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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
Nicolas Leslie Coleman, Sydney, AU;
Oliver Bock, Sydney, AU;
Marija Herceg, Lindfield, AU;
Scott T. Newham, New South Wales, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The method comprises a first determining step , a measuring step , a second determining step , and a re-ordering step . In the first determining step , the method determines a line between adjacent center points of the original images. In the measuring step , the method measures, for each line, the shortest distance from the insertion point of the new image inserted on the page to said line. In the second determining step , the method determines the minimum of the shortest distances. Finally, in the re-ordering step , the method re-orders the one-dimensional list by inserting the new image in the list of original images at that position in the list corresponding to the line having the minimum shortest distance.