AUDIO ASSISTANCE METHOD FOR A CONTROL INTERFACE OF A TERMINAL, PROGRAM AND TERMINAL

• US 20170300294A1
• Filed: 04/17/2017
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Botherel, Valrie, Louis Dit Picard, Stphane, Le Razavet, Danielle
• Application Number:
  US15/489,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20170300294A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

An audio assistance method for a control interface of a terminal, a program and a terminal are disclosed. In particular, the audio assistance is provided for a control interface for a process implemented by the terminal. In one embodiment, an audio assistance method for a control interface of a terminal is disclosed, the audio assistance method comprising, following the triggering of execution, by the terminal, of a process activating a control interface allowing a user of the terminal to interact with the executed process, providing the active control interface with an assistance activation controller allowing the user of the terminal to activate audio assistance adapted to the active control interface. The risk of interaction error is reduced because the user can more easily activate the audio assistance since he does not need to return to the settings of the system of the terminal in order to activate the audio assistance.

Claims

1. An audio assistance method for a control interface of a terminal, the audio assistance method comprising, following the triggering of execution, by the terminal, of a process activating a control interface allowing a user of the terminal to interact with the executed process, providing the active control interface with an assistance activation controller allowing the user of the terminal to activate audio assistance adapted to the active control interface.

2. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, the method comprising, following activation of audio assistance of an active control interface for a process executed by the terminal, providing an active interface for the executed process with an assistance deactivation controller allowing the user of the terminal to deactivate the audio assistance of the control interface for the executed process.

3. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, the method comprising, following activation of audio assistance, replacing, solely and at least for one of the selection controllers of the active control interface, triggering of execution of a subprocess associated with the selection controller of the active control interface with triggering of audio reproduction of descriptive data relating to the subprocess associated with the selection controller.

4. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, the method comprising generating an audio assistance interface from a modification solely of the selection controllers of the active control interface.

5. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, wherein generating an audio assistance interface for a control interface for a process is triggered as soon as at least one of the following events occurs:

activation of audio assistance from a control interface for a process, installation of the audio assistance method on the terminal, installation of a process on the terminal, and update of a process on the terminal.

6. The audio assistance method according to claim 5, wherein the generating the audio assistance interface comprises storing in the terminal, in association with the process, the generated audio assistance interface, and allowing subsequent activation of the audio assistance for the control interface for the process to trigger the implementation of the audio assistance interface stored in association with the process.

7. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, the method comprising activating the audio assistance at the command of a user of the terminal triggering reproduction of an audio assistance interface for the process being executed, the audio assistance interface having been generated from a modification solely of the selection controllers of the active control interface.

8. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, the method comprising activation of the audio assistance at the command of a user of the terminal triggering reproduction of an audio assistance interface superposed on the reproduced active control interface, the audio assistance interface having been generated from a modification solely of the selection controllers of the active control interface.

9. The audio assistance method according to claim 1, wherein the control interface is at least one of a visual interface and a graphical interface.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code instructions stored thereon for executing the steps of the audio assistance method according to claim 1 when the program code instructions are executed by a processor.

10. A processing method configured to be executed by a terminal comprising a processor, the processing method comprising:

activating a control interface of a terminal to allow a user of the terminal to interact with the executed processing method; and

following a triggering of execution of the processing method by the terminal, providing the active control interface with an activation controller for audio assistance allowing the user of the terminal to activate audio assistance adapted to the active control interface.

12. A computer terminal comprising:

a processor configured to execute at least one process;

at least one control interface for one of the at least one process; and

an audio assistant for a control interface, the audio assistance configured to provide, following a triggering of execution, by the terminal, of a process activating a control interface allowing a user of the terminal to interact with the executed process, the active control interface with an assistance activation controller allowing the user of the terminal to activate audio assistance adapted to the active control interface.