| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 715865000 | Miscellaneous interface for the handicapped or disable user | 10 |
| 20080295040 | CLOSED CAPTIONS FOR REAL TIME COMMUNICATION - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate yielding closed caption service associated with real time communication. For example, audio data and video data can be obtained from an active speaker in a real time teleconference. Moreover, the audio data can be converted into a set of characters (e.g., text data) that can be transmitted to other participants of the real time teleconference. Additionally, the real time teleconference can be a peer to peer conference (e.g., where a sending endpoint communicates with a receiving endpoint) and/or a multi-party conference (e.g., where an audio/video multi-point control unit (AVMCU) routes data such as the audio data, the video data, and the text data between endpoints). | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090007026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AN ELECTRONIC HANDHELD DEVICE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO A DISABLED PERSON - An electronic handheld device is described having an options module for providing a user with at least one option in the handheld device, each option associated with an enabling mode of operation of the handheld device. The device also includes an enabling module for implementing, in response to a particular option being selected by a user, an associated enabling mode of operation. Each enabling mode of operation makes the handheld device more accessible to a person having a corresponding disability. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090089718 | Systems and Methods for Aiding Computing Users Having Sub-Optimal Ability - Computer-implemented systems and methods create a user environment tailored to a user's computer abilities. A series of baseline tests are administered to new users for accumulating user metric data, and a database collects and stores the user metrics. Program logic is responsive to data from the data base, where the program logic is programmed to adapt the user environment to correspond to abilities measured through the baseline tests. The program logic is further programmed to adapt user interface controls to compensate for user dexterity abilities. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100180238 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR A PERSONAL HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to a user interface system for a personal healthcare environment. Furthermore the invention relates to a method of operating such a user interface system. In order to provide a user interface system which can easily be used by disabled users, a user interface system ( | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100192110 | METHOD FOR MAKING A 3-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL WORLD ACCESSIBLE FOR THE BLIND - A method, a system, and a computer program product for providing a virtual probe, associated with an avatar, which enables blind or sightless navigation of an avatar through a virtual world. The system outputs tactile information and/or audible information that depict the presence of an object in the virtual world, in association with the avatar. When the virtual probe encounters an object in the virtual world the distance between the object and the avatar, a velocity of the object, and the dimensions of the object are determined. The tactile information, such as one or more vibrations, is output proportional to the distance between the object and the avatar and/or the dimension of the object. Audible information is also output in response to the detection of the object. Audible information, such as an audible voice, outputs one or more of the distance between the object and the avatar, the velocity of the object, and the dimensions of the object. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100287514 | ASSISTIVE CORE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED BY WEB PAGE CITATIONS - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for conveying a core section of a web page to a user. The core section may be identified based on citations of other web pages. Further, the core section may be conveyed to the user in a distinctive manner relative to other sections of the web page. For a web page with a plurality of core sections, a user may cycle through the plurality of core sections via a cycling mechanism. Information about a citing web page may also be conveyed to the user. Further, core sections may be customized by predefining criteria for identifying citations and core sections. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110283243 | DEDICATED ON-SCREEN CLOSED CAPTION DISPLAY - Methods and apparatus for displaying closed-captioning content on a display device. In response to determining that closed-captioning is desired, a display area of the display device is partitioned into non-overlapping portions. A first portion of the display area is configured to display the closed-captioning content and a second portion of the display area is configured to display a computer desktop. The closed-captioning content may be transformed by replacing at least some text in the closed-captioning content with at least one symbol based, at least in part, on a context of the at least some text in the closed-captioning content. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120042289 | AVOIDING DISPLAY OF BROWSER CONTENT THAT MAY INDUCE A SEIZURE IN VIEWERS WITH PHOTO-SENSITIVITY - Embodiments of the invention provide a browser safe for use by individuals with epilepsy. Embodiments of the invention include retrieving content in response to a request from a user, identifying one or more unsafe portions of the retrieved content, modifying the one or more unsafe portions to be epileptic safe portions, and displaying the modified content to the user. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20140137054 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF FONT ON A VISUAL DISPLAY - Systems and methods to provide automatic adjustment of font on a visual display are described. In an example system, a vision properties module accesses data stored in a vision record describing one or more vision states of a user of a mobile device. A distance module determines a distance between the user and the mobile device. A display modification module modifies a visual display of the user interface based on a current vision state of the one or more vision states of the user and the distance. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140282285 | MODIFYING A USER INTERFACE SETTING BASED ON A VISION ABILITY OF A USER - A user interface setting of a computing device is automatically adjusted, based on a vision ability of a user of the device. In some examples, visual information output for a user of a computing device is presented via at least one user input/output element of the computing device. Responsive user input is received via the at least one user input/output element. The received responsive user input is analyzed to automatically determine a vision ability of the user. A setting of a user interface of the at least one user input/output element of the computing device is automatically adjusted based on the determined vision ability of the user. | 09-18-2014 |
