Method and apparatus for outputting an image of a tabbed document

Patent 6163784 Issued on December 19, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 19, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Taguchi, Yasuo

Application

No. 634831 filed on 04/19/1996

US Classes:

715/527, Print preview715/521Boundary processing

Examiners

Primary: Feild, Joseph H.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

Foreign Patent References

5-40594 JP. 02/12/1993

International Class

G06T 003/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-04-20 JP

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for controlling output of a document associated with a tab, bookmark or similar edge-projecting object outputs the document in its complete form including the projecting object. In one aspect, a position calculator routine is executed to calculate the amount of deviation between an expanded area of the document including the projecting object and an output area of the output apparatus, a document shift processor routine adjusts the location of the to align it with the output area of the output apparatus, and the apparatus outputs the document in its adjusted location. In another aspect, an area size calculator routine calculates physical dimensions of the expanded area of the document, a reduction processor calculates a reduction ratio based on physical dimensions of the output area of the apparatus and those of the expanded document area, and the apparatus outputs the document after reducing its size in accordance with the reduction ratio.