JPS58182751A - Information output device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the load aoplied to a primary control part, by producing the form output information other than the atypical information from a form generating part and at the same time by supplying the atypical information from an input part. CONSTITUTION:When a designating signal of the typical information is supplied from an input part, a primary control part 1 converts this designating signal into a form discriminating signal to supply it to a form generating part 5. The part 5 generates the output information of a typical form and stores it to a storing part 2. When a recording command is delivered to a control part 3 from the part 1, both code signals of typical and atypical forms respectively are read out of the part 2 to be transferred directly to a storing part 6 by a direct memory access process. The part 6 stores temporarily the edited recording character code and the code signal of the form for the period of a recording process.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an information output device capable of outputting information such as an output format specific to each page together with main data.

In information output devices conventionally used in printing devices, etc., character information once stored in a storage device is converted into a character signal via a main control unit, and characters are output on recording paper, etc. according to this character signal. , for example, is configured to perform printing.

However, in such conventional information output devices, when the output format (hereinafter referred to as form) is different for each output page, all output information including information related to the form is input from the input section each time. As a result, the load on the main control section increases accordingly, and the printing speed also decreases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an information output device that can eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks and appropriately generate standard form output information.

In order to achieve such an object, the present invention provides a form generation unit that can generate various types of specific form output information required for each page for each page, and forms output information other than non-standard information. The configuration is such that the generation section is responsible for the task, and non-standard information is sent from the input section.

The present invention will be described in detail below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, where / is a main control section, and if text information is sent to the main control section/ from an input section (not shown), such as a keyboard, then the main control section/
2 converts the text information data into character code signals according to the program, and outputs the signals to the first storage section -. The first memory section is a page memory and can store each page of code signals generated by the main control section.

The first control section 3 analyzes the code signals stored in the first memory section one after another and instructs the character generation section DA to create a character pattern. For example, the character generation part is 24! A character pattern of X2Q dots can be generated.

5 is a foam generating section. When a designation signal for standard information, such as a form designation signal for outputting a standard form such as a form, is sent from the input unit to the main control unit l,
The main control section converts this form designation signal into a form identification signal according to the flow program shown in FIG. 1, and supplies this identification signal to the form generation section S. The form generating section 5 generates output information of a fixed form according to the form identification signal, and stores this in the first storage section.

B is the first storage unit, and the first storage unit B stores code signals such as text information with a negative sign and form output information stored in the first storage unit B, and outputs them to a recording device such as a printer. Memorize it temporarily. That is, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. Direct memory access (DMA) is performed by reading the code signal of the
) processing, the data is directly transferred to the a-th storage unit B, and here the second storage unit 6 stores recording characters that are edited to determine where each sentence, such as the text information, is to be recorded on one page. The code and form code signals are temporarily stored during the recording process. The recording device t records amorphous information such as a form and character information based on the output read from the first storage section 6 and the character pattern of the character generation section.

The generation of output in the information output device configured as described above will be explained using the case of the form shown in FIG. 3 as an example. Here, the form IO is a list that records unit prices by product name.
In this case, the 7-ohm output information other than the unit price numbers as non-standard output information, such as frames separating each column and each line and product name characters, will be displayed as 7-ohm output information as form output information as shown in Figure D, for example. It is stored in the generation section j. Therefore,
When a form designation signal regarding such form output information @ is inputted from the input section, this designation signal is sent to the main control section. The main control section I analyzes this form designation signal and supplies a form identification signal to the form generation section S. Form generation part! Then, a code output for 7 ohms corresponding to the form identification signal is extracted (!r) from the form information registered in advance in the form of a code signal, and is stored in the first storage section.

Next, the atypical information is supplied from the input section to the main control section l. In this example, the numerical value shown in the unit price column in FIG. 3 is non-standard information. The main control section 1 converts the data of the non-standard information 2/ into a character code signal and stores it in the first storage section 1. In this way, the character code signal for / and the code output for form are all stored in the first storage unit -, which is the atypical information of the negative sign. After that, when an output command is issued, the code output of the form stored in the first storage unit - and the code signal for /negative non-standard information 2/ are transferred to the first storage unit B, and the first control The code signals are edited and arranged in such a manner that non-standard information is inserted into a predetermined position of the standard form under control of the operator.

Under the control of the first control unit in accordance with the edited code signal, the standard form and the non-standard information, 2/, are recorded in the recording device g while referring to the character generation part, and as shown in FIG. You will get the output shown in .

In this example, seven identification codes (6) corresponding to each of the output information of various standard forms are prepared (6), and the form generator 3 uses these seven identification codes to generate the output information corresponding to the codes. Although the output information is generated, it is also possible to further divide the output information into several unit information and generate various fixed forms from the form generation section j by combining the unit information. It can handle a wide range of phononyms with different formats with high flexibility, and can efficiently generate standardized output information.

As described above, according to the present invention, a form generating section is provided that can generate standard output information for each identification code, and when a standard form is specified from the input section, the main control section generates an identification code corresponding to the standard form. By supplying this form generating section to the form generating section, the form generating section generates standard output information and supplies this to the storage section,
The storage unit stores this standard output information and other non-standard information in the form of character codes, and outputs the image information to the recording device according to the output command. The amount of data sent through the printer is much smaller than in the past, so the load on the main control unit can be reduced, and the printing speed can be increased accordingly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the information output device of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing its operating procedure, Fig. 3 is a line diagram showing an example of a form as output information, and Fig. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of standard output information. /...Main control unit, K...First storage unit, 3
...First control section, G...Character generation section, 5...
- Form generation unit, 6... Second storage unit, R... First control unit, Z... Recording device, 10 - Form,
J: Standard output information, 2/: Non-standard information.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a main control unit that generates an identification code corresponding to the standard information and a character code corresponding to the non-standard information; a form generating unit that generates standard output information corresponding to the identification code; a storage unit that edits and stores the non-standard information in combination with the standard information; and a recording device that records the standard and non-standard information based on the character code and the standard information read from the storage unit. An information output device comprising: