JPS59196248A - Composing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to easily perform the composing operation, in a composing apparatus of type format like printed matter, by inputting a character image by displaying frame pattern data read from a format information memory means on CRT. CONSTITUTION:For example, in fabricating a telop card, a necessary type format is read from a memory apparatus 10 by a keyboard 16 and frame pattern data is read from refresh memory 9 to be displayed by CRT14. In the next step, the desired character in a character board 2 is moved to the position corresponding to a lens group 3 and a character image due to an image pickup tube 4 is sent to font memory 6 through a digitizing circuit 5 and displayed by CRT14 through a P/S converter 13 and an encoder 12. When it is a right character, it is transmitted to image memory 7 and, when this operation is repeated and input by a desired format is finished, this is confirmed to order print-out. By this method, anyone can easily operate.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention mainly relates to a typesetting device for obtaining printed matter in a fixed format.

Examples of printed matter in a standard format include captions for TV broadcast news, weather forecasts, etc.; these captions are caption cards with white text on a black background that are photographed with a television camera or FSS. The image is then projected on the television screen along with the image of the immortal. This telop card GEL has traditionally been created using the following method: 1C01, and is handwritten in poster color on telop card paper.

2. Use a general phototypesetting machine.

3. Use a photo 411 character machine and special photosensitive material exclusively for the caption.

While the first method allows for the creation of caption cards easily and quickly, there are other problems such as the text being handwritten and therefore having individual differences and irregularities.

The second method does not have any problems with the beauty of the letters or the alignment of the letters, but phototypesetting machines generally use so-called positive photographic paper, where the letters appear black on a white background, so the props are drawn with white letters on a black background. To create a card, it is necessary to reverse the positive to negative, and at that time, it is necessary to go into a darkroom to develop, wash with water, and perform other processing.Furthermore, it is possible to accidentally print other characters. If tJi
It takes a lot of time and effort to print, cut and paste, and make corrections, so when there is an emergency such as an earthquake or breaking news, it is difficult to do so. .

The third method uses a special phototypesetting machine and special feeling 44, which is a diffusion transfer (D r R) 7j'
The true method is to take advantage of what is possible. This 7'j Buddha uses a pair of negative printing paper (printed paper in this case) and positive transfer paper, for example, 11ft'41
As described in Publication No. 13658, telop cards can be created quickly. Moreover, these materials have a relatively low pesticiency, so no in-room photographic processing is required. These features make it possible to significantly save time and effort compared to the method of using a general phototypesetting machine. However, even with this method, if -C is printed by mistake, there are problems, such as the need to print again or cut and paste, as with the second method. Furthermore, what is common to the second and third methods is that when the foot mat is fixed, such as in news or weather forecasts,
Even when creating a file, it is necessary to set various format information such as font size, print position, character spacing, etc., and it is difficult to create unless you have a certain degree of specialized training. It's something that doesn't work. Ah, 7C.

The present invention was developed based on the above points, and when creating a printed matter in a fixed format with a predetermined printing form, such as a telop card used for television broadcasting or weather forecasts, it is necessary to set the font size in advance. Information such as sheath printing position and feed amount is stored in memory as necessary format information, and the information corresponding to the printed matter to be created is displayed on a display means such as a cR-r as shown in Fig. 2. For example, a rectangular frame pattern like Nohe I to A3.
(・The operator inputs the required characters manually, and outputs the printed matter in the desired format 1~.Thus, this purpose is achieved. In order to do this, the present application discloses means I for capturing a character/symbol image; display means (2) for displaying an imaged IC character/symbol image; and: position for displaying a character/symbol image on the display means, and size of the character/symbol image. A-Matsu 1 ~ Formatsu I- which stores multiple pieces of information Information recording means (2): Reads desired format information from among a plurality of pieces of format information, displays a frame pattern corresponding to the format information on the display, and displays the image pickup means within the frame pattern. It is characterized by consisting of a '?' means in the character image which inputs a character/symbol image from , and prints the input Ic character/symbol image based on the format information selected and set after character input is completed. It is something to do.

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of the present invention.

1 is a light source, 2 is a dial that accommodates many letters, 3
is the main lens that enlarges or reduces the character/symbol image.

We can provide deformable lenses for elongated, semi-circular, oblique, etc., and image rotating prisms for rotating character and symbol images as needed.
C is the lens group installed, and 4 is the image pickup tube that captures the character image.
Light source 11 Dial 2. Lens group 3° Image pickup tube 4 as imaging means■
That's what it means. 5 is a digitizing circuit that digitizes the character/symbol image captured by the image pickup tube 4; 6 is a fan memory that stores the characters/symbols digitized by the digitizing circuit 5; 7 is a memory for storing characters/symbols; 8 is the buffer 7 memory, 9 is the refresh 7 memory, 'l O
is a control program and a set of data ()A-'? that determines the position, size, frame pattern, vertical and horizontal feed amount, etc. of characters/symbol images displayed on the display means described later. This is a storage device that stores a plurality of information such as
0 to format 1 is called information storage means ■. 11 is a C P LJ that controls the entire device; 12 is an encoder;
3 is a P/S (parallel-serial) converter, 14 is a color CRT
Then, the encoder 12゜1]/S converter 13. Color CR
T'14 is displayed and is called 1st stage 11. 15 is a Zolink as a means for printing characters and symbol images, and 16 is a keyboard.

What was previously described as (-"character/symbol image") will hereinafter be collectively referred to simply as "P character image".

To explain the case of creating a telop card, first, the operator creates a frequently used standard type) A-Matsu 1-. The procedure for creating it is, for example, the display position of the character image displayed on the display means, the frame pattern to show the size of the person, the size of the person, the vertical and horizontal direction, etc.
After performing the above simulation, register the number in advance in the storage device 10 in association with the number to be registered and store it yourself. This format is stored in advance in the storage device. (Note) The data stored as the A-mat information can be determined arbitrarily, and the above-mentioned formats 1 to information are not necessarily unified.

When carrying out actual work, the required standard format is called up from the storage device 10. To do this, specify the registration number with the keyboard 16, select the desired one from various format A-0 information, call C, read the frame pattern data to the refresh memory 9, is displayed in heavy color. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the frame pattern A displayed on the color CR'r 14.

In the figure, A1 to A3 are frame patterns, and the widths indicated by 131 to B3 correspond to the sizes of characters included in each frame pattern. In addition, C1-'-01 (indicates the starting position of each line, and the starting position of this line, C1h", and the amount of movement to C2) are stored in the storage device 10 as one of the Noah 1-mat information. -C is there. D is a square cursor,
It shows the position and size of the characters that are about to appear. Here, if you want to create a caption card using No.A-Matsu1- that is not stored in the storage device 10, use the keyboard 16 or the like to create frame pattern 8.
-/If you create the client information and store it in the storage device 10/\,
After that, you can do the same work as above.

In this way), when the A-mat information is read out and its frame pattern is displayed on the CRT" 14, for example, as shown in FIG. For example, the lenses necessary to obtain the size of the characters displayed in A1 are selected from the lens group 31, and the amount of feed between adjacent character images is also automatically set.

From this point on, the operator can input characters at positions within the predetermined frame pattern by simply selecting and typing the desired characters.

To explain this input operation, first, in order to pano a desired character on the dial 2, the operator moves the dial 2 and moves the desired character to a position corresponding to the lens group 3. Then fix the dial and expose 'C'. The exposed character image is subjected to optical processing such as predetermined size and deformation by the lens group 3 instructed by the format 1 and information, and is then imaged by the image pickup tube 4. The character image is transferred to I (the character image is digitized by the digitizing circuit E5 and sent to the font memory 6, and at the same time, the character image is transferred to the P/S converter 13,1.
The image is displayed in red, for example, on the color CRT 14 via the encoder 12. At this stage, since the selected character image has not yet been transferred to the image memory 7, the character can be corrected. Therefore, if the characters displayed on the color CRT 14 are incorrect, the operator rewrites the correct characters. Then, the incorrect characters stored in the font memory 6 are cleared and the correct characters are stored. When the operator determines that there are no mistakes in the characters displayed on the color CRT 14, the operator transfers the character image from the A site memory 6 to the image mail 7, and at the same time transfers the character image back to the color CRT 14 via the encoder 12, this time for example in green. Display by. In other words, the characters currently displayed and the characters already typed are displayed in different colors on CR1-. Once displayed on the color CRT 14, the character image in the font memory 6 is erased. In this embodiment, the information on the image memory 7 is displayed twice as often as when displayed on a CRT, and when it is displayed on a CRT, it is displayed twice as often.
Transfer and display with an accuracy of /2. This is because the character image displayed on the CR-1 is necessary to confirm and cover the characters input by the operator, and does not require a high degree of tlli. Therefore, if data is transferred with high precision, the transfer speed will become unreasonable, and the time required to create a prop card will increase accordingly.On the other hand, when printing outputs the information with the same precision as the information on the image memory to obtain a quality that can be used as a prop card.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the progress of the CRT display as characters are added. First character [When A-1 is typed, cursor D will enter the next character as shown in Figure 3 (A)]
move to the desired position. When the next character is entered, the cursor moves to the next position. Of course, this feed distance 1] is set as the feed R1 in the vertical and horizontal directions between the adjacent overlapping character images of the information to the page A-1. When characters are input in all of the frame patterns △l by repeating this operation, the cursor I) automatically moves to the frame pattern in the second line, as shown in Figure 3 (eye). Initial position C2/\
and move. Note that even if the characters do not reach the end of the frame pattern A+, if the operator instructs you to do so, the third
As shown in Figure (C), it is also possible to forcibly move the cursor to the first position mC2 of the frame pattern A in the second row. When the cursor 1] is moved to the second line, a lens corresponding to the size of the frame pattern on the second line is automatically selected from the lens group 3, and the feed amount is also reset if necessary. Hereafter, perform the same operation and input at the end with ;1. Here, in this example, the frame pattern is 1
~A.

The printing start position is shown as a rectangular frame pattern as shown in Figure 4, and the printing start position is memorized at the beginning of the line i'' of each frame pattern. It is better to memorize the shapes and display frame patterns corresponding to C and 'f.

In this manner, the operator completes the input of the desired character image by entering the desired character image.

When the input work is completed, the operator checks the color CR 114 to confirm that there are no mistakes, and then receives a printout instruction from the board 16. Then, the character image data is transferred from the -(image memory 7 to the printer 1-out Bano/mehiri 8. After transferring the character image data, the CRT
Switch to the bus on the link side /) and output only characters using the printer 15. In other words, the frame pattern is C1
In dog 1 (■1 [This is for verification purposes, it is not necessary to study the printed clothesline (゛. The output from the printer 15 can be used as it is as a caption card. Various types of printers can be used, such as an ordinary dot printer or one using thermal paper. Return it to Yo-ku and add 111 to create the next caption card.

The storage means (2) for storing and retrieving the format of the telop in this embodiment is a general IC memory (for example, it can also be implemented by a floppy disk device, a magnetic tape device, etc.).

Further, in this embodiment, a case where a 7JR CR-1 is used as the display means will be described as an example, but it is of course possible to implement the present invention using a monochrome CRI.

Furthermore, in the present invention, it has been described that character images are captured by the image pickup tube from the dial 2.
Add the characters taken from the dial to the print layout 1
~Jru is also possible.

As explained above, the device according to the present invention reads out various information from a storage means storing format information, displays frame pattern data from the information on a CRT, and displays ← two characters in the frame pattern. By inputting an image (as desired), it is possible to create an output according to the A-matte.

Operator is thereby simply a statement? For example, the speed at which you can create RA cards, etc. is greatly improved, and since the operation of the IC device is relatively easy, there is no need for specialized training, and anyone can It also has the advantage of being easy to operate even when in use.Furthermore, since frequently used format information is registered and stored in advance in the first storage stage, the lens settings can be changed each time a standard four-knot-shaped printed matter is created. Once the desired A-net information is read out from the storage means, the manual position, lens, and feeder are automatically set, so the same format and different content can be created. This is useful when creating printed matter.

After 11λ, in this embodiment, we have focused on the 0 formatting of the text typesetting, but the present invention is not limited to this. It can be used to create business cards, various certificates, commuter passes, tickets, etc.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing a practical example of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram explaining the display state on CRI-, and Fig. 3 is a diagram showing how to proceed with typesetting. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another embodiment of FIG. 3. 1...Light source 2...Character Clf+3・
...Lens group 4...1 Image tube 5...Digitalization circuit 6...] A tome 7...Image memory 8...Batsunono me Lsu 9...Refreshing 1 meme Shiri 10...Memory equipment purchase 11...CI) U12
...En: ]-da 13...P/S (parallel series) conversion circuit 14...Color 〇 R-1' 15...Printer 16...
Keyboard ■...@Image means II...Display means ■...Storage means IV...Printing means! l'+ ii'l out M1 person

Claims (1)

[Claims] Imaging means for capturing a character/symbol image: Display means If for displaying the captured character/symbol image: Position for displaying the character/symbol image on the display means, and Formats 1 to information storage means 111 that store a plurality of format information each including a size, a frame pattern representing the size, vertical and horizontal transitions between adjacent character/symbol images, etc. as a set of data; : Read out desired format information from a plurality of pieces of format information, display a frame pattern corresponding to the format information on the display means, and input a character/symbol image from the R image means into the frame pattern. , and a character/symbol border printing means for printing out the input characters/symbol images based on format information selected and set after character input is completed.