Apple’s mobile devices such as Ipad mini, iPad 5, Iphone 5S as well
as the iOS software the company has presented for the current year, have
the potential of being declared not only the best way of communication
there is out there, but they also offer the best communication methods
for people with disabilities, and the best features for them to control
their iPads or iPhones.
Through a patent filling approved in the past couple of days by the
United States authorities we were able to find out that the iPhone
manufacturer is currently working on a few new features for their
devices and the operating system, meant to ease and organize the methods
through which different persons who use electronic devices can be
contacted.
According to the report posted by Apple Insider, when it will be
released for the large public, this system will be able to transfer to
the user the most appropriate way through which a certain person can be
contacted.
Apparently weighing more than a simple phone call or a message, this
feature of the iPhone will be able to determine in an intelligent way,
the best method to use for contacting another user. For instance, if the
person that you would like to contact is busy or in a meeting and
answering the phone would be inappropriate, then the iPhone is going to
suggest the caller to send him/her an email or a text message.
In another example, if the contact you are trying to reach is located nearby, Apple’s service is going to suggest you to meet that person as it found him in your area.
In order for the service to work properly, it’s going to use
information received either from a monitoring service such as the GPS,
or from other devices available like the contact’s personal computer,
microphone or camera.
Most likely, this system is going to be integrated in one of iOS’s
applications, thus providing for the user a friendly user interface,
easy to both manipulate and to program.
In the report posted by Apple Insider we mentioned above, another
patent is described, but this time it seems that Apple is thinking about
adopting a few specialized methods for the control of a touchscreen
input device, but without using the traditional touch hardware.
As we stated in the beginning of the article, these new techniques
and services will be useful mostly for the people with certain
disabilities and it is expected to demolish the walls between them and
Apple’s iPads and iPhones.
Apple’s patent filling states that in order for a user to interfere
with a touch display, by using the traditional touch stimulus, this
person should hold the device in order to interact with its display.
Furthermore, as the patent claims, that specific user should have the
capacity of touching the device’s display and of course in order to
know where outside stimulus is needed, the user should also see the
display of the device.
Of course, this innovation should further perfect the access
techniques and possibilities of Apple, in order to deliver an easier and
a more direct way of manipulating more than one touch screens at the
same time, and in the same time more functions the devices are currently
capable of, some of them including text input, text copy, text cut,
text to voice, page scrolling and so on.
The entire system is based on an outside button pad or a joystick
that would further interact with the iOS device. These third party
systems are going to receive stimulus based commands that will be
further sent to the iOS host in order to be interpreted.
The results of the command are going to be sent by the host back to
the third party device, interpreted as Braille data or as a sound file.
Source : iOSdoc
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