Apple Inc.

Richard W Fabrick, Ii

Eric Taylor Seymour

Duncan Robert Kerr

Imran A Chaudhri

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Marcel Van Os

Bas Ording

Scott James Forstall

Thomas Michael Madden

Nicholas V King

Giulia Maria Pagallo

Nick King

Larry S Yaeger

John Owen Louch

Reginald Dean Hudson

Patti P Hoa

Patti P Yeh

Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident on the computing device to produce graphical user interfaces that can be presented on a display device.

Navigating a media menu using a touch-sensitive remote control device

Displaying a selectable item over a blurred user interface

A method of presenting a web page is described which incorporates navigation techniques and tools to allow impaired users to navigate throughout a web page in a convenient and geographically intuitive manner. Elements are sampled for in a region located in a user-specified direction, and a UI tool is presented for a detected element. Elements that are 'hit' during sampling may be tested for materiality, and the material element with precedence will become the detected element.

Method of presenting a web page for accessibility browsing

Multimedia control center

A spoken interface is described for assisting a visually impaired user to obtain audible information and interact with elements displayed on a display screen. The spoken interface also enables access and control of other elements that are hidden by other windows. The interface receives user input data representing user inputs received by an input device and uses a movable selector to select an element of an application. The element selected by the selector may be either an editing type element or non-editing type element. The interface provides audio information regarding the selected editing or non-editing element and enables interaction with the selected element.

Spoken interfaces

Methods and apparatuses to define an insertion indicator on a Braille device are described. Information about an insertion indicator at a location on a display device is received. An output associated with the insertion indicator is provided to a Braille device. The output to the Braille device reproduces the location of the insertion indicator on the display device. The output associated with the insertion indicator may be provided to at least two cells of the Braille device. The output to the Braille device may be provided to raise a first dot of a first Braille cell on the Braille device, wherein the first Braille cell corresponds to a second location that precedes the first location on the display device. A Braille caption panel may be displayed on a display device, the Braille caption panel includes a simulation of the output associated with the insertion indicator on the Braille device.

Defining an insertion indicator

An automatic pointing device mapping method () and associated apparatus for automatically remapping the active area () of a graphics tablet () to a plurality of displays (), such as might be used in conjunction with a graphics program (), a CAD program, or the like. Proximity zones () are established along the edge of the active area (). When a stylus () is moved into one of the proximity zones (), the graphics tablet () is switched to control the display () in the corresponding direction, provided such a display () exists in that direction. In one embodiment data regarding an elapsed time data (), which is the time the stylus () has remained in the proximity zone () is monitored, such that the multi-display system () is not remapped until the stylus () has remained in the proximity zone () until a preset time () has elapsed.

Automatic mapping of pointing devices to multiple displays

An ink manager running at a computer system receives ink information entered at a pen-based input/display device and accumulates the ink information into ink strokes. The ink manager communicates with a handwriting recognition engine and includes an ink phrase termination engine that is configured to detect the occurrence of one or more ink phrase termination events by examining the ink information. Upon the occurrence of an ink phrase termination event, the ink manager notifies the handwriting recognition engine and organizes the preceding ink strokes into an ink phrase data structure. The ink manager may also pass the ink phrase to an application executing on the computer system that is associated with the ink information, and it, in response, may return a reference pointer and a recognition context to the ink manager. The reference pointer and recognition context are then appended to the ink phrase data structure.

Method and apparatus for acquiring and organizing ink information in pen-aware computer systems

An ink manager running at a computer system receives ink information entered at a pen-based input/display device and accumulates the ink information into ink strokes. The ink manager communicates with a handwriting recognition engine and includes an ink phrase termination engine that is configured to detect the occurrence of one or more ink phrase termination events by examining the ink information. Upon the occurrence of an ink phrase termination event, the ink manager notifies the handwriting recognition engine and organizes the preceding ink strokes into an ink phrase data structure. The ink manager may also pass the ink phrase to an application executing on the computer system that is associated with the ink information, and it, in response, may return a reference pointer and a recognition context to the ink manager. The reference pointer and recognition context are then appended to the ink phrase data structure. Utilizing the recognition context identified by the application, the handwriting recognition engine generates one or more hypotheses for the ink phrase, and provides them to the ink manager. The ink manager forwards the hypotheses together with the reference pointer to the application and may also append them to the ink phrase data structure.

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Richard W Fabrick, Ii