JPH06301756A - Picture information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently perform a business processing without causing the reduction of the operability of a picture information processor provided with the effective screen control of the picture information processor. CONSTITUTION:When a system control part 1 sets and instructs a picture to be simultaneously displayed from a generated retrived result list by the instruction of a simultaneous display instruction part 13, the additional information of picture information to be simultaneously displayed is supplied to a simultaneous display control part 8. The simultaneous display control part 8 obtains the additional information of the picture information displayed at present from a display control part 2, immediately transfers the picture information to a reduced picture storage part 7 and instructs to reduce the picture information. By instructing a stored address to the display control part 2 simultaneously with a completion response from the reduced picture storage part 7, reduced pictures are displayed by a screen display part 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information processing apparatus capable of facilitating image information processing and improving office work efficiency.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in order to rationalize office processing, an image information processing apparatus which searches information such as documents and drawings as image information, displays an image, and processes the image information has become mainstream.

Conventionally, an image information apparatus of this type is generally constructed as shown in FIG. 4, and in FIG. 4, 1 is a system control section, 2 is a display control section, 3 is an image input section, and 4 is an image. A storage unit, 5 is an image processing unit, and 6 is a screen display unit. Further, 10 of the input unit 9 is an image display instruction unit, 11 is a search information instruction unit, and 12 is an image processing instruction unit.

Next, the operation will be described. The image information input from the image input section 3 is stored together with the search information in the image storage section 4 composed of a magneto-optical disk, a magnetic disk, etc., and this is stored in the display control section 2. An image is displayed on the screen display unit 6 such as a CRT display, or image information is operated,
It is for editing.

The system control unit 1 controls a series of operations of the image input unit 3, the image storage unit 4, etc. in accordance with a control command such as search information input by the search information instruction unit 11 of the input unit 9. This control mode is variably set according to the specifications required of the image information processing apparatus.

In the above configuration, the system control unit 1 searches the image storage unit 4 based on the search information based on the search condition input from the search information instruction unit 11 to generate a search result list, and displays the image. The system control unit 1 sends a command to the display control unit 2 by the instruction unit 10 to display a desired image on the screen display unit 6.

When the image processing instruction unit 12 gives an instruction, for example, to replace an image, the system control unit 1 adds the image information currently being displayed which is stored in the display control unit 2 by the image processing instruction unit 12. The information is stored as an image processing source, the display control unit 2 is instructed again, and the image information is displayed again. Then, the image processing unit 5 performs processing such as replacement based on the stored additional information and the current image information stored in the display control unit 2.

[0008]

In such a conventional image information apparatus, desired image information is displayed on the screen display unit 6 from the search result list obtained from the search information, and the image information is processed. Since it was a method of performing, for example, the replacement of the image information currently displayed and other image information is stored additional information of the image information currently displayed image,
The other image information is displayed again in the series of operations to instruct the replacement process. That is, when it is attempted to smoothly perform image processing such as replacement, insertion, and movement of desired image information, the image display instruction unit 10 instructs the screen display unit 6 to display an image and the image processing instruction unit 12 performs image processing. The efficiency was not improved, and it was not that ergonomically easy to handle.

The present invention is intended to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to improve the handling of image processing, improve operability, and improve office work processing efficiency.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an image information processing apparatus for selectively retrieving and displaying desired image information from a plurality of accumulated image information. Reduced image storage means for reducing and storing information, and simultaneous display control means for simultaneously displaying two reduced images stored in the reduced image storage means on one screen and sequentially displaying the reduced images page by page. Further, the simultaneous display control means includes a simultaneous display instruction means for instructing two simultaneous display on the one screen.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the simultaneous display control means and the reduced image storage means are provided to reduce and display the two image information.
It is possible to provide an image information processing apparatus that has good operability in image processing and is easy to use.

[0012]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of an image information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Blocks having the same functions as those in FIG. 4 are designated by the same reference numerals, and their description will be omitted.

Here, 7 is a reduced image storage unit, 8 is a simultaneous display control unit, and 13 of the input unit 9 is a simultaneous display instruction unit. The simultaneous display control unit 8 is configured to control the display control unit 2, the image storage unit 4, the image processing unit 5, and the reduced image storage unit 7 according to an instruction from the simultaneous display instruction unit 13.

Next, the operation will be described. When the simultaneous display control section 8 receives a simultaneous display instruction from the simultaneous display instruction section 13 of the input section 9, the system control section 1 is associated with this and outputs the generated search result list. When you set the images you want to display at the same time,
Additional information of image information desired to be displayed simultaneously is given to the simultaneous display control unit 8. The simultaneous display control unit 8 obtains the additional information of the image information currently being displayed from the display control unit 2, immediately transfers the image information to the reduced image storage unit 7, and instructs the reduced image storage unit 7 to reduce the image information. The reduced image is displayed by instructing the display control unit 2 of the stored address at the same time as the completion response from the reduced image storage unit 7. The other image information is transferred from the image storage unit 4 to the reduced image storage unit 7, and the two image information items are reduced and displayed through the series of operations.
A simple illustration of the display state of the screen at this time is shown in FIG.
Is.

As shown in FIG. 2, a screen 25 has reduced image display areas 15 and 16 on the left and right with a central image processing area 14 as a boundary.
And the document areas 17 and 18 belonging thereto and the turning instruction areas 19 and 20. In the central image processing area 14, a command 21 for replacing the image information shown in the reduced image display area 15 with the image information in the reduced image display area 16 and the image information in the reduced image display area 15 shown in the reduced image display area 16 are displayed. It is formed of a command 22 to be inserted into information, a command 23 for exchanging image information of the reduced image display area 15 and image information of the reduced image display area 16, and the like. Further, since the image processing has directionality, a document exchange command 24 for exchanging all the image information indicated by the reduced image display area 15 and the image information indicated by the reduced image display area 16 is prepared.

As shown in FIG. 2, even after the two desired images to be image-processed are reduced and displayed, the turning instruction area 19 and
With 20, you can reduce and display the pages one by one, and change the settings of the desired image. FIG. 3 is a flowchart explaining the operation. In step 1 (denoted as S1 in the drawing, the same applies hereinafter), if there is an instruction from the image processing instruction section 12 to the turning instruction area 19, the system control section 1 displays a reduced image on the simultaneous display control section 8. A command is issued to turn the area 15 by one page, and the simultaneous display control unit 8 obtains the storage address of the image storage unit 4 to be displayed next from the image information of the reduced image display area 15 in STEP 2, and extracts the image information in STEP 3. In STEP 4, the image information is given to the reduced image storage unit 7, reduced and stored, and STEP 5
Then, the reduced image storage address is given to the display control unit 2, and the reduced image to be displayed next is displayed in the reduced image display area 15.

When the replacement command 21 for the image processing area is given in the display state of FIG. 2, the simultaneous display control section 8 similarly receives the instruction, and the image information in the reduced image display area 15 and its additional information and the reduced image are displayed. By providing the image processing unit 5 with the image information of the display area 16 and its additional information, the image processing unit 5 performs the replacement process on the image storage unit 4. Upon receiving the completion of the replacement processing, the simultaneous display control unit 8 instructs the reduced image storage unit 7 and the display control unit 2 to replace the reduced image areas 15 and 16.

[0018]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the simultaneous display control section and the reduced image storage section are provided.
By reducing and displaying one piece of image information, it is possible to provide an image information processing apparatus that has good operability in image processing and is easy to use.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a screen configuration diagram illustrating simultaneous display setting in FIG.

3 is a flowchart showing the image operation of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional image information processing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... System control part, 2 ... Display control part, 3 ... Image input part, 4 ... Image storage part, 5 ... Image processing part, 6 ... Screen display part, 7 ... Reduced image storage part, 8 ... Simultaneous display control part, 9 ... Input unit, 10 ... Image display instruction unit, 11 ... Search information instruction unit, 12 ... Image processing instruction unit, 13 ... Simultaneous display instruction unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image information processing apparatus for selectively retrieving and displaying desired image information from a plurality of accumulated image information, and a reduced image storage means for reducing and storing the desired image information, and the reduced image information. 1 for the reduced image stored in the image storage means
Simultaneous display control means for displaying two simultaneously on one screen and sequentially displaying the reduced images page by page, and simultaneous display instructing means for instructing the simultaneous display control means to display two simultaneously on the one screen. An image information processing device having.