Apple has been granted a patent for “Atrial Fibrillation User Interfaces” for the iPhone.
About the patent
Computer systems can track, store, and present health data. Such systems can present health data from a number of sources. However, some techniques for presenting health data using electronic devices, “are generally cumbersome and inefficient,” according to Apple. For example, some existing techniques use a complex and time-consuming user interface, which may include multiple key presses or keystrokes. Existing techniques require more time than necessary, wasting user time and device energy. This latter consideration is particularly important in battery-operated devices.
Apple’s patent is designed to present technique provides electronic devices with faster, more efficient methods and interfaces for displaying atrial fibrillation data. Such methods and interfaces optionally complement or replace other methods for displaying atrial fibrillation data.
Apple says such methods and interfaces reduce the cognitive burden on a user and produce a more efficient human-machine interface. For battery-operated computing devices, such methods and interfaces conserve power and increase the time between battery charges.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “The present disclosure generally relates to displaying atrial fibrillation data. A computer system concurrently displays a first representation of atrial fibrillation data for a first period of time and a first representation of non-heart data the first period of time.”
