US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Feb. 25 for "Image editing support method and image editing support device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,507, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image editing support method and image editing support device" was invented by Takashi Natori (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image editing support method includes deciding a target object as a first object at least partially overlapping a range to be filled with a blank in a first image in which at least one first object representing at least one of a character and a diagram is arranged out of the at least one first object when an operation of designating the range is performed using a pointer, and moving the target object to an outside of the range."...