JPS638979A - Image processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the printing at least one of MW with one instructing operation as it is by providing a displaying memory changed and stored to the size corresponding to the displaying size of the window of a a displaying part in the device having a multiwindow (MW) function. CONSTITUTION:As an image editing area, plural pictures are designated. Next, when a desired image is selected, the image on a optical disk 9 is read, and reading image information is stored to a memory area 14a corresponding to a window A of an image memory 14 by a CPU 12. This is executed ranging over plural pictures, the image information of respective areas 14a... is expanded and reduced to the prescribed size from an expanding reducing circuit 31 respectively and stored into respective areas 32a.... Next, when the picture copy is instructed at the position of the window A, the contents of a memory area 32a are read from the displaying memory, supplied to the expanding reducing circuit 31, expanded to the same size as the CRT picture, stored into the area of an image memory 14e and the CPU 12 prints the contents of the area 14e.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) This invention uses, for example, a multi-window display to
The present invention relates to an image processing device such as an image information editing device that simultaneously displays and edits multiple documents.

(Prior art) Recently, image information such as documents, etc., which is generated in large quantities, can be processed using optical
When a plurality of documents are image-edited using the image information read by dimensional scanning, one display device is divided into multiple windows to display the plurality of documents at the same time. You can then rotate, enlarge, or reduce a certain document.
Alternatively, the desired document can be obtained by cutting it out and combining it with other documents, and the edited document can be sequentially stored in a storage medium such as an optical disk, or output 81F, such as a C.
An image information editing device has been developed that outputs image information in a state that can be viewed with an RT display device or a printer.

Such devices output image information stored in an image memory to a printer. For this reason, for example, even if you try to output an original image that has been enlarged, reduced, rotated, or black-and-white reversed, the printer will only be able to output the original image stored in the image memory (that is, the size, etc.). It was not possible to output to .

Another drawback is that icons and the like displayed on the screen cannot be output to the printer.

Therefore, recently, devices that output the contents of the display memory to a printer have been considered.

However, with devices like this that output the contents of the display memory to a printer, for example, when multiple windows are displayed on a CRT screen, if you try to output only the image in one of these windows to the printer. , the window to be printed out is displayed on a single screen on the CRT and then output to the printer. That is, select only that image, select the icon that indicates one screen display, this selection displays only one screen, select this screen, and then select the icon that indicates screen copy. It has become. Therefore, if you want to print out only one window image from a multi-window state, you must perform the operation twice, that is, change from the multi-window display state to the one-window display state. I had to.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, this invention eliminates the disadvantage of having to perform two operations when printing out only one window image from a multi-window state. An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device that can print out a display image of at least one window in a single operation.

[Configuration of the Invention (Means for Solving Problems) The image processing device of the present invention has a multi-window function for displaying a plurality of image information on a display unit, and has the following features:
An image memory in which the plurality of pieces of image information are stored; a display memory in which the storage contents of each image information in this image memory are changed to a size corresponding to the display size of the window of the display section; and this display memory. processing means for editing the stored content of the display unit; instruction means for instructing the printing of at least one display content of the multi-window display on the display section; 11 means for printing out at least one display content, and when the instruction means instructs to print out the exclusive display content of the multi-window display, the processing is performed by the corresponding processing means in the display memory. read out the stored information,
It is comprised of a means for printing out using the above-mentioned printing means.

(Function) The present invention provides an image display having a multi-window separation for displaying a plurality of image information on a display unit! ! ! In the processing device, at least one of the multi-window displays on the display unit
When printing out one page as is, it can be done with one instruction operation.

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

FIG. 1 shows an image information editing device as an image processing device of the present invention. In other words, 11 is the main control! Il
The device includes a CPU 12 that performs various controls, a main memory 13, an image memory 14 that has a storage capacity corresponding to image information for several pages of an A4 size document, and a computer that compresses (reduces redundancy) and expands (reduces redundancy) image information. a compression/decompression circuit 15 for restoring redundancy, a pattern generator 16 storing pattern information such as characters or symbols, a display interface 17, and an address generation device 1.
8 and an enlargement/reduction circuit 3 for enlarging and reducing image information.
It consists of 1 etc. In the image memory 14,
Four windows A, 8. C.

A memory device that stores the original image information displayed on D! J7
14a, 14b, 14c, and 14d are provided correspondingly, and a storage area 14e in which printout information is stored is provided.

The display interface 17 is composed of a display memory 32 and a display 1111611 section 33.

The display memory 32 stores image information that is actually displayed in four windows A, 81C, and D on the CRT display device 24 (to be described later), that is, the image information in the image memory 14 that can be enlarged, reduced, rotated, inserted, or The image information after black-and-white inversion is stored in Salel Memory Techniques, 1732.
a, 32b, 32c.

32d are correspondingly provided.

The address generator 18 controls access to the image memory 14 and the display memory 32 in the display interface 17.

Note that each storage area 14a, 14 of the image memory 14
b, 14c, 14d and each storage area 32a, 32b, 32c of the display memory 32.

When storing the image information from 32d in the storage area 14e, the resolution of each image information is set to 16 pixels/mm by the printer 25.
The resolution is converted to 8 pixels/mm and stored.

That is, as shown in FIG. 2, A4 size image information is stored in the storage area 14a of the image memory 14, A3 size image information is stored in the storage area 14b, and CIP-84 size image information is stored in the storage area 14. remembered,
A5 size image information is stored in the storage area 14d. Furthermore, a storage area 32a of the display memory 32,
Display information corresponding to the image information in the storage areas 14a, 14b, 14c, and 14d is converted to a predetermined size and stored in the display areas 32b, 32C, and 32d, respectively.

2o is, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device that scans the original N (document) at 21
An electric signal corresponding to the image information on the document 21 is obtained by two-dimensionally scanning the top with a laser beam. 22 is an optical disk device, which is connected to the above two-dimensional scanning device 20;
Image information read by the main control bag Wtii and supplied via the main control bag Wtii is sequentially stored on the optical disk 19.

On the other hand, 23 is a keyboard for inputting a unique search code corresponding to image information and various operation commands. Reference numeral 24 denotes an output device such as a cathode i-tube display device (hereinafter referred to as a CRT display device) which is a display section and is read by a two-dimensional scanning device 20 and sent to the main controller 1.
1 or image information read from the optical disk device 22 and supplied via the main controller 11. It constitutes a meaningful image information display device. The CRT display device 24 is capable of simultaneously displaying four documents using a maximum of four windows.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, four pieces of vertically displayed image information are displayed. Editing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, and scrolling of the image can be performed independently for each window. For example, each window A, B, C, D frame or frame icon A-1B=
, C', and D- include an icon for displaying sentence 1 (image) input to the window designated by window number a1, erasing, image editing scanning, etc. (FIX), b%, and an icon for displaying the top 2 of the final action. Icon d to instruct to scroll in each direction, icon e to instruct to enlarge, icon f to instruct to reduce, icon (instruction means) g to instruct to rotate the image to the right, icon to instruct to rotate the image to the left. An icon (instruction means) h is provided, and is designated by a pointing device 29, which will be described later.

The CRT display device 24 also has an icon (instruction means) for instructing "screen copy" (print output).
1. An icon j that indicates the printer, an icon that indicates from here, an icon 1 that indicates from here, an icon m1n that indicates the number of windows for displaying images, O,
A pointing device 29, which will be described later, is provided.
It is now specified by.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a printer (printing means), which receives image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and supplied via the main controller 11, and image information read from the optical disk device 22 and supplied via the main controller @11. The image information, image information from the image memory 14, the display memory 32, etc. are output as a printout, that is, a hard copy 26.

Reference numeral 27 denotes a magnetic disk device, which retrieves search data consisting of a search code entered through the keyboard 23, the size of image information for one item corresponding to this search code, and a storage address on the optical disk 19 where the image information is stored. The image information for each item is stored on the magnetic disk 28.

Further, 29 is a pointing device, for example CR
By arbitrarily moving the cursor on the T-display device 24 vertically or horizontally and giving an instruction at a desired position, you can change the display content at which the cursor is located (for example, various modes, edited images, cropped images, etc.). range and each of the above-mentioned icons, etc.), or with the same tablet as the display contents of the CRT display device W124 (for example, various modes, edited images, cut-and-slice ranges, and each of the above-mentioned icons, etc.). be.

The above search data includes a search code (image name) consisting of a plurality of search keys, an image storage start track address on the optical disc 19 of image information corresponding to this search code,
It consists of the image storage start sector address and the number of image storage sectors (image length).

Next, the operation in such a configuration will be explained.

First, the operator uses two pointing devices to specify an image editing mode, and also specifies, for example, four screens (vertical display) as image editing areas. Then,
A desired image is selected using the pointing device 29, or a search code is entered using the keyboard to select and read image information stored on the optical disk 19 using the optical disk device 22. This read image information (A4
size) is stored in the storage area 14a corresponding to window A of the image memory 14 by the CPU 12. Further, a desired original is placed and read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20, and image information (A3
size) is stored by the CPU 12 in the storage area 14b corresponding to window B of the image memory 14. Similarly to the above, image information from the optical disc 19 or image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 (84 size, A
5 size) is stored in the storage area 14C114d of the image memory 14 corresponding to the window C1D. The storage areas 14a, 14b, 14c.

The image information stored in 14 (j is enlarged or reduced to a predetermined size by the enlargement/reduction circuit 31,
It is stored in storage areas 32a, 32b, 32c, and 32d.

As a result, the windows A1B, C,
Image information is displayed in D.

As a result, each window AS8. Various editing processes such as image enlargement, reduction, rotation, black and white inversion, and scrolling are performed independently on C1D.

A case will be described in which the contents of the display memory 32 are printed in such a state. That is, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to select (start) window A at the position of window A. Then, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to select "
Specify the icon i that instructs "Screen copy". Then, the CPU 12 determines the start address, end address, and image width of the storage area 32a of the display memory 32, and stores the storage content corresponding to the address, that is, the storage area 3.
The storage contents of 2a are read from the display memory 32 and supplied to the enlargement/reduction circuit 31.

Then, the enlargement/reduction circuit 31 enlarges the screen to the same size as the CR7 screen (A4 size) and increases the resolution to 16 pixels/
mm to 8 pixels/mm, and the converted image information is stored in the storage area 14e in the image memory 14. Then, the CPU 12 outputs the storage contents of the storage area 14e to the printer 25, and the printer 25 prints out the contents.

Further, a case will be described in which the contents of the image memory 14, that is, the original image corresponding to the window are printed. That is, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to
Select window A at the position of window A.Then, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to press 1 on the icon that indicates "from here".
An icon j indicating "printer" and an icon 1 indicating "here" are sequentially specified. Then, C.P.
U12 determines the start address, end address, and width of the image in the storage area 14a of the image memory 14, reads out the storage content corresponding to the address, that is, the storage content of the storage area 14a, from the image memory 14, and sends it to the enlargement/reduction circuit 3.
Supply to 1. Then, the scaling circuit 31 reduces the resolution to 1.
The image data is converted from 6 pixels/mm to 8 pixels/mm, and the converted image information is stored in the storage area 148 in the image memory 14.

Then, the CPU 12 outputs the storage contents of the storage area 148 to the printer 25, and the printer 25 prints out the contents.

As mentioned above, when printing the display contents of one window of a multi-window display on a CRT display device as is, conventionally, the multi-window display is changed to a single window display for printing and then the printout instruction is given. On the other hand, it is possible to issue an instruction to print out a single window while maintaining the multi-window display. This improves the operator's operability and allows printing out the multi-window while maintaining the display state of the multi-window on the CRT screen.

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which one print output is selected from four windows, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a case in which one print output is selected from two window displays can be implemented in the same manner. Further, although the case where one print output from four windows is selected has been described, the present invention is not limited to this, and the case where two or three print outputs are selected from the four window display states can be similarly implemented. For example, the display contents of two windows can be simultaneously printed out on one sheet of paper.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an image processing device that can print out a display image of at least one window in a multi-window in a single operation.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the overall configuration, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of storage in an image memory and an example of storage in a display memory, and FIG. The figure shows an example of a multi-window display. 11... Main control device, 12... CPU, 14...
Image memory, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d. 14e...Storage area, 19...Optical disk, 20
...Two-dimensional scanning device, 21... Original, 22... Optical disk device, 23... Keyboard, 24... CR
T display device, 25... printer, 29...
Pointing device, 32--Display memory, 32a,
32b. 32C132d...Storage area, A, B, C, D...
・Window, A-1B-1C", D'...frame icon, a~p...icon. Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] An image processing device having a multi-window function for displaying a plurality of pieces of image information on a display unit includes an image memory in which the plurality of pieces of image information are stored, and a storage content of each piece of image information in this image memory. A display memory whose size is changed to correspond to the display size of the window of the display section and stored, a processing means for editing the stored contents of the display memory, and at least one of multi-window display on the display section. an instruction means for instructing to print out display contents; a printing means for printing out the contents of the image memory or at least one display contents of a multi-window display instructed by the instruction means; and a multi-window display by the instruction means. When instructed to print out the display contents,
An image processing apparatus comprising: means for reading stored information processed by the corresponding processing means in the display memory and printing it out using the printing means.