JPH0428310B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field to which the invention pertains) The present invention relates to a system for displaying information such as characters and figures one after another on a drawing in a predetermined order and for reproducing still images and simple moving images. The present invention relates to an information input/editing device that performs temporal editing of display order, display time, etc.

(Prior Art) Conventional devices of this type are configured to create one piece of information as a whole, and also display control information such as character codes and delay codes that delay the effect of graphic elements such as straight lines and circles. Since they were created and modified in the same way as character codes and graphic elements, even if all display control information within a certain range was to be modified in the same way, it was necessary to recreate all of the individual information, which took a lot of time to edit. It had its drawbacks when it was needed. A similar problem also occurs when erasing a certain range of information or moving it to another location.

(Objective of the Invention) In order to solve these drawbacks, the present invention creates information such as character codes and graphical elements such as straight lines and circles (an information section consisting of one or more character codes and graphical elements is called cell information). All information consists of multiple cells.) can be created, edited, and stored in units of cells, and at the same time, display control information such as display order and display time can be created, edited, and stored in units of cell information, This allows efficient editing of each cell information unit, and the drawings will be explained in detail below.

(Structure and operation of the invention) FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment showing the structure of the present invention, in which 1 is an information input section for inputting character codes, graphic elements, display control information, etc.; a central control unit, 3 a main storage unit that stores input character codes, graphic elements, and display control information in cell units;
4 is a display control unit that displays the created information as needed; 5 is a display unit; and 6 is a conversion unit that generates display information from stored cell information and display control information generation instructions for each cell.

These operations will be explained below.

First, the character code input from the information input section 1,
The graphic elements or display control information are sent to the central control unit 2.
The information is stored in the main storage unit 3 via the cell information, and the first cell information is created. At the same time, the stored information is displayed on the display section 5 via the central control section 2 and display control section 4. Next, instructions for display delay time and display order for the first cell information (together referred to as a display control information generation instruction) are input from the information input unit 1, and the input display control information generation instruction is It is stored in the main storage unit 3 via the central control unit 2 together with the first cell information. Thereafter, the second, third... nth cell information and display control information generation instructions are inputted in the same manner, and each is treated as individual cell information in the main storage unit 3.
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To modify created cell information or display control information, first input the number of the cell information you want to modify from the information input section 1, and then input the cell information from the main storage section 3 via the central control section 2. At the same time, the searched cell information is displayed on the display section 5 via the display control section 4. Next, control codes, character codes, graphic elements, etc. for editing such as corrections and additions are input from the information input unit 1, and the contents of the cell information are corrected by the function of the central control unit 2, and the results are stored in the main memory. Store in section 3. At the same time, the corrected cell information is displayed on the display section 5 via the central control section 2 and the display control section 4.

In order to generate the cell information and display control information in FIGS. 1 and 2, the central control unit 2 first inserts a delay code in accordance with the specified delay time via the conversion unit 6, and inserts the delay code in the specified display order. The cell information is sorted accordingly and converted into a predetermined information format based on the display order shown in FIG. The converted information is stored in the main storage section as new cell information, and simultaneously displayed on the display section 5 via the display control section 4. The trigger for this conversion process is
This is performed immediately after cell information is newly input or modified, after all information has been created, or by key input by the operator.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of a conversion unit that creates display information in a predetermined format from cell information, display delay time, and display order, in which 61 is a conversion control unit, 62 is a delay time register, and 63 is a This is a cell information buffer. The conversion method will be explained below using this figure.

First, when the conversion process is started due to the above-mentioned trigger, the central control unit 2 searches the display control information of each cell in the main storage unit 3 for the cell information with the first display order and the display delay time, and retrieves the display delay time and The display delay time is transferred to the delay time register 62 and the first cell information is transferred to the cell information buffer 63 via the conversion control unit 61.

Next, the conversion control unit 61 controls the delay time register 62
A delay code with a delay time set according to the value of the register is generated, the generated delay code is inserted between each character code or graphic element in the cell information buffer 63, and the converted cell information is stored in the main memory. It is stored at the beginning of the storage position of the post-conversion information in section 3.
Next, a delay code is similarly inserted into the cell information on the second page, and the converted cell information is stored in the second storage position of the converted information in the main storage section 3.

Thereafter, the cell information is similarly converted to the third, fourth, .

In this embodiment, the display information for all of one image information is created and then displayed.
This can also be achieved by sequentially converting and displaying individual cell information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of cell information, in which the cell information and display control information generation instructions shown in 1 and 2 of the figure are converted into an information format of a predetermined format based on the display order shown in 3. It is something.

In figures 1 and 2, the display order indicates that information in a predetermined format is created in this order,
The display delay time specifies the delay time for the execution of each code in the cell information, where 1 represents the standard speed, and the larger the value, the slower the execution speed. In addition, in cell information, APS is a control code that indicates the display start position of characters, such as "three", "corner",
"Shape"... is a character code, and POLY is a code indicating a polygonal graphic element. In 3,
WAIT5 is a control code that delays execution of subsequent commands, and 5 is a parameter indicating the delay time. For the cell information No. 2, a delay code according to the delay time of the display control information generation instruction is inserted before the code indicating the character or graphic element. In this example, a delay code is inserted before each code indicating a character or graphic element to slow down the overall execution speed. This can be realized by various methods such as adding a delay time parameter.

Figure 4 is a diagram showing an example of the screen display when the cell information shown in Figure 3 is displayed. "A", "B", and "C" are displayed with a delay time of 5 seconds. Also, if the display order of 1 and 2 is rewritten, in Fig. 4, the letters "A", "B", and "C" representing the triangles and vertices of the figure are displayed first, and then the character strings are displayed at the top of the screen. “Triangle ABC” is displayed.

(Effects) As explained above, in the present invention, cell information consisting of characters or graphic elements is used as a unit, and the information converter inserts a wait command according to the display order for each cell information unit to generate combined cell information. It is configured to generate a cell information unit and can be created and edited in units of cell information, so information that includes temporal elements such as changing the order of text or graphic information or changing the display time can be created and edited in units of cell information. This has the advantage that corrections can be made efficiently and display processing can be speeded up.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment showing the configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of a converter that creates display information in a predetermined format from cell information, display delay time, and display order. , FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of cell information, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display when the cell information shown in FIG. 3 is displayed. 1... Information input section, 2... Central control section, 3...
Main storage unit, 4...Display control unit, 5...Display unit, 6
...Conversion unit, 61...Conversion control unit, 62...Delay time register, 63...Cell information buffer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A central control unit that configures cell information as a set of a plurality of characters or graphic elements, and a weight that inputs elements of the cell information and includes delay information that controls display order information and display timing of the cell information. an information input unit capable of inputting a command; and generating conversion cell information by inserting delay information of the wait command into the cell information;
an information conversion unit that combines the converted cell information based on display order information of the wait command to generate combined cell information; an information storage unit that stores the combined cell information; and an information storage unit that stores the combined cell information; An image information editing device comprising: a display control unit that displays the input characters or graphic elements on a display unit.