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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Takahisa Shirakawa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a graphic form inputting apparatus wherein an arbitrary one of a plurality of grids defined in advance can be selected suitably and displayed on the screen and the origin, the distances of grid lines of the grid displayed can be changed with reference to another grid. A grid origin movement section displays, when a request to move an origin of an effective grid on a display apparatus by an operator is received, one of the other grids stored in a grid information storage section which is selected by the operator to be displayed on the display apparatus. Then, when coordinate values of a destination of the movement of the origin of the effective grid are inputted by the operator, the grid origin movement section normalizes the inputted coordinate values with the grid displayed on the display apparatus and changes coordinate values of the origin of the effective grid to coordinate values obtained by the normalization. Also a grid line distance changing section and a grid axis inclination angle changing section for changing the grid line distances and the grid axis inclination angle with reference to another grid, respectively, are provided.