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US 9,317,178 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus with reduced repetition of audio guidance
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakahiro Matsushita
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Abstract
In an apparatus configured to reproduce audio guidance corresponding to a screen, when there is an instruction to switch to a screen in a backward direction, since audio guidance has already been reproduced once during a screen transition in a forward direction, the same audio guidance is not reproduced again.
Claims6
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations comprising:
- switching to a screen to be displayed according to an input instruction;
- acquiring a first time of the switching to the screen;
- acquiring a second time of previous outputting of audio guidance corresponding to the screen;
- calculating a time difference between the first time and second time;
- determining whether the time difference is more than a predetermined time;
- outputting, according to the switching to the screen, audio guidance corresponding to the screen after the switching if the time difference is more than the predetermined time;
- and
- if the time difference is not more than the predetermined time, not outputting the audio guidance corresponding to the screen after the switching,
- wherein the time difference is a time elapsing from the previous outputting of audio guidance corresponding to the screen to the switching to the screen.
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A method comprising:
- switching to a screen to be displayed according to switching instructions for the screen;
- acquiring a first time of the switching to the screen;
- acquiring a second time of previous outputting of audio guidance corresponding to the screen;
- calculating a time difference between the first time and second time;
- determining whether the time difference is more than a predetermined time;
- outputting, according to the switching to the screen, audio guidance corresponding to the screen after the switching if the time difference is more than the predetermined time;
- and
- if the time difference is not more than the predetermined time, not outputting the audio guidance corresponding to the screen after the switching,
- wherein the time difference is a time elapsing from the previous outputting of audio guidance corresponding to the screen to the switching to the screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.