Image processor

• US 6,278,451 B1
• Filed: 04/29/1996
• Issued: 08/21/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): SAX, STEVEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US08/639,516
• Time in Patent Office: 1,940 Days
• Field of Search: 345/326-358, 345/439
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/63 by the player, e.g. authoring using a level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6018 where the game content is authored by the player, e.g. level editor or by game device at runtime, e.g. level is created from music data on CD
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/00 General purpose image data processing

Abstract

An image processing device which displays an image of a letter string input on a display screen, and either the image of a frame which surrounds the letter string or an image of a letter string modifying figure which modifies the letter string. The attribute of the frame image is determined in accordance with the input letter string to thereby omit the operation of deciding the frame attribute. Letter string division information is provided to start a new line of a letter string at a position that the user desires and display position information is provided which determines the display position of each letter of the letter string. When a letter string is input, it is selected from a plurality of letter strings prepared beforehand. The selected letter string is edited to omit the operation of inputting the individual letters. A letter string to be selected is used as the title of a file which stores edited image data. The same image data is used to display an input speech, file title and others on a letter input display screen. The input display screen simultaneously displays a letter list which displays input letters, and the image of a frame which surrounds the input letter string, and displays images of letters selectively input from the letter list into the image of the frame.

Claims

1. An image control device comprising:

letter string inputting means for inputting a letter string in accordance with operations of a user;

frame displaying means for displaying a frame image for surrounding the inputted letter string;

parting information inputting means for inputting parting information between desired letters of the inputted letter string in accordance with operations of the user; and

letter string displaying means for parting the inputted letter string into a plurality of partial letter strings, each of which includes a predetermined number of letters, when the parting information is not inputted, and for parting the inputted letter string into a plurality of partial letter strings in accordance with the inputted parting information when the parting information is inputted, and for allocating and displaying images of the partial letter strings to different lines in the frame image displayed by the frame displaying means.

2. An image control device according to claim 1, wherein said frame displaying means determines an attribute of the frame image based on a number of letters in the inputted letter string and the inputted parting information, and displays the frame image in accordance with the determined attribute.