Method and apparatus for coloring an image on a screen
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMasaharu Itoh, Shichiro Miyashita
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Abstract
A data processing apparatus for generating a desired color image by use of an easy user interface. The user interface includes a screen and an input apparatus having at least a pointer control apparatus. The pointer control apparatus is used for controlling the position of a pointer on the screen, coloring the pointer in a first color in response to the input apparatus, moving the pointer to a desired position on the screen in response to the pointer control apparatus, and changing the color of an area pointed by the pointer, in response to the input apparatus, into the color which is under the influence of the first color.
Claims6
An apparatus for altering a color of a displayed image comprising:
- means for coloring a displayed pointer with a first color;
- means, using said colored pointer, for selecting an area of said displayed image to be color-altered, said area having a second color different from said first color;
- and
- means, based on said first color, for altering said second color in incremental stages, said altering means including means for subtracting said first color from said altered color.
A method of altering a color of a displayed image comprising the steps:
- coloring a displayed pointer with a first color;
- selecting an area of said displayed image to be color-altered by using said colored pointer, said area having a second color different from said first color;
- and
- altering said second color with said first color in incremental stages, said altering step including the step of subtracting said first color from said altered color.
A computer program product stored on a medium readable by a computer for altering a color of a displayed image comprising:
- computer program code means for coloring a displayed pointer with a first color;
- computer program code means, using said colored pointer, for selecting an area of said displayed image to be color-altered, said area having a second color different from said first color;
- and
- computer program code means, based on said first color, for changing said second color in incremental stages, said computer program code changing means including means for subtracting said first color from said altered color.
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