JPS62186372A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display and print a document comprising characters and pictures in a designated form and to facilitate the conversion of document form by reading at least a picture data in a designated scanning direction and synthesizing the result with a character picture data. CONSTITUTION:In generating and editing a document, the user inputs an optional character string from a keyboard 31, converts the string into a Kanji (Chinese character) mixed sentence by using a program such as Kana (Japanese syllabary)-Kanji conversion stored in a memory and the result is displayed on a display device 4. While the user references the character string displayed on the display device 4, the user inputs a character string further to generate a document or edit the document such as movement, delete or addition of the character string thereby generating a prescribed document. When the generated document is outputted onto a printer 8 in a lateral form, a character/graph pattern generating circuit 5 generates a character pattern for lateral writing form according to the character string inputted from the keyboard 31 and the result is printed out from the printer 8 via a scanner printer interface 81 and a picture bus 11.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document processing device that freely combines character images and image images and edits them into a desired format.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] In recent years, office work has been made more efficient through OA. Among these, most important is the efficient creation and editing of documents, such as creating a truly useful document by cutting and pasting a created document and a portion of an existing document.

Traditionally, such document processing devices include word processors, electronic file devices, and personal computers, which have a document processing section that edits documents, an interaction control section that inputs character strings using a keyboard, etc. It consisted of a display to display the written document, and a printer to actually print it.

However, these conventional document processing devices have a problem in that it is almost impossible to combine an image of a part of an existing document with a character string in an arbitrary format such as vertical writing or horizontal writing, and display or print the combined image.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention was made in response to the above-mentioned problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device that can synthesize character image data and image data in a specified format, and display and print the same. .

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention provides a document processing device that includes a first storage means in which character image data is stored, a second storage means in which image data is stored, and at least storage in the second storage means. By providing image processing means for reading the image data in a specified scanning direction and composing it with the character image data stored in the first storage means, the character image data and the image data can be formatted in the specified format. It can be synthesized, displayed, and printed.

[Embodiments of the invention] Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings.

First, the principle of the present invention will be briefly explained.

When combining character string data consisting of a character code string with image data of a document in a document processing device, the art dealer data is read by arbitrarily changing its scanning direction, and a character pattern roughly corresponding to the character code is created for horizontal writing, You can prepare multiple types such as those for vertical writing and read them selectively, or you can read one character pattern in any scanning direction and create documents in various formats by combining image data and character strings. , which roughly converts the format.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

This document processing device is entirely controlled by a CPU 1, which sequentially executes programs stored in a memory 2. It processes documents according to input character strings and commands.

The roughly processed results are displayed on the display 4 via the display control section 41.

This document processing is performed by a character/graphic pattern generation circuit 5 that generates predetermined character and graphic patterns, and an image processing section 6 that enlarges, reduces, rotates, inverts, moves, and draws images.

- The power disk 7 stores Fumihiro etc. as an image,
Images are transferred via the optical disk interface 71, and the printer 8 and scanner 9 input and print images via the scanner/printer interface 81, respectively.

The system bus 10 is a bus for exchanging data between the CPU 1 and other modules, and is composed of address, data, and control signal buses, and code data and image data are exchanged as data. There is.

On the other hand, the image bus 11 is a high-speed bus dedicated to transferring image data when each module uses image data in addition to the CPU, and is composed of address, data, and control signal buses.

Now, the basic operation of the document processing apparatus configured as described above will be explained.

First, when creating or editing a document, the user inputs an arbitrary character string from the keyboard 31, converts it into a sentence containing kanji using a program such as kana-kanji conversion stored in the memory 2, and displays the result on the display 4. indicate.

Next, while referring to the character string displayed on the display 4, the user roughly inputs the character string to create a document, or edits the character string by moving, deleting, adding, etc.
Create a prescribed document.

When the document creation is completed, the user specifies a format such as vertical writing or horizontal writing, and prints it from the printer 8 to create the final document.

FIG. 2(a) shows an example in which the document created in this way is output to the printer 8 in horizontal writing. In this case, keyboard 31
The character/figure pattern generation circuit 5 generates a character pattern for horizontal writing according to the character string inputted from the scanner printer interface 81 and the image bus 1.
1, the printer 8 outputs a printing horn.

In the case of vertical writing, after a character pattern for vertical writing is generated in the character/figure pattern generation circuit 5, as shown in FIG. 2(b).
The image is printed by the printer 8 as shown in FIG.

As described above, in this embodiment, the character/figure pattern generation circuit 5 is configured to generate a character pattern for vertical writing and a character pattern for horizontal writing, or in this case, it generates two types of character patterns for the same character. Therefore, if the capacity of the kanji ROM etc. of the character/figure pattern generation circuit 5 is increased and the ability to roughly process the rotation of characters is installed,
The circuit scale increases further. To solve this problem, it is also possible to use the rotation function of the image processing section 6 to rotate the character pattern in the image processing section 6 and then output it to the printer 8.

Next, after searching for or inputting an existing document using the optical disk 7 or scanner 9, the results are displayed on the display 4.
We will explain the case where it is displayed in .

First, when a user searches for a document stored on the optical disc 7, the user uses the keyboard 31 or mouse 32 while referring to the search menu displayed on the display 4.
etc. to input search conditions and execute the search process for the required document.

This search process is carried out by the CPU 1 executing a search process program or a document management program in the memory 2, so that the optical disk 7 on which the corresponding document is stored is
Track numbers, sector numbers, etc. will be locked out.

Based on this search result, image data is read out from the optical disk 7 via the optical disk interface 71, decompressed by the image processing section 6, and then sent to the display control section 41 as shown in FIG. 2(C). displayed on the screen of display 4.

Further, when the data is input from the scanner 9, it is displayed on the display 4 via the scanner printer interface 81 and the image bus 11. At this time, if image processing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, etc. is required, the image is sent to the display 4 after passing through the image processing section 6.

In this document processing apparatus that performs the basic operations as described above, a case will be described in which a character string input from the keyboard 31 and a document image retrieved from the optical disc 7 are combined and output.

First, a character string is input from the keyboard 31, and a character string as shown in FIG. 3 is created. In FIG. 3, characters surrounded by a solid line frame indicate character patterns generated by the character/graphic pattern generation circuit 5, and in reality, patterns excluding the solid line frame are displayed or printed.

Furthermore, a blank area surrounded by a broken line indicates a portion into which the image data of the document retrieved from the optical disc 7 is inserted.

Next, in the same way as the basic operation described above, a document is retrieved from the optical disk 7, displayed on the display 4, the whole or a part of it is cut out, and the document shown in FIG. 4 is inserted into the blank space shown in FIG. displayed on the screen as a format.

When this document format is to be printed in a horizontal writing format by the printer 8, the character pattern for horizontal writing is scanned in the scanning direction shown in FIG. It is sent to interface 81. Image data is also scanned in the scanning direction shown in FIG. 6, and sent from the image processing section 6 to the scanner printer interface 81.

On the other hand, the scanner printer interface 81 and the printer 8 print out while scanning in the scanning direction shown in FIG.

Further, when printing in vertical writing, a character pattern for vertical writing is selected in the character/figure pattern generation circuit 5,
This is scanned in the direction shown in FIG. 5 and sent to the printer 8. Further, the image data is processed in the image processing section 6 by the eighth
The image is scanned in the scanning direction shown in the figure and sent to the printer 8. Then, the printer 8 scans these in the same scanning direction as in the case of horizontal writing and outputs them as shown in FIG.

In this way, by changing the scanning direction of image data according to the format, such as vertical writing or horizontal writing, it is possible to combine the character string and image data and output the printout without changing the conventional character pattern or the scanning direction of the printer 8. It is possible to do so.

Furthermore, if the format is changed, since the aspect ratio of the paper is different, the image data may be stretched depending on the size of the image to be combined, or may be jammed vertically, making the image unsightly.

However, in this embodiment, the image processing section 6 scans the image data while changing the scanning direction according to the image quality and the aspect ratio of the format, and also performs the enlargement/reduction processing of the image data. A well-balanced document image is obtained, the document shown in FIG. 9 is output as shown in FIG. 10, and a truly useful document can be created.

Furthermore, this document processing device not only prints the processing results shown in FIGS. 7 and 10 on the printer 8, but also prints them on the optical disc 7.
It is also possible to register and store it as a single document.

In this case, the character pattern and image data are scanned in a scanning direction suitable for the format as described above, compressed by the image processing section 6, and then written onto the optical disk 7 via the optical disk interface 71.

On the other hand, when combining a document input from the scanner 9 with a character string, it is performed in the same manner as when searching from the optical disc 7 described above.

That is, when a document is input from the scanner 9, its image data is input to the image processing section 6 via the scanner printer interface 81 and the image bus 11, and after being reduced, the image data shown in FIG. C) is displayed. The subsequent processing is similar to the processing described above.

Next, in this embodiment, the result of combining the character string and image data can not only be printed on the printer 8 but also displayed on the display 4.

In this embodiment, the display 4 is configured with a character display that is commonly used in conventional stages.
The positions of character patterns and image data are indicated as shown in the figure or FIG.

This is normally displayed as shown in Figure 4, but depending on the resolution of the display, it may not be possible to display the entire document on one screen, so in such cases, character patterns, image data, etc. can be displayed as shown in Figure 11. Only the completed layout is displayed using the symbols and figures that represent it.

In the case shown in FIG. 11, the layout of the entire document is displayed in normal horizontal writing format, independent of vertical writing or horizontal writing format, and only when printing, the printer 8 scans in each scanning direction. Send.

The display 4 can also be constructed of a high-resolution bitmap display or the like. In this case, the composite image is sent to the display 4 and displayed in the same way as it is sent to the printer 8.

That is, in the case of horizontal writing, the image is scanned in the same way as printing, and after being reduced in size by the image processing section 6 in accordance with the resolution of the display 4, it is sent to the display 4 and displayed as shown in FIG. Vertical writing is also scanned in the same direction as printing, and is displayed as shown in FIG.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and for example, as shown in FIG. 12, it may be configured with only the system bus 10 without providing a bus dedicated to image data. .

In this sentence processing device, input/output of image data to the optical disk 7, printer 8, screen 9, etc. is performed via the system bus 10, and the transfer speed and processing speed are the same as those of the above-mentioned embodiments. Although it is slower than , only one type of lotus is required, each module can be simplified, the configuration can be simplified, and the device can be made smaller and lower in price.

Furthermore, the image processing unit 6 can be configured from a minimum number of image processing functions such as rotation, enlargement, reduction, and scanning direction conversion, depending on the purpose of the apparatus, and the configuration can also be realized by a program or the like. It is also possible to implement this using dedicated hardware.

Roughly speaking, the scanning direction of the image processing unit 6 includes not only horizontal writing and vertical writing, but also as shown in FIGS. 13 to 15.
It is possible to flip horizontally, flip vertically, or rotate as desired. By selecting these various scanning directions, you can print or display in any format, including not only traditional vertical and horizontal writing, but also character patterns. can do.

Further, the memory 2 may be configured with a dual-port memory, or may be configured with a normal DRAM or the like, and the interface with the bus may be implemented by implementing a two-system interface.

Furthermore, in order to facilitate the interface with the printer 8, optical disk 7, scanner 9, etc., an image buffer can be provided, and these can be provided in the image processing unit 6, each interface, or newly provided in the image lotus 11. .

[Advantageous Effects of the Invention 1] As explained in detail above, according to the present invention, at least image data is read in a specified scanning direction and synthesized with character image data, so that it is possible to read a document consisting of character images and images in a specified manner. It can be displayed and printed in a format, and formats can be easily converted.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a document processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the basic operation of the embodiment, and FIG.
Figures 5 and 4 show images obtained by combining character strings and image data, Figures 5 and 6 show the scanning direction of character patterns and image data, and Figure 7 shows the combination of horizontal writing. Figure 8 is a diagram showing the scanning direction of image data in the case of vertical writing; Figures 9 and 10 are diagrams showing the synthesis result and its scanning direction in the case of vertical writing; Figure 11 is a diagram explaining the layout display, Figure 12 is a diagram explaining the layout display.
The figure is a schematic configuration diagram of a document processing device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
13 to 15 are diagrams showing the relationship between the scanning direction and the format in still another embodiment of the present invention. 5...Character/graphic pattern generation circuit 6.
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Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) a first storage means in which character image data is stored;
a second storage means in which image data is stored; and at least the image data stored in the second storage means is read in a designated scanning direction and combined with the character image data stored in the first storage means. 1. A document processing device comprising: image processing control means. (2) The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing control means enlarges or reduces the image data stored in the second storage means in accordance with the aspect ratio of the synthesized image, and then synthesizes the image data.