JPH083851B2 - Image processing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus such as an image information editing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of documents and performing an editing process by using, for example, a multi-window display.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Recently, image information such as a large amount of documents is read by optical two-dimensional scanning, and one image is displayed when a plurality of documents are edited using the read image information. The device is divided into multiple windows to display multiple documents simultaneously. Then, one document is cut out and combined with another document to edit the target document, and the edited document is sequentially stored in a storage medium such as an optical disk, or can be viewed by an output device such as a CRT display device or a recording device. An image information editing device for outputting the image has been developed.

[Problems of Background Art] However, in the multi-window method in the above-described device, a plurality of documents are simply arranged in the input direction. Therefore, you can rotate the images horizontally by 90 degrees and rearrange the images vertically, as you can with conventional paper files, or rotate the images vertically by 90 degrees. It had the drawback that it could not be rearranged into a horizontal display.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to freely change the arrangement of image information in a multi-window to horizontal display or vertical display,
Another object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device capable of changing the positions of those windows and rotating them so that the images do not overlap each other.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention displays a plurality of image information on a display means having a plurality of windows, and displays it on a display memory having a storage area corresponding to each window of the display means. Image information to be stored, the image information to be stored in the display memory is temporarily stored in a buffer memory having a storage area corresponding to the display memory, and the windows in the display means are displayed side by side and vertically. Either the rotation direction from the state to the vertically aligned state and the horizontally displayed state, or the rotation direction from the vertically aligned state and the horizontally displayed state to the horizontally aligned state and the vertically displayed state In order to display image information in the window instructed by the instructing means and instructed to rotate by the instructing means, the display memory is read from the buffer memory. When the image information is transferred to the memory, a storage address in the display memory is generated from the read address of the buffer memory corresponding to the rotation direction designated by the designating means, and the storage address is generated in accordance with the generated storage address. By storing the image information stored in the storage area of the buffer memory in the corresponding storage area of the display memory, the image information stored in the buffer memory is rotated in the rotation direction instructed by the instruction means. In this state, it is stored in the corresponding storage area of the display memory.

[Embodiment of the Invention] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an image information editing apparatus as an image processing apparatus of the present invention. That is, 11 is a main control device, a CPU 12 as a control means for performing various controls, a main memory 13, a buffer memory 14 having a storage capacity corresponding to the image information of several pages of A4 size original, compression of the image information ( A compression / expansion circuit 15 that performs redundancy (reduces the redundancy) and expansion (reduces the reduced redundancy), a pattern generator 16 that stores pattern information such as characters or symbols, a display interface 17, and an address generation circuit. The address generator 18 and an enlarging / reducing circuit 31 for enlarging and reducing image information. The buffer memory 14 has a CRT display device 2 described later.
Storage windows 14a, 14b, 14c and 14d are provided corresponding to the four windows A, B, C and D in FIG. The address generator 18 controls access to the buffer memory 14 and the display memory 17a in the display interface 17, that is, outputs a read address or a write address to the buffer memory 14,
The write address corresponding to the read address of is output to the display interface 17. That is, CP
When a conversion command from the vertical display to the horizontal display is supplied from U12, the read address and the write address are changed every 4 Kbytes of the storage area 14a of the page buffer 14. For example, when the data at the address "1, 1" in the storage area 14a shown in FIG. 2 (a) is read, the data is read at the address "1, 8" in the display memory 17a shown in FIG. 2 (c). Is stored and the data at the address “1, 2” in the storage area 14a is read out, the data is stored at the address “2, 8” in the display memory 17a, and the data read out from the storage area 14a sequentially is stored. ,
It is adapted to be stored in the corresponding address of the display memory 17a. That is, the signal shown in FIG. 7B read from the storage area 14a changes the writing direction and the display memory 17a is changed.
Written in.

As a result, the image “A” shown in FIG.
Rotated image Is stored in the display memory 17a.

Further, when the conversion command is not supplied, FIG.
As shown in (c), the address “1,
When the data "1" is read, the data is stored in the address "1, 1" of the display memory 17a, and the storage area 14
When the data at the address "1, 2" of a is read, the data is stored at the address "1, 2" of the display memory 17a, and the data sequentially read from the storage area 14a thereafter corresponds to the display memory 17a. It will be stored in the address. That is, the signal shown in FIG. 7B read from the storage area 14a is written in the display memory 17a without changing the writing direction.

As a result, the image “A” shown in FIG. 3A is stored in the display memory 17a as it is.

Reference numeral 20 is, for example, a two-dimensional scanning device, which scans a document (document) 21 two-dimensionally with a laser beam light, thereby
The electric signal corresponding to the image information on 21 is obtained. twenty two
Is an optical disk device for sequentially storing in the optical disk 19 image information and the like read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and supplied via the main control device 11.

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, for example, a cathode ray tube display device (hereinafter referred to as a CRT display device) which is a display unit (display means), and image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and supplied through the main control device 11. The image information and the like read from the optical disk device 22 and supplied via the main control device 11 are displayed, and the display interface 17 in the main control device 11 constitutes a significant image information display device. . CRT display device 2 above
In 4, a maximum of four windows can be used to display four documents at the same time. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, two vertical display image information items are displayed, and as shown in FIG. 5, two horizontal display image information items are displayed. Editing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, and scrolling of an image can be independently performed for each window. For example, in the frame of each of the windows A and B, that is, in the frame icons A'and B ', the window number a, an icon b for displaying a document (image) input to the designated window, erasing, and prohibition (FIX) of image editing scanning, etc. , An icon c for final access display, an icon d for instructing scroll in each direction, ..., An icon e for instructing enlargement, an icon f for instructing reduction, an icon (instructing means) g for instructing right rotation of the image, An icon (instruction means) h for instructing the right rotation of the image is provided, and is designated by a pointing device 29 described later.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a recording device which hard-codes image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 and supplied via the main control device 11 or image information read from the optical disk device 22 and supplied through the main control device 11. It is output as a copy 26. Reference numeral 27 is a magnetic disk device, which corresponds to the search code input by the keyboard 23 and the search code.
The search data consisting of the size of the image information for the case and the storage address on the optical disk 19 where the image information is stored is stored in the magnetic disk 28 for each piece of image information.

Further, 29 is a pointing device as an instruction means, for example, the cursor on the CRT display device 24 is arbitrarily moved in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and the cursor is positioned by giving an instruction at a desired position. A mouse for selecting display contents (for example, various modes, edited images, cutting range and each of the above icons), or display contents of the CRT display device 24 (for example, various modes, edited images, cutting range and These are selected with the same tablet as the above icons).

The 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 the search code,
It is composed of an image storage start sector address and the number of image storage sectors (image length).

Next, the operation in such a configuration will be described. First, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to specify the image edit mode, and also specifies two screens (vertical display) vertically as the image edit area. Then,
The desired information is selected using the pointing device 29, or a search code is entered by using the keyboard so that the image information stored in the optical disk 19 is displayed on the optical disk device.
Select with 22 and read. The read image information is stored in the storage area 14a of the buffer memory 14 corresponding to the window A by the CPU 12. Further, a desired document is placed and read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20, and the image information read by the two-dimensional scanning device 20 is stored by the CPU 12 in the storage area 14b of the buffer memory 14 corresponding to the window B.
As a result, as shown in FIG. 4, the image information is displayed in the windows A and B corresponding to the input order.

In such a state, the operator uses the pointing device 29 to specify an instruction for rearranging the multi-windows in a vertical display, that is, an icon g for instructing right rotation of the image. Then, the CPU 12 stores the storage contents of the storage areas 14a and 14b of the buffer memory 14 in the display memory 17a in a rotated state. That is, when the right rotation instruction is supplied from the CPU 12, the address generator 18 sequentially reads the data of every 4 Kbytes in the storage area 14a of the buffer memory 14 bit by bit and outputs it to the display memory 17a.
Further, the address generator 18 reads a write address from the read address and supplies it to the display interface 17. As a result, the display interface 17 stores the data at the write address. In other words, 2 in horizontal display
Data is stored at an address corresponding to the image editing area of one image. For example, when the data at the address "1, 1" in the storage area 14a is read, the display memory 17a
The data is stored in the address "x, y" of the display memory 1 and the data sequentially read from the storage area 14a thereafter is displayed.
It is stored in the corresponding address of 7a.
As a result, the vertically displayed image shown in FIG. 4 is rotated 90 degrees to the right, and the horizontally displayed image shown in FIG. 5 is displayed.

 Also, when rotating to the left, the same operation is performed.

Further, when rearranging the multi-windows from the horizontal display to the vertical display, the address generator 18 reads the corresponding write address from the read address of the buffer memory 14 to operate in the same manner as described above.

As described above, the multi-window display in the CRT display device, that is, the buffer memory in which a plurality of image information is stored is specified by the icon indicating whether to change the vertical display to the horizontal display or the horizontal display to the vertical display of a plurality of document images. When the image information is transferred from the display memory to the display memory, the storage address in the display memory is generated from the read address of the buffer memory in response to the designation by the above icon, and the image information supplied to the display memory according to this storage address. It is intended to remember.

Accordingly, the arrangement of the image information in the multi-window can be freely changed between horizontal display and vertical display, and an easily viewable screen can be displayed. Further, by changing the positions of the two rotated windows on the display and displaying the two windows, the two images can be displayed without overlapping.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the arrangement of image information in a multi-window can be freely changed between horizontal display and vertical display, and the positions of those windows can be changed and rotated. Therefore, it is possible to provide an image processing device capable of preventing the overlapping of images.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the entire structure, and FIGS. 2 and 3 show the relationship between the read address of a buffer memory and the write address of a display memory. FIG. 4, FIG. 5, and FIG. 5 for explanation are views showing display examples of the multi-window. 11 ... Main control device, 12 ... CPU, 14 ... Buffer memory, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d ... Storage area, 19 ... Optical disk, 20 ... Two-dimensional scanning device, 21 ... Document, 22 ... … Optical disk device, 23 …… keyboard, 24 …… CRT display device, 25 …… recording device, 29 …… pointing device,
A, B ... Window, A ', B' ... Frame icon, ah ... Icon.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display means having a plurality of windows for displaying a plurality of image information, a display memory having a storage area corresponding to each window of the display means and storing image information to be displayed, and the display memory. A buffer memory having a storage area corresponding to the memory, which temporarily stores image information to be stored in the display memory, and the windows in the display means in a horizontally arranged state and in a vertically arranged state from a vertically displayed state. An instructing means for instructing one of a rotation direction of rotation to a horizontally displayed state or a rotation from a vertically arranged state and a horizontally displayed state to a horizontally arranged state and a vertically displayed state; When the image information is transferred from the buffer memory to the display memory in order to display the image information in the window instructed to rotate by the instruction means. An address generating circuit for generating a storage address in the display memory from a read address of the buffer memory corresponding to the rotation direction designated by the designating means, and the buffer memory according to the storage address from the address generating circuit. Image information stored in the storage area of
By storing in the corresponding storage area of the display memory, the image information stored in the buffer memory is stored in the corresponding storage area of the display memory while being rotated in the rotation direction instructed by the instructing means. An image processing apparatus, comprising: