JPS6366630A - Input device for print position - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability for the input of the print position of a regular form by displaying this form on the screen of a display device to designate its print position and using this designated print position as the print position information. CONSTITUTION:The picture of a regular form read by a scanning device 3 is displayed on the screen of a display device 4. Then both original point and start point addresses of the regular form are stored an original point address memory register 29 and a start point address memory register 30 respectively by means of a point designating key 27 and a cursor shift key 26. An arithmetic part 32 reads the contents of both registers 29 and 30 to obtain the start point position against the original point, i.e., the print start position and also to calculate the print length. The print position information including said print start position and print length is stored in a print position information memory 35. In such a way, the operability is improved for the input of the print position of the regular form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a printing position input device for inputting printing position information on standard paper.

In general, documents created in various information processing devices such as office computers, personal computers, word processors, electronic typewriters, and workstations are stored on paper with a predetermined format, such as estimates or manuscript paper. However, in conventional information processing devices, when printing on standard paper, the operator uses a scale etc. in advance to determine the printing start position and length of each print item. Since the printing position is input by measuring the printing start position and length using a keyboard, there is an inconvenience that the operability of inputting the printing position for standard paper is poor.

Purpose This invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to improve the operability of inputting the printing position of standard paper.

Mr. Yutaka In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention includes an image reading device for reading an image of a standard-sized paper, a display device for displaying an image of the standard-sized paper read by the image reading device, and a display device for displaying the above-mentioned image on the display device. The apparatus includes a print position specifying means for specifying a print position on standard paper, and a print position information storage means for storing the print position specified by the print position specifying means.

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an example of an information processing apparatus equipped with a printing position input device embodying the present invention.

This information processing device uses character information as an input device.

It includes a keyboard 1 for inputting various information such as control information, a mouse 2 as a pointing device, and an image scanner 3 as an image reading device. Also,
A display device 4 as an output device having a function of displaying a single graphic character to display various information, and a printer 5 as a printing device to print out various information.
It is equipped with Furthermore, the main body s is provided with a floppy disk device (FDD) and a hard disk device (HDD) as storage devices.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the control section of this information processing device.

The microprocessor (CPU) 11 of this control unit 10 is constituted by a 16-bit microprocessor including, for example, a CPU, ROM, RAM, etc.

This microprocessor 11 is here 8! It is in charge of overall control of the apparatus, and executes various display control, print control, input control 2 document creation/edit control, print position input control, etc. according to programs stored in the main memory 12.

In addition, the main memory 12 is loaded into a floppy disk device (FDD) 7 or a hard disk device () (DD) 8 at the time of startup.
It consists of a system area (resident area) that stores resident programs such as an operating system loaded from the computer, a non-resident area that stores non-resident programs, a data area, and a RAM that constitutes a working area.

The control unit 10 also includes a keyboard interface Cl7F)13 for inputting information from the keyboard 1.
, a mouse interface 14 for inputting X pulses and Y pulses from the mouse 2, and a scanner interface 1 for inputting read data from the image scanner 3.
5.

Furthermore, this control unit 10 includes a CRT interface 16 that controls the display device 4, a printer interface 17 that controls the printer 5, a floppy disk controller (FDC) 18 that controls the FDD 7, and an HDD.
Hard disk controller (HDC) that controls the DB
1B.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a portion of this information processing apparatus related to print position input control.

The line buffer 21 sequentially stores n lines of read information from the scanner device (image scanner) 3 line by line. The 1/ni small unit 22 reads the read information stored in the line buffer 21, logically sums the data in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction by n dots, and outputs 1.
/ Reduce to n.

This 1/n reduction unit 22 is necessary because the number of display dots on the display device (display device) 4 is smaller than the number of dots read by the scanner device 3.
Display device) The number of display dots of 4 is 3 on the scanner device.
It is not necessary if the number of dots is larger than the number of dots read in.

The bit map memory 23 contains 1/n f! Small section 2
The read information reduced from 2 to 17 n is written, and cursor display information is also written by the cursor display control section 25. The display control section 24 reads the information written in the bit map memory 23 and displays it on the display device 4.

The cursor movement key 26 gives an instruction to move the cursor on the screen of the display device 4, and the left movement (←) key and the right movement (→
) key, up movement (↑) key, and θ down movement (↓) key. The point designation key 27 gives an instruction to fix the display bag 4 as the current cursor position 13 on the screen as the printing position.

The cursor address storage register 28 moves the cursor position (cursor address) according to the instruction results of the cursor movement key 2 and the point designation key 27, and supplies the cursor position information to the cursor display control unit 26 to move the cursor to the designated position. to be displayed.

Origin address memory register On the 2nd day, the cursor is at the origin on the display screen! ! The contents of the cursor address storage register 28 when the point designation key 27 is pressed when the cursor is at the upper left end position of the standard paper are stored. The start point address storage register 30 stores the contents of the cursor address storage register 2 when the point designation key 27 is pressed while the cursor is at the print start position on the display screen. The selector 51 selects and outputs the contents of either the origin address storage register 2 or the start point address storage register 30.

The calculation unit 32 stores the contents of the cursor address storage register 28 (current cursor address) and the origin address storage register 2.
The date and contents of the start point address storage register 30 (origin or start point) are read, the position of the start point relative to the origin, that is, the print start position is determined, and the length of the print item is calculated.
Information on the calculated printing start position and length is sent to the memory writing section 3'5.

The memory 7-containing unit 33 stores the print position information consisting of the print start position and print length received from the calculation unit 32 when the end key 34 is used to instruct the end of print position input in the print position information memory 3S.

Next, the operation of this embodiment configured as described above will be explained with reference to FIG. 4 and subsequent figures.

First, referring to FIG. 4, when print position input processing is specified, a message "Please press the scanner start key after setting standard paper in the image scanner" is displayed on the screen of the display device 4. do.

When the scanner start key on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the image scanner 3 is controlled to start reading the image size of the set standard paper, and this read information is reduced to 17n and stored in the bit map memory 23. Message 21 is expanded and displayed when reading is completed.
For example, "Please specify the position of the origin (Xo e To)" is displayed. Note that the upper left end position of the standard paper is designated as the origin.

Here, when the cursor movement key 26 of the keyboard 1 is pressed down, the pressed cursor movement key 26
6 according to the cursor address (X.

Update Y). In other words, if the cursor right movement (→) key is used, the cursor address (X) is incremented (+I
) L,, cursor left movement (←) key decrements the cursor address (X) (-1), cursor up movement (↓) key increments the cursor address (Y) (+l) L, cursor If the upward movement (↑) key is used, the cursor address (Y) is decremented (-1).

This cursor address updating process is repeated until the point designation key 27 is pressed, and when the point designation key 27 is pressed, the current upper left end address (Xo v Yo) of the paper as the origin address is Set the cursor address (X, V).

After that, a message 35, eg, "Please specify the starting point position of r item 1" is displayed. Here, when the cursor movement key 26 of the keyboard 1 is pressed down, the cursor address (X, Y) is updated in accordance with the pressed cursor movement key 26 in the same manner as described above. This process is repeated until the point designation key 27 is pressed.

Then, when the point designation key 27 is pressed down, the current cursor address (
Set X, Y).

Then, print start X address (X
n) from the start point X address (Xs) to the origin X address (X
o) is subtracted (Xs - Xo) from the cell l - L, and the value (Ys YO).

In this way, the address (Xn, Yn) of the print start position of the nth print item is obtained, so the print item number n is incremented (+1) and updated, and the print start position of the next print item is The X address (Xn) and Y address (Y n ) storing (Xr++1) and (Yn+1
).

Thereafter, a message 49, eg, "Please specify the end position of r item 1" is displayed. When the cursor movement key 26 of the 5-keyboard 1 is pressed here, the cursor address (X, Y) is updated in accordance with the pressed cursor movement key 26 in the same manner as described above. This process is repeated until the point designation key 27 is pressed.

Then, when the point specification key 27 is pressed, the length (Ln) of the nth print position information is set to the value (Y-Ys) obtained by subtracting the start point address (Ys) from the current cursor Y address (y). After that, the number n of the print item is incremented (+1) and updated, and the length L n that stores the length of the nth print item is increased.
+1).

Then message 5, for example, ``Press the exit key when you are finished.'' If not finished, please press the continue key." is displayed.

If the end key is not pressed here, that is, if the continuation key is pressed, the display returns to message 3 described above. At this time, message 3 is changed to "Please specify the starting point value d of r item 2" and displayed. Then, the same process as described above for item 2 is performed to input the print start position and length. For subsequent items, the print start position and length are input in the same manner.

In this way, while looking at the standard paper displayed on the screen of the display device, move the cursor to the origin position and starting point position.

The print start position and length are input by specifying the end point position and giving a confirmation instruction.

Note that here, the printing start position and length as printing position information are stored as the difference in addresses on the display devices, so if the number of dots on the two display devices and the number of dots on the printing device are different, The print start position and length stored at the time of printing are converted into the print start position and length on printing (on actual standard paper), and the print position is specified to the printing device.

Therefore, when storing the print start position and length, the print start position and length on the display are converted to the print start position and length on the print (on the actual standard paper) and stored.
At the time of printing, it is also possible to directly specify the printing position to the printing device using this information.

Next, this printing position input process will be specifically explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 8.

First, when printing on standard paper with a specified format as shown in Figure 5, the printing items are
rIssuing department name”, “Issuance date”.

There are "desired delivery date J, r place J, r part number", "delivery area", "number of requests", etc. Note that the item "Shipping area" shall not be printed.

Therefore, as document information for printing on this standard paper, for example, as shown in FIG.
Create the document content for each print item, such as lJ, heading ``start MNQJ, document content rQO5J''. Note that only the document content is printed, and 1 item No. 4 and the heading are used when entering the print position. It is what you use.

Then, the standard paper is set in the image scanner B, read, and displayed on the screen of the display device 4.

Then, move the cursor to the upper left end position of the standard paper on one screen, press down the point designation key 27 to designate the origin position, and then move the cursor to item No. r.

By moving to the printing start position in the column of ``Claim No. , move the cursor to item NO, rO
By moving to the print end position in the "Issue NOJ" column of IJ and then pressing the point designation key 27, this designated position becomes the print end position for item No. ro N, and the length from the print start position is The calculated one-item No., the print start position and length of r01J are stored in the print position information memory 35.

More than 1m Similar item 1[]NO, ro 2J ~rO
Also enter the print start position and length for the print items "Issuing department name" to "Number of requests" in column 7J.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 7, for example, the print position information memory 35 stores the X address, Y address, and length of the print start position for each print item (however, in this example, the display The information on the print start position and length of the printer is converted into information on the print start position and length on the actual printing paper and stored).

Therefore, by setting this standard paper in the printer 5 and instructing it to print, the document content of each print item shown in Figure 6 is printed in the column of each print item on the standard paper, as shown in Figure 8. Ru.

In this way, in this print position input device, by displaying the standard paper on the screen of the front thread device and specifying the print position, the specified position is stored as print position information, so it is possible to input the print position. Improved operability.

In addition, in the above embodiment, an example was described in which information on the print start position and length was stored as print position information.
The print start position and print end position may be stored as print position information.

It goes without saying that the information processing apparatus equipped with the print position input device embodying the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and may include word processors, data processors, workstations, personal computers, electronic typewriters, and teletex machines.

It can be provided in various information processing devices such as office computers.

As explained above, according to the present invention, the operability of inputting the printing position on standard paper is improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. 2 and 3 are an external perspective view and a block diagram of a control unit showing an example of an information processing unit equipped with a print position input device embodying the present invention, and FIGS. 4 and 5 to 8. 2 is a flowchart showing a print position input operation and an explanatory diagram providing a specific explanation thereof. FIG. 1...Keyboard 3...Image scanner 4
... Display device 23 ... Bit map memory 26 ... Cursor movement key 27 ... Point designation key 28 ... Cursor address storage register 29 ... Origin address storage register 30 ... Start point address storage register 32...Calculation unit 3S...Print position information memory Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7 Fig. 8

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image reading device that reads an image of a standard size paper, a display device that displays an image of the standard size paper read by the image reading device, and a print position specifying means that specifies a print position of the standard size paper on the display device. , and print position information storage means for storing the print position designated by the print position designation means.