mode, and the full keyboard 5 is pressed to manually input a Japanese document. A code is transmitted from the full keyboard 5 to the input control circuit 24 by a typing operation, and at the same time, a command signal from the control keyboard 7 transmitted via the control circuit 32 is input to the input control circuit 24. identifies the code and causes the input conversion circuit 25 to convert the character code and item code into a character generation code (kanji code). The input conversion circuit 25 uses a signal from the input control circuit 24 to transmit the code to the character generation circuit 29 of the graphic character generation section 29 in the case of character mode, and calls the memory of the conversion dictionary file 26 and converts the corresponding code in the case of kanji mode. It is converted into a kanji code and transmitted to the character generation circuit 29. Based on the input code, the character generation circuit 29 extracts a character pattern corresponding to the code from the character pattern file 30, transmits it to the control circuit 32, and displays the document on the screen of the cathode ray tube 3 via the display circuit 33. . Document input using the full keyboard 5 is performed sequentially by its operations, but control of line breaks, line spacing, character size, etc. is performed by operating the control keyboard 7, and this command is sent to the control circuit 32. The arrangement, size, etc. of the document are also displayed on the cathode ray tube 3 accordingly. Editing and proofreading can also be performed each time using the control keyboard 7.

(c) Printing on paper Graphics and Japanese documents are created by the steps in (a) and (b) above and displayed on the screen of the cathode ray tube 3, but they are not printed on paper for distribution or storage. must be recorded on the paper. Similarly to the above, when the function keyboard 6 is converted to the print mode, the graphics and Japanese text displayed on the cathode ray tube 3 by the display circuit 33 are transmitted to the hard printer 36 via the hard copy circuit 35. , will be printed onto paper by this hard printer 36. In this print mode, paper (first
When inserting paper (not paper 13 in the figure) (plain paper with double-sided white paper) vertically into paper inserter 13,
The paper is held between the platen 11 and the guide roller 17 and taken into the output/input/printing section 2 . Then, the printer head 12 reciprocates in the left-right direction of the platen 11, and the platen 11 rotates in synchronism with the printer head 12, thereby printing graphics and Japanese documents on the paper surface.

(d) Saving and recording Figures and Japanese documents drawn and edited using the full keyboard 5, control keyboard 7, and light pen 8 must be saved in some form, otherwise the same figures or documents will be printed at a later date. , or it is inconvenient when editing. Therefore, in this embodiment, a storage/recording paper 15 having a magnetic recording band 16 on the back side is used.
This graphical information and Japanese documents can be stored electronically using . When the function keyboard 6 is set to write mode, the switching circuit 37 connects the magnetic head 14 and the data output storage circuit 38, transmits graphic information and document information from the control circuit 32 to the magnetic head 14, and transfers them to the magnetic recording band 16. The graphic information and document information can be recorded, and the graphic and document corresponding to the recorded contents can be printed on the surface of the paper 15. When the paper 15 is inserted into the paper inserter 13, the light from the lamp 22 is blocked and the photodiode 23 notifies the control circuit 32 that the paper 15 has been inserted, causing printing and storage to be performed simultaneously. This storage process for figures and documents is carried out by the magnetic head 1 that comes into contact with the magnetic recording band 16 when the paper 15 is moved at a predetermined speed on the platen 11.
4 converts the graphic information and document information into magnetic information, and records all the graphics and Japanese documents displayed on the cathode ray tube 3 on the magnetic recording band 16 as they are.
FIG. 4 shows an example in which figures are printed on paper 15 and figure information and document information are saved.
Graphics and related Japanese documents are printed on the surface of the paper 15, and corresponding graphic information and document information of the same content are magnetically recorded on the magnetic recording band 16.
In Figure 4A, the figure is represented by a line graph, and the file number A corresponding to the information is added to the top of the paper 15 for later retrieval, and in the center is a message indicating what the figure represents. Explanation B in Japanese is printed, and graph C is printed at the bottom. FIG. 4B shows another example of printing, in which a file number D is printed at the top, an explanation E is printed at the center, and a pie chart F is printed at the bottom. A flowchart for writing graphic information and document information onto the magnetic recording band 16 is performed in the order shown in FIG.

(e) Inputting information using the paper 15 As mentioned above, the magnetic recording band 16 is provided on the back side of the special paper 15, and the same graphic information and document information as printed on the paper 15 are recorded on this magnetic record. It is magnetically recorded on the band 16. The information recorded on this magnetic recording band 16 is not only graphic and document information, but also control information such as file number, format, coordinate position, line feed, line spacing, character size, and pitch. There is. Therefore, the same information as figures and documents created by manual input using the full keyboard 5, control keyboard 7, and light pen 8 is stored in the magnetic recording band 16. By reproducing the information on this magnetic recording band 16, the same figures and documents as the figures and documents printed on the paper 15 can be reproduced and displayed on the cathode ray tube 3, or the same figures and documents can be reproduced by the hard printer 36.
You can also print documents on regular paper.

First, the function keyboard 6 is set to read mode, the control circuit 32 switches the switching circuit 37 to connect the magnetic head 14 and the data input storage circuit 38, and waits for data input. . Next, when the paper 15 is inserted into the paper inserter 13, the paper 15 is inserted into the platen 11.
and the guide rollers 17 and 18 and taken into the input/output/printing section 2. Thus paper 15
When the paper passes through the paper inserter 13, the magnetic recording strip 16 slides in contact with the magnetic head 14, and the magnetic recording is converted into an electrical signal by the magnetic head 14 and detected. The magnetic head 14 transmits the detected graphic information and character information to the data input storage circuit 38 via the switching circuit 37.
transmits various detected information to the input control circuit 24. The information from this data input storage circuit 38 is the same as the data obtained by manually operating the full keyboard 5, control keyboard 7, and light pen 8, and this information is used in the above-mentioned (a), creation of figures, Similar to correction, (b), document input, editing, and proofreading, the input conversion circuit 25, graphic character generation section 29, and control circuit 3
2. Displayed on the screen of the cathode ray tube 3 via the display circuit 33. Then, by setting the function keyboard 6 to print mode, the same figure and document can be printed directly on ordinary paper. In addition, even if a figure or document is displayed on the cathode ray tube 3, by operating the full keyboard 5, control keyboard 7, and light pen 8, a part of the figure or a part of the Japanese document can be corrected. You can make additions, and you can also have the new shapes and documents printed on regular paper. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the above-mentioned reading process.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since the present invention is configured as described above, in the work of creating and editing graphic information, the content printed on the paper surface and the graphic information recorded magnetically match, and the file content can be visually determined at a glance. This makes it easier to save, select, and input documents when inputting graphic information into a processing device, and the processing operations become simpler.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a graphic processing device that is an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view enlarging a part of the input/output/printing section, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of this embodiment. , Figure 4 shows graphic information printed on special paper.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow in the writing mode of graphic and character information, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow in the reading mode. 1...control/display section, 2...input/input/print section, 14
...Magnetic head, 15...Paper, 16...Magnetic recording strip.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A keyboard for inputting information for determining the creation mode of a document or figure, other control information, or information on the document or figure, information necessary for creating the document or figure, and input from the keyboard. a display device for displaying the displayed information; a creation/editing means for electronically creating and editing the graphic information; and file number, format,
A storage means for electronically storing control information such as coordinate position, line feed, line spacing, character size, pitch, etc., a printing means for printing graphic information on the surface of the paper while transporting the paper, and a paper transport direction. reading/writing means for magnetically reading or writing the graphic information and the control information using a plurality of magnetic heads disposed in a direction orthogonal to the direction of conveyance; the creating/editing means, the printing means, and the reading means; control means for controlling the operation of the writing means and controlling storage in or reading from the storage means, capable of printing graphical information on the front side, and magnetically recording on the back side along the conveying direction; In a graphical information processing device that uses information input/output paper to which a band is attached, when outputting graphical information, the control means reads the graphical information and control information from the storage means and prints the graphical information. the graphical information and control information to a reading/writing means to be recorded on the magnetic recording band of the information input/output sheet, and to be printed on the surface of the information input/output sheet; When importing the same shape information as the
Graphical information processing characterized in that the graphical information and control information stored in the magnetic recording band are read by the reading/writing device by conveying the information input/output paper by the printing device, and are written in the storage device. Device.