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Help guidance method utilizing an animated picture

  • US 5,377,319 A
  • Filed: 03/10/1993
  • Issued: 12/27/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A help guidance method utilizing an animated picture, used for an information processor including memory means for storing a help control program for controlling help guidance, animated picture help data, text help data and voice help data used for carrying out said help guidance, and a table for showing the correspondence relationship among said animated picture help data, said text help data and said voice help data, information input means, and display means for representing information stored in said memory means in a form of image and/or voice, said method comprising the steps of:

  • activating, when a user inputs a help command for requiring the help guidance using said information input means, said help control program to display fields, in which said help guidance is to be carried out, in a form of a help menu;

    reading out, when the user selects the field requiring said help guidance from said help menu, the animated picture help data corresponding to selected contents, and at least one of said text help data and said voice help data, which correspond to said animated picture help data corresponding to selected contents, from said memory means by referring to said table; and

    outputting said data read out to said display means,wherein said output step includes the steps of;

    checking whether or not a window in which guidance information is to be displayed can be displayed in a position of a work picture without overlapping with a displayed object of said work picture, anddisplaying, if said window can be displayed, said window in an area in which said displayed object of said work picture is absent.

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