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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Shin-Ywan Wang, Tustin, CA (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for editing the hierarchical tree structure which is created by a block selection system to correspond to a block template which represents a document image, wherein the hierarchical tree structure includes a plurality of nodes, each of which represents a block of document image data in the block template of a document image and contains document feature data defining features of the block of image data. The system operates to download from memory the hierarchical tree structure, generate and display a block template representing a document image corresponding to the hierarchical tree structure in memory, select a block of document image data to be edited in the displayed block template, edit a feature of the selected block of image data and update the document feature data in a node corresponding to the selected block of image data. The system determines whether any document feature data in any node has been affected by updated feature data, and, if so, document feature data in the affected nodes are appropriately altered to reflect the new features of corresponding blocks of image data.