JPH04156685A - Image selection device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the selection of elements with different attributes by preparing the same kind of pictures with common plural attributes, and displaying another picture including a specific element when a same kind instruction operation is performed on one picture. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a mixed picture D20 in which a large number of elements different in first and second attributes are mixed, a first same kind picture D21 including the elements common in the first attribute and different in the second attribute, and a second same kind picture D22 including the elements common in the second attribute and different in the first attribute. The data of those pictures D20-D22 are stored in a floppy disk in respective format. Thereby, one attribute goes to first attribute information on the picture D20, and second attribute information is described on the picture D1, and also, the first attribute information on the picture D22. In such a way, the picture D21 or D22 can be displayed by finding out the specific element on the picture D20 by operating a display operation, which enables the elements with different attributes to be easily selected. Also, it is possible to easily obtain the desired elements with different attributes by performing the same kind instruction operation on the specific element with a desired attribute.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (a) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to an image selection device used in a postcard creation device, etc. that layouts image components such as postcard titles, illustrations, and fixed phrases on postcards (editing screen). Regarding.

(b) Prior Art Conventionally, word processors for printing postcards such as New Year's cards are known. In this conventional example, the title,
To edit the image on the back of a postcard by combining illustrations and fixed phrases, first select a 7-way layout prepared in advance, and then select the desired image component such as a title that is suitable for the 7-way layout area. (hereinafter referred to as an element to be placed) is selected from the sample screen and edited by inserting it into a 7-ormat area.

-6; (c) Problems to be solved by the invention The above conventional example has the following problems. In other words, when considering image editing (postcard creation) for New Year's cards, for example, the sample screen displays sample elements of the title, illustration, and fixed text, and when considering illustrations, brush strokes (type) and manga for the zodiac are displayed. Various attributes and types such as touch and stamp touch must be displayed. As a result, there was a drawback that the user could not easily find the desired image component. For example, I found a brush stroke of the zodiac sheep, but if I want to change this brush stroke to a manga touch, it is not easy to find a sheep with a manga touch. Also, I found a sheep with a brush stroke, but the same will apply if I want to find a monkey with a brush touch in the future.

The present invention aims to solve this problem.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides an image selection device for selecting a desired element from a mixed display screen in which different attributes and elements of different types with the same attribute are displayed in a mixed manner. data of a plurality of first homogeneous screens including a group of elements to be shared; and a plurality of second screens including a group of elements having a common second attribute;
a data memory for storing data of a homogeneous screen; and a first homogeneous screen that includes the specific element when a homogeneous display operation is performed on a specific element having a first attribute and a second attribute on the mixed screen; (or a second similar screen), and performs a similar display instruction operation on a specific element of the first similar screen (or second similar screen) displayed by the first display control means. The present invention is characterized by comprising a second display control means for displaying another second similar screen (or first similar screen) containing the specific element when the specified element is selected.

(e) Effect According to the above means, if a specific element having the first and second attributes is found on the mixed screen, a group of elements having the first attribute including the specific element can be created by performing the same type display operation. A first homogeneous screen for a group of elements having a second attribute (or a second homogeneous screen for a group of elements having a second attribute) is displayed, and in this display state, elements that share the first attribute and have a different second attribute (or a second homogeneous screen for a group of elements having the second attribute) are displayed. elements with different first attributes) can be easily selected. In addition, the second attribute (or first attribute) can be changed by performing a similar instruction operation on a specific element whose second attribute (first attribute) is desired on the first similar screen (or second similar screen). It is possible to display a common second similar screen (or first similar screen) and easily obtain a desired element having a different first attribute (or second attribute) from this screen.

(F) Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor showing an embodiment of the image editing device of the present invention, and (1) is a block diagram of a word processor showing an embodiment of the image editing device of the present invention.
The PU) performs various calculations and logical judgments in accordance with the procedures (programs) stored in the read-only memory (ROM) (2) to control the word processor function, automatic postcard creation function, etc. (3) is a bus, which consists of an address bus that transfers signals instructing control objects, a bidirectional data bus that transfers various data, and a control bus (none of which are shown) that applies control signals to various control objects. .

(4) is a keyboard, which is equipped with various keys such as character keys, numeric keys, function keys, mode instruction keys, and cursor keys. (5) is a keyboard control unit which encodes data input from the keyboard (4) and sends signals and included signals to the CPU to the bus (3). (6) is a display consisting of an LCD, and (7) is a display control unit that controls the display (6) and display buffer memory (video RAM) (8) under the control of the CPU (1).
), controls the CGROM (9) that stores character patterns and converts characters and symbols entered from the keyboard (3) into C
You can change the pattern in the GROM (9), develop it in the display buffer memory (8), and display it on the display (6), or image information (outline and image) stored in the floppy disk (10) as a portable memory. data) is written into the buffer memory (8) and displayed on the display (6).

(11) is a floppy disk control unit that controls writing and reading of data to and from the floppy disk (10). (12) is a random access memory (RA)
M) consists of various buffer registers and temporarily stores various data. (13) is a printer such as a thermal transfer printer, and is controlled by a printer controller (14).
Print the text data etc. of A M (12) on recording paper.

The ROM (2) contains a system program (Ml) that controls the entire system, word processor functions, display control, printing, etc., and a postcard creation program that includes the contents of the flowcharts in Figures 3 and 4. (M2
), a format index table (M3) for searching placement formats, a format table (M4) storing the contents of placement formats (information on the position and size of the area where placed elements are placed), etc.

The RAM (12) also includes a postcard text memory (Mll) that stores the results (postcard screen data) created by the postcard creation program in the form of code information, and a postcard text memory (Mll) that stores the data of the sample screen in the form of code information. a sample text memory (Ml2) for storing data on the palette screen, and a palette text memory (Ml2) for storing data on the palette screen in the form of code information.
l3), automatic layout data memory (Ml4) that temporarily stores data necessary for automatic layout
, a screen management buffer (Ml5) that stores the screen type (vertical/horizontal), screen size, and position on the buffer (8) in order to display postcard screens, sample screens, and palette screens in various situations; It includes various buffers (Ml6) and various registers (Ml7).

The data structure stored in the postcard text memory (Mll) is schematically shown in FIG.
at), the number of elements to be placed, the next information block for each element, that is, the element number (element identification information), the placement position on the paper, the size information of the element in the placement state, the data format ( Elements are information blocks consisting of information such as code, outline, image type), type (title, illustration, fixed phrase type), standard size (element size information stored on the floppy disk (10)), etc. Continuous for the number of pieces. Based on the data in this postcard text memory, the display program of the system program displays the postcard screen being created or has been created on the display screen, and the print program prints the postcard screen being created or has been created onto a postcard. be. The data structure of the palette text memory and the sample text memory is the same as that of the postcard text memory, and the explanation thereof will be omitted. The image data (dot or outline data) corresponding to the numbers of the arranged elements stored in these text memories are stored in advance on a floppy disk (not shown) together with the element numbers and element size information. When displaying a sample screen, text screen, or palette screen, the element number of the text memory is referred to, and the image data corresponding to the element number is read from the disk, written to the buffer memory (8), and displayed. Therefore, elements are not stored in any text memory in the form of image data (in the embodiment, they are stored in the form of outline data or image (dot) data), but rather as codes consisting of element number size information and position information. stored in the form of information.

The automatic layout memory (Ml4) is a memory that stores the original data and calculation result data for performing calculations for arranging placed elements on the palette screen in the 7-ormat arrangement on the editing screen. It is stored in the postcard text memory (Mll).

In the above configuration, the image editing function including the selection of elements to be placed is realized by the processing procedure stored in the ROM (2). To explain the outline of the features of this function according to Fig. 2, image components (placed elements or parts) to be placed on the postcard screen (Dl) are placed on the placed elements P1, P2, P3.
,..., while changing the sample screen (D2) from the sample screen (D2) that has multiple samples, and put it in the palette inner surface (D3), and when you give an instruction for automatic creation, the elements in the palette screen Automatically selects the appropriate 7 format layout corresponding to P1, P2, P3, etc., and according to this layout format, overlaps between elements, postcard editing area (margin, area excluding white space (DIO)) This is a layout in the format area while adjusting (fine adjustment) the overhang of the page by moving and shrinking elements.For example, the number of elements (titles, illustrations, fixed phrases, etc.) that can be laid out with this automatic layout is 20. There are automatic layouts that use pre-memorized formats and those that do not use formats.In the former automatic layout, the number of 7-ormat patterns is, for example, 98, and the number of patterns selected from among them is 98. The format is the format of the postcard (portrait or landscape), the number of titles on the palette screen (0, 1, 2), the shape of the title (vertical or horizontal), the number of elements on the palette screen, and their types (attributes). shall be automatically selected by

In more detail, the selection of elements of the automatic postcard creation function of the embodiment of the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 and the display screen shown in FIG. 5.

First, Figure 3 is a diagram showing the overall process flow for automatic postcard creation. On the initial menu screen (not shown), press the extended function instruction soft key [the key displayed at the bottom of the display screen (6)]. , when you press (Sl) the key is manually pressed by operating the corresponding key on the keyboard (4), the AI (
automatic) to display the postcard creation menu (S2), here A
When I select postcard creation (S3), a postcard usage menu is displayed (S4, Figure 5-1).

For example, if a New Year's card is selected (S5), a sample selection menu is displayed (S6, FIG. 5-2).

Here, the sample reduced image (II...) is displayed on the display screen.
Six types are displayed. Each of these reduced images is stored on a floppy disk (10) in a pre-reduced state separately from the postcard sample screen (Dll) that will be used later to create postcards.
This is displayed on the sample selection menu screen. The cursor (C) is currently at the "new" position,
By operating the cursor keys, the cursor can be made to successively jump to desired parts of the sample image, and as the cursor moves, the entire reduced sample image is displayed in a non-reversed manner.

In S7, select New [Soft keys include Postcard Portrait (New) and Postcard Landscape (New), select either], and display a blank postcard screen (Dl) and sample screen (D2) with the former on the left. Display on the left and right (S8). Data indicating whether the postcard is vertical or horizontal is set in the screen management buffer (M14) and also written into the postcard text memory (Mll). When you select a sample, the sample postcard screen (D 11)
and a sample screen (D2) are displayed on the left and right with the former on the left (S9, FIG. 5-3).

This postcard sample data consists of the same data as the postcard text data described above, that is, the paper size, the number of elements included in the sample, the number of each element, position information, size information, etc., and the image data of the elements ( outline data) is stored on a floppy disk (10). When the display of a certain postcard sample is instructed, the above-mentioned postcard sample data is read out from the floppy disk and displayed, and the sample data is also stored in the postcard text memory (M
ll).

When creating a postcard, there are two cases: starting from a new blank postcard, and starting from a postcard sample and modifying and editing it. In the former case, SIO is created after S8.
Then, sample screen (D2) or palette) 11 screen (D3)
), the non-automatic layout function allows you to move and copy elements directly from the postcard screen (Dl) by specifying and moving them with the cursor, and the non-automatic layout function that allows you to move and copy elements directly from the postcard screen (Dl), and to display the -degree palette screen (D3) and place the elements from the sample screen (D2). Place elements on the palette screen (D
3) has an automatic layout function that automatically layouts elements to be placed on the palette screen (D3) within the postcard screen (Dl) after moving by operating the execution key. In the latter case, the sample screen (
You can move and edit elements directly from D2) or the palette screen (D3), or you can edit using the automatic layout function via the Ballet screen (D3). The sample screen (Dll) contains the elements to be placed and the palette screen (D3).
), which can be used as is to create postcards.

Sample screen control according to the flowchart of FIG. 4 will be explained below. Before that, sample screen data will be explained. As shown in FIG. 6, the sample screen (D2) has a first attribute (in the example, it only has illustrations of the zodiac signs, which refers to the types of zodiac signs), and a second attribute (in the example, an attribute called touch). A mixed screen (D20) in which many different elements are mixed (including different types such as brush touch, manga touch, stamp touch, etc.)
a) (b)) and a first homogeneous screen (D21) (Fig. 6 (c )(d)
) and a second similar screen (D
22) (Fig. 6 (e) (f)). Regarding the zodiac signs, there are 12 types within the first attribute and 4 types within the second attribute, the first homogeneous screen has 12 images equal to the number of zodiac signs, and the second homogeneous screen (D22) has 4 images. exist. For elements other than the zodiac signs, there is no first similar screen, but only a second similar screen.

The above mixed screen (D20), the first similar screen (D21),
The data on the second similar screen (D22) is in the 7-ohm format shown in Figure 7, and on the floppy disk (10) as shown in Figures 8 to 10.
is stored in Figure 7(a) shows the data of the number of type tables for the entire sample screen in 7 formats, including the number of type tables for fixed phrases (there is only one due to the number of types of the second attribute), the number of illustration type tables (the number of types for the second attribute). With the number of types,
16 types can be set such as brush touch, manga touch, etc.), and the number of title type tables (the number of types of the second attribute, 16 types can be set such as brush touch, manga touch, etc.). 7th
Figure (b) shows the data format of the table header.
D and size data, and the ID includes a purpose such as a New Year's card or Christmas, a title, an illustration, a fixed phrase, a type indicating the type of zodiac, a type, and a table mode. This type is the first in the table header of the first similar screen.
The type information of the second attribute is described in the table header of the second similar screen.

In the table mode, 0 indicates a table of mixed screens, 1 indicates a table of second similar screens, and 3 indicates a table of first similar screens. Figure 7(c) is the size data,
Includes the number of screens per table and table size (data length). Figure 7(d) is a table data format consisting of a separator, type, type, and data number.
Each element is described in this seven format format, all elements included in one sample screen are listed, and the next screen is sequentially listed. The separator is data indicating the separation of screens, the type is the first attribute information in the mixed screen table, and the second attribute information is in the first homogeneous screen table.
The first attribute information is described on the second similar screen. The type describes the title, illustration, fixed phrase, and type of zodiac,
The data number describes a number specific to each element.

With this data format, Figure 6(a)(b)
), the result will be as shown in Figure 8 (a), (b), and (c), and if the first homogeneous screen in Figure 6 (C) and (d) is described, it will be as shown in Figure 9 (A), (B). As shown in Figure 6 (e) (
Describing the second similar screen in f), Figures 10 (a) and (b)
It will be like this.

Next, a description will be given of control for variously changing the sample screen (D2) in order to select elements to be imported into the palette screen (D3) according to FIG. 4 based on the sample screen data.

88 or S9 in Fig. 4 overlaps with 88 and S9 in Fig. 3, and here a mixed sample screen with various attributes such as title, illustration, fixed phrase etc. A cursor (C) is displayed on the screen (Figure 5-3). At S12, keys such as soft keys are pressed manually. If you press the same kind display key (K1) here, you will get the type and type of the element where the cursor is located and the element number from the sample text memory (M12) that stores the data of the sample screen (D2) in Figure 5-3. When a sample screen is selected, the sample screen data is read from the floppy disk and necessary data is written into the sample text memory.

In S13, it is determined whether it is a zodiac. No here,
The process moves to S17, and a second similar screen containing the same elements is displayed (FIG. 5-4). Since the search for this screen is not for the zodiac, search for the same type of ID (second similar type) in the second similar screen table, that is, the table with ID 1, and find sample data that includes the same element number, The sample data is written into the sample text memory (M12), and based on this data, it is developed and displayed in the buffer memory (8). All sample data will be displayed in the same way below. When the next display key (K2) is pressed in Fig. 5-3, the next mixed screen is displayed in S9 (Fig. 5-5). This display can be performed using the mixed screen data shown in FIG. 8 by sequentially looking at the sample data separators to find the screen break of "1" and extracting the next screen data.

In Figure 5-5, move the cursor to the sheep element (item 24) as shown.
) position and press the same type display key (K1), it is determined in S13 whether or not it is a zodiac, and if it is YES here, the process moves to S14 and the first one containing the element (A24) is
Show similar screens.

(Figure 5-6) This screen display shows the type of element (A24) (the type of the first attribute is sheep) and the element number from the sample screen data in Figure 5-5 in the sample text memory (M12). In the case of the zodiac, the table mode of the ID is "
3", the first similar screen table header of type "0" indicating sheep is searched, and the sample data of FIG. 9(a) is displayed.

If you press the other species display key (K5) in Figure 5-6, Figure 6 (d)
) sample data (first similar screen) is displayed. This display finds the next header sample data in the first similar screen table and displays it.

Similarly, when the return display key (K4) is pressed in FIG. 5-6, the screen returns to 89 and a mixed screen including the element on which the cursor is located is displayed. The search on this screen is element N.

This is done using Similarly, in FIG. 5-6, when the cursor is placed on the element (iO) as shown in the figure, when the similar type display key (K2) is pressed, the second similar type screen containing the element (iO) is displayed at 812 (fifth screen). -Figure 7). To search this screen, search for the header of the second attribute "0" of the element (iO) in the table mode "1" of Helada ID (second similar screen data in Figure 10),
Display sample data containing the element (iO).

When you press the other type display key (K5) in Figure 5-7, the next screen with a different type of second attribute is displayed on the second same type screen (5th
-8 figure). This screen search is performed when the ID is "1" in Figure 10.
Find and display sample data for the table header next to ``. When the return display key (K4) is pressed in Figure 5-8, if the specific element where the cursor is located is the zodiac, the screen returns to the first homogeneous screen containing the same specific element, and if it is other than the zodiac, the screen returns to the mixed screen containing the same specific element. return. This screen search is also performed using the sample screen data shown in FIGS. 8 to 10.

With the above screen control, the transition from Figure 5-5 to Figure 5-6 is effective when you want to select a different touch (second attribute) for the same sheep (first attribute), and the transition from Figure 5-6 to Figure 5-6 is effective when you want to select a different touch (second attribute) for the same sheep (first attribute). To move to Figure 5-8, instead of searching for elements with other zodiac signs (first attribute) on the mixed screen, display a list of zodiac signs (second similar screen) and select the desired zodiac sign from this list. It is valid. The transition from FIG. 5-8 to FIG. 5-6 is effective when it is desired to change the touch (second attribute) for the same zodiac (first attribute). In this way, it is easier to select a desired element than when selecting desired elements with different combinations of first and second attributes from only the mixed screen. Furthermore, since the same type display key (K1) is used to control from the mixed screen to the first similar type screen and from the first similar type screen to the second similar type screen, the number of keys can be reduced. Also, the same effect can be obtained by sharing the return display key (K4).

As mentioned above, the element data of the sample screen above is stored as outline information on the floppy disk (1o), but the image information of the element is
In the case where the image is accompanied by halftone dots (AM) as in (a), if this image information is directly expressed as outline information, the amount of data will be unnecessarily large. Therefore, in the above embodiment, the amount of data is reduced by dividing the data into a data information section (JO), a shaded data section (Jl), and a basic data section (J2) as shown in FIG. 12(c). The data information section (JO) is common to the shaded data section (Jl) and the basic data section (J3), and includes data number, color information (black or color information), data format information (code , outline, image), type information (title,
information on whether it is an illustration or a fixed text), shading information indicating the type of shading (meaning that the specified type of shading is applied to the data in the shading data section), size information (information on the size before scaling) standard size information).

The shading data section (Jl) contains outline data to be shaded as shown in FIG. 12(b), that is, outline information of the contour line L1 and the contour line L2. The basic data section (J3) includes contour IILI, L2. L
Contains 3 outline data. The shaded data length (B1) indicates the data length of the shaded data section (Jl), and if there is no shaded data section as shown in FIG. 12 (d), data "2" indicating that there is no data is written. . The basic data length (B2) indicates the data length of the basic data length section (J2).

To display image information with such a structure, first, the data in the shaded data area is shaded using the shaded information in the data information area (JO) (shading is performed between the contour lines L1 and B2). , after displaying the hatched data, the basic data is superimposed and displayed to display the desired image data (FIG. 12(a)).

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment. For example, in the above-mentioned embodiment, operating the same type display key switches from the mixed screen to the first similar type screen, and operating the same type display key again switches from the first similar type screen to the second similar type screen. Although the configuration is such that the screen changes to the same type screen, it may be configured to change from the mixed screen to the second similar type screen, or from the second similar type screen to the first similar type screen. In this case, a return display operation on the first similar screen returns to the second similar screen, and a return display operation on the second similar screen returns to the first similar screen.

(G) Effect According to the present invention configured as described above, the first
The operation of finding a desired element with a different combination of an attribute and a second attribute can be easily performed by the same type display operation, which has great effects such as improving the element selection operability.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

All of the figures explain the present invention in detail, and FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the entire device, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram explaining the outline of functions, FIG. 3 is an overall flowchart, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the entire device. Sample screen control flowchart, Figures 5-1 to 5
-Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the display screen for each state, Figure 6 (a)
~(f) Lotus Figure 10 is a diagram showing an example of sample data corresponding to the sample screen in Figure 6, Figure 11 is a schematic diagram showing the data format of the text memory, Figure 12 (A) (B) (C) and (D) are explanatory diagrams of seven formats of sample elements to be shaded, the structure of the data of the same elements, the data format of the same elements, and the data of the elements that are not shaded, respectively.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In an image selection device that selects a desired element from a mixed display screen in which elements with different attributes and different types of elements with the same attribute are displayed in a mixed manner, a plurality of elements including a group of elements sharing a first attribute, The data of the first similar screen and the second
a data memory for storing data of a plurality of second homogeneous screens including a group of elements having a common attribute, and a homogeneous display for specific elements having the first attribute and the second attribute on the mixed screen; a first display control means for displaying a first similar screen (or a second similar screen) including the specific element when an operation is performed;
a second display control means for displaying another second similar screen (or first similar screen) containing the specific element when a similar display instruction operation is performed on a specific element of the same type screen (or second similar screen); image selection device.