JPH1021417A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily allocate arbitrary image data in an album for preserving image data to any image area inside a document. SOLUTION: An album display screen for displaying plural pieces of image data and an area editing screen for setting the image area inside the document are displayed on one display screen by a control part so that any arbitrary image data can be edited while being simultaneously allocated to arbitrary image areas, and a document synthesizing image data and character data can be easily prepared.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus which classifies image data of a memory card or the like according to contents and stores the image data of an album in an image area set in a document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the fields of construction and civil engineering, when creating materials such as applications and reports containing color photographs to be submitted to customers and government offices, text and graphics are edited with a document editing device. In many cases, the image is printed on paper, and a photograph taken with a camera and developed is manually pasted and manually created. When a plurality of materials are required, the above operation is repeated or color copying is performed to create the required number of copies. Therefore, photographing, development, document creation, photo pasting, and the like require a lot of work time and cost. In addition, since these materials are stored on a paper basis, the storage volume is enormous, and the time required to search for the necessary materials is inevitably increased.

Recently, due to the progress of electronic information processing technology, image (photograph) data obtained by reading a photograph by a scanner or image data photographed by a digital still camera and stored in a memory card are taken into an information processing device, and the characters are read. It has become possible to create materials by combining them with figures and figures and printing them together, and it has become possible to reduce the time required to create materials, reduce costs, and reduce the storage volume.

Further, the information processing apparatus can arbitrarily change the number of image data displayed on a memory card, and can be used as an album for organizing and storing image data such as photographs. .

[0005]

However, the conventional information processing apparatus cannot create a document (material combining character data and image data) using image data stored as an album.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a background, and has as its object to provide an information processing apparatus which can easily assign arbitrary image data in an album storing image data to an image area in a document. It is to provide a device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of easily allocating a plurality of image data in an album storing a plurality of image data to a plurality of image areas in a document and synthesizing the plurality of image data. is there.

[0008]

According to the present invention, an album display screen for displaying a plurality of image data and an area editing screen for setting an image area in a document are displayed on one display screen, and arbitrary image data can be arbitrarily displayed. The image data and the character data can be easily edited by assigning them to the image area in a batch.

More specifically, in order to achieve the above object, the first means comprises: an input unit for inputting character data described in a document; an image data input unit for inputting image data; In an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores data, a display unit that displays data stored in the storage unit, and a control unit that controls these, the control unit includes a plurality of images on one display screen. An album image area creating means for displaying an album display screen for displaying data and an area edit screen for setting an image area in a document, and arbitrarily assigning and editing arbitrary image data to an arbitrary image area. Features.

The second means is configured such that the control unit in the first means further creates an album in which a plurality of pieces of image data input from the image data input unit are arranged and stores the album in the storage unit. .

[0011] A third means is that the album image area creating means in the first means is adapted to store the designated image data in the plurality of image data displayed on the album display screen and the document displayed on the area editing screen. It is characterized by having an area information management table for storing allocation information for associating designated image areas in a plurality of image areas.

The fourth means is characterized in that the area information management table in the third means further stores the size and position information of the image area.

The fifth means is characterized in that the album image area creating means in the third means has means for changing the allocation information set in the area information management table.

The sixth means is characterized in that the control unit in the first means comprises an album image area creation screen display means for displaying the image data to be allocated and the image area in a display form that can be identified. I have.

The seventh means is characterized in that the first means is further provided with a card slot connected to the control section so that image data can be read from a memory card storing the image data. And

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image information processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor or a portable information terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse for inputting Japanese characters or instruction information. Reference numeral 2 denotes a card slot into which a memory card 3 or the like is inserted. Image data captured by a digital still camera and stored in the memory card 3 can be read from the memory card 3. 4 is a display device such as a CRT or LCD for displaying editing information such as characters and image data;
Reference numeral 5 denotes a control unit for controlling the entire apparatus, and 6 temporarily stores image data read from the memory card 3, characters and graphic data input from the input unit 1, image display data, image display conditions, and the like. A storage unit for storing input image data, album data, image display conditions, and the like on a hard disk or a floppy disk; and a printing unit 8 for printing characters, image data, and the like by a printer.

The control unit 5 controls reading of image data,
An overall control unit 51 that performs overall control such as display control, album control, and area creation control; a read processing unit 52 that reads image data from the memory card 3 to a word processor or a portable information terminal as the device; A display control unit 53 for displaying image data, an album control unit 54 for editing and storing the displayed image data,
And an area creation control unit 55 for creating an area. The display control unit 53 includes an album image area creation display control unit 53 that controls a screen when an album image area is created.
There is one. The area creation control section 55 includes an album image area creation control section 551 for creating an area of an album image.
There is.

With respect to the album image area creation control unit 551, the image data of the "building 4" in the album "building" and the image data of the image area 302 in the position of the image area 301 in the document shown in FIG. This will be described below using an example in which image data of “building 6” in the album “building” is assigned to the position. It is to be noted that the album is formed by assigning an image number (image name) to a plurality of images (data) read from the card slot 2 by the album control processing by the overall control unit 51 and organizing the album.
The storage unit 7 stores the album number, the album name of the album number, and the album list describing the number of images contained in the album. In this embodiment, if the image data is read from the card slot 2, the image data may be taken directly from the digital still camera,
It is also possible to configure so as to capture directly from the scanner.

In the area creation of the album image, step 2
At 00, an area creation method selection screen as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed, and when “4: Use album” is selected, FIG.
The album list screen as shown in is displayed. Then, in step 201, an album number to be used is selectively inputted. In this example, the album number “2” is selected and input in order to use the album name “building”. When an album number is selected and input, in step 202, a new area creating process is performed for assigning arbitrary image data in the selected album to an image area of an arbitrary position and size in the document. The allocation of the image area and the album image is realized by the association based on the allocation information stored in the area information management table as shown in FIG. This area information management table stores the image area No. 601, an album image name 602 assigned to the image area, and an image area size 60
3 and items such as an image area position 604 are provided for each image area. In the processing state of this step 202, the allocation information of the area information management table is set to the initial setting value as shown in FIG. Next, in an album image area creation screen display processing step 203, an album display screen and an area edit screen for setting an image area in a document are displayed on one display screen as shown in FIG. The album image area creation screen display processing will be described later according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In the processing state shown in FIG. 8, an initial setting screen is displayed in which an image area is not yet created at an intended position and size, and an intended album image in an album is not allocated. Creating an image area of the intended position and size and assigning the intended album image
The key input in step 204 is accepted, and in step 205, the processing branches to each processing.

If an instruction to change the image area size and position is input by key input in step 204, the flow branches to step 208 for changing the image area size and position in step 205. In this example, in this processing step 208, the initial setting image area 80 shown in FIG.
2 is moved from the initial setting position to an image area 902 at a desired position shown in FIG. At this time, the target image area NO. 601 image area size 60
3. Change the set value of the image area position 604. If the album image selection is instructed by the key input in step 204, the process branches to step 206 in step 205 to obtain the album image name to be assigned to the image area, and in the next step 207, the album image name is stored in the area information management table. Assign a name. In the case of this example, since image data of “building 4” is allocated, “building 4” is selected and input by the album image name 901 shown in FIG. It can be assigned to “1”. At this time, the target image area NO.
The album image name 602 assigned to the image area “1” is changed from “building 1” to “building 4”. In this state, the album image area creation screen display processing step 203
9, the screen display as shown in FIG. 9 is performed, the image area 902 on the area editing screen is highlighted, and “building 4” on the album display screen is highlighted, and the album image “building 4” is displayed on the image area 902. Is displayed. When assigning the next album image to the image area,
“Next area creation” 904 is selected and input on the display screen shown in FIG. When a next area creation instruction is input in key input step 204, a new area creation step 2 is performed in step 205.
02 to the processing. Album image area creation screen display processing step 20 after new area creation in step 203
3 and a screen display as shown in FIG. 10 is performed. Thereafter, by performing the same processing as described above, the screen display processing as shown in FIG. 11 is performed by changing the position and size of the image area, changing the album image name, and the like. Complete the creation of
Then, an “end key” 1102 on the display screen shown in FIG.
Is input, the process branches from the key input step 204 through step 205 to the batch allocation process of step 210 to determine the allocation information of the area information management table, and according to this allocation information, the image data of the album is stored in the corresponding image area. Then, the area creation processing ends. In this example, the area information management table is determined as shown in FIG. 12, and the image allocation to the image area is completed as shown in FIG.

In the state shown in FIG. 11, the image area NO. "1"
If there is an error in the position, size, album image name, etc. of the target area, when the target area change key 1101 is input, the process branches from the key input step 204 to step 209 via step 205 to step 209.
09 to assign the image area to be allocated to NO. "1" to change the image area NO. The area information management table can be reset for the size of “1”, the album image name, and the like. When the target area is changed in the state of FIG. 9, “change target area” 903 is selected on the display screen shown in FIG. As a result, the process returns to step 203 via step 209, and the same processing is executed.

Finally, details of the album image area creation screen display processing step 203 in the state shown in FIG. 11 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, in step 701, the image data in the designated album and the area creation screen are displayed simultaneously. Next, in step 702, the area number of the image area to be allocated is determined. Is acquired, and in step 703, the image area NO. Image area is highlighted. In this example, the image area NO. Since the image area 1103 of “2” is to be allocated, the image area 1103 is highlighted. Next, in step 704, the image area NO. The image data of the album image name assigned to is displayed in reverse video. In this example, as shown in FIG. 12, as can be seen from the area information management table,
Image area NO. Since “building 6” is allocated to “2”, the album image 1104 is highlighted. Next, in step 705, the area number of the image area to be allocated is determined. The image data of the album image assigned to other than is displayed as a shaded dark point. In this example, the image area NO. Since “Building 4” is assigned to “1”, the album image 1105 is displayed as a shaded dark point. According to the display method of changing the display mode in this manner, the image area to be allocated and the album image are displayed in reverse video, and the album image displayed as a shaded dot is the image area in the document. At a glance.

As described above, according to the present invention, when allocating image data in an album constituted by storing image data in an information processing apparatus to an image area in a document, a plurality of images in the album are stored. Data can be allocated to a plurality of image areas in a lump, and the input work of allocating the image data in the album to the image area is performed by arranging the image data to be allocated while arranging the album display screen and the area edit screen. Since the image data can be allocated to the allocation target image area, the operation of allocating a plurality of image data in the album to a plurality of image areas in the document and combining them can be facilitated.

[0026]

According to the present invention, an image area using an album for storing image data such as a photograph to be created in a document, an album display screen for displaying image data, and an area for setting an image area in the document Since a plurality of image data can be collectively allocated to a plurality of image areas and edited while viewing the editing screen, it is easy to create a document in which image data and character data are combined.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an album image area creation process in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an example of a document created by an album image area creating process in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an area creation method selection screen for entering an album image area creation process in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a display screen example when an album name is selected in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an area information management table for associating an image area with an image area used for an album image area creation process of the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of an album image area creation and display process in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

8 is an example of a display screen during creation of an album image area in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is an example of a display screen during creation of an album image area in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is an example of a display screen during creation of an album image area in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

11 is an example of a display screen during creation of an album image area in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

12 is an area information management table in which allocation information for associating an image area and an album image by an album image area creation process in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is set.

13 is an example of a display screen after the completion of album image creation in the image information processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 input unit 2 card slot 3 memory card 4 display unit 5 control unit 6 shared memory 7 storage unit 8 printing unit 51 overall control unit 52 image data read processing unit 53 display control unit 531 album image area creation display control unit 54 album control unit 55 area control unit 551 album image area creation control unit

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Saotome 1-1-1, Higashitagacho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Inside the Taga Headquarters, Hitachi, Ltd.Electrical Equipment Division (72) Inventor Masaki Fujiwara, Higashitagamachi, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture No. 1 In the Taga Headquarters, Hitachi, Ltd.Electrical Equipment Division

Claims (7)

[Claims] An input unit for inputting character data described in a document; an image data input unit for inputting image data;
In an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores characters and image data, a display unit that displays data stored in the storage unit, and a control unit that controls the storage unit, the control unit may be configured on a single display screen. An album display area for displaying a plurality of image data and an area editing screen for setting an image area in a document are displayed, and album image area creating means for collectively assigning and editing arbitrary image data to an arbitrary image area is provided. An information processing apparatus characterized in that: 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further creates an album in which a plurality of image data input from the image data input unit is arranged and stores the album in the storage unit.
An information processing apparatus according to claim 1. 3. The album image area creating means according to claim 1, wherein said album image area creation means includes a plurality of image data displayed on said album display screen and a plurality of image data specified on a plurality of image areas of a document displayed on said area edit screen. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an area information management table for storing allocation information for associating areas. 4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the area information management table further stores the size and position information of the image area. 5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said album image area creating means includes means for changing allocation information set in an area information management table. 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit includes an album image area creation screen display unit that displays the allocation target image data and the image area in a identifiable display form. . 7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a card slot connected to the control unit, wherein the image data can be read from a memory card storing the image data.