Abstract: A speaking user selecting method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program. The method comprises: receiving a first request sent by a first terminal device, the first request being used for determining a speaking user in a user group, wherein the user group comprises at least two users to be selected, and each user to be selected corresponds to one second terminal device; determining a random selection model corresponding to the first request, the random selection model being used for representing a policy for randomly determining a speaking user from the user group; and determining a speaking user from the at least two users to be selected according to the random selection model, and sending identification information of the speaking user to the first terminal device and the second terminal device.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a VC/XR connection system that can establish and administer an XR space for a video call. The VC/XR connection system allows users to easily transition from a typical video call experience to the XR space, simply by putting on her artificial reality device. The VC/XR connection system can identify calendared video call events, establish corresponding XR spaces, and create a link between the video call and the XR space. Invitees to the video call that don an artificial reality device can be automatically taken into the XR space. The XR space can A) connect to the video call as a call participant, allowing the video call participants to see into the XR space and B) show a feed of the video call in the XR space, allowing users in the XR space to see the video call participants.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method may include determining one or more of (1) an amount of use of a display screen of a user's client computing device during a period of time, or (2) a frequency of unlocks of the display screen during the period of time. The method may include displaying, on a lock screen of the client computing device, one or more of: (1) the amount of use of the display screen during the period of time, or (2) the frequency of unlocks of the display screen during the period of time.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying and rendering content relevant to a user's current mental state and context. In an aspect, a system includes a state component that determines a state of a user during a current session of the user with the media system based on navigation of the media system by the user during the current session, media items provided by the media system that are played for watching by the user during the current session, and a manner via which the user interacts with or reacts to the played media items. In an aspect, the state of the user includes a mood of the user. A selection component then selects a media item provided by the media provider based on the state of the user, and a rendering component effectuates rendering of the media item to the user during the current session.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a content input method and apparatus for instant messaging software, and a device and a medium. The instant messaging software includes a first input box and a second input box, wherein the first input box and the second input box are switched by means of a switching control, and the sizes of the first t input box and the second input box are different. The method comprises: receiving target input content, which is input into a first input box, and displaying the target input content in the first input box; and in response to the triggering of a switching control, displaying the target input content in a second input box.

Abstract: A virtual trackpad engine is configured to perform a technique for accessing and manipulating distant virtual objects in an XR environment. The technique includes generating, in an extended reality (XR) environment, a virtual model corresponding to a hand of a user. The technique also includes generating a virtual trackpad in the XR environment, where a surface of the virtual trackpad is mapped to a surface of a distant virtual object in the XR environment. Further, the technique includes determining if the virtual trackpad is activated and responsive to a determination that the virtual trackpad is activated, tracking a movement of the virtual hand. The technique further includes determining an action to be performed in relation to the distant virtual object that corresponds to the movement and, subsequently, performing the action.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an entertainment system. In one example, a method for operating an entertainment system includes receiving user input at a central control hub communicatively coupled to one or more display devices and converting the instructions into one or more signal transmission modes at the central control hub. The one or more signal transmission modes may correspond to communication modes of the one or more display devices, allowing the instructions to be delivered to the one or more display devices from the central control hub to present the instructions as a visual and/or audio display to an audience.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to receiving voice input via the one or more microphones; and displaying a visual indication of the voice input, where in accordance with a determination that a portion of the voice input corresponds to voice input that is to be transmitted to one or more devices displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a first set of one or more colors; and in accordance with a determination that the voice input does not include an instruction to transmit any portion of the voice input to the one or more devices, displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a second set of one or more colors that is different from the first set of one or more colors.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for using a robotic surgical system comprising a GUI and a robotic arm.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a split-screen display method and an electronic device. The method includes: An electronic device displays a display interface corresponding to a first task on a display when running a first application to execute the first task; receives, on the display interface corresponding to the first task, a first operation used to enable a second task; and enables a split-screen display mode in response to the first operation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing an enhanced shape-based keyboard to computing devices with an integrated touch screen display. In an implementation, the computing device displays a first keyboard such that the first keyboard comprises keys that correspond to initial base shapes of an alphabet. Next the computing device receives a first user input comprising a selection of one of the keys of the first keyboard. In response to the first user input, the computing device displays a second keyboard such that the second keyboard comprises keys that correspond to medial base shapes of the alphabet.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes a touch panel for detecting a user's touch operation, a value setting section for setting a parameter value based on the touch operation detected by the touch panel, and an output control section for processing an inputted audio based on the parameter value set by the value setting section and outputting the processed audio. The value setting section sets the parameter value in accordance with a moving direction and a moving speed of a touch position from a start point that is the touch position on the touch panel at a start of the touch operation to an end point that is the touch position at an end of the touch operation.

Abstract: A computer system and method generates one or more commenting features on a canvas, wherein each commenting feature carries at least one comment from a given source. Each commenting feature can include a pin component and a comment body element. The pin component is associated with a corresponding location on the canvas. The computer system and method enable the user to move the comment body element about at least a region of the canvas to view the at least one comment from the given source, while rendering the pin component to coincide with the corresponding associated location of the canvas.

Abstract: An electronic system, method, and computer program product coordinate processing and presentation of computer data file to a user by multiple devices that are wirelessly connectable in order to processing and processing requirements of computer data file (e.g., media or multiple spreadsheet file). An electronic device identifies available computational and presentation resources included connected second device(s) to enable coordinated operation. The electronic device segregates the computer data file into multiple segregable functional portions and executes and presents first segregable functional portion(s). The electronic device communicates second segregable function portion(s) to the second device(s) and triggers processing and presenting by the second electronic device(s).

Abstract: A virtual keyboard setting method includes: determining an operation region and a trigger region, the operation region being a region operated in a screen for using an input method, and the trigger region being a region covered by an external entity when touching the screen; determining a display region of a virtual keyboard according to the operation region; determining an area of a virtual key in the virtual keyboard according to the trigger region; and setting the virtual keyboard according to the display region of the virtual keyboard and the area of the virtual key.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for replacing text in a message thread. The program and method provide for receiving an indication of user input provided by a first user, the user input comprising a text-based term for updating a message thread between the first user and a second user; determining that the text-based term is included within a set of predefined terms, each predefined term within the set of predefined terms having corresponding replacement content for including in the message thread, the replacement content having been specified by the first or second user with respect to messages exchanged between the first and second user; and providing, in response to the determining and based on the set of predefined terms, the replacement content corresponding to the text-based term within the message thread.

Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface control method, a device, and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed to provide a security platform with suggested information, which may be easy to use for searching information of interest. The method is performed at an electronic device with access to a user interface. The method comprises: generating a map for display in a first portion of the user interface; detecting user input made in an area of the user interface; and in response to detecting the user input: obtaining indicia based on the user input; accessing plural information sources based on respective subsets of the indicia to retrieve respective information of interest subsets corresponding to the respective subsets of the indicia; and generating a second portion of the user interface for concurrent display with the map in the first portion, the second portion comprising the retrieved information of interest subsets.

Abstract: A computing system may include a metamaterial representation engine configured to represent a metamaterial of a three-dimensional (3D) object as program code. The metamaterial may define an internal geometry of the 3D object and may be configured to be physically constructed via additive manufacturing. Representation of the metamaterial as program code may include assigning a value of a code parameter of the metamaterial as a probability distribution. The computing system may also include a metamaterial analysis engine configured to analyze the metamaterial through the probability distribution assigned for the value of the code parameter of the program code.

Abstract: In a privacy information generation method, a terminal device displays on a display an interactive element of a privacy settings page for a target application. The terminal device responds to a first gesture operation performed by a user on the interactive element of the privacy settings page, and determines a privacy precision for the target application according to the first gesture operation. The terminal device then generates privacy information based on the privacy precision for the target application when the target application requests the privacy information from the terminal device.

Abstract: Computer systems and corresponding methods are provided for computer assisted research in a network are provided that generate interface screens that include a map view of a plurality of selectable objects disposed in a nuclear arrangement in segmented rings about a first level object. The computing device is configured to receive selections of the displayed objects and expand the display to include additional segmented levels all surrounding the first level object.