JPH0512396A - Image information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display the whole image in one area of a display and also displays a specific partial image in another area on the same screen. CONSTITUTION:When image data of unfixed size are edited, the size of an A area 21a on the CRT display device 21 is determined according to the size of the image data. Then the remaining part is assigned to a B area 21b. Part of the whole image, displayed in the A area 21a, to be edited is extracted as a partial image, which is displayed in the B area 21b. This partial image is varied to size with which the image can easily be edited in the B area 21, and a specific editing process is performed. The result of the editing process for the partial image in the B area 21b is reflected on the whole image in the A area 21a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

 [Object of the Invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information processing device such as an electronic filing device capable of simultaneously displaying a whole image and a partial image on one screen of a display device.

[0002]

As is well known, an electronic filing apparatus can read image information registered (recorded) on an optical disk and display it on a display or display image information read by a scanner. It is like this.

In this kind of electronic filing apparatus, for example, A5, B5, A4, B4, A3 and A0 size image information is displayed on the display to perform registration, search or edit processing. ..

However, the image information displayed on the display is generally the above-mentioned A5, B5, A4, B.
It was limited to standard sizes such as 4, A3 and A0 sizes, that is, only standard images were displayed and edited. For this reason, non-standard size (non-standard size) image information with extremely large vertical and horizontal lengths squeezes out from the display screen and must be reduced when trying to display the entire image without seeing details. There was a drawback that it became difficult.

[0005]

As described above, conventionally, when image information of non-standard size is displayed on the display, it is difficult to see and workability is poor.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an image information processing apparatus capable of easily displaying non-standard size image information and improving workability.

[Constitution of Invention]

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, in the image information processing apparatus of the present invention, a display means capable of displaying image information and an area of the display means are provided. First display control means for displaying the whole of the image information, designating means for designating a part of the whole image displayed in one area of the display means by the first display control means, and this designating means Second display control means for displaying the designated partial image in another area of the display means.

[0009]

According to the present invention, since the whole image and its partial image can be displayed at the same time by the above means, it is possible to work on the partial image while viewing the whole image.

[0010]

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

FIG. 8 shows the configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to the present invention.

That is, this electronic filing apparatus is
A page memory (PM) 1 connected to the CPU 11 via a CPU 11 and an image bus 12 for controlling the whole
3, display memory (DM) 14, enlargement / reduction circuit 15, compression / decompression circuit (CODEC) 16, scanner interface (Scanner I / F) 17, printer interface (Printer I / F) 1.
8, a console 19 as an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, an optical disk device 20, a CRT display device (display) 21, a scanner 22 and a printer 23.

The CPU 11 performs various controls for recording, searching, and editing processing of image data (image information).

The page memory 13 is a memory for temporarily storing, for example, image data to be recorded on the optical disc 20a or image data read from the optical disc 20a. The page memory 13 has several pages of A4 size original (document) image data. It has a corresponding storage capacity and functions as an image memory. The page memory 13 is provided with a buffer memory 13a.
Via the optical disk device 20 via the optical disk 20a
The image data to be recorded in is transferred.

The display memory 14 is for temporarily storing image data to be displayed on the CRT display device 21. In the display memory 14, for example, the image data actually displayed in each window in the display window on the CRT display device 21, that is, the image data in the page memory 13, is enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted, or inverted in black and white. The image data subjected to is stored.

If the image data displayed on the CRT display device 21 is non-standard size image data other than the standard size such as A5, B5, A4, B4, A3 and A0 size, the display memory 14 stores The entire image and its partial image are stored. In this case, the display memory 14 is divided into two parts corresponding to the respective areas on the image display area in the CRT display device 21, one of which stores the entire image and the other of which stores the partial image.

The enlargement / reduction circuit 15 is provided with, for example, image data read from the optical disk 20a or the scanner 2
Image data read by 2 or input, or CR
The image data displayed on the T display device 21 is subjected to processing such as enlargement and reduction.

A compression / expansion circuit 16 connected to the enlargement / reduction circuit 15 performs an encoding process for compressing image data (reduces redundancy) and decompression (restores the reduced redundancy). It is for performing a decoding process for performing.

Console 1 connected to the CPU 11
Reference numeral 9 designates unique retrieval information for image data consisting of code data and image data to be recorded on the optical disc 20a, recording, retrieval,
It is used to input various operation commands such as edit processing. In addition, by using a mouse, for example, the CRT display device 2
By moving the cursor (not shown) displayed in the display window on 1 vertically and horizontally and giving an instruction at the desired position, the contents of the display where the cursor is located (various modes) Or area designation or icon for image editing) is selected or instructed.

The optical disk device 20 records (registers) image data read by the scanner 22 and code data input by the console 19 on the optical disk 20a. In addition, image data corresponding to the search information designated by the console 19 is recorded on the optical disc 2
0a is searched.

The address position, image size, etc. of each image data on the optical disk 20a is managed by the CPU 11 for each document. In this case, the image data are in a one-to-one correspondence as the pages that make up the document.

The CRT display device 21 is, for example, a cathode ray tube display device, and displays image data read by the scanner 22 or code data or image data read by the optical disk device 20 in addition to the operation menu. Is. The CRT display device 21 is a multi-window type display device capable of simultaneously displaying four image data using a maximum of four windows in an image display area for displaying image data. The image data displayed in each window can be independently edited such as enlargement, reduction, rotation and scrolling.

Further, for example, A5, B5, A4, B4,
When displaying image data of a non-standard size other than the standard size such as A3 and A0 size, the image display area is divided into an A area and a B area, and the entire image is in the A area and the whole area is in the B area. Partial images are displayed. For the partial image displayed in this B area, enlargement, reduction,
In addition to rotation and scrolling, various editing processes are possible.

The scanner 22 is, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device, and obtains an electric signal according to image data on the original by scanning the original with a laser beam.

The printer 23 prints out image data read from a document, code data and image data read from the optical disk 20a, image data displayed on the CRT display device 21, or the like. In other words, it is output as a hard copy.

FIG. 1 shows an example of displaying image data of non-standard size on the CRT display device 21.

In this case, the image display area of the CRT display device 21 is divided into an A area 21a and a B area 21b, and the entire image as vertically long image data of a non-standard size is displayed in the A area 21a. In the area 21b, the partial image (the range indicated by the broken line) extracted from the whole image is enlarged and displayed.

As a method of dividing the areas 21a and 21b at this time, for example, an appropriate A area 21a is first determined from the vertical and horizontal sizes of the entire image, and the remaining area is assigned to the B area 21b. Further, the A region 21a is determined by either an automatic mode in which the ratio of the vertical length to the horizontal length of the entire image is automatically calculated or a manual mode in which the operator designates with a mouse or the like.

Thus, the entire image is displayed in the A area 21a and the B area 2 in the image display area of the CRT display device 21.
With the partial image displayed on 1b at the same time, various editing processes are performed on the image data of non-standard size.

Reference numeral 210 is a display area on the CRT display device 21 for displaying icons such as scrolling.

Further, although the case where the image display area is divided into two in the vertical direction is shown by taking the vertically long image data as an example, in the case of the horizontally long image data, the A areas 21a and B are arranged in the horizontal (vertical) direction.
The area 21b is set.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.

FIG. 2 shows the flow of processing when editing image data of non-standard size.

For example, it is now assumed that an instruction to edit image data of non-standard size is input from the console 19. Then, the image display area of the CRT display device 21 is divided into an A area 21a and a B area 21b. At this time, if the image data to be edited is, for example, image data that is extremely long in the horizontal direction, first, the size of the A area 21a is automatically or manually determined based on the size of the image data. Will be decided. And the rest is B area 2
1b, which divides the image display area into upper and lower parts.

When the image display area is divided, the display memory 14 is also divided into two parts accordingly, and the image data is stored as it is in the storage area corresponding to the area A 21a. As a result, as shown in FIG.
The entire image of the image data is displayed in the A area 21a on the T display device 21.

When the whole image is displayed on the A area 21a, the portion of the whole image to be edited is designated by using a mouse or the like. Then, the B area 2 of this partial image
By designating the display position on 1b using a mouse or the like, the image data corresponding to the partial image is stored in the corresponding position of the storage area on the display memory 14 corresponding to the B area 21b. It As a result, as shown in FIG. 4, the partial image designated by the entire image (shown by the broken line in the figure) is taken out and displayed in the designated position on the B area 21b with the size unchanged.

After this, as shown in FIG. 5, the partial image is enlarged (or reduced) to a size that is easy for the operator to edit, and normal image editing such as enlargement / reduction, rotation, and inversion is performed on the B area 21b. , Insertion, deletion, etc. are performed.

The enlarged (reduced) display of the partial image is performed in the B area 2 by the image data of the partial image enlarged (reduced) by the enlargement / reduction circuit 15 according to a predetermined magnification.
This is performed by rewriting the contents of the storage area on the display memory 14 corresponding to 1b.

When the general image editing is completed, this partial image is restored to its original size in terms of the enlargement (reduction) for easy editing, and then the entire area on the A area 21a is restored. Captured as part of the image.

That is, for the partial image shown in FIG.
For example, it is assumed that the editing process shown in FIG. 6 has been performed.
Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the result of this editing process is automatically reduced (enlarged) to the original size for the amount enlarged (reduced) for easy editing, and enlarged during the editing process. The (reduced) portion is automatically enlarged (reduced) from the original size at the same ratio and is reflected on the entire image.

In this way, the above-mentioned processes are repeated until all the editing processes are completed.

The image data of the non-standard size that has been edited is sent from the display memory 14 to the optical disk device 20 via the image bus 12 and the buffer memory 13a, so that the same document or another image is recorded on the optical disk 20a. It can be registered as a document.

In this way, the above-described method is used when performing the editing processing on the non-standard size image, and the conventional editing processing is performed on the standard size image. Can be selected, and efficient work becomes possible.

As described above, the whole image and its partial image can be displayed at the same time.

That is, the entire image is displayed in one area of the display, and at the same time, the designated partial image is displayed in another area on the same screen. As a result, it is possible to work on partial images while viewing the entire image. Therefore, it is possible to display an image of a non-standard size in an easy-to-see manner, and it is possible to work efficiently with the same degree of ease as an image of a standard size.

In the above embodiment, the case where the rectangular area is designated and edited as the partial image has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this and, for example, as shown in FIG.
The partial image can be specified in any shape.

After displaying the partial image in the B area,
By scrolling, the partial image on the B area may be changed with the movement of the mouse on the A area.

Furthermore, it is possible to support simultaneous editing for a plurality of partial images by opening a plurality of windows on the B area.

Of course, various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[0050]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an image information processing apparatus capable of easily displaying image information of non-standard size and improving workability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a display example of an image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart similarly shown for explaining an example of the operation.

FIG. 3 is a diagram similarly shown for explaining the operation related to the display of the entire image.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the operation of displaying a partial image, similarly.

FIG. 5 is a diagram similarly shown for explaining an operation related to enlarged display of a partial image.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the operation related to the display of the partial image that has been edited.

FIG. 7 is a diagram similarly shown for explaining the operation related to the display of the entire image in which the editing result for the partial image is reflected.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an image information processing apparatus showing an electronic filing apparatus as an example.

[Explanation of Codes] 11 ... CPU, 13 ... Page memory (PM), 13a ...
Buffer memory, 14 ... Display memory (DM),
16 ... Compression / expansion circuit, 19 ... Console, 20 ... Optical disk device, 20a ... Optical disk, 21 ... CRT display device, 21a ... A area, 21b ... B area.

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. Display means capable of displaying image information; first display control means for displaying the entire image information in one area of the display means; Specifying means for specifying a part of the whole image displayed in one area of the display means by the display control means, and a second image for displaying the partial image specified by the specifying means in another area of the display means. An image information processing apparatus comprising a display control means.