JPH044667A - Facsimile equipment with edit function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To extract plural a valid picture area or to edit a moving plate at one original reading by using an edit point out section so as to point out one or plural valid picture areas and pointing out each moving destination. CONSTITUTION:An original is placed on a coordinate input panel 71, a source key is depressed and a stylus pen 74 points out an original area desired to be extracted. When the operation is repeated for plural number of times, the valid picture area for plural positions is pointed out. A reader 1 stores information by one page of the original into a page storage device 2. When the storage is finished, valid picture areas A, B, C are extracted from the page storage device 2 by the operation of the CPU 6, and they are respectively fed to a compression/expansion section 4, where they are encoded and stored in a storage device 5. Then the CPU 6 reads a full white level initial file and the result is expanded in the compression/expansion section 4. Then the file of the stored valid picture areas A, B, C is read sequentially and expanded by the compression/expansion section 4 and expanded into the original extraction area.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and in particular to a facsimile machine that allows multiple editing operations to be performed on multiple parts of document information by just reading a document once. This invention relates to a facsimile machine with an editing function.

(Prior art) As a conventional image processing device of this type, for example,
Some of them are disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-49781, Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-43944, etc.

The techniques disclosed in these publications set an effective image area in advance, and when an image reading device reads a document image, an image reading signal corresponding to the effective area is extracted. The purpose is to delete unnecessary information outside the area.

According to this invention, when there is unnecessary information in an image read by an image reading device, there is no need for manual work such as cutting out the unnecessary information or pasting a blank paper on top of it and having it read by the image reading device, which is convenient. It is.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, according to the above-mentioned conventional technology, extraction can only be performed once per − number of document readings. There is a problem that the same document must be read, which makes the operation cumbersome and time-consuming.

In addition, we can extract effective image areas from multiple locations from the same document,
If an attempt was made to add processing such as movement to this, there would be a problem in that the same document would have to be read multiple times, similar to the above.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the problems of the conventional device described above,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus with an editing function that can perform editing such as extraction or movement of a plurality of effective image areas in one document reading operation.

(Means and Effects for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an editing instruction section for instructing an effective image area of a document image, an instruction for moving the document image, etc. a page storage means for storing image information; a compression section for encoding and compressing an effective image area of the original image information; a storage means for storing the image information compressed by the compression section as a file; The present invention includes a means for writing white image information into the entire area, a decompression section that decompresses the image information from the storage means and returns it to image information, and an output section that outputs the decompressed image information in a visible state. It has characteristics.

According to this invention, the editing instruction section specifies one or more valid image areas, and also specifies the respective movement destinations. Thereafter, when the original image information is read, the read original image information is stored in the page storage means. Next, the effective image area is sequentially compressed by the compression unit and stored as a file in the storage means. Thereafter, the page storage means is completely whitened, and then the compressed image information is read out from the storage means. Then, the image information is restored to the original image information by the decompression means and stored in the completely whitened page storage means. Then, the output unit outputs it in a visible form. Or sent by facsimile.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a reading device that reads a document;
Reference numeral 2 represents a page storage device that stores one page of manuscript information, and 3 represents a recording device such as a printer.

Further, 4 is a compression/expansion unit, 5 is a storage device, 6 is a CPU, and 7
is an editing instruction section, 8 is a transmitter/receiver section, 9 is a ROM, and 10 is an RA
It is M.

FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a specific example of the reading device 1 and the editing instruction section 7. As shown in FIG. The reading device 1 and the editing instruction section 7 are constructed integrally, and the reading device 1 is formed from a document guide section 11 and a reading section 12.

The editing instruction section 7 also includes a coordinate input board 71, operation keys 72,
, a display section 73, a stylus pen 74, and the like. These operation keys include a source key for specifying the area to be extracted, a destination key for specifying the destination area, a movement key for specifying movement editing, a marking key, an end key, etc. .

Now, when the apparatus of this embodiment extracts a plurality of valid image areas from a document, the plurality of valid image areas are inputted from the square editing instruction section 7.

Specifically, the user places the original on the coordinate input board 71, then presses the source key and uses the stylus pen 74 to indicate the area of the original to be extracted. At this time, when two points are specified with the stylus pen 74, the rectangular area defined by the points becomes a valid image area. If this operation is repeated multiple times, multiple valid image areas will be designated.

When this instruction is completed, a print key (not shown) is operated next. Note that this print key operation may be performed before the valid image area is specified.

Then, the reading device 1 starts the operation of reading the original,
Information for one page of the original is stored in the page storage device 2. FIG. 3 shows the manuscript information stored in the page storage device 2, A, B
, C indicates the effective image area designated by the above operation.

When the reading device 1 finishes reading the original, the CPU 6
As a result of the operation, the effective image areas A, B, and C are stored in the page storage device 2.
, and each is sent to the compression/expansion unit 4 and encoded (compressed). The document information of the effective image areas ASB and ASB, C compressed in this way is stored in the storage device 5 as a file. Further, the storage device 5 stores in advance an initial file for generating an image that makes one screen of the page storage device 2 completely white.

Next, the CPU 6 reads the initial file with one screen completely white, and decompresses it in the compression/decompression section 4.

Then, all white data is developed in the page storage device 2, and the page storage device 2 is initialized.

Subsequently, the CPU 6 sequentially reads out the files of the valid image areas A, B, .

When this expansion is completed, all data in the page storage device 2 is read out and output to the recording device 3. As a result, it is possible to print out an image in which a plurality of effective image areas A, B, and C are extracted from the original document.

3. On the other hand, if the operator performs a facsimile transmission operation after or before instructing the plurality of valid image areas, the CPU 6 compresses the valid image areas A, B, and C using the compression/expansion unit 4. After that, do not store it in the storage device 5,
It is output to the transmitter/receiver section 8.

As a result, the extracted image information A, B, and C can be transmitted to the communication partner.

As described above, according to this embodiment, it is possible to extract a plurality of effective image areas by reading the document - times.

Note that the above operation is just an extraction process, so I did not specify the destination, but even if you press the same coordinates on the top left of the source after pressing the destination key to specify the destination. good.

Next, an editing operation for moving a plurality of effective image areas extracted from one page of a document to arbitrary positions using the apparatus of this embodiment will be described.

First, in the same manner as above, place the original on the coordinate input board 71, then press the source key and press the stylus pen 71.
In step 4, specify the document area (source) that you want to extract. next,
Press the destination key and use the stylus pen 74 to indicate the desired position. This instruction only requires one point. By repeating this several times, it is possible to extract a plurality of valid image areas and specify the destination of each. Assume now that the extracted effective image areas are A, B, and C in FIG. 3, and the designated destinations are A', B', and C' in FIG. 4. These coordinates are stored in RAM10.

When the input of the instruction of the effective image area to be extracted and the instruction of the movement destination is completed, and the operator operates the print key (not shown), the CPU 6, in the same way as above, prints a video from the inside of the read document information. Image regions A, B, . Next, the document information of the effective image areas A, B, and C compressed in this manner is converted into a file and stored in the storage device 5, respectively.

Next, the CPU 6 reads out the initial file of one screen completely white, initializes the page storage device 2 to all white, and then sequentially reads the files of effective image areas A, B, and C from the storage device 5, The data is expanded by the compression/decompression unit 4 and expanded to the destination points A'', B', and C'. At this time, points A\B' and C' are expanded as the starting addresses.

Note that the present invention is not limited to this, and the points A-1B' and C'
The effective image areas A and BSC may be developed around , or other development methods may be used.

When the above operation is performed, the effective image areas A, B%C are developed in the page storage device 2 in the form shown in FIG.

When the expansion to the page storage device 2 is completed, the CPU 6 reads out all data from the page storage device 2 and outputs it to the recording device 3.

As a result, multiple effective image areas A, B, and C are created from the original document.
can be extracted and moved to points A', B', and C', respectively, and an image can be printed out.

On the other hand, if the operator performs a facsimile transmission operation after extracting the plurality of valid image areas and instructing the destination, the image information shown in FIG. 4 will be transmitted to the communication partner.

The above operations can be used to extract multiple areas from a single document,
Although the processing involved moving the document, it is also possible to extract a necessary area from a plurality of documents and perform editing processing such as moving the area.

For example, as shown in FIG.
．． It is possible to extract the effective image area ASB from 22, combine it into one screen 23, move it to destination A-1B' and print it out with a recording device, or send it to the other party. .

In this operation, the source and destination are specified for each original, the reading device 1 reads the original, and a compressed file is created in the storage device 5. After the reading is completed, by operating the print or send key, the image 23 shown in FIG. 5 can be printed out or sent.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this example, editing processing of enlargement or reduction is added to the operation of the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of this embodiment, which differs from FIG. 1 in that an enlargement/reduction section 41 is provided between the page storage device 2 and the compression/expansion section 4.

First, the operation of the CPU 6 to designate an editing area will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 7 and FIG. 8.

FIG. 8 shows that effective image areas A, B, and C are extracted from three pages of manuscripts 31, 32, and 33, respectively, and one screen 34 is extracted.
A conceptual diagram is shown in which the A', B', and C' areas are reduced and edited, and the operation of this embodiment will be described below assuming this conceptual diagram.

In the editing area instruction, the CPU 6 performs processing as shown in FIG.

The CPU 6 first selects the source coordinate points (Xal, Yal), (X
a2. Ya2) (i.e. area A) in RAM1
0 (step Sl). Next, the destination coordinate point (Xal', Yalo), (Xa2°.

Ya2') is registered in RAMl0 (step S2)
. Next, it is determined whether there is an instruction for another area,
If the answer is yes, the process returns to step S1 and the instruction for the second area is registered. On the other hand, when step S3 is negative,
Proceeding to step S4, it is determined whether there is an instruction for the next page.

If this determination is affirmative, the process advances to step S1, and an operation for registering the source coordinate point (area B) and destination coordinate point of the second page document 32 is performed.

After the above operations are repeated, if the judgment in step S4 becomes negative, the editing area instruction operation ends.

Next, the operation of the editing process of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

As described above, when the operator instructs the editing area (step s1), a coordinate table is created (step S2). An example of the coordinate table is shown in FIG. 10(a). As is clear from the figure, files are formed in the coordinate table for each effective image area, and source coordinates and destination coordinates are registered for each file. Furthermore, data on whether or not to print and whether or not to send is also registered.

The CPU 6 then calculates magnifications XR and YR in the X1Y directions from the source coordinate point and the destination coordinate point, respectively (step S3).

It is preferable to perform this calculation for each file number in FIG. 10(a).

Next, it is determined where in the storage device 5 the file of the read document is to be stored (step S4).

That is, the storage address is determined as shown in FIG. 10(b).

Next, an operation of reading the original is performed (step S5).
. When the read manuscript information is stored in the page storage device 2, the CPU 6 reads out the effective image area of the manuscript information to the compression/expansion section 4 and causes it to perform a compression operation (step S6).

The compressed data is stored in the file storage area (see step S4) of the storage device 5 (step S7).

At this time, the storage byte amount shown in FIG. 10(b) is registered in the file table.

Next, it is determined whether or not there is another source area, that is, a valid image area, and if it is affirmative, the process returns to step S6 to perform a compression operation on another valid image area.

If step S8 is negative, proceed to step S9,
A determination is made as to whether there is a next page. In the example in Figure 8,
Since there are three pages of originals, the answer to step S9 is affirmative, the process returns to step S4, and the second page is processed in the same manner as described above.

When the compression operation is performed on the effective image area of all the pages of the planned manuscript and these are stored in the storage device 5,
Step S9 becomes negative, and the process proceeds to step S10. In step SIO, similarly to the first embodiment, the CPU 6 reads out the initial file with one screen completely white from the storage device 5, and initializes the page storage device 2 to a blank page. Next, a file area to be read from the storage device 5 is determined (step 511), and the magnifications XR and YR obtained in step S3 are set in the enlargement/reduction unit 41 (step 512). Subsequently, the compression/expansion unit 4 is instructed to perform a decompression operation (step 513), and the compressed data of the effective image area stored in the storage device 5 is read out (step 514).

As a result, the read compressed data is expanded by the compression/expansion unit 4 and reduced by the expansion/contraction unit 41, and the page storage device 2
and stored at that destination (step 515).

Next, it is determined whether there is another source (step 516), and if the answer is yes, the process returns to step Sll and the file area to be read from the storage device 5 is determined again. Thereafter, the process is repeated until step S16 becomes negative, and when step S16 becomes negative, the process advances to step S17 to determine whether there is a print instruction, or to step S19 to determine whether or not there is a transmission instruction. be exposed.

If the determination in step S17 is affirmative, an output instruction is given to the recording device 3, and data is output from the page storage device 2 (step 518). On the other hand, when there is a transmission instruction (step S19 is affirmative), the data in the page storage device 2 is read out again, compressed by the compression/expansion section 4, and outputted via the transmission/reception section 8 (step 520).

As described above, according to the second embodiment, effective image areas at multiple locations are extracted from each of multiple manuscripts in − times of document reading operations, and editing such as moving, scaling, etc. is performed on the valid image areas. I can do it.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, there is an effect that editing such as extraction or movement of a plurality of effective image areas can be performed in − times of document reading operation.

In addition, it is possible to extract effective image areas at a plurality of locations from each of a plurality of originals and edit them by moving, enlarging or reducing them, etc., by performing the document reading operation - times.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram of the effective image area of the manuscript; Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the destination of the effective image area; Figure 5 is an illustration of the image extracted from multiple manuscripts. 6, which is an explanatory diagram for editing this into one image, is the second embodiment of the present invention.
A block diagram of the embodiment, FIG. 7 is a flowchart of editing instructions, FIG. 8 is a schematic explanatory diagram of the operation of the second embodiment, and FIG.
The figure is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the second embodiment, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a source table and a file table. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Reading device, 2... Page storage device, 3... Recording device, 4... Compression/expansion unit, 5... Storage device, 7...
Edit instruction section, 8...transmission/reception section, Fig. 1, Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6, Fig. 7, Fig. 8, Fig. 10 (source table).

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An editing instruction section for instructing the effective image area of a manuscript image and its movement destination; a page storage means for storing read manuscript image information; and an encoding unit for storing the valid image area of the manuscript image information. a compression unit that converts and compresses the image information; a storage unit that stores the image information compressed by the compression unit as a file; a unit that writes blank image information to all of the page storage unit; and a unit that decompresses the image information from the storage unit. and an output section that outputs the expanded image information in a visible state. Facsimile machine with editing function. (2) The image information is further provided with an enlargement/reduction section that enlarges or reduces the image information in accordance with the effective image area and movement destination data inputted by the editing instruction section after the image information is expanded by the expansion section. A facsimile apparatus with an editing function according to claim (1).