JPH07254070A - Picture information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily perform the various kinds of picture editing by storing plural parts pictures such as illustration or the like in a parts picture storage means beforehand and appropriately reading them. CONSTITUTION:An original is read by a scanner 18 and a source picture is inputted. Then, the picture data of the source picture are housed in a picture memory 50 so as to tentatively store them, sent from the picture memory 50 to a display memory 42 and displayed at a CRT display device 24. Thereafter, by a keyboard 23a or the like, the retrieval information of the parts pictures is specified and the desired parts picture is read from a ROM 60. Thereafter, the parts picture data of the read parts picture are housed in the picture memory 50, sent from the picture memory 50 to the display memory 42 and displayed at the CRT display device 24. Then, a desired picture processing is performed to the parts picture tentatively stored in the picture memory 50 by commands from the keyboard 23a or the like and it is moved by instructing a moving destination and synthesized so as to be stuck.

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 device such as an electronic filing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an image information processing apparatus, documents such as drawings and documents are optically read by a scanner,
An electronic filing device which records this image data on a recording medium such as an optical disk is used. According to this electronic filing device, a large amount of documents can be compactly stored in an optical disc or the like.

Further, in such an electronic filing apparatus, an editing function of editing an image read by a scanner or an image accumulated on an optical disk by enlarging, reducing, rotating, black-and-white inversion, etc. Some devices have it.

[0004]

However, in the conventional apparatus, it is necessary to input all the images to be edited by using the scanner, and complicated input work is required. Therefore, various image editing is required. There was a problem that it was difficult.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such a conventional situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide an image information processing apparatus capable of easily performing a variety of image edits as compared with the conventional art.

[0006]

That is, an image information processing apparatus according to the present invention optically reads an image and generates image data corresponding to the image, and an image reading unit that reads the image data. Image data accommodating means for accommodating image data, component image storage means for storing component image data relating to a plurality of preset component images, the image data, and the component read from the component image storage means. An image processing means for editing image data to create a desired image is provided.

[0007]

In the image information processing apparatus of the present invention having the above structure, R
Since a plurality of component images such as illustrations are stored in advance in the component image storage means composed of a semiconductor memory such as OM or an optical disk, a magnetic disk or the like, it is necessary to read these illustrations or the like as necessary to perform complicated input. It is possible to easily perform various types of image editing without requiring work.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The electronic filing apparatus 1 shown in the figure is connected to a plurality of other electronic filing apparatuses 1 via a network 2. This electronic filing device 1 is
Control unit 10, scanner device 18, optical disk device 22,
Keyboard 23a, mouse 23b, CRT display device 24, printer device 25 and magnetic disk device 2
It is composed of 7. The keyboard 23a and the mouse 23b are connected to the CPU 34 of the controller 10.

The control unit 10 stores and retrieves image data,
And a CPU 34 that performs various controls for editing processing and the like
, An optical disk interface 36 for connecting to the optical disk device 22, a magnetic disk interface 37 for connecting to the magnetic disk device 27, and storage, retrieval, editing, etc. of image data. A main memory 38 for storing various control programs, management information and the like; a display memory 42 as a display interface for temporarily storing an image displayed by the CRT display device 24;
The image memory 50, the image processing unit 51, and the scanner device 1
8 for the scanner interface 52, the printer interface 54 for the printer device 25, and a network interface for connecting to other electronic filing device 1, a facsimile device, an external device such as a personal computer. It is composed of a face 58 and a ROM 60 as a component image storage means.

Each unit of the control unit 10 has a system bus 3
Connected by 0. Further, the ROM 60 stores component images including illustrations of flowers, animals, human faces, landscapes, and the like.

The scanner device 18 is composed of a two-dimensional scanning device, and two-dimensionally scans a document (document) with light to generate an electric signal (image data) corresponding to an image on the document.
To get

The optical disk device 22 is a scanner device 18.
The images of the original document read in step 1 are sequentially stored on the optical disc. Also, the image data corresponding to the retrieval code designated by the keyboard 23a or the like is retrieved from the optical disc. As this optical disc, a rewritable optical disc (MO), a write-once optical disc (WO), or the like can be used.

The keyboard 23a is used to input a unique search title corresponding to the image data stored on the optical disk and various operation commands for storing, searching, and editing the image data. To do.

The mouse 23b is used, for example, to arbitrarily move a cursor displayed on the display window of the CRT display device 24 to select or instruct various operation modes and area designation for image editing. To use.

The CRT display device 24 displays the image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18, the image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk, and the component image data stored in the ROM 60. Display the image based on.

The printer device 25 prints out an image based on the image data read by the scanner device 18, an image based on the image data retrieved from the optical disk, or an image displayed on the CRT display device 24. (Her
Make a copy).

Magnetic disk unit (hard disk unit)
The reference numeral 27 stores various control programs in the magnetic disk mounted on the magnetic disk device 27, and a search key for searching the image data stored in the optical disk.
And the record information (search data) including the storage address of the image data corresponding to the search key on the optical disk, the image size, and the database stored on the optical disk. Remember the system you manage. By storing this system in the magnetic disk device 27, the database stored in the optical disk can be accessed from the system. Then, the image data can be retrieved according to the environment provided by this database.

In the electronic filing apparatus of this embodiment having the above-mentioned configuration, the editing process can be performed by using the part image stored in the ROM 60 in advance. With respect to this editing process, as shown in FIG. 2, a component image 71 called from the ROM 60 is pasted and combined with the original image 70 input from the scanner device 18 to create a desired image 72. The case will be described.

As shown in the flow chart of FIG. 3, first, the original is read by the scanner device 18 and the original image 7 is read.
Input 0 (step 101). The original image 70 may be an image that has been input by the scanner device 18 in advance and that has been searched for and read out from an image recorded on the optical disc.

Next, the image data of the original image 70 is stored in the image memory 50 for temporary storage, and the image memory 5
It is sent from 0 to the display memory 42 and displayed on the CRT display device 24 (step 102).

Thereafter, the retrieval information of the part image 71 is designated by the keyboard 23a or the like (step 103), and the RO
A desired component image 71 (illustration of a human face in the example shown in FIG. 2) is read from M60 (step 104).

Thereafter, the component image data of the read component image 71 is stored in the image memory 50, and the image memory 50 is stored.
From the CRT display device 2 to the display memory 42.
No. 4 is displayed (step 105). Here, the original image 70 and the component image 7 are arranged so that the editing work performed later can be easily performed.
Display so that 1 does not overlap.

Then, the component image 71 temporarily stored in the image memory 50 is subjected to desired image processing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, reversal, insertion, etc. by a command from the keyboard 23a or the like. Then, the component image 71 after the image processing is moved by instructing the movement destination (arbitrary position of the original image 70) using the mouse 23b or the like, and is combined so as to be pasted (step 106).

In this way, an arbitrary component image 71 stored in advance in the ROM 60 can be read and attached to the original image 70 to create a desired image. And
The created image can be output from the printer device 25 or recorded on a rewritable optical disk (MO) or a write-once optical disk (WO) loaded in the optical disk device 22.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the RO
By arbitrarily selecting the part image 71 stored in advance in the M60, the part image 7 can be displayed by the scanner device 18.
It is possible to easily perform various image edits as compared with the conventional method without inputting 1.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the component images such as illustrations are stored in the ROM 6
It is not limited to 0, and may be stored in a write-once optical disc (WO) or the like and called by the optical disc device 22, or may be loaded in the magnetic disc device 27.
It can also be stored on a hard disk or flexible disk. In this case, for example, by loading an optical disc on which desired component images are recorded in the optical disc device 22, it is possible to use a larger number of component images. Further, if an operator creates an image of a part that he / she created, it can be used by another electronic filing apparatus via a network. In this case, if a library is created and recorded according to the type and name of the part image, the search can be performed easily.

[0029]

As described above, according to the image information processing apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to easily perform various image edits as compared with the conventional art.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic filing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the electronic filing device in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the electronic filing device in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Electronic Filing Device 10 Control Unit 18 Scanner Device 22 Optical Disc Device 60 ROM (Parts Image Storage Means)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image reading means for optically reading an image to generate image data corresponding to the image, and an image data housing means for housing the image data read by the image reading means, which are set in advance. A component image storage unit that stores component image data relating to a plurality of component images; an image process that edits the image data and the component image data read from the component image storage unit to create a desired image. An image information processing apparatus comprising: