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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eli Tzirkel-Hancock, Surrey, GB;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345150 ; 345156 ; 345157 ; 345153 ; 704255 ; 704256 ; 704275 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for manipulating the colour of an image is provided, having a microphone for providing electrical speech signals representative of a user command, a speech recognition unit for recognizing the input speech signal, a command interpreter for interpreting the recognized speech, a graphics package responsive to the command interpreter and a display for displaying the current image being edited. The apparatus accepts other inputs, for example, from a pointing device.