Patent ID: 7676766
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A graphic object designating apparatus comprising: an object managing section that manages object information including types and positions of objects present in an edit area of a graphics editing system and a mouse cursor position; a rule storage section that stores rules concerning triggers generated in response to key entries by an operator, the key entries indicating a direction in which the mouse cursor should move and designating an object; a trigger processing section that generates a mouse cursor moving trigger that instructs a direction of movement of the mouse cursor and a type of an object that the mouse cursor should move to, and an object designating trigger that instructs designation of an object to be edited according to key entries and rules related to the key entries; and an object designating section that moves the mouse cursor on a basis of said object information and said mouse cursor moving trigger, or designates said object to be edited on a basis of said object information and said object designating trigger, the object designating section calculating an evaluation function based on a position of the mouse cursor and a position of each of objects selected as candidates for a destination of the mouse cursor when the mouse cursor moving trigger is generated, and moving the mouse cursor to an object having smallest value of said evaluation function among the candidates objects, where the evaluation function is given by where (Mx, My) is the position of the mouse cursor, (Ox,Oy) is the position of each candidate object, and Cx and Cy are weight coefficients, wherein a set of weight coefficients for a vertical direction defined as being Cx>Cy are used when the mouse cursor moving trigger instructs movement of the cursor in a vertical direction and a set of weight coefficients for a horizontal direction defined as being Cx<Cy are used when the mouse cursor moving trigger instructs movement of the cursor in a horizontal direction.