Editing support system including an interactive interface

• US 6,570,588 B1
• Filed: 05/20/1998
• Issued: 05/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ando, Haru, Hataoka, Nobuo
• Primary Examiner(s): SAX, STEVEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US09/081,635
• Time in Patent Office: 1,833 Days
• Field of Search: 345/710, 345/811, 345/860, 345/822-824, 345/728, 345/729, 345/727, 345/711, 700/83, 700/84-85, 712/240, 712/238-239, 712/241-243
• US Class Current: 715/728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

An editing system having a dialogue operation type interface directs a next operation by referring an operation history. User information is inputted by using speech input/output, pointing by a finger and 3-D CG. A human image representing the system is displayed as an agent on the image output device, and a user error, availability to a queue and a utilization environment are extracted by the system and informed to the user through the agent. The system responds to the user intent by the image display or the speech output by using the agent as a medium so that a user friendly interface for graphics edition and image edition is provided.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an input device inputting speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands;

store means for holding a history of the speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands inputted from said input device; and

a controller querying to specify an object to which an input speech process command is related by referencing said history of speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands held in said store means when the object for the input speech process command is not specified.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said controller references the history of process commands held in said store means to specify an object specified immediately before as the object to which said process command is related.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an output device, said controller displaying the specified object for said speech process command on said output device.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said speech process commands comprise functions to be performed on an image, said objects related to said speech process commands correspond to objects in said image, and the object for the input speech process command cannot be specified because the input speech process command is ambiguous.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said history of speech process commands and objects held in the store means can be addressed by a user.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an output device;

an input device for inputting speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands;

store means for holding a history of the speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands inputted from said input device; and

a controller checking the number of times the same speech process command is continuously inputted, by referencing said history of speech process commands and respective objects relating to said speech process commands held in said store means, and providing a message inquiring whether said continuously inputted speech process command should be repeated to said output device when said number of times of continuously inputting the same speech process command exceeds a predetermined number of times.