Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Selecting a Particular Rendering Method
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- at a personally portable apparatus that is configured and arranged to render selected content in a perceivable form for an end user of the personally portable apparatus;
gathering information regarding the end user, wherein the information does not comprise specific instructions to the personally portable apparatus via a corresponding user interface;
inferring from the information a desired end user rendering modality for the selected content;
automatically selecting, as a function at least in part of the desired end user rendering modality for the selected content, a particular rendering method from amongst a plurality of differing candidate rendering methodologies to employ when rendering the selected content perceivable to the end user at the personally portable apparatus.
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Abstract
These various embodiments are suitable for use with a personally portable apparatus (200) that is configured and arranged to render selected content into a perceivable form for an end user of that personally portable apparatus. These teachings generally provide for gathering (101) information regarding this end user (wherein this information does not simply comprise specific instructions to the personally portable apparatus via some corresponding user interface). These teachings then provide for inferring (103) from this information a desired end user rendering modality (that is, as desired by that end user) for the selected content and then automatically selecting (105), as a function (at least in part) of that desired end user rendering modality, a particular rendering method from amongst a plurality of differing candidate rendering methodologies to employ when rendering the selected content perceivable to the end user at the personally portable apparatus.
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1. A method comprising:
at a personally portable apparatus that is configured and arranged to render selected content in a perceivable form for an end user of the personally portable apparatus; gathering information regarding the end user, wherein the information does not comprise specific instructions to the personally portable apparatus via a corresponding user interface; inferring from the information a desired end user rendering modality for the selected content; automatically selecting, as a function at least in part of the desired end user rendering modality for the selected content, a particular rendering method from amongst a plurality of differing candidate rendering methodologies to employ when rendering the selected content perceivable to the end user at the personally portable apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A personally portable apparatus comprising:
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a user output that can be dynamically configured and arranged to render selected content in a perceivable form for an end user of the personally portable apparatus; a memory having information regarding the end user stored therein, wherein the information does not comprise specific instructions as were received from the end user via a corresponding user interface; a processor that is operably coupled to the user output and the memory and that is configured and arranged to; infer from the information a desired end user rendering modality for the selected content; automatically select, as a function at least in part of the desired end user rendering modality for the selected content, a particular rendering modality from amongst a plurality of differing candidate rendering modalities to employ when rendering the selected content perceivable to the end user at the personally portable apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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