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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1998
Dan Torres, San Carlos, CA (US);
Eric Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
FlashPoint Technology, Inc., Peterborough, NH (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing user assistance to a user of a digital image device. The present invention, referred to as an interactive context assistant, includes computer-readable instructions stored in a memory unit of the digital image device which are executed by a central processing unit. The present invention is configured to automatically recognize an attribute of the image data. The present invention also includes a database which specifies the user assistance according to the attribute of the image data. The present invention retrieves from the database the user assistance corresponding to the attribute and provides the user assistance to the user via a user interface.