JPS6275874A - Document picture editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit a troublesome processing operations and to improve the processing efficiency with an editing device for document pictures, by adding the attribute information to plural document windows to be displayed to show the permission or inhibition for the transfer of document pictures to be displayed and performing the display control in accordance with said attribute information. CONSTITUTION:A CPU sets the attribute information to each of the document windows in a document picture display area 23 to show the permission or inhibition for the transfer of the document picture data. Then the transfer of document pictures is inhibited to the document window by a flag 'FIXED' and the displayed document picture then is displayed continuously for reference. While a flag 'UNFIXED' is used to permit the transfer of data for the new document picture data to the relevant document window. Thus it is possible to easily use the document pictures turned into an electronic file for editing document pictures in the same way of handling as a paper file.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document image editing device that can efficiently edit a single sentence image while simultaneously displaying a plurality of document images.

(Technical background of the invention and its problems) Recently, electronic filing of document information has been actively promoted.

An electronic two-aisle device converts a conventional paper file into electronic document image data and stores it in an optical disk device or the like. According to such a one-time file device,
Compared to the space required to store traditional paper files,
It has the advantage of significantly reducing the storage space required for 1rf.

Moreover, according to this type of electronic film device, it is easy to add keywords to document image data, and it is easy to classify and register each document according to its system, so it is easy to process document registration and search. It becomes possible to improve efficiency.

By the way, when editing document images that have been converted into electronic files in this way, multiple document images can be freely arranged and displayed on the display, similar to handling paper files, and the document editing can be performed while comparing these document images with each other. What is possible is important.

Conventionally, therefore, a display screen is made into a multi-window, and a plurality of document image sources are displayed simultaneously. For example, an attempt has been made to create a new document image source in the left document window while displaying a document image source created in the past in the right side window. However, the multi-window system in conventional electronic filing devices simply displays a plurality of text and images side by side, and lacks the flexibility of handling paper files.

That is, when handling paper files on a desk, it is common to place one document on the left side for reference, and then place documents to be compared one after another on the right side. Also, like turning the pages of a book, it is required to display new document image sources (next page and previous page) one after another. However, when performing such processing on the display of a conventional electronic filing device, it is necessary to specify the document image to be displayed and its display window each time. For this reason, it is very cumbersome for the operator to edit document images.
This has become a problem in trying to improve processing efficiency.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been developed with these circumstances in mind, and its purpose is to easily and efficiently display multiple document image sources as well as handling set files.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-use document image display 1ffi.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention adds attribute information indicating permission/prohibition of transfer of a single displayed country image to a plurality of document windows displaying a single stroke of text on the display, and according to this gender information, for example, You can select one of the other document windows for which transfer of document images is permitted by closing the document window to which information was last added as wt%, transfer and display a new document image to this document window, etc. The display of a plurality of word images is controlled according to the attribute information.

[Effects of the Invention] Thus, according to the present invention, attribute information indicating prohibition of transfer is given to a document window displaying a text image used for reference, and attribute information permitting transfer is given to other document windows. This makes it possible to display a plurality of other document image sources in sequence while displaying the document image for reference in a fixed manner. Moreover, it becomes possible to display document image sources one after another without having to specify each time a document window in which document image sources are to be displayed.

Therefore, documents and images converted into electronic files can be easily edited by handling them in the same way as paper files, reducing the tediousness of processing operations and improving processing efficiency. becomes possible.

(Embodiment of the Invention) Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment device.

First, the hardware share configuration of this embodiment will be briefly explained.

Document image data read by the scanner 1 is taken into the apparatus via the interface 2, and stored in the image memory 4 via the image bus switching control circuit 3. The document image data stored in the image memory 4 is subjected to image editing processing, which will be described later, and then is given to the interface 2 from the image bus switching UD circuit 3, for example, and is output as a hard copy via the blink 5.

On the other hand, the document image source data stored in the image memory 4 is enlarged or reduced by the enlargement/reduction circuit 6, stored in the display memory 7, and displayed on the display 9 under the control of the display controller (roller 8). It goes without saying that if the document image source data does not need to be enlarged or reduced, the processing by the enlargement/reduction circuit 6 is not performed.

Further, the document image data is transferred from the display memory 7 to the image memory 4 in the same manner.

The vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 10 transfers document image data to and from the image memory 4 or the display memory 7 and performs rotation processing on the document image. Further, the character generation circuit 11 generates information on character figures to be added to the document image,
This is transferred to the image memory 4 or display memory 1.

Further, the compression/expansion circuit 12 controls the compression/expansion of the document image data when storing the document image data in the optical disk 13, which is an external memory, and when reading the document image data.

A series of transfer control of such document image data is performed by CP
This takes place under the operation of the first and second two-dimensional address generators 15.16 under the control of U14.

Note that 17 is a CPU memory that stores operation control information for the CP LJ 14, 18 is an interface for connecting other systems, and 19 is a mouse for inputting document image editing instruction information.

With the system configured as described above, a series of stand-up editing processes such as document image input, display, editing, σ recording, search, deletion, and output are performed by transferring the document image data and processing the data.

Now, FIG. 2 shows an example of the screen configuration of the display 9. As shown in FIG. Various icons are displayed on the screen of the display 9, and these icons can be moved using the mouse 19.
By instructing selection, the input/output and image editing of the document image described above are respectively controlled.

To briefly explain the configuration of this display screen, the display screen is divided into a global area 21, an image*i menu area 22, a document image display area 23, and a text display area 24.

In the global area 21, icons for specifying a document box, scanner, printer, and trash can, icons for specifying document search, registration, and deletion, icons for specifying the above-mentioned document processing, and the like are arranged.

In addition, in the image Si collection menu area 22, various images mg
Various icons to specify each type of collection processing,
For example, icons for specifying rotation, enlargement, and reduction, as well as icons for specifying permission/prohibition of document image transfer, which will be described later, are arranged.

By specifying these various icons, a series of processes for the document image described above are instructed, and the document image to be edited is displayed in the document image display area 23. On this occasion,
The text display area 24 displays messages from the system, reading inputs during kana-kanji conversion, and the like.

Now, if you specify "4-page display" using the display mode icon, the document image display area 23 will have four document windows wl and w2, for example, as shown in FIG.
．． w3. w4 is set and these document windows w1. w2. w3. A mode in which a text image can be displayed is set for each of w4. Then, in response to a selective display instruction for the document image read into the document box, the document image is displayed in each of the document windows wl, w2. w3.
They are displayed one after another on w4.

By the way, a plurality of document images read out to the document box and subjected to editing processing are stored in the cp as shown in FIG. 4, for example.
Managed by U14.

The management of a plurality of documents and images read into this document box includes data 2G indicating the total number of document images, data 27 indicating the document image indicated by the cursor among the document images read into the document box, and data 27 indicating the document image read out to the document box. This is done by managing data 28 in a table that indicates attribute information regarding each document image read out and its storage format.

The example shown in FIG. 4 shows that five document images are read out to the document box, and the first document image among them is indicated by the cursor.

At the same time, it is shown that the first document image is an A4-sized document used in portrait orientation, and data is compressed and recorded using the MR method from sector 0 to sector 50 of the O-th track of the optical disc 13. It will be done. Similarly, the fifth document image is a B5 size document used in portrait orientation, and is 12 from the 50th sector of the second track of the optical disc 13.
It is shown that data is compressed and recorded using the fvl l-1 method over 0 sectors.

Such document image management information is added and updated each time a document image is read out by data retrieval from the database to the document box.

On the other hand, the CPU 14 controls the document image display area 23.
The document window set to is managed as follows. FIG. 5 shows an example of the management structure.

That is, the CPU 14 determines the maximum number of document windows that can be displayed in the document image display area 23, the number of windows in which the document image is currently displayed in the document window, and the number of document images to be displayed. manages the number 33 of the last transferred document window. At the same time, the CPU 14 determines, for each of the document windows set in the document image display area 23, whether or not the running image data has been transferred to that document window.
Further, attribute information 34 indicating whether the document image is displayed in the document window and whether to permit or prohibit the transfer of document image data to the document window is set and managed.

Here, in the above-mentioned tropism information va34, the attribute information indicating whether to permit or prohibit the transfer of document image data to the text window is expressed as rFIXEDjrUNFIXEDj, and is attribute information that has been rapidly adopted in this device. be.

This information indicates that the flag rFIXEDj prohibits the transfer of document images to the document window, and continuously displays the document image already displayed in the document window. Also ffUNF!
The flag XEDj permits the transfer of new document image data to the sentence 1 window.

This flag is initially set as rlJNF IXEDJ, and under this condition, depending on the content of the document image displayed in each document window, rF
By specifying IXEDJ, it is set for the document window displaying the document image.

As a result, transfer of new document images to document windows with the flag rFIXEDJ is prohibited,
[Transfer of document images is permitted only for document windows for which the JNF I XEDj flag has been set. The document image transferred to the document window with the rUNFIXEDJ flag set will be displayed in place of the document image previously displayed in the document window.

This apparatus automatically controls the transfer of document images to each sentence window described above and its display in accordance with such flag information.

FIG. 6 shows a processing procedure for controlling the transfer of document images to the sentence 1 window. This process (well, it is activated by selecting and instructing the sentence 'm image to be displayed in the document box).

That is, in this process, first, with reference to the table management information shown in FIG. This is done by checking whether there is a document window in which IXEDJ is set (step a).

If this search finds a corresponding document window,
In other words, the document image is not displayed, and rtJNFIXE
When the Sentence 1 window to which the DJ flag has been given is found, the process of selecting the destination document window for the designated correspondence image is performed (step b). This process (engineering), according to the information of the final document window number,
1 by searching for document windows that satisfy the above conditions in order from the next window number.
I can sleep 1. Specifically, among the four document windows,
If the final transferred document/window number is (3), (
In the order of 4→1→2→3), it is checked whether the document image can be transferred to the vertical window.

Then, the document window detected first is set as the transfer destination of the document image, and the document image is transferred to that document window (step C). At this time, the data in the final document transfer window is updated with the document window number to which this document image was transferred.

After such processing, the normal status is set and the document window selection processing is completed in step d).

On the other hand, in the process of step a, if no document window is found that does not display a document image, then rU
It is checked whether there is a statement window flagged as NF rXEDJ (step e).

If there is a document window that satisfies this condition, the processes from step b to step d described above are similarly executed to select and designate the document window to which the document image is to be transferred.

By the way, if there is a document image to be transferred and displayed, but there is no document window with the flag rtJNF t XEDj set, that is, if the flag rFIXEDj is set for all document windows, In the determination process at steps a and e described above, the expenditure image transfer process is rejected.

In this case, an error status indicating that the destination document window does not exist is set (step f), and the process is terminated.

The above processing will be specifically explained with reference to FIG.

Now, when the display mode for the four-page document image is set, four document windows are set in the document image display area 23 as shown in FIG. 7(a). In this case, for each of these statement 1 windows, rUNF IXEDJ
The flag is initially set.

Here, four document drawings 1 mA and B from the Bunma box.

When C and D are selected in order, since the document image is not displayed in all document windows, the transfer destination window for document image A is first set as (1).
The sentence 1 image is displayed as shown in FIG. 7(1)). Thereafter, for document images I&B, the document window with the lowest number is selected from among the document windows in which no document image is displayed, and is displayed as shown in FIG. 7(C).

In the same way, the transfer destinations for document images aC and O are set, and the seventh
As shown in Figures (d) and (e), the document images are displayed in order, and document images A, B, C, and D are displayed in four document windows, respectively.

Here, when an instruction is given to fix the display so that the displayed document image A can be used as a reference, a flag rFIXEDJ is set for the document window displaying the document image aA. By setting this flag, the rFIXEDJ mark is displayed in the document window as shown in FIG. 7(f), so that the operator can confirm this.

When you instruct the document window mB to be fixed, the rFIXEDJ flag is also set for this document window, and the mark is set to the 7th
It will be displayed as shown in Figure (0).

However, when you select the next document image 8AE in the document box and try to display it, the document windows for which 1rFIXEDJ is not set among the four document windows are checked, and the destination document window is selected. Ru. In this case, since the document window to which the last transferred document image @D is transferred is (4), the document window (
Document windows that can be transferred are examined in order from 1), and document window (3) is selected. As a result, the document image E is transferred to the document window (3) and displayed as shown in FIG. 7(h).

In other words, the new document image E is displayed without changing the display of the document window with the rFIXEDJ flag set.

In the same way, when transferring and displaying the next document image F, the document window (4) is selected this time, and as shown in FIG.
The display will be as shown in .

In this case, r for document windows (1) and (2)
Document window (3) until FIXEDJ is released
(4) is alternately repeated to transfer new document images.

As explained above, this device prohibits the transfer of a document image to the document window displaying the document image by instructing fixed display of the single sentence image displayed on the display. Attribute information fFIXEDJ is attached. Then, when attempting to transfer and display a text image, document windows that are permitted to transfer document images are extracted, excluding the text 1 window with the fFIXEDj flag attached, and one of them is selected under predetermined conditions. The document image is then transferred to and displayed in this document window.

Therefore, it is possible to display new document images one after another while displaying document images that should be fixedly displayed without specifying the transfer destination window of the document images one by one (each time).

Therefore, it is possible to significantly reduce operator operations for display control of document images and improve processing efficiency. In addition, by simply specifying fixed display or cancellation of the displayed document image, you can easily set the display control mode for the document window in which the document image is displayed. Display control instructions are easy.

Therefore, a great effect can be achieved in the Bunko image editing process of each t4.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. Although the display control of the document image has been explained by setting four document windows in the mouthpiece, the number of document windows to be set may be determined according to the document image display specifications of the device.

Furthermore, the display management form of document images in the document window is not limited to the example described above.

In short, the present invention can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an 8-position embodiment, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the display screen configuration of the display, and Fig. 3 is a multi-window display mode. 4 is a diagram showing the management structure of document images stored in the text box. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the management structure of the document window set on the display. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the flow of the document image transfer display system W to the document window, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the display control mode of the document image to the document window. 4... Image memory, 7... Display memory, 8... Display controller, 9... Display, 1
4...CPU, 21...Global area, 22.
. . . Image editing menu area, 23 . . . Document image display area, 24 . . . Text display area, 34 . . . Attribute information for the document window. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A means for inputting and outputting document images, as well as registering, searching, deleting, and editing the document images, and a means for simultaneously displaying a plurality of document images to be subjected to editing through window control. In the document image editing device equipped with the above-mentioned document image editing device, attribute information indicating permission/prohibition of transfer of the displayed document images is added to multiple document windows displaying document images, and multiple document images are edited according to this attribute information. What is claimed is: 1. A document image editing device characterized by controlling a display of a document image. (2) The document image editing device according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information is added to the document window to which the document image is transferred and displayed. (3) A patent that transfers and displays a document image by selecting one of the other document windows for which document image transfer is permitted, based on the document window to which attribute information was added last. A document image editing device according to claim 1.