JPH05103348A - Color communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the versatility of the subject equipment by designating a desired format out of routine formats and generating color picture data, and then, transmitting the designated data and picture data. CONSTITUTION:A character information/routine format selecting means 16 designates a desired format out of routine formats. A video decoder circuit 1 generates color picture data of the format designated by the means 16. Then pictures 18 fetched to a picture memory 3 by transmitted-picture fetching operation are successively read out from the memory 3 in accordance with the operation of a transmission starting switch provided in an operating section 11 and a compression/elongation processor 5 performs compression processing operation on the pictures 18. The operated results are outputted to a CPU 6 and included in a packet by means of a packet processing circuit 10 together with the selecting number of the routine format, a received-picture data base code, and character information, modulated in accordance with a line by means of a MODEM 12, and outputted to a communication line 14. Then the received data become visible images due to the picture data, and thus the versatility can be improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a color communication device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known an apparatus for transmitting a still image information at a high speed by compressing the image information to compress the information amount.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional still image transmitting / receiving apparatus, a still video image captured on the transmitting side is simply transmitted, and incidental information of the image is added to the received image to further receive the image. The problem is that it is difficult to make a still image transmission / reception system that can be automatically printed in combination with the printing format and character information stored in the device on the other side, for example, sending a catalog of goods immediately or advertising paper and creating it by only the operation on the side. was there.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above problems and provide a versatile color communication device.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the color communication device of the first invention of the present application is a means for designating a desired fixed format from a predetermined fixed format, and a fixed format within the fixed format. The image forming apparatus includes a generation unit for generating color image data, data for specifying a fixed format specified by the specifying unit, and a unit for transmitting the image data generated by the generation unit.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the color communication device of the second invention of the present application, data for designating a fixed format to be transmitted, and receiving means for receiving color image data in the fixed format, And output means for reading out the standard format from the storage means in accordance with the designated data and outputting it in combination with the color image data.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the structure of the transmitting side will be described first. Reference numeral 1 is a decoder circuit for decoding an input video signal input from, for example, a video camera or a document scanner, and 2 is A for digitizing the video signal.
The / D converter 3 is an image memory for temporarily storing a digital image, and has a capacity of one screen, for example. Reference numeral 4 is a memory controller that controls the operation of the image memory 3, and 5 is a compression / expansion processor that compresses the image captured in the image memory and reduces the amount of communication information. For example, the image data is compressed by the ADCT method. 6 is a CPU that controls the overall operation of the transmission side, 7 is a D / A converter, 8 is an encoder, 9 is a monitor, 10 is a packet processing circuit, 11 is an operation unit having switches described below, 12 is a modem, Reference numeral 13 is a line interface, and 14 is a communication line. In this embodiment, ISDN will be described as an example of a communication line.
Reference numeral 17 is a display example in which a sample print sample of a fixed format output on the receiving side is displayed together with a number correspondence table.

Next, the structure of the receiving side will be described. Three
1 is a decoder circuit for decoding an input video signal, 32
Is an A / D converter, 33 is an image memory, 34 is a memory controller, 35 is a compression / expansion processor, and 36 is a CP.
U, 37 is a D / A converter, 38 is an encoder, 39 is a monitor, 40 is a packet processing circuit, 41 is an operation unit, 42 is a modem, 43 is a line interface, 44 is a fixed format storage unit and a dot pattern of character information. It is a storage unit. In addition to the dot pattern, the storage unit may store code data, for example, a fixed format and character information expressed in a page description language. Reference numeral 45 is a person image data storage unit, 47 is a print format expansion memory for expanding the standard format, received image, and received characters into a print format, and 46 is a full color printing unit. Reference numeral 47 designates a printer section composed of a print pattern development memory 45 and a full-color print section 46. Reference numeral 49 is a color scanner for inputting the standard format and the person image.

In the above-described embodiment, the transmitting side device and the receiving side device are different from each other in configuration, but in the present invention, the transmitting side device and the receiving side device have the same configuration having both transmitting and receiving characteristics. Good.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

[Capturing of Transmission Image in Image Memory] A video image signal selected from a video camera, a still video camera or the like is decoded into a luminance signal and a color difference signal by a decoder 1 and guided to an A / D converter 2 and then from a memory controller. The baseband video signal taken in according to the conversion clock of is converted into digital data sequentially. The CPU 6 is operated by operating the capture switch of the operation unit 11.
Sends a control signal to the memory controller 4 to start capturing an image, whereby the memory controller 4 starts an operation of writing an image of one frame of the video signal into the image memory 3.

The still image data taken into the image memory 3 is repeatedly read out at high speed under the control of the memory controller 4, converted into an analog signal by the D / A converter 7, converted into a video signal by the encoder circuit 8, and monitored. The still image captured in 9 can be confirmed.

"Character information / standard format selection method"
Next, FIG. 2 shows a key top display on a character input screen of a personal computer used as an example of character information / standard format selection means and an input method.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 150 is a main character information / standard format selecting means, which has a liquid crystal on the display section 152. As shown in FIG. 4, a pen pointing position detector 158 made of a transparent material is arranged on the liquid crystal screen 152. The CPU 170 of FIG. 4 determines the character type of the key input from the position pointed by the input pen 155 from the key top displayed on the liquid crystal screen. The CPU 170 reads out the determined character pattern from the font dictionary 174, and executes VRA
It is stored in M176 and displayed on the input character display unit 153 by the liquid crystal driver 184. If necessary, Kanji conversion and special characters can be inserted (the Kanji code used in this embodiment uses JIS C 6228 1983 JIS Kanji first level). The EEPROM 178 is a memory for storing the basic display patterns shown in FIGS.
The ROM 172 is a program memory of the CPU 170. Reference numeral 151 denotes a switch for switching between the character input screen and the screen of the standard format selection means. When this part is designated by the pen 155, the CPU 170 switches the liquid crystal display screen to the input item selection and the standard format selection screen shown in FIG.
By clicking the Enter 'key with the pen 155, for example, “Tomishige Taguchi” is input to the item currently selected, that is, the item of the person in charge in FIG. Next, the input item selection method will be described with reference to FIG. As such an input method, kana-kanji conversion performed by a word processor or the like may be performed.

[0015] The above personnel price size floor plan Address Remarks in the present embodiment shown as an input item in FIG. 5, for example 6
There is an item. Further, in this embodiment, when no item is entered, such as immediately after the power is turned on, the item (person in charge) blinks to request entry. Therefore, information can be surely input. Basically, the blinking item can be input by clicking a desired character key with the pen 155 on the character input screen of FIG. Price size floor plan of the input items and the part that is displayed the entr to click with the pen 155
You can change to address remarks . When any item is clicked with the pen 155 in the display example of FIG. 3, the clicked item starts blinking and the character of the item can be input in the same manner. After inputting a series of input items, the print standard format is selected by the switches 1 to 9 of 160. In the present embodiment, two types of standard formats, for example, standard format 1 of excavated property information and standard format 2 of used property information, which are shown in FIG. 5, are registered in the standard format storage unit 44 on the receiving side. The user on the transmission side selects a desired format from the print sample example of the standard format and the number correspondence table 17, and the corresponding numbers are the numbers 1 to 9 of the ten-key pad 160 and the pen 155.
Click by. In this embodiment, the case where the standard format of the first excavated property is selected is taken as an example. Figure 1
In the character information / standard format selection means 16
170 passes data to the CPU 6 of the transmission terminal via the interface cable 156 via the I / O 179.

"Transmission Operation" The image 18 captured in the image memory 3 by the operation of capturing the transmission image is the operation unit 11
Are sequentially read from the image memory 3 in response to the operation of the transmission start switch, and the compression / expansion processor 5 performs a compression processing operation such as ADPCM or orthogonal transform + quantization + code conversion, and outputs the operation result. Digital data is CP
As shown in FIG. 8, the standard format selection number 175, the received image database search code 176 and the character information 178 are output to U6 and are packetized by the packet processing circuit 10 and the modulation adapted to the line is packetized by the modem 12. The signal is applied and output to the communication line 14.

The transmission of the character code in this embodiment is J
It is all performed by the JIS Kanji first-level code defined by IS C 6226-1983.

Further, the code of the person in charge in this embodiment is used as a search code of the person image storage section 45 which is the received natural image database. In this embodiment, the person in charge is "Tomishi Taguchi", so the JIS corresponding to "Tomishi Taguchi"
The JIS Kanji first level code defined by C 6226-1983 is as follows. Address A ₆ ~
A ₁₇ is, for example, MB834200A- as a kanji ROM.
This is an address that specifies the type of kanji when 20-21 and 022 are used.

[0019]

[Outer 1]

Received image database search code 1 in FIG.
The code of the above-mentioned person in charge, "Tomishi Taguchi", is sequentially inserted in 76. When transmitting in MSB order, the order is as follows. "2B1011F433643240"

Next, the price , size , and
Each item of floor plan , address , and remarks is also converted into a Kanji code and inserted into the character information code string 178. Further, the compressed image data is packetized with a flag, a control code, a packet number, a CRC, which will be described later, and a flag added for each predetermined amount of data, as shown in FIG.

"Operation on the receiving side" The modulated data on the transmitting side received by the line interface 43 on the receiving side via the communication line 14 in FIG. 1 (there may be an exchange in the middle) is demodulated by the modem 42. The packet processing circuit 40 controls the CRC (Ciclic Redun).
It is judged whether the packet has been correctly received by the dunky check code), and only the data of the packet which is judged to be correctly received is passed to the CPU 36 and separated into the standard format selection number, the received image database search code and the compressed image data. To be done. The compressed image data is output to the compression / expansion processor 35, and is calculated in order to expand the original image and written in the image memory 33 in order. The image written in the image memory 33 can be confirmed on the monitor 39 like the transmitting side terminal.

On the other hand, in the character information code string 178, the type of character or Chinese character is specified from the code information, and the font is developed using the font dot data or the font data built in the receiving side. For example, it is the dot font data of the explanation character 170 and the person in charge 171 of FIG. Further, the corresponding person image data is retrieved from the person image storage section 45 in charge based on the received Kanji character code of the person in charge, and the image data shown in the person image 169 in the image database in FIG. It is transferred to the print pattern development memory 180 via the partial communication interface 186. The format corresponding to the standard format selected on the transmitting side is read out by the standard format code 175 shown in FIG. 8 from the standard format file for excavated property in the standard format storage unit 44 of FIG. In the read standard format file, information on how to map the received image 168 from the transmission side, the character information 170 and the natural image 169 from the person image storage unit 55 on the reception side is shown in FIG. , And then the fixed format information is stored in the draw format. Referring to the mapping information, FIG.
The image is expanded in the print pattern expansion memory 180 shown in FIG. When all the print information has been expanded in the print pattern expansion memory 180 according to the standard format, the CPU 36 of FIG. 1 gives a print start control command via the printer communication interface 186 shown in FIG. 48 is operated. The completed image of the print can be directly used as an advertisement or a catalog as shown by 172 in FIG.

FIG. 9 shows the details of the printer section. In FIG. 9, reference numeral 181 denotes a reading unit for reading data to be printed from the print pattern development memory unit 180. A printer driver 182 outputs a signal for driving the printer head. Reference numeral 183 denotes a mechanical unit for printing and a print head. A printer controller 185 controls the entire printer according to an instruction from the CPU 36. A timing clock generator 184 controls the timing of each unit.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the character information and the selection code of the standard print format stored in the receiving side are added to the receiving side in the video image from the transmitting side and the transmitting side is transmitted. In this way, the color natural image and character information from the sender can be automatically laid out in a standard format according to the print format, and printing can be performed at the receiving side without changing the print that is automatically printed. Will be available for.

(Other Embodiments) The line may be a conventional analog line, but an ISDN line operates in the same manner and similar effects can be expected.

In the embodiment, the storage unit of the standard format and the person image storage unit of the person in charge are written separately, but the same storage medium is used.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, data representing the color of each character string may be added to the data designating the standard format as shown in FIG. In the embodiment of FIG. 11, as such data, when RGB data is represented by 8 bits, for example, R = 5 as a color of a character string indicating a person's name.
0, G = 80, and B = 60. The color of the character string may be input by the character input / standard format selection means shown in FIG. The color designation in this embodiment is R, G,
Instead of designating the value of B data, for example, a color number may be determined in advance and determined according to the color number.

The color designation is not limited to each character string, and the color may be designated for each character. In accordance with the color-designated data, the CPU 36 of FIG. 1 controls the data to be written in the C, M, Y, and Bk planes of the print pattern memory 47 and prints the colored characters.

As described above, since the standard format or the color designation of the character string is performed, the color communication device having more versatility can be provided in this embodiment.

Further, in the present embodiment, the printer shown in FIG. 9 has been described as the output device of the receiving example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a color display may be used. The point is that the received data can be observed as a visible image.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, a versatile color communication device can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a still image transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of a character input image of the character input / standard format selection means in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows an example of input item selection and standard format selection keys of the character input / standard format selection means in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of character information / standard format selection means in FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a fixed format according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a standard format, a received image, and received character information selected on the transmitting side according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a print image in which a standard format selected on the transmission side, a received image, and received character information are incorporated according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a packet data format of this embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a detailed configuration of the printer unit 48 of the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a fixed format file format in a fixed format storage unit on the receiving side.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing another example of the fixed format file format in the fixed format storage unit on the receiving side.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Video Decoder Circuit 2 A / D Converter 3 Image Memory 4 Memory Controller 5 Compression / Expansion Processor 6 CPU 7 D / A Converter 8 Video Encoder 9 Monitor 10 Packet Processing Circuit 11 Operation Unit 12 Modem 13 Line Interface 14 Communication Line 31 Video Decoder circuit 32 A / D converter 33 Image memory 34 Memory controller 35 Compression / expansion processor 36 CPU 37 D / A converter 38 Video encoder 39 Monitor 40 Packet processing circuit 41 Operation unit 42 Modem 43 Line interface 44 Fixed format storage unit 45 People Image storage unit 47 Print pattern development memory 48 Color image printer unit 49 Printer unit

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A unit for designating a desired standard format from a predetermined standard format, a generating unit for generating color image data in the standard format, data for designating the standard format designated by the designating unit, and the data for designating the standard format. And a means for transmitting the image data generated by the generating means. 2. Data for designating a standard format to be transmitted, receiving means for receiving color image data in the standard format, the standard format being read from a storage means in accordance with the designated data, and the color image data A color communication device comprising: an output unit configured to output in combination. 3. The color communication device according to claim 1, wherein the data designating the standard format includes data designating the color of the standard format. 4. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: searching a database for a natural image corresponding to a specific character code to be transmitted, and outputting the searched natural image together with the standard format. 5. A character string according to a specific character code to be transmitted is searched from a database, the searched character string data is converted into a font pattern, and is output together with the fixed format. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein 6. The color communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the output means is a color print. 7. The color communication device according to claim 2, wherein the output means is a color display.