US 11,983,393 B2
Image processing method and image processing device
Akio Tomotoshi, Sapporo Atsubetsu-ku (JP); and Toshiki Fujimori, Chino (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/856,822.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-110701 (JP), filed on Jul. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0004282 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04845 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/03542 (2013.01); G06F 3/0425 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing method comprising:
displaying a first screen on a display surface, the first screen including at least a part of a drawing area in which at least one object image drawn by a user is arranged;
excluding an area in which at least a part of an object image included in the first screen is arranged from the drawing area when an operation of erasing the at least a part of the object is received; and
displaying a reduced screen on the display surface when an operation is received, the reduced screen being obtained by reducing a whole of the drawing area into a size of the display surface, wherein the whole of the drawing area is not reduced to an area less than a predetermined drawing area,
wherein the whole of the drawing area is reduced only when the at least a part of the object that is erased is the closest part of the object from an end portion of the first screen and spaced from the end portion of the first screen.