JPH05134638A - Method and device for processing picture - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To always display a document set to various character sizes with a size being easily visible to an operator by designating an output state picture information, and executing control so that format information is changed and displayed in accordance with the designated output state. CONSTITUTION:The device is constituted of a document memory 1 for storing character information, a character size information and format information, an instruction mode instructing means 2 for instructing a display mode for showing a correct display size on a display means 4, a screen control information calculating means 3 for obtaining screen control information by calculating information of size related to the whole paper for displaying its character by the correct display size instructed by the means 2 in accordance with the character size information of the format information in the memory 1 by an output of the means 2, and a display means 4 for displaying the character information of the memory 1 on the display device in accordance with the screen control information obtained by the means 3. In such a way, size of a display at the time of displaying a document is instructed by the number of dots of one character unit, and the set formats are all subjected to variable power by the same rate and outputted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image processing method and apparatus, and more particularly to an image processing method and apparatus capable of switching a display mode of image information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when displaying image information, WYS
Some display by IWYG, so that the entire sheet of image information is displayed within the display screen, and the display size is changed by several times based on this.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, the display is decided according to the sheet of the image information to be displayed and the setting condition of the image information, and the operator can see the image information once displayed and see it. Had to support the display magnification to display a large image or a small image.

Therefore, inconveniences caused by the setting conditions of image information (for example, the number of characters in one line when the image information to be displayed is a document, the number of lines, the size of one character, etc.), for example, the display is too small, In order to solve the problem that the display gets tired or the display is too large to reduce the editing efficiency, the operator changes the display magnification while looking at the display, considers the changed display and further supports the change of the display magnification. , Had to do a laborious task.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is an image processing method for outputting image information as dot information according to format information, wherein an output mode of the image information is designated, and There is provided an image processing method characterized by controlling the format information to be changed and displayed in accordance with a designated output mode.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a storage means for storing image information and format information corresponding to the image information, and an output means for outputting the image information as dot information according to the format information. An image processing apparatus comprising: a designating unit that designates an output mode of the image information; and a control unit that controls to change the format information stored in the storage unit according to the output mode designated by the designating unit. There is provided an image processing device comprising:

In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, preferably, the image information comprises a plurality of unit information, and the output mode is the number of dots for outputting the unit information.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is preferably arranged such that the unit information is character information.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the image processing apparatus in this embodiment. In the block diagram of FIG. 1, a document memory 1 for storing format information including character information and character size information, a display mode instructing means 2 for instructing a display mode indicating an appropriate display size on a display means 4,
According to the character size information of the format information in the document memory 1 by the output of the display mode instructing means 2, the size information about the whole sheet for displaying the character in the proper display size instructed by the display mode instructing means 2 is calculated. To obtain screen control information, screen control information calculation means 3, document memory 1
And the display means 4 for displaying the character information on the display device in accordance with the screen control information obtained by the screen control information calculating means 3.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the character processing apparatus of this embodiment.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a keyboard, which has keys for instructing processing necessary for text input and other editing input. The input of the 16-dot display key and the screen switching key in the present invention is also performed here.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a CPU in the form of a microprocessor, for example, which performs control necessary for character processing in accordance with the processing procedure stored in the ROM 13.

The ROM 13 is a memory that stores the processing procedures shown in FIG. 4 and thereafter.

The RAM 14 is a writable memory and includes a document memory 15, a cursor register 16, a head display register 17, and another memory area 18 required for character processing.

The document memory 15 stores information relating to character information by character codes and format information.

The cursor register 16 stores the cursor position.

The top display register is the first display line.
Memorize the character position of the digit.

Reference numeral 19 is a display, for example, 48 digits * 15
The textual information of the line and the cursor are displayed. The proper display size of this display is 16 dots.

Reference numeral 20 is a bus line for transferring an address signal, a data signal and a control signal necessary for controlling each section.

FIG. 2 illustrates some display modes in this embodiment.

In FIG. 2, the double-lined frame represents the screen display area, and the single-lined frame represents the paper.

FIG. 2A is an exemplary view showing a document in which the character size is designated as 21 points, and FIG. 2B is an example in which the display is changed to 16 dots in FIG. 2A. FIG. 2C is a display example diagram when the format / document of FIG. 2A is changed to a character size of 7 points and the display is instructed to 16 dots.

4 and 5, the program is stored in the ROM 13 and is performed by the judgment and control of the CPU 12.
It is a flowchart which shows the processing procedure of a present Example, and a process of a present Example is demonstrated according to this flowchart.

First, the flow chart of FIG. 4 shows the overall processing of this apparatus.
Proceed to and initialize.

In step S2, the mode input by the KB 11 is determined, and when it is determined that the document editing process is selected, the process proceeds to step S3 and the document editing process is executed. When another mode is selected, the document processing is performed according to the selected mode.

To explain the document editing process of step S3 in more detail, the flowchart of FIG. 5 is shown, and one example of an instruction method for each process is shown in FIG.

First, in step S31, the information indicated by the key input from the KB 11 is determined. When it is determined that the key input in S31 is the end key, the document editing process is ended as it is.

When a soft key on the CPU 12 for instructing display-related processing as shown in FIG. 6A is instructed, this instruction is judged in S31, and the process proceeds to S32. In FIG. 6, reference numeral 60 is a cursor. Figure 6
When “display” is instructed as shown in (a) of FIG.
6 (b) is opened, and the window shown in FIG. 6 (c) is opened by instructing the "display magnification" here, and the display size mode can be designated here (S32). .. The designated display size mode information is stored in the memory area 18 in the RAM 14. When the display size mode is designated, the CPU 12 derives the screen control information according to this mode (S33). The method of deriving the screen control information is the screen proper display size in the mode specified in S32 with the denominator being the number of dots when printing the character size specified by the format information stored in the document memory 15. A value with 16 dots as a numerator is calculated as a magnification, and based on this magnification, the data of the layout unit already set and stored in the document memory 15 at the time of printing is converted into the data of the display unit to be stored in the RAM 14. Update each screen control information.

Next, in the screen switching process of step S34, the corresponding character information in the document memory 15 is taken out from the line of the top display register 17 line by line, and the character pitch information and the line of the screen control information in the RAM 14 are read. One line of display data is created from the pitch information, output to the display buffer memory 19A, and displayed on the CPU 12.

If it is determined in S31 that the input key is neither the end key nor the display key, the process proceeds to S35 and various processes are performed according to the input key.

In this case, when the edited document contents are displayed, the screen is displayed based on the screen control information.
The screen contents are displayed in the 6-dot display mode.

According to the flow of processing shown above, based on the character size designated by the format, the character size is displayed on the display device so that it becomes an appropriate size, and the size of the entire paper is determined by this ratio. It enables the WYSIWYG system.

In this embodiment, an example in which a window of several stages is displayed and the display size mode is designated has been described, but the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to this, and a keyboard is used instead of a soft key. Of course, it is also possible to input with a soft key, or to always display it on the document edit screen such as "16-dot display" so that the display can be switched only by instructing the soft key. Is.

In this embodiment, 16 dots and 20 dots are shown in the display size mode instructing window, but it goes without saying that the dots may be of one kind or of plural kinds.

In this embodiment, the format information is the format information about the paper, but it goes without saying that the format information in the frame existing in the paper can also be applied.

In this embodiment, the case where the originally designated character size is one type has been described. However, even if the designation of the character size is partially different on the paper, the reference character should be designated. With this, the size of the character is displayed with the specified number of dots, and the characters of other character sizes are scaled and displayed at the same rate as the character used as the reference, thereby making it possible to display in the WYSIWYG system. ..

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices, may be applied to an apparatus composed of one device, or may be achieved by supplying a program to the system or the device. It goes without saying that it can also be applied to cases where

[0039]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Rather than changing the display magnification according to the operator's instruction after displaying the image information based on the size of the paper, the size of the information that constitutes the image information when displaying is unified and displayed to the specified size. Therefore, it is not necessary to change the display magnification many times after the image information is displayed once until it becomes a desired size, and there is an effect that a display instruction in a desired mode can be made only once.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a rough processing configuration of this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a display example diagram of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an image processing apparatus of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the overall processing of this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a document editing process in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a view showing an example of an instruction method in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 keyboard 12 for example CPU ROM 13 in the form of a microprocessor memory 14 for storing processing RAM 14 writable memory 19 display 19A display buffer memory 20 address signals, data signals necessary for controlling each part,
And a bus line for transferring control signals 21 External storage device

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An image processing method for outputting image information as dot information according to format information, wherein an output mode of the image information is designated, and the format information is changed and displayed according to the designated output mode. An image processing method characterized by controlling. 2. The image processing method according to claim 1, wherein the image information is composed of a plurality of unit information, and the output mode is designated by the number of dots for outputting the unit information. 3. The image processing method according to claim 2, wherein the unit information is character information. 4. An image processing apparatus comprising: storage means for storing image information and format information corresponding to the image information; and output means for outputting the image information as dot information according to the format information. An image processing apparatus comprising: a designating unit that designates an output mode of image information; and a control unit that controls to change the format information stored in the storage unit according to the output mode designated by the designating unit. .. 5. The image information stored in the storage means comprises a plurality of unit information, and the output mode designated by the designating means is the number of dots for outputting the unit information. The image processing device according to. 6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the unit information is character information.