Apple has been granted a patent for “systems and methods for managing captions” in its Messages app.
It relates generally to computer user interfaces, and more specifically to techniques for managing captions on an electronic device. In the patent Apple notes that computer systems can include hardware and/or software for displaying captions in various user interfaces. Captions (sometimes called subtitles) provide visual content that corresponds to audio content or metadata related to audio content.
Captions can include a text version of the speech and non-speech audio information and help a user understand the audio information. The display of captions is optionally synchronized (in time) with the audio of the communication session.
However, Apple says that some techniques for managing captions using electronic devices, are “generally cumbersome and inefficient.” For example, some existing techniques use a complex and time-consuming user interface, which may include multiple key presses or keystrokes.
As described in the patent, Apple’s technique provides electronic devices with faster, more efficient methods and interfaces for managing captions. And such methods and interfaces optionally complement or replace other methods for managing captions.
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