Google Inc.

Alejandro Jose Kauffmann

Christian Plagemann

Boris Smus

Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez

Hendrik Dahlkamp

Ivan Poupyrev

Kishore Sundara-Rajan

Aaron Joseph Wheeler

Mauricio E Gutierrez Bravo

Varun Ganapathi

William D Lindmeier

Mustafa Emre Karagozler

Andrew Martin Dahley

Ashley Ma

Mark Ferdinand Bowers

Liang-Yu Tom Chi

Liang-Yu (Tom) Chi

Abraham Murray

Jay Pierre Civelli

Yong Zhao

Dev Bhargava

Thad Eugene Starner

Hayes Solos Raffle

Clifford L Biffle

Max Benjamin Braun

Antonio Bernardo Monteiro Costa

Pascal Tom Getreuer

Trond Thomas Wuellner

Lee Brandon Keely

Phuong B Le

Brian Foster Allen

Ignacio Garcia-Dorado

Robin Debreuil

Liang-Lu (Tom) Chi

Damien Henry

Erik Goossens

Antonio Costa

The present disclosure is directed to facilitating the pairing of a visitor interactive object. An example method includes receiving, by a first interactive object from one or more sensors, data indicative of a visitor interactive object identifier associated with the visitor interactive object. The method includes generating, by the first interactive object, a pairing communication for the visitor interactive object that includes the visitor interactive object identifier and instructions to pair with the visitor interactive object. The method includes communicating, by the first interactive object, the pairing communication to a central computing device. The central computing device can be temporarily paired with the visitor interactive object based on the pairing communication. For instance, the method can include receiving, by the central computing device, the visitor pairing communication, generating a temporary visitor profile based on the visitor interactive identifier, and establishing the temporary wireless connection with the visitor interactive object.

Home toy magic wand management platform interacting with toy magic wands of visitors

The present disclosure is directed to selective gesture recognition for handheld device gestures. An example method includes receiving, by a handheld interactive object, movement information descriptive of a gesture performed with the handheld interactive object. The method includes selecting a local and/or remote machine-learned model for processing the movement information. The movement information can be processed to identify a gesture action corresponding to the movement information. The local and/or remote machine-learned model can be selected based on user input data and/or a complexity of the movement information. In response to selecting the local machine-learned model, the method includes processing the movement information according to the local machine-learned model and communicating a message to a remote device based on the result. In response to selecting the remote ma-chine-learned model, the method includes communicating the movement information to the remote device for processing in accordance with the remote machine-learned model.

Selective gesture recognition for handheld devices

Systems, methods, and media for causing an action to be performed on a user device are provided. In some implementations, the systems comprise: a first user device comprising at least one hardware processor that is configured to: detect a second user device in proximity to the first user device; receive a user input indicative of an action to be performed; determine a plurality of candidate devices that are capable of performing the action, wherein the plurality of candidate devices includes the second user device; determine a plurality of device types corresponding to the plurality of candidate devices; determine a plurality of priorities associated with the plurality of candidate devices based at least in part on the plurality of device types; select a target device from the plurality of candidate devices based at least in part on the plurality of priorities; and cause the action to be performed by the target device.

Systems, methods, and media for causing an action to be performed on a user device

A removable electronics device and related pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having different sensor layouts are provided. The removable electronics module includes one or more processors, an inertial measurement unit, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to one or more computing devices, a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple the removable electronics device to a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies, and a housing at least partially enclosing the processor, the inertial measurement unit, the first communication interface, and the second communication interface. The housing includes a first opening in at least one longitudinal surface and adjacent to at least a portion of the first communication interface and a plurality of second openings in a lower surface and adjacent to the plurality of contact pads of the second communication interface.

Removable electronics device for pre-fabricated sensor assemblies

The present disclosure is directed to identifying three-dimensional-human-gesture input. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive from one or more sensors, data describing one or more three-dimensional motions comprising a three-dimensional-human-gesture input; generate, based at least in part on the data describing the one or more three-dimensional motions, two-dimensional data at least partially describing at least one motion of the one or more three-dimensional motions; and identify, based at least in part on the two-dimensional data, the three-dimensional-human-gesture input.

Methods and systems for identifying three-dimensional-human-gesture input

A low-power object tracking system is disclosed that includes an object tracking device that senses one or more magnetic field(s) to determine a position of the object tracking device. The object tracking device includes a magnetic field sensor including one or more receiving coils and position tracking circuitry in communication with the magnetic field sensor. The position tracking circuitry is configured to determine at least one field strength associated with at least one stationary magnetic field sensed at the one or more receiving coils, and to determine position information associated with the housing based at least in part on the at least one field strength. The object tracking device includes a communication interface configured to transmit the position information to at least one remote computing device.

Object tracking using magnetic field sensing and backscatter transmissions

Pre-fabricated sensor system including removable electronics device

A removable electronics device for pre-fabricated sensor assemblies of interactive objects is provided. The removable electronics device includes one or more processors, a first communication interface configured to communicatively couple with one or more remote computing devices, and a second communication interface configured to communicatively couple with a plurality of pre-fabricated sensor assemblies having touch sensors with different sensor layouts. The removable electronics module can analyze, in response to being physically coupled to a first pre-fabricated sensor assembly, first touch data to detect one or more pre-defined motions based on one or more first pre-defined parameters associated with the first touch sensor. The removable electronics module can analyze, in response to being physically coupled to a second pre-fabricated sensor assembly, second touch data to detect the one or more pre-defined motions based on one or more second pre-defined parameters associated with the second touch sensor.

Among other things, this document describes a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a first device, an indication of user input to cause the first device to establish a wireless data connection with another device. A determination can be made at the first device that one or more sensors on the first device are oriented toward a second device. In response to at least one of (i) receiving the indication of user input to cause the first device to establish a wireless data connection with another device and (ii) determining that the one or more sensors on the first device are oriented toward the second device, a first wireless data connection can be established between the first device and the second device. A first stream of audio data can be received and played at the first device.

Pairing of media streaming devices

The present disclosure provides image capture devices and associated methods of operation that enable the interactive editing of imagery, including, for example, removal and/or addition of non-stationary objects from and/or to captured imagery. According to one example aspect of the present disclosure, an image capture device can capture a plurality of frames of imagery that depict a scene and, while capturing the plurality of frames of imagery, provide a composite image within a viewfinder of the image capture device, where non-stationary objects included in the scene are removed from the composite image. According to another example aspect of the present disclosure, the image capture device can allow a user to edit a final composite image directly within the viewfinder. Thus, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that enable enhanced capture and interactive editing of imagery.

Systems and methods for removing non-stationary objects from imagery

The present disclosure provides systems and methods that generate a summary storyboard from a plurality of image frames. An example computer-implemented method can include inputting a plurality of image frames into a machine-learned model and receiving as an output of the machine-learned model, object data that describes the respective locations of a plurality of objects recognized in the plurality of image frames. The method can include generating a plurality of image crops that respectively include the plurality of objects and arranging two or more of the plurality of image crops to generate a storyboard.

Systems and methods for generating a summary storyboard from a plurality of image frames

The present disclosure provides systems and methods that generate a scrubbing video that depicts a scrubbing operation performed on a first video. In particular, a user can directly manipulate video playback of the first video (e.g., by interacting with a touch-sensitive display screen) and the scrubbing video can depict such manipulation. As one example, the user can 'scratch' his or her videos like a disc jockey (DJ) scratches records to produce scrubbing videos that are remixes (e.g., looping remixes) of his or her original videos. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure enable a user to capture and edit a new type of video that allows the user to directly manipulate its timeline, producing fun and creative results.

Direct user manipulation of video to generate scrubbing videos

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Alejandro Jose Kauffmann