JPH04211866A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform printout by automatically making correspondence between a document and a picture in the word processor. CONSTITUTION:A picture designated by picture designation information from a picture file part 102 is selectively taken out by storing document information while adding a page where the picture to be inserted and picture designation information designating the picture to be used there, and this is synthesized into the document pattern of the page designated by the picture designation information to generate pattern information for printing, and the document and picture normally according to the pattern information for printing are printed out based on the control information from an operation part 111. The only picture is printed out at the time of a hard copy command.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a word processor equipped with an image processing function.

0002

[Background Art] In recent years, as Japanese word processors have become popular and their uses have expanded, there has been a demand for printing documents processed by word processors together with images such as photographs and drawings related to the documents. has arisen. However, none of the conventional word processors has a function of processing and outputting documents and images in correspondence with each other. That is, conventionally, when combining images into a document processed by a word processor, images such as photographs and diagrams related to the document were inserted manually after the document was printed out.

0003

As described above, conventionally, inserting an image into a document processed by a word processor requires a lot of effort and time.

[0004] The present invention was made in view of the above circumstances.
The purpose is to provide a word processor that can automatically associate documents and images and print them out.

[0005]

[Means and Effects for Solving the Problems] The word processor according to the present invention adds image specification information that specifies a page where an image is to be inserted and an image to be used there to document information. Selectively extracts the image specified by the image specification information from among them, synthesizes it with the document pattern of the page specified by the same image specification information to generate print pattern information, and uses the control information from the input section to generate printing pattern information. Based on the printing pattern information, documents and images are normally printed out based on the printing pattern information, and only images are printed out when a hard copy command is issued.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 is an image reading device that reads an image by, for example, optical scanning (or laser scanning). 1
Reference numeral 02 denotes an image file unit using, for example, a video cassette recorder, which files images read by the image reading device 101 together with information to be referred to during image retrieval. 103
is an image input controller. In order to store the image information read by the image reading device 101 in the image file unit 102, the image input controller 103 organizes the image information into image storage data and sends it to the image file unit 102 via the image file controller 108. At the same time, information referenced during image search is similarly sent to the image file memory 102.

A document code file memory 104 stores a character coded document. A character pattern memory 105 stores various character patterns corresponding to each character code to be handled, and is accessed when patterning the document code read from the document code file memory 104 character by character. A document pattern memory 106 stores patterned document patterns in page or line units.

107 is a document processing device. The document processing device 107 reads all document codes (document information) of the document from the document code file memory 104 according to the file name, document name, etc. specified by the operation unit 111, and uses the character pattern memory 105 to read out all document codes (document information) of the document. It has a function of writing the pattern into the document pattern memory 106 after forming it into a pattern. The document processing device 107 also has a function to replace format codes such as line breaks or tabs included in the document code with patterns such as spaces (blanks) to make it printable, and an image attached to the document code. It has a function of sending designated information to the image file controller 108. Further, the document processing device 107 has a function of sending an image retrieval command to the image file controller 108 based on a page break code, image designation information, etc. included in the document code.

108 is an image file controller. This image file controller 108 has a control function for storing image storage data sent from the image input controller 103 and information to be referred to at the time of image search in the image file section 102, and a control function for storing the image storage data in the print data controller 109 (described later). It has the ability to directly transfer data and information. In addition, the image file controller 108 is configured to control the document processing device 107 or the operation unit 111.
It has a function of reading a designated image from the image file section 102 according to image designation information, image retrieval command, etc. sent from the image file section 102.

A print data controller 109 receives the document pattern information sent from the document pattern memory 106 and the image information sent from the image file controller 108, superimposes these pieces of information in synchronization, and obtains print data. It is. Reference numeral 110 denotes a printing device that prints out documents, images, etc. according to print data obtained from the print data controller 109.

[0012] Here, the operation of the word processor with the above configuration will be explained.

[0013] The image reading device 101 reads image information in units of pages of A4 format, for example, and sends this read information to the image input controller 103. Image input controller 1
03, the input image reading information is transferred to the image file section 1.
02, and sends it to the image file controller 108.In addition, after the image information is filed, it can be arbitrarily read page by page. It is sent to the file controller 108. The image file controller 108 stores the input image storage data and information referred to during a search in the image file unit 102 in units of pages. At this time, decide in advance where the image to be input (read) will be inserted in the text printed on the same page, and determine the area allocation (the insertion position and shape of the image, and the text Match the empty position and shape. Further, documents to be printed out are coded and stored in the document code file memory 104 in advance. The means for inputting the document into the document code file memory 104 at this time is a well-known technology in existing word processors (for example, word processors with a kana-kanji conversion function), and therefore its explanation will be omitted here.

Here, the document code file memory 1
When inserting an image into the print page of the document to be written to 04,
Information specifying the page and the image to be used there (image specifying information) is attached to the head of the document code and written in the document code file memory 104. This writing to the document code file memory 104 is performed by the document processing device 107.
It is carried out under the control of When the document processing device 107 receives a print command from the operation unit 111, it reads the image designation information attached to the head of the document code from the document code file memory 104, and then reads the document code. After sending the read image designation information to the image file controller 108, the document processing device 107 patternizes the document code character by character using the character pattern memory 105, and converts the patterned document pattern into a document code. Stored in pattern memory 106.

At this time, when the document processing device 107 detects image designation information in the document code, it sends an image retrieval command to the image file controller 108. Upon receiving the image designation information, the image file controller 108 searches for the designated image according to this information. Then, upon receiving the image retrieval command, the image file controller 108 reads the image data of the searched page. This image data and the document pattern stored in document pattern memory 106 are input to print data controller 109 . The print data controller 109 synchronizes the input document pattern and image data, superimposes them page by page, replaces them with print data, and sends the data to the printing device 110. The printing device 110 prints out documents and images according to the input print data. When no image is selected, only the document is printed out, similar to a normal word processor. Further, when printing an image over the entire surface of one page, by leaving the corresponding page of the document as a blank page, one page of only the image is printed.

Further, when printing out an image read by the image reading device 101 as it is, a hard copy command is sent from the operation unit 111 to the image file controller 108. Upon receiving this command, the image file controller 108 sends the output information of the image input controller 103 as is to the print data controller 109. As a result, the image read by the image reading device 101 is printed out by the printing device 110.

Furthermore, when it is desired to make a hard copy of the image stored in the image file section 102, image designation information and an image retrieval command are inputted through the operation section 111. Thereby, the image file controller 108 searches for an image of the page according to the inputted image designation information, and sends the read image data to the print data controller 109. As a result, the designated file image is printed out by the printing device 110.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, by adopting the system configuration described above, it is possible to print a combination of documents and images, significantly expanding the usage of word processors, and making it possible to print documents and images in combination. (electronic copying), any image file, any copy thereof, etc. can be performed in one system, resulting in an economically advantageous system configuration with a wide range of use.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101... Image reading device, 102... Image file section, 10
3... Image input controller, 104... Document code file memory, 105... Character pattern memory, 106... Document pattern memory, 107... Document processing device, 108... Image file controller, 109... Print data controller, 110... Printing device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] An input section for inputting various information;
an image reading section that reads the image; an image storage section that stores the image read by the image reading section; and image specification information that specifies the page where the image is to be inserted and the image to be used therein, which is added to the document information. a document storage section for storing the document information; a document processing section for reading the document information stored in the document storage section and patterning it character by character; and a document processing section for detecting the image designation information; a document pattern memory that stores document patterns page by page;
an image selection section that selectively extracts an image specified by the image specification information from the image storage section based on the image specification information detected by the document processing section; a print information generation section that combines the document pattern of the specified page stored in the document pattern memory and the specified image taken out by the image selection section and converts it into printing pattern information; and a printing unit that normally prints out documents and images according to the printing pattern information generated by the printing information generation unit, and prints out only images when a hard copy command is received. A word processor that features: