JPH01295852A - Image recording apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To realize highlight color recording rich in versatility, by adding a color attribute to control data and forming the image data of a highlight color according to the color attribute data. CONSTITUTION:An input character row generating part 11 supplies a generated input character row 12 and control data 13 to which color attribute data is added to a character generation part 14. The control data 13 is constituted of image start order data for indicating the start of the formation of image data becoming a video signal, font memory address data for indicating the address of a font memory, font size data for showing the font size of one charac ter, printing position data showing a printing starting position and color attrib ute data consisting of the attributes of a highlight color, a base color, a mask or the like. A CPU 20 performs the control of the respective machinery in the character generation part 14 and the input control of data or a signal. By this constitution, when the color attributes added to control data are entirely a highlight color, all of characters A1, A2, A3, A4 are printed on recording paper 30 by the highlight color (shaded part).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus that can generate images such as highlight colors that make recorded images stand out.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, such a device has been used in a printer, etc., and generates image information according to an input character string consisting of each character code as shown in FIG. 7 and control information configured as shown in FIG. In addition, according to the highlight color start and end function codes of the input character string, predetermined information of the image information (in the embodiment, information on the A2 and A3 codes of the input character string) has a highlight color or pace color attribute. It was set. Then, an image is recorded in the recording section based on the image information generated above, and as shown in FIG. A3 (shaded area) was formed at a predetermined printing position and font size.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in Ha, the image information of the highlight color or base color is generated according to the highlight color function code of the input string, so if you want to change the specified highlight color, you need to process the input string. This poses a problem in that the work has to be redone, which makes the work complicated, and it becomes difficult to realize a highly flexible highlight color print mark.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an image recording device that has flexibility in highlight colors and print markings and can easily change a specified highlight color. shall be.

[Means and effects for solving the problem] In the present invention, control information consisting of an image start command, font memory address, character font size, printing position information, etc., includes highlight color, base color, mask, etc. an information adding means for adding color attribute information composed of attributes; and an information generating means for generating image information having a color attribute in accordance with control information including the color attribute information; Image information having a color attribute is generated based on the information and the control information, and both items are recorded in accordance with the generated image information.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 6.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image recording apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, input character string generation section 11
The generated input character string 12 and the control information 13 with color attribute information as shown in FIG. 2 are sent to the character generation unit 14.
is supplied to. As shown in FIG. 2, the control information 13 includes image start command information that instructs the start of generation of image information that becomes a video signal, font memory address information that specifies the address of a font memory, which will be described later, and character information. Font size information indicating the font size,
It is composed of print position information indicating the start position of printing and information on the above-mentioned color attributes including attributes such as highlight color, base color, and mask.

The character generating section 14 has a configuration as shown in the block diagram of FIG. Performs input/output control such as

The operation panel 21 inputs various signals that convey instructions from an operator to the CPU 20.

The I10 interface 22 inputs and outputs various information and signals from the input character generating section 11 and the recording section 15, which will be described later.

A control program for generating a video signal is stored in the ROM 23, and the CPU 20 executes generation of the video signal based on this program.

The RAM 24 stores the input character string 12 from the input character generation section 11 and the control information 13 taken in from the I10 interface 22.

The font memory 25 stores a font (character image) corresponding to the character code of the input character string, and
The PU 20 reads the font corresponding to the character code of the input character string from the font memory 25 based on the font memory address and font size information of the control information stored in the RAM 24, and reads the print position information and input of the control information. The read font is written into the base color video buffer memory 26 or the highlight color video buffer 1 memory 27 based on the highlight color function code of the character string (see FIG. 7). Then, the CPU 20 uses the information in the base color video buffer 1 memory 26 or the highlight color video buffer 1 memory 27 as a base in synchronization with a synchronization signal 16 such as a page synchronization signal/row synchronization signal from the recording unit 15. Color or highlight color video signal 17
．． 18 and is supplied to the recording section 15. Note that only one buffer memory is set to store the font read out based on the print position information and the highlight color function code of the input character string (see Figure 7), and the base color or high It is also possible to change the font storage area and store it according to the light color function code.

The recording unit 15 receives the video signal 1 from the character generating unit 14.
Based on 7.18, a base color or highlight color character image is displayed on the recording paper.

Next, the character generation operation of the character generation section 14 shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 will be explained based on the flowcharts in FIGS. 4 and 5.

In FIG. 4, when an input character string and control information are input from the input character string generation unit 11 to the character generation unit 14, the CPU 2
After storing this information in the RAM 24, 0 extracts the font memory address, font size of one character, print position, and color attribute information from the control information (
Step 101). Based on this information, C
The character counter, highlight color processing flag, and imaging position in the PU are initialized (step 102), and the video buffer 1 memory 27 is cleared and initialized (step 103).

Next, CPLI20 uses the character
A character code for one character is extracted from the input character string stored in the RAM 24 according to the count value of the counter (step 104), and it is determined whether there is a character code to be processed for character generation (step 105).

Here, if there is no character code to be processed, the character generation operation is terminated, and if there is a character code to be processed, the count value of the character counter is updated by one (
Step 106). Then, it is determined whether the above-introduced character code is a highlight color function code (step 107).

Here, if the above character code is a highlight color function code, it is determined whether the highlight color function code is a highlight color start function code indicating the start of highlight color processing (step 108). If it is a start function code, the CPU 20 sets a highlight color processing flag (step 109), and if it is not a highlight color start function code, it determines that it is a highlight color end function code and performs highlight color processing. To reset the flag (step 110), the process returns to step 103 to initialize the video buffer 1 memory.

Further, in step 107, if the character code is not a highlight color function code, the process proceeds from 2A to FIG. Along with reading (step 11)
1) Calculate the imaging position (step 112)
. Then, it is determined what type of processing attribute the color attribute information of the control information indicates (step 113).
.

Here, if the color attribute information is AH, that is, all highlight colors, a font subjected to highlight color processing is written to the imaging position of the video buffer memory 27 for highlight colors (step 1).
14).

Further, if the color attribute information indicates PH, that is, a partial highlight color, it is determined whether the highlight color processing flag is turned on or not in step 11.
5) If it is turned on, in step 114, the font subjected to highlight color processing is inserted into the imaging position of the video buffer memory 27 for highlight color as described above, and if it is not turned on, writes the font to the imaging location of the base color video buffer memory 26 (step 116).

Also, if the color attribute information is 81, that is, the base color, then in step 116, as above, select the base color debuff? The font is aged to an imaging location in memory 26.

If the color attribute information indicates Ml, that is, a mask, the imaging position is directly updated (step 117), and the process returns from step 1A to step 103 in FIG. 4 to initialize the video buffer 1 memory, and then The character code is extracted and the above character generation operation is repeated, and when all the character codes to be processed are exhausted, the above operation is ended.

The font stored in the video buffer memory is supplied as a video signal to the recording unit 15 in synchronization with a synchronization signal from the recording unit 15, and the recording unit 15
Based on the video signals 17 and 18 from the character generating section 14, a base color or highlight color character image is developed on the recording paper.

Therefore, in the present invention, by simply specifying the color attribute added to the control information, that is, in the case of recording by specifying a partial highlight color, as shown in FIG. 6(a), the corresponding If only the characters A2 and A3 are printed on the recording paper 30 in highlight colors (shaded areas), and all the characters are printed in accordance with the instruction to use highlight colors, the method shown in Fig. 6 (
As shown in b), all characters A1, A2, A3, A4
is printed on the recording paper 30 in the highlight color (hatched area), and in the case of recording according to instructions for all base colors, all characters A1 and A are printed in the highlight color (hatched area), as shown in FIG.
6 (d
), the corresponding characters can be erased and printed on the recording paper 30. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to record a highly flexible highlight color image as shown in FIG. 6 for the same input character string by simply changing the color attribute.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the present invention, a color attribute is added to the control information and image information of a highlight color is generated according to the color attribute information. Highlight color recording can be achieved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image recording apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of control information, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of control information.
4 and 5 are flowcharts of the character generation operation of the character generation section shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the character generation section shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an input character string, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing conventional control information, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of an image recorded on recording paper. It is a figure which shows the conventional example of an image. 10.30--Recording paper, 11--Input character string generation section, 12--Input character string, 13--Control information, 14-
...Character generation section, 15...Recording section, 16...Synchronization signal, 17°18...Video signal, 20...CPU,
21...Operation panel, 22...I10 interface, 23...ROM, 24...RAM, 25...
・Font memory, 26.27...Buffer memory, Figure 2

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In an image recording device that generates image information based on coded information and control information and records an image according to the generated image information, information adding means adds color attribute information to the control information; An image recording apparatus comprising: information generating means for generating image information having a color attribute according to the color attribute information. (2) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the color attribute information is attribute information of a highlight color, a base color, and a mask.