JPH11112698A - Print system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To know the existence, position and content of invisible data/non still image data/dynamic updating data from a print output result, to print out an optional part/state of the non-still data/dynamic updation data and further, also to know the configuration of an electronic document that is an object to be printed, even when printout has been performed over plural printout sheets. SOLUTION: A print controlling part 11 expands a specified electronic document to form an printout image. At the same time, it discriminates the existence of invisible data/non-still image data/dynamic updating data which are notified from a data analyzing part 12, forms positional information and its mark when they exist, performs visible data conversion through an invisible data converting part 13 in the case of invisible data and controls printout from divided display through non-still data display reproducing part 14 in the case of non-still image data and regenerative display through a dynamic updating data display reproducing part 15 in the case of dynamic updating data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a printing system for printing an electronic document in an HTML format including information such as characters / video / audio transmitted via the Internet or a LAN.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art HT including information such as text / video / audio
Electronic documents in ML format are distributed on the Internet and LAN. There are still image data such as characters, non-still image data such as video, invisible data such as audio, Ja
Many types of multimedia data such as dynamic fluctuation data controlled and executed by an execution module described in va language are stored. A personal computer (PC) analyzes these data formats, decodes encoded data, and displays or reproduces characters / video / audio.

[0003] However, when such an electronic document is printed, still image data such as characters are printed in the same manner as when displayed, but non-still image data such as video is, for example, the first scene at which reproduction is started. Is printed as a still image,
The presence of invisible data such as voice cannot be known, and dynamic fluctuation data controlled and executed in Java language is not printed, or a specific state in the fluctuation process is printed.

Paper, which is a print output medium, makes use of its excellent browsability, portability, etc., and is not intended to store information, but rather "temporarily displays" information that is difficult to capture as a whole on a display screen of an electronic device. Is used to

[0005] Such an electronic document cannot be known unless the entire contents and volume are displayed / reproduced. For this reason, if the user tries to know the contents by printing / outputting a part that has not been confirmed by display / reproduction on a PC screen or the like, invisible data / non-still image data / dynamically updated data can be recognized. Can not.

[0006] Further, even when a printout is made of what has been displayed / reproduced on a PC screen or the like and confirmed, the necessary specific scene of the video and the specific state of the dynamically updated data are used to determine the quality of the paper. If you want to make the most of it on paper, you cannot select it.

In other words, it is desired that the invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic fluctuation data can be known from the print output result to the existence, position and content. In particular, a portable small PC is not necessarily capable of displaying / reproducing with sufficient performance, so that the necessity is high.

[0008]

As described above, when printed out, the existence, position, and contents of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data cannot be known, and non-still image data / dynamic update There has been a problem that an arbitrary scene / state of data cannot be printed out, and even if the data is output over a plurality of printout sheets, the configuration of the electronic document to be printed cannot be known.

In view of the above, the present invention provides a method for determining the existence of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data from a printout result.
The position and the contents can be known, and any scene / state of the non-still image data / dynamic update data can be printed out. Further, even when the data is output over a plurality of printout sheets, the electronic document to be printed can be output. It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing system capable of knowing the configuration.

[0010]

According to a printing system of the present invention, there is provided a printing system comprising: an instruction unit for instructing printing of an electronic document; and a printing unit for printing in accordance with the instruction of the instruction unit. Analyzing the electronic document to be printed in response to the print instruction, invisible data, non-still image data, detection means for detecting the presence and position of the dynamic update data, and the invisible data, non-still image data, Forming means for forming a code or a mark indicating a position where the data exists when dynamic update data is present as an image at a place where the image data of the electronic document to be printed is not disturbed; and Control means for controlling the printing means to print out the electronic document to be printed by adding a code or mark.

According to a printing system of the present invention, there is provided a printing system having instruction means for instructing printing of an electronic document and printing means for performing printing in accordance with the instruction of the instruction means. Detecting means for analyzing the target electronic document and detecting the presence and position of invisible data, non-still image data, and dynamically updated data. When the detection means detects the presence of invisible data, the invisible data is converted to visible data. And a control unit for performing control to print out the visible data converted by the converting unit separately from the electronic document to be printed, which is printed out by the printing unit. I have.

According to a printing system of the present invention, there is provided a printing system having an instructing means for instructing printing of an electronic document and a printing means for performing printing in accordance with the instruction of the instructing means. Detecting means for analyzing the target electronic document and detecting the presence and position of invisible data, non-still image data, and dynamic update data, and the non-still image data and dynamic update data detected by the detecting means. A selection means for displaying and playing back and selecting an arbitrary number of scenes and states, and an arbitrary number of scenes selected by the selection means,
And control means for controlling the state of the electronic document to be printed in addition to the electronic document to be printed which has been printed out by the printing means.

According to a printing system of the present invention, there is provided a printing system having an instructing unit for instructing printing of an electronic document and a printing unit for printing in accordance with the instruction of the instructing unit. First control means for adding related information separately from the electronic document and performing print output, and a case where a plurality of print output sheets are printed and output by the print means in response to a print instruction from the instruction means Assigning a first page number to the electronic document instructed to be printed by the instructing means and causing the electronic document to be printed out, and additional information output in addition to the electronic document by the first control means and And second control means for giving a second page number generated from the first page number and printing out.

[0014]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, electronic documents distributed on the Internet include HTML (Hyper Text Mar
(Kup Language) format, etc., still image data such as characters, non-still image data such as video, invisible data such as audio, and dynamically updated which is controlled and executed by an execution module described in Java language. Many types of multimedia data such as data are included.

Hereinafter, a case where an electronic document obtained via the Internet is printed out will be described. FIG. 4 shows a flow of an operation for printing out an electronic document. The electronic document (character / audio / video, etc.) shown in FIG.
4 (a), and can be printed out as shown in FIG. 4 (b).

FIG. 5 shows a flow of an operation of printing out an electronic document. (A) of FIG.
As shown in (1), the operator retrieves the information by himself, displays and reproduces the retrieved electronic document on the display device, confirms it, designates the electronic document to be printed, makes a print request, and obtains a print output result.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the operator searches for information by himself, checks only the list without displaying and reproducing the electronic document of the search result, specifies the electronic document to be printed, and makes a print request. Then, a print output result is obtained.

As shown in FIG. 5C, the operator makes a print request by specifying the distributed electronic document without retrieving information by himself, and obtains a print output result. As shown in FIG. 5D, the operator obtains an automatically printed output without searching for information by himself and without specifying the distributed electronic document.

That is, in the case of FIG. 5A, the contents of the electronic document are displayed and reproduced, and after confirming the character / video / audio / dynamic update data, they are printed out. 5 (b), 5 (c) and 5 (d), the purpose is to know the contents of the electronic document on the paper without checking the contents of the electronic document. It is desired to know the existence, position, and content of the target update data, and the present invention responds to this.

Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 shows a schematic configuration of the printing system according to the first embodiment. The printing system has at least a print instruction input unit 3 for instructing printing of an electronic document.
0, a print control unit 31 that controls and executes formation of a print output image, and a data analysis unit 32 that analyzes electronic document data to detect invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data
Consists of

A data communication unit 37 for obtaining an electronic document from the outside, and a data storage unit 3 for storing electronic document data
8, a configuration example in the case where a display / reproduction unit 39 for displaying / reproducing an electronic document and a display device 40 are connected is shown here. All may be connected by a network.

Next, the operation of analyzing the electronic document to be printed in such a configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, upon receiving a print request from the operator, the print instruction input unit 30 sends the designated electronic document from the data storage unit 38 to the data analysis unit 32, and analyzes the electronic document data. In the data analysis unit 32, invisible data /
The presence of non-still image data / dynamic update data is determined (S
1) The position information is extracted and notified to the print control unit 31 (S2).

The print control unit 31 develops the designated electronic document to form a print output image, and at the same time, transmits the invisible data / non-still image data /
The position information of the dynamic update data is stored by forming "marks" at the upper end and the right end, which are the blank areas of the printout paper, so as not to disturb the original electronic document image (S3).

In this way, the print controller 31 performs the operation up to step S3 to form an image in which invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data exists (S4).
In step S1, invisible data / non-still image data /
If there is no dynamic update data, normal image formation is performed (S5), and print output control is performed (S6).

The mark uses different shapes to distinguish invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data. As an example, using figure ▽ / ◇ / ☆, “▽” is invisible data, “◇” is non-still image data,
“☆” represents dynamic update data.

FIG. 10A shows another example of the mark.
Character A (Audio) / V (Vi
As “deo) / M (Model),“ A ”may represent invisible data,“ V ”may represent non-still image data, and“ M ”may represent dynamic update data. As yet another example, different icons are used.

In the case of invisible data, marks of different shapes are used to distinguish their attributes. An example of voice data is a shape representing a mouth. As an example of music data,
Quarter note in sheet music. An example of language data is a national flag whose language is the first language. Another example is Music / V
A character string expressing attributes such as oice / Lang. Further, as another example representing the attribute of the invisible data, any visible pattern such as a name of application software suitable for reproducing the data, a numerical value expressing the size of the data, or the like may be used.

In the case of non-still image data, a different mark expressing the attribute is used. Examples are application software icons suitable for playing moving images or animations. Another example is the name of application software suitable for playing moving images / animations. Another example is the playback time required to play a movie / animation.

In the case of dynamic update data, a mark is used as a hint to know its contents. For example, preset data for a dynamically updated area. Another example is default data for dynamically updated areas.
Another example is a dataset as an option that may be adopted during updates.

The mark can also be used as follows. A serial number is assigned to the invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data detected from the original electronic document, and the original electronic document is printed on a page in the case where the image is developed and printed on a memory for the purpose of printing out. The mark and its serial number are printed out. As a result, even when a plurality of marks are printed out on the same page, the information on the type and position of the corresponding data can be easily understood.

Another example of a mark is shown in FIG.
In order to indicate the position on the print output paper so as not to disturb the print output content of the original electronic document as shown in the print example of (1), the start and end points of the area (a)
(B) A line segment connecting the start point and the end point of the area is formed. The margins on the paper are the top and right edges, the top and left edges, the bottom and right edges,
Use any combination of the bottom and left edges. This makes it possible to easily know the existence of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data.

As another example of the mark, as shown in the print examples of FIGS. 10B and 10C, the purpose of indicating the position on the print output paper so as not to disturb the print output contents of the original electronic document. Thus, a “rectangular frame” is formed in a corresponding portion on the back surface of the paper. Thus, the presence of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data can be easily known by seeing through the paper.

Next, a second embodiment will be described. FIG.
9 shows a schematic configuration of a printing system according to the second embodiment. The configuration of the printing system includes at least a print instruction input unit 20, a print control unit 21, a data analysis unit 22,
And an invisible data conversion unit 23 that converts the invisible data into visible data.

Data communication unit 27 for obtaining an electronic document from outside, data storage unit 2 for storing electronic document data
8, a configuration example in the case where a display / reproduction unit 29 for displaying / reproducing an electronic document and a display device 30 are connected is shown here. All may be connected by a network.

Next, the operation of analyzing the electronic document to be printed in such a configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when receiving a print request from the operator, the print instruction input unit 20 sends the designated electronic document from the data storage unit 28 to the data analysis unit 22, and analyzes the electronic document data. In the data analysis unit 22, invisible data /
The presence of non-still image data / dynamic update data is determined (S1
1) If present, the position information is extracted and notified to the print control unit 21 (S12).

The print control unit 21 develops the designated electronic document to form a print output image, and at the same time, transmits the invisible data / non-still image data /
The position information of the dynamic update data is stored by forming “marks” at the upper end and the right end, which are the blank areas of the printout paper, so as not to disturb the original electronic document image (S13), and invisible data / non-still image data / Image formation in which dynamic update data exists (S14).

Subsequently, the invisible data converter 23 determines that the data analyzer 22 has invisible data (S1).
In 6), the invisible data is received from the data storage unit 28 and converted into visible data. As an example, in the case of voice data, the voice data is converted into text data by a voice recognition subsystem. As another example, the data is converted into text data by the speech recognition subsystem, and further converted into Japanese text data by the English-Japanese translation subsystem. As another example, music data is converted into a musical score. If the invisible data is not converted to visible data in step S16, only the attribute information is converted to visible data (S16).
17).

As an image formation of the converted visible data from step S16 or step S17 (S18),
It is sent to the print control unit 21 and print output is controlled (S1).
9). If there is no invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data in step S11, normal image formation is performed (S15) and sent to the print control unit 21 to perform print output control (S19).

Next, a third embodiment will be described. FIG.
Shows a schematic configuration of a printing system according to the third embodiment. The configuration of the printing system includes at least a print instruction input unit 10, a print control unit 11, a data analysis unit 12,
An invisible data conversion unit 13; a non-still image data display / reproduction unit 14 for displaying and reproducing non-still image data for each individual scene, which is a component of the invisible data conversion unit 13; And a data selection unit 16 connected to the data selection input unit 8 for receiving a data selection instruction from the operator.

Data communication unit 17 for obtaining an electronic document from outside, data storage unit 1 for storing electronic document data
8, a configuration example in which a display / reproduction unit 19 for displaying / reproducing an electronic document and a display device 9 are connected is shown here.
All may be connected by a network.

Next, the operation of analyzing the electronic document to be printed in such a configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, upon receiving a print request from the operator, the print instruction input unit 10 sends the designated electronic document from the data storage unit 18 to the data analysis unit 12, and analyzes the electronic document data. In the data analysis unit 12, invisible data /
It is determined whether non-still image data / dynamic update data exists (S2).
1) If present, the position information is extracted and notified to the print control unit 11 (S22).

The print control unit 11 sets the image formation in which invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data exists (S
23) At the same time as developing the designated electronic document to form a print output image, the position information of the invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data notified from the data analysis unit 12 is converted to the original electronic document image. “Marks” are formed and stored at the upper end and the right end, which are the blank areas of the print output paper, so as not to interfere (S25).

The non-still image data display / reproduction unit 14 has a function of decomposing and displaying a still image, which is a component of the non-still image data, frame by frame, unlike the normal display / reproduction unit 19. As an example, in the case of moving image data, a function of reproducing and displaying a set of still images, which are components of a moving image that is reproduced and displayed by continuously displaying at a speed of 30 frames or more per second, frame by frame is provided ( S2
6). As another example, a function of reproducing and displaying a set of still images, which are components of an animation image reproduced and displayed by frame-by-frame advance, one frame at a time is provided. As another example, a function of selecting and displaying any 10 characters in a character string exceeding 10 characters flowing in a character display area for 10 characters on the screen such as a telop is provided.

The dynamic update data display / reproduction unit 15 is different from the normal display / reproduction unit 19 in that a function of reproducing and displaying partial data, which is a component of data dynamically updated by operator input or time, one by one. have. As an example, in the case of moving image data, a function is provided to reproduce and display an arbitrary levee surface of a moving image in which a scenario changes by an operator input for each scene (S27). As another example, a function is provided for reproducing and displaying arbitrary scenes of an animation image in which a story can be selected by an operator input one by one. As another example, there is provided a function of selecting and reproducing and displaying an arbitrary partial character string of an arbitrary character string from a group of telop character strings whose contents can be changed by an operator input.

As a result, as the image formation of the selected data (S28), the data is sent to the print control unit 11 and the print output is controlled (S29). If there is no invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data in step S21, the print control unit 11 performs normal image formation (S24).
And the print output is controlled (S29).

Next, a fourth embodiment will be described. 4th
The system configuration of the embodiment is the same as the configuration of the printing system of the third embodiment in FIG.

The operation of the print control unit 11 in the fourth embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In addition, print examples output here are shown in FIGS.
(E).

In the print output control (S5, S19, S29) processed by the print control unit 11, first, all original electronic documents to be printed are image-developed and page allocation is performed (S91). A page number is assigned to the assigned page (S92). It is checked whether the invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data notified to the print control unit 11 as a result of the data analysis processing in the data analysis unit 12 exists (S93). Under the control of the unit 12, the data of the additional print target (as described in the first to third embodiments) sent from the data storage unit 18 is image-developed and page allocation is performed (S94). A sub-page number is assigned to the allocated page (S95).

For the subpage number, “1-1”, “1-2”, “1-3”... Are added to the additional print output page for the print output page “1” of the original electronic document.
In another embodiment, “1a”, “1b”, “1c”,. In addition, any expression may be used as long as the correspondence with the printout page number of the original electronic document can be seen.

The print control section 11 first prints out the original electronic document to be printed (S96), and then prints out the additional printout data (S97). Thus, the configuration of the original electronic document can be first grasped from the printout result, additional data can be obtained, and the correspondence between the original electronic document and the page of the additional print data can be easily known.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the position of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data can be known from the print output result, and the invisible data / non- It is possible to know the contents of the still image data / dynamic update data, to print out any scene / state of the non-still image data / dynamic update data, and to print out even a plurality of printout sheets. The configuration of the electronic document to be printed can be known.

[0052]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
The existence, position and contents of invisible data / non-still image data / dynamic update data can be known from the print output result, and any scene / state of the non-still image data / dynamic update data can be printed out. Further, it is possible to provide a printing system capable of knowing the configuration of an electronic document to be printed even when output is performed over a plurality of print output sheets.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a printing system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a printing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a printing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flow of an operation of printing out an electronic document.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow of an operation of printing out an electronic document.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of analyzing a print target electronic document.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of analyzing a print target electronic document.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of analyzing a print target electronic document.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of print output control.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a print example of print output.

[Explanation of symbols]

 8 Data selection input section 9, 30, 40 Display device 10, 20, 30 Print instruction input section (instruction means) 11, 21, 31 Print control section (control means) 12, 22, 32 Data analysis section (Detection means) 13, 23: invisible data conversion section (conversion means) 14: non-still image data display / reproduction section 15: dynamic update data display / reproduction section 16: data selection section (selection means) 17, 27, 37: data Communication unit 18, 28, 38 Data storage unit 19, 29, 39 Display display unit

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. Instruction means for instructing printing of an electronic document;
A printing unit that prints in accordance with the instruction of the instructing unit. Detecting means for detecting the presence and position; and, when the invisible data, non-still image data, and dynamic update data are present, the detection means detects a code or a mark indicating the position where the data is present, by the electronic device to be printed. Forming means for forming an image at a location where the image data of the document is not disturbed; and control means for controlling the printing means to print out the electronic document to be printed by adding the code or mark formed by the forming means. A printing system characterized by comprising: 2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the code or mark has a code or mark shape for identifying invisible data, non-still image data, and dynamically updated data. 3. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the code or mark has a code or mark shape capable of distinguishing a language type in the case of audio data as invisible data. 4. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein a serial number is added to the code or mark in the electronic document to be printed. 5. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the code or mark is an arbitrary combination of an upper end or a lower end and a left end or a right end of the paper printed and output from the printing unit. 6. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the mark is printed out at a corresponding position on a back surface when the printing unit can perform double-sided printing. 7. Instruction means for instructing printing of an electronic document,
In a printing system having a printing unit that prints in accordance with the instruction of the instructing unit, an electronic document to be printed is analyzed according to the printing instruction of the instructing unit, and invisible data, non-still image data, dynamic update data Detecting means for detecting the presence and position; converting means for converting the invisible data into visible data when the presence of the invisible data is detected by the detecting means; and printing the visible data converted by the converting means to the printing means. Control means for performing control for additionally printing and outputting separately from the electronic document to be printed which has been printed out in (1). 8. The printing system according to claim 7, wherein the conversion unit converts the audio data as the invisible data into text data obtained by converting the content of the audio data as visible data. 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the conversion unit converts the audio data as the invisible data into text data describing attribute information when the contents of the audio data cannot be converted as the visible data. The printing system according to claim 7. 10. A printing system comprising: an instruction unit for instructing printing of an electronic document; and a printing unit for printing in accordance with the instruction of the instruction unit. Detecting means for analyzing and detecting the presence and position of invisible data, non-still image data, and dynamic update data, and displaying and reproducing the non-still image data and dynamic update data detected by the detecting means for each component Selecting means for selecting an arbitrary number of scenes and states, and adding and printing the arbitrary number of scenes and states selected by the selecting means separately from the electronic document to be printed which has been printed out by the printing means. A printing system, comprising: control means for performing output control. 11. A printing system comprising: an instructing unit for instructing printing of an electronic document; and a printing unit for printing in accordance with the instruction of the instructing unit. The first to print out in addition to the electronic document
Control means, and when a plurality of printout sheets are printed out by the printing means in response to a printing instruction from the instruction means, a first page number is assigned to the electronic document instructed to be printed by the instruction means. And print output by adding a second page number generated from the first page number to additional information output in addition to the electronic document by the first control means. 2. A printing system, comprising: 12. The second control means outputs all of the electronic documents to which the first page number has been given first, and thereafter outputs all of the additional information to which the second page number has been given. The printing system according to claim 11, wherein the printing is performed. 13. The second control means outputs the electronic document to which the first page number is assigned, and then assigns a second page number related to the electronic document output at this time. Outputting the additional information following the electronic document, outputting the additional information with the second page number, and then outputting the electronic document with the first page number again. The printing system according to claim 11, characterized in that: