JP2008060778A - Image edit system, image processing system, image edit program, and image processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image edit system capable of extracting an object from a document image, and editing the document by using the reduced image of the object. <P>SOLUTION: The image storage means of the image edit system stores the images of a divided area and the reduction images corresponding to images for editing. A reduction image display means displays the reduction images corresponding to the images for editing, which are stored by the image storage means. A document display means displays the document to be edited. A movement image display means selects the reduction image displayed by the reduction image display means and displays it, while moving it linked with a movement operation by an operator. When the operator designates the copying of the reduction image being displayed by the reduction image display means onto the document displayed by the document display means, an image copying means copies an area image, which corresponds to the reduction image displayed by the movement image display means and is stored by the image storage means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an image editing system, an image processing system, an image editing program, and an image processing program.

In recent years, as a technique for editing a document composed of electronic information, a target document is created by referring to or copying necessary electronic information from another document.
On the other hand, in such a document, there are parts (regions) having various characteristics. For example, a character area composed of characters, a photograph area composed of a photograph, a graphic area composed of a vector image, and the like. Thus, it is necessary to edit including an area having various attributes.
As a technique related to these, for example, in Patent Document 1, an image editing program is input with a step of receiving an input of an image for the purpose of easily executing a process according to the application to a necessary part in the image. A step of extracting a partial image having a region having the same attribute (photo attribute, graphic attribute, character attribute) from the captured image, a step of displaying a thumbnail obtained by reducing the extracted partial image, and a process corresponding to the application in advance. A step of displaying a plurality of designated processing areas, a step of accepting an instruction to assign thumbnails to the designated processing areas, and a facsimile transmission associated with the designated processing images in which thumbnails are assigned to partial images corresponding to the thumbnails. And causing the computer to execute the step of executing the process.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-240672

  The present invention has been made in the background of such a background art, and can extract a region (hereinafter also referred to as an object) from a document image and edit a document using a reduced image of the object. An object of the present invention is to provide an image editing system, an image processing system, an image editing program, and an image processing program.

The gist of the present invention for achieving the object lies in the inventions of the following items.
[1] Image input means for inputting an image;
Area dividing means for dividing the image input by the image input means into areas;
Image reducing means for reducing the image of the area divided by the area dividing means;
Editing image correspondence means for associating the image reduced by the image reduction means with an editing image;
Image storage means for storing an image of the area divided by the area dividing means and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image correspondence means corresponding to the image;
Reduced image display means for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored in the image storage means;
A document display means for displaying a document to be edited;
Moving image display means for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display means when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means to the document displayed by the document display means. An image editing system for copying an area image stored by the image storage unit corresponding to

[2] Image input means for inputting an image;
Area dividing means for dividing the image input by the image input means into areas;
Image reducing means for reducing the image of the area divided by the area dividing means;
Editing image correspondence means for associating the image reduced by the image reduction means with an editing image;
Image storage means for storing an image of an area divided by the area dividing means and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding means corresponding to the image. Processing system.

[3] Image storage means for storing an image of the divided area and a reduced image corresponding to the image and associated with the editing image;
Reduced image display means for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored in the image storage means;
A document display means for displaying a document to be edited;
Moving image display means for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display means when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means to the document displayed by the document display means. An image editing system for copying an area image stored by the image storage unit corresponding to

[4] The area dividing unit further divides the image of the divided area in a hierarchical manner,
The image editing system according to [1], wherein when the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means is selected, the image of the hierarchically divided area can be selected.

[5] The reduced image displayed by the moving image display means sets the level of the hierarchically divided image according to the reduction ratio of the reduced image. Image editing system.

[6]
An image input function for inputting images,
An area dividing function for dividing an image input by the image input function into areas;
An image reduction function for reducing an image of an area divided by the area division function;
An editing image corresponding function for associating an image reduced by the image reduction function with an editing image;
An image storage function for storing an image of a region divided by the region dividing function and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding function corresponding to the image;
A reduced image display function for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored by the image storage function;
A document display function for displaying the document to be edited;
A moving image display function for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display function when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function to the document displayed by the document display function. An image editing program that realizes an image copying function for copying an area image stored by the image storage function corresponding to the above.

[7]
An image input function for inputting images,
An area dividing function for dividing an image input by the image input function into areas;
An image reduction function for reducing an image of an area divided by the area division function;
An editing image corresponding function for associating an image reduced by the image reduction function with an editing image;
An image storage function for storing an image of a region divided by the region dividing function and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding function corresponding to the image is realized. Processing program.

[8]
An image storage function for storing an image of the divided area and a reduced image corresponding to the image and associated with the editing image;
A reduced image display function for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored by the image storage function;
A document display function for displaying the document to be edited;
A moving image display function for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display function when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function to the document displayed by the document display function. An image editing program that realizes an image copying function for copying an area image stored by the image storage function corresponding to the above.

  According to the image editing system, the image processing system, the image editing program, and the image processing program according to the present invention, an object is extracted from a document image and a reduced image of the object is compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided. Can be used to edit the document.

First, in order to facilitate understanding of the present embodiment, an outline of the present embodiment will be described.
In the present embodiment, object division is performed from a document image, and editing in units of objects is performed using a reduced image for editing (for example, an icon) and a document displayed in actual size.
In a document editing application used when editing a document, when a plurality of documents are displayed in an attempt to edit using a plurality of documents, the documents are displayed at the same reduction ratio. In this case, when an operator (hereinafter also referred to as a user) selects and combines necessary objects from a plurality of pages, the screens of both documents become large and sometimes overlap each other, making it difficult to work, and editing efficiency. Will be lower. In addition, when editing using icons, it is not possible to place an object at an appropriate position or make a fine adjustment when determining the position of an object when combining the icons. The present embodiment solves these problems.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
Each figure shows an embodiment. FIG. 1 is a conceptual module configuration diagram of the present embodiment.
The module generally refers to a component such as software or hardware that can be logically separated. Therefore, the module in the present embodiment indicates not only a module in a program but also a module in a hardware configuration. Therefore, the present embodiment also serves as an explanation of a program, a system, and a method. In addition, the modules correspond almost one-to-one with the functions. However, in mounting, one module may be composed of one program, or a plurality of modules may be composed of one program. A plurality of programs may be used. The plurality of modules may be executed by one computer, or one module may be executed by a plurality of computers in a distributed or parallel environment. Hereinafter, “connection” includes not only physical connection but also logical connection.
The system includes a configuration in which a plurality of computers, hardware, devices, and the like are connected via a network and the like, and includes a case where the system is realized by one computer, hardware, devices, and the like.
Hereinafter, icons used in the user interface will be mainly exemplified and described as editing images.

As shown in FIG. 1, the image editing system and image processing system according to the present embodiment include an image input module 101, an object division module 103, an object reduction module 105, an icon correspondence generation module 107, a material DB 109, and a material display module 111. , An edit document display module 113, a drag image display module 115, and an edit module 117.
As shown in FIG. 1, the image input module 101 is connected to the object division module 103 and inputs an image to the system. More specifically, scanners, fax machines, and the like are used for inputting documents as digital images. In addition, as an input of an already input image, a reading module from a storage device such as a document database, a receiving module receiving from another system via a communication line, and the like are applicable.
The input image is mainly used as a material for editing. The input image may be only one page or a plurality of pages of two or more pages.

As shown in FIG. 1, the object division module 103 is connected to the image input module 101 and the object reduction module 105, and divides the image input by the image input module 101 into regions. Then, the image of the divided area may be further divided hierarchically.
As shown in FIG. 1, the object reduction module 105 is connected to the object division module 103 and the icon correspondence generation module 107, and reduces the image of the area divided by the object division module 103.
As shown in FIG. 1, the icon correspondence generation module 107 is connected to the object reduction module 105 and the material DB 109, and associates the image reduced by the object reduction module 105 with the image for editing.
As shown in FIG. 1, the material DB 109 is connected to an icon correspondence generation module 107 and a material display module 111, and an image of an area divided by the object division module 103 and an icon correspondence generation module 107 corresponding to the image. The reduced image associated with the editing image is stored. This is a so-called image database.

As shown in FIG. 1, the material display module 111 is connected to the material DB 109 and the edited document display module 113, and displays a reduced image associated with the editing image stored in the material DB 109.
As shown in FIG. 1, the edited document display module 113 is connected to the material display module 111 and the drag image display module 115, and displays a document to be edited.

As shown in FIG. 1, the drag image display module 115 is connected to the edited document display module 113 and the edit module 117, selects a reduced image displayed by the material display module 111, and is linked to a moving operation by the user. The reduced image is displayed while being moved. When selecting a reduced image displayed by the material display module 111, an image of an area divided hierarchically by the object division module 103 can be selected. Further, the reduced image displayed by the drag image display module 115 can set the level of the hierarchically divided image according to the reduction ratio of the reduced image. Further, when it is detected by the user's moving operation that the selected reduced image is on the document to be edited, the reduced image can be displayed at the magnification of the document to be edited.
As shown in FIG. 1, the editing module 117 is connected to the drag image display module 115, and a reduced image displayed by the material display module 111 is displayed on the document displayed by the edited document display module 113 by the user. When copying is designated, the area image stored in the material DB 109 corresponding to the reduced image displayed by the drag image display module 115 is copied.

An example of image processing performed by the image editing system and the image processing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Mainly, the object dividing module 103 will divide an image into regions.
A document 201 in FIG. 2A is an example of an image input by the image input module 101. As shown in FIG. 2, the title is written in large letters at the top, and the first chapter is a one-column set, but the second chapter is a two-column set. This document is input as a mere digital image, and its structure and the like are not defined.

A document 211 in FIG. 2B is a result of dividing the document 201 into regions.
The document 211 divides the area hierarchically, and the first layer is composed of four areas: an area 212, an area 213, an area 216, and an area 221.
An area 212 is a title area. Whether or not the title is a title is determined using a knowledge database about the document. The region 212 is only the first layer, and is not below the second layer.
An area 213 is an area of the first chapter. The area 213 has two layers, and the second layer includes areas 214 and 215.

Area 216 is the area of Chapter 2. The region 216 has three layers, the second layer includes regions 217 and 218, and the third layer further includes regions 219 and 220 within the region 218.
Similarly to the area 216, the area 221 is the area of the second chapter. The area 221 has three layers, the second layer is the area 222 and the area 223, and the third layer is further within the area 223. , There is a region 225.

Note that the division of the area is performed by extracting an area delimited by a blank or the like from the image. Of course, the region may be extracted by other existing methods. Also, the type (text area, photo area, table area, graphic area, etc.) is determined from the characteristics of the image in that area.
Of the regions, the text region may be converted into text data by performing character recognition. For a photographic region, image compression suitable for the image in that region may be performed.
Further, a hierarchy refers to a case where an area is included in an area, and the determination of the area is performed by a threshold value or an algorithm that is different for each hierarchy.

An example of the data structure handled by the image editing system and image processing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The table in FIG. 3 stores the division result by the object division module 103.
This table has an ID column 301, a type column 302, an upper left coordinate column 303, a lower right coordinate column 304, a parent column 305, a child column 306, and a content column 307.
The ID column 301 stores an identifier for uniquely identifying each area in this image.
The type column 302 stores the type of the target area, that is, a text area, a photo area, a table area, a graphic area, and the like.

  An upper left coordinate field 303 and a lower right coordinate field 304 represent the position of the target region. For example, the coordinate system is such that the vertical axis of the image is the Y axis, the horizontal axis is the X axis, and the upper left of the image is the origin (0, 0). Thereby, the position of the region can be specified. Further, although the area is assumed to be rectangular, it may be another figure, and an arbitrary area can be specified by using a mask image.

The parent column 305 and the child column 306 are for indicating a hierarchical structure between regions. That is, the upper column area identifier is stored in the parent column 305, and the lower layer region identifier is stored in the child column 306. Note that identifiers of a plurality of areas may be stored.
The content column 307 stores the name of the file in which the image of the area is stored. In the case of a text area, a character string as a result of character recognition may be stored.

Next, the function and operation (operation) will be described.
A processing example performed by the image editing system and the image processing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 4A shows a basic process. FIG. 4B is obtained by adding processing based on automatic determination to basic processing. FIG. 4C is obtained by adding selection processing by the user to basic processing. Note that the processing of both FIG. 4B and FIG. 4C may be added.

In step S 401, the image input module 101 inputs an image as an editing material.
In step S402, the object division module 103 divides the image input in step S401 into regions (objects).
In step S403, the object reduction module 105 generates a reduced image of each area divided in step S402. A reduced image used in the material display module 111 or the drag image display module 115 is generated. Therefore, the reduction ratio is a value that is set to the size when displayed as an icon.

In step S404, the icon correspondence generation module 107 associates the icon with the reduced image generated in step S403. That is, when a user selects an area or a reduced image of the area and an icon image is required as a user interface, the reduced image is used to indicate the area or the like. In order to use it as such, it is linked with a reduced image of the area as one of icon images representing the area in the user interface software.
In step S405, the material display module 111 displays an image composed of reduced images. When editing with multiple documents displayed, one document is the main editing target (hereinafter also referred to as the main document), and the other documents are documents that have copy sources, documents to be referred to (hereinafter referred to as “documents”). Often referred to as a material document). In this case, it is desirable that the main document is displayed in the same size as the actual document, and the material document is displayed in a size that can display a larger number of documents so as to be WYSIWYG (What You See What You Get). Therefore, the material document is reduced and displayed in the document editing application.
In step S406, the edited document display module 113 displays the document to be edited. That is, the main document is displayed in full size in the document editing application. It does not necessarily have to be actual size, but it is displayed larger than the material document. Accordingly, the main document is also reduced or enlarged for display.

Step S407 is processing when the user selects a source document area on the document editing application and performs drag processing to copy it to the main document. That is, the dragged image display module 115 displays the reduced image as an icon in conjunction with the moving operation by the user. If the dragged reduced image is on the main document, it is displayed at the same magnification as the main document. Thereby, at the time of editing, in determining the position of the copy source area at the copy destination, it is possible to arrange at an appropriate position and make fine adjustments.
Step S408 is a process of copying the original image in the area corresponding to the reduced image to the main document when the user drops the area of the material document on the document editing application (execution of copy editing). . That is, the editing module 117 copies the source document area to the main document. Then, the main document after the copy editing is displayed again.
Thereafter, the processing of Step S407 and Step S408 is repeated by the operation by the user.

The following step S4021, step S4022, and step S4023 can be added to the process of step S402.
In step S4021, whether or not to extract a hierarchical object is set. In step S402, the area is divided based on the setting. The setting here includes setting by the user and automatic setting. As the automatic setting, whether or not to extract a hierarchical area is set according to the case where the image has only a single area and a plurality of areas. Alternatively, it can be set according to the accuracy of region extraction.
In step S4022, it is set to divide or not divide for each object. If it is set to divide for each object, the area is divided in step S402.
In step S4023, the user sets whether or not to extract a hierarchical object.

Step S4041 can be added to the process of step S404.
In step S4041, it can be set by the user whether to paste a hierarchical object as an icon.

The following step S4051, step S4052, step S4053, and step S4054 can be added to the process of step S405.
In step S4051, the hierarchical level is set according to the reduction rate of the icon image (reduced image). For example, if the reduction rate is large (displayed relatively large), it is possible to display up to the lower level in step S405, and if the reduction rate is low, it is set not to display the lower level. The material image is displayed based on this setting.
In step S4052, the object unit property can be viewed on the icon image (reduced image). The reduced image is associated with properties such as the size of the image, the creation date and time, and the hierarchy level, and the properties can be displayed by designating the area of the material document.

In step S4053, it is possible to set whether to display an icon image for each object. For example, it is possible to display icon images so that only the region of the type is a photo, and not to display icon images of other types of regions.
In step S4054, if the source document area has a hierarchy, the hierarchy level of the area to be displayed can be designated. Based on this designation, only a certain level of hierarchy can be displayed. For example, it can be designated to display up to two levels and display only two levels.

An example of editing processing performed by the image editing system and the image processing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
On the material screen 501 in FIG. 5, the material display module 111 displays the material document in a reduced state. Then, the edited document display module 113 displays the main document on the composition screen 510. As shown in FIG. 5, the material screen 501 displays a plurality of material documents (the material document 502 to the material document 506). Each material document has an area. The material document 502 includes an object 5021, the material document 503 includes an object 5031A and an object 5032, the material document 504 includes an object 5041 and an object 5042, and the material document 505 includes an object 5051A and an object 5052. The document 506 has an object 5061. The area is displayed so that the user can select it. An object 5031A is a text area, and character recognition is performed by the object division module 103, and a character string is stored as contents. Further, it is assumed that the object 5051A is a photographic area and image compression is being performed.
By arranging the material screen 501 and the composition screen 510, it is possible to perform composition work while simultaneously referring to a plurality of material documents. In addition, it is possible to edit the document without displaying both the document to be edited and the material document in actual size, and the working efficiency can be remarkably improved.

  The user moves the pointer 520A onto the object 5031A using a pointing device such as a mouse. Here, the properties of the object 5031A can be displayed. Here, when an operation of moving (dragging) the pointer 520A while pressing the right mouse button on the object 5031A is performed, the icon of the object 5031A is displayed in the state of moving to the position of the pointer 520B as shown in FIG. An object 5031B is displayed as an image. When the document moves to the top of the document 511 (position of the pointer 520C), like the object 5031C, the object 5031A is displayed in accordance with the magnification of the document to be edited (document 511). When the user releases the right mouse button (drop), the copy operation is performed at that position. Here, since the content of the object 5031A is a character string, copying as a character string is performed. Further, when the object 5031A has a lower hierarchy, when copying, it is possible to allow the user to specify up to which hierarchy to copy.

  FIG. 6 shows an example in which an object 5051A is displayed as in FIG. Since image compression is performed on the photographic area of the object 5051A, copy processing is performed after decoding the compressed image during the copy operation.

  A hardware configuration example of the image processing system and the image editing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The configuration illustrated in FIG. 7 is an image processing system or an image editing system configured by, for example, a personal computer (PC). The image input module 101 is a data reading unit 617 such as a scanner, and a data output unit 618 such as a printer. The hardware structural example provided with is shown.

  A CPU (Central Processing Unit) 601 includes various modules described in the above-described embodiments, that is, an object division module 103, an object reduction module 105, an icon correspondence generation module 107, a material display module 111, an edited document display module 113, It is a control part which performs the process according to the computer program which described the execution sequence of each module, such as the drag image display module 115 and the edit module 117.

  A ROM (Read Only Memory) 602 stores programs used by the CPU 601, calculation parameters, and the like. A RAM (Random Access Memory) 603 stores programs used in the execution of the CPU 601, parameters that change as appropriate during the execution, and the like. These are connected to each other by a host bus 604 including a CPU bus.

  The host bus 604 is connected to an external bus 606 such as a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect / Interface) bus via a bridge 605.

  A keyboard 608 and a pointing device 609 such as a mouse are input devices operated by a user. The display 610 includes a liquid crystal display device or a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), and displays various types of information as text and image information.

  An HDD (Hard Disk Drive) 611 includes a hard disk, drives the hard disk, and records or reproduces a program executed by the CPU 601 and information. The hard disk constitutes the material DB 109, and stores an image input by the image input module 101, an image reduced by the object reduction module 105, and the like. Further, various computer programs such as various other data processing programs are stored.

  The drive 612 reads data or a program recorded on a mounted removable recording medium 613 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or a semiconductor memory, and the data or program is read from the interface 607 and the external bus 606. , And supplied to the RAM 603 connected via the bridge 605 and the host bus 604. The removable recording medium 613 can also be used as a data recording area similar to a hard disk.

  The connection port 614 is a port for connecting the external connection device 615, and has a connection unit such as USB or IEEE1394. The connection port 614 is connected to the CPU 601 and the like via the interface 607, the external bus 606, the bridge 605, the host bus 604, and the like. The communication unit 616 is connected to a network and executes data communication processing with the outside. The data reading unit 617 is a scanner, for example, and executes document reading processing. The data output unit 618 is a printer, for example, and executes document data output processing.

  Note that the hardware configuration of the image processing system shown in FIG. 7 shows one configuration example, and the image processing system of the present embodiment is not limited to the configuration shown in FIG. 7 and will be described in the present embodiment. Any configuration can be used as long as the module can be executed. For example, some modules may be configured by dedicated hardware (for example, ASIC), and some modules may be in an external system and connected via a communication line. A plurality of systems shown in FIG. 5 may be connected to each other via communication lines so as to cooperate with each other. Further, it may be incorporated in a copying machine, a fax machine, a scanner, a printer, a multifunction machine (also called a multi-function copying machine, which has functions of a scanner, a printer, a copying machine, a fax machine, etc.).

In this embodiment, each object uses a reduced image, and the hierarchical level cannot be determined only by the form, but according to the hierarchical level, the reduced image form (color, border color, shape, deformed, You may make it change a character mark etc.).
Similarly, the reduced image form may be changed according to the type of the object.

  The described program can be stored in a recording medium, and the program can be provided by communication means. In that case, for example, the above-described program can also be regarded as an invention of a “computer-readable recording medium recording the program”.

The “computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded” refers to a computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded, which is used for program installation, execution, program distribution, and the like.
The recording medium is, for example, a digital versatile disc (DVD), which is a standard established by the DVD Forum, such as “DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM,” and DVD + RW. Standards such as “DVD + R, DVD + RW, etc.”, compact discs (CDs), read-only memory (CD-ROM), CD recordable (CD-R), CD rewritable (CD-RW), etc. MO), flexible disk (FD), magnetic tape, hard disk, read only memory (ROM), electrically erasable and rewritable read only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, random access memory (RAM), etc. It is.
The program or a part of the program can be recorded on the recording medium and stored or distributed. Also, by communication, for example, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wired network used for the Internet, an intranet, an extranet, etc., or wireless communication It can be transmitted using a transmission medium such as a network or a combination of these, and can also be carried on a carrier wave.
Furthermore, the above program may be a part of another program, or may be recorded on a recording medium together with a separate program.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example between each module of this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the image processing example performed by this Embodiment. It is an example of the data structure which this Embodiment handles. It is a flowchart explaining the example of a process performed by this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the example of an edit process performed by this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the example of an edit process performed by this Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structural example of the image processing system and image editing system which implement | achieve this Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

101 ... Image input module 103 ... Object division module 105 ... Object reduction module 107 ... Icon correspondence generation module 109 ... Material DB
111 ... Material display module 113 ... Edited document display module 115 ... Drag image display module 117 ... Editing module

Claims (8)

An image input means for inputting an image;
Area dividing means for dividing the image input by the image input means into areas;
Image reducing means for reducing the image of the area divided by the area dividing means;
Editing image correspondence means for associating the image reduced by the image reduction means with an editing image;
Image storage means for storing an image of the area divided by the area dividing means and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image correspondence means corresponding to the image;
Reduced image display means for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored in the image storage means;
A document display means for displaying a document to be edited;
Moving image display means for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display means when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means to the document displayed by the document display means. An image editing system for copying an area image stored by the image storage unit corresponding to An image input means for inputting an image;
Area dividing means for dividing the image input by the image input means into areas;
Image reducing means for reducing the image of the area divided by the area dividing means;
Editing image correspondence means for associating the image reduced by the image reduction means with an editing image;
Image storage means for storing an image of an area divided by the area dividing means and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding means corresponding to the image. Processing system. Image storage means for storing an image of the divided area and a reduced image corresponding to the image and associated with the image for editing;
Reduced image display means for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored in the image storage means;
A document display means for displaying a document to be edited;
Moving image display means for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display means when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display means to the document displayed by the document display means. An image editing system for copying an area image stored by the image storage unit corresponding to The region dividing means further divides the image of the divided region hierarchically,
The image editing system according to claim 1, wherein when selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display unit, an image of the hierarchically divided area can be selected. 5. The image editing system according to claim 4, wherein the reduced image displayed by the moving image display unit sets a level of a hierarchically divided image according to a reduction rate of the reduced image. . On the computer,
An image input function for inputting images,
An area dividing function for dividing an image input by the image input function into areas;
An image reduction function for reducing an image of an area divided by the area division function;
An editing image corresponding function for associating an image reduced by the image reduction function with an editing image;
An image storage function for storing an image of a region divided by the region dividing function and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding function corresponding to the image;
A reduced image display function for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored by the image storage function;
A document display function for displaying the document to be edited;
A moving image display function for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display function when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function to the document displayed by the document display function. An image editing program that realizes an image copying function for copying an area image stored by the image storage function corresponding to the above. On the computer,
An image input function for inputting images,
An area dividing function for dividing an image input by the image input function into areas;
An image reduction function for reducing an image of an area divided by the area division function;
An editing image corresponding function for associating an image reduced by the image reduction function with an editing image;
An image storage function for storing an image of a region divided by the region dividing function and a reduced image associated with the editing image by the editing image corresponding function corresponding to the image is realized. Processing program. On the computer,
An image storage function for storing an image of the divided area and a reduced image corresponding to the image and associated with the editing image;
A reduced image display function for displaying a reduced image associated with the editing image stored by the image storage function;
A document display function for displaying the document to be edited;
A moving image display function for selecting a reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function and displaying the reduced image while moving in conjunction with a moving operation by an operator;
The reduced image displayed by the moving image display function when the operator designates copying the reduced image displayed by the reduced image display function to the document displayed by the document display function. An image editing program that realizes an image copying function for copying an area image stored by the image storage function corresponding to the above.

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