Image Processing Apparatus Page Break Element Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems do not allow users to arbitrarily move or enlarge objects across page boundaries, leading to difficulties in recognizing content when objects are divided at page breaks, especially in document editing applications where tables are arranged across pages.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus with a moving unit, acquiring unit, detecting unit, and output unit that allows users to move objects across page boundaries, detects elements at break positions, determines optimal placement, and outputs the image with elements arranged accordingly, enabling seamless object manipulation and layout across pages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If objects are allowed to be arbitrarily moved or enlarged by users, then editing flexibility is improved, but objects may be divided at page boundaries making content recognition difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of page break positions and elements before finalizing the layout. The detecting unit identifies elements at break positions in advance, allowing the determining unit to pre-calculate optimal placement positions that prevent content division at page boundaries while maintaining user editing flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by detecting whether objects are divided at page boundaries and providing information back to the user. The output unit can display warnings or automatically adjust positions based on the detection results, allowing users to understand the impact of their editing actions and modify them accordingly.
2Stability of the object's composition
If tables are arranged across pages with line feed performed, then document formatting is maintained, but table content becomes difficult to recognize when divided
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the table into multiple parts based on page boundaries while maintaining the logical structure. The detecting unit identifies table elements that span page breaks, and the determining unit calculates optimal positions to redistribute table segments across pages, preserving both formatting and content recognizability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different handling to different parts of the table based on their position relative to page boundaries. Elements near break positions are specially processed to maintain continuity, while other table elements retain their standard formatting, creating a localized optimization that preserves overall table structure and content recognition.
3Adaptability or versatility
If images are arranged on fold lines of facing pages, then layout flexibility is improved, but image content may be cut off making recognition difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of images positioned on fold lines and takes anti-action by calculating offset positions that move these images away from the fold line boundary. This prevents the harmful effect of image content being cut off or obscured, while still allowing the overall layout to remain flexible.
Solution Approach 2:
The system resolves the conflict by moving the image solution to another dimension - instead of keeping the image exactly on the fold line (one-dimensional position), the determining unit calculates optimal positions in the vertical dimension that maintain layout flexibility while ensuring complete image visibility and recognizability.
Data Source
AI summary
An object including at least one element is moved on a document in which the object is arranged in response to an instruction from a user.In addition, if the object is moved to a boundary between two pages, at least one element that is included in the object and that corresponds to a break position of the two pages is detected.Then, a position where the at least one detected element is arranged in the document is determined so that the element is arranged in either of the documents of the two pages and an image corresponding to the document is output.In the above manner, it is possible to appropriately arranging elements in a document to output an image corresponding to the document having the elements appropriately arranged therein.