JPH0567111A - Method and device for editing image - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] Specify one document from a document file that stores multiple documents, and easily display the name and size of the image data pasted in the document in the image data list in reverse video. Provided is an image editing method and device characterized by being selectable. Further, there is provided an image editing method and apparatus characterized in that only the name and size of image data of a designated document can be highlighted and selected easily. Further, the present invention provides an image editing method and apparatus characterized in that the name and size of the image data of a specified document are displayed in reverse in the image data list and the total number of image data is displayed so that the image data can be easily selected.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image editing method and apparatus capable of pasting and storing image data on a document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of method and apparatus, when it is desired to select only the image data pasted in a certain document, the image data registered in the present system as shown in FIG. The image data list window 20 for displaying a list of all of the above is displayed, and the user himself / herself selects the image data pasted in the desired document from the window according to the stored image data name. ..

[0003]

However, in the above-described method and apparatus, unless the user himself / herself remembers the names of all the image data pasted in the document, they are pasted in the document. There is a problem that only the image data cannot be selected.

[0004]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention stores a plurality of documents, stores images contained in the stored plurality of documents, and stores the stored image data names. A list is displayed, the correspondence between documents and images managed in page units is stored, a desired document in the stored document is designated, and based on the stored correspondence, in the list, (EN) Provided is an image editing method and device which display an image data name included in a designated document so as to be distinguishable from other image data names.

Further, in the above method and apparatus, selection is made to display a list of image data names included in the documents designated by the document designating means in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storing means. It also has an image data name display means.

Further, in the above method and apparatus, a counting means for counting the number of image data in the document designated by the document designating means in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storing means. It also has image data number display means for displaying the total number of image data counted by the counting means.

[0007]

By providing each of the above means, the image data name included in the document designated by the document designating means in the list on the basis of the correspondence stored in the correspondence storing means is replaced with another image data. It is displayed so that it can be distinguished from the name, and it is possible to easily select it.

[0008]

【Example】

[Embodiment 1] An embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. As long as the functions of the present invention are executed, it may be a single device, a system including a plurality of devices, or a system in which processing is performed via a network such as a LAN. It goes without saying that the present invention is applied.

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of an image processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is the system
It is a bus, and each building block to be described below is connected to this system bus. 2 is a CPU (Cent
Ral Processing Unit). Three
Is a program memory (hereinafter referred to as PMEM), which is shown in FIG.
The programs for various editing processes including the processing procedure shown in the flowchart of FIG. 9 are selectively read from the hard disk 14 and executed by the second CPU. Further, the data input from the keyboard 8 is stored as code information in the PMEM which is also a text memory. 4 is an image memory (hereinafter referred to as IMEM), 5 is an image memory
A scanner, 6 is an image input / output control unit, and 7 is a printer. The image data read from the image scanner 5 is expanded in the IMEM 4 and then expanded in the VRAM 11 and displayed on the CRT 13. The print image is expanded as bitmap data in IMEM 4 and then output to the printer 7 by the control of the image input / output control unit 6. Reference numeral 8 is an input control unit, which is a keyboard 9
An input device such as a 0 pointing device (hereinafter referred to as PD) is connected. The operator operates the keyboard 9 to issue a system operation command or the like. Also P
D10 is for selecting image information and instructing processing on the 13 CRT, and a mouse is used in this embodiment. As a result, the mouse cursor on the CRT 13 is arbitrarily moved in the X and Y directions to select menus, select image data and graphic data, and edit. 11 is a video image
A memory (hereinafter referred to as VRAM), 12 is a display output control unit, and 13 is a CRT. The data displayed on the 13 CRT is expanded as bitmap data on the 11 VRAM. For example, if it is graphic data, its position,
A graphic pattern corresponding to the attribute information is expanded on the VRAM, and the cursor can be directly generated and displayed in the display area of the VRAM by software control. Reference numeral 14 denotes an external storage device control unit, and 15 and 16 are disks for data files, which are a document 90, image data 91 attached to the document, and correspondence management for managing correspondence between a document managed in page units and image data. Information 92, file management information 93 for managing files of documents and image data, and reverse management information 94 for managing image data to be displayed in reverse are stored. FIG. 12 shows this state.

The correspondence management information includes the name of image data corresponding to each page of each document, vertical and horizontal sizes, display position,
Contains the file name of the image in the document. The file management information includes the file name corresponding to each document and each image, the address on the memory, the size of each document and each image. In addition, the inversion management information determines the image data in the selected document in the image data list, and according to the determination result,
The plug indicating whether to invert each field is stored.

For example, 15 is a hard disk (hereinafter HD
16 is a floppy disk (hereinafter referred to as F).
It is referred to as D).

The operation of the embodiment having the above structure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When an instruction to display a list of image data recorded in the system is issued from the keyboard 9, an image data list window 31 is displayed on the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in step S1. FIG. 3 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 3 shows a display screen 30 of the CRT 13.

In the figure, 31 is an image data list window for displaying a list of image data registered in the present system, 32 and 33 are sizes and names of respective image data, and 34 is affixed in a document. This is a field of a command for selecting the image data being displayed. Next, in step S2, it is determined whether or not an in-document image data selection command is instructed. If instructed, the process proceeds to step S3, and if not instructed, the process loops until instructed in step S2. In addition, in the instruction of the in-document image data selection command, the mouse cursor that operates in conjunction with the PD 10 is moved to the field of the in-document image data selection command 34 and the button of the PD 10 is pressed or the key on the keyboard 9 is pressed. It is done by inputting.
When the in-document image data selection command is instructed, the display screen 3 of the CRT 13 in order to instruct which document the image data pasted in in step S3 is selected.
The document file list window 40 is displayed on the screen 0. FIG. 4 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 4 shows the display screen 32 of the CRT 13 in which the document file list window 40 is displayed in order to designate the in-document image data selection 34 and instruct which image data in the document to select. Indicates.

In the figure, 40 is a document file list window for displaying a list of document files registered in the present system, 41 is a document file icon displayed in the document file list window 40, one document file icon each. Corresponds to one document file.
Reference numeral 42 is a document file name attached to the document file icon 41. Then, in step S4, one document is selected from the document file list window 40. The document selection method is performed by moving a cursor that operates in conjunction with the PD 10 onto the field of the document file icon 41 and pressing a button on the PD 10. FIG. 5 shows the state at this time, and the selected document file is highlighted as shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in the state where one document file icon is selected from the document file list window.

In the figure, the document file icon 50 whose background is black and inverted indicates the selected document file. When the document file is selected in step S4, the document file list window 40 is deleted, and step S5
In the reverse management information stored in the data file disks 15 and 16, the image data stored in the corresponding management information in which the image data is stored corresponding to each page in the selected document. And the name of the image data in the image data list are compared, and the field of the same image data name is displayed in reverse on the image data list window 31.
FIG. 6 shows the state at this time.

FIG. 6 shows the CRT 13 in a state in which one document file icon is selected from the document file list window 40, and the name and size of the image data pasted in the selected document file are highlighted. The display screen 30 is shown.

In the figure, reference numerals 60 and 61 denote image data attached to the selected document file.

[Embodiment 2] In the first embodiment, the image data name field in the image data list window 31 is highlighted to show the image data pasted in the document. Then, only the selected image data is displayed in the image data list window 31.

This embodiment will be described below.

In FIG. 8, one document file icon is selected from the document file list window 40, and only the name of the image data pasted in the selected document file is displayed in the image data list window 31. The display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in the state of being shown is shown.

In the figure, 80 and 81 are the name and size of the image data pasted in the selected document file.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of this embodiment.

Steps S11 to S14 are steps S1 to S in the first embodiment.
The same applies up to 4. Then, in step S15, the name and image data of the image data stored in the correspondence management information 92 in the data file disks 15 and 16 for storing the image data corresponding to each page in the selected document. The image data names in the list are compared and only the same image is displayed in the image data list window.

FIG. 8 shows the state at this time.

[Embodiment 3] Next, a third embodiment will be described. In the first embodiment, the field of the image data name in the image data list window 31 is highlighted to show the image data pasted in the document.
If all the image data registered in this system are not displayed on the screen, scroll the image data list and check if all the image data are highlighted. You can see how many image data have been selected. There was a problem of not having.

In the present embodiment, in order to solve the above problems, the image data in the document selected in the image data list is discriminated, and whether or not to invert each field is determined according to the discrimination result. Inversion management information 94 storing a flag indicating
Is created, the flag is counted and displayed as the total number of image data, and the field of the name of the corresponding image data is highlighted.

This embodiment will be described below.

In FIG. 10, one document file icon is selected from the document file list window, and the name of the image data pasted in the selected document file is highlighted in the image data list window 31. At the same time, the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 showing the selected image data total number window A0 is shown.

FIG. 11 shows the display screen 30 of the CRT 13 in a state where the image data list in the image data list window 31 is scrolled up one line from the state of FIG.

In the figure, B0 indicates image data pasted in the selected document file.

The flow chart for explaining the operation of this embodiment is the same as in FIG.

However, in this embodiment, FIG. 10 shows the state of step S5 instead of FIG. In this embodiment, the number of selections is displayed as 3 in the selected image data total number window A0, but in FIG. 10, only two image data names are highlighted. Therefore, there are still selected image data not shown in FIG. here,
Key input is performed from the keyboard 9 to scroll the image data list in the image data list window 31 up one line. FIG. 11 shows the state at this time. In FIG. 11, since the image data names of all the selected numbers are displayed, the undisplayed image data names no longer exist.

In the above embodiments, only the image data has been considered as the data to be handled, but the external character data etc. may be the subject.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention,
All image data pasted in a certain document can be easily selected. As a result, it is possible to easily store only the image data pasted in a certain document in a device such as a floppy disk by a simple operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of a graphic processing device according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a conventional technique.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the operation content of the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the operation content of the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the operation contents of the third embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining the operation contents of the third embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state in a disk for data files.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 system bus 2 CPU 3 PMEM 4 IMEM 5 image scanner 6 image input / output control unit 7 printer 8 input control unit 9 keyboard 10 mouse 11 VRAM 12 display output control unit 13 CRT 14 external storage control unit 15 hard disk 16 floppy disk 90786

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document storage unit for storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage unit for storing images included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage unit, and an image stored in the image data storage unit. Image data list display means for displaying a list of data names, correspondence storage means for storing correspondence between documents and images managed in page units, and designation of a desired document in the documents stored in the document storage means The image data name included in the document designated by the document designation unit in the list can be distinguished from other image data names based on the document designation unit and the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage unit. An image editing apparatus having display control means for displaying. 2. A selection image data name display means for displaying a list of image data names included in the documents designated by the document designation means in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage means. The image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A counting means for counting the number of image data in the document designated by the document designating means in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storing means, and the counting means The image editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising image data number display means for displaying the total number of image data. 4. A document storage step of storing a plurality of documents, an image data storage step of storing images included in the plurality of documents stored in the document storage step, and an image stored in the image data storage step. An image data list display step of displaying a list of data names, a correspondence storage step of storing correspondence between documents and images managed in page units, and designation of a desired document in the documents stored in the document storage step The image data name included in the document designated by the document designation step in the list can be distinguished from other image data names based on the document designation step and the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage step. And a display control step of displaying the image. 5. A selected image data name display step of displaying a list of image data names included in the documents designated by the document designation step in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage step. The image editing method according to claim 4, wherein: 6. A counting step of counting the number of image data in the document designated by the document designation step in the list based on the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage step; and a counting step by the counting step. The image editing method according to claim 4, further comprising an image data number display step of displaying the total number of image data.