JPH06337875A - Document generation device and image control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To set a hand-written image to correspond to arbitrary sound and to generate sound corresponding to the hand-written image at the time of calling the hand-written image in a document generation device such as a Japanese wordprocessor having a pen input function. CONSTITUTION:Sound information inputted by a microphone 26 and a sound processing part 28 is made to correspond to hand-written image information inputted by a tablet input part 16 so as to store it in FDD 24. At the time of calling hand-written image information, hand-written image information and sound information corresponding to hand-written image information are read from FDD 24, hand-written image information is displayed in a liquid crystal display panel 18 and sound information is reproduced by the sound processing part 28 and a speaker 27.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation device such as a Japanese word processor having a pen input function, and more particularly to a document preparation device and an image control method capable of associating an arbitrary sound with a handwritten image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, there have been some document preparation apparatuses which can input a document or the like using a dedicated pen in addition to a keyboard. In a document creation device having such a pen input function, a tablet input section with transparent electrodes is integrally formed on the screen of the display section, and a pointing or writing operation is performed on this tablet with a dedicated pen called a stylus pen. By doing so, it is possible to specify an arbitrary position on the screen and input a handwritten character.

[0003]

By the way, in the document creating apparatus, there is a case where it is desired to create a handwritten image separately from the document and associate an arbitrary sound with the image. In the conventional pen input method, it is only possible to point a position on the screen to execute a predetermined operation or input a handwritten character in a specific area and recognize and display the handwritten character. Therefore, it is very inconvenient because it cannot be used to add an arbitrary sound to the handwritten image and generate a sound corresponding to the handwritten image when the handwritten image is called.

Note that some document creating apparatuses having a recording / playback function add sound to a created document or a specific character string, but none add sound to the handwritten image as described above.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and a document creation apparatus capable of associating an arbitrary sound with a handwritten image and generating a sound corresponding to the handwritten image when calling the handwritten image. It is an object to provide an image control method.

[0006]

According to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, an image inputting means for inputting handwritten image information, a sound inputting means for inputting sound information, and the image inputting means are used. Storage means for storing the handwritten image information in association with the sound information input by the sound input means, instruction means for instructing calling of the handwritten image information stored in the storage means, and the instruction means. According to the call instruction, while reading the handwritten image information from the storage means,
Control means for reading the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information, display means for displaying the handwritten image information read by the control means, and sound output for outputting the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information. And means.

[0007]

According to the above configuration, by storing the sound information in association with the handwritten image information, the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information can be reproduced when the handwritten image information is called. .

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation apparatus having a pen input function. In FIG. 1, a microprocessor (hereinafter, referred to as CPU) 11 controls the entire apparatus, and accesses a RAM 12 and a ROM 13 to start a program according to an input instruction to perform a document creation process and an external character creation process. Here, image control processing and the like are executed.

The RAM 12 has a document buffer 12a and an image buffer 12b. The document buffer 12a stores document information composed of character codes input through the keyboard 14. The image buffer 12b stores handwritten image information input through the tablet input unit 16.

The ROM 13 has a program area 13a, a character pattern area 13b, and a dictionary area 13c. The program area 13a stores an input processing program including a program for determining the operation of the CPU 11 and a cursor control routine for key input. Character pattern area 1
Character patterns (font data) for display and printing are stored in 3b. Here, 16 for display
Character pattern of 16 dots, 24 24 for printing
Stores the dot character pattern. Dictionary area 13
In c, various dictionaries for converting a kana or romanized reading input into kanji are stored.

The keyboard 14 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF) 15 for inputting information necessary for document creation and the like.
Input to the CPU 11 via. In addition to the "character" key, "cursor" key, etc., the keyboard 14 has a "function selection" key for executing various functions in combination with the "character" key, "cursor" key, etc., and various functions. Various function keys including a "select / execute" key for instructing execution of the are provided.

The liquid crystal display panel 18 is, for example, 40 characters × 2.
It consists of a transmissive liquid crystal display panel that displays 0 lines,
A backlight device (not shown) is provided on the back side thereof.
The display controller (display-CNT) 19 includes the CPU 11
Liquid crystal display panel 18 using VRAM 20 under the control of
Display control.

The tablet input unit 16 is a transparent unit integrally provided on the liquid crystal display panel 18, and constitutes a digitizer of an electromagnetic induction system with a stylus pen (not shown). Here, this tablet input unit 1
6 and the liquid crystal display panel 18 integrated input / output section 21
By displaying various function names and the like on the screen of the liquid crystal display panel 18 and performing a pointing operation or a writing operation of the stylus pen by the tablet input unit 16 in response to the display. X, y coordinate data according to the above is generated.

Floppy disk device (FDD) 22
Stores a created document, stores external characters, second level characters, and the like under the control of the CPU 11 via the disk interface (FDD-IF) 23.

The printer 24 is a created document or floppy disk device 2 under the control of the CPU 11 via a printer interface (PRT-IF) 25.
Print the documents, etc. that are read into the main body from 2.

Further, this apparatus has a recording / reproducing function including a microphone 26, a speaker 27 and a sound processing section 28. The microphone 26 is for inputting sound information. The speaker 27 is for outputting sound information. The sound processing unit 28 converts sound information of an analog signal input by the microphone 26 into a digital signal,
The sound information of the digital signal is converted into an analog signal and output to the speaker 27.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, this device has a tablet input unit 16 integrally provided on a liquid crystal display panel 18, and in the handwriting input mode, draws an arbitrary handwritten image on the screen using the stylus pen 31. You can In order to associate this handwritten image with an arbitrary sound, the following processing is performed.

First, the handwriting image registration operation will be described. As shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4, after the handwriting input mode is instructed by a predetermined operation (step A1),
An arbitrary image is input by handwriting on the screen using the stylus pen 31 (step A2). The handwritten image information input in this way is stored in the image buffer 12b of the RAM 12.

Next, a predetermined operation is performed to instruct the registration of the handwritten image information, that is, the storage in the FDD 22 (step A3). This image registration is performed, for example, by designating the range (P1 and P2) of the handwritten image information to be registered with a cursor or the like as shown in FIG. At this time,
It is possible to add arbitrary sound information to the handwritten image information and register it (step A4). Sound information is microphone 26
Is input (step A5). The sound information input by the microphone 26 is converted into a digital signal by the sound processing unit 28 and given to the CPU 11.

The CPU 11 stores the sound information converted into the digital signal in the FDD 22 in association with the handwritten image information as shown in FIG. 7 (step A).
6). On the other hand, when the registration of sound information is unnecessary, the CPU 1
1 stores only the handwritten image information in the FDD 22 (step A7). When the sound information is registered, control information (a flag or the like) indicating that is added to the handwritten image information.

Next, the operation of calling a handwritten image will be described. As shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5, a predetermined operation is performed to instruct the calling of the handwritten image information, that is, the reading from the FDD 22 (step B1). In response to this calling instruction, the CPU 11 reads out the designated handwritten image information from the FDD 22, stores it in the image buffer 12b of the RAM 12, and then the liquid crystal display panel 18
(Step B2).

When the CPU 11 confirms the existence of the handwritten image information by the control information, the CPU 11 reads the handwritten image information from the FDD 22 and outputs it through the sound processing section 28 and the speaker 27 (step B4).

As described above, when the handwritten image information is called, the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information can be reproduced. Therefore, it is possible to realize a new expression method in which not only the handwritten image information is displayed but also arbitrary sound information is added thereto.

[0024]

According to the above arrangement, since the sound information is stored in association with the handwritten image information, the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information is reproduced when the handwritten image information is called. You can As a result, a new expression method such as adding an arbitrary sound to the handwritten image can be realized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a handwriting input mode screen of the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an image registration operation of the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an image calling operation of the same embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining image registration in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a storage state of images and sounds of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... CPU, 12 ... RAM, 12a ... Document buffer,
12b ... Image buffer, 13 ... ROM, 13a ... Program area, 13b ... Character pattern area, 13c ... Dictionary area, 14 ... Keyboard, 16 ... Tablet input section,
18 ... Liquid crystal display panel, 19 ... Input / output section, 22 ... FD
D, 26 ... Microphone, 27 ... Speaker, 28 ... Sound processing unit.

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An image input unit for inputting handwritten image information, a sound input unit for inputting sound information, and a sound input unit for inputting the handwritten image information input by the image input unit. Storage means for storing the sound information in association with each other, instruction means for instructing to call the handwritten image information stored in the storage means, and the handwriting from the storage means in response to the calling instruction by the instructing means. A control means for reading out the image information and the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information, a display means for displaying the handwritten image information read by the control means, and a sound corresponding to the handwritten image information. A document creating apparatus comprising: a sound output unit that outputs information. 2. An image input / output unit for inputting / outputting handwritten image information, and a sound input / output unit for inputting / outputting sound information, wherein the sound information is associated with the handwritten image information in a storage unit. Memorize and read out the handwritten image information from the storage means in response to an instruction to call the handwritten image information,
Image control characterized in that the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information is read, the read handwritten image information is displayed, and the sound information corresponding to the handwritten image information is output. Method.