JP2020087237A - Cartoon creation assistance system, cartoon creation assistance method and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a cartoon creation assistance system capable of improving the quality of a change to an aspect ratio of frames which is performed in a process of cartoon creation.SOLUTION: A terminal device 5 included in a cartoon creation assistance system 100 comprises a calculation unit 511 for performing resizing processing for changing a size of a frame in which one or more objects are drawn from a first size to a second size, the first size and the second size being different in an aspect ratio of vertical and lateral directions of the frame from each other. The resizing processing includes: extension/contraction processing for changing lengths of vertical and lateral directions of the frame and positions and shapes of one or more objects at an extension/contraction magnification using a magnification in a first direction out of magnifications in the vertical and lateral directions from a first size to a second size, where one of the vertical and lateral directions is the first direction and the other is the second direction as the extension/contraction magnification; and adjustment processing for adjusting a length in the second direction at an adjustment magnification using a magnification for which a ratio of the length in the second direction to the length in the first direction is an aspect ratio of the second size as the adjustment magnification, and re-arranging one or more objects in the adjusted frame using the adjustment magnification.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present disclosure relates to a comic creation support system, a comic creation support method, and a computer program.

A frame is a delimiter of an illustration representing one scene, and has a frame that divides an area and one or more objects such as characters and text drawn in the frame. As an apparatus for supporting hand-drawn cartoon creation, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2008-305171 determines a frame according to the length of a text from among frame types, and also includes multiple types of facial photographs and balloons of a character. We have proposed an automatic creation device that decides a facial photograph and a balloon frame corresponding to the emotion of the author for a sentence from the frames and creates a comic frame using them.

In the process of creating a manga, you may want to change (resize) the aspect ratio (aspect ratio) of the frames. When the image of a frame is stored as digital data using the automatic creation device described in Patent Document 1, the frame can be easily resized by changing the size of the image data.

JP, 2008-305171, A

As a general method of resizing, there is a method of changing the aspect ratio of an entire frame as one image. In this case, the composition in the frame does not change and the composition is kept natural, while the aspect ratio of the object in the frame changes, so if the object is a character image or a character, The result may be natural.

Therefore, as another method of resizing, if the image data of a frame is composed of image data for each object, the aspect ratio of each object in the frame is fixed and the aspect ratio of the entire frame is changed. Conceivable. In this case, although the object itself is natural, if the aspect ratios of the object and its surroundings are significantly different, the overall composition may be unnatural.

Therefore, when changing (resizing) the aspect ratio of a frame in the process of creating a manga, it is desired that the objects included in the frame and the structure of the entire frame be resized naturally.

According to an embodiment, the comic creation support system changes a frame of a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in the frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame to a second size. The resizing process has a calculation unit that executes the resizing process, and the resizing process uses one of the vertical and horizontal directions as a first direction and the other as a second direction among the scaling factors in the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size. Using the scaling factor in the first direction as the scaling factor, the scaling factor that changes the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame and the position and shape of one or more objects at the scaling factor, and the first direction of the length in the second direction. The length in the second direction is adjusted with the adjustment magnification, and the one or more objects are adjusted with the adjustment magnification that is the ratio of the length to the length of the second aspect ratio. And an adjustment process for rearranging in a later frame.

According to another embodiment, a comic creation support method is a method for assisting comic creation, in which a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in a frame has a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame. From the first size to the second size, with one of the vertical and horizontal directions being the first direction and the other being the second direction. Among these, the scaling factor in the first direction is used as the scaling factor, the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame are changed by the scaling factor, and the position and shape of one or more objects are changed. The magnification in which the aspect ratio of the second size is the ratio to the length in one direction is used as the adjustment magnification, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment magnification, and one or more objects are respectively adjusted using the adjustment magnification. Rearranging in the adjusted frame.

According to another embodiment, a computer program changes the size of a frame of a frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions to a second size for a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in the frame. Is a program that causes a computer to function as a calculation unit that executes a resizing process, wherein the resizing process uses one of the vertical and horizontal directions as a first direction and the other as a second direction, and changes the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size. A scaling factor for changing the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame and the position and shape of one or more objects by the scaling factor is the scaling factor in the first direction among the scaling factors in each direction, and the second direction. The ratio of the length of the to the length in the first direction as the aspect ratio of the second size is used as the adjustment ratio, and the adjustment ratio is used to adjust the length in the second direction. An adjustment process of rearranging each of one or more objects in the adjusted frame.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a configuration of a comic creation system according to an embodiment and a configuration of each device included in the comic creation system. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the resizing process. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific example of the resizing process. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of variation in the size of a frame when a plurality of frames are arranged on a page. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a specific example of frame division.

[1. Outline of Manga Creation Support System, Manga Creation Support Method, and Computer Program Forward Detection Device]

(1) The comic creation system included in the present embodiment changes a frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions of a frame to a second size for a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in the frame. The resizing process has a calculation unit that executes a resizing process for changing, and in the resizing process, one of the vertical and horizontal directions is set as a first direction and the other is set as a second direction. The magnification in the first direction is used as the magnification for scaling, the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame at the magnification for scaling, the scaling processing for changing the position and shape of one or more objects, and the second length The magnification in which the aspect ratio of the second size is the ratio to the length in one direction is used as the adjustment magnification, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment magnification, and one or more objects are respectively adjusted using the adjustment magnification. And an adjustment process for rearranging in the adjusted frame.

The cartoon creation support system includes, for example, a server that can communicate with each other via the Internet and the like, and a terminal device used by the cartoon creator. In this case, as an example, the terminal device receives at least a part of the computer program from the server, and the processor executes the computer program to perform the scaling processing and the adjustment processing. By executing the enlargement/reduction processing and the adjustment processing in the terminal device, the size can be changed without changing the aspect ratio of each of one or more objects included in the frame. Therefore, the quality of the object in the frame after the size change can be maintained. In addition, when a plurality of objects are included in a frame, the enlargement/reduction processing and the adjustment processing are executed to fix the positional relationship between the objects and enlarge or reduce the frame in one of the vertical and horizontal directions. This is the same state in which the object is represented by moving the viewpoint in the vertical or horizontal direction by a distance according to the magnification, so that the composition can be naturally changed.

(2) Preferably, the adjustment magnification is a magnification obtained by dividing the magnification in the second direction from the first size to the second size by the magnification in the first direction. As a result, the size of the frame after the resizing processing can be set to the designated size.

(3) Preferably, the rearrangement is performed by adjusting the coordinate values of one or more objects, which are obtained by multiplying the coordinate values of the reference points set in the second direction by the adjustment magnification. Locating in a defined frame. This allows the composition to change naturally.

(4) Preferably, the arithmetic unit performs a resizing process on a first frame of a frame group for a page having a predetermined area and including a plurality of frame groups arranged in the predetermined area. Then, the resizing process is executed for the second frames other than the first frame in the frame group. As a result, when the size of one frame is changed on a certain page, the sizes of other frames are automatically changed in conjunction with each other, and it is not necessary to adjust the size of each frame one by one. Therefore, the work involved in changing the size of the frame is significantly reduced when creating a comic in which the frame is arranged on the page.

(5) Preferably, the arithmetic unit adds a first frame to a page, and adds a first frame to a page having a predetermined area and including a plurality of frame groups arranged in the predetermined area. When at least one of the deletion of one frame from the page and the movement of the first frame of the frame group within the page is performed, the second frame of the frame group other than the first frame is deleted. The resize processing is executed for the frame. The above processing for the first frame affects the frame size of the frames in the vicinity of the first frame. Therefore, in such a case, the sizes of the other frames are automatically adjusted, so that the above-described work for the frames is significantly reduced when creating a cartoon in which the frames are arranged.

(6) Preferably, the arithmetic unit executes a process of dividing the designated frame into a first frame and a second frame, and the process of dividing the designated frame into a first frame includes a resizing process, and a second frame. The process of dividing into frames includes the process of adding a new frame. The resizing process includes dividing the frame size of the first frame and adding a new frame to the page. .. As a result, the composition of the first frame can be naturally changed when such a frame is divided.

(7) Preferably, the first direction is the direction in which the rate of change in magnification from the first size to the second size is smaller in the vertical and horizontal directions. This facilitates the calculation of the adjustment process.

(8) The manga creation support method included in the present embodiment is a method for supporting manga creation, and for frames in which one or more objects are drawn in a frame, the frames have different aspect ratios in the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame. The method includes a step of changing from the first size to the second size, and in this step, one of the vertical and horizontal directions is the first direction and the other is the second direction, and the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size are respectively set. Among the above-mentioned magnifications, the magnification in the first direction is used as the magnification for scaling, and the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame and the position and shape of one or more objects are changed by the magnification for scaling, and the length in the second direction. Of the second size aspect ratio as a ratio to the length in the first direction is used as an adjustment magnification, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment magnification, and the adjustment magnification is set to 1 or more. Rearranging each of the objects within the adjusted frame. This comic creation support method is the support method in the comic creation support system described in (1) to (7). Therefore, this comic creation support method has the same effect as the comic creation support system described in (1) to (7).

(9) The computer program included in the present embodiment causes a computer to function as the comic creation support system described in (1) to (7). Therefore, this computer program has the same effect as the comic creation support system described in (1) to (7).

[2. Examples of comic creation support system, comic creation support method, and computer program]

[2.1 Structure of Manga Creation Support System]

As shown in FIG. 1, a cartoon creation support system 100 according to the present embodiment includes a server 1 and a terminal device 5 used by a cartoon creator, which are mutually connected via a communication line such as the Internet 2. Communication is possible. The cartoon creation support system 100 is a system that supports the creation or editing of cartoons using the terminal device 5, and particularly supports the size change of frames during the creation or editing of cartoons.

As shown in FIG. 1, the server 1 includes a controller 10 and a communication device 13 capable of communicating with the terminal device 5 via a communication network such as the Internet 2. The controller 10 is configured by a computer including a control unit 11 configured by a processor and a storage device 12 for storing information. The storage device 12 may be a primary storage device or a secondary storage device. The storage device 12 stores a program 121 executed by the processor. The computer functions as the server 1 by the program 121 being executed by the processor.

As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal device 5 includes a controller 50, a communication device 53 capable of communicating with the server 1 via a communication network such as the Internet 2, and an operating device 54 such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a touch pen (not shown). , A display 55.

The operation device 54 receives an operation from a user who is a manga creator or an editor and gives an operation signal to the controller 50. The controller 50 is configured by a computer including a control unit 51 configured by a processor and a storage device 52 for storing information according to an operation signal. The storage device 52 may be a primary storage device or a secondary storage device. The storage device 52 stores a program 521 executed by the processor. The processor executes the program 521 according to the operation signal from the operation device 54, and causes the computer to function as the terminal device 5. Further, the control unit 51 functions as the calculation unit 511 when the program 521 is executed by the processor.

At least a part of the program 521 is distributed from the server 1 to the terminal device 5 during the resizing process. As an example, at least a part of the program 521 is distributed from the server 1 by the terminal device 5 accessing the server 1 during the resizing process. Alternatively, the entire program 521 may be distributed from the server 1 during the resizing process. The resizing process may be performed at the timing when the user of the terminal device 5 instructs the resizing process or at a timing before that. The timing before that is, for example, the timing at which the application for comic creation is activated.

[2.2 Functional configuration of terminal device]

The storage device 52 of the terminal device 5 stores the information of the cartoon being created. The manga information includes frame information. A frame is a delimiter of an illustration representing one scene, and has a frame that divides a region and one or more objects such as characters and characters drawn in the frame. The frame may be a diagram or it may be conceptual rather than explicit.

The frame information includes frame information and illustration information in the frame. The frame information includes frame size information. The frame is, for example, a rectangle having vertical and horizontal sides. In this case, the frame size information includes, for example, the lengths of the vertical and horizontal sides of the frame.

The information about the illustration in the frame includes information about each of one or more objects included in the illustration. The information of the object includes image information of the object, information of the type of the object (character, text, etc.), information specifying the position arranged in the frame, and information specifying a reference point used in the resizing process described later. , For each object.

When the control unit 51 receives an operation signal instructing resizing for the designated frame from the operation device 54, the arithmetic unit 511 realized by the control unit 51 included in the controller 50 executes the resizing process. The resizing process refers to a process of changing the size of a frame so that the size of a frame is changed from a first size having a different aspect ratio to a second size. That is, the resizing process changes the frame size of the target frame from the first size to the second size, and changes the position and shape of the frame size of each of one or more objects included in the frame. This is a process of changing the value according to

As shown in FIG. 2, the resizing process includes a scaling process (step S11) and an adjustment process (step S12). The calculation unit 511 includes a scaling processing unit 512 for performing the scaling processing S11, and an adjustment processing unit 513 for performing the adjustment processing S12. The resizing process will be described later.

[2.3 Details of resize processing]

In FIG. 2, the size of the rectangular frame of the target frame is changed from a frame 71 having a first size of vertical H1 and horizontal W1 to a frame 72 having a second size of vertical H2 and horizontal W2. As a specific example, a process of changing each of the one or more objects OA and OB included in the illustration in the frame 71 according to the change of the frame size is given.

In the following description, the vertical size H1 and horizontal width W1 that are the first size, and the vertical size H2 and horizontal width W2 that are the second size are set to the lower values as an example.
H1=1, W1=2
H2=0.5, W2=1.5

In this case, unlike the aspect ratio AS1 (=W1/H1=2) of the first size and the aspect ratio AS2 (=W2/H2=3) of the second size, the frame size is changed to a size having a different aspect ratio. Is being transformed. Therefore, the process of changing the size of the frame in this case is a resizing process.

Further, with respect to one or more objects OA and OB included in the illustration in the frame 71, the reference points PA and PB in each process are set at a common position, and the origin O is set in the frame 71. .. In the example of FIG. 2, the reference points PA and PB are the leftmost points of the object, and the origin O is the upper left apex of the frame 71.

The resizing process includes a scaling process S11 and an adjusting process S12, and the processing order thereof is not limited. As an example, the calculation unit 511 executes the scaling processing S11 and the adjustment processing S12 on the target frame in that order. That is, the calculation unit 511 obtains a frame after the resizing process by executing the enlargement/reduction processing S11 to be described later on the target frame and the adjustment processing S12 on the frame after the enlargement/reduction processing S11.

In the scaling processing S11, the scaling factor is the scaling factor on the first side of the scaling factors of the vertical and horizontal sides from the first size to the second size, and both sides of the frame and the target frame are scaled at the scaling factor. This is a process of changing the position and size of one or more objects in the image. In other words, the enlargement/reduction processing S11 is processing for enlarging or reducing the frame 71 and the illustration inside thereof as a whole by using the magnification of one of the vertical and horizontal sides (first side) of the frame 72 and fixing the aspect ratio. is there.

The first side is determined, for example, based on the change rates RH and RW of the vertical and horizontal sides when the size is changed, which is expressed by the following equation (1). As an example, the first side is the side of the vertical and horizontal sides having the smaller change rates RH and RW. This facilitates the calculation of the adjustment process S12, which will be described later.
RH=|(H1-H2)/H1|
RW=|(W1-W2)/W1|... (1)

In the above example, since RH=0.5 and RW=0.25, the first side is the horizontal side. In this case, the enlargement/reduction processing unit 512 enlarges/reduces the magnification S1 (=W2/W1=1.5/2=0.75) for both sides (vertical H1, horizontal W1) of the frame of the target frame, which is the magnification of the horizontal side. ) To change. As a result, the frame 71 of the target frame has a vertical side from H1 (=1) to H3 (=0.75) and a horizontal side from W1 (=2) to W2 (=1.5), and thus has a third size. The frame 73 has a vertical H3 and a horizontal W2.

Further, the scaling processing unit 512 calculates the respective positions in the frame 73 by multiplying the coordinates of the respective reference points PA and PB by the scaling factor S1 for the objects OA and OB, and calculating the area of the objects OA and OB. Is enlarged or reduced by a magnification S1.

Next, the adjustment process S12 is performed on the result of the scaling process S11. In the adjustment processing S12, the adjustment magnification S2 is set to a magnification having an aspect ratio of the second size that is a ratio of the second side of the vertical and horizontal sides of the frame to the other side (first side). This is a process of adjusting the second side in S2 and rearranging each of one or more objects in the frame in the adjusted frame using the adjustment magnification S2. When the adjustment process S12 is performed after the scaling process S11, the second side is a side different from the first side used in the scaling process S11. In the case of the example in FIG. 2, the first side is the horizontal side, and thus the second side is the vertical side.

By the enlargement/reduction processing S11, the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame of the target frame are enlarged or reduced so as to match the second size. In the example of FIG. 2, since the magnification of the horizontal side is used as the scaling magnification S1, the horizontal dimension of the frame 71 is reduced so as to match the second size. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2, in the adjustment process S12, the frame 73 after the enlargement/reduction process S11 has a length H3 (=0.75) in the vertical direction on the side that does not match the second size. The adjustment magnification S2 is defined as the magnification S2 having the length H2 (=0.5) at which the aspect ratio with the side length W2 becomes the aspect ratio AS2 (=W2/H2=3) of the second size. Reduce in S2. As a result, the frame 72 after the adjustment processing S12 matches the second size.

The adjustment magnification S2 is a magnification obtained by dividing the magnification on the second side by the magnification on the first side, and in the above example, the adjustment magnification S2 is expressed by the following equation (2). To be done. As a result, the size of the frame after the resizing process can be set to the designated size.
S2=(H2/H1)/(W2/W1)=H2/H1×W1/W2 (2)

At this time, the adjustment processing unit 513 does not enlarge or reduce the area of the objects OA and OB in the frame 73 after the enlargement/reduction processing S11, and calculates the position in the frame 72 after the adjustment processing S12. Here, regarding the positions of the objects OA and OB, among the coordinates (x, y) of the reference points PA and PB, the adjustment magnification S2 is set with respect to the coordinate value of the axis that coincides with the direction in which the frame is enlarged or reduced. Multiply and fix the coordinate value of the other axis. In the case of the example in FIG. 2, the value of the y coordinate of the coordinates (x, y) of the reference points PA and PB is multiplied by the adjustment magnification S2 (=0.5/0.75=2/3).

Through the above processing, the frame 71 of the target frame is changed from the first size to the designated second size. For each of the one or more objects in the target frame, the size is enlarged or reduced at the enlargement/reduction scale S1 which is the scale in one of the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size. As a result, the quality of the object can be maintained without changing the aspect ratio of each object.

When a plurality of objects are included in the target frame, the positional relationship between the objects is fixed in the scaling processing S11. In the adjustment processing S12, as the frame is enlarged or reduced in one of the vertical and horizontal directions by the adjustment magnification S2, the interval in that direction is enlarged or reduced by the adjustment magnification S2. This is the same state where the object is represented by moving the viewpoint in that direction by a distance corresponding to the adjustment magnification S2. Therefore, although the positional relationship of the plurality of objects changes in one direction, the composition can be naturally changed by setting the direction and the magnification in accordance with the enlargement or reduction of the frame.

The resizing process of a frame including a plurality of objects will be described with a specific example. The frame of FIG. 3A includes a plurality of objects 85 to 89 in a frame 80. Of the plurality of objects 85 to 89, the objects 85 and 86 are characters (persons) and the objects 87 to 89 are texts (character strings with balloons).

3B is the resizing process shown in FIG. 2 for the frame of FIG. 3A, in which the length of the vertical side of the frame 80 is fixed and the horizontal side is reduced. Here is an example. In this case, the scaling magnification S1 is 1 in the vertical side of the frame, so that the sizes of the objects 85 to 89 are maintained. For the objects 85 to 89, the object spacing is reduced in the horizontal direction at the adjustment magnification S2 that is the magnification of the horizontal side of the frame. Therefore, the objects 85 to 89 have a composition in which the viewpoint is laterally moved by a distance corresponding to the adjustment magnification S2.

FIG. 3C shows the resizing process shown in FIG. 2 for the frame of FIG. 3A, in which the length of the horizontal side of the frame 80 is fixed and the vertical side is reduced. Here is an example. In this case as well, the scaling magnification S1 is 1 on the horizontal side of the frame, so that the sizes of the objects 85 to 89 are maintained. For the objects 85 to 89, the object spacing is reduced in the vertical direction at the adjustment magnification S2 that is the magnification of the vertical side of the frame 80. Therefore, the objects 85 to 89 have a composition in which the viewpoint is vertically moved by a distance corresponding to the adjustment magnification S2.

In the example of FIG. 3, since the resizing process is performed with one of the vertical side and the horizontal side fixed in length, the scaling factor S1 is 1 in the case of the resizing process shown in FIG. Therefore, the sizes of the included objects 85 to 89 are not changed. The objects 85 to 89 are rearranged with the magnification of the other side as the adjustment magnification S2.

Further, in the example of FIG. 3, the positions of the objects 85 to 89 are rearranged with the upper left apex of the frame 80 as the origin, as described in FIG. That is, in the case of FIG. 3B, since the value of the x coordinate of the upper left apex of each object 85 to 89 is multiplied by the lateral magnification, the length of the upper left apex of each object 85 to 89 from the left side of the frame 80. The size for adjustment is reduced by the magnification S2. Therefore, in the case of FIG. 3B, the positional relationship from the left side of the frame 81 of each of the objects 85 to 89 is moved to the left side while maintaining the relationship before the resizing processing, and the positional relationship from the right side is to each of the objects 85 to 85. It is slightly changed by the length (size) of 89 in the horizontal direction. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3B, the length of each object 85 to 89 from the left side of the frame 81 is secured.

In the case of FIG. 3C, since the x-coordinate value of the upper left apex of each object 85 to 89 is multiplied by the vertical magnification, the length of the upper left apex of each object 85 to 89 from the upper side of the frame 80 is set. It is reduced by the adjustment magnification S2. Therefore, in the case of FIG. 3C, the positional relationship from the upper side of the frame 82 of each object 85 to 89 is moved to the upper side while maintaining the relationship before the resizing process, and the positional relationship from the lower side is that of each object 85 to 85. The length (size) of 89 is slightly changed. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3C, the length of each object 85 to 89 from the upper side of the frame 81 is secured.

For example, when arranging consecutive frames corresponding to each consecutive scene from right to left, it is easier to read if it is ensured that the left side length of each object 85 to 89 is secured, as shown in FIG. 3B. Or, the text (serif) arrangement may be natural. In this case, when arranging successive frames in the opposite direction (from left to right), it is desirable to secure the right length of each of the objects 85 to 89.

Similarly, when arranging consecutive frames corresponding to each consecutive scene from top to bottom, it is better to secure the upper length of each object 85 to 89 as shown in FIG. 3C. It may be easy or the text (serifs) may be arranged naturally. In this case, when arranging successive frames in the opposite direction (from bottom to top), it is desirable to secure the length of the lower side of each of the objects 85 to 89.

Therefore, the position of the reference point set for each object and/or the position of the origin O set for the frame may be changeable depending on the direction in which successive frames are arranged, for example. As a result, in the resizing process, it is possible to realize readability and natural text (serif) arrangement according to the direction in which consecutive frames are arranged.

In the example of FIG. 2, the enlargement/reduction processing S11 is first executed for the target frame, and the adjustment processing S12 is executed for the frames after the enlargement/reduction processing S11. The processing order of the scaling processing S11 and the adjustment processing S12 is not limited to the order shown in the example of FIG. 2, and may be the reverse order. That is, the adjustment process S12 may be executed for the target frame, and the enlargement/reduction process S11 may be executed for the frame after the adjustment process S12. Also in this case, similarly to the description of FIG. 2, the adjustment magnification S2 is used for the adjustment processing S12, and the enlargement/reduction magnification S1 is used for the enlargement/reduction processing S11. This processing also changes the size of the target frame in the same order as the processing sequence described with reference to FIG.

[2.4 Resizing within page]

As one form of the comic, as shown in FIG. 4A, a plurality of frames PN1 to PN6 may be arranged on one page PA. A page refers to an area having a predetermined area such as one page of a book or a screen size that can be displayed on a display at a time, and a plurality of frame groups can be arranged within the predetermined area. The user of the terminal device 5 that creates or edits a manga instructs the placement of one or more frames on a page using the operation device 54, and the controller 50 executes the process of placing the designated frame on the page.

At this time, when the arithmetic unit 511 performs the resizing process on the first frame of the frame group that is one or more frames included in a page, the calculation unit 511 determines that the first frame of the frame group included in the page is displayed. The resizing process is executed also for the second frames other than the frames. The second frame is, for example, a frame adjacent to the first frame in the layout of the page. That is, when the resizing process is executed for the first frame, the resizing process is automatically executed for other frames affected by the size on the same page. This facilitates editing involving changing the frame size on the page.

Further, the calculation unit 511 changes the frame size of the frame PN1 as shown in FIG. 4B, deletes the frame PN1 as shown in FIG. 4C from the page PA, A process of adding the frame PN1-2 as shown in FIG. 4D to the page PA, a process of moving the frame PN3 as shown in FIG. 4E within the page PA, and FIG. When at least one of the processing of dividing the frame as shown is performed, the resizing processing is also performed on the second frame other than the target frame of the frame group included in the page. In these examples, the first frame (frame PN1, frame PN1-2, frame PN3) on which the process that triggers the resizing process of the second frame is performed may be a frame having at least a frame. That is, the first frame may have only the frame and may not have the object inside. The second frame is, for example, a frame adjacent to the above target frame. That is, when the above process is executed for the target frame, the resize process is automatically executed for other frames affected by the size on the same page. This facilitates editing involving changing the frame size on the page.

With reference to FIG. 4B, when the arithmetic unit 511 executes the resizing process for reducing the frame size of the frame PN1 from the state of FIG. 4A (step S21), it is adjacent to the frame PN1 on the page PA. A resizing process for increasing the size of the frames PN2, 3 is executed (step S22).

With reference to FIG. 4C, when the arithmetic unit 511 executes the resizing process of deleting the frame PN1 from the state of FIG. 4A (step S23), the frames PN2,3 adjacent to the frame PN1 on the page PA are processed. A resizing process for enlarging the size of is executed (step S24).

With reference to FIG. 4D, when the arithmetic unit 511 executes the resizing process of adding the frame PN1-2 from the state of FIG. 4A (step S25), it is adjacent to the frame PN1-2 on the page PA. A resizing process for reducing the size of the frame PN1 is executed (step S26).

The process of dividing the frame includes the process of converting the frame of FIG. 5A into FIG. 5B and the process of converting the frame of FIG. 5A into FIG. 5C. 5A is a process of dividing the frame of FIG. 5A and the illustration in the frame, and the frame of FIG. 5A is divided into frames. 80 is divided into frames 83A and 83B whose total size is substantially equal to the frame 80, and among the objects 85 to 89 included in the frame of FIG. 5A, the objects 85, 87 and 88 are included in the frame 83A. This is a process of arranging the objects 86 and 89 in the frame 83B.

In the division processing in which the frame of FIG. 5A is changed to FIG. 5C, the size of the frame 80 of the frame of FIG. 5A is reduced to a frame 84, which is included in the frame of FIG. 5A. All the objects 85 to 89 are rearranged in the reduced frame 84, and a frame having the frame 90 is added. The arithmetic unit 511 executes the resizing process in the case of the process of dividing one frame included in a page, or in the case of the process of dividing the frame of FIG. 5(A) into that of FIG. 5(C). In this case, the calculation unit 511 executes a resizing process for adding a frame having the frame 90. Thereby, the composition of the frame on the side having the frame 84 generated by the division can be made natural.

In the above example, the terminal device 5 acquires at least a part of the program 521 from the server 1 at the time of processing, and the controller 50 executes the program 521 to function as the calculation unit 511 and perform the scaling process S11 and the adjustment process S12. Is supposed to run. That is, in the above example, in the comic creation support system 100, all of the enlargement/reduction processing S11 and the adjustment processing S12 are performed on the terminal device 5 side. However, the enlargement/reduction processing S11 and the adjustment processing S12 may be performed by any device included in the comic creation support system 100.

For example, as shown by the dotted line in FIG. 1, the controller 10 of the server 1 may function as the arithmetic unit 111 by executing the program 121, and may execute all the scaling processing S11 and the adjustment processing S12. In this case, as an example, the controller 10 of the server 1 receives an instruction for resizing processing from the terminal device 5 accessed via the Internet 2 and executes the above-described resizing processing for the designated frame. Then, the controller 10 transmits the processed frame information to the terminal device 5. As another example, one of the server 1 and the terminal device 5 may perform the scaling process S11, and the other device may perform the adjustment process S12. In this case, the processing result is exchanged between the devices via the Internet 2.

As still another example, the comic creation support system 100 may not include the server 1 and may include only the terminal device 5. In other words, the terminal device 5 constitutes the comic creation support system 100. In this case, the terminal device 5 stores all the programs 521 in the storage device 52 in advance.

Further, in the above description, the shape of the frame is assumed to be a rectangle having vertical and horizontal sides. However, the rectangle is an example, and the shape of the frame included in the frame is not limited to the rectangle. The shape of the frame may be a polygon other than a rectangle, a circle, an ellipse, or the like. In this case, the vertical side and the horizontal side are read as the first direction and the second direction, respectively, and the first direction is one of the vertical and horizontal directions and the second direction is the other. Even if the shape of the frame is other than the rectangular shape, the composition can be naturally changed by executing the resizing process in the same manner.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made.

1: server 2: internet 5: terminal device 10: controller 11: control unit 12: storage device 13: communication device 50: controller 51: control unit 52: storage device 53: communication device 54: operation device 55: display 71: frame 72: frame 73: frame 80: frame 81: frame 82: frame 83A: frame 83B: frame 84: frame 85: object 86: object 87: object 88: object 89: object 90: frame 100: comic creation support system 111: Calculation unit 121: Program 511: Calculation unit 512: Expansion/contraction processing unit 513: Adjustment processing unit 521: Program AS1: Aspect ratio AS2: Aspect ratio O: Origin OA: Object OB: Object PA: Reference point PB: Reference point PN1: Frame PN1-2: Top PN2: Top PN3: Top PN4: Top PN5: Top PN6: Top RH: Rate of change RW: Rate of change S1: Scaling magnification S2: Adjustment magnification

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A frame having one or more objects drawn in the frame, the frame having a computing unit for performing a resizing process for changing the frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame to a second size;
The resizing process,
One of the vertical and horizontal directions is the first direction and the other is the second direction,
Of the respective magnifications in the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size, the magnification in the first direction is used as the magnification for scaling, and the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame at the magnification for scaling, and Enlargement/reduction processing for changing the position and shape of the one or more objects,
The ratio in which the aspect ratio of the second size is the ratio of the length in the second direction to the length in the first direction is used as the adjustment ratio, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment ratio. In addition, an adjustment process for rearranging each of the one or more objects in the adjusted frame using the adjustment magnification, and a cartoon creation support system. The comic creation support according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment magnification is a magnification obtained by dividing a magnification in the second direction from the first size to the second size by a magnification in the first direction. system. The rearrangement is performed by adjusting the one or more objects by the coordinate values obtained by multiplying the coordinate values of the reference points set in the second direction by the adjustment magnification. The comic creation support system according to claim 2, further comprising disposing the comic creation position at a position within the frame. When the arithmetic unit performs the resizing process on the first frame of the frame group for a page including a plurality of frame groups arranged in the predetermined area and having a predetermined area, The comic creation support system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the resizing process is executed on a second frame other than the first frame in the frame group. The arithmetic unit adds a first frame to the page, and adds a first frame to a page having a predetermined area and including a plurality of frame groups arranged in the predetermined area. When at least one of deleting a frame from the page and moving a first frame of the frame group within the page is performed, except for the first frame of the frame group. The comic creation support system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the resizing process is performed on the second frame of the above. The arithmetic unit executes a process of dividing the designated frame into a first frame and a second frame,
The process of dividing into the first frames includes the resizing process,
The comic creation support system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the process of dividing into the second frames includes a process of adding a new frame. The said 1st direction is a direction in which the rate of change of the magnification from the said 1st size to the said 2nd size is small among the said vertical and horizontal directions, The direction of any one of Claims 1-6. Manga creation support system. A method to support cartoon creation,
Regarding a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in the frame, a step of changing the frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions of the frame to a second size,
The steps are
One of the vertical and horizontal directions is the first direction and the other is the second direction,
Of the magnifications in the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size, the magnification in the first direction is used as a scaling magnification, and the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame at the scaling magnification, and Changing the position and shape of one or more objects,
The ratio in which the aspect ratio of the second size is the ratio of the length in the second direction to the length in the first direction is used as the adjustment ratio, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment ratio. And rearranging each of the one or more objects in the adjusted frame using the adjustment magnification. For a frame in which one or more objects are drawn in the frame, a computer as a calculation unit that executes a resizing process for changing the size of the frame of the frame from a first size having a different aspect ratio in the vertical and horizontal directions to a second size. Is a program that makes
The resizing process,
One of the vertical and horizontal directions is the first direction and the other is the second direction,
Of the respective magnifications in the vertical and horizontal directions from the first size to the second size, the magnification in the first direction is used as the magnification for scaling, and the vertical and horizontal lengths of the frame at the magnification for scaling, and Enlargement/reduction processing for changing the position and shape of the one or more objects,
The ratio in which the aspect ratio of the second size is the ratio of the length in the second direction to the length in the first direction is used as the adjustment ratio, and the length in the second direction is adjusted by the adjustment ratio. And a adjusting process for rearranging each of the one or more objects in the adjusted frame using the adjusting magnification.

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