Picture information filing system for permanently storing portions of previously permanently stored data logically combining the portions

• US 4,517,658 A
• Filed: 07/13/1983
• Issued: 05/14/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Iida, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dorsey, Daniel K.
• Application Number:
  US06/513,322
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200, 364/900 MS File, 340/721, 340/745, 340/746
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/26 by photoelectric detection, e.g. of sprocket holes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/328 on a tape [TTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/00 Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation by modifying optical properties or the physical structure, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power by sensing optical properties; Record carriers therefor G11B11/00, G11B13/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2175 with local image input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3873 defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming

Abstract

A first location and a last location of the required part of a first piece of picture information displayed at a display part are specified by cursors. Cleared data is transferred to a picture element memory where said picture information is stored for removing unnecessary picture information. The extracted necessary picture information is recorded in a magnetic tape device. Only the necessary part of a second piece of picture information is extracted in a similar manner and is recorded in the magnetic tape device. A logic sum of a title input from the keyboard and said first piece of picture information is obtained for each scanning line to provide a first synthesized picture. A logic sum of the first synthesized picture and said second piece of picture information is obtained for each line to provide a second synthesized picture.

Claims

1. A method for synthesizing picture information in a picture information filing system comprising a nonvolatile device for recording a number of pictures corresponding to picture information, inputting means for inputting the picture information, a picture element memory for storing the picture information, and a display section for displaying the picture information thereon, comprising the steps of:

(a) causing picture information of one page recorded in the nonvolatile device to be displayed on the display section;

(b) designating a predetermined area of the picture information displayed on the display section;

(c) extracting the picture information of only the designated predetermined area;

(d) designating the position to which the picture information of the predetermined area is to be shifted;

(e) transferring the extracted picture information to an area corresponding to the designated position and storing the transferred picture information in the picture element memory;

(f) recording the transferred picture information in the nonvolatile device;

(g) repeating the steps (a) to (e) with respect to another page of picture information; and

(h) obtaining a logic sum of the picture information recorded in the nonvolatile device in the step (f) and the picture information stored in the picture element memory and storing the logic sum in the picture element memory.

2. A method as in claim 1 wherein:

said inputting means and said system also inputs character code information; and

said method further comprises the step of obtaining a logic sum of the picture information stored in the picture element memory in the step (h) and the character code information input from the inputting means and then storing the logic sum in the picture element memory.

3. A method for synthesizing picture information in a piture information filing system comprising a nonvolatile device for storing a number of pictures corresponding to picture information, as well as index information of these pictures, inputting means for inputting the picture information, a picture element memory for storing the picture information, and a display section for displaying the picture information thereon, comprising the steps of:

(a) causing picture information of one page recorded in the nonvolatile device to be displayed on the display section;

(b) designating a predetermined are of the picture information displayed on the display section;

(c) extracting the picture information of only the designated predetermined area;

(d) designating the position to which the picture information of the predetermined area is to be shifted;

(e) transferring the picture information of only the extracted predetermined area to the designated position and storing the transferred picture information in the picture element memory;

(f) recording the transferred picture information, as well as index information of the picture information, in the nonvolatile device;

(g) repeating the steps (a) to (e) with respect to another page of picture information; and

(h) obtaining a logic sum of the picture information recorded in the nonvolatile device in the step (f) and the picture information stored in the picture element memory and storing the logic sum in the picture element memory.

4. A method for synthesizing picture information in a picture information filing system comprising a nonvolatile device for recording a number of pictures corresponding to picture information, as well as the information of the pictures, inputting means for inputting the picture information and character code information, a picture element memory for storing the picture information, a refresh memory for storing the code information, and a display section for displaying the picture information and character code information thereon, comprising the steps of:

(a) causing picture information of one page recorded in the nonvolatile device to displayed on the display section;

(b) designating a predetermined area of the picture information displayed on the display section;

(c) extracting the picture information of only the designated predetermined area;

(d) designating the position to which the picture information of the predetermined area is to be shifted;

(e) transferring the picture information of only the extracted predetermined area to an area corresponding to the designated position and storing the transferred picture information in the picture element memory;

(f) recording the transferred picture information, as well as the index information of the picture information, in the nonvolatile device;

(g) repeating the steps (a) to (e) with respect to another page of picture information;

(h) obtaining a logic sum of the picture information recorded in the step (f) in the nonvolatile device and storing the logic sum in the picture element memory; and

(i) obtaining a logic sum of the picture information stored in the picture element memory in the step (h) and the character code information input from the inputting means and storing the logic sum in the picture element memory.