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A design aiding apparatus and a method, and a storage medium storing a design aiding program enable the efficient layout design of components in a multilayer wiring board formed by laminating a plurality of wiring layers. The design aiding apparatus includes (a) a first acquiring unit for acquiring

A design aiding apparatus and a method, and a storage medium storing a design aiding program enable the efficient layout design of components in a multilayer wiring board formed by laminating a plurality of wiring layers. The design aiding apparatus includes (a) a first acquiring unit for acquiring information showing a first location in a lamination direction of the wiring layers, (b) a second acquiring unit for acquiring information showing a second location on a two-dimensional plane that is orthogonal to the lamination direction, and (c) a placement unit for generating information showing a space to be occupied when the component is placed in such a manner that a placement reference point of the component coincides with the second location that is on the two-dimensional plane including the first location. According to the above construction, the present invention is capable of aiding layout design of components in the wiring board.

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A design aiding apparatus and a method, and a storage medium storing a design aiding program enable the efficient layout design of components in a multilayer wiring board formed by laminating a plurality of wiring layers. The design aiding apparatus includes (a) a first acquiring unit for acquiring

A design aiding apparatus and a method, and a storage medium storing a design aiding program enable the efficient layout design of components in a multilayer wiring board formed by laminating a plurality of wiring layers. The design aiding apparatus includes (a) a first acquiring unit for acquiring information showing a first location in a lamination direction of the wiring layers, (b) a second acquiring unit for acquiring information showing a second location on a two-dimensional plane that is orthogonal to the lamination direction, and (c) a placement unit for generating information showing a space to be occupied when the component is placed in such a manner that a placement reference point of the component coincides with the second location that is on the two-dimensional plane including the first location. According to the above construction, the present invention is capable of aiding layout design of components in the wiring board. repository is a remote server. 6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of: storing the additional data in association with the at least one of the prior reported failures. 7. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the steps recited in claim 1. 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional data comprises a minidump. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional data comprises a minidump and a log file of prior activity of the application program. 10. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of: determining whether there is a fix to the failure stored in association with the at least one of the prior reported failures; and if so, then transmitting the fix to the application program module. 11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: determining whether there is a fix to the failure stored in association with the at least one of the prior reported failures; and if so, then transmitting a location of the fix to the application program module. 12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: if the location of the failure does not match at least one of prior reported failures, then storing a new entry in the prior reported failures. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein the new entry comprises the location of the location of the failure. 14. The method of claim 1 wherein the location comprises an instruction in a setup routine that leads to a setup failure. 15. A system for reporting a failure in an application program module on a user's computer comprising: a repository for storing information for a plurality of prior reported failures; a failure reporting executable residing on the user's computer for communicating a failure detected in the application program module to the repository and for determining, based on the detected failure and the information stored in the repository, whether to request additional information associated with at least one of the plurality of prior reported failures from the application program module; and an exception filter residing on the user's computer for executing the failure reporting executable upon detection of the failure in the application program module. 16. The system of claim 15, wherein the repository is a remote server and wherein the failure reporting executable communicates with the remote server using a web browser program module residing on the user's computer. 17. The system of claim 15, wherein the repository is a local server and wherein the failure reporting executable communicates with the local server via an Intranet connection. o Asynchronous Signals, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin NN85014934, Jan. 1985, US, vol. No.: 27, Issue No.: 8, Page No.: 4934-4937.* Interface Freeze Mechanism, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin NN78013060, Jan. 1978, US, vol. No.: 20, Issue No.: 8, Page No.: 3060-3062.* NN78055260, Adapter for Controlling LSSD Logic in a Non LSSD Environment, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, US, vol. No.: 20, Issue No.: 12, pp.: 5260-5262, May 1, 1978.* European Searach Report dated Aug. 1, 2001, 6 pages. A computer-readable medium as in claim 9, wherein the physical-based RGB color space is the sRGB64 color space. 11. A computer-readable medium as in claim 10, wherein the gamma correction by the gamma correction module is part of a conversion from the sRGB64 color space into the sRGB color space. 12. A computer-readable medium as in claim 1, wherein the computer-executable components belong to a computer operating system. weighting coefficient and said noise/edge component and producing a noise suppressing component that introduces small variations in the noise component; and scaling said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component to generate a first scaled component, adding the first scaled component to said original image data, scaling said noise suppressing component to generate a second scaled component and subtracting the second scaled component from said original image data, thereby creating the processed image data for the image that retains the blur but which is enhanced in sharpness and has the noise component suppressed. 6. An image processing apparatus comprising: a sharpness enhancing unit for applying sharpness enhancement to original image data to generate sharpness enhanced image data for a wholly sharpened image; an edge detecting and computing unit for performing edge detection on said original image data and determining edge enhancement data for distinguishing between an edge region of an object and the other region in an image; a blur retaining coefficient computing unit by which a blur retaining but sharpness enhancing coefficient for retaining blur of the image in the other region of the edge region of the object is determined from said edge intensity data; a blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component computing unit for producing a blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component from said original image data, the sharpness enhanced image data generated in said sharpness enhancing unit, and the blur retaining but sharpness enhancing coefficient determined in said blur retaining coefficient computing unit; and a blur retaining and sharpness enhancing unit for adding said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component produced by said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component computing unit to said original image data, thereby creating processed image data for an image that retains the blur but which is enhanced in the sharpness. 7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said other region of the edge region of the object includes a blurred image region in which the blur of the image is to be retained. 8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing coefficient has a value equal or nearly equal to 1.0 in said edge region of the object, slowly decreases with the increasing distance from said edge region of the object and has a preset value of from 0.0 to less than 1.0 in the blurred image region. 9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing coefficient is expressed by the following equation (1): CBS(x,y)=b0+(1-b0)EV(x,y) (1) where CBS(x,y) is the blur retaining but sharpness enhancing coefficient, EV(x,y) is said edge intensity data which is normalized (0≤EV≤1), and b0is a blur region sharpness enhancing coefficient for adjusting degree of sharpness enhancement to be applied to the blurred image region which is other than the edge region of the object. 10. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising: a smoothing unit for smoothing said original image data to generate smoothed image data; a noise region weighting coefficient computing unit for determining a noise region weighting coefficient from said edge intensity data; an edge/noise component extracting unit for subtracting said smoothed image data from said sharpness enhanced image data to generate an edge/noise component including both a sharpness enhanced edge component of an object image and a sharpness enhanced noise component; a noise suppressing component computing section for identifying a noise component based on said edge/noise component and said noise region weighting coefficient and producing a noise suppressing component that introduces small variations in the noise component; and a blur retaining, sharpness enhancing and noise s uppressing section for scaling said blur retaining but sharpness enhancing component to generate a first scaled component, adding the first scaled component to said original image data, scaling said noise suppressing component to generate a second scaled component and subtracting the second scaled component from said original image data, thereby creating the processed image data for the image that retains the blur but which is enhanced in the sharpness and has the noise component suppressed.