JPH0715603A - Image processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input an advertisement under an article through a local station in advance and to share the jobs for reduction of burden of a central host computer by placing a scanner at the local station and adding an image memory to a recording device to store the advertisements to be put under the articles. CONSTITUTION:A switch device 13 is switched toward a scanner 12 before a receiver 11 receives the image data through a circuit, and the scanner 12 scans the advertisements of a single day, for example, of a station which are put under the articles. These scanned advertisements are stored in the higher order addresses of a picture memory of a recording device 14. At the same time, the numbers are given to each article advertisement so that the contents of advertisements can be grasped. Then the device 13 is switched toward the receiver 11 and the image data are received from a central host computer through a circuit. The recorder 14 replaces the received image data with the advertisement stored previously by the scanner 12 and records the advertisement when its number is coincident with the image data. In such a constitution, the jobs are shared and the burden of the host computer is reduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus used in a printing industry such as a newspaper company.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Image processing apparatuses are widely used in companies that issue publications such as general facsimiles, newspaper companies and printing companies. Among them, a newspaper company outputs the image data for one page (A2 size) received from the line as it is for one page. That is, the image data for one page is stored in the memory in the image processing apparatus, and the image data is read from the image memory for each line of one page.

Further, in general, image data input by characters and scanning is combined by a host computer as image data of one page and output to each recording device.

Recently, a method for reducing the processing time of a host computer has been shown.
Images are read from the scanner under the instruction of the host computer.

[0005]

In most of the above-mentioned paper image data, an under-article advertisement is posted, and the contents may differ depending on the region even under the same article on the same day. In this case, at present, it is time-consuming and time consuming because the article section and the advertisement section of the film are manually pasted together, or the advertisement is collected once in the central host computer and the page data for each region is created. ing.

Further, since the image data must be taken in from the scanner according to an instruction from the host computer, it is necessary to work in synchronization with the central and local areas.

An object of the present invention is to install a sub-article advertisement in a recording device by installing a scanner in the local station when the sub-article advertisement is different from the content created by the central host computer. Another object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus in which an advertisement for an article can be input in advance by the local station by adding an image memory, the work is shared and the addition of a central host computer can be reduced.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus capable of synthesizing an article section and an under-article advertisement section without human intervention.

[0009]

An image processing apparatus according to the present invention is a receiving apparatus for receiving image data from a central host computer via a communication line, a scanner apparatus for inputting an advertisement manuscript, the receiving apparatus and the scanner apparatus. And a recording device for recording the image data.

Further, according to the present invention, the image data of the article advertisement is prescanned by the scanner device and fetched into the image memory of the recording device, regardless of the instruction from the central host computer. Then, the captured image data of the article advertisement is replaced with the article advertisement of the image data coming from the line in real time and stored in the image memory.

[0011]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. This image processing device includes a receiving device 11 for receiving image data from a central host computer through a communication line, a scanner 12 for inputting an advertisement document, a switching device 13 for switching image data from the receiving device 11 and the scanner 12. And a recording device 14 for recording image data.

This image processing apparatus is provided in each local station which is a receiving station.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

First, before the image data is received by the receiving device 11 from the line, the switching device 13 is switched to the scanner 12 side, and for example, the article advertisement of the station for one day is scanned by the scanner, and the recording device. It is stored in the upper address of 14 image memories. At that time, a number is attached to each article advertisement so that the content can be understood (for example, a page to be posted).

Next, the switching device 13 is switched to the receiving device 11 side to receive the image data of the (central host computer) from the line.

In the recording device 14, if the number shown above and the number of the image data sent from the line match,
It is recorded in place of the under-article advertisement of that number stored in advance by the scanner 12.

FIG. 2 shows memory control in the recording device 14.

An image memory 22 is added to the recording device 14, and a switching circuit section 21, a writing counter 23, and a reading counter 24 are further provided.

When the article under advertisement is received by the scanner 12 in advance, information indicating only the article under advertisement from the scanner 12 and a number indicating the content thereof are recorded from the control signal input terminal 202 from the switching device to the recording device 14. The information is taken into the CPU 25 inside, and the switching circuit unit 21 switches to a predetermined memory area according to the information. The memory capacity is determined by the linear density and the number of advertisements under the article.

Next, when one page of image data is sent from the line, it is determined that the image data is from the line, whether or not the under-article advertisement is to be replaced, and a number indicating the content of the under-article advertisement. It is loaded into the CPU 25 and the following control is performed according to the conditions. (1) When not replacing the advertisement under the article The switching circuit unit 21 is switched to the normal image memory 22 side and stored in the image memory 22 as it is, and when a predetermined amount is accumulated, the reading is started and the image data is output. Terminal 2
Output from 03 and record. The read address is designated by the read counter 24. (2) When replacing the under-article advertisement The head address of the memory area in which the under-article advertisement of the designated number is stored is set in the read counter 24, and is passed through the image data input terminal 201 from the switching device,
When the data for one page is sent from the line, it is stored in the image memory 22 at the beginning of the article-under-advertisement part, replacing the content of the article-under-advertisement stored beforehand. The write address is designated by the write counter 23.

At this time, as the timing for exchanging the under-article advertisement, there is usually a line density switching between the article section and the under-article advertisement section, so the image data is interrupted once, so that it is detected and the line is detected. The image data coming from the image data and the image data coming from the image memory 22 storing the post-article advertisement are switched in real time by the switching circuit unit 21 (see FIG. 3).

When reading and recording from the image memory 22, the reading is started when a predetermined amount is accumulated in the image memory 22 in order to increase the speed.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, in each local station, when the advertisement under the article is different from the content created by the central host computer, the scanner is installed in the station,
By adding an image memory to store the post-article advertisement in the recording device, it is possible to input the post-article advertisement for each local station in advance, which has the effect of sharing the work and reducing the addition of a central host computer. .

Further, where the article section and the advertisement section are manually attached, the article section and the sub-article advertisement section can be combined without human intervention.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a memory control state of a recording apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state in which image data of an article advertisement is replaced.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 receiving device 12 scanner 13 switching device 14 recording device 21 switching circuit section 22 image memory 23 writing counter 24 reading counter 25 CPU 201 image data input terminal from switching device 202 control signal input terminal from switching device 203 image from image memory Data output terminal

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A receiving device for receiving image data from a central host computer via a communication line, a scanner device for inputting an advertisement manuscript, a switching device for switching image data from the receiving device and the scanner device, and the image. An image processing apparatus comprising: a recording device for recording data. 2. Article image data of an article advertisement, which is scanned in advance by the scanner device without taking a command from a central host computer, and is captured in an image memory of the recording device. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data is stored in the image memory after being replaced with the article advertisement of the image data coming from the line in real time.