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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1994
Kunio Seto, Inagi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing system has bit map figure data of a plurality of sizes and edits a document on the basis of this data. This system comprises an input device to input a figure by a polygon definition, an instructing circuit to instruct the input figure with a desired size, and an output device to output the figure with the desired size in response to the input instruction. The figure data of standard sizes are stored as bit map data into a memory even when auxiliary characters are registered. When inputting figure data of a size larger than the standard sizes, it is stored as polygon definition data. Thus, the memory capacity can be reduced and the labors and time to define an auxiliary character can be reduced.