Patent ID: 8593487
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: B43L,G06F

Abstract:
1. A drawing support device comprising a drawing tool, a drawing medium, and an output control device which causes the drawing medium to display components corresponding to position trajectories of the drawing tool, wherein the output control device (a) recognizes the components displayed on the drawing medium by classifying the components into a first component as a changing target, whose shape, posture, or arrangement, or a combination thereof (hereinafter referred to as “shape or the like”) is to be changed, and a second component excluded from the selection of the changing target; (b) specifies the second component as a reference component on the condition that the second component has a specified position in relation to the first component, wherein the second component is used to change the shape or the like of the first component based on the shape or the like of the reference component; and (c) upon detecting no specification operation of the drawing tool within a defined period of time, recognizes, as the second component, the first component targeted for a freezing operation using the drawing tool, wherein the specification operation at least includes an operation of a switch provided on the drawing tool or a creation of a position trajectory of the drawing tool on the drawing medium, and the freezing operation temporarily prohibits editing on the recognized second component prior to an unfreezing operation, wherein the output control device repeats (a)-(c) on a new position trajectory of the drawing tool upon detecting no unfreezing operation of the recognized second component, and specifies the recognized second component as the first component upon detecting the unfreezing operation of the recognized second component.