JP2014182634A - Information processor, method for controlling information processor, and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor capable of displaying a correspondence relation between a control point of a diagram and an image on an editing screen while suppressing a display load.SOLUTION: A layout management part 203 displays images (diagrams A, B, C, etc.), and one or a plurality of operation points corresponding to one or a plurality of feature regions on editing screens (401 to 403). A discrimination part 208 discriminates whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by editing in the case that the editing is added to the images (diagrams B, C) by moving the operation points. In the case that the discrimination part 208 discriminates that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a correspondence relation addition part 205 adds a star mark representing the existence of a correspondence relation to each other to specific regions in one or a plurality of feature regions of edited images, and the operation points corresponding to the specific region.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that edits objects such as graphics and images through a user interface (hereinafter referred to as “UI”) screen, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and a computer program.

  In recent years, graphic editing tools, such as presentation software and animation editing software, that perform editing such as changing the appearance and position of a graphic to create content have become widespread. In the graphic editing tool, for example, a two-dimensional graphic may be three-dimensionally deformed to have a depth. In this case, an operation point (hereinafter referred to as a control point) corresponding to a characteristic part such as one or a plurality of corners and sides provided for controlling the deformation of the figure is maintained in the shape before the deformation. As a result, an operation for arbitrarily enlarging or reducing the deformed figure is enabled.

  For example, in the editing apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, when placing a figure on the editing screen for editing a figure, the control points as described above are displayed and operated at positions different from the actual figure. A technique for improving the performance is disclosed.

JP 2003-141557 A

  According to the editing apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is possible to improve the efficiency of user editing operations such as movement of a graphic on an editing screen, enlargement, or reduction. However, as the figure is edited, the figure and the control point may be displayed in a shifted manner on the editing screen. Therefore, depending on these display modes, there remains a problem that the user cannot grasp the correspondence between the figure and the control point.

  Further, when many graphics are displayed on the editing screen, there remains a problem that a large display load is applied when displaying the graphics and control points.

  The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of efficiently showing a user a correspondence between a display mode before and after editing an object such as a graphic and a control point while suppressing a load when displaying the image on an editing screen. Is the main issue.

  The present invention provides a layout management means for displaying an image and one or a plurality of operation points corresponding to one or a plurality of characteristic parts of the image on an editing screen, and editing the image by moving the operation point. When the image is added, a determination unit that determines whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied by the editing, and an image that is subjected to the editing when the determination unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied Granting means for giving information indicating that there is a corresponding relationship to a specific part of one or a plurality of characteristic parts and an operation point corresponding to the specific part and displaying the information on the editing screen; It is characterized by providing.

  It is possible to provide an information processing apparatus that can efficiently show the user the correspondence between the display mode before and after editing an object such as a graphic and the control point while suppressing the load when displaying on the editing screen. The “object” is, for example, a figure, an image, a symbol, or a character.

The block diagram of the main hardware of the information processing apparatus of 1st Embodiment. The functional block diagram of the information processing apparatus of 1st Embodiment. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing for executing an object editing method in the first embodiment. The figure which shows an example of a display of an edit screen, and an example of a corresponding attribute value. The figure which shows an example of a display on an edit screen, and an example of a corresponding attribute value. 9 is a flowchart showing an example of processing for executing an object editing method in the second embodiment. The figure which shows an example of a display of an edit screen, and an example of a corresponding attribute value. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing for executing an object editing method in the third embodiment. The figure which shows an example of a display of an edit screen, and an example of a corresponding attribute value.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment in which an object to be edited is a graphic will be described. Examples of editing types include selection, enlargement, reduction, movement, rotation, change of color or transparency, change of expression dimension, and the like.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a main configuration example of hardware of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. The information processing apparatus 100 is a kind of computer to which a CPU 102, a ROM 103, a RAM 104, and a storage device 107 are connected via a bus 101. An input device 105, an output device 106, and an external storage device 108 are also connected to the bus 101.

The CPU 102 performs calculations and logic determinations for various processes, and controls the operation of each component connected to the bus 101. The ROM 103 stores a computer program executed by the CPU 102. The RAM 104 stores rewritable data that needs to be temporarily or permanently stored.
Note that the above-described computer program can also be configured to be loaded from the external storage device 108 into the RAM 104.

  The input device 105 is an interface device for receiving input from a mouse, a keyboard, and various sensors for receiving operation instructions from a user. The output device 106 is, for example, a display device or a printing device.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the information processing apparatus 100. The information processing apparatus 100 is connected to an input device 105 including an input unit 201, an output device 106 including a display unit 202, and a storage device 107 including a storage unit 207.
The input unit 201 receives an editing operation instruction from the user via a mouse, a keyboard, or the like. The display unit 202 displays an editing screen serving as a UI when editing a figure. The display content of the edit screen is updated as needed during the editing process.

The layout management unit 203 determines a layout on the editing screen. The layout is determined separately for images and control points. The image is an expression mode in which a graphic to be edited is drawn with a specified shape or color. As the user changes the shape and color of the figure by editing, the image representation mode is updated. On the other hand, the control point has one or a plurality of operation points that are operated when editing the shape, position, and size of the figure, and is displayed in a manner that is distinguished from the image. In the present embodiment, as an example, the control points are distinguished by displaying them in a rectangular shape in which operation points expressed by small rectangles are connected by broken lines.
The operation point of the control point is displayed so as to correspond to the characteristic part such as the corner of the circumscribed rectangle of the graphic to be edited, the center of the side, etc., and by changing the shape of the circumscribed rectangle by moving the operation point The shape of the figure to be operated (and its image) can be changed. For example, the vertical and horizontal sizes of the figure (and image) to be operated can be changed by an operation of selecting and moving the operation point displayed at the corner of the circumscribed rectangle. If the operation point displayed at the center of the right side is selected and moved in the horizontal direction, the horizontal size changes in the operation direction while fixing the vertical size of the figure and image. Hereinafter, information that defines the arrangement status of an image on the editing screen is referred to as “image layout information”. Also, information that defines the arrangement state of control points is referred to as “control point layout information”. The layout management unit 203 arranges graphics according to the determined layout.

The control point acquisition unit 204 generates a control point from a graphic attribute value to be described later, and acquires information on the display position and size of the control point on the editing screen. The image acquisition unit 206 generates an image based on the attribute value of the graphic and acquires information on the display position and size of the image on the editing screen.
The correspondence relationship assigning unit 205 identifies a corresponding portion where the image and the control point correspond to each other. In the present embodiment, when the determination unit 208, which will be described later, determines that an image and a control point satisfy a predetermined condition, the correspondence is clearly indicated by giving a common mark to the corresponding part.

The storage unit 207 holds graphic attribute values. The specific contents of the attribute value will be described later. For example, the attribute value is held in the storage unit 207 as a property sheet that can be referred to as appropriate in a text format, an XML (Extensible Markup Language) format, or the like.
The determination unit 208 determines whether the edited image and the control point satisfy a predetermined condition. As in the prior art, when the control point is the same as the shape and size of the image before editing, it is determined whether or not the attribute value of the figure before and after editing satisfies the condition. The predetermined condition is a condition for providing a mark. Specifically, the difference between the display positions of the two exceeds a threshold value. Or it can be made into the conditions that the display mode of the image was changed from two dimensions to three dimensions irrespective of the shift | offset | difference of a display position. When the determination unit 208 determines that the above condition is satisfied, the correspondence relationship assigning unit 205 assigns the mark to each corresponding part of the image and the control point. The corresponding part is specified by comparing the attribute values of the figure before and after editing.

  Next, an object editing method executed by the information processing apparatus 100 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 5. FIG. 3 shows an example of a processing procedure executed by each functional unit of the information processing apparatus 100 described above in the present embodiment. 4A to 4C show display examples of an edit screen that changes during the editing process. FIG. 4D shows the attribute values of the figure.

First, with reference to FIGS. 4A to 4D, the relationship between a graphic to be edited, an image displayed on the editing screen, and control points will be described.
FIG. 4A shows a state in which the image of the graphic A and the control point 404 are displayed in the display area 405 of the editing screen 401. Since the image is a representation form of the graphic A, the image of the graphic A is hereinafter simply referred to as “graphic A”. A figure may be referred to as an image. The same applies to the relationship between other figures and images.

  The control point 404 is displayed in the display form different from the figure A with the same shape and size as the figure A when the user selects the figure A. In the example shown in the figure, control points 404 are displayed in which operation points are arranged at respective positions of the vertices of the rectangle circumscribing the graphic A and the midpoints of the sides connecting the adjacent vertices.

Each of the operation points is associated with each part of the graphic A. By operating each operation point of the control point 404 on the editing screen, the user can move the figure A, and enlarge or reduce the corresponding part. In the example of FIG. 4, the image layout information is an image attribute value. After all, the attribute value of the image is equivalent to the attribute value that changes by editing the figure. The control point is also equivalent to the attribute value of the graphic before editing in the example of FIG.
On the editing screen 402 in FIG. 4B, a graphic B obtained by deforming the graphic A is displayed. In the editing screen 403 of FIG. 4C, a figure C obtained by moving the figure B is displayed.

FIG. 4D shows the attribute values of each figure when the figures A, B, and C are displayed as shown in FIGS.
The attribute value includes the width and height of each figure, the display position on the editing screen, and the rotation status on the editing screen. The width of each figure is “Width” and the height is “Height”. In addition, when viewing each figure from the front, the display position of each figure on the coordinates with the origin at the upper left of the editing screen is “X (position in the X axis direction)”, “Y (position in the Y axis direction)”, “ Z (Z-axis direction position (depth)) ". Furthermore, the rotation status of each figure is “Angle-X (rotation around the X axis)”, “Angle-Y (rotation around the Y axis)”, and “Angle-Z (rotation around the Z axis)”.

The position in the Z-axis direction and the rotation status are, for example, expression dimension change values for changing an n-dimensional figure (image) into an m (> n) -dimensional expression.
Note that the attribute values indicating the width and height of each figure are preliminarily stored as reference attribute values indicating the reference width and height for each figure, and are expanded or reduced as necessary. It is also possible to add an additional magnification.

  The column A in FIG. 4D is an attribute value of the graphic A. In the graphic A in FIG. 4A, the control points are displayed, but all the attribute values indicating the display position and the rotation are “0”. This indicates a state in which the user has not performed operations such as movement and rotation of the graphic A. In the following, the description will be made with the attribute value of the graphic A as a reference for change.

  The editing screen 402 in FIG. 4B shows a state when the figure A is edited by the user through the control point and then enters the state of the figure B. The B column in FIG. 4D is the attribute value of the figure B. When compared with each attribute value in the state of the graphic A, “Angle-X” changes from “0” to “Bax”, and “Angle-Y” changes from “0” to “Bay”. This indicates that editing for rotating the figure A around the X axis and around the Y axis was performed.

  Note that the control point 404 moves in accordance with editing even when a figure is deformed as at least one of “Z”, “Angle-X”, and “Angle-Y” changes. It is controlled so that it is not deformed. Therefore, even if editing is performed from the state of the graphic A to the state of the graphic B, the display position of the control point 404 remains as shown in the editing screen 402 of FIG. That is, the layout management unit 203 generates control point layout information based on the attribute value of the layout of the image before editing, and maintains this.

  In the editing screen 402 of FIG. 4B, the operation point (upper left corner) of the control point 404 closest to the origin and the display position closest to the origin of the graphic B are specified as corresponding parts, and the same mark is given. Has been. In this way, the correspondence relationship between the figure A, the figure B, and the control point 404 when the figure A changes to the figure B can be grasped.

  The editing screen 403 in FIG. 4C shows a state when the figure B is moved to the figure C state. The column C in FIG. 4D is an attribute value of the figure C. Compared to the attribute value in the state of the graphic B, “Z” changes from “0” to “Cz”. This indicates that editing for moving the figure B in the Z-axis direction has been performed. As a result of this editing, the difference between the display positions of the control point 404 and the figure C is increased. However, by assigning the same mark to the corresponding parts of the control point 404 and the figure C, the user can easily grasp the correspondence between the two.

Returning to FIG. 3, the processing procedure of the information processing apparatus 100 that realizes the display mode will be described.
The information processing apparatus 100 (CPU 102) starts editing processing when an operation instruction is input from the input unit 201. The operation instruction is, for example, that a graphic to be edited is selected on the editing screen and an attribute value of the graphic is specified.

  When the graphic is edited on the editing screen, the attribute value of the edited graphic is stored in the storage unit 207 (S301). Also, the control point display position and size information is acquired, and control layout information is generated based on the acquired information (S302). This control point layout information is temporarily held in the RAM 104 for later use in discrimination. The control point layout information has the attribute values “X”, “Y”, “Width”, and “Height” described above.

  When the information processing apparatus 100 generates an image based on the attribute value of the edited graphic (S303), the information processing apparatus 100 acquires information on the display position and size of the image on the editing screen, and based on the acquired information, acquires image layout information. Generate (S304). The image layout information is information indicating the coordinates of the minimum rectangle that circumscribes the edited image, for example. This image layout information is temporarily held in the RAM 104 for later use in discrimination.

  The information processing apparatus 100 determines whether or not the attribute value recorded in the storage unit 207 relating to the three-dimensional deformation of the figure (change value of the expression dimension) is “0” (S305). That is, it is determined whether or not each value of “Z”, “Angle-X”, and “Angle-Y” is “0”. If there is at least one attribute value other than “0” as a result of determination (S305: Yes), the corresponding part corresponding to the control point displayed based on the control point information and the edited figure (image) is edited. It is specified by comparing the attribute values before and after. Then, the same mark is assigned to each identified corresponding part (S306). The identified corresponding part is, for example, the part illustrated in FIGS. 4B and 4C. As another example of the corresponding part, the center point of each of the control point and the figure (image) may be used.

  If all of the attribute values of the three-dimensional deformation are “0” as a result of adding the mark or as a result of the determination in S305 (S305: No), the information processing apparatus 100 performs processing on all the edited figures. It is confirmed whether or not the processing from S301 to S306 has been completed (S307). The case where all of the attribute values of the three-dimensional deformation are “0”, that is, the case where the conditions for marking are not satisfied. If not completed, the process returns to S301 (S307: No). When all the processes are completed (S307: Yes), the display of the edit screen is updated (S308), and the display modes of FIGS. 4A to 4C are realized in this way.

  Another example of the edit screen updated in the processing procedure of FIG. 3 will be described with reference to FIG. FIGS. 5A to 5D are transition examples of the edit screens 501 to 504, and FIG. 5E is an attribute value of a graphic displayed on each edit screen.

  Now, it is assumed that the figure A displayed on the editing screen 501 shown in FIG. At this time, the attribute value of the graphic A is acquired. Since only the graphic A is selected, the acquired attribute value is the same as the value already stored in the storage unit 207. Column A in FIG. 5E is attribute values stored in the storage unit 207. That is, among the attribute values, “X” is “Ax”, “Y” is “Ay”, and “Z” is “0”. Similarly, “Angle-X” is “0”, “Angle-Y” is “0”, “Angle-Z” is “Aaz”, “Width” is “Aw”, and “Height” is “Ah”. . Therefore, the attribute values of the control point layout information are “Ax” for “X”, “Ay” for “Y”, “Aw” for “Width”, and “Ah” for “Height”.

The edited figure (image) is generated by giving an attribute value of the figure to the image acquisition unit 206. In this attribute value, “X” is “Ax”, “Y” is “Ay”, “Z” is “0”, “Angle-X” is “0”, “Angle-Y” is “0”, “ “Angle-Z” is “Aaz”, “Widhth” is “Aw”, and “Height” is “Ah”.
Since the attribute values of the image layout information are all “0” regarding the three-dimensional deformation of the figure, “X” is “Ax”, “Y” is “Ay”, and “Width” is “Aw”. , “Height” becomes “Ah”.

  Since the graphic A in FIG. 5A has all the attribute values related to three-dimensional deformation being “0” and the graphic selected is only the graphic A, the process repeats (S307: No) in FIG. The screen display is updated. As a result, as shown on the edit screen 502 in FIG. 5B, control points similar to the control points 404 in FIG. 4 are displayed around the graphic A on the edit screen.

  The image after the graphic A is edited is the graphic B shown on the editing screen 503 in FIG. When the figure B is selected, the attribute value of the figure B is acquired. Since only the graphic B is selected, the acquired attribute value is the same as the value already stored in the storage unit 207. The column B in FIG. 5E is the attribute value of the graphic B stored in the storage unit 207. That is, among the attribute values, “X” is “Bx”, “Y” is “By”, and “Z” is “Bz”. Similarly, “Angle-X” is “Bax”, “Angle-Y” is “Bay”, “Angle-Z” is “Baz”, “Width” is “Bw”, and “Height” is “Bh”. . Therefore, the attribute values of the control point layout information are “Bx” for “X”, “By” for “Y”, “Bw” for “Width”, and “Bh” for “Height”.

In the image of the figure B after editing, “X” is “Bx”, “Y” is “By”, and “Z” is “Bz” among the attribute values. Similarly, “Angle-X” becomes “Bax”, “Angle-Y” becomes “Bay”, “Angle-Z” becomes “Baz”, “Width” becomes “Bw”, and “Height” becomes “Bh”. .
The attribute value of the image layout information is different from the values of “X”, “Y”, “Width”, and “Height” because the attribute value regarding the three-dimensional deformation is not “0” in the case of the graphic B. Become. The attribute values of the image layout information in this case are “Bx ′” for “X”, “By ′” for “Y”, “Bw ′” for “Width”, and “Bh ′” for “Height”.

  Since the attribute value regarding the three-dimensional deformation is not “0”, the graphic B satisfies the condition for marking. Therefore, a common mark is assigned to each corresponding part of the control point and the edited image. What is given to the control point is a mark 505 in the editing screen 504 in FIG. 5D, and what is given to the image after editing is a mark 506. Since the selected figure is only the figure B, the repetition process (S307: No) in FIG. 3 is exited, and the display of the editing screen is updated. The edit screen 504 in FIG. 5D is displayed in this way.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the figure is edited, if a deviation exceeding the threshold value is generated between the control point 404 and the image due to the three-dimensional deformation, each of the control point and the image is displayed. A common mark is given to the corresponding part.
Thereby, the display load is reduced as compared with the case where marks are assigned to all the control points. Also, the user can efficiently grasp the correspondence relationship through the common mark.

[Modification]
For example, when a figure is edited on a small display, the distance between the control point and the image is increased, and the entire image may not be displayed in the editing screen. In such a case, it can be configured so that the correspondence can be grasped by giving a common display color instead of giving a common mark. The display color is one of the control point and the image. For example, the display color used in the graphic image may be extracted and the color information may be assigned to the control point. For example, among the display colors used in the image, the most used color is assigned to the control point. This makes it possible to intuitively understand the correspondence between the two. Alternatively, an average value of RGB (red, green and blue) colors used in the graphic image may be acquired, and the color of the average value may be used as the display color of the control point. Thereby, even when the image is not stored in the editing screen, it is possible to show the correspondence between the control point and the image.

[Second Embodiment]
The information processing apparatus 100 uses a plurality of attribute values for one attribute item so that the appearance on the editing screen is uniquely determined by the attribute value, and the graphic has a different appearance for each state. It can be configured so that the appearance of the figure can be changed. At that time, the user can arbitrarily specify how the graphic is displayed. The figure that looks different is a figure that is used as, for example, a GUI (Graphical User Interface) component. In the information processing apparatus 100 in this case, a description will be given of an embodiment in which a mark is assigned to a corresponding portion between a control point and an image.

The processing procedure of the object editing method in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 shows a main processing procedure of the information processing apparatus 100 (CPU 102). FIG. 7A shows a display example of the edit screen 701 according to this embodiment, and FIG. 7B shows a display example of the edit screen 702. (C) is an attribute value of the figure when displayed as described above.
Note that many of the processing procedures in FIG. 6 overlap those described in FIG. The difference is that the attribute value of the state to be displayed is acquired in the previous stage of S301 in FIG. 3 (S601). Therefore, the following description of the same content as the processing described in FIG. 3 will be omitted, and the processing content in S601 will be mainly described.

  In S601, it is specified on the editing screen 701 in FIG. 7A that the attribute value of the state that the user wants to display is selected for the graphic A. That is, the information processing apparatus 100 acquires an attribute value corresponding to “State” of the graphic A among the attribute values designated by the user. For example, if the user's designation is “State 1”, the attribute value in the column 703 shown in FIG. 7C is acquired as the corresponding attribute value. As attribute values at this time, “X” is “Ax”, “Y” is “Ay”, and “Z” is “0”. Similarly, “Angle-X” is “0”, “Angle-Y” is “0”, “Angle-Z” is “Aaz”, “Width” is “Aw”, and “Height” is “Ah”. .

  On the other hand, if the user's designation is “State 2”, the attribute value in the column 704 shown in FIG. 7C is acquired. That is, among the attribute values, “X” is “Ax ′”, “Y” is “Ay ′”, and “Z” is “Az ′”. Similarly, “Angle-X” is “0”, “Angle-Y” is “0”, “Angle-Z” is “Aaz ′”, “Width” is “Aw ′”, and “Height” is “Ah ′”. It is.

  When “State 1” is designated, a graphic A and control points are displayed as shown in the editing screen 701 in FIG. On the other hand, when “State 2” is designated, as shown in the edit screen 702 in FIG. 7B, the control point is displayed separately from the graphic A and other graphics. Comparing the attribute values of the columns 703 and 704, it can be seen that when “State 2” is designated, the graphic A looks as if it is moved only in the Z coordinate direction. Further, since “Z” is not “0”, the condition for mark provision is satisfied. For this reason, a common mark is assigned to each corresponding part of the control point and the image. As a result, a display such as an editing screen 702 shown in FIG.

  As described above, this embodiment can be configured so that a user can arbitrarily specify the appearance of a figure by giving a plurality of attribute values to one attribute item according to the state. Further, since it is determined whether or not a mark indicating the correspondence between the control point and the image is provided for each state, the number of times of displaying the correspondence can be reduced.

[Third Embodiment]
The information processing apparatus 100 can be configured to change the appearance of a figure in accordance with an image creation rule that can be arbitrarily added by a user. An embodiment in which a mark indicating a correspondence relationship between a control point and a graphic in this case is given will be described.
For example, a rule file described in XML can be used as the image creation rule. Further, a mechanism that can add program logic to the information processing apparatus 100 may be prepared and realized. Information on these image creation rules is stored in the storage unit 207 in advance, and the contents can be arbitrarily determined by the user.

  The processing procedure of the object editing method according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 8 shows a main processing procedure of the information processing apparatus 100 (CPU 102). FIG. 9A shows a display example of the edit screen 901 according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 9C shows the attribute values of the display figure at this time. Further, (b) is a display example of the editing screen 902, and (d) is an attribute value of the display figure at this time.

  Note that the processing procedure in FIG. 8 almost overlaps with the procedure described in FIG. The difference is that an image creation process (S802) based on an object creation rule is inserted between S302 and S304. Further, in place of S305 in FIG. 3, a determination process (S802) is performed to determine whether or not the threshold value for deviation between the figure and the control point has been exceeded. Therefore, the same content as the process described in FIG. 3 is not described repeatedly, and the process in S801 and S802 will be mainly described.

  The information processing apparatus 100 is triggered by accepting an operation such as editing of a figure on the editing screen or editing of a property sheet in which an attribute value of the figure is recorded in a state where the figure is selected. (CPU 102) starts the following processing.

  Through the processing of S301 and S302, based on the attribute value recorded in the storage unit 207 and the image creation rule added by the user, the image acquisition unit 206 generates an image of the edited graphic (S801). The layout management unit 203 acquires the attribute value of the generated image. The acquired attribute value of the image is temporarily stored in the RAM 104, for example, for condition determination.

  Next, through the process of S304, the determination unit 208 determines whether or not the misalignment of both exceeds a threshold value based on the image layout information and the control point layout information (S802). That is, the control point center point coordinates calculated from the control point layout information are compared with the image center point coordinates calculated from the image layout information, and it is determined whether or not the difference exceeds a threshold value.

It is assumed that the attribute values of the control point layout information are “X” for “Xc”, “Yc” for “Y”, “Wc” for “Width”, and “Hc” for “Height”. In this case, the center point coordinates (Xcc, Ycc) are Xcc (= Xc + Wc / 2) and Ycc (= Yc + Hc / 2).
If the attribute value of the image layout information is “X” is “Xi”, “Y” is “Yi”, “Width” is “Wi”, and “Height” is “Hi”, the center point coordinates ( Xic, Yic) becomes Xic (= Xi + Wi / 2) and Yic (= Yi + Hi / 2).
The determination unit 208 determines the threshold value as Th and applies each attribute value to Equation 1 for determination.

  As a result of the determination, if the above expression 1 is true, it is determined that the condition for marking is satisfied. As a result, a common mark is assigned to each corresponding part of the control point and the image (S306). On the other hand, if Formula 1 is false, it is confirmed whether all the edited figures have been processed (S307). This process is repeated until all the processes for the edited figure are completed (S307: No).

  A specific example of the procedure described above with reference to FIG. 8 will be described with reference to FIG. In the following description, the threshold Th is “1”, and the image creation rule is calculated by, for example, “image height = attribute value Level value × attribute value Height value”. Among the attribute values, “Level” is a value indicating a magnification, for example.

  The editing screen 901 shown in FIG. 9A displays a graphic A and its control points, a graphic B, a graphic C, and a graphic D. In the editing screen 901, the figure A is an editing target. The attribute value of each graphic displayed on the edit screen 901 is an attribute value list 903 shown in FIG. The edit screen 902 shown in FIG. 9B shows a state in which the graphic A, graphic B, graphic C, and graphic D are displayed based on the attribute value list 904 shown in FIG. 9D. Since the control point of the graphic A is displayed on the editing screen 902, the graphic A is an editing target.

  In the “Level” of the attribute value list 903, the values of the A column corresponding to the graphic A, the B column corresponding to the graphic B, the C column corresponding to the graphic C, and the D column corresponding to the graphic D are “1”. is there. Therefore, “Height” among the attribute values corresponding to each figure generates an image with a height of 1 (times).

Next, the control point and image center point coordinates are calculated from the control point layout information and the image layout information, and compared with the threshold Th. The X-axis component “Xcc” of the center point coordinates of the control point is “Ax + W / 2”, and the Y-axis component “Ycc” is “Ay + H / 2”. The X-axis component “Xic” of the center point coordinates of the image is “Ax + W / 2”, and the Y-axis component “Yic” is “Ax + H / 2”.
Therefore, the distance between the control point and the center point of the image is “0”, and the determination result is false. Therefore, the mark is not given because the condition is not satisfied.

  On the other hand, among the attribute values in the attribute value list 904 in FIG. 9D, “Level” is “5” in the A column corresponding to the graphic A, “3” in the B column corresponding to the graphic B, “4” in the C column corresponding to the graphic C, and “1” in the D column corresponding to the graphic D. Therefore, in accordance with the image creation rule, in the graphic A, an image is generated with a multiple of “H” that is the value of “Height” multiplied by “5”. Similarly, an image is generated for figure B at 3 (times) of “H”, 4 (times) for “H” for figure C, and 1 (times) for H for figure D.

  Thereafter, the information processing apparatus 100 compares the control point layout information and the image layout information, thereby calculating the center point coordinates of the control point and the image, and compares the control point with the threshold Th. The X-axis component “Xcc” of the center point coordinates of the control point is “Ax + W / 2”, and the Y-axis component “Ycc” is “Ay + H / 2”. The X-axis component “Xic” of the center point coordinates of the image is “Ax + W / 2”, and the Y-axis component “Yic” is “Ax + 5H / 2”. Therefore, the determination result is true, and a mark is added to the control point and the graphic A as shown in the editing screen 902 in FIG.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, even if an image is generated according to the image creation rule, a mark indicating the correspondence between the control point and the image can be given. Therefore, the number of times of displaying the correspondence relationship can be reduced.

  Each embodiment described above is for more specifically explaining the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to these examples.

Note that a storage medium in which a program code of a computer program (software) for realizing the functions of each embodiment is recorded may be supplied to the system or apparatus. Needless to say, the program code stored in the storage medium is also read and executed by the computer (or CPU) of the system or apparatus.
Examples of the storage medium include a flexible disk, a hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a CD-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, and a ROM.

In addition, based on the instruction of the program code read by the computer, an OS (operating system) running on the computer performs part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the embodiments are realized by the processing. it can.
Further, the program code read from the storage medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer. Thereafter, based on the instruction of the program code, the CPU provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the respective embodiments can be realized by the processing.

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Layout management means for displaying an image and one or more operation points corresponding to one or more characteristic parts of the image on an editing screen;
A discriminating means for discriminating whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied by the editing when the image is edited by moving the operation point;
When the determination unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a specific part of one or a plurality of characteristic parts of the edited image and an operation point corresponding to the specific part And adding means for giving information indicating that they are in correspondence with each other and displaying the information on the editing screen,
Information processing device. An information processing device for editing an object on a display screen of a display device,
Layout management means for determining a layout on the editing screen of an image for displaying the object, and a control point having one or a plurality of operation points enabling an editing operation on the image;
Discriminating means for discriminating whether or not the control point and the edited image satisfy a predetermined condition;
When the determination unit determines that the condition is satisfied, a corresponding portion corresponding to the control point displayed in the layout and the edited image is specified, and the corresponding corresponding portion is in a corresponding relationship with each other. Providing means for giving information indicating that,
Information processing device. The layout management means includes control point layout information representing an arrangement status of the control points on the editing screen and image layout information representing an arrangement status of the edited image on the editing screen. Generated based on an attribute value including a display position of an image, and according to the generated control point layout information and the image layout information, determine a layout of the control point and the edited image on the editing screen. To
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. The layout management means generates the control point layout information with the layout of the image before the editing,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3. The attribute value includes a change value of an expression dimension for changing the image of n (n is a natural number of 1 or more) dimension to an m (> n) dimension representation,
The determination means determines that the condition is satisfied when the change value included in the attribute value of the image after editing has changed,
Thereby, the giving means gives the information indicating that the corresponding part is in the corresponding relation to the corresponding part,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 or 4. The attribute value has a plurality of values for one attribute item so that an expression mode of the image that changes for each state displayed on the editing screen can be selected.
The determination means determines that the condition is satisfied when the attribute value of the image before editing is different from the attribute value of the image in the selected state,
Thereby, the giving means gives information indicating that the correspondence is in each of the corresponding part in the image of the selected state and the corresponding part in the control point,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 or 4. The attribute value includes a value representing an expression form of an image created according to an image creation rule added by an operator.
The discriminating means, when the deviation between the image layout information based on the attribute value of the image according to the added image creation rule generated by the layout management means and the control point layout information exceeds a predetermined threshold, Determining that the condition is satisfied;
Thereby, the giving means gives information indicating that the corresponding part is in the correspondence to each of the corresponding part in the image and the corresponding part in the control point,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 or 4. The assigning means assigns a common graphic to each of the corresponding part in the image and the corresponding part in the control point as information indicating that the correspondence is present,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. The assigning means assigns color information extracted from an element representing the image to the corresponding part in the control point as information indicating the correspondence relationship,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. A display control step for displaying an image and one or a plurality of operation points corresponding to one or a plurality of characteristic parts of the image on the editing screen by the layout management unit;
A determination step of determining whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by the editing when the editing is performed on the image by moving the operation point by the determination means;
In the determination step, when it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a specific part of one or a plurality of characteristic parts of the image subjected to the editing is added to the specific part by the assigning unit. Providing a corresponding operation point with information indicating that there is a correspondence relationship with each other, and causing the corresponding operation point to be displayed on the editing screen.
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus. A computer program for causing a computer connected to a display device having an edit screen to operate as an information processing device that performs object editing,
The computer,
Layout management means for displaying an image and one or a plurality of operation points corresponding to one or a plurality of characteristic parts of the image on the editing screen;
A discriminating means for discriminating whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by the editing when the image is edited by moving the operation point;
When the determination unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied, a specific part of one or more characteristic parts of the edited image and an operation point corresponding to the specific part And giving means for giving information indicating that they are in correspondence with each other and displaying them on the editing screen;
A computer program that functions as a computer program. An information processing device that edits an object on the editing screen of the display device
A process for determining a layout on the editing screen of an image for displaying the object, and a control point having one or a plurality of operation points enabling an editing operation on the image;
A process for determining whether the control point and the edited image satisfy a predetermined condition;
When the determination unit determines that the condition is satisfied, a corresponding portion corresponding to the control point displayed in the layout and the edited image is specified, and the corresponding corresponding portion is in a corresponding relationship with each other. And a process of giving information indicating that,
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus. A computer program for causing a computer connected to a display device having an edit screen to operate as an information processing device that performs object editing,
The computer,
Layout management means for deciding a layout on the editing screen of an image for displaying the object and a control point having one or a plurality of operation points enabling an editing operation on the image;
Determining means for determining whether the control point and the edited image satisfy a predetermined condition;
When the determination unit determines that the condition is satisfied, a corresponding portion corresponding to the control point displayed in the layout and the edited image is specified, and the corresponding corresponding portion is in a corresponding relationship with each other. A granting means for granting information indicating that;
A computer program that functions as a computer program.

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