JPH0351952A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate operation for editing a segmented image to size corresponding to an assignment range by displaying one of the range of image information to be cut and the assignment range in a display image plane of the cut image information in the other range according to the large-small relation between both the ranges. CONSTITUTION:The document processor is constituted including a keyboard 4a, a mouse 4b, an image scanner 6, a central control circuit 8, a display control circuit 2, a document memory 10, etc. After the image information to be edited is displayed on the screen, the range of the image information to be inserted into a document is specified and then the specified range is displayed; when the fetching range is larger than or equal to the assignment range, the assignment range is displayed in the fetching range. Further, when the insertion range is smaller than the assignment range, the assignment range is so displayed that the assignment includes the fetching range. Consequently, image information of size matching the assignment range can be segmented.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention enables editing of a document containing a mixture of character information and image information, and communication of this document via a telecommunication line, so-called mixed mode communication. Regarding document processing devices. [Prior art] Currently, the Japanese teletex device specified by Public Notice No. 196 of 1985 is recommended by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications as a document communication device that uses telecommunications lines. , facsimile machines represented by the Group 4 type specified by Notification No. 197 of 1985, and documents containing a mixture of text information and image information specified by Notification No. 198 of 1985. Mixed-mode terminal devices for communication have been put into practical use.In mixed-mode terminal devices, a document is divided into blocks, and the smallest unit of blocks, frames consisting of blocks or frames, pages consisting of blocks or frames, pages, or page sets are divided into blocks. It handles text information and image information efficiently by adopting a layout structure such as a page cent, a document consisting of pages or a set of pages, and handling text information and image information efficiently.These blocks, frames, pages, A layout unit such as a page set or a document is called a layout object.Furthermore, the content of a document (encoded image information or character information) connected to a block is defined as a text unit.

The mixed-mode terminal device has a word processor function that edits the character part including figures, and a necessary part of the image information read from the scanner and edits the image part by cutting out the required part of the image information and inserting it into the bronc of the layout object on the display screen. The document is edited using the image information editing function.

The image information editing function edits the range of blocks designated as layout objects in which image information is to be displayed in one predetermined quadrant of the coordinates with the origin set at the point determined as the first point of the image area to be cut out from the image information. The applicant has proposed a device for displaying frames (Patent Application No. 1983-240).
No. 310).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In a device equipped with the image information editing function as described above, the range frame of the block to be used as a reference for editing is set at a predetermined point of coordinates whose origin is the point specified as the first point of the image cropping area.
Since the structure is displayed in a quadrant, if the cutout area belongs to a quadrant different from the quadrant in which the block range frame is displayed,
There is a problem in that it is not possible to superimpose and compare the two images, and the image cut out based on the operator's intuition does not necessarily match the size of the block area.

Furthermore, when enlarging or reducing the cropping area to match the size of the block area, if the reference frame is not displayed overlapping the cropping area, it will not necessarily be enlarged or reduced at an appropriate magnification, and the enlargement will be different from what the operator intended.・There was a problem that the size was reduced.

The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and by displaying the document in such a way that the layout range on the display screen overlaps with the cropping range of image information, a size suitable for the layout range can be displayed. The purpose is to provide a document processing device that can extract image information. [Means for Solving the Problems] A document processing device of the present invention edits image information on a screen according to the size of an allocation range on a display screen of a document including at least image information, and uses the edited image information to means for specifying on the screen a range of image information to be incorporated into a document from among image information displayed on the screen for editing, and means for displaying the specified range of image information, in a document processing device that displays the image information at an allocation position If the range of the displayed image information is greater than or equal to the allocation range, the allocation range is displayed within the range of the displayed image information, and if the range of the displayed image information is smaller than the allocation range, the allocation range is displayed. , means for displaying the layout range so that the range of the image information is included within the layout range.

[Effect]

After setting the allocation range on the document display screen, the document processing device of the present invention displays the image information to be edited on the screen and specifies the range of the image information to be imported into the document.
In addition to displaying the specified range, if the import range is greater than or equal to the allocated range, the allocated range will be displayed within the import range, and if the import range is smaller than the allocated range, the import range will be included within the allocated range. Display the allocation range.

〔Example〕

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below based on drawings showing embodiments thereof.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a main mode communication terminal device which is a document processing device according to the present invention. 4 in the diagram
Reference numerals a and 4b denote a keyboard and a mouse for inputting information such as character information and instruction information during editing work, and the input information is provided via an interface 7 to a central control circuit 8 that controls the entire apparatus.

Image information is read by an image scanner 6 and provided to a central control circuit 8 via an interface 7. The central control circuit 8 performs various controls based on the given character information and instruction information. The terminal also has a CRT as a display device.
1 is provided, and the CRT 1 is controlled by a display control circuit 2 to display text and image information. The display control circuit 2 is controlled by a central control circuit 8 and is supplied with display data from a VRAM 3 that stores character and image information to be displayed on the CRTl.

The central control circuit 8 includes a system memory 9 in which a system program is stored, and a document memory 10 in which the created document and the attribute contents of each layout object are stored. The created document is sent from the central control circuit 8 to the telecommunications line via the communication circuit 11, and the document is sent to and received from other terminal devices.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of the layout structure of a mixed mode document. As shown in FIG. 2, the document starts from page P1, page PL consists of block B1 and frame F1, frame F1 consists of blocks B2 and 83,
Block B1, block B2. In B3, text UNISOTO Lll, UNISOTO U2, and UNISOTO U3, which are the contents of the document, are individually connected. FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing a state in which a document having the layout structure as shown in FIG. 2 is stored in the document memory IO. That is, a document profile descriptor, which is a set of attributes used to indicate the overall structure and expressive functions of a document, and a document profile descriptor, which is a layout object, and a page cent. Document layout descriptor and page set layout descriptor that indicate the attributes of pages, frames, and blocks (however,
In this example, there are no page cents, so they are not shown)
, a page layout descriptor, a frame layout descriptor, a block layout descriptor, and a text unit of document contents (character information and image information) connected to each block and stored.

The procedure for editing a document image in the above-described document processing apparatus will be described below. 4 and 5 are flowcharts showing the editing procedure executed according to the program stored in the system memory 9. FIG. Further, FIGS. 6 to 10 are examples of screen displays on the CRT 1.

Before you start editing, first check the layout. 6th
Select the layout mode in the icon display area 1i shown in the figure, and select the layout mode for frame F, the first frame, the first frame, the second frame, and so on. Third block 81, B2
, position and size of B3. Once attributes such as presentation attributes are determined, these attributes are stored in the document memory 10 as respective layout descriptors shown in FIG. When the position and size are determined by specifying two arbitrary points PL and P2 as shown in FIG. 6, for example, the range frame 1a of block B3 is displayed. First, second and third blocks Bl. The expression attributes of B2 and 83 are, in this order, figures, characters, and images (dot information).

Select block editing in the icon display area 1i (S1),
Move the mouse cursor lb into the area of block B3 where the image information is to be placed and click the left button of the mouse 4b to specify the block to be edited (S2>. After this specification, the attributes of block B3 are determined. (S3>, as shown in FIG. 7, the frame 1a of the specified block B3 is switched from a solid line display to a broken line display, and a message indicating the attribute of the block B3 is displayed at an appropriate position of the block B3, in the upper left corner in this embodiment. For example, in the text display, “Image J (l
c) Or, the attribute of block B3 is notified to the operator by a pictorial display, etc. (S4).Next, when the right button of the mouse 4b is pressed (S5), the broken line display in the frame 1a returns to a solid line display. At the same time, the display of the attribute message is erased (S6), and the process moves to S2.

Further, if the left button of the mouse 4b is clicked in S5, the process shifts to image editing (37). In image editing, when an image is captured by the image scanner 6, the captured image is displayed on the display screen (SI5).

An instruction is given to cut out the image (S16), and a first point Q1 for cutting out is determined as shown in FIG. 8 (S17). When the first point Q1 for cutting out is determined, a reference frame 1d indicating the area of block B3 with the first point Q1 as the reference point is displayed with a broken line in a predetermined quadrant on the coordinates with the first point Q as the origin. (
3 18). Next, when the mouse cursor lb is moved, the previously determined lth point Q1 and the current mouse cursor lb
A rectangular clipping frame 1g whose diagonal line is the position of A new reference frame 1f having the l-th point Q as one vertex is displayed as a broken line in the same quadrant as the moved quadrant (S19). mouse cursor 1b
, and click the left button of the mouse 4b at the position of the second point Q2, which has reached the desired cutting area, and a rectangular area whose diagonal is the line connecting the first point Q and the second point Q2 is created as the cutting area. It is determined (S20). When the cropping area is determined, the reference frame 1f and the cropping frame 1g are displayed in the same quadrant of coordinates with the first point Ql as the origin, so that the operator can easily compare the sizes of the two. If the sizes of the reference frame 1f and the cropping frame 1g are the same, the image of the cropping frame 1g will remain the same according to the operator's instruction to make it the same magnification, and if the sizes of both are different, the operator will change the cropped image to match the size of the bronc B3. When a magnification is specified, the image in the clipping frame 1g is enlarged or reduced, and the cropped image Gl is displayed on the pronk B3 as shown in FIG. 10 (521).

When the image editing is completed, the process returns to 814 (Fig. 4) to end the editing or return to the main routine. Also, edit the block 81 whose expression attribute is "figure" with i! !
If the block 81 is selected, the attribute of the block 81 is determined (S3), and t
The frame of the fixed block B1 is switched from a solid line display to a broken line display, and the attribute of this block 81 is displayed in a suitable position within the frame as text or a picture to inform the operator of the attribute (S8).

Next, click the right button of mouse 4b (S5)
, the broken line display of the frame 1a returns to the solid line display, and the display of the attribute message is erased (S6), and the process moves to S2. Further, if the left button of the mouse 4b is clicked in S5, the process shifts to figure editing (S7).

In figure editing, the operator creates a straight line in block Bl. When a figure such as a circle is drawn, the figure data is stored in the document memory 10 as position and vector information.

In addition, Brofuku B whose expression attribute is "character"
When editing No. 2 is selected, the attribute of block B2 is determined (S3). The subsequent steps are the same as those in block 81 described above, but in character editing: When the operator writes a character in block B2, the character information displayed in block B2 is stored in the document memory IO as code information. Although the present embodiment has been described with respect to a mixed mode communication terminal device, the present invention is not limited to this, and a document file device. It can also be used with word processors, etc., and has the same effect. Furthermore, in this embodiment, the sizes of the bronc region and the cutout region are displayed using frames, but the display is not limited to frames, and may be displayed with different densities or colors within the regions. The same effect as in the example can be obtained.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the designated block frame is displayed with one point of the designated block frame and the first point of the designated cutting frame as a common point, but the invention is not limited to this, and the two can be visually and intuitively compared. If possible, the display may be displayed at the center of each area.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the document processing device of the present invention, one of the ranges of image information to be cut out and the allocation range of the cut out image information on the display screen is displayed within the range of the other according to the size relationship between the range of the image information to be cut out and the allocation range of the cut out image information on the display screen. This has excellent effects in that relationships can be grasped intuitively and editing of cut-out images to a size that matches the layout range is facilitated.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a document layout structure, FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure in memory, and FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a document layout structure. 5 is a flowchart showing the procedure of image editing by the apparatus of the present invention, and FIGS. 6 to 10 are display examples thereof. ■...CRT 2...Display control circuit 3...V
RAM4a...Keyboard 4b...Mouse 5.
...Printer 6...Image scanner 7...Interface 8...Central control circuit 9...System memory IO...Document memory 11...Communication circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document processing device that edits image information on a screen according to the size of an allocation range on a display screen of a document including at least image information, and displays the edited image information at a corresponding allocation position. , a means for specifying on the screen a range of image information to be imported into a document from among the image information displayed on the screen for editing, a means for displaying the specified range of image information, and a range of the displayed image information. is larger than or equal to the allocation range, the allocation range is displayed within the range of the displayed image information, and if the range of the displayed image information is smaller than the allocation range, the image information is displayed within the allocation range. 1. A document processing device comprising: means for displaying an allocation range so that the range is included.