JPH01216485A - Image data reading system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To correctly read image data even when the setting position of an image drawing paper is dislocated by printing a special mark and an image area on the image drawing paper. CONSTITUTION:On an image drawing paper 7, a special mark 8 which is extremely rarely used for the original of the image and an image area 9 are printed beforehand. A control device 2 cuts only the special area of the image data delivered from an image reader 1, and delivers it to an image processor 3. The image processor 3 searches for the position of the special mark 8 out of the image data, obtains the image area 9 from a virtual original point, and cuts the original image area 9 from the image area delivered from the control device 2. Thus, even when the setting position of the original is dislocated, the necessary data can be correctly inputted.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for reading image data, particularly a method for reading image data such as a seal imprint portion during seal registration. Set the image original in the device, read the image data from the reading area specified by the node, derive the virtual origin from the origin of the read area using the parameters specified in the software, and set the relative position from the virtual origin. Ok, I finally decided on the image area and proceeded.

Therefore, the image document setting position had to be physically the same location. and.

The read image data is displayed on the display to check whether it passes or fails, and if it is input correctly, it is stored in the output device, and if it is not, the original is set on the input device again and the input process is performed again.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional image data reading method described above, the reading area is fixed on the input device, so if the document set position shifts even slightly, unnecessary data will be read and it is extremely difficult to input accurately. There was a drawback.

[Means to solve the problem]

In the image data reading method of the present invention, an image area in which an image is drawn and a special mark that is most rarely used in the image area are printed on image document paper, and when the image document is read, the special mark is first printed on the image document paper. The present invention is characterized in that it includes a detecting means for detecting a mark, and an editing means for determining an image area using the position of the detected special mark as an origin and cutting out image data within the image area.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, in which an image processing device 3. Image reader 1. Control device 2, graphic display 4. Keyboard 5 and disk device 6
Consists of.

The input devices are an image reader 1 such as a FAX, and a keyboard 5. The keyboard 5 is used to input commands as to whether or not the image data displayed on the graphic display 4 is correct. The image reader 1 reads a document with an image to be input, such as a seal imprint part at the time of seal registration, and passes it to the control device 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, the image document paper 7 has a special mark 8 and an image area 9 printed thereon in advance. The image area 9 is an area where an image original is drawn, and a mark that is most rarely used on an image original is selected as the special mark 8.

The control device 2 cuts out the image data passed from the image reader 1 in accordance with parameters specified in advance by the image processing device 3, and passes the image data to the image processing device 3.

In addition to the above functions, the image processing device also has search functions.

Edit 1 There are four functions: display/confirmation and output.

The search function finds the position of the special mark 8 from the image data passed from the control device 2 and sets it as the virtual origin.

The editing function derives the image area 9 from this virtual origin and cuts out the original image area 9 from the image area passed from the control device 2.

The relative position between the special mark 8 and the image area 9 is determined by the coordinates with the origin at the position of the % seed manic 8, and by expressing a specific position (for example, the upper left corner) of the image area 9 as a number of dots. is included in the editing function.

The display/confirmation function displays the contents of the image area 9 on the graphic display 4 and waits for the operator's response. The operator uses a command from the keyboard 5 to input whether or not the image data is correct.

If a correct response is input, the image data is written to the disk drive 6 by the output function.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention includes a detection means that prints a special mark and an image area on image document paper, detects the special mark when reading the image document, and detects the image area from the position of the detected special mark. Since the image data to be read is located at a certain relative position from the special mark that can be recognized by the device,
Even if the set position of the image original paper is misplaced, the image data can be read accurately.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows an example of an original image used in the present invention. 1... Image reader, 2... Control device, 3...
- Image processing device, 4... Graphic display, 5... Keyboard, 6... Disk device, 7.
...Manuscript paper, 8...0m mark, 9...image area. Agent Patent Attorney Susumu Uchihara

Claims (1)

[Claims] An image area in which an image is drawn and a special mark that is most rarely used in the image area are printed on image manuscript paper, and when the image manuscript is read, the special mark is first printed. An image data reading method comprising: a detection means for detecting the special mark; and an editing means for determining the image area using the position of the detected special mark as an origin and cutting out the image data within the image area.