Patent ID: 7509570
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a layout control program, said layout control program causing a computer to arbitrarily control a layout of image output from an image output device, said layout control program causing the computer to attain: an output range defining function that defines a physical output range on an output medium, in which an image is output; and a layout specifying function that specifies a layout of the image in the defined output range, said layout specifying function having multiple drawing control commands that are provided respectively for a plurality of images to be output in the output range, wherein required pieces of information for outputting the image, which include information for adjusting an output position, are integrated in the drawing control command corresponding to the image, the multiple drawing control commands are arranged in a preset sequence according to an overlapping state of the plurality of images, the overlapping state of the plurality of images defining, when the plurality of images overlap, which of the images is drawn in an overlapping part, and each of the multiple drawing control commands includes, as a parameter,