Graphic processing apparatus allowing the user to specify image appearance by automatically expressing differences in color and hatching attributes
First Claim
1. A graphic processing apparatus that changes appearances of selected regions of an image, comprising:
- a memory that temporarily stores the image;
a region selector that allows a plurality of regions of the image to be selected;
an appearance alterer that alters an appearance of each of the plurality of selected regions at the same time, the altered appearances of the plurality of selected regions being different from one another; and
an outputter that outputs the image, the selected regions of the output image having the altered appearances.
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Abstract
A graphic processing apparatus is described which is capable of controlling the highlighting states of regions of an image by providing differences in color and hatching densities and the like to the regions in accordance with the area and the degree of importance of the region. This allows high quality coloring and hatching to be easily performed. The graphic processing apparatus has a memory for temporarily storing the image; a region extractor that extracts a plurality of regions to be painted with a color from the stored image; a region color determiner that determines region colors to be applied to the extracted regions; and an output image generator that generates an image having the color attributes applied to the extracted regions of the stored image. The region colors are differentiated from each other by differences in color attributes from among the regions in accordance with the areas of the individual regions each to be painted with a color. When used in a digital photocopier environment, an image that is scanned and stored in memory can have regions, selected by a user through a graphical user interface, colored or hatched, the colors/hatching applied at the same time to the regions and the modified image printed.
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43 Claims
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1. A graphic processing apparatus that changes appearances of selected regions of an image, comprising:
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a memory that temporarily stores the image; a region selector that allows a plurality of regions of the image to be selected; an appearance alterer that alters an appearance of each of the plurality of selected regions at the same time, the altered appearances of the plurality of selected regions being different from one another; and an outputter that outputs the image, the selected regions of the output image having the altered appearances. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for graphically altering appearances of a plurality of regions of an image, comprising:
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storing the image in memory; selecting a plurality of regions of the stored image; altering at the same time the plurality of selected regions such that each selected region has an appearance different than the other selected regions; and outputting an output image, wherein each selected region of the output image has the altered appearance. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A graphic processing apparatus that changes the appearances of selected regions of an image, comprising:
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memory means for temporarily storing the image; region selecting means for selecting a plurality of regions of the image; appearance altering means for altering an appearance of each of the plurality of selected regions at the same time, the altered appearances of the plurality of selected regions being different from one another; and output means for outputting the image, the selected regions of the output image having the altered appearance. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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