Apple Inc.

About: Apple Inc. is a company organization based out in Herzliya, Israel. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & User interface. The organization has 15687 authors who have published 22600 publications receiving 624507 citations. The organization is also known as: Apple Computer, Inc. & Apple Computer Inc.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulation of user interface objects with activation regions

Abstract: A computing device with a display simultaneously displays a plurality of user interface objects, a currently selected user interface object, and a plurality of resizing handles for the currently selected user interface object. Each respective resizing handle has a corresponding handle activation region with a default position relative to the respective resizing handle, a default size, and a default shape. The device detects a first input on a first handle activation region for a first resizing handle in the plurality of resizing handles. In response to detecting the first input, the device: resizes the currently selected user interface object, and for at least one resizing handle in the plurality of resizing handles, modifies a corresponding handle activation region by changing the position of the handle activation region relative to the resizing handle from the default position to a modified position.

Digital assistant providing whispered speech

Abstract: Systems and processes for detecting and/or providing a whispered speech response are provided. In one example process, speech is received from a user, and based on the speech input, determined that a whispered speech response is to be provided. Upon determining that a whispered speech response is to be provided, the whispered speech response is generated and provided to the user.

Speaker-independent vowel recognition: spectrograms versus cochleagrams

Abstract: The ability of multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) trained with backpropagation to classify vowels excised from natural continuous speech is examined. Two spectral representations are compared: spectrograms and cochleagrams. The features used to train the MLPs include discrete Fourier transform (DFT) or cochleagram coefficients from a single frame in the middle of the vowel, or coefficients from each third of the vowel. The effects of estimates of pitch, duration, and the relative amplitude of the vowel were investigated. The experiments show that with coefficients alone, the cochleagram is superior to the spectrogram in classification performance for all experimental conditions. With the three additional features, however, the results are comparable. Perceptual experiments with trained human listeners on the same data revealed that MLPs perform much better than humans on vowels excised from context. >

Virtual assistant activation

Abstract: At an electronic device with a display, a microphone, and an input device: while the display is on, receiving user input via the input device, the user input meeting a predetermined condition; in accordance with receiving the user input meeting the predetermined condition, sampling audio input received via the microphone; determining whether the audio input comprises a spoken trigger; and in accordance with a determination that audio input comprises the spoken trigger, triggering a virtual assistant session.

Tunable antenna systems

Abstract: An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry including an adjustable antenna system coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver. The adjustable antenna system may include one or more adjustable electrical components that are controlled by storage and processing circuitry in the electronic device. The adjustable electrical components may include switches and components that can be adjusted between numerous different states. The adjustable electrical components may be coupled between antenna system components such as transmission line elements, matching network elements, antenna elements and antenna feeds. By adjusting the adjustable electrical components, the storage and processing circuitry can tune the adjustable antenna system to ensure that the adjustable antenna system covers communications bands of interest.