JPS63272266A - Information processing unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily add the required information to input information by adding the stored additional information to the inputted information when the addition of required information is commanded, and outputting the result. CONSTITUTION:In the case of adding date information to the picture information read from a scanner 27, the picture information to be printed out is displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 26 and a common icon CI 'printer' is commanded by a cursor K or a function key F3. Then an output sheet number and the cassette size are designated, and setting the date ad-on designation to 'yes' the date information AD1 is added to the picture information displayed at present and printed out from a printer 28. The additional information comprising the date information is stored in advance in the device and it is added selectively at read of the picture information or print-out.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Purpose of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an information processing device capable of reading and printing out image information, for example.

(Prior Art) As is well known, an information processing device has been developed that is capable of reading a document image using a scanner, storing the read image information in a disk device, and retrieving and outputting the stored image information. There is.

By the way, in this type of information processing apparatus, there are cases where it is desired to add information such as "-" to the image information read from the scanner. However, in conventional information processing devices of this type, it has been difficult to easily add various types of information.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) This invention solves the problems in adding required information to information, and its purpose is to:
The present invention aims to provide an information processing device that can easily add required information to information.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving Problems) This invention comprises a manual means for inputting information, a storage means for storing additional information, and an instruction for adding the additional information to the manually inputted information. control means for adding the additional information to the input information in accordance with instructions from the instruction means; and output means for supplying the information to which the additional information is attached.

(Operation) When the instruction means instructs to add required information, the control means adds additional information stored in advance in the storage means to the information input from the human power means, and outputs the added information. I am trying to output it to a means.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an information processing device.

A CPU I 2 is connected to the system bus 11 as a control means. This CPU 12 performs overall control of the device and is capable of multitasking operations. Connected to the CPU 12 are a keyboard 13 for inputting various information such as command information, and a mouse 14 for moving a cursor displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 26. The mouse 14 is provided with a first button and a second button (not shown) for instructing the position of the cursor.

Further, connected to the system bus 11 is an interface circuit 15 for the disk device, a main memory 16 in which operating programs for the CPU 12, etc. are stored. The interface circuit 15 is connected to an optical disk device 17 in which image information is stored, and also to magnetic disk devices 18 and 19 in which search information of the optical disk device 17 is stored. This magnetic disk device 1
8 is constituted by, for example, a floppy disk device, and one magnetic disk device is constituted by, for example, a hard disk device. Incidentally, a property sheet, which will be described later, is stored in the magnetic disk device 19.

Further, between the system bus 11 and the image bus 20, there is a page memory 21, a part of which operates as a first-in/first-out memory, and a display memory 2.
A 2a1 working display memory 22b, a scaling circuit 23 for scaling image information, a vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 24 for vertical/horizontal conversion of image information, and a logic operation circuit 34 operated when superimposing image information are connected. ing. The scaling circuit 23, the vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 24, and the logic operation circuit 34
is modular. In addition, the display memory 22
A CRT display device 26 is connected to a via a display control section 25.

On the other hand, the scanner (two-dimensional scanning device) 27 obtains electrical signals corresponding to the image information of the original by scanning the original with exposure, for example. , an operation unit 27a1 for setting parameters (processing information) such as reading density, etc. Scanner 27
A CPU 27b that performs control, and a memory 27c that stores various parameters set by the operation section 27a are provided. Further, the printer 28 prints out the image information read by the scanner 27 or the image information read from the previous disk device 17. The scanner 27 and printer 28 are each connected to an encoding/decoding circuit (COD) via an interface circuit 29.3o.
EC) 31. This encoding/decoding circuit 31 and interface circuit 29.3o are modularized.

Furthermore, a UCP (universal communications processor) 32 is connected to the system bus 11 . This UCP32 is R3-232C, CP IB
, an interface for SC9I. Further, a BCP (Business Communication Processor) 33 is connected to this UCP 32 . This B.C.
P33 is an interface for LAN (Local Area Network).

The CPU 12 and interface circuit 15 constitute a control module CPM, which includes a main memory 16, a page memory 21, a display memory 22a1, a working display memory 2
The 2b1 display control unit 25 constitutes a memory module MM, the enlargement/reduction circuit 23, the vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 24, two interface circuits, 30, and CODEC31 constitute an image processing module IPM, and the UCP32 and BCP33 constitute a communication control module CCM. are doing.

FIG. 2 shows the page memory 21 and the logic operation circuit 34.
This shows the relationship between The logic operation circuit 34 combines, for example, image information stored in the page memory 21 with image information sent from the scanner 27, the optical disk device 17, or the like. This logic operation circuit 34 has a third
As shown in the figure, OR circuit OR1 and switch circuit SW
This switch SW is turned off when superimposing image information.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, additional information such as date information AD is stored in advance in the magnetic disk device 19, and this additional information is stored when the power is turned on to the information processing device and the system is initialized. , are transferred to an internal memory (not shown) of the CPU 12.

In the above configuration, the operation when adding date information to image information read from the scanner 27, for example, will be explained using FIGS. 5 to 7.

An initial screen (not shown) showing various processing functions is normally displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 26. In this display state, when image editing is specified using the mouse 14 or the keyboard 13, the CRT display device 26 The screen is changed as shown in FIG.

That is, the screen of the CRT display device 26 is, for example, a gray raster, and around this raster are displayed a common icon C1 for setting various processing functions, an icon 11SEl for instructing processing of displayed image information, and A cursor K indicating these icons is displayed. Of the icons II, AC is the final display indicating whether or not the window is capable of operations such as writing and registration, and when this final display AC is lit (diagonal lined), the window is Indicates that it is operational.

This final display AC is, for example, when multiple windows are displayed on the CRT display device 26, the mouse 1
It is possible to switch to an arbitrary window by the instruction 4, and it is also possible to change this sequentially using the space key on the keyboard 13.

In the above display state, operate the mouse 14 and move the cursor K displayed on the screen to
When "Scanner" is specified, a property sheet SP for setting the operation of the scanner 27 is displayed as shown in FIG. In this display state, use the cursor K to set the document size, paper feeding mode, document density, reading density, and other necessary modes.
Set the date add-on specification to "Yes".

In this display state, when the "confirm" icon on the property sheet SP is designated with the cursor or when the function key F9 is operated, the designated mode is set. Then, when the common icon CI "Scanner" and "Image 1 image display" are specified in this order, the scanner 27 is operated and the original image is read, and the date information AD is added to the read image information. The image is then displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 26, as shown in FIG. In this case, it is assumed that a plain original is set in the scanner 27. This operation will be explained as follows based on FIG.

When the mode is set using the scanner property sheet SP and the display of image information read from the scanner 27 is specified, the image information read from the scanner 27 is first transferred to the page memory 21 via the interface circuit 29.
is memorized. In this case, the enlargement/reduction circuit 23, the vertical/horizontal conversion circuit 24, and the logic operation circuit 34 are bypassed. When the original image is written to the page memory 21, the date information is read from the internal memory (not shown) of the CPU 2, and the stored image information is read from the page memory 21, and these are processed by the logical operation circuit. superimposed at 34,
The data is written to the page memory 21 again. When this date information addition process is completed, the image information written in the page memory 21 is transferred to the display memory 22a, and the display control unit 2
5 is displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 26.

Next, the page memory 21 is read by the scanner 27.
The operation of adding date information as described above when the printer 28 prints out the image information stored in the page memory 21 or the image information retrieved from the optical disk device 17 and stored in the page memory 21 will be explained. .

For example, image information to be printed is displayed on a CRT display device 2.
6, when the common icon CI "Printer" is pointed to with the cursor by 1 or the function key F3, a printer property sheet PP is displayed as shown in FIG. In this display state, after specifying the number of output copies and cassette size and setting the date add-on specification to "Yes", if the "Confirm" icon is designated, the specified mode is set. And "Image display" of common icon CI
When "printer" is designated in this order, date information AD□ is added to the currently displayed image information (in this case, plain information) as shown in FIG. 7, and the information is printed out from the printer 28.

That is, date information is added to the image information in the page memory 21 corresponding to the currently displayed image information via the logical operation circuit 34, and the image information to which this date information has been added is stored in the page memory 21 again. be remembered. When the date information addition process is completed, this image information is supplied to the printer 28 via the interface circuit 30, and is printed out by the printer 28.

According to the embodiment described above, additional information consisting of date information is stored in advance in the device so that it can be selectively added when reading image information or when printing out. Therefore, date information can be easily added.

Also, the presence or absence of additional information is determined by the CRT display device 26.
Since it can be specified using the property sheet displayed above, the specification operation is easy.

In the above embodiment, a case was explained in which date information is added as additional information, but the invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. Various modifications can be made, such as a combination of AD3, and a combination of date information AD1, break AD2, and ruled line AD3 as shown in FIG. 2(b).

Furthermore, the additional information is not limited to line or text information, and photographic information may also be used. In this case, the photo information is stored in the optical disk device 17 together with its display position, for example, and when additional information is specified, the photo information is searched and output from the optical disk device 17 and transferred to the page memory 21, and this is transferred to the page memory 21. It may be added to other information at a predetermined position based on the display information.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the image information stored in the page memory 21 is displayed on the CRT display device 26 or printed out from the printer 28 with additional information attached is described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, it is also possible to store the image information stored in the page memory 21 in the optical disc device 17 with additional information attached thereto.

It goes without saying that various other modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, when the instruction means instructs addition of required information, the control means adds information to the manually added information from the human power means and stores it in the storage means in advance. By adding the additional information that has been added and outputting it to the output means, it is possible to provide an information processing device that can easily add required information to input information.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure TS1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an information processing device according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a configuration diagram showing the main parts of Figure 1, and Figure 3 is a diagram showing the main parts of Figure 2. circuit configuration diagram,
Figure 4 is a diagram shown to explain additional information, Figures 5 to 8 are diagrams each shown to explain the operation of Figure 1, and Figure 9 explains another example of additional information. FIG. 12... CPU, 17... Optical disk device, ]8.
...Magnetic disk device, 21...Page memory, 26
... CRT display device, 27 ... scanner,
28...Printer, 34...Logic operation circuit, 5P1
PP...Property sheet. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 2 No. 31-

Claims (6)

[Claims] (1) An input means for inputting information, a storage means for storing additional information, an instruction means for instructing to add the additional information to the input information, and the additional information according to the instruction of the instruction means. An information processing apparatus comprising: a control means for adding information to the input information; and an output means for supplying information to which the additional information is attached. (2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input means comprises a reading means for optically reading a document. (3) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input means comprises an optical disk device for storing information. (4) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means comprises a display means for displaying information. (5) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means comprises a printing means for printing out the information. (6) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means comprises an optical disk device for storing information.