Patent ID: 8166409

Claim:
An image processing method for trimming away a processing object image displayed on display means by use of a trimming frame, comprising the steps of: (a) setting, by a computer, guidelines at positions of the trimming frame based on an operator's setting operation so as to provide a trimming frame with guidelines; and (b) while displaying the trimming frame with guidelines on the processing object image in an overlapping manner, shifting and displaying the trimming frame based on an operator's shifting operation as well as enlarging or contracting and displaying the trimming frame so as to become a similar form based on an operator's enlarging or contracting operation, wherein, in step (a), an arbitrary number of horizontal and vertical guidelines are set within predetermined maximum values for horizontal and vertical guidelines; wherein, in said step (a), setting said guidelines at positions of the trimming frame based on the operator's setting operation, while the trimming frame is displayed on the display means, so as to display the trimming frame as the trimming frame with guidelines; wherein, in said step (a), displaying the trimming frame with guidelines on the display means so that a correspondence between a guideline setting position inputting section to be filled in by the operator and guidelines within the trimming frame with guidelines can be visually recognized; and wherein the guideline setting position inputting section includes a first set of horizontal symbols and a first set of vertical symbols assigned to the respective horizontal and vertical guidelines, and the first set of horizontal symbols and the first set of vertical symbols are identical to a second set of horizontal symbols and a second set of vertical symbols, respectively, assigned to the respective horizontal and vertical guidelines within the trimming frame on the display means; wherein the first set of horizontal symbols are different than the first set of vertical symbols.