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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2000
Eric Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neal Jacob Manowitz, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Robert Jay Sato, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
John Tree, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clay Harvey Fisher, Belmont, CA (US);
Kurt Jonach, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neal Jacob Manowitz, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Robert Jay Sato, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
John Tree, San Francisco, CA (US);
Clay Harvey Fisher, Belmont, CA (US);
Kurt Jonach, San Jose, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for indicating suggested user responses is disclosed. The method includes loading an image into image-editing equipment. The method further includes determining a set of quality-related problems of the image using software. An animated icon is displayed in conjunction with the image, and indicates a suggested user response to one of the quality-related problems. Other embodiments may include matching a corrective function with one of said set of quality-related problems, and indicating the suggested user response in response to the matching. Further embodiments may perform the indicating by having the animated icon proffer a tool icon, or by performing a related editing to the animated icon. Finally, in other embodiments the method may include moving the animated icon to alternate image-editing equipment.