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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2000
Sony Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Abstract
In the case a two-dimensional image (FIG. A) displaying a house-shaped three-dimensional object is stored in a noted buffer, when shape information indicating that a check-patterned wall is rectangular and the four apexes of the wall as characteristic points are designated by a user, a spread image (FIG. B) obtained by spreading the check-patterned wall onto a two-dimensional plane is generated on the basis of the shape information and characteristic points and is stored into a paste buffer. Then, a two-dimensional image of a column (FIG. C) is stored into the noted buffer. When shape information indicating the lateral side of the column and a predetermined point on the lateral side as a characteristic point are designated by the user, the image (FIG. B) stored in the paste buffer is pasted to the lateral side of the column in the noted buffer (FIG. D) on the basis of the shape information and characteristic point. Thus, the user can easily perform three-dimensional editing or the like on a two-dimensional image.