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Star symbol interface for a copying/printing apparatus

  • US 5,838,325 A
  • Filed: 02/15/1996
  • Issued: 11/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An interface in an apparatus for reproducing images, the interface enabling selection of a value for a parameter from among one of a plurality of subsets to a set of all possible values of the parameter, the parameter defining at least in part how at least one image is to be reproduced, the interface comprising:

  • manipulation means, physically configured to be manipulable in ways corresponding to a plurality of intersecting lines, respectively, for converting manipulation into a signal that indentifies one of two possible directions of a line;

    a memory for storing said plurality of subsets to said set of all possible values for said parameter, each subset corresponding to one of the lines; and

    parameter-value means, operatively interconnected to the manipulation means and the memory, for enabling selection of a value within one of said subsets to said set of possible value of the parameter in response to the way in which the manipulation means is manipulated along one of said plurality of intersecting lines independent of manipulation along other ones of said plurality of intersecting lines, as indicated by the signal from said manipulation means.

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