Electronic device and icon changing method

• US 20030193601A1
• Filed: 03/26/2003
• Published: 10/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,405,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus capable of changing an icon representing an electronic device and held by the electronic device to an icon selected by the user. The apparatus inquires to the user whether or not an icon X in a unit space may be changed to an icon A as the icon selected by the user. If the icon X is changed to the icon A, the icon A is readout from an icon memory 104, and the icon X in the unit space is changed to the icon A.

Claims

1. An electronic device having an address space which can be addressed by another electronic device, said electronic device comprising:

changing means for selecting one icon from a plurality of icons and for changing an icon in the address space to the selected icon.

2. An electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.

3. An icon changing method for changing an icon in an electronic device having an address space which can be accessed by another electronic device, said method comprising the steps of:

selecting one icon from a plurality of icons; and

changing an icon in the address space to the selected icon.

4. An icon changing method according to claim 3, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.

5. An electronic device having an address space which can be addressed by another electronic device, said electronic device comprising:

icon generating means for generating a new icon from still image data selected by the user; and

changing means for changing an icon in the address space to the new icon.

6. An electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.

7. An icon changing method for changing an icon in an electric device having an address space which can be accessed by another electronic device, said method comprising the steps of:

generating a new icon from still image data selected by the user; and

changing an icon in the address space to the new icon.

8. An icon changing method according to claim 7, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.

9. An electronic device having an address space which can be addressed by another electronic device, said electronic device comprising:

icon generating means for generating a new icon from still image data photo-taken by the user; and

changing means for changing an icon in the address space to the new icon.

10. An electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.

11. An icon changing method for changing an icon in an electric device having an address space which can be accessed by another electronic device, said method comprising the steps of:

generating a new icon from still image data photo-taken by the user; and

changing an icon in the address space to the new icon.

12. An icon changing method according to claim 11, wherein the address space is a register space stipulated by ISO/IEC 13213:

1994.