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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1997
Katsumi Katoh, Ibaraki, JP;
Kaname Jinguji, Ibaraki, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention enables waveguides to be simply laid out, wherein the correlationship between a curvilinear graphic connecting two points together and the positions of these two points is specified beforehand and stored in a RAM in the form of rule of virtual path generation, when a mouse is used to specify the connection terminals of two blocks on a display screen, a CPU receives an instruction for generation of virtual paths, and the CPU then references the rule of virtual path generation to automatically generate a virtual path connecting the connection terminals of the two blocks and to draw it on the display screen.