System and method for enabling manipulation of graphic images to form a graphic image
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Abstract
An instrument includes a display screen which includes a bitmap graphical user interface including an on-screen menu, and a control element which enables movement of the on-screen menu corresponding to movement of the control element, enables the user to manipulate and select graphic images for executing selected instrument functions. The instrument is adapted to enable manipulation of a plurality of graphic elements in an on-screen menu such that the user is able to form a graphic image on the display screen.
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62 Claims
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45. A system for enabling selection of a selectable graphic image on a display screen adapted to be mounted in an instrument, comprising:
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a display screen, including a column with a plurality of selectable graphic images therein, wherein each graphic image is adapted to be selectable and the column is adapted to be moveable for enabling a line graphic image to be formed thereby and to be displayed on the display screen;
a manipulation enabling element for enabling manipulation of the column of the plurality of graphic images on the display screen to enable movement of a graphic image into position as a selectable graphic image on the display screen and to enable selection of the selectable graphic image to be a part of the line graphic image to be formed on the display screen, wherein the manipulation enabling element appears to be a rotatable wheel which occupies a three-dimensional space, and the column of the plurality of graphic images is foreshortened at a top and bottom of the rotatable wheel and appears to rotate with the rotatable wheel; and
a selection and entry enabling element for enabling selection and entry of the selectable graphic image in the display screen, adapted to be rotatable for selection and pressable for entry, such that rotation and pressing thereof enables selection and entry of the selectable graphic image. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method of enabling selection of a graphic image on a display screen adapted to be mounted in an instrument, in a system which comprises:
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a display screen, including a column with a plurality of selectable graphic images therein, wherein each graphic image is adapted to be selectable and the column is adapted to be moveable for enabling a line graphic image to be formed thereby and to be displayed on the display screen;
a manipulation enabling element for enabling manipulation of the column of the plurality of graphic images on the display screen to enable movement of a graphic image into position as a selectable graphic image on the display screen and to enable selection of the selectable graphic image to be a part of the line graphic image to be formed on the display screen;
wherein the manipulation enabling element appears to be a rotatable wheel which occupies a three-dimensional space, and the column of the plurality of graphic images is foreshortened at a top and bottom of the rotatable wheel and appears to rotate with the rotatable wheel; and
a selection and entry enabling element for enabling selection and entry of the selectable graphic image in the display screen, adapted to be rotatable for selection and pressable for entry, such that rotation and pressing thereof enables selection and entry of the selectable graphic image;
wherein the method comprises;
rotating and pressing the selection and entry enabling element so as to select and enter the selectable graphic image. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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