JPH053560A - Electronic publishing system, electronic diary, electronic album, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] Image data can be recorded using an electronic recording medium such as DAT. [Structure] Using the DAT deck 16, the CPU 10 processes the image data read from the image scanner 12,
Record each date on the DAT tape. In this case, a diary can be added by inputting a voice from the microphone 20 and a sentence from the keyboard according to the date. or,
An electronic album can be configured by recording an arbitrary number of image data for each date.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic publishing system, an electronic diary, an electronic album, and a recording medium for recording and reading image data on a recording medium such as a digital audio tape.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an audio recording medium, a digital audio tape (Digital) for recording an audio signal as a digital signal.
Audio Tape (abbreviated as DAT hereinafter) system has been developed and put to practical use as a voice recording medium for consumer audio equipment.

On the other hand, today's hard disks of computers have a large capacity, and 500 Mbyte (megabyte) to 1 Gby.
Those with a capacity of te (gigabyte) have come into practical use. Along with this, there is an increasing demand for a larger capacity of the computer peripheral equipment for backup which records the data of this hard disk.

Therefore, the DAT has been developed for use as a peripheral device for recording data signals of a computer. This is because the storage capacity of DAT is 90
This is because it has an extremely large capacity of about 0 megabyte (Mbyte). For example, computer data may be sequentially stored and used for hard disk backup or the like, or data may be recorded in a randomly accessible manner and used for recording character data of a book.

[0005]

However, the developed system is for recording the data signal and character signal of the computer as described above.

On the other hand, in a photograph taken with a still camera, it is inconvenient to handle and organize the film or photograph as it is, and therefore it is desired to record it as an image signal on a recording medium. Further, it is convenient if character data (text data) and voice data can be recorded together with the photographic image. In such a case, it is conceivable to take a picture image and record sound with a video camera. However, such a video camera has a main purpose of recording a moving image, and is inferior in resolution due to the small number of pixels, and is suitable for recording an image such as a photograph in a clear state. It's not something. It is also unsuitable for freely reading and recording using the date as an index.

On the other hand, it is conceivable to use the DAT as a still image data storage device, but it is only possible to record a photographic image, and when the date was recorded as an index, or a desired text was recorded. There was also a problem that it was not possible to respond to requests such as recording.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an electronic publishing system and an electronic publishing system in which a user can freely record image data using an electronic recording medium such as DAT and freely reproduce it. It is an object to provide a diary, an electronic album, and a recording medium.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above problems by using a digital audio tape for recording image data.

Further, the present invention includes an image recording unit for recording image data, a voice recording unit for recording voice data, and a text recording unit for recording text data, and for each date. The above problem is solved by making it possible to record image data, audio data, and text data.

The present invention also solves the above problems by making it possible to record at least image data and date data.

Further, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by having a data structure composed of a portion for recording literary calendar data and a portion for recording album data for each year.

[0013]

In order to clearly record an image such as a photograph, it is necessary to convert the image into a large amount of digital data. A large-capacity recording medium is required to record such large-capacity image data together with date data, text data, and the like. A recording medium satisfying such requirements is, for example, a CD-ROM.
(Compact disc read only memory) This CD-ROM has a storage capacity of about 550M today.
There are bytes, and it is possible to record a certain number of image data. However, this CD-RO
At present, M can only be read out, and it is difficult to produce in a small lot. Therefore, it is difficult to use M for free writing and reading of image data.

Therefore, the inventor has conceived to use DAT for recording the image data. This DAT has today's storage capacity of about 920 Mbytes, and the CD-R
It has about twice the capacity of OM. Further, both writing and reading of data are possible. At the same time, it has a feature that small-lot production is easy according to the user's demand. In addition, DAT has a small tape size,
This has the advantage that internal authoring (editing / processing) is possible.

In addition, an electronic diary is constructed in which a photographic image is read and recorded in the recording device such as the DAT by a scanner, for example, and the explanation of the photograph can be recorded for each date together with text such as voice and characters. I thought of that. For example, when used for recording such as sound recording, a photographic image can be read by a scanner and recorded for each date, and later, voice data or text data for explaining the image can be recorded for each date.
This date can be used as an index to freely search and read. Further, since the information can be rewritten, it is possible to rewrite the image data or the like on a desired date.

Further, if at least the image data and date data can be recorded in the electronic album, a large number of image data can be recorded on a desired date, and the recording device can be used as an album to paste photos. You can

Further, it is possible to configure a recording medium having a data structure including a literary calendar portion for preliminarily storing image data of the literary calendar according to the date and a portion for recording image data according to the date. it can.

DAT can be used for any of the electronic diary, electronic album, and data structure.
Further, various recording devices other than DAT can be used as long as they are readable and writable recording devices. For example, CD-
If the ROM is writable, it can be used.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

This embodiment is an electronic publishing system having a structure as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, this system mainly comprises a CPU 10, an image scanner 12, an interface board 14, a DAT deck 16, an audio board 18, a microphone 20, a speaker 22, and a disk. And a press 24. This system has an album function consisting of images, texts, and voices for 5 years, in which data of "year record" for 1 year is recorded in advance on a DAT tape by, for example, a vendor (provider etc.). It is possible for the user to specify the date of reproduction or recording and what kind of processing (reproduction or recording) is to be performed. Furthermore, according to this specification, reproduction or reproduction of the album data on the specified date is possible. The recording process is performed.

The CPU 10 has an image scanner 12
The image data input in step 2, the voice data input through the microphone 20, and the text data input through a keyboard (not shown) are recorded in the DAT deck 16 or read from the deck 16 and displayed on the display 24. is there. As the CPU 10, for example, a commercially available 32-bit personal computer equipped with image and sound software can be used.

The CPU 10 of the embodiment has two VRAMs for temporarily storing DAT tape data. This VRA
M has a storage area for a front screen (screen that is displayed) and a back screen (screen that is not displayed). The time data data image data is read in the front screen, and voice and text data are read in the back screen. Moreover, the CPU 10 cannot read the palette information (information about which 16 colors out of 4096 colors are displayed) that can use 16 colors out of 4096 colors.
Therefore, in order to avoid this, V
An area for recording pallet information is set in a portion of the RAM where no image is displayed. When reading an image from the DAT deck 16, palette information is acquired from the area, and when writing an image, palette information is written together with the image.

The image scanner 12 optically reads an image such as a photograph to be recorded, converts it into digital data, and reads the data-converted image into the CPU 10.

The interface board 14 is a CPU
This is for exchanging signal data between the 10 and the DAT deck 16.

The DAT deck 16 is for storing image data, audio data, and text data as digital data on a DAT tape and reading the data.

The voice board 18 has a microphone 2 for the CPU.
The audio signal of 0 is input as, for example, a PCM signal, or the speaker 2 outputs the audio signal output from the CPU 10.
This is for making the 2 output voice.

The display 24 is for displaying the image and text data read from the DAT deck 16.

In the electronic publishing system of the embodiment, D
Data is read / written on the AT tape in units of 128 × 10 ³ bytes per frame. In this case, one frame is used for each of the literary calendar data, the image data, the text data, and the voice data for each day, and therefore four frames are used per day. If the number of frames that can be recorded on one DAT tape is, for example, 7200 frames, then 7200/4 =
In 1800 days, about 5 years worth of data can be stored.

The literary calendar data is data of a composite image of an image and a text representing the feature of each month and day, and is stored in advance on the DAT tape for one year (365 days). For example, as shown in FIG. 2, if it is May 5, the image data is composed of a picture of "carp streamer" and characters of "dango no sekku".

For the image data, the screen is input in the one frame 1, and one screen has 640 horizontal × 400 vertical dots.

The text data can record, for example, 60,000 characters per frame.

The audio data is, for example, PCM recording with sampling data of 16 kHz and a recording level doubled. It is possible to record for 16 seconds per frame. Note that 32 seconds of voice is recorded in the CPU 10 during recording, and 16 seconds of the recorded voice is extracted and recorded on the DAT tape during editing.

In the system of this embodiment, DA
For each T-tape, 7200 sheets can be recorded with only image data, about 400 million characters can be recorded with only text data, and data for 32 hours can be recorded with only voice data.

The structure of the data on the DAT tape will be described.

In the DAT tape, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, a yearly recording part recorded in advance on the DAT tape by a vendor and a user records image data, text data, and audio data from 1986 to 1990. It has a recording area for recording an album.

In this DAT tape, for example, Y year M
The frame X in which the data of the date D is written is defined by the following formula.

The data frame X1 in which the yearly calendar data of each month and day of the calendar is recorded is defined by the following equation (1).

[0039]

[Equation 1]

Further, in the album section, the frame X2 in which the audio data is recorded is the following expression (2), the frame X3 in which the image data is recorded is the following expression (3), and the frame X4 in which the text data is recorded is next. It is defined by the equation (4).

[0041]

[Equation 2]

[0042]

[Equation 3]

[0043]

[Equation 4]

A dummy area is provided between the yearly calendar data section and the 1986 albums, and between each year's albums.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

In the system of this embodiment, recording of voice data, image data and text data which the user records in the album section is performed according to the procedure shown in FIG.

First, the power is turned on (step 1). That is, the DAT deck 16 and the CPU 10 are powered on. As a result, when the DAT deck 16 becomes operable, the DAT tape is mounted on the deck 16.

Next, the system is initialized (step 2).

In this case, rewind the DAT tape,
Initialize the system including the CPU 10. That is, today's date is grasped, data is initialized, and the CPU 10
The screen displayed on the display 24 is the initial screen.

Then, a calendar is displayed (step 3).

That is, the calendar of this month is displayed. The initial setting value (default value) of the date is today's date. Also, referring to the date in the display calendar, the date is selected with a mouse or the like. The date is used as an index for displaying and writing data in the album section in the following steps. In addition, the calendar can display the month of any year. In other words, in addition to reading and writing to the today's date (year, month, day) album section, the day other than today, the month other than this month, and the year other than this year can be arbitrarily selected. You can select and read and write. Also, the end of read and write operations can be selected.

Next, the literary calendar is displayed (step 4).

That is, the literary calendar data (one frame of the image) of the selected date is displayed. Further, with respect to the displayed literary calendar date, it is possible to move to an arbitrary date, for example, yesterday and one month ago today, and the literary calendar data of the date can be displayed.

Then, an album display or the like is performed (step 5).

That is, first, today's album data, that is, data recorded in each frame of image, voice, and text is displayed and output from the display 24 and the speaker 22.

An example of the screen displayed on the display 24 is shown in FIG. Reference numeral A in FIG. 5 is image data, B is text data, and C is a date.

Further, it is possible to select either the operation of moving the date, writing the album, or returning to the calendar display of step 3. If album writing is selected, it is selected which of image, voice and text is to be input (step 6).

Then, according to the selection, an image such as a photograph is input from the image scanner 12, text data such as a diary sentence is input from the keyboard, and voice is input from the microphone 20 (step 7).

The image data text data and voice data respectively input are DAT via the interface board 14 in the form of digital data in accordance with a command from the CPU 10.
Record on DAT tape in deck 16.

When the input of each data to the album portion of the desired date is completed, the process returns to step 5 and the album writing after the next day can be selected. If it is desired to end the album writing, the return operation is selected, and the end operation is selected in step 3 to end the procedure (step 8).

It should be noted that in the above-described embodiment, DA is used as the electronic diary in the data structure of FIG. 3 according to the flow chart shown in FIG.
Text data, audio data, and image data are recorded on the T-tape, but when the present invention is carried out, the procedure and data structure are not limited to those shown in these figures. For example, it is possible to configure an electronic album in which the time stamp data, voice data, and text data are eliminated and only date data is displayed, and a desired number of image data can be recorded on the date.

Further, although a readable and writable recording medium is required to record image data, audio data, and text data, it is not limited to using DAT. For example, a video tape or a readable / writable CD-ROM can be used.

[0063]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain an excellent effect that it is possible to construct a very convenient electronic diary or the like in which an image or the like can be written and read for each date.

When the electronic diary is constructed by using the DAT tape, the diary data consisting of images, texts and voices for 5 years can be recorded on one DAT tape.
Therefore, since reading and writing can be arbitrarily performed, it is easy to handle, and since diary data for 5 years can be recorded on one DAT tape, the data can be stored without taking up a space.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an electronic diary system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing an example of an image of literary calendar data displayed by the system of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an example of a data structure stored in a DAT unit of the system of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a read and write procedure for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an example of the contents of a diary which is also displayed on the display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Central processing unit (CPU), 12 ... Image scanner, 14 ... Interface board, 16 ... DAT deck, 18 ... voice board, 20 ... Mike, 22 ... speaker, 24 ... Display.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic publishing system using a digital audio tape for recording image data. 2. An image recording unit for recording image data, a voice recording unit for recording voice data, and a text recording unit for recording text data, wherein image data and voice data are recorded for each date. An electronic diary that can record data and text data. 3. An electronic album capable of recording at least image data and date data. 4. A recording medium having a data structure comprising a portion for recording year-end-year data and a portion for recording album data for each year.