JPH07123281B2 - Information processing equipment - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of colors.

[Prior Art] In a conventional printer that prints in color, when a person wants to change the color ribbon or color ink when he / she wants to change the color, and when changing other colors, the same operation is repeated many times. It is a color print, very troublesome,
The current situation is that it is difficult to use, rather operability is poor, and "multicolor printing" cannot be fully achieved.

[Purpose] The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional techniques,
With the configuration in which the color designation bit is added to the character code information corresponding to all the characters in the designated area, for example, the editing process when part of the characters in the designated area is moved by document editing can be easily performed. An object is to provide an information processing device.

[Examples] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the present invention, it goes without saying that the information output in multiple colors may be any of characters, symbols, figures, images, etc., or any combination thereof. Further, it goes without saying that the device referred to in the present invention may be a system, a part of the system, or a single device.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the configuration of an information output device to which the present invention can be applied. In this embodiment, a word processor will be described as an example.

In FIG. 1, the CPU (central processing unit) executes the contents of the program memory shown in FIG. 6 to FIG. 9 contained in the ROM (read only memory) to execute the bus line BL.
Control each device connected via the. This bus line
A keyboard is connected to BL, and character information input from this keyboard is supplied and stored via a bus line BL to a document memory BSM which is a part of RAM (random access memory). In order to display the stored character information on the CRT (cathode ray tube), the font corresponding to the character code in the character generator CG controlled by the CRT controller CRTC is specified by the CPU via the bus line BL. . R
In AM, in addition to the document memory BSM described above, XPOINT and YPOINT that store the X and Y coordinates of the cursor, insertion pointer SKPOINT used when inserting documents, start on the screen that is stored when specifying the range -End Each XY position XS, XE, YS, YE, text character pointer PPOINT to manage print characters, MOJISU to store the total number of characters in the text, temporary storage area such as flag MEFLG to store the presence / absence of color designation of the menu is there. Printer PRT
Is a device such as a thermal transfer printer for printing the text in the above-mentioned document memory BSM according to the instruction of the CPU.
The printer may be an LBP (laser beam printer), an ink jet, a bubble jet, an impact printer, or the like.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged detailed view of the keyboard KB shown in FIG. The internal character / symbol key group MKY is a key group for inputting ordinary characters / symbols, and the character / symbol code corresponding to the key entered here is stored in the document memory BSM described above, and C
Displayed on RT. This key group includes ruby characters and ruled line symbols, which will be described later.

Range start key HSKY, range end key HEKY, color change instruction key CHK as a function key
Y, Print key PKY, Insert print key SPKY, 4 key groups CKY for cursor up / down / left / right movement, Double width key WKY, Underline key
ULKY, color command key CMKY, menu key MEKY, page break key K
There are PKY etc.

The input code may represent a character or a symbol, and a figure, an image, or the like may be used as a run length or
It also includes input information from a reader or the like compressed using MH code or the like.

Others Command 1 registration as function key COMT
There are IKY, command second registration COMT2KY, etc.

Next, an example of color change of the printer PRT of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3-1 to 3-4. FIGS. 3-1 to 3-4 are diagrams showing the principle of the case where the thermal head selectively prints two colors on the paper via the two-color printing ribbon. In the figure, 19 is a thermal transfer material, 20 is an ink layer containing a heat-meltable ink, 22 is a first ink layer, 23 is a second ink layer, and 21 is a support that supports the ink. Further, 4 is a platen, 2 is a recording paper, 17 is a thermal head, and 17a is a heater portion (heating element) of the thermal head. A release layer 25 is also provided between the first and second ink layers.

FIGS. 3-1 and 3-2 are schematic sectional views in the thickness direction of the thermal transfer material showing the case where the second ink layer 23 is transferred to the paper 2, and FIG. 3-1 shows the state before recording. ing.

FIG. 3-2 shows a state in which the thermal transfer material 19 is heated by the heater 17a and then immediately peeled off from the recording paper 2. Due to the adhesive force of the peeling layer 25, only the second ink layer is the second ink layer.
3 is recorded on the recording paper 2 as shown at 23a in FIG.

In FIGS. 3-3 and 3-4, after being heated by the heater 17a, the transfer material 19 is peeled from the recording paper after a predetermined time has elapsed by the lever 24. In this case, since the peeling layer 25 has a strong adhesive force, both the second ink layer 23a and the first ink layer 22a are recorded on the recording paper 2 as shown in FIG. 3-4. That is,
The relative difference between the first adhesive force between the support and the first ink layer and the second adhesive force between the first layer and the second layer (FIG. 3-2 shows the first adhesive force> second adhesive force, FIG. 3-4 shows that the first adhesive force <the second adhesive force) is controlled by changing the peeling time. For details of the method of thermal transfer or the structure of the ribbon, see Japanese Patent Application No. 60-298831 or Japanese Patent Application No.
Although it is described in the specification of 59-260403, two heat generating parts may be provided. Further, the lever 24 may be provided in the ink ribbon cassette, on the carriage, or at the home position of the carriage. Further, it goes without saying that the printer to which the present invention is applied may be any printer such as an ink jet or a bubble jet.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the document memory BSM described above. This may be considered as a display example of the display CRT. The document memory BSM has a matrix structure of 10 × 10, and from the upper left, (x ₁ , y ₁ ) (x ₁ , y ₂ ) ………… (x _m , y _m ) …………
It can be expressed as (x ₁₀ , y ₁₀ ). It should be noted that (x _S , y _S ) and (x _E , y _E ) are two points forming a rectangular block and will be described in detail later.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the bit configuration of the character code. The first bit consisting of 16 bits for one character is a color change instruction bit, 0 means no color change, and 1 means a color change instruction. To do.

{Color Change by Specifying Range} Under the above configuration, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
Description will be made with reference to the flow chart of the figure.

When the apparatus is turned on, it proceeds to step S1 in FIG. In step S1, document memory in RAM BSM, total number of characters in text MO
Initialize RAM contents such as JISU and position the cursor at the beginning of the document.

In step S2, the state of having a key input is maintained, and if any key is input, the process proceeds to the key determination processing in step S3.

When the character / key input key MKY in Fig. 2 is determined, the process proceeds to step S4, and the character code corresponding to the key is set to the cursor coordinates.
It is stored in the document memory corresponding to XPOINT and YPOINT, the cursor coordinates are stepped, and the total text character number MOJISU is incremented by 1. After displaying the document memory BSM, the process proceeds to the key input waiting state of step S2 again.

When it is determined that the cursor movement key is CKY in step S3, the process proceeds to step S5, and new cursor position coordinates XPOINT and YPOINT are set again. When the range start key HSKY is determined in step S3, the process proceeds to step S6. Details of step S6 will be described with reference to FIG. Fig. 7: In step S6.1, cursor position coordinate XPOI
NT, YPOINT each start range X, Y position XS, YS (see Fig. 4)
To store. Then, returning to FIG. 6, step S2 is then performed.
Return to waiting for key input.

If it is determined in step S3 in FIG. 6 that the key is the range end key, the process proceeds to step S7. Details of step S7 will be described with reference to FIG.

In Fig. 8, first, in step S7.1, the cursor position coordinate XPOI
The value of NT, YPOINT is stored in the range end X, Y coordinate position XE, YE (see FIG. 4).

Then proceed to step S7.2 and see FIG. 4 (XS, YS) and (XE, YE).
Rectangular block with the range specified by the two points of The color change bit shown in FIG. 5 is set for all the character codes in the above. Thereafter, the process returns to the step S2 key input waiting state shown in FIG.

When the print key is determined in step S3 in FIG. 6, the process proceeds to step S8. Details of step S8 will be described with reference to FIG.

In step S8.1, the printer pointer PPOINT is cleared to 0.

In step S8.2, one character is extracted from the document memory BSM according to the contents of the printer pointer PPOINT, and step S8.3 is executed.
It is determined whether or not the color change bit is set. That is, the fifth
It is determined whether the 0-bit position is 1 or 0 as shown in correspondence with the figure character code bit. If 0, go to step S8.5,
If 1, go to step S8.4. In step S8.4, a color change instruction signal is sent to the printer PRT and the process proceeds to step S8.5. In step S8.5, one character is printed. Further, in step S8.6, the printer pointer PPOINT is advanced by one step. In step S8.7, the total number of characters in the text MOJI
The SU is compared with the printer pointer PPOINT, and if the printing of all characters is not completed, the process proceeds to step S8.2, and if the printing of all characters is completed, the process returns to step S2 in FIG. 6 and waits for the key.

In this example, the control is performed in which the range is specified and the color is changed and output by adding the color changing bit to the character code in the range specified area. You may make it have a command which changes a color in this command. Also, a rectangular area with a specified range From start to end of range specification For, the color changing process may be performed. Although the display is a CRT in this embodiment, it may be a liquid crystal display or a plasma display.

[Effects] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the color designation bit is added to the character code information corresponding to all the characters in the designated area. It is possible to provide an information processing device that can easily perform editing processing when there is a part of movement.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a configuration of an information output device to which the present invention is applicable. FIG. 2 is a detailed explanatory diagram of a keyboard KB, and FIGS. 3-1 to 3-4 are operational explanatory diagrams of a two-color thermal printer. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structure of the document memory BSM. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of code information. FIG. 6 is a general flow chart of the apparatus. FIG. 7 is a control flow chart of range start processing. Figure shows control flow chart for range end processing. Figure 9 shows control flow chart for multicolor printing. PRT …… Printer BSM …… Document memory CPU …… Central processing unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing character code information including a color designation bit, a display unit for displaying a character based on the character code information stored in the storage unit, and a display unit for displaying the character on the display unit. Specifying means for specifying an area to be printed in a different color, adding means for adding color specifying bits to character code information corresponding to all characters included in the area specified by the specifying means, and the adding means. Print control means for controlling the printing means so that the characters in the area designated by the designating means are printed in a different color from the characters in the other areas based on the color designation bits included in the added character code information. An information processing apparatus having: