Patent ID: 8248435
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An editing apparatus for editing a displayed graphic, comprising: a screen for displaying a graphic; an edit object display unit for displaying on the screen the graphic to be edited which includes at least one line graphic defined as a line segment extending from a first end point to a second end point; an edit graphic display unit for displaying on the screen a nonvolumetric polygon having five or more sides as an edit graphic used for editing the line graphic; an edit graphic moving unit for moving the edit graphic on the screen in accordance with a user operation; an edit object dividing unit for dividing, wherein the edit object dividing unit divides, in response to that two adjacent vertexes of the polygon contact a line graphic, the line graphic into a line graphic directly connecting a first end point to a contact point of one of the two vertexes, a line graphic which is a line segment overlapping with a side between the two vertexes and a line graphic directly connecting another vertex to a second end point; and an edit object moving unit for moving, on condition that the edit graphic is further moved in a direction of a line graphic which contacts the edit graphic, an end point of the line graphic, which contacts the edit graphic in accordance with the movement of the edit graphic.