Showing papers on "Image file formats published in 1988"

Image data filing system and image data correcting method

Abstract: A document image to be corrected is read out from an image file which stores document images, converted into dots, and printed on a correction paper. An operator writes correction information on the correction paper which is in turn inputted to the image file system with an image reader. The image file system erases the dot image information of the image inputted with the image reader. The obtained correction information is synthesized with the original image read out from the image file. The synthesized corrected image is stored in the image file.

Image data filing system

Abstract: An image data filing system wherein an original drawing is converted into digital image data, which is made to have a unity-scale for file management, then divided into several divisional image data having a fixed data size as units of storing data within a record file, can easily perform a continuous display with adjacent drawings, and also, a high speed reduced/enlarged display similar to original-size one because of storing the image data of several different scales within the record file.

Method and apparatus for editing source files of differing data formats using an edit tracking file

Abstract: The invention generally relates to improvements in the process and storage of formatted voice, graphic and image data. A new editing process allows the same commands to be applied to a plurality of data files of varying resolution and formats. The technique employs an edit tracking file to retain the edit commands applied to a file of a first format. The edit commands are then executed against a file of a second format to perform the identical editing steps to the second file. This process avoids the inaccuracies associated with converting information to a common format while providing the benefits of supporting multiple formats of file information.

File data retrieving system using retrieval-use-image data

Abstract: A file data retrieving system includes a filing device for storing file data and retrieval-use-image data used for retrieving file data. The file data is stored in a predetermined data form. The retrieval-use-image data has an image density smaller than that of the file data. The system also has an image data reproducing circuit for reproducing image data to be displayed from each of the file data and the retrieval-use-image data. Further the system has a display unit for displaying the image data supplied from the image data reproducing circuit. The display unit displays the image data reproduced from the retrieval-use-image data at the time of retrieval of the file data.

Image processing system with designatable output location and output resolution control

Abstract: An image processing system having an original reader for reading an original image, low- and high-speed printers, a work station having a microcomputer and internal and external memories, an image file, a microfilm reader, and a CRT. When a selected printer has a pixel density different from that of the input information, the pixel density of the input image information is converted and the image information is then produced from the selected printer.

Image file system and its device

Abstract: PURPOSE:To enable a user to retrieve an image by means of his own added information by constituting the titled system so that a user inputs various added information to an image as retireaval keys, and these keys are stored as files proper to each user. CONSTITUTION:At the time of registering an image or retrieving an image, a user inputs an added information to a display image, which is converted into a data formatable to be outputted as image signals or voice signals depending on the kinds of an input medium. Thus converted added information is stored, and at the same time an attribute file in which the ID number of the user, the added information to be stored and its attribute, and a display image are made corresponding to each other is generated, and this file is stored. At the time of the following retrieval of an image, the attribute of the added information is inputted as a retrieval key, so that an image that an added information meeting the condition is selected by referring to the stored attribute file, accordingly, the added information proper to the user is outputted together with the image. In such a case, the added information basically is a composite of a information from different media. Also, the attribute represents the feature of an added information from each input medium.

Computer aided working station for the design and/or processing of sketches for articles of clothing

Abstract: A computer aided working station is described for the design and/or processing of sketches for articles of clothing or the like, comprising an electronic pro­cessor associated to image files, means for optical storage of the images, image pick-up means, graphic composition means and other parts enabling new image configurations to be combined using file elements and combining them fully or in part.

Reproduction and storing system for radiograph

Abstract: PURPOSE:To perform reproduction and storage efficiently by easy operation by connecting an image reproduction system consisting of an IRD (image reader), an IPC (image processor), and an IRC (image output device), a recording and storing system for image data which consists of an IRD, an IPC, and a DMS (image file device), and an image reproduction and output system consisting of a DMS, an IPC, and an IRC through a switching device not as independent systems. CONSTITUTION:When image data is inputted from an IRD 1 to an IPC-I 3, proper image processing based upon relative information is carried out and sent to an IRC 7 through an SW box 2 and a photographic film is exposed to the input image data and developed to obtain a visualized X-ray image. Then, the SW box 2 is switched to the size of an IPC-II 4 according to switching information and the image data is sent to a DMS 6. The image data read by the DMS 6 is band-compressed as it is, and written and stored on an optical disk.

Quick start-up system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To minimize the system rise time by initializing an operating system and an application program to produce a memory image right after the start of operation of said system and program and then loading the memory image in a system rise mode. CONSTITUTION:An application program is loaded to a memory 31 from a disk 32 based on a catalog file set previously. When the program is initialized, the memory image produced in the memory 31 is equivalent to that produced when a system rise is through. Then the application program set on the disk 32 is loaded to the memory 31 to perform initialization of a data base, etc. with reference to a command catalog. A memory image equivalent to that produced immediately before a start enable state of operation is produced on the memory 31. This memory image is loaded to the disk 32 and therefore a quick image file is obtained. This image file is saved to a magnetic tape, etc. Then a quick start-up action is carried out for a system rise.

The Shape of Screens to Come

Abstract: The advent of compatible high-definition television {HDTV) will require specially prepared software to accommodate various image formats because excessive cropping and anamorphic distortion are an inevitable result of displaying programs in formats different from their intended design. An analysis of problem areas in film and video which suffer from excessive cropping is provided and related to the development of HDTV. The solutions offered also pertain to the development of a consumer widescreen television system, fully compatible with NTSC, which can serve as a testbed for the wide format of HDTV.

Image file method and its device

Abstract: PURPOSE:To promote an efficient using of an image file by inputting adding information to a registration or a retrieving image by a user and accumulating these adding information as an adding information file for respective users independently. CONSTITUTION:Adding information from input means 14 or 15 are converted 16-18 to an outputtable data system as an image signal or a sound signal according to the type of input media and they are stored 113. Next, an adding information list to get correspondence between the ID number of a user, the stored adding information and a display image is prepared 111 and this is stored 114. At the time of next image retrieving, the display image is determined from the retrieving condition input of the user, the ID number of the user, the determined display image and the stored adding information are referred, when there are information to added by the user himself to the display image, they are read and the original adding information of the user is outputted together with the display image.

Electronic filing system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To prevent the double use of one keyword for registering document files by suppressing the association of a keyword file with a document file depending on the association status between a generated keyword file and a document file CONSTITUTION:The followings are provided: a keyword forming means (personal computer 8) to form a keyword information for a document sheet read by an image reading means, a keyword association means (control means 12) to associate a keyword information generated by the means 8 with an image file, and a suppression means (control means 12) to suppress the associating of an image file by the keyword association means 12 as referring to document association information retrieved through keywords Hence, a keyword information formed by the keyword forming means 8 is associated with an image file by the keyword association means 12 At this time, the means 12 suppressed the registration of the image information of documents designated by same one keyword inputted from an image reading means as referring to the association information of document files of the designated keyword information As a result, the double use of one same keyword for registering document files can be prevented

Converter for image data

Abstract: PURPOSE:To obtain an inexpensive image registering/retrieving network system by using a sequence control means which controls the registering sequence of image data by a command. CONSTITUTION:An image data converter consists of an image file server 62, an image data converter 10 connected to a server 62 via a LAN 61, an intelligent terminal 63 connected to the converter 10, and a scanner 64 connected to the terminal 63. The image data inputted from the scanner 64 is recorded in an image memory of the converter 10 via an interface circuit 110 set between the terminal 63 and the converter 10 and reduced by a reduction circuit 18 in response to the image resolution of the display of the terminal 63 to be coded by a coding circuit 14 in accordance with the standard of the server 62 together with the retrieving information inputted separately. The coded image data is registered on the server 62 via a LAN interface circuit of the converter 10. A sequence control circuit 19 outputs the commands to each circuit for control of the sequence.

Image filing device

Abstract: PURPOSE:To obtain an image with high picture quality and to file a large quantity of images whose importance are reduced by using a digital image file and an analog image file selectively. CONSTITUTION:The image from an image input device 10 is supplied to a change-over switch 12 controlled by a file controller 24, and is filed in a digital image filing device 16 or an analog image filing device 18 selectively. Therefore, the filing device 16 is used for the image having importance, and the image with high picture quality can be obtained, and the image having less importance is filed in the filing device 18, in which a large quantity of images can be filed. Also, the image whose importance is reduced in the filing device 16 is transferred to the filing device 18 under the control of the controller 24 via a change- over switch 14. In such way, the image whose importance is reduced can be filed in the filing device 18 in large quantities.

Electronic document image file device

Abstract: PURPOSE:To simultaneously display plural graphic keywords corresponding to plural document images at the time of retrieving by reducing an area and registering it as a graphic keyboard when the part area of a document image is designated except a conventional keyword is designated at the time of storing a document image CONSTITUTION:At the time of storing a document, a document image from an image input means 12 is displayed by a display means 13 At this time, a user uses a coordinate input means 16 and designates of the arbitrary area of an input document image A CPU15 sends the designated area to an image reducing means 17 and reduces it Next, the CPU15 files a reducing image to an index image file means 18 as the index image Further, an original document image is filed to a document image filling means 14 and the correspondence of respective images of the document and index is stored into a table means 19 At the time of retrieving, the user watches the index image and searches the document

Simultaneous picture response service system for moving image and still picture

Abstract: PURPOSE:To use a used still picture service in the same transmission path in the same time zone and to simultaneously receive a moving image and the still picture services by inserting the corresponding still picture into the moving image to be serviced and transmitting it according to the same system as a video signal of NTSC system when there is a request for the still picture service from a terminal side. CONSTITUTION:When the contents of the service are inputted by a key according to the contents of a screen displayed on a TV monitor from the key pad of the terminal, a key input signal is discriminated and processed by a main control part 1 through a picture exchange 10 and the terminal service request receiving part 5 of a center. Based on this processing result, the picture of the contents of the request and sound information are retrieved from a moving image file 2, a still picture file 3 and a sound file 4 for the still picture and outputted to the TV monitor of the terminal and a speaker.

Managing Digital Images In A Network Environment

Abstract: We present a method for displaying reduced resolution versions of images in order to quickly browse through a large archive of digital images. The browse image requires only one kilobyte and, thus, can be stored in the header of the image file and can be quickly retrieved from that disk file and transferred over a network for viewing on a high resolution image display. This method differs from past research on progressive transmission of reduced resolution images. Our browse image, the displayed image, and the original image are all of different spatial and color resolutions. Typical values would be a 32x32 by 8 bit encoded color browse image from a 512x512 by 24 bit full color original to be displayed at 128x128 full color. We analyze and compare several methods of compression and decompression of digital images reporting their performance on both isolated workstations and over the network.

Radiation image processor

Abstract: PURPOSE:To facilitate to a read a film, etc., by providing a man-machine interface to input data to convert oblique photographing image data to straight image data and a CPU equipped with algorithm to execute a coordinate conversion, etc. CONSTITUTION:When the selective information of an output format correction key is inputted from a console operation panel I/F 33 to a CPU 31, reading image data are displayed on an image monitor 10 while they are stored in a temporary storing frame memory 13. Successively, the output start position of output image data and a scanning direction, etc., are instructed by a man- machine interface, based on this, the coordinate conversion algorithm of the CPU 31 performs the address computation of the temporary storing frame memory 13, an image processing is made while the image data of the computer address are stored in an image file memory 7, and straight image data, not oblique, are outputted on the output medium of an image recorder.

Document processing system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To enable a document to be easily taken into another document, by inputting dot images from a spool file, converting the images into a final print image, and storing the final print image into a document file for printing. CONSTITUTION:An intermediate image forming device 11 for printing a document reads a designated document from a document file 12, converts the document into a command form, outputs the converted information to a SYSOUT file 13, and then starts a graphic information-developing and character code- transferring device 14. Character codes and graphic information for printing which are outputted from the device 14 are stored into a spool file 17 through a dot image developing device 15 and a dot image spooling device 16. The character codes and the graphic information are converted into a final print image by an image file converter 18, and the final print image is stored into a document file 19 for printing. Therefore, the finial print image can be obtained directly from the document file 19, and a document can be easily taken into another document by synthesizing the print images.

Image communicating system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To realize an image communicating system to agree with the convenience at the time of receiving the image data of a user by having a system of the processing and restoration of plural image data in a system, and selecting either of them by the activating from a receiving side at the time of communication. CONSTITUTION:When a communication is started by the instruction from an input device 36 of a receiving side device 30, programs 14 and 31 are activated, and to the user at the receiving side, the selection of the processing and restoration system concerning an image data transmission is displayed and promoted. The selection instruction from an input device 36 is stored into programs 16 and 32, and used in order to activate one of plural processing system or restoring system programs at 17 and 33 during the said image data transmission. By the request of the user, image data of one of image files 12 are retrieved, and added through an encoding mechanism 13 to a program 17. The image data processed by the program 17 are given through a transmission line 20 to respective types of a restoring system program 33 and receiving image data are restored by the instruction of the program 32.

Data registering system for image filing system

Abstract: PURPOSE:To display plural images in a short time as a whole when they are displayed in order, by reading out a part of a picture data encoded and stored in a file selectively, and restoring and displaying it. CONSTITUTION:The picture data from a scanner 1 is inputted via a scanner controller 2, and after being encoded by an encoding processor 14, it is registered in an image file 3A via a file controller 4. At the time of registering the picture data, it is found where a partial area on an original image is positioned on a picture record recorded on the file, and a bit of position information is stored in an index file 3B corresponding to the image file 3A. When an operator designates the partial area displayed on a displayed image, only a corresponding part of picture data on each record is read out selectively from the image file 3A.