Image input processor

• US 4,887,227 A
• Filed: 10/20/1987
• Issued: 12/12/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tsujioka, Hiroshi, Yoneda, Shigeo, Yatsuzuka, Yasuhumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellinen, A. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US07/110,470
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 364/519, 364/521, 364/522, 400/73, 382/9, 382/48, 382/61, 340/750, 340/792, 340/801
• US Class Current: 358/1.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/04 Scanning arrangements , i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versaH04N1/387 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/107 with manual scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0049 By wire, cable or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0414 Scanning an image in a series of overlapping zones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0426 Scanning an image in a series of contiguous zones

Abstract

An image input processor having a detector which detects whether or not the rate of the width of a character or characters are cut off from the read character information with respect to the readable width being over a predetermined value. Also, the image input processor has a printer which prints the cut-off character or characters when the detected rate is over the predetermined value, and prohibits printing of the cut-off character or characters when the detected rate is less than the predetermined value. Whereby necessary information and unnecessary information can be distinguished from each other based on the degree of the read image information that is cut off.

Claims

1. An image input processor for reading a line of read character information contained within a reading width having a predetermined width and printing the read character information, comprising:

character reading means for reading a plurality of characters from the line of the read character information;

judging means for judging whether the height of at least one of said plurality of characters of the read character information within the reading width exceeds the predetermined width and comparing the portion of the read character information within the reading width of the line to a predetermined value; and

printing means for printing the characters in the line of the read character information when the portion of the read character information within the reading width is over the predetermined value, and prohibiting the line of the read character information from being printed when the amount of the read character information within the predetermined width is below the predetermined value.

2. An image input processor for reading a plurality of characters contained in a plurality of lines of character information, storing the character information in a memory and printing the character information, comprising:

character reading means for reading the plurality of characters contained in the plurality of lines of character information;

storing means for sequentially storing addresses in said memory corresponding to the plurality of character information read by said character reading means; and

processing means for removing addresses from said memory of blank information resulting from unnecessary information read at an end of the plurality of lines.

3. An image input processor for reading and storing a plurality of lines of character information in a memory and printing the character information, comprising:

character reading means for reading the plurality of lines of character information;

judgement means for judging whether the length of one of the plurality of lines of the character information read by said character reading means exceeds a predetermined printing width;

search means for searching spaces of the character information and determining the largest space in the character information within a predetermined range from the end of said predetermined printing length when the length of one of the plurality of lines of the character information exceeds said predetermined printing length; and

printing means for printing a portion of the character information on said one line and printing the remainder of said character information after the largest space on a new line.

4. An image input processor for reading and printing a plurality of lines of image information, comprising:

image reading means for reading the plurality of lines of image information;

first detection means for detecting whether one of the plurality of lines of the image information read by said image reading means corresponds to a first group of image information at an odd reading number or to a second group of image information at an even reading number;

printing means for printing said first group of image information justified to a first boundary in respone to said odd reading number of said one line and printing said second group of image information justified to a second boundary in response to said even reading number of said one line detected by said first detection means; and

second detection means for detecting whether the length of said one line of image information read by said image reading means exceeds a predetermined value, and dividing the image information into first and second image information portions each having lengths shorter than the predetermined value when the length of the image information is detected by said second detection means to exceed the predetermined value for printing said first and second image information portions from a position spaced a predetermined distance from said first boundary.

5. An image input processor comprising:

image sensor means which is manually driven on a data surface, said image sensor means including,

detection means for outputting a detection pulse corresponding to a movement of said image sensor means,

data reading means for optically reading data on the data surface in response to said detection pulse;

movement detection means for developing a number corresponding to said movement of said image sensor means in response to said detection pulse;

write control means for outputting a write instruction signal when the number of said counter reaches a set value; and

a memory for storing the data read by said data reading means in upon receipt of said write instruction signal outputted from said write control means and preventing data from being stored in said memory when said image sensor means moves less than said set value.

6. A word processing system comprising:

scanning means for reading data from an original source;

space detection means for detecting spaces between the data read by said scanning means; and

space judgement means for judging whether each of said spaces detected by said space detection means distinguishes between two adjacent words in the data when said space exceeds a predetermined space width and distinguishes between two adjacent characters in the data when said space fails to exceed said predetermined space width.

7. A word processing system as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

block judgement means for judging whether data between two adjacent spaces which are judged by said space judgement means to be spaces between adjacent words and determining the data between said two adjacent spaces is a block forming one word when said spaces are judged to be between adjacent words.

8. A word processing system comprising:

a scanner for reading a plurality of lines of data from an original source;

a printer for printing out the data from said original source read by said scanner;

space detection means for detecting spaces between the data read by said scanner;

space judgement means for judging whether each of said spaces detected by said space detection means distinguishes between two adjacent words in the data when said space exceeds a predetermined space width and distinguishes between two adjacent characters in the data when said space fails to exceed said predetermined space width; and

line control means for controlling said space detection means to detect said space between said two adjacent words contained in first and second consecutive lines of data, said first line is changed to said second line at said space when the data is printed by the printer.