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LED Design Language for Visual Affordance of Voice User Interfaces

  • US 20170330429A1
  • Filed: 05/10/2017
  • Published: 11/16/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for visually indicating a voice processing state, comprising:

  • at an electronic device with an array of full color LEDs, one or more microphones, a speaker, a processor and memory storing at least one program for execution by the processor;

    collecting via the one or more microphones audio inputs from an environment in proximity to the electronic device;

    processing the audio inputs, wherein the processing includes one or more of identifying and responding to voice inputs from a user in the environment;

    determining a state of the processing from among a plurality of predefined voice processing states;

    for each of the full color LEDs, identifying a respective predetermined LED illumination specification associated with the determined voice processing state, wherein the illumination specification includes one or more of an LED illumination duration, pulse rate, duty cycle, color sequence and brightness; and

    in accordance with the identified LED illumination specifications of the full color LEDs, synchronizing illumination of the array of full color LEDs to provide a visual pattern indicating the determined voice processing state.

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