Patent ID: 8780117
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus which controls display on a display screen, comprising: an input data analysis unit configured to, in the case that a user designates an area on the display screen, recognize the area and a first shape of the area, to extract images of respective handwritten characters displayed in the area recognized by said input data analysis unit, and to calculate circumscribed rectangular areas circumscribing the respective handwritten characters; a change rule table that holds a rule of adjust width for changing character spacing and line spacing, wherein the adjust width is changeable, and wherein (a) when the character spacing is changed according to the adjust width, a ratio of the respective character spacing between the handwritten characters is maintained, and (b) when the line spacing is changed according to the adjust width, a ratio of the respective line spacing between the handwritten characters is maintained; a calculation unit configured to, in the case that the first shape of the area is transformed to a different second shape by the user and at least part of the circumscribed rectangular areas is determined not to fall within the second shaped area, determine an arrangement of the circumscribed rectangular areas over changing at least one of respective line spacing and respective character spacing based on a range of the adjust width of the rule held by said change rule table so as to make all of the circumscribed rectangular areas fall within the second shaped area, and calculate positions of the circumscribed rectangular areas in the second shaped area; and a display unit configured to display the images of the handwritten characters at the positions calculated by said calculation unit.