Apple has been granted a patent for “Content Translation User Interfaces” that elates generally to computer user interfaces, and more specifically to techniques for displaying translated content.
As electronic devices such as smartphones have become more widely used, their functions have grown beyond phone calls and text messaging. In the patent Apple says that providing an efficient method for using and implementing the various functions on these electronic devices can be complex and time-consuming.
What’s more, some techniques for translating content and displaying translated content using electronic devices “are generally cumbersome and inefficient,” the tech giant says. 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.
Apple’s patent involves a technique that provides electronic devices with faster, more efficient methods and interfaces for translating content and displaying translated content. Such methods and interfaces can complement or replace other methods for translating content and displaying translated content.
According to Apple’s summary of the patent, the method comprises: at a computer system that is in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices: displaying, via the display generation component, a translation user interface, wherein a first region of the translation user interface corresponds to a first language and a second region of the translation user interface different from the first region corresponds to a second language different from the first language; while displaying the translation user interface, receiving, via the one or more input devices, an input; and in response to receiving the input: in accordance with a determination that the input is in the first language, concurrently displaying, via the display generation component, in the first region of the translation user interface: a transcription of the input in the first language, and a translation of the input in the second language; and in accordance with a determination that the input is in the second language, concurrently displaying, via the display generation component, in the second region of the translation user interface: a transcription of the input in the second language, and a translation of the input in the first language.
