Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fukumi Yamaura

Rui Yamagami

Image editing method and apparatus which facilitate image editing operation and improve the efficiency thereof by enabling selective use of many editing histories or command strings, used in the past, with ease. A command string used in an editing period for one image is registered as a macro, in correspondence with associated information related to the edited image. When the next image is edited, associated information of registered command strings are displayed, as buttons, in list form. A user can discriminate the contents of the command strings and can visually discriminate a command string appropriate to the currently-edited image by observing the associated information. In response to the user's button selection operation, a corresponding command string is applied to the currently-edited image. Information to easily discriminate the contents of command strings, such as thumbnails of edited images, identification information such as serial numbers allotted to edited images, is used as the associated information.

Image editing method and apparatus

The electronic document database searching system displays search results using a display attribute that corresponds to the attribute of the string in each original electronic document. The system also displays the search results using a display attribute that varies in accordance with the frequency of occurrence of the searched string in each original electronic document

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Kawasaki, Japan

Fukumi Yamaura