JPH0740309B2 - Line chart creation device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a technique for creating a business form (form) in an input editing apparatus such as a phototypesetting machine.

[Prior art and problems] Conventionally, in order to create a block for a business form containing a flat screen (halftone dots uniformly spread at a certain density), a ruler table without a flat screen is output by a typesetting machine. Then, a flat screen made separately was placed on the place where the flat screen of the output was desired to be photographically combined. This is due to the fact that ordinary phototypesetting machines do not have the function of generating a flat screen.

On the other hand, various types of devices having a function of uniformly generating a flat net are provided. However, these devices cannot generate a flat mesh with a predetermined shape in a predetermined area at a predetermined position only by uniformly generating them. And the character cannot be output.

[Means for Solving Problems] Therefore, according to the present invention, when creating a business form in which characters, a ruled table and a flat screen are mixed, a flat screen can be generated in a designated area in the ruled table. An object is to provide a producing device.

It is characterized in that a variety of business forms can be easily obtained by designating the superimposing method and superimposing level of characters, frames and flat screens.

In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a command for setting each frame forming the ruled table, a command for setting a flat screen in the frame, a command for superimposing a frame or a flat screen and a logical operation command for superimposing, An input unit for inputting characters etc. to be inserted inside the frame, a control unit for transferring the input data and overall control, coordinates of each frame set in the input unit, and logical operation of superposition and superposition Of the ruled table storage unit for storing ruled table data including attributes such as the order of characters, a character storage unit for storing character data including character codes of the characters set in the input unit and the attributes thereof, and the ruled table storage unit. A ruled table generating unit that generates a ruled table based on the ruled table data, a character generating unit that generates a character based on the character data in the character storage unit, and each frame and the flat mesh and the characters in each frame are superposed. Logical operation of performing the logical operation of Section, each frame, and a bitmap memory that develops an image in which the flat screen and characters in each frame are superimposed, a display unit that displays the image that is developed in the bitmap memory, and the image that is developed in the bitmap memory is output And an output unit for controlling the frame, the screen, and the data for designating the order of superimposing the characters and the logical operation of the superimposition and the data for instructing the screen in the frame as attributes of the frame coordinates and the character code. It is characterized by doing so.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing the present invention as a flow chart.

S1: Set the area for creating the ruled table on the input editor display screen.

S2: The ruled table is composed of vertical and horizontal ruled lines, but it is often more efficient to consider this as a set of frames and create it for each frame. This frame is 2
The rectangle is specified by the coordinates of the vertices on two diagonals. In S2, the coordinates of the frame, that is, the coordinates of the two vertices are set and the frame is displayed in the area on the screen.

S3: When the flat mesh is applied to the entire inside of the frame, the density of the flat mesh is specified as an attribute of the frame coordinates. That is, the flat mesh is attached to each frame as an attribute of each frame.

When setting a flat screen outside the frame, a new frame is set outside the frame and a flat screen is set inside the new frame.
Although the frame itself is composed of vertical and horizontal ruled lines as described above, if the thickness of this line is set to O, the frame is not displayed or output, only the internal flat screen is displayed or output.

S4: Frame (including the flat screen in the frame) Set the order in which the comrades are superimposed (superposition level). For example, when the level B frame is superimposed on the level A frame, the level A frame and its flat screen are first developed in the bit map memory, and the level B frame and the flat screen are superposed thereon.

Further, the level C frame and the flat screen are superimposed on the image in which the level A and level B frames and the flat screen are superimposed. In this way, the order (level) of overlapping is stored as a frame attribute.

This is because the image that is obtained differs depending on which frame is first overlapped. For example, in the case of white outline, details will be described later, but since the background image is deleted, it differs depending on what was in the background. It becomes an image. Therefore, if the stacking order is different, the image to be erased is different and the obtained image is also different.

The superimposing level is similarly set for the characters inserted in the frame, and the order of superimposing the frame and the characters is similarly controlled.

S5: Specify how to overlap the frame and the flat screen. There are several different methods of superimposing the frame and the flat screen, such as taking a logical sum or replacing them as described later. Specify it for each frame.

S6: Input characters. Many of the ruled tables have characters inserted, but when creating such a ruled table, the characters to be inserted are input for each frame.

S7: Designate how to superimpose characters and the order (level) of characters on the frame and the flat screen as the attributes of the input character.

S8: An image in which a frame, its flat screen and characters are superimposed is displayed on the display screen. The order of superposition and the method of superposition at this time are as described above.
As specified in S4, S5, and S7, details will be described later.

S9: If there is a place to be corrected by looking at the displayed image, the correction is performed for each frame.

S10: Output a completed ruled table including characters and a flat screen and store it in the magnetic storage device.

As described above, the ruled table is created by the image in which the frame, the flat screen and the characters are superposed. Next, an apparatus suitable for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

Reference numeral 21 is an input unit for inputting ruled table data consisting of the coordinates of the frame to be set and its attributes, character data consisting of a character code and its attributes, and an output command. The control unit 22 transfers the input data and controls the whole. The ruled table data input from the input unit 21 is stored in the ruled table storage unit 23, and the character data is stored in the character storage unit 24.
Transferred to and stored in.

When a display command is input from the input unit 21 to the data stored once, the control unit 22 transfers the ruled table data to the ruled table generating unit 25 and the character data to the character generating unit 26. The ruled table generating unit 25 generates a frame and a flat screen according to the ruled table data, and the character generating unit 26 generates a character according to the character data. The generated frame, the flat screen, and the character are superimposed on each other by the logical operation unit 27.

The superimposed images are developed in the bitmap memory 28 and displayed on the display unit 29. When an output command is input from the input unit 21, the data stored in the bitmap memory 28 is transferred to the output unit 210.

However, when data is transferred to a typesetting machine via a magnetic storage device such as a floppy disk, it is not shown in the drawing.
The ruled table data and the character data are directly transferred from the control unit 22 to the magnetic storage device or the like without being expanded in the bitmap memory 28.

FIG. 3 shows some examples of overlapping. First, (1) will be described. 31 indicates a frame, and a flat screen is set inside. 32 is a frame having a flat mesh with a density different from 31. The white part of the frames 31 and 32 is 0, and the black part is 1, and the logical sum is the frame 33, and the replacement is the frame 34. White and white are white, white and black are black,
Black and black become black. In replacement, the part of the frame 31 that overlaps with 32 is erased and 32 is superimposed on it.

In FIG. 3 (2), 35 is a black (solid) frame, and 36
Is a letter. If character 36 is specified as white, it becomes 37. Both 38 and 39 in FIG. 3 (3) are solid frames. When the exclusive OR of the overlap of two images is taken, white and white become white, white and black become black, black and white become black, and black and black become white.
In this way, various images can be obtained by designating the order and type (logical operation) of overlapping the frame, the flat screen, and the characters.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the above-mentioned frame, the flat screen, and the superposition of characters. In the frame of level A, 41 is first developed in the bitmap memory. Next, by performing a logical operation with the level A frame 41, the image in which the level B frame 42 is superimposed is developed in the bitmap memory. Next, the level C frame 43 is overlapped. Finally, the character 44 is overlaid and developed in the bitmap memory to create the desired image 45.

In this way, each character and frame are independent of each other,
Each one is expanded in the bitmap memory 28 created on the display screen. Therefore, if it is necessary to make corrections for some reason, the correction may be made in units of the relevant frames.

As described above, the present invention is characterized in that it is handled on a frame-by-frame basis, and the level to be overlapped is instructed in S4 of FIG. 1 and stored as an attribute of the frame coordinate or character code. Thereby, by simply designating the overlapping position in the ruled table, a flat mesh having a desired shape can be generated in a desired area.

FIG. 5 is input by the input unit 21 of FIG.
23 is an example of a structure of ruled table data and character data respectively stored in 23 and a character storage unit 24.

(1) is ruled table data, which is composed of frame coordinates and frame attributes. Reference numeral 51 is a frame coordinate, and the vertex coordinates on the diagonal of two points of the frame are designated, and the position and size are indicated. The following 52 is a flat screen code indicating presence / absence of flat screen, which is an attribute, and density. 53 is a superimposing level, that is, data of the superimposing order described in FIG. Reference numeral 54 is a superposition code, which is a code for selecting a logical operation such as the above-mentioned logical sum, replacement, and blanking.

For example, if the code is a replacement code, this frame is replaced with the image already developed in the bit map memory and superimposed, so that a frame such as 37 in FIG. 3 is obtained. By changing the superposition level 53 and the superposition code 54 at the time of input, the superposition order and the superposition method are changed to create a desired image.

Reference numeral 55 is a character number of a character to be inserted in the frame, and the character corresponding to this character number is displayed in the frame by referring to character data described later. 56 is a character set code that specifies the character spacing, line pitch, shape, size, and the like. When displaying and outputting, the character specified by the character number 55 is assembled and displayed in the frame according to the character set code. After that, the other attributes 57 are followed by different frame coordinates 58 and the data of the attributes.

(2) is an example of the structure of character data, and 59 is the above-mentioned character number. The character to be inserted in the frame is specified by referring to this number. 510 is a character code, 511 is a superimposition level indicating the order in which the characters, frames, and flat screens are superposed.
Is a superposition code indicating how to superimpose this character on a frame or a flat screen. 513 is another attribute, and the data of another character follows with another character number 514.

FIG. 6 shows a concrete example of the logical operation unit 27 of FIG. Reference numeral 61 is a discriminating circuit for sending the signal of each image to each logical operation circuit according to the designation of the superimposing method which is the attribute of each frame and the character, that is, the logical operation of the superimposing. The result of the logical operation is written in the bitmap memory 62 (28 in FIG. 2).

63 to 66 are logical operation circuits. 63 is a circuit which takes the logical sum of two images. This is a circuit for creating an image of the frame 33 shown in (1) of FIG. 3 by inputting the image signals of the frame and characters from A and B and performing a logical OR. Reference numeral 64 is a circuit for taking an exclusive OR, and performs an operation corresponding to (3) in FIG. Reference numeral 65 denotes a white circuit, which performs a calculation corresponding to (2) in FIG. From E, input the image signal of the outline frame and characters, negate and enter F
The logical product of the white image and the image to be white input is the white image. 66 is a circuit for replacement. Enter a (solid) image in which the image to be replaced is filled from G, and press H
Enter the image of the frame or character that can be replaced from. The image entered from H is outlined by the image of G. The logical sum of the white part and the image input from I is obtained and replaced.

FIG. 7 is an example of creating a ruled table according to the present invention.
It shows how to create in the order of (1), (2), and (3). 74
Has a flat screen 71a inside in the level A frame and is first expanded in the bit map memory. Reference numeral 72 denotes several frames of level B, which are superposed on the frame of 71 by processing such as logical sum or replacement, and the background flat screen 71a is removed. 73
Are laid together with the frame 72 with a flat mesh in the frame 72. 74 is a character inserted in the frame. First, the frame coordinates of 71 (X ₀ , Y ₀ ,)
(X _n , Y _n ), the superimposing level, the superimposing method, etc. (S7, S4 in FIG. 1) are designated and set from the input unit 21. Next frame 71
The setting and the density of the flat screen 71a are designated in the inside of the box through the input section 21 (S2 in FIG. 1). The input ruled table data is transferred to the ruled table generating unit 25. The ruled table generating unit 25 generates a frame 71 and a flat screen 71a based on the transferred data, expands the frame and the flat screen in the bitmap memory 28, and sets the 71 frame and the flat screen to the seventh block.
It is displayed on the screen of the display unit 29 as shown in (1) of the figure.

Next, the coordinates of the frame 72 and its attributes are set. And this frame 72
If you specify to display, this data is
Transferred to. The ruled table generating unit 25 generates a frame 72 and a flat screen 73,
The logical operation unit 27 superimposes the frame 71 on the basis of the superposition attribute and develops and displays it in the bitmap memory 28 as shown in (2).

Next, the frame for inputting characters is specified, and at the same time, the attributes of character superposition are set. When a command is issued to display the input character, the character data is transferred to the character generator 26. The character generation unit 26 generates a character, and the image is superposed on the image of (2) according to the superimposition attribute of the character set by the logical operation unit 27.
Is expanded and displayed on.

The ruled table including the flat screen and characters created in this way is output from the output unit 210. In this way, it is possible to obtain a ruled table in which a frame, a flat screen and characters are combined.

Although the description has been given based on the embodiment shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, frame 4 in Figure 4
If all 1,42,43 are composed of character code and its attribute,
It is possible to obtain a stack of characters in the same way.
Similarly, different types of flat screens can be overlapped, characters and flat screens can be overlapped, and the contents can be selected as necessary. Then, such processing can be used as one of the advertising methods, for example, by expressing the background of the headline letters of the newspaper with a halftone screen.

Further, the term "flat screen" is not limited to a strict flat screen and may be a pattern such as hatching.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the transfer process of a flat screen, which was conventionally required when creating a ruled table with a flat screen, is omitted and a predetermined frame is provided with a predetermined pattern. It is possible to easily create a ruled table in which a flat screen having a density is generated and mixed with characters. Also, since the order of superimposing has the method of superimposing as an attribute of a frame and a character, a desired ruled table can be obtained by inputting the frame and the character in any order.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing the present invention in a flow chart, FIG. 2 is an apparatus diagram suitable for carrying out the present invention, FIG. 3 is some examples of how frames and characters are superposed, and FIG. 4 is FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a superimposing level, FIG. 5 is an example of the structure of ruled table data and character data, FIG. 6 is an example of an overlapping logic circuit, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for creating an example of a ruled table. 21: Input section 22: Control section 23: Ruled table storage section 24: Character storage section 25: Ruled table generation section 26: Character generation section 27: Logical operation section 28: Bit map memory 29: Display section 210: Output section 63: OR circuit 64: Exclusive OR circuit 65: White circuit 66: Replacement circuit

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification number Internal reference number FI Technical display location 7315-5L G06F 15/20 548 Z (72) Inventor Takashi Inoyama 2-chome Minami-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo No. 26-13 Shaken Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tomoko Yanase 2-26-13 Minami-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo Norihiro Eguchi Examiner, Shaken Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A command for setting each frame forming a ruled table, a command for setting a flat screen in the frame, a command for superimposing a frame or a flat screen and a logical operation command for superimposing, and inserting the inside of the frame. Input unit for inputting characters etc., control unit for transferring input data and overall control, coordinates of each frame set in the input unit, overlay logical operations and attributes such as overlay order Based on the ruled table data of the ruled table storage unit, a character table storage unit for storing the ruled table data consisting of A ruled table generating section that generates a ruled table, a character generating section that generates a character based on the character data in the character storage section, and a logical operation of superimposing each frame and the flat screen and characters in each frame. Logical operation part that performs according to the input order of superposition, each frame and each A bitmap memory for developing an image in which the flat screen and characters in the inside are superimposed, a display unit for displaying the image expanded in the bitmap memory, and an output unit for outputting the image expanded in the bitmap memory are provided. , The data for designating the order of superimposing the frame, the flat screen and the character and the logical operation of the superimposition and the data for designating the flat screen in the frame are provided as the attributes of the frame coordinates and the character code. Line chart creation device.