The invention provides an image processing method for performing output processing such that a simple operation by the user causes an output area to be filled, an apparatus and a printer driver for carrying out the method. The length is at least ten times the width. The selected localization key includes a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for execution by a processor of the electronic device. The apparatus may further include a web service executing web service requests on the processing unit using a native format. In one embodiment, the invention includes constructing a biometric signature based on at least one of: features within a two-dimensional scan of the individual’s brain and a difference in features between at least two two-dimensional scans of the individual’s brain. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for fabricating semiconductor devices, for example, transistors, which include a hardened gate oxide and which may be characterized by a relatively large nitrogen concentration at the polysilicongate oxide interface and a relatively small nitrogen concentration within the gate oxide and at the gate oxidesubstrate interface.