Patent ID: 7486301

Claim:
An editing method for editing a displayed graphic, comprising the steps of: displaying on a screen a 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; displaying on the screen a nonvolumetric polygon having five or more sides as an edit graphic used for editing the line graphic; moving on the screen the edit graphic in accordance with a user operation; dividing, 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 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.