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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:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Taku Yamagami, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/928 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/928 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for processing image data and audio data includes a recording medium for storing mutually linked files in each of which are stored data wherein both image data and audio data are capable of being referred to in mutual fashion, a pointing device for designating image data, which is desired to be reproduced, the image data being stored on the recording medium and displayed as an icon, a CPU, which is for signal processing control, adapted to retrieve, as file information, audio data associated with the image data designated by the pointing device, and an audio output unit for reading out and displaying the audio data retrieved by the CPU.