Patent ID: 8154644

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a rendering device for rendering a digital image; a user image capturing device for capturing a sequence of images of a user; a conversion module for converting the sequence of images into a manipulation command for manipulating the digital image; and a processing circuit for altering the rendering of the digital image in accordance with the manipulation command; wherein the conversion module comprises a lip reading module and the sequence of images is a sequence of motion of the user's facial features, wherein the lip reading module converts the motion of the user's facial features into a text tag as the manipulation command; and the processing circuit alters the rendering of the digital image to include the text tag; and further comprising an image analysis module for determining the placement of the text tag within the digital image by identifying at least one image portion within the digital image in which principal subject matter is contained, and placing the text tag within the digital image apart from the image portion depicting the principal subject matter.