Patent ID: 6295073
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A figure filling apparatus for defining contour color data for a plurality of dots representing the contour of a given figure and inner color data for another plurality of dots representing the inside of the figure, the apparatus comprising:first means for labeling each of the dots representing the contour of the figure as a vertical or horizontal attribute dot such that the number of vertical attribute dots, existing on arbitrary one of scan lines parallel to a certain axis of coordinates, is always zero or an even number; andsecond means for defining the contour color data for all the dots labeled by the first means as the vertical or horizontal attribute dots, selecting one of the scan lines parallel to the axis of coordinates after another, excluding horizontal attribute dots from all the dots on the scan line selected, and defining the inner color data for the remaining dots existing between an odd-numbered vertical attribute dot and an even-numbered vertical attribute dot, which is next to the former dot, on the-scan line selected.