US 12,436,664 B1
Method and apparatus for automatically updating a user interface
Tianna Mari Zambrano, Silver City, NM (US); and Joan E. Wilson, Albuqueque, NM (US)
Assigned to Arrowhead Center, Inc., Las Cruces, NM (US)
Filed by Arrowhead Center, Inc., Las Cruces, NM (US)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/766,328.
Application 18/766,328 is a continuation of application No. 17/983,178, filed on Nov. 8, 2022, granted, now 12,032,807.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/276,684, filed on Nov. 8, 2021.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically updating selection options on a user interface of an apparatus, the method comprising:
obtaining information about an environment around the apparatus with a microphone and/or with a geolocation sensor;
using the obtained information to generate or otherwise obtain one or more selection options with a processor, wherein generating or otherwise obtaining happens automatically without requiring speech input from a user; and
automatically updating the user interface with the processor in real time to present at least one of the one or more selection options, such that the apparatus can output the at least one of the one or more selection options as speech when selected by the user.