Image editing apparatus, image editing method, and printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSeiji Tanaka, Takayuki Uehara
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Abstract
An image editing apparatus edits on an image editing screen a printing image to be printed on a printing medium. The printing image is arranged by a plurality of translated terms of at least one term represented by a plurality of languages. The apparatus stores therein plural sets of the plurality of translated terms, selects one set of the translated terms out of the plural sets of the translated terms, displays on the image editing screen the selected one set of the translated terms as a printing block, where addition and deletion of a letter are prohibited, on a translated term-by-translated term basis, and designates an editing input position of the printing block on the image editing screen.
Claims12
A tape printing apparatus for editing on an image editing screen a printing image to be printed on a printing medium, the printing image being arranged by a plurality of translated terms of at least one term represented by a plurality of languages, the apparatus comprising:
- an input device for inputting a term in one language;
- a translated-term memory device for storing therein plural sets of the plurality of translated terms, wherein a portion of the translated terms cannot be inputted by the input device;
- a selection device for selecting one set of the translated terms out of the plural sets of the translated terms, wherein the term in one language input by the input device is included in the one language in the one set of the translated terms selected by the selection device;
- a display device for displaying on the image editing screen the selected one set of the translated terms as a printing block, where addition and deletion of a letter are prohibited, on a translated term-by-translated term basis;
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- a position designating device for designating an editing input position of the printing block on the image editing screen.
A tape printing method in a tape printing apparatus for editing on an image editing screen a printing image to be printed on a printing medium, the printing image being arranged by a plurality of translated terms of at least one term represented by a plurality of languages, the method comprising:
- inputting a term in one language
- selecting one set of the translated terms out of the plural sets of the translated terms previously stored, wherein a portion of the translated terms cannot be inputted, wherein the inputted term in one language is included in the one language in the selected one set of the translated terms;
- displaying on the image editing screen the selected one set of the translated terms as a printing block, where addition and deletion of a letter are prohibited, on a translated term-by-translated term basis;
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- designating an editing input position of the printing block on the image editing screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.