JP4149351B2 - Image printing system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention is an image print that prints an image captured by a digital camera, an image read by a scanner, image data recorded on a recording medium brought by the user, an image stored in advance in the apparatus, and a frame including variable information. It relates to systems.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a photographic printing apparatus that selects a frame, inputs characters, etc. after photographing a face photograph, and prints the photographed image together with predetermined characters, symbols, and numbers. (For example, see Patent Document 1)

JP 2001-293938 A

  However, in the above method, it is necessary to input information such as characters to be displayed on the frame for each printing process. In addition, when changing the frame in the same image, or changing the information such as characters displayed in the frame and printing a plurality of sheets, it takes time and labor and time. is there.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and the object of the present invention is to provide an image captured by a digital camera, an image read by a scanner, image data recorded on a recording medium brought, and an apparatus. An object of the present invention is to provide an image printing system for printing a frame including variable information and an image stored in advance.

  In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides an input means for inputting image data, a frame information holding means for holding a plurality of frame information, and correspondence between group information to which a customer of the image data belongs and the frame information. The variable information holding means for holding the relationship and variable information, the frame information corresponding to the group information to which the customer of the image data belongs is selected, and the image data and the variable information are synthesized according to the selected frame information. An image printing system comprising: a combining unit that generates combined data; and an output unit that prints out the combined data.

  The frame information is preferably selected every time the composite data is printed out. This makes it possible to synthesize the synthesized data according to different frame information for each print output of the image data and print it out.

  The image print system reads image data from a recording medium, scans a document using a scanner to acquire image data, images a subject, or reads image data from a digital camera. Enter.

  According to the present invention, an image captured by a digital camera, an image read by a scanner, image data recorded on a recording medium brought with the user, an image stored in advance in the apparatus, and a frame including variable information are printed. An image printing system can be provided.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of an image printing system and the like according to the invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are given to components having substantially the same functional configuration, and redundant description will be omitted.

First, the configuration of the image print system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the image print system 100.

The image print system 100 is realized by the image processing apparatus 101 and the like.
The image processing apparatus 101 includes an image data reading unit 111, an image editing / synthesizing unit 112, a printing unit 113, a customer data editing unit 114, an image database 115, a frame database 116, a customer database 117, and the like.

The image data reading unit 111 reads the document 121 with a document reading device such as a scanner device, reads it from a recording medium 122 on which image data has been recorded in advance, or reads image data stored in the digital camera 123, thereby Get the data.
The recording medium 122 is, for example, smart media, a compact flash (registered trademark) card (CF card), a flexible disk, a PC card, a CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), or the like.
The digital camera 123 is connected to the image processing apparatus 101 via, for example, a USB (Universal Serial Bus).

  The image editing / synthesizing unit 112 includes an interactive interface unit that interactively performs synthesis editing of frame data or the like on one or more input or selected image data, and an image processing program. Frame image data and the like existing in the frame database 116 are used as image data used for processing and composite editing.

  The printing unit 113 is a high resolution color printer. Any method such as sublimation type or ink jet type may be used.

  The customer data editing unit 114 reads and edits information such as characters to be displayed in the frame from the customer database 117.

Next, a schematic configuration of the image processing apparatus 101 will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the image processing apparatus 101.

  In the image processing apparatus 101, a control unit 201, a storage device 202, an input unit 203, various media input / output units 204, a display unit 205, and a printing unit 206 are connected via a bus 207.

  The control unit 201 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that executes a program, and a memory such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory) that store program instructions or data. The control unit 21 controls the overall operation of the image processing apparatus 101.

  The storage device 202 stores programs, data, and the like necessary for the operation of the image processing apparatus 101. Each program code is read by the control unit 201 as necessary, transferred to the RAM, read by the CPU, and executed as various means.

  The input unit 203 is an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and is used when inputting data to the frame database 116, the customer database 117, and the like.

  The media input / output unit 204 reads and writes data from the recording medium 122 by a drive of the recording medium 122 such as smart media, CF, flexible disk, PC card, and CD-ROM.

The display unit 205 is a display device such as a CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) or an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).
A printing unit 206 is a high-resolution color printer, and prints image data and frames according to a request from a user.

Next, details of the image database 115 will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing details of the image database 115, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the image group data 302 of the image database 115.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the image database 115 is in the storage device of the image processing apparatus 101, and the image data reading means 111 reads the image data 301-1 to 301 from the document 121, the recording medium 122, the digital camera 123, and the like. -N and image group data 302.

The image group data 302 is data indicating correspondence between the image data 301-1 to 301-n and the group code 402 indicating the group to which the customer belongs.
As shown in FIG. 4, the image group data 302 has an image file name 401 and a group code 402. Each image file name 401 is associated with one group code.
The frame composite photograph delivered to the customer is printed by synthesizing the image file and the frame associated with the group code 402 of the group to which the customer belongs.

Next, the frame database 116 will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing details of the frame database 116, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a frame on which frame data is printed.

As shown in FIG. 5, the frame database 116 has a plurality of write patterns 501.
Each writing pattern 501 has the number of items 510 displayed in the frame and the item name 511 of each item to be displayed.

  Each item name 511 has a start position X coordinate 521, a start position Y coordinate 522, a font type 523, a font size 524, a font color 525, and the like as data for displaying each item in the frame.

  When the item number 510 is “2”, the item name 1 511-1 is “service name”, and the item name 2 511-2 is “date”, the frame has the item 1 as “service name” as shown in FIG. 601-1 “XXX factory tour” and “Date” as item 2 601-2 “2003.7.23” include start position X coordinate 521, start position Y coordinate 522, font type 523, font size 524, respectively. The frame 600 is printed in the format specified by the font color 525.

Next, details of the customer data 700 in the customer database 117 will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing details of customer data 700 in the customer database 117, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of data in the customer database 117.

  As shown in FIG. 7, customer data 700 in the customer database 117 has a name 701, a date 702, a service name 703, a group code 402, and a writing pattern 501.

The name 701 is the name of the customer.
The date 702 is the date when the photograph was taken.
The service name 703 indicates the name of a service that has taken a photograph, for example, “XXX factory tour” or “XXX reception”.
For each customer, a group code 402 indicating a group in which the customer has taken a photograph and a frame data writing pattern 501 are designated.

  As shown in FIG. 8, for example, the customer data whose name 701 is “Suzuki XXX”, the date 702 is “2003.7.23”, the service name 703 is “XXX factory tour”, and the group code 402 is “A-1” and the writing pattern 501 are “C”.

Next, the operation of the image processing apparatus 101 will be described with reference to FIGS.
9 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the image processing apparatus 101, FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a photograph in which image data and a frame are combined, and FIG. 11 is an example of a photograph in which image data and a frame are combined. FIG.

The control unit 201 of the image processing apparatus 101 reads image data from the document 121, the recording medium 122, the digital camera 123, and the like in advance according to an image data reading unit, and stores the image data in the image database 115. At this time, a group code 402 is associated with each image data.
The control unit of the image processing apparatus 101 edits the customer database 117 according to the customer data editing unit 114.

  The control unit 201 of the image processing apparatus 101 reads one customer data 700 from the customer database 116 in accordance with the image editing / synthesizing means 112 (step 901).

  The control unit 201 of the image processing device 101 searches the image file name 401 corresponding to the group code 402 of the customer data 700 from the image group data 302 of the image database 115 according to the image editing / synthesizing unit 112, and the searched image file name Image data 301 having 401 is read (step 902).

  The control unit 201 of the image processing apparatus, in accordance with the image editing / synthesizing unit 112, writes the number of items 510 of the writing pattern corresponding to the writing pattern 501 of the customer data 700, the item name 511, the start position X-coordinate 521 and the start position Y The coordinates 522, font type 523, font size 524, and font color 525 are read (step 903), and a frame is created using the read writing pattern 501 and the customer data 700 name 701, date 702, and service name 703 as appropriate. (Step 904).

  For example, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, a frame 1002 displaying a service name “XXX factory tour” as item 1 and a date “2003.7.23” as item 2 is provided as a service item 1. A frame 1102 is created in which “XXWEDDING”, which is a company name, and “XXX-like try-on”, which is a service name, is displayed as item 2.

The control unit 201 of the image processing apparatus 101 synthesizes the image data 301 read in step 902 and the frame created in step 904 according to the image editing / synthesizing unit 112 (step 905).
For example, a photo 1000 in which the image 1001 and the frame 1002 are combined, and a photo 1100 in which the image 1101 and the frame 1102 are combined are created.

  The control unit 201 of the image processing apparatus 101 prints the photo combined by the printing unit 206, determines whether there is another photo to be printed (step 907), and returns to step 901 to repeat the processing. If not, the process ends.

  According to the present embodiment, an image photographed by a digital camera, an image read by a scanner, image data recorded on a recording medium brought with the user, an image stored in advance in the apparatus, and a frame including variable information are printed. An image printing system can be provided.

The preferred embodiments of the image printing system and the like according to the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments.
It is obvious for those skilled in the art that various modifications or modifications can be conceived within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims, and these are naturally within the technical scope of the present invention. It is understood that it belongs.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the image processing apparatus uses the image data of the document 121, the recording medium 122, or the digital camera 123 that has already been photographed. However, the image processing apparatus is installed in a store or on the street, and the digital camera or the like. You may make it image-capture or may perform operation, such as input and output of image data and frame data, via the touchscreen on a display screen.
Input information such as name, date, and service name may be input from a computer or downloaded from a server.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the image printing system 100 The figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the image processing apparatus 101 The figure which shows the detail of the image database 115 The figure which shows an example of the image group data 302 of the image database 115 The figure which shows the detail of the frame database 116 The figure which shows an example of the frame which printed frame data The figure which shows the detail of the customer data 700 of the customer database 117 The figure which shows an example of the data of the customer database 117 A flowchart showing the operation of the image processing apparatus 101 The figure which shows an example of the photograph which synthesize | combined image data and a frame The figure which shows an example of the photograph which synthesize | combined image data and a frame

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ......... Image printing system 101 ......... Image processing apparatus 103 ......... Photograph 111 ......... Image data reading means 112 ......... Image editing composition means 113 ......... Printing means 114 ......... Customer data editing means 115 ... …… Image database 116 ……… Frame database 117 ……… Customer database 121 ……… Original 122 ……… Recording medium 123 ……… Digital camera

Claims (5)

Input means for inputting image data;
Frame information holding means for holding a plurality of frame information;
A correspondence relationship between the group information to which the customer of the image data belongs and the frame information, and variable information holding means for holding variable information;
Selecting the frame information corresponding to the group information to which the customer of the image data belongs, and combining the image data and the variable information according to the selected frame information to generate combined data;
Output means for printing out the composite data;
An image print system comprising:   2. The image print system according to claim 1, wherein the frame information is selected every time the composite data is printed out.   The input unit includes a recording medium reading unit that reads the image data from a recording medium, a document reading unit that scans a document to acquire the image data, an imaging unit that acquires the image data by capturing a subject, and a digital camera The image print system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of digital camera reading means for reading the image data from the image data.   A program that causes a computer to function as the image print system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   A recording medium for recording a program that causes a computer to function as the image print system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

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