METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIVIDING SHAPE CONTOUR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WITH SHAPE CONTOUR DIVIDING PROGRAM STORED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently encode an extracting area and to prevent a color from being leaked to the outside of an area in the coloring of the inside of the area.;SOLUTION: A shape contour 1 is expanded and retained in an expanded shape contour preserving memory 4. An expanded shape contour overlapped area 10 in which expanded shape contours are overlapped with each other is detected and preserved in an expanded shape outline overlapped area preserving memory 11. The pixel of the outline 1, which is included in an expanded shape contour overlapped area 15 during expansion is made to be an overlapped pixel and the set of the overlapped pixels is made to be an overlapped shape contour 17 to divide the shape contour with its both end pixels as dividing point pixels.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO