Abstract: Image information and area information associated therewith are connected to each other to produce connected image information. Memory addresses are generated to allow the connected image information to be stored into a memory through coordinates X and Y. The connected image information is rotated based on the memory addresses thus generated. The rotated image information is combined with the image information in the memory.

Abstract: A image edit apparatus in which area data of 16-bit width have been stored at the memory locations of the corresponding addresses of the respective memory planes of a plane memory 403. The operation of reading area data therefrom by a pseudo sync signal starts before a line sync signal becomes active. A density-conversion/area generating circuit 405 converts the data format from the plane type to the pixel type, so that area commands are generated. Then, the circuit 405 reads an edit command out of a logic RAM, using the area command as address, and outputs the command. By reading the area data earlier and processing that data, a delay in the density-conversion/area generating circuit can be absorbed, so that the output edit command is synchronized with the image data.

Abstract: An editing control system for digital image processing equipment is characterized by area editing means for specifying a plurality of areas in an image of an original and switching parameters of image adjusting processes for every specified area, and annotation editing means for superimposing an annotation pattern on the image. According to another aspect, an area editing system is characterized in that editing processes are performed by selecting an area with higher priority when some of specified areas are overlapped.