JPS63227174A - Electronic file device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To clearly recognize a difference of an image of the first color and an image of the second color even at the time of using a black-and-white CRT as a display device, by flickering and displaying an image part to which an instruction for printing to the second color has been given, on the display device. CONSTITUTION:When an instruction for recording an original to an image disk is given by using a keyboard 5, an image data in an image memory 51a, which is read by a document scanner 1 is brought to an image compression and stored in an optical disk device 3. Simultaneously, an image data set so as to be outputted in red, in an image memory 51b is also stored in the device 3 in the same way. Subsequently, for the purpose of printing, the data read out of the device 3 is brought to an image expansion 58 and stored in the memories 51a, 51b. Next, a position of a red, area, and position information of an underline print area displayed in red are read out, and the information of the memory 51a and the information of the memory 51b are displayed on a CRT 6, at it is, and by flickering it, respectively. Subsequently, by the keyboard 5, the contents of the memory 51a, and the contents of the memory 51b are printed as a black image and a red image, respectively.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to an electronic file device.

[Prior Art] A conventional electronic file device includes an image input device for inputting images, an optical disk device for recording image data, a CRT for displaying images, and a printer for outputting images. Moreover, the above printer device has two colors, black and red.
Two-color printers have been developed that record two colors on one sheet of paper, such as black and blue.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional apparatus described above, there is a problem in that when a monochrome CRT is used, it is impossible to recognize the difference in color when printing in two colors.

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, an image portion that is instructed to be printed in the second color is displayed in a blinking manner on a display device.

[Function] The present invention flashes and displays the part of the image that is instructed to be printed in the second color on the display device, so even when a black and white CRT is used as the display device, the image in the first color and the second color are displayed in a blinking manner. The difference from the image can be clearly recognized.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is an external view of an electronic file device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In this figure, there is a document scanner 1 that converts one document image into an electrical signal, a two-color laser beam printer 2, a cable 13a, and an optical disk device 3 that stores image information read from the document scanner 1 on an optical disk.
It is composed of a controller 4 that controls the entire system, a keyboard 5 that gives instructions to the controller 4, a black and white CRT 6 that displays one image and operation information, and a mouse 7 that inputs the CBr4 digit and information. Further, a cable 12 for transmitting image data from the document scanner 1, a cable 13a for transmitting black data to the two-color printer 2, and a cable 13b for transmitting red data to the two-color printer 2 are provided.

Note that the controller 4 is an example of a control means that causes the CBr 4 to blink and display the image portion for which printing of the second color has been instructed.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the above embodiment.

The controller 4 is a 16-bit microcomputer (
For example, a CPU 50 consisting of a CPU 68,000),
Image memories 51a and 51b that temporarily store image data from the document scanner 1, an interface 52 that displays images read by the document scanner 1, operation instructions, etc. on the CBr 4, and an interface 53 that takes in data from the keyboard 5. And optical disc installation 2! An interface 54 for exchanging data with the i3, an interface 55 for exchanging data with the document scanner 1, and an interface for exchanging black image data and red image data with the two-color printer 2. A face 56, an interface 57 for receiving data from the mouse 7, and an image compression/expansion circuit 58 are provided.

The image compression/expansion circuit 5B includes image memories 51a and 51b.
This circuit compresses the image data when recording it on an optical disc, expands the image when reproducing the image data from the optical disc, and sends it to the image memories 51a and 51b.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3(1) is a diagram showing the operation of recording image data on an optical disc.

First, the operator sets a document on the document scanner 1 and issues an image input instruction using the keyboard 5 (sB). The image data read by the document scanner 1 is stored in the memory 51a (32). The data is sent to the CRT interface 52 and the CB
The image is displayed on r4 (S3).

Next, using the mouse 7, specify the area to be printed in red (S4), that is, specify the area to be printed in red as shown by the dotted line in FIG. 4. As a result, the image data in the area set to be output in red is inverted as shown by the hatched lines in FIG. 5 (S5). Next, the image data in the image memory 51a
The image data of the "red" area within is transferred to the image memory 51b (S6). This state is shown in FIG. 6(1). Then, the image data in the "red" area in the image memory 51a is made blank (S7).

This state is shown in FIG. 6(2).

Here, the operator uses the keyboard 5 to
The underline between point C and point d in the figure is instructed to be outputted in red (S8), and the underline to which this instruction has been given is displayed blinking on CBr4 (S9).

Then, in the image memory 51b, information to be displayed in red "
In addition to "technical memo", the above underline is added and stored (S10), in the image memory 51 at this time.
The information stored in b is shown in FIG.

Next, the operator uses the keyboard 5 to issue an instruction to record the image on the optical disk (S11), and sends the image data in the image memory 51a to the optical disk device 3 via the image compression circuit 58. Record (S12)
, Similarly, the image data in the image memory 51b is sent to the optical disk device 3 via the image compression circuit 58,
Record (S13).

Furthermore, in order to display the data in the "red" area (the data shown as "technical memo" in FIGS. 4 to 8) in black and white inverted on the CRT 6, point a (Xa,
Ya), the position information of point b (xb, yb) is also recorded on the optical disk (S l 4), and in order to blink and display the information in the underlined part on the CRT 6, the point shown in FIG. 7 is recorded. c (Xc, Yc), point d (Xd,
Yd) (7) Also record position information on the optical disc (S l
5).

FIG. 3(2) is a flowchart showing the operation of printing an image recorded on an optical disc.

First, the operator instructs the reproduction of the desired image (S
21) The image data read from the optical disk is stored in the image memories 51a and 51b via the image decompression circuit 58 (S22.523).

Next, place 1a (Xa, Y) in the “red” area from the optical disc.
Read information of a), b (Xb, Yb) (S24)
, Furthermore, position information c (Xc) of the underline print area to be displayed in "red".

Yc), d (Xd, Yd) are reproduced from the optical disc (S25).

The contents of the image memory 51a (image information to be printed in black) are displayed as they are on the CRT 6 without blinking, and the contents of the image memory 51b are the information a (Xa, Ya).
, b (Xb, Yb), c (Xc, Yc),
d (Xd, Y d) Color judgment, black and white inversion 1
It blinks and is displayed on the CRT 6 (326).

At this time, when the operator instructs printing using the keyboard 5 (S27), the contents of the image memory 51a are displayed as black image data, and the contents of the image memory 51b are displayed as red image data at the printer interface 56.
Therefore, in the above embodiment, the "technical memo" part and the underline part are printed in "red", and the copy is ejected (328).

As described above, the part printed in "red" during printing is displayed in black and white inverted and blinking on the black and white CRT 6, making it an extremely easy to use electronic file device.

Note that although the above embodiment has been described using two colors, red and black, the same applies to cases where printing is performed using other color combinations.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, even when a monochrome CRT is used as a display device, the difference between a first color image and a second color image can be clearly recognized.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the above embodiment. FIGS. 3(1) and 3(2) are flowcharts showing the operation of the above embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of image information in the above embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state in which part of the image data of the image information shown in FIG. 4 is flashed in black and white. FIG. 6(1) shows the image information shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which areas other than the black and white inverted area are left blank. FIG. 6(2) is a diagram showing an example in which the blinking black and white portions of the image information shown in FIG. 5 are left blank. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state in which the image information shown in FIG. 5 is underlined. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the image information shown in FIG. 7 is blank except for the black and white inverted area and the blinking area. ■...Document scanner, 2...Two-color printer, 3...Optical disk device, 4...Controller, 6...Black and white CRT. Patent applicant Canon Co., Ltd. Agent Arata Yokubo - Figure 3 (2) Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 (t)! F; Figure 6 (2) Figure 7
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Claims (1)

[Claims] Converting a document image into an image signal, storing the image signal,
In an electronic file device that prints in two colors based on the image signal and displays the image signal on a display device, an image portion that is instructed to be printed in the second color is displayed in a blinking manner on the display device. An electronic file device characterized by: