JPH0668222A - Montage preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the memory capacity of a part memory by unnecessitating storing of the part pattern of hair which can be symmetrical when it is vertically inverted as each different part pattern. CONSTITUTION:Each part of a face is divided into the sites of hair, eyebrow, eye, nose, and mouth or the like, and the plural kinds of part patterns are stored in a part ROW 13 as bit map data for each site. At the time of operating an inversion key 20, the dot reading of the bit map is operated only to the bit map pattern of the hair from right-and-left opposite directions by a CPU 11, and the part pattern of the hair is synthesized with the part patterns of the other sites, and displayed at a display part 17.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a montage making apparatus which is mounted as one function of an electronic notebook and used for arbitrarily making a human face.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional electronic notebook, a montage creating apparatus for creating and registering a portrait of a person together with business card data and the like has been put into practical use.

The montage making device has eyes, nose, mouth,
It has a parts memory that stores parts such as eyebrows, outlines, and hairstyles as multiple types of bitmap patterns.
The individual part patterns are selectively called and compositely displayed on the display unit to create an arbitrary portrait (montage).

In this case, especially in the case of hairstyle part patterns, there are some patterns in which the division direction is different right and left, such as seventy-three divisions and sixty-four divisions. Conventionally, for example, even the same seventy-three division part patterns are different from right division patterns. Both patterns, the left division pattern, are stored in the parts memory as a bitmap pattern.

[0005]

However, as in the above-mentioned conventional montage making apparatus, if the right-handed and left-handed patterns of left-right inverted hair are stored independently for each type, There is a problem that the memory capacity of the memory becomes large.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a montage creating apparatus capable of reducing the memory capacity of a part memory without having to store each symmetrically symmetric hair part pattern as a separate part pattern.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] That is, a montage creating apparatus according to the present invention is a part that divides each part of the face into parts such as hair, eyes, nose, and mouth, and stores a plurality of types of part patterns for each part. A storage means, a part selection means for selecting a desired part pattern for each part stored in the part storage means, and a left and right hair part pattern among the part patterns for each part selected by the part selection means. The reversing means for reversing and the display means for displaying the part pattern horizontally reversed by the reversing means together with the part patterns of other parts are configured.

[0008]

That is, only the hairstyle bitmap pattern, for example, the dot reading of the bitmap is read from the left and right directions to the parts storing means, and is combined with the parts pattern of the other part, so that the parts are divided into the right part and the left part. With one part pattern, you will be able to create montages using both left and right hair patterns.

[0009]

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 a configuration of an electronic circuit of the montage creating device, and the montage creating device includes a CPU (central processing unit) 11.

The CPU 11 controls the operation of each part of the circuit according to a program stored in advance on the basis of a key operation signal supplied from the key input unit 12, and performs, for example, a process of reading out a part pattern or a process of inverting a hair pattern. In addition to the key input unit 12, the CPU 11 is connected to the parts ROM 13, the RAM 14, and the flag register 15, and the display unit 17 formed of a liquid crystal dot matrix via the display driver 16.

The key input unit 12 includes hair on a human face,
Part selection keys (↑, ↓) to select parts such as eyes, nose, and mouth
18a, 18b, part pattern selection keys (←, →) 19a, 19b for selecting a part pattern for each part, and a reversing key 2 operated when reversing the hair pattern.
Various function keys such as 0 are provided.

The parts ROM 13 has a hairstyle for each part of the face.
It is divided into parts such as eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, etc., and a plurality of types of part patterns are numbered at predetermined storage positions for each part and stored as bitmap data. Seventy-three divided hairstyle patterns are stored at address "1" of the part.

In the RAM 14, the part selection keys (↑,
↓) 18a, 18b and part pattern selection key (←,
→) The montage data selectively created using 19a, 19b is stored as a part pattern number stored in the parts ROM 13 for each part constituting the montage.

A hair pattern inversion flag is set in the flag register 15 in response to the operation of the inversion key 20 of the key input section 12, and the hair pattern inversion flag is reset by repeated operation of the inversion key 20. To be done.

The display driver 16 drives and displays the display unit 17 in response to the displayed data sent from the CPU 11. The montage data read from the RAM 14, for example, corresponds to the part number of each part. The part patterns stored in the parts ROM 13 are read out, combined, and displayed on the display unit 17 via the display driver 16. Next, the operation of the montage creating device having the above configuration will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a montage creating process by the montage creating device. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a hair pattern inversion process accompanying the montage creation process of the montage creation device. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a montage display state created by the montage creation device. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an inverted display state of a montage created by the montage creating device.

That is, in order to create a desired montage, C is operated by operating a montage key (not shown).
When the PU 11 is set to the montage creation mode, first, the head part pattern of the head part stored in the parts ROM 13 (in this case, the first pattern of the hairstyle) is read out, and the predetermined part of the display unit 17 is displayed via the display driver 16. It is displayed at the position.

Here, the user operates the part selection keys (↑, ↓) 18a, 18b of the key input unit 12 to sequentially select each part such as hair, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. stored in the parts ROM 13. When the parts pattern for each part is selected with the part pattern selection keys (←, →) 19a, 19b, the part pattern selected for each part is displayed from the CPU 11 as shown in FIG. 4, for example. Display unit 1 synthesized as a montage via driver 16
7 is displayed (steps A1 and A2).

In this montage creation display state,
When a registration key (not shown) is operated, the part pattern number for each part constituting the display montage is stored in the RAM 14 as one montage data.

On the other hand, for example, in the montage creation display state as shown in FIG. 4 above, when the inversion key 20 is operated to invert the hairstyle pattern currently in the seventy-three left division state to the seventy-three right division pattern, The inversion flag is set in the flag register 15 and the hairstyle pattern inversion processing is executed (steps A3 to A6).

When the reverse key 20 is operated,
When the inversion flag in the flag register 15 is in the set state, that is, when the hairstyle pattern of the current display montage is already in the inversion state, the flag is reset, and the part pattern before the inversion stored in the parts ROM 13 is read out and combined and displayed. (Steps A3, A4 → A7 →
A2).

That is, when the inversion flag is set in response to the operation of the inversion key 20 and the hair pattern inversion process of the current display montage (see FIG. 4) is started, the part RO
At the time of reading out the dots of the currently displayed hair pattern stored in M13, first, the dots to be read out in the horizontal direction are designated x
Is set to the maximum value (“32” in this case) that is the reverse of normal reading, and y that specifies the vertical read dot is set.
Is normally set to a similar minimum value "1" (step B
1).

Then, the dot pattern at the position indicated by x and y (in this case, "32, 1") of the currently displayed hair pattern stored in the parts ROM 13 is read out, and the maximum value in the horizontal direction (in this case, "32, 1") is read. )) Subtracts the current x-value from +1
Value (“1” in this case), that is, X corresponding to the position where the current read x position is reversed in the left-right direction is designated as the horizontal write dot, and the vertical read dot y is designated as the write dot Y as it is. The dot pattern read in the above (x, y) is written in (X, Y) (step B
2, B3). That is, “x = 32, y in the above hair pattern”
The dot pattern read from "= 1" is "X = 1, Y =
It is written in the display position of "1". Here, the horizontal read position x is decremented by -1, and the next horizontal read position x is designated (step B4). Thereafter, the dot pattern reading and reversing writing processing at y = 1 is repeated until the horizontal reading position becomes x = 0 (steps B2 to B2).
B5).

Then, in step B5, x =
0, that is, when it is determined that the reverse writing process of the dot pattern corresponding to y = 1 of the currently displayed hair pattern is completed, the designated position in the y direction is incremented by 1 to y = 2, and the maximum horizontal direction is again set to x. By substituting the value “32”, the dot pattern read processing up to x = 32 to 1 corresponding to the vertical direction y = 2 and the write processing of the read pattern to X = 1 to 32 are performed (step B6-B8 → B2-
B5).

Thereafter, in step B6, the designated positions in the y direction are sequentially added, the read / reverse writing process of the hair pattern is completed up to the last line of the hair pattern, and y
When it is determined that the designated position y is +1 in the direction and the designated position y is +1 in the last line of the hair pattern, the part patterns corresponding to other parts are combined together with the hair pattern that has been inverted, as shown in FIG. , The montage in which only the hair pattern is reversed will be displayed (step B7 → B).
9).

Therefore, according to the montage creating apparatus having the above structure, each part of the face is divided into parts such as hairstyle, eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth, and a plurality of types of part patterns are stored as bitmap data for each part. Parts ROM 1
3, when the reverse key 20 is operated, the CPU 1
1, only the hairstyle bitmap pattern, for example, bitmap dot reading is performed from the left and right directions, and is combined with the part patterns of other parts to be displayed on the display unit 17. Therefore, for example, right division or left division. By having only one of the hair patterns, it is possible to easily create a montage using both the left and right hair patterns. As a result, the ROM capacity of the parts ROM 13 can be reduced.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, each part of the face is divided into parts such as hair, eyes, nose, mouth and the like, and a part storing means for storing a plurality of kinds of part patterns for each part, A part selecting means for selecting a desired part pattern for each part stored in the part storing means, and a reversing means for horizontally reversing the hair part pattern among the part patterns selected by the part selecting means. Since the display device is configured to display the part pattern that has been left-right inverted by the inversion means together with the part patterns of other parts, the hair part patterns that are left-right inverted and symmetrical are separated from each other. It is possible to reduce the memory capacity of the parts memory without having to store as.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic circuit of a montage creating device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a montage creation process by the montage creation device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a hair pattern inversion process associated with the montage creation process of the montage creation device.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a montage display state created by the montage creation device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an inverted display state of a montage created by the montage creating device.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... CPU, 12 ... Key input section, 13 ... Parts RO
M, 14 ... RAM, 15 ... Flag register, 16 ... Display driver, 17 ... Display unit, 18a, 18b ... Site selection key, 19a, 19b ... Parts pattern selection key, 20 ...
Reverse key.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A parts storage means for dividing each part of a face into parts such as hair, eyes, nose, mouth, etc., and storing a plurality of kinds of part patterns for each part, and each part stored in the parts storage means. Part selecting means for selecting a desired part pattern, reversing means for reversing the hair part pattern left and right among the part patterns for each part selected by the part selecting means, and parts reversing left and right by the reversing means. A montage creating apparatus comprising: a display unit that displays a pattern together with a part pattern of another part.