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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
Applicant:
Yuichi Sakuraba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuichi Sakuraba, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An automatic layout method for performing an automatic layout of components on a diagram, the automatic layout method includes: generating a layout engine control object based on an operation of an application program; selecting at least one layout engine object from a plurality of layout engine objects for calculating coordinates of the components by different algorithms, at least one layout engine object being selected based on an instruction of the application program by the layout engine control object; and creating the diagram by the application program based on the coordinates calculated by the selected layout engine object.