Data processing
AssigneeSony United Kingdom Limited
InventorsPeter Charles Eastty, Peter Damien Thorpe, Christopher Sleight
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Abstract
Data processing apparatus comprises an array of user-operable controls, the controls being adjustable by movement of a user's hand while touching a control; a detector for detecting when a user's hand is touching a control; a display screen for displaying respective screen icons associated with the controls; and a display processor, responsive to a detection that a user's hand is touching one of the controls, for altering the screen icon associated with that control.
Claims4
Data processing apparatus comprising:
- (i) an array of user-operable controls, said controls being adjustable by movement of a user's hand while touching a control;
- (ii) a detector for detecting when a user's hand is touching a control;
- (iii) a display screen for displaying respective screen icons associated with said controls;
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- (iv) a display processor, responsive to a detection that a user's hand is touching one of said controls, for altering said screen icon associated with that control.
Apparatus according to claim 2, said apparatus being audio processing apparatus and said array of controls relating at least in part to the control of audio processing parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.