Image displaying apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorKenji Soga
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Abstract
An image displaying apparatus and method thereof, being an image displaying technology of vector data, in which enlarging or reducing the vector data is performed after separating label information, being character information including in the vector data, and label display positions are determined. The image displaying apparatus consists of an image information storing means, an image display deciding means, an image display forming means, a bitmap data display selecting means, a display, a label extracting means, a label information storing means, and a label display selecting means. The image information storing means provides a vector data storing means which stores vector data of an original drawing, and a vector data projecting means which projects the vector data to four kinds of coordinate systems.
Claims12
An image displaying apparatus which provides a vector data storing means for storing vector data used for enlarging or reducing a display image, an image display deciding means for determining an enlarging rate, display information, and a display region to be enlarged of said display image, and a display means for displaying said processed image display, comprising:
- a label extracting means for extracting label information, being character information included in said vector data, from said vector data storing means;
- a label information storing means for storing label information comprising a character string, display information, and a label display position;
- and
- a label display selecting means, to which said enlarging rate, said display information, and said display region to be enlarged of said display image are inputted from said image display deciding means, selects said label information in a group of said character string, said display information, and said label display position of said label information from said label information storing means, and determines a display position of said label, and outputs said display position of said label to said display means;
- wherein
- said label display selecting means searches for display positions of labels existing near a candidate label display position, and when said candidate label display position extends out of a bitmap, determines said label display position at a position a designated distance to the center of said bitmap so that said label is not cut at its middle part.
An image displaying method of an image displaying apparatus which comprises a vector data storing means for storing vector data used for enlarging or reducing a display image, an image display deciding means for determining an enlarging rate, displaying information, and a displaying region to be enlarged of said display image, and a display means for displaying said processed display image, comprising:
- extracting label information, being character information including in said vector data, from said vector data storing means;
- storing label information comprising a character string, display information, and a label display position in a label information storing means;
- inputting said enlarging rate, said display information, and said display region to be enlarged to a label display selecting means from said image display deciding means;
- inputting selectively said label information to be displayed to said label display selecting means from said label information storing means;
- determining a label display position of said display image;
- and
- displaying an image on said display means after a plurality of bitmap data formed from said vector data are connected, by attaching said label on said bitmap data;
- wherein:
- said label display label selecting means, comprises:
- searching for the display positions of existing labels near the position of a candidate label display position;
- and when said candidate display extends out of a bitmap, determining said label display position at a position a designated distance to the center direction of said bitmap so that said label is not cut at its middle part.
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