Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ayako Fujii

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Mamoru Nagano

Hidehiko Morinaga

Shigeki Koyama

Yoshiko Kobari

Masaaki Tamura

Yoshikazu Sawada

Disclosed is a technique for setting a body frame for a pattern and collectively deleting an area located outside the body frame. Consecutive codes can be assigned to scanned patterns.

Figure processing method

A figure pattern is processed by modifying a point array that forms the figure pattern. The modification may include moving the points of the array, inserting points into the array, deleting points of the array, and changing the attributes of the points or the point array. According to one arrangement, a sample point of an array forming the outline of a figure pattern is designated for deletion and a figure pattern corresponding to the sample point array is generated on the basis of an attribute of sample points adjacent to the sample point designated for deletion.

A change in magnification of a figure pattern within a predetermined area is performed by designating a desired rectangular frame or one point on a screen, A plurality of menus associated with figure processes are performed by interruption,

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Kawasaki, Japan

Ayako Fujii