JPS62259186A - Recording and reproducing device for picture information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically display a picture on a display device without increasing the capacity of picture information memory and processing time by recording display method instruction information as the management information of picture information. CONSTITUTION:For recording the picture, a control part 11 fetches picture information read in a reader 1 according to a command from a console 4 into a picture information memory 10 through an interface 6, and causes a display device 3 to display in the prescribed mode. When the command is inputted which instructs the record of picture information from the console 4, original picture information in the memory 10 is coded, and is transmitted to a large capacity memory driving device 2. In such a case, the display method instruction information is recorded in a storage medium 2a as the management information of picture information. For reproducing the picture, the control part 11 reads the management information of picture information, which is instructed by the command from the console 4, out of the medium 2a, and reproduces the target picture in the memory 10. Thus, picture information is automatically displayed on a display 3 in an adequate display mode through a display control part 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image information recording and reproducing apparatus such as an image information file apparatus equipped with an image display apparatus capable of performing image operations such as rotation and inversion.

Conventional technology Recently, image information such as documents is read using optical reading devices.
The read image information is sequentially stored in a storage device using a storage medium such as an optical disk, and desired image information is searched and read out from among the image information stored in this storage device and displayed on a CRT display device or the like. Image information recording and reproducing devices that output and display image information have been developed and put into practical use.

Traditionally, image information is recorded on storage media such as optical discs,
In addition, when playing back, as shown in Figure 4, management information consisting of attribute information a such as the size, resolution, and encoding method for recording of the original image, and address information of the image information recording area. When recording and reproducing image information together with image information, image information is successively recorded based on this management information and output to a display device such as a CRT display.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, according to such a configuration, when the image information is reproduced and displayed for the first time, it may be displayed in a reduced size, or the size and resolution of the image and the size and size of the screen of the display device may be When displaying images by enlarging or reducing them depending on the resolution, or rotating them in a specific direction, there is a problem in that the operator must instruct the appropriate display method for each image. there were.

The above-mentioned problem occurs because, when an image is recorded on a large-capacity storage medium such as an optical disk, information indicating the display mode in which the image is displayed at that time is not stored together with the image information.

The problem mentioned above is that after the operator directly performs operations such as enlarging, reducing, rotating, and reversing black and white on the image information temporarily stored in the image information memory in the image information recording and reproducing device at the time of registration, This can be solved by recording on a large-capacity storage medium, but in this case, problems arise in that the image information memory within the device requires a large capacity and the processing time becomes long.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and allows the image information to be automatically displayed on the display device in the appropriate display mode when the image information is played back, without increasing the image information memory capacity or processing time. An object of the present invention is to provide an image information recording and reproducing device that can perform the following functions.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides appropriate display of each image (in the management information corresponding to the h-report) when storing image information on a storage medium such as an optical disk. Display method instruction information indicating the mode is also stored, and when the image information is reproduced, each image information is displayed based on the display method instruction information.

Operation The present invention uses the above-mentioned means to read the management information corresponding to the image information from the management information storage area of a storage medium such as an optical disk when reproducing the image information, and to extract the address information of the image information and the image from the management information. By obtaining display method instruction information along with attribute information for reproducing the image, the image information is read from the storage medium, reproduced as the original image, and then automatically displayed on the display device in a display mode suitable for the image. Output.

Embodiment Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image information recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. A reading device 1 for reading images, a large-capacity storage drive device 2 for storing and reproducing image information using a large-capacity storage medium 2a such as an optical disk, and a display device 3 for displaying image information. It is roughly composed of a console 4 for carrying out the operations, and a control device 5.

The control device 6 includes the reading device 1 and the large-capacity storage drive bag! i
12, an interface section 6.7.9 with the console 4, a display control section 8 for controlling the display device 3, an image information memory 10, and a control section 11.

As shown in FIG. 2, the logical seven-way storage medium 2a such as an optical disk has a management information recording area 12 in which fixed-length image information management information is stored for each image information;
Image information storage area 13 in which variable length image information is sequentially recorded
FIG. 3 shows the seven formats of the management information in the management information storage area 12 in FIG. 2, and 16 shows where in the image information recording area 13 in FIG. An area 14 in which image information address information is stored indicates the encoding method by which the image information was encoded, and the size and resolution of the original image. An area 16 stores the attribute information of the original image used for reproducing the image information in the image information memory 10 of FIG. This is an area where display method instruction information indicating the enlargement magnification, display direction, and position on the screen of the display device 3 is stored. Each display method instruction information is coded in advance and is represented by several pits. 1'10//% 270°
(for example, the rotation is @1jn).

To explain the operation of the embodiment with the above configuration, first, when recording an image, the control unit 11 transfers the image information read by the reading device 1 to the reading device ink 7 ace 6 in accordance with a command input from the console 4. Image information memory 10 via
The display controller 8 is controlled to display the image information on the display device 3 in a predetermined display mode. Then, in response to commands from the console 4, the display control unit 8 is controlled to enlarge, reduce, move, and rotate the image displayed on the display device 3. In this case, image information memory 1
The original image information on 0 is not changed.

Next, when a command to record image information is input from the console 4, the mass storage interface is controlled to encode the original image information on the image information memory 10, send it to the mass storage drive device 2, and store it on the storage medium 2a. Additional information is added to the image information recording area 13 and its address information is obtained.

Furthermore, management information of the image information as shown in FIG. 3 is created, and the large capacity storage interface 7 is controlled to record this management information in the corresponding position of the management information recording area M, 12 of the storage medium 2a. do.

On the other hand, when reproducing an image, the management information of the image information instructed by the command from the control unit 1111 console 4 is stored in the management information recording area 12 of the storage medium 2a by controlling the mass storage interface 7Ace 7. The image information is read from the corresponding position, the image information is read from the image information records M, 13 based on the attribute information 14 of the original image and the image information address information 15, and reproduced on the image information memory 10.

Next, display method instruction information 16 for the management information of the image information
The display controller 8 is controlled based on the image information memory 10.
The above image information is displayed on the display device 3. In this case, it is also possible to perform operations such as enlarging, reducing, rotating, and moving the image displayed on the display device 3 using commands from the console 4.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION As described above, the present invention provides display method instruction information indicating a proper display mode along with address information and attribute information as management information for each image information when storing image information in a large capacity storage medium such as an optical disk. On the other hand, when reproducing the image information, the image information is read out based on the address information and attribute information of the management information and reproduced into the original image,
Since the display method of management information is automatically output to the display device in the display mode suitable for each image based on the instruction information, you can enlarge, reduce, rotate, move, etc. the image by looking at the image read by the operator. It is possible to eliminate the complexity of performing operations to set a display mode suitable for the image.

Further, according to the present invention, the capacity of the image information memory does not increase and the processing time does not increase.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the image information recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a format diagram showing the recording medium shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the storage contents shown in FIG. 2. Format diagram showing management information. FIG. 4 is a format diagram showing management information in a conventional example. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...reading device, 2...mass storage drive device, 2a...storage medium, 3...display device, 4... Console, 6...Control device, 12...Management information recording area, 13...
. . . Image information recording area, 16 . . . Display method instruction information recording area. 1st garden 12! ! ! 3rd gJ 4th Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for recording image information and information for instructing a display method of the image information in a storage medium, reading the image information and display method instruction information recorded on the storage medium, and displaying the image information based on the display method instruction information; An image information recording and reproducing device comprising means for displaying image information on the device.