Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Rui Yamagami

Kanji Itaki

Hiroo Seki

Fukumi Yamaura

Kenji Kawasugi

Hajime Somura

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

An icon display processor for use in a computer permits a user to intuitively recognize sub-data embedded in, or linked to, main data while a main icon symbolizing the main data is being displayed. When data B and C are embedded in document A, if a main icon is displayed, sub-icons corresponding to the embedded data are displayed behind the main icon. Thus, the user can intuitively recognize the sub-data contained in the document A. A sub-icon is displayed for each item or kind of sub-data. The user can directly process the sub-icons.

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Yokohama, Japan

Rui Yamagami