JPS59133681A - Picture editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To edit and process a picture correctly by providing a mark detecting part, which detects an original direction discriminating mark added to an original, to input correctly data of the original even if the input direction of the original is vertically reverse. CONSTITUTION:Marks 3 and 4 indicating the direction of an original 2 are entered in left upper and right lower parts of the original 2 inputted to a picture editing device. This original 2 is inputted to an input part 10 of the picture editing device, and time series picture data sampled by the input part 10 is applied to a mark detecting part 11 through a processing control part 14. This detecting part 11 discriminates the presence or the absence of marks 3 and 4 and the first thickness of marks 3 and 4; and if marks 3 and 4 are absent or the first thickness is thin, the operation of the control part 14 is stopped. Picture data of the original 2 is stored in a picture memory part 12 and is edited and processed in the control part 14 and is outputted from an output part 13. Thus, the data is inputted to the editing device correctly even if the direction of the original 2 is vertically reverse.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application] The present invention relates to an image editing device that is capable of performing predetermined image processing or editing even if a document such as a form is inputted into the image editing device upside down.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, in an image editing device that digitally samples an image in a document such as a form and performs various processing and editing on the sampled image, an image input section is used to orient the document in a predetermined direction. required to be entered.

- For example, if the document 1 is placed in the image input section with the document 1 facing in the direction shown in FIG. 1(a), the image area will be correctly extracted. This is shown in Figure 1 (
As shown in b), if the original 1 is inputted into the image input unit with the document 1 facing in the opposite direction, the correct image area will not be extracted, and therefore the image editing or image processing will not be performed correctly.

As mentioned above, in conventional image editing devices, documents such as forms must be input into the image input section with the correct orientation.
There was a drawback that correct image editing or image processing was not performed.

C. Purpose] The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art described above,
To enable data on a document to be input correctly even if the input direction of the document is upside down.

〔overview〕

4'4 of the present invention? The mark is image data obtained by digitally sampling the image in the manuscript (an image editing device that performs various types of processing or editing recognizes the mark written in the manuscript and uses the input manuscript The present invention is configured to identify the orientation of the image so that image processing or image editing can be performed normally even if the input document is oriented in the opposite direction.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained below by way of examples. First, a document such as a form used in this embodiment (I will explain the details.The document 2 input to the input section is placed in the upper left 6 lower right portion of the document 2, as shown in FIG. Marks 3 and 4 are written to indicate the orientation of the original 2. These marks 3 and 4 each consist of a set of thick lines and thin lines.Therefore, as shown in FIG. When input from the normal direction, marks 3 and 4 are
Uζ is read out. - F. When a document is input from the opposite direction, as is clear from FIG. 3, the lines become thinner and then thicker. Therefore, by checking the read results of marks 3 and 4, it is possible to determine whether the original was input from the forward direction.
You can see if input was made from the opposite direction.

Next, the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG. In the figure, 1o is an input unit that digitally samples the original image to generate pixel time series data, 11 is a mark detection unit that detects the mark written on the original, and 12
1 is an image memory unit having a capacity for at least one page of the original document for storing the original image; 13 is an output unit for outputting the edited image; and 14 is a processing control unit that controls each of the above parts and also edits the image. It is.

Next, the operation of this embodiment having the above-described configuration will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

Step S1: First, a document 2 with marks indicating the direction of the document at the beginning and end of the document 2 as shown in FIG. 2 is input into the input section 10. The time-series image data sampled thereby is guided to the mark detection section 11.

Step $2...The presence or absence of a mark is checked. And if there is no mark, an error will occur. If there is a mark, the process advances to the next step S3.

Step S3: It is determined whether the first mark read is thick or not. If it is thick, the process proceeds to step S4, and if it is thin, the process proceeds to step s5.

Step S4... It is determined whether the next mark is thin or not, and if no, an error occurs. If yes, proceed to the next step S6.

Step S5: It is determined whether the next mark is thick or not, and if no, an error occurs. - power, if yes, proceed to step Sll.

Step S6...Since the original is facing in the normal direction,
The image memory counter in the image memory section 12 is initialized to the minimum value.

Step S7: The input unit 10 reads the original image.

Step S8... At the smallest address of the image memory section 12,
Image data is stored.

Step S9...Add 1 to the image memory counter.

Step S10: It is determined whether all the data has been stored in the image memory, which has a capacity equal to the negative value of one document. If no, the process returns to step S7. And step S
Step 87 to step S9 until IO becomes YES
is repeated. As a result, the read image data is stored sequentially from the smallest address to the largest address in the image memory.

If the result in step 810 is YES, the process ends.

Step Sll...If the answer is yes in step S5,
Since the original is input in the opposite direction, the image memory counter in the image memory section 12 is initialized to the maximum value.

Step 812: A document image is read from the input unit 10.

Step 813: Image data is stored at the maximum address of the image memory section 12.

Step 814: 1 is subtracted from the image memory counter.

Step 815: It is determined whether all of the image data has been stored in the image memory.

If no, the process returns to step S12.

1 until the answer is YES in step S15. The procedure from step 812 to step S14 is repeated. As a result, the read image data is sequentially stored in the image memory from large addresses to small addresses.

If the answer is YES in step S15, the reading of the image υ by the input unit 10 ends.

As is clear from the above description, according to this embodiment, the image data stored in the image memory section is in a state where it is read when the original is placed in the normal direction even if the original is placed in the opposite direction. The same thing will happen. Furthermore, if the document is input upside down, there will be no predetermined mark at the predetermined position, so it is possible to notify the operator that the document is placed in an abnormal state. .

When the writing to the image memory section 12 is completed, the processing control section 1
4, predetermined image editing or image processing is performed on the image data input as described above. Thereafter, if necessary, the output section 13 prints the results.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the following modifications are also possible.

(1) Any mark may be used, as long as it can identify the direction of the document.

(2) In the above embodiment, the marks were detected when inputting the original, but after reading one part of the original image into the image memory section, regardless of the orientation of the original image, the mark is detected from the image memory section. The orientation of the original may be detected by sending the image data or the mark to the detection unit. If the orientation of the document is reversed, the processing control section can rearrange the image data in the image memory to arrange the data in the normal direction.

(3) As a modification of (2) above, when the orientation of the original is reversed, the image data in the image memory is not replaced, but the parameters necessary for image processing or image editing are converted. If this is done, it is possible to perform image processing or editing equivalent to that for a document in the normal orientation.

[Effects] As described in Section 2 below, according to the present invention, in the image collection or processing device A, a mark indicating the orientation of the document is written in a specific area of the document of the input form. Therefore, even if the original is input in the opposite direction, normal editing or processing can be performed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 shows an example of a conventional manuscript, Figures 2 and 3
Figure 4 shows a manuscript used in an embodiment of the present invention.
The figure shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of an embodiment of the invention. 2... Original, 3, 4... Mark, 10... Input section, 11 - Mark detection section, 12... Image memory section, 13... Output section, 14... Processing control section substitute 1 non-individual patent attorney, Michi Hiraki

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An input section that converts a manuscript image into an electrical digital quantity and inputs it as time series data, an image memory section that stores the input manuscript image data, a processing control section that performs image editing processing, and a processing control section that performs image editing processing. What is claimed is: 1. An image editing device having an output section for outputting a document image, characterized in that the image editing device includes a mark detection section for detecting a mark attached to a document for determining document orientation.