Patent ID: 8514443
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method performed in an image processing apparatus which includes a processor and memory that executes the following method steps comprising: inputting data of an original music score; specifying a plurality of blocks in the music score based on the data input in the inputting, and specifying a first block arranged at a line-start position in the original music score from the plurality of blocks; discarding information required for the line-start position from the specified first block; deciding a second block which is not arranged at a line-start position in the original music score but which is newly arranged at a line-start position after a layout of the original music score is changed; appending the information required for the line-start position to the decided second block; changing the layout of the original music score so that the decided second block is arranged at the line-start position and the first block is arranged at a position different from the line start-position, continuity of the original music score is maintained; and outputting a music score which was produced as a result that the original music score has undergone the discarding, the appending and the changing.