JPS6159517A - Animation input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain a simple and accurate input of graphic data of plural animations by providing a graphic status data circuit, an input control circuit and plural storage means only by applying direction designation with a cursor. CONSTITUTION:When an animation pattern is designated by a keyboard 1 or a joy stick 2, an input control circuit 4 ensures a status area of one animation to a graphic status buffer 6-1 in a graphic status data circuit 6. Further, the buffer 6-1 stores a pointer designating the storage position of each data stored in a graphic data RAM 7 and a character information buffer 6-2 in addition to an attribute and a character name. Through the constitution above, plural animation graphic data are inputted simply and accurately by using a cursor by applying direction designation without individual input of the attribute data to a multi-direction animation graphic data.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a video input method for inputting data for displaying a block pattern in color on a background screen, such as Animation Pro, 7ri, etc. The present invention relates to a video input device that simplifies input operation of control data for movement direction.

[Prior art]

Video processing is used in computer games and the like to move a specific pattern, ie, a block pattern, on a display screen. This video processing is generally a process of moving block patterns of flying objects, animals, etc. in a color background image, etc. In order to make the movement realistic, the shape, or design, is changed depending on the direction of movement. it's shown.

On the other hand, also in personal computers, etc.

Video processing such as the above-mentioned games is now performed, and in order to make the movement realistic, the shape of the video is changed depending on the direction of movement. In a program that is completed as a game, the user of the personal computer does not have to input its shape at all (that is fine, but when creating a video program such as a game, the user has to define the video, that is, determine the shape). These directional data are generally called 1-shape status data, such as 1) attribute data that determines the type and size of the shape of the video. , 2) direction data that determines the moving direction of the moving image, and 3) priority data that determines the priority for displaying the moving image, and the user has stored this data in the computer.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The above-mentioned graphic status data has conventionally been provided in correspondence with graphic data that determines the shape, etc., and has required manual input of attribute data each time one graphic data is input. For example, the aforementioned attribute data had to be input individually for multi-directional graphic data. This poses a problem in that it places a heavy burden on the user and increases the likelihood of definition errors and input errors in the attribute data.

〔the purpose〕

The present invention eliminates the need to individually input attribute data for a plurality of moving picture graphic data, and allows the graphic data of a plurality of moving pictures to be input easily and accurately by simply specifying the direction with a cursor or the like. Furthermore, adding video graphic data/
Even during revisions.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a moving image input device for an animation display device that can easily input graphic data of a moving image.

[Means to achieve the purpose]

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, and its characteristics include, in a video input device of an animation display device, a first storage means for storing graphic data of a video, and a graphic status that defines the video. and second storage means for storing data.

and area securing means for detecting input data and securing status areas for a plurality of moving pictures in the second storage means, wherein the status areas for a plurality of moving pictures are stored in the second storage means when figure status data for one moving image is input. After securing the graphics data in the second storage means, the graphic data of the moving image is stored in the first storage means.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

Keyboard 1. The joystick 2 is an input unit of a personal computer, etc., and in addition to basic data of the personal computer, professional/multi-pattern data of the present invention, that is, data such as graphic data and attributes, as well as background images stored in the fresh memory, etc. data is input by this input section. The refresh memory 3 is a fresh memory that stores background images and still images, and receives control signals from the input control circuit 4 (address line Ad+, data line Da).
1. Enter the background image data input from the input section using +).
α. On the other hand, the input control circuit 4 has a refresh address control circuit 1. The refresh address control circuit sequentially addresses the refresh memory 3 in accordance with display scan data for image display, and patterns to be displayed on the pattern generator. Dora 1
An address signal Ad2 specifying - is output. The pattern generator 5 is, for example, a memory that stores a plurality of 8×8 patterns, and selects and outputs the 8×8 pattern specified by the address signal Ad2. As a matter of course, the pattern generator 5 is supplied with an address signal Adr output from the fresh address control circuit in the input control circuit 4, and this address signal Ad:.

The scanning data corresponding to the image is sequentially outputted to the display control section 8 in response to the address signal Ad2 described above. Furthermore, the pattern of the pattern generator 5 can also be rewritten, and the rewriting can be performed using the address line A d3 and the data line Da.
2 by the input control circuit.

Graphic status data circuit 61 graphic data RAM7. The animation control device 9 stores and outputs the data of the moving image to be displayed in the still image described above. When a moving image pattern is specified using the keyboard or joystick 2, the input control circuit 4 reserves a status area for one moving image in the graphic status buffer 6-1 in the graphic status data circuit 6.

Figure 2 shows the graphic status buffer 6- corresponding to one video.
This is the memory configuration of the area reserved in 1. The attribute A13 is data representing whether the name of the video, that is, the character name is the character name (1) or other than the character name (2), and is data to be controlled by the animation control device 9 to distinguish it. Following attribute A13, character name, presence or absence of direction, size (video size)
The data up to this point are the so-called attribute data, and after that, the direction pointer (top table, top meaning, right table, right back, bottom table, bottom bottom, left table, 7i
[), character information address pointer, and so on.

The graphic status buffer 6-1 contains attributes, character names, etc., as well as a character information buffer 6-2 in the graphic status data circuit 6 and a graphic data RAM.
It stores pointers that indicate the storage location of each data stored in 7.

Figure 3 shows the character information buffer 6-2゜figure data R pointed to by each pointer of the figure status buffer 6-1.
It is a memory configuration diagram showing AM7.

The figure data RAM 7 is a memory that stores figures in each direction, for example, the figures shown in the table above, and the figure status sofa 6 is the starting address of the area where these figure data are stored.
-1 is stored. In the embodiment of the present invention, when the data stored in the 9-graphic status buffer 6-1 is O, it indicates that there is no graphic data, and when it is other than 0, the value represents the address of the graphic data RΔM6-2.

The addresses that point to the graphic data RAM 6-2 are stored in the upper front to the left back (A15 to A24), and the address pointer of the character information buffer 6-2 in the graphic status data circuit 6 is stored in address A25. be done.

The character information buffer stores additional information for each character, i.e. video, and stores, for example, 1
It stores the appearance position coordinate direction on the screen, the current display position coordinate, movement speed data, etc.

Graphic status buffer 6-1 in the graphic status data circuit 6 described above. The data stored in the character information buffer 6-22 graphic data RAM 7 is stored in the keyboard 1. This data is input from the joystick 2, and the data input from this input section is first taken into the input control circuit 4. Then, under the control of the input control circuit 4, the address line A
d a.

The signals are stored at respective target locations via Ad O and data lines Daa and Da++.

Figure 4 shows keyboard 1. The data input from the joystick 2 is transferred to the 1-figure status sofa 6-1. Character information buffer 6-2. FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a procedure for storing ffi data in the RAM 7. FIG. When creating a new character, first input the attribute data manually (S+). Then, a newly created area is secured from the beginning of the empty area of the graphic status buffer 6-1, and the attribute data inputted above (Sl) is stored in the target position (S2). In addition to the above-mentioned (1) and (2), there is an attribute (0), and when the attribute is (0), it is an empty area and 1
Since the graphic status data is fixed in units of, for example, 13 bytes, the contents of the attributes are sequentially determined from the beginning, and an area is reserved in the area of (0). Furthermore, the second
The figure status area in the figure represents the second @-th area. Next, the selection cursor coordinate register 102 and graphic status data pointer register 11 connected to the input control circuit are initialized (S3.SA). The selection cursor coordinate register 10 is a register that stores coordinate values specifying the selection cursor to be displayed on the display section, and after initialization, the selection cursor is displayed at the coordinate values of the selection cursor coordinate register (S5). The graphic status data pointer register 11 is a register that stores a position, that is, an address, at which graphic status data is stored in the graphic status register 16-1. and 1 selection cursor coordinate register 10
Display the registered graphic pattern in the direction indicated by (S6
)do. The graphic pattern τ displayed at this time is the content of the graphic data RAM 7 indicated by the content of the graphic status buffer 6-1 indicated by the selection cursor, as shown in FIG. The input control circuit 4 displays a figure representing eight directions as shown in FIG. be done. The position of this cursor is determined by the contents of the selection cursor coordinate register 10 mentioned above. For example, when initialized, the above table is indicated as shown in FIG. still,
When no direction is specified, only two pairs, front and back, are specified.

In this case, for example, either the upper table or the upper table is lit. This cursor moves according to the data entered using keyboard 1 and joystick 2, so the selection cursor is moved primarily to keyboard 1 as described above.
It is determined whether the instruction has been given using the joystick 2 or the joystick 2 (S7).

When the selection cursor movement is instructed (YES), the coordinate value of the selection cursor coordinate register is updated (Sθ), and the figure status data pointer register value is updated (Sθ).
q) Display the selection cursor again at the position indicated by the selection cursor coordinate register, that is, at the coordinate value (S5). Then repeat the operation described above.

The above-mentioned determination (S7) operates when data is input using the keyboard 1 or joystick 2.
It;W(N
In o), a process of manually inputting the graphic data is performed. First, it is determined whether or not an area for storing graphic data is secured in the single graphic data RAM 7 (Sho). This discrimination (S
ho) is performed by determining whether the graphic status buffer 6-1 indicated by the graphic status pointer register 11 is O. When the area is secured, enter data (S++).

Input data is stored in the graphic data RAM area of the contents of the graphic status bar 6-1 indicated by the graphic status data pointer register 11.

When the area is not secured, the input control circuit 4
The value stored in the graphic data empty area pointer register 12 connected to is stored in the graphic status buffer 6-1 indicated by the value stored in the graphic status data pointer register 11 (S12). Then, the data stored in the one-figure data empty area pointer register is updated (S13). This update is performed by adding address values for screen data in one direction to the current data. The graphic data empty area pointer register 12 stores the start address of the empty area of the graphic data RAM 6-2 as shown in FIG. By storing it in the figure status buffer, an area is secured.

Since the area has been secured through these processes (St 2 and St 3), the data input described above (S + +
) 'c' and stores the input data in the graphic data RAM area of the contents of the graphic status buffer 6-1.

Then, it is determined whether all the graphic data input has been completed (Sh
Perform o). When completed (YES), end (S1a) L
,, If it is not completed, the process of displaying the selection cursor at the coordinate value of the selection cursor coordinate register (S5) is performed, and the above-described operation is repeated. still.

The part A in the figure is a connector indicating that processes are connected.

The process flow described above is a process flow for new creation, but 1
Adding graphic data or adding (++■) results in the same operation, only the initial processing is different. In this case, first input the character name (SAC). Then, search the graphic status buffer. (S l, 7)
Next, it is determined whether the input character name exists (Sea).

If it does not exist (No), input processing (Sea) is performed again. If it exists, the same process as described above is performed starting from the selection cursor coordinate register initialization process (S3).

The process described above is a process of inputting graphic data of a moving image, and is not a process of displaying and moving a moving image pattern on a display screen. These displays and movements are controlled by the animation control device 9 and the display control section 8 under the control of the input control circuit 4. The animation control device 9 is a device that performs control to output display data from the graphic data RAM in response to control signals applied from an input control circuit. The display scan data output from the reflex address control circuit included in the input control circuit 4 is applied to the animation control device 9, and the animation control device responds to the data stored in the information buffer 6-2. Position coordinates, direction.

Transfer each data of the moving speed to the address line A d 6. The current display position coordinates are determined by reading through the data line Da5. Then, the current display position coordinates are stored in the IW+'lr buffer 6-2 via the address line A d 6 and the data line pa5. Since the current display position coordinates are determined in accordance with the display scan data described above, that is, in units of one image (one screen) of one display, the current display position coordinates change accordingly.

From this data, the graphic status data circuit 6 accesses the graphic data RAM 7 corresponding to the display scanning data, that is, corresponding to a specific position on the display screen, via the address line Ad7, and one graphic data is added to the display control section 8.

The respective data output from the pattern generator 5 and the graphic data RAM 7 to the display control section 8 are dot data and color data corresponding to scanning. The display control unit 8 has a color generation circuit and a palette circuit corresponding to the two inputs described above, obtains desired display color data from the color data, and colors the dot data using the palette circuit. , create video data. The aforementioned data cannot be displayed at the same time; for example, the device of a moving object must be turned off.

The display control unit 8 has a selection circuit, and data on a moving object, etc. is stored in the graphic data RAM? When you input more.

It is designed to be selected and displayed.

Since all of the operations described above are digital processes, the output of the selection circuit is converted into an analog signal by the D/A circuit in the display control section 8, and is applied to the CRT 13 to be displayed on two screens.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, when the video input device of the present invention places a new video, an area for storing graphic data of the video in each direction is automatically secured by inputting attribute data at the beginning. According to the method, it is not necessary to input attribute data individually for the graphic data of a multi-directional video, and it is possible to easily and accurately input the graphic data of a multi-directional video by simply specifying the direction with a cursor etc. It becomes possible. Also.

Even when adding or modifying, an area is secured to memorize all directions, etc., so it is possible to clearly display whether or not it has been registered in one display, preventing erroneous registration, etc., and furthermore, it is easy to input figure data. It becomes possible.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a circuit configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a memory configuration diagram of a graphic status buffer, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of a graphic status buffer, character information buffer, and graphic data R.
A memory configuration diagram showing the relationship between AM and FIG. 4 is the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the operation of the circuit configuration diagram in the figure, and FIG. 5 is a display screen diagram showing the display of the direction specified by the cursor. 1...keyboard, 2...joystick, 3...refresh memory. 4... Input control circuit, 6... Graphic status data circuit, 6-1... Graphic status buffer, 6-2... Character information buffer, 7... Graphic data RAM. 8... Display control unit, 9... Animation control device, 10... Selection cursor coordinate register, 11... Graphic status data pointer register, 12... Graphic data empty area point register, 13... ...CRT. Patent Applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Representative Patent Attorney Yoshiyuki Osuga Figure 2 Figure 8 Procedural Amendment February 19, 1985 Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office Manabu Shiga 1 Case Indication J Nao 1982 Patent Side No. 179395 No. 2, Name of the invention Video input device 3.7fflRelationship with the case of person who makes a correction Patent applicant address 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Name (1
44) Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Representative Tadao Kashio 4, Agent ◎102 ffi (03) 238-0
0315, Date of amendment order Voluntary 6, Subject of amendment 7, Contents of amendment 1) The statement ``Patent application pursuant to the proviso to Article 38 of the Patent Act'' is added under ``Patent side'' in the petition. 2) Add "2. Number of inventions stated in the scope of claims 2" under the "rl, title of the invention" plate. 3) r2. "Inventor,""3. Patent applicant,""40agent,""5. List of attached documents," and "6. Inventor other than the above," respectively, are replaced with "31 inventor,""4゜Patentapplicant," and " 51 Agent” “6. List of attached documents” “
7. Inventor other than the above.''

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1) In a video input device for an animation display device,
A first storage means for storing graphic data of a moving image, a second storage means for storing graphic status data defining the moving image, and a plurality of moving image figures detected by input data and stored in the second storage means. and an area securing means for securing status areas of a plurality of moving pictures in the second storage means, and after securing the status areas of a plurality of moving pictures in the second storage means when the figure status data of one moving picture is input, the figure data of the moving pictures is stored in the first storage means. A video input device characterized by storing data in a storage means. 2) In the video input device of the animation display device,
A first storage means for storing graphic data of a moving image, a second storage means for storing graphic status data defining the moving image, and a plurality of moving image figures detected by input data and stored in the second storage means. and a pointer register that points to an empty area of the first storage means, the first storage means being pointed to by the pointer register when graphic data of a moving image is input. A moving image input device characterized in that graphic data of the inputted moving image is stored in an empty area of the moving image, and contents of the pointer register are stored in the second storage means.