JPH08221199A - Device and method for preparing document - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily specify an optional range other than a rectangle and improve the usability by specifying a area other than an rectangular area, converting the area into areas in character units, and selectively copying, moving, and deleting them. CONSTITUTION: A block copying function is selected. Then an optional area is specified by operating a pen 19. According to the area specifying operation, the data in the specified area are inputted from a pen interface(PEN-1F) 20 and temporarily stored in a RAM 13. At this time, it is checked whether or not characters displayed on a screen are present in the specified area, character by character, and information on that is temporarily stored in the RAM 13. Then block areas in character units are redisplayed on an LCD 16 on the basis of the checked information. The characters in the respective character areas are copied to specified destination. Namely, control program information for converting the specified range into optional ranges in optional units is provided to copy, move, and delete an optional range other than a rectangular range.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus and a document creating method capable of easily copying, moving and deleting an arbitrary range.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document creating apparatus, the range specification by block specification has been a rectangular range specification.
Therefore, when copying, moving, or deleting an area other than a rectangular area, copying, moving, or deleting must be performed several times.

[0003]

As described above, in the case of a complicated range, the range designation by the block designation in the conventional document creation apparatus is divided into a plurality of times (divided into a plurality of times) and deleted. , Move, copy, etc.,
Therefore, there is a problem that the operation is troublesome and takes a lot of time.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances. In order to solve the above problems and specify blocks,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device and a document creation method that can be easily specified even in an arbitrary range other than a rectangle to improve usability.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an operation of inputting various information to a transparent input section provided on the upper portion of the display screen of a display unit for outputting and displaying various information. In a document preparation apparatus equipped with a pen for performing the above, a control information storage means for storing control program information for processing information read from the pen, a data storage means for storing the information read from the pen, and this data The storage means and the control means for performing a predetermined control process based on the information in the control information storage means, the area designating means for designating the area other than the rectangular area in the display means according to the block mode information, and the input with the pen. A conversion means for converting the area into a character-based area and a means for selectively copying, moving or deleting the character-based area converted by the converting means are provided. In document creation device, characterized in that.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a document having a pen for inputting various information to a transparent input section provided on an upper portion of a display screen section for outputting and displaying various information. In the creating device, control program information for processing the information read from the pen is stored, the information read from the pen is stored, and predetermined control processing is performed based on the stored information, according to the block mode information. By designating an area other than a rectangle on the display screen, converting the pen-input area into a character-based area, and selectively copying or moving or deleting the converted character-based area. It is a document creation method characterized by being controlled.

[0007]

In the above structure, the area other than the rectangle on the display screen is designated according to the block mode information, the area input by the pen is converted into the area of each character, and the converted area of each character is targeted. , Can be selectively copied, moved, deleted, etc. As a result, it is possible to easily specify a range such as copy, move, or delete even in an arbitrary range other than a rectangle, and to improve usability.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes a microprocessor (CPU) which serves as a central control processing unit, and controls the entire apparatus. Here, according to the programs stored in the ROM 12 and the RAM 13, block area processing by pen input as shown in FIG. 2 is executed.

Reference numeral 12 is an R accessed by the CPU 11.
The OM stores various control program information, dictionary information, and other various data. 13 is a RAM,
A document memory for storing input document information, document format information, and various control data and other information are stored.

Reference numeral 14 is a keyboard (K
In B), character input for the document creation to the CPU 11 and activation of the editing process are performed via the keyboard interface (KB-IF) 15.

Reference numeral 16 is a liquid crystal display device (LCD) that constitutes a display device, and controls the display control device (display CNT) 17 and the CPU 11 by using the dot memory 18 for displaying the document data and the like stored in the RAM 13. Display below. A transparent tablet for pen input is integrally provided on the upper surface of the LCD.

A pen (PEN) 19 constitutes an input device.
When the LCD 16 is touched, the position data of the pen interface (P
The EN-IF) 20 is taken into the CPU 11 and is recognized.

21 is a floppy disk device (FDD)
It is an external storage device such as a hard disk device (HDD) or the like, and saves and recalls document data and the like stored in the RAM 13 under the control of the disk interface 22 and the CPU 11.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an example of the processing procedure according to the present invention in the document creating apparatus having the above-mentioned configuration. FIG. 2 exemplifies a flowchart for moving an arbitrary range.

In FIG. 2, step S1 is an operation step of designating a region by pen operation. Step S
Step 2 is a processing step of reading the data in the area designated in step S1, and the read data is temporarily R
It is stored in AM13.

Step S3 is a processing step for converting the designated area into an area for each character. For each character, it is compared with the area data stored in step S2 to judge whether the character is inside or outside the area. .

Step S4 is a processing step for re-displaying the area obtained by converting the designated area in character units, and the area in character units converted in step S3 is re-displayed on the LCD 16.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the embodiment of the present invention by giving a concrete example, and here, a concrete example on the screen is shown.
The operation of the apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention having the above configuration will be described by taking a block copy as an example.

First, the block copy function is selected (step S0 in FIG. 2). Next, an arbitrary area is designated by the pen operation of the pen (PEN) 19 (step S in FIG. 2).
1). An example of the actual operation on the LCD 16 at this time is shown in FIG.

In accordance with this area designation operation, the data in the designated area is fetched from the pen interface (PEN-IF) 20 and temporarily stored in the RAM 13 (step S2 in FIG. 2).

Further, at this time, it is checked for each character whether or not the characters displayed on the screen are present within the designated area, and the information is temporarily stored in the RAM 13 (step S3 in FIG. 2). .

Next, based on the information checked in step S3, the block area in character units is displayed again on the LCD 16 (step S4 in FIG. 2). Actual LC at this time
A display example on D16 is shown in FIG.

Then, the characters in each character area at this time are copied to the designated destination (see (C) of FIG. 3). According to the above-described embodiment, by providing the pen-operable LCD and the control program information for converting the range designated by the pen operation into an arbitrary range of an arbitrary unit, an arbitrary range other than the rectangle is copied, The function of moving and deleting can be realized.

[0025]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily specify an arbitrary range other than a rectangle in specifying a block, and therefore, a complicated area other than a rectangle can be copied and moved in one step. , Delete, etc. can be specified and processed. This makes it possible to realize an easy-to-use document creation function.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a screen display explanatory diagram for explaining a specific operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... CPU, 12 ... ROM, 13 ... RAM, 14 ... Keyboard (KB), 16 ... LCD, 19 ... PEN, 20
... PEN-IF, 21 ... FDD / HDD.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus comprising an input pen for inputting various information to a transparent input section provided on an upper surface of a display screen of a display unit for outputting and displaying various information. Control information storage means for storing control program information for processing information read according to the operation of the input pen, data storage means for storing information read according to the operation of the pen, the data storage means and the control information storage means Control means for performing a predetermined control processing based on the information of the above, area designation means for designating an area other than a rectangle on the display means in the block mode processing, and the area input by the pen in character units. A conversion means for converting into an area and a means for selectively copying, moving, or deleting the area in character units converted by the conversion means are provided. Document creation device. 2. A document creating apparatus equipped with a pen for inputting various information to a transparent input section provided on an upper surface of a display screen for outputting and displaying various information, wherein the pen is designated by the pen. A method of creating a document, which is characterized in that an area other than the rectangular area is converted into an area of a character unit, and the inside of the converted area is selectively edited.