Electronic Devices and Corresponding Methods for Utilizing User Sensory Preference Reaction Scores to Enhance User Interface Interactions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025258992-A1
Application number	US-202418438596-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 12, 2024
Priority date	Feb 12, 2024
Publication date	Aug 14, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electronic device includes a user interface and one or more processors operable with the user interface. The one or more processors are configured to modify one or more user interface elements as a function of a dominant sensory profile associated with an authorized user of the electronic device to create a one or more modified user interface elements and, thereafter, cause the user interface to present the one or more modified user interface elements.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
identifying, by one or more sensors of the electronic device, a user using the electronic device; determining, by one or more processors of the electronic device, a dominant sensory profile associated with the user of the electronic device; modifying, by the one or more processors, one or more user interface elements configured for presentation on a user interface of the electronic device as a function of the dominant sensory profile associated with the user of the electronic device to create a one or more modified user interface elements; and presenting, by the one or more processors on the user interface of the electronic device, the one or more modified user interface elements.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the dominant sensory profile associated with the user of the electronic device comprises retrieving, by the one or more processors, a user sensory preference reaction score from a user profile stored in a memory of the electronic device.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
presenting, by the one or more processors, the user sensory preference reaction score from the user profile on the user interface; receiving, by the user interface, user input in response to the presenting; and adjusting one or more sensory preference elements of the user sensory preference reaction score as a function of the user input.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the one or more sensory preference elements comprise a plurality of user sensory preference elements.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of user sensory preference elements comprises:
an eye-minded dominance score; a smell-minded dominance score; an ear-minded dominance score; a taste-minded dominance score; and a motor-minded dominance score.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more user interface elements configured for presentation on the user interface of the electronic device comprise one or more of:
user input controls; navigational elements; and/or containers.

7 . The method of claim 5 , wherein:
the one or more user interface elements configured for presentation on the user interface of the electronic device comprise informational components comprising text; and the modifying the one or more user interface elements to create the one or more modified user interface elements comprises changing the text to enhance a characteristic associated with at least one user sensory preference element and diminish another characteristic associated with at least one other user sensory preference element.

8 . The method of claim 5 , wherein each of the eye-minded dominance score, the smell-minded dominance score, the ear-minded dominance score, the taste-minded dominance score, and the motor-minded dominance score is normalized to have a value between one and negative one, inclusive.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising, prior to the determining:
presenting, by the one or more processors on the user interface, a plurality of user interface elements; wherein each user interface element of the plurality of user interface elements includes components catering to different sensory perceptions from other user interface elements of the plurality of user interface elements.

10 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
measuring, by one or more sensors, reactions of the user of the electronic device to the plurality of user interface elements; and determining, by the one or more processors from the reactions, the user sensory preference reaction score.

11 . The method of claim 10 , further comprising, when the one or more sensors detect another user using the electronic device:
repeating the presenting the plurality of user interface elements; measuring other reactions of the another user of the electronic device to the plurality of user interface elements; and determining, by the one or more processors from the other reactions, another user sensory preference reaction score.

12 . An electronic device, comprising:
a user interface; and one or more processors operable with the user interface; wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify one or more user interface elements as a function of a dominant sensory profile associated with an authorized user of the electronic device to create a one or more modified user interface elements and, thereafter, cause the user interface to present the one or more modified user interface elements.

13 . The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the one or more modified user interface elements are enhanced as a function of a first combination of a visual appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, an olfactory appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, an aural appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, a gustatory appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, and a haptic appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device and diminished as a second combination of the visual appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, the olfactory appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, the aural appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, the gustatory appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device, and the haptic appearance preferred by the authorized user of the electronic device.

14 . The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the one or more modified user interface elements comprise text that is different from the one or more user interface elements.

15 . The electronic device of claim 13 , further comprising one or more sensors, wherein:
the one or more sensors are configured to identify the authorized user of the electronic device when the authorized user is using the electronic device; and the dominant sensory profile associated with the authorized user is stored in a user profile of the authorized user of the electronic device.

16 . The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cease presenting the one or more modified user interface elements when the one or more sensors detect a user other than the authorized user using the electronic device.

17 . The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the one or more modified user interface elements to create other modified user interface elements in response to user input received by the user interface modifying the dominant sensory profile associated with the authorized user of the electronic device.

18 . A method for an electronic device, the method comprising:
presenting, by one or more processors on a user interface, a plurality of user interface elements, wherein each user interface element of the plurality of user interface elements includes components catering to different sensory perceptions from other user interface elements of the plurality of user interface elements; measuring, by one or more sensors, reactions of a user of the electronic device to the plurality of user interface elements; determining, by the one or more processors from the reactions, a user sensory preference reaction score; and thereafter, modifying, by the one or more processors, one or more other user interface elements configured for presentation on the user interface as a function of the user sensory preference reacti

Assignees

• Motorola Mobility Llc

Inventors

• Kumar Agrawal Amit
• Raghavan Krishnan
• Alampady Hariprasad Shanbhogue

Classifications

• G06Q30/02011

  Profiling or inferring profiles of users or market based on their behaviour · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/011 Primary

  Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00) · CPC title

• G06F2203/011

  Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns · CPC title

• G06F40/166 Primary

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title