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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. 01, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Horii, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/728 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/728 ;
Abstract
In order to provide an image display method and apparatus capable of displaying images corresponding to document data or speech data, image data (such as sign language images) are stored in an image dictionary in motion picture form. Document data is read out from a character information storage device (or speech data is received), and a sign language image corresponding to a character string of the document data (or the speech) is selected from the image dictionary and displayed on a display.