JPH0581401A - Picture editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To synthesize an arbitrary layout by providing a picture read means which can freely set a read range and changing the number of characters per row of the read picture to transfer it to the output side. CONSTITUTION:The picture including a desired part is read in from a document by a picture read means of an image processor part 110 and is stored in a picture memory A201 and is displayed on a display device 130. An operator designates a part to be copied by a pointing device 140 while watching the display picture to not only transfer the block to a picture memory B202 but also output it to a display device. If the size of the segmented area of the designated document and the size of the picture memory B are different from each other, the picture is enlarged/reduced to make both sizes equal to each other. If characters are included, the character part is designated with a cursor, and the character size is not enlarged/reduced but only intervals of characters are changed to prevent the character size from not being ununiform.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image editing apparatus, and more specifically, when synthesizing a plurality of images, the layout of each image, the number of characters per line of a character block, and the arrangement order can be arbitrarily set. , Or an editing device capable of emphasizing or modifying a part of an editing character.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In preparing a manuscript, an existing sentence such as a research paper for academic society submission or various reports is partially extracted, and a new document is often created by combining them. Heretofore, it has been common to cut out a necessary portion from a printout or a printed document with scissors, place it in a required portion, and make a copy. In addition, when the cut-out blocks are arranged in the same size, many people often use a copying machine having a scaling function to copy the blocks into desired sizes.

However, in such a conventional manual work, if the amount of editing is large, it takes a very long time, and the characters printed out by different printers are not uniform in size, and the paragraphs of the sentence are different. In many cases, line breaks and line breaks were not what we wanted.

On the other hand, in recent years, a copying machine having such a document image editing function has come into use. This is generally called a layout copier, and is an apparatus that partially extracts image data read from a scanner and generates a new image of a desired layout.

However, in the case of laying out a character image in such an apparatus as well, if the size, area, shape, etc. of the layout block area are different from those of the original, it is necessary to reduce or enlarge each by an appropriate scaling factor. Yes,
Therefore, there is a drawback that the sizes of characters are not uniform. Also, if the aspect ratio is different, the vertical and horizontal magnifications will be different, but this causes the characters to be long in either the vertical or horizontal direction, and the image must be of extremely poor quality. There wasn't.

Further, the same problem occurs due to irregular character spacing, irregular line spacing, or unnatural paragraphs, and the conventional apparatus that considers only the image layout is a document. Editing was very inconvenient.

DTP used by experts in the printing industry, etc.
Conventionally, there have been devices capable of image editing processing such as (Desk Top Publishing), but all of these are large-scale devices and require learning of computer operation technology, and are not easy to use. There wasn't.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is possible to extract an image containing a part of character data from a plurality of manuscripts with a simple structure and easily. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image editing apparatus which can synthesize these in an arbitrary layout and can even arrange the character size, character spacing, and line spacing, and further can freely perform paragraph and character modification.

[0009]

The image editing apparatus of the present invention is configured as follows to achieve the above object. In an image editing apparatus for extracting an image data block partially containing characters from another document and arranging it at a desired position to generate a new image, an image reading unit capable of freely setting a reading range, and an image writing unit. An image display means and an image processor means are provided, and the number of characters per line of the read image can be changed and transferred to the output side. Further, in the above apparatus, it is a feature of the present invention that the start position of the read character block can be arbitrarily set and can be transferred to the output side. Furthermore, a part of the read sentence is highlighted or modified. It is also possible to change the characters to be transferable to the output side.

Hereinafter, based on the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings,
The image editing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing an embodiment of the image editing apparatus of the present invention. The image editing apparatus shown in this example is an image processor section 110 having an image reading means and a writing means. And a display device 1 including an operation control unit 120 including a microprocessor (not shown), which is the center of control, an image memory A and an image memory B, and a CRT connected to the operation control unit to display an image.
30 and a pointing device 14 for cutting out a desired block from the image displayed on the display device.
0, and an input / output file 150 for storing the completed image.

The present invention extracts a part of an image read from a plurality of other originals, for example, by the above-mentioned apparatus, and creates a new image with an arbitrary layout. In this case, when the image is a sentence, The arrangement of characters, paragraphs, size of characters, line spacing, character spacing, line head position, etc. can be freely set, and the characters can be partially modified.

FIG. 2 shows the internal structure of the operation control unit 120. As described above, the following is connected to the CPU 200, which is the center of control, via a bus line. That is, the image memory A201 and the image memory B202 described above, the character edit processing unit 203 connected to these two image memories, the ROM 205 in which a program for operating the CPU is stored, and the processing as a working memory. RA for temporarily storing data etc.
An M206 and an external interface I / F 207 for connecting to an external device such as the display device are connected to each other via a bus line.

The image editing means having the above structure will be described in detail.

An image including a desired portion is read from the original by the image reading means of the image processor 110, stored in the image memory A201, and displayed on the display device 130. The operator designates a portion to be copied using the pointing device 140 while looking at the displayed image, transfers the block to the image memory B202, and outputs it to the display device. At this time, FIG.
As shown in (b), when the size of the specified cut-out area of the original is different from the size of the pasting area of the image memory B, the read image is vertically and horizontally enlarged and reduced so as to match the image memory B, and the both are matched. ..

Further, when a character is included in the read original image, the character portion is designated by a cursor and excluded from the object of enlarging / reducing, so that the character size is not enlarged / reduced and the character is simply enlarged. Processing is performed so that the character size does not become uneven by changing only the spacing. Also, when the character spacing, line spacing, etc. of the character portion of the read image is different from other sentences, or when paragraph adjustment is necessary, partial coordinate conversion or block transition processing, etc., as described below, is performed. Add.

Next, in editing the cut character data, first, a character portion in the cut image is designated, and the number of characters and the number of lines in the line and the number of characters in one line of the copy destination are input. The coordinate change of the designated character portion in the original is performed, and the inter-character line spacing is corrected so as to match the block of the copy destination, and is displayed at the same time when it is transferred to the image memory B.

The coordinate conversion at this time is executed as follows, for example.

Now, when the character block of the read original image is 8 characters per line and 2 lines as shown in FIG. 4, and the transfer destination area is 6 characters per line and 3 lines as shown in FIG. Assuming that, first, the document image is divided into each character as shown in FIG. 4, the character block is designated, and the number of lines and the number of characters in one line are input. By this processing, the character portion of the document is divided into blocks for each character. Next, by inputting the number of characters in one line suitable for the area to be transferred and executing the transfer processing, an edited image as shown in FIG. 5 is obtained. It should be noted that one block of pixels (dots) assigned to each character is shown in FIG.
Assume n rows and m columns as shown in FIG.

FIGS. 7 and 8 show other examples of character editing. When the original image is 4 rows and 7 columns as shown in FIG. 7, and the editing destination is 2 rows and 15 columns as shown in FIG. Also, the same procedure as above can be used for editing without any trouble.

Next, the processing when the paragraph adjustment image is required will be described.

When the manuscript of FIG. 7 is edited as shown in FIG. 8, if it is desired to start a line break from the eleventh character p of FIG. The part is once erased from the display area and is stored in the buffer memory once, and is arranged so that the p is located at the head position q of the second line as shown in FIG.
The following is automatically edited so as to be sequentially arranged below q + 1 in FIG. At this time, blanks of the same character size are automatically additionally arranged at the rear of the first and third lines in FIG.

Next, a description will be given of partial character modification means, for example, modification in which a particular character is made bold and emphasized without changing its size.

FIG. 10 shows an image of a character read from an original. To modify this character into a bold character, first, the character dots in FIG.
11 and the dot shifted to the right by one line (OR combination) to thicken the vertical portion as shown in FIG. 11, and further shift it upward by one dot, and the dot shown in FIG. By synthesizing with a row, a character with thick and thick modification in both the vertical and horizontal directions can be obtained as shown in FIG. The dot shift amount is appropriately set according to the dot number array per character.

If a program is created so that the above-mentioned processing is automatically executed by designating a desired processing and setting a target portion, the operator can perform a relatively simple operation without any burden. Can be done by.

[0026]

Since the present invention is constructed and controlled as described above, there is no need for a computer operation technique, and a plurality of manuscripts can be partially operated by the same operation as a general copying machine. Images containing characters can be extracted and edited into one image, and paragraph adjustment of character parts, adjustment between line characters, and partial character modification can be performed at will. An image editing apparatus having a function of editing a high quality image can be configured.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an image editing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram showing a detailed configuration of an operation control unit used in the present invention.

3A and 3B are diagrams showing an editing screen for explaining a processing procedure of the image editing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a character string area showing an example of a read original image.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a character string area showing an edited result.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of dots (pixels) representing one character.

FIG. 7 is a character array diagram showing another example of a read original image.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a character arrangement after editing.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a character array after editing showing a result of performing line feed processing in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a dot arrangement for one character of a read original image.

FIG. 11 is a character dot array diagram showing a result of vertically thickening FIG. 10 for explaining a process of character modification processing.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a character modification result, which is a character dot array diagram showing a result of thick and vertical modification.

[Explanation of symbols]

110 image processor unit, 120 control operation unit, 130 display device, 140 pointing device, 150 input / output device, 200 CPU, 201 image memory A, 202 image memory B, 203
Character edit processing unit, 205 RAM, 206 ROM, 207 external interface,

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An image reading device capable of freely setting a reading range in an image editing apparatus for generating a new image by extracting a block partially containing a character from another document and arranging the block at a desired position, and an image reading device. An image editing apparatus comprising: a writing unit, an image display unit, and an image processor unit, wherein the number of characters per line of a read image can be changed and transferred to the output side. 2. An image reading device capable of freely setting a reading range in an image editing device for extracting a block partially containing a plurality of characters from another document and arranging the block at a desired position to generate a new image. An image editing apparatus comprising: an image writing unit, an image display unit, and an image processor unit, wherein the head position of the read character block can be arbitrarily set and transferred to the output side. .. 3. An image reading device capable of freely setting a reading range in an image editing device for extracting a block partially containing a plurality of characters from another document and arranging the block at a desired position to generate a new image. An image writing unit, an image display unit, and an image processor unit are provided, and a part of the read character block is changed to an emphasized character or a modified character so that it can be transferred to the output side. Image editing device.