Patent ID: 7193634

Claim:
An image transferring apparatus for transferring an image of map data displayed by an electronic map program to an image of map data displayed by an image editing program, the image including a graphical display of the map data, the image transferring apparatus comprising: first display means for reading and displaying the image of the map data displayed in a display window of the electronic map program; image copying means for copying the displayed image of the map data displayed in the display window of the electronic map program into a predetermined storage area without reading the map data; image transferring means for acquiring the copy of the displayed image of the map data from said predetermined temporary storage area; and second display means for displaying the acquired copy of the displayed image of the map data in an edit window of the image editing program as an editable image, wherein a position and scale of the editable image is the same as a position and scale of the displayed copy of the image of the map data displayed in the display window of the electronic map program, and the edit window of the image editing program overlays the display window of the electronic map program and does not overlay a control portion of the map program.