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US 10,318,009 · App. 15/486,738 · Granted Jun 11, 2019

Method, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and device for controlling a user-interface

Inventors: Tomonobu Aoyama (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuo Sasaki (Tokyo, JP); Seiichi Kataoka (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HI CORPORATION
G06F3/017
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Patent No.
US 10,318,009
App. No.
15/486,738
Granted
Jun 11, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

For the purpose of enhancing accessibility of a user with respect to various applications, the disclosed technique provides a method for controlling a user-interface that provides an instruction to an application through a user-operation which is performed on a display provided on a device. The method includes a process performed by the device. The process includes: acquiring information displayed by the display; extracting at least one feature existing on the acquired information; receiving an action of a user; searching a database to identify a predetermined operation, which corresponds to the received action and the extracted at least one feature; and providing an instruction to the application through applying the identified predetermined operation, not the received action, to the user-interface.

Claims (21)

1. A method for controlling a user-interface that provides an instruction to an application through a user-operation which is performed on a display provided on a device, the method comprising a process performed by the device, wherein the process includes:

acquiring information displayed by the display;

extracting at least one feature existing on the acquired information;

receiving an action of a user;

searching a database to identify a predetermined operation that corresponds to the received action and the extracted at least one feature, and to identify, even for the same received action, a different predetermined operation for a different extracted at least one feature; and

providing an instruction to the application through applying the identified predetermined operation to the user-interface.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the extracting extracts the at least one feature, by means of pattern recognition of the display.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the action is a physical motion of the user that is captured by a camera or a voice of the user collected by a microphone.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the application runs on another device that is different from the device provided with the screen.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for causing the device provided with the screen to execute the method according to claim 1 .

6. A device for controlling a user-interface that provides an instruction to an application through a user-operation which is performed on a display provided on the device, wherein the device comprising a memory having computer readable instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions, to

acquire information displayed by the display;

extract at least one feature existing on the acquired information;

receive an action of a user;

search a database to identify a predetermined operation that corresponds to the received action and the extracted at least one feature, and to identify, even for the same received action, a different predetermined operation for a different extracted at least one feature; and

provide an instruction to the application through applying the identified predetermined operation to the user-interface.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the predetermined operation to be identified is a first operation for a case where the extracted at least on feature is a first feature, and the predetermined operation to be identified is a second operation different from the first operation for a case where the extracted at least one feature is a second feature different from the first feature.

8. The device according to claim 6 , wherein

the predetermined operation to be identified is a first operation for a case where the extracted at least one feature is a first feature, and the predetermined operation to be identified is a second operation different from the first operation for a case where the extracted at least one feature is a second feature different from the first feature.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2017
From: AOYAMA, TOMONOBU; SASAKI, TATSUO; KATAOKA, SEIICHI
To: HI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042001/0810 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-201171 · Oct 12, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180101236A1 · Apr 12, 2018