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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2008
Kunio Okita, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunio Okita, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus is disclosed, including: a reading part reading vector information included in an electronic file; a first line segment extraction part extracting line segment parameter information of a line object from the vector information; a second line segment extraction part extracting polygon parameter information of a polygon object from the vector information and extracting the line segment parameter information of line segments forming the polygon object from the extracted polygon parameter information; a rectangle extraction part extracting rectangle parameter information based on the line segment parameter; a minimum rectangle determination part determining whether or not a rectangle formed based on the rectangle parameter information is a minimum rectangle which does not connote other rectangles; and a minimum rectangle output part outputting the minimum rectangle.