JPH0648484B2 - Word processor - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a word processor having an image processing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of Japanese word processors and the expanding uses thereof, there is a demand for printing on documents processed by word processors by tying together images such as photographs and drawings related to the documents. Has occurred. However, no conventional word processor has a function of processing a document and an image by associating them with each other and outputting the processed images. That is, conventionally, when tying an image to a document processed by a word processor, after printing the document, all the images such as photographs and figures related to the document are manually inserted.

[0003]

As described above, in the past, much labor and time were required when inserting an image into a document processed by a word processor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances.
An object of the present invention is to provide a word processor capable of automatically associating a document with an image and printing it out.

[0005]

In the word processor according to the present invention, the image storage unit is provided by adding to the document information image designation information for designating a page into which an image should be inserted and an image to be used therein. Selectively picks up the image specified by the image specifying information from among those, and synthesizes this with the document pattern of the page specified by the image specifying information to generate printing pattern information, which is used as control information from the input section. Based on this, normally, the document and the image according to the print pattern information are printed out, and only the image is printed out when there is a hard copy command.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 is an image reading device for reading an image by optical scanning (or laser scanning), for example. 1
Reference numeral 02 denotes an image file section that uses an image reading apparatus 101 to file an image together with information referred to when an image is searched, for example, using a video cassette recorder. 103
Is an image input controller. Since the image input controller 103 stores the image information read by the image reading apparatus 101 in the image file unit 102, it prepares image storage data and sends it to the image file unit 102 via the image file controller 108. At the same time, the information referred to at the time of image search is similarly sent to the image file memory 102.

Reference numeral 104 is a document code file memory for storing a character coded document. A character pattern memory 105 stores various character patterns corresponding to each character code to be handled and is accessed when the document code read from the document code file memory 104 is patterned in character units. Reference numeral 106 denotes a document pattern memory that stores patterned document patterns in page or line units.

Reference numeral 107 is a document processing device. The document processing apparatus 107 reads all document codes (document information) of the document from the document code file memory 104 according to the file name, document name, etc. designated by the operation unit 111, and uses the character pattern memory 105. It has a function of writing it in the document pattern memory 106 after it is patterned. Further, the document processing apparatus 107 has a function of replacing a format code such as a line feed or tab included in the document code with a pattern such as a space (blank) so that the document can be printed, and an image attached to the document code. It has a function of sending designated information to the image file controller 108. Further, the document processing apparatus 107 has a function of sending an image fetching command to the image file controller 108 according to the page feed code included in the document code, image designation information, and the like.

Reference numeral 108 is an image file controller. The image file controller 108 stores the image storage data sent from the image input controller 103 and the information referred to at the time of image search in the image file unit 102.
And a function for directly transferring the image storage data and information to a print data controller 109 described later. Further, the image file controller 108 is the document processing device 107 or the operation unit 11.
1 has a function of reading the image designated by the image designation information sent from the image file 1, the image designation command, and the like from the image file unit 102.

A print data controller 109 receives the document pattern information sent from the document pattern memory 106 and the image information sent from the image file controller 108, and synchronizes these pieces of information to obtain print data. Is. A printing device 110 prints out documents, images, and the like according to the printing data obtained from the print data controller 109.

The operation of the word processor having the above configuration will be described.

The image reading apparatus 101 reads image information in page units of A4 format, for example, and sends the read information to the image input controller 103. Image input controller 1
In 03, the input image reading information is stored in the image file section 1
02, the information referred to at the time of image retrieval is also imaged so that it can be read out in page units arbitrarily after the image information is filed and sent to the image file controller 108. It is sent to the file controller 108. The image file controller 108 stores the input image storage data and the information referred to at the time of search in the image file unit 102 in page units. At this time, the input (read) image is predetermined to be inserted in the text to be printed on the same page, and the area distribution (the insertion position and shape of the image and the text Match the empty position and shape). The document to be printed out is encoded and stored in the document code file memory 104 in advance. At this time, the document input means to the document code file memory 104 is a well-known technique in an existing word processor (for example, a word processor having a kana-kanji conversion function), and therefore its description is omitted here.

Here, the document code file memory 1
When inserting an image in the print page of the document to be written in 04,
Designation information (image designation information) of the page and an image used therein is attached to the head of the document code and written in the document code file memory 104. Writing to the document code file memory 104 is performed by the document processing device 107.
Under the control of. Upon receiving the print command from the operation unit 111, the document processing apparatus 107 reads the image code information from the document code file memory 104, and then reads the document code. Then, the document processing apparatus 107 sends the read image designation information to the image file controller 108, then patterns the document code on a character-by-character basis using the character pattern memory 105, and writes the patterned document pattern into a document. It is stored in the pattern memory 106.

At this time, when the document processing device 107 detects the image designation information in the document code, it sends an image fetch command to the image file controller 108. Upon receiving the image designation information, the image file controller 108 searches for the image designated according to this information. When the image file controller 108 receives the image extraction command, the image file controller 108 reads the image data of the searched page. The image data and the document pattern stored in the document pattern memory 106 are input to the print data controller 109. The print data controller 109 synchronizes the input document pattern and the image data in page units, superimposes them on each other, replaces them with print data, and then sends them to the printer 110. The printing device 110 prints out a document and an image according to the input print data. When no image is selected, only the document is printed out as in a normal word processor.
Further, when printing an image over the entire surface of one page, the corresponding page of the document is set as a blank page, so that only one page of the image is printed.

When the image read by the image reading apparatus 101 is to be printed out as it is, a hard copy command is sent from the operation unit 111 to the image file controller 108. Upon receiving this instruction, the image file controller 108 sends the output information of the image input controller 103 as it is to the print data controller 109. As a result, the image read by the image reading apparatus 101 is printed out from the printing apparatus 110.

Further, when it is desired to make a hard copy of the image stored in the image file section 102, the operation section 111 inputs image designation information and an image extraction command. As a result, the image file controller 108 searches for an image on the page according to the input image designation information, and sends the read image data to the print data controller 109. As a result, the designated file image is printed out from the printer 110.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, by adopting the system configuration as described above, it is possible to print by combining a document and an image, the usage of the word processor is remarkably expanded, and an ordinary hard copy is used. (Electronic copy), and further, an arbitrary image file and an arbitrary copy thereof can be performed by one system, so that the system configuration has a wide range of use and is economically advantageous.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

101 ... Image reading device, 102 ... Image file unit, 10
3 ... Image input controller, 104 ... Document code file memory, 105 ... Character pattern memory, 106 ... Document pattern memory, 107 ... Document processing device, 108 ... Image file controller, 109 ... Print data controller, 110 ... Printing device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting various kinds of information, an image reading unit for reading an image, an image storage unit for storing an image read by the image reading unit, and an image to be inserted into document information. A document storage unit for adding and storing image designating information for designating a page and an image to be used therein, and the document information stored in the document storing unit is read and patterned in character units, and the image designating information is stored. A document processing unit for detecting, a document pattern memory for storing a document pattern patterned by the document processing unit in page units, and a document pattern memory for the image storage unit based on the image designation information detected by the document processing unit. An image selection unit for selectively extracting an image designated by the image designation information from the inside, and a document pattern of a designated page stored in the document pattern memory based on the image designation information. Based on the control information from the print information generation unit and the input unit that synthesizes the image and the designated image taken out by the image selection unit and converts into the print pattern information, normally the print information generation unit A word processor, comprising: a printing unit that prints out a document and an image according to the generated printing pattern information, and prints out only the image when a hard copy command is issued.