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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2008
Kentaro Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move an arbitrary point of an image displayed in an image display area among image data; a step of calculating an image movement amount and a magnification ratio in response to the instruction to move the arbitrary point; and a step displaying a predetermined area of the image data in the image display area on the basis of the image movement amount and the magnification ratio, which are calculated in the calculating step.