INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20110148918A1
• Filed: 11/17/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Kazuhiro, Ishizawa, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US12/948,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20110148918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/503 Blending, e.g. for anti-aliasing

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold information that associates objects constituting images, with layers to which the objects belong, a display control unit configured to display hierarchical relationship of the layers and the objects belonging to respective layers on a display unit, based on information held in the retention unit, and a control unit configured to, when an object of interest out of displayed objects is moved by a predetermined distance or more from a layer to which the object of interest belongs, create a new layer and cause the object of interest to belong to the created layer.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a holding unit configured to hold information that associates objects constituting images, with layers to which the objects belong;

a display control unit configured to display hierarchical relationship of the layers and the objects belonging to respective layers on a display unit, based on information held in the holding unit; and

a control unit configured to create a new layer when an object of interest out of displayed objects is moved by distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance from a layer to which the object of interest belongs, and cause the object of interest to belong to the created layer.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the object of interest is moved from a layer to which the object of interest belongs by distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance, the control unit creates the new layer, at a position apart from a layer to which the object of interest belongs by a predetermined distance, and causes the object of interest to belong to the created layer.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit sorts the objects for each hierarchical layer of layers to which the objects belong, and displays the objects in a three-dimensional hierarchical structure.

4. A control method of an information processing apparatus for causing an object to belong to a predetermined layer, the method comprising:

holding information that associates objects constituting images, with layers to which the objects belong;

displaying hierarchical relationship of the layers and the objects belonging to respective layers on a display unit, based on the held information; and

creating a new layer, and causing the object of interest to belong to created layer when an object of interest out of the objects displayed is moved by distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance from a layer to which the object of interest belongs.

5. A computer-readable storage medium that stores a computer program for causing a computer to load and execute a computer program thereby causing the computer to function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

a holding unit configured to hold information that associates objects constituting images, with layers to which the objects belong;

a display control unit configured to display hierarchical relationship of the layers and the objects belonging to respective layers on a display unit, based on information held in the holding unit; and

a control unit configured to create a new layer and cause the object of interest to belong to the created layer when an object of interest out of displayed objects is moved by distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance from a layer to which the object of interest belongs.