User Interfaces for Electronic Devices
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Abstract
A mobile telephone (1) includes a multimodal user interface and a rendering unit (10) that can be used to display icons on the display screen (3) of the mobile telephone (1). The rendering unit (10) receives inputs from a number of status factor determiners of the mobile telephone (1), such as an environmental quality assessment unit (7), a data quality of service unit (8), a network signal strength unit (9), an application engine (5), multimodal interface components (11), and an automatic speech recognition unit of a speech engine (22). The rendering unit (10) uses the status information that it receives to select an icon to be displayed to convey information about the current status of the mobile telephone (1) to the user. The icon that is displayed by the rendering unit (10) is in the form of a human face that can show varying expressions and emotions.
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70 Claims
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44. A method of providing status information to a user of an electronic device, the method comprising:
displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon representing a status of a plurality of factors relating to an operation or condition of the device. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 61)
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51. A method of providing a speech-enabled interface for an electronic device, the method comprising:
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determining a measure of whether a spoken word or words of a user are likely to be part of a recognizable sentence or command; and displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon acknowledging that the user'"'"'s spoken word or words has been recognizable on a basis of the determined measure. - View Dependent Claims (62)
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52. A system for providing a user interface for an electronic device, comprising:
a processor for displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon representing a status of a plurality of factors relating to an operation or condition of the device. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A system for providing a speech-enabled interface for an electronic device, the system comprising:
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a processor for determining a measure of whether a spoken word or words of a user are likely to be part of a recognizable sentence or command; and a processor for displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon acknowledging that the user'"'"'s word or words has been recognized on the basis of the determined measure.
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60. An electronic device, comprising:
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a speech-enabled user interface, whereby a user may speak commands to operate the device; a display; a processor for determining or for receiving a measure of whether a spoken word or words of a user are likely to be part of a recognizable sentence or command; and a processor for displaying on the display of the electronic device an icon acknowledging that the user'"'"'s word or words has been recognized on the basis of the determined measure.
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63. A system for providing a user interface for an electronic device, comprising:
means for displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon representing a status of a plurality of factors relating to an operation or condition of the device. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A system for providing a speech-enabled interface for an electronic device, the system comprising:
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means for determining a measure of whether a spoken word or words of a user are likely to be part of a recognizable sentence or command; and means for displaying on a display of the electronic device an icon acknowledging that the user'"'"'s word or words has been recognized on the basis of the determined measure.
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Specification