Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Amit Kumar Agrawal

Rahul Bharat Desai

Olivier David Meirhaeghe

Bill Ryan

Daniel M Vacura

Jeffrey S Vanhoof

Satyabrata Rout

Alexandre Neves Creto

Caio Luiz Leal Chagas Do Nascimento

Himanshu Chug

Mahadevan Ayalur

Rachid M Alameh

Boby Iyer

Rohit Sisodia

Jeffrey T Snow

Krishnan Raghavan

Mauricio Dias Moises

Jyothsna Bandameedipalli

Mayank Gupta

Alexandre Novaes Olivieri

Zhengping Ji

Gautham Prabhakar Natakala

Renuka Prasad Herur Rajashekaraiah

Xiaofeng Zhu

Srikanth Raju

Gautham Natakala Prabhakar

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Vijayprakash Bheemsainrao Idlur

Olivier David Rene Meirhaeghe

Panduranga Reddy Pailla

Rachit Mittal

Michael E Russell

Shuang Wu

Vignesh Mohan

Sanjay Dhar

Vishal S Patil

Yonghua Hu

Pankaj Kushwaha

Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady

Cai Zhiyi

Aman Jain

Thomas Y Merrell

Alberto R Cavallaro

Igor Kovalenko

Wendel Malta De Assis

Fabio Felipe Mira Machuca

Luciano Bevilacqua Pereira Da Silva

Priya Krishnamurthy

Vishnu Kumar Shivaji Rao

Lucie Corinne Evelyne Papelier

Santhosh Kumar M S

Ranjeet Gupta

Giles T Davis

Marcello Zuffo

Daniel Philip Groebe

Amal Chandran

Xin Zhao

Ioannis A Zigras

Jonathan E Eklund

Meng-Ru Yu

Wang Xuejin

Amarnath J

Peng Yueh Hsueh

Shaung Wu

Soumya Ranjan Mund

Somina Lakshmana Hanuman Mahath

Jayashree M Yabannavar

Shuaib Puzhakkal Kavalathara

J Amarnath

Toni Pereira

Liang Zhang

Scott DeBates

Robert A Zurek

Thomas E Gitzinger

Patrick J Cauwels

Mark Rose

Lawrence Alan Willis

Robert S Witte

Raymond Brooke Essick, Iv

David A Winkler

Kathryn Ellen Thomas

Joel D Voss

Craig J Detter

Nigil George Valikodath

Nidhi Agarwal

Daniel Spiewak Rempel Finimundi

Rakshit Khosla

Thiago Francisco Martins

Prashanth Chakravarthy

Andre Luiz Silva Bazante

Sanjeev Kumar Poluru Venkata

John Hamilton O'Leary

William Ryan

Sukumar K Bhashyam

Nadeen Nazarali Panjwani

Zhiyi Cai

Lúcia Satiko Nomiso

Chekit R Mehta

In aspects of rollable screen simultaneous display call use, a mobile device includes a rollable display screen configurable in one of multiple display states, the rollable display screen including a front-facing portion of the rollable display screen and a rear-facing portion of the rollable display screen. The mobile device implements a call manager that detects a phone call is initiated and displayable call content is associated with the phone call. The call manager determines to display the displayable call content associated with the phone call on the front-facing portion of the rollable display screen. The call manager then initiates to configure the rollable display screen in a display state that facilitates use of the front-facing portion of the rollable display screen to display the displayable call content associated with the phone call.

Rollable screen simultaneous display call use

A method provides techniques for reducing object interference in a multi-camera system. The method includes selecting, by at least one processor of an electronic device, a first image capturing device having a first field of view (FOV) and that produces first image content. In response to detecting a partial occlusion of the first image capturing device by an object while the first image capturing device is receiving first image content, the at least one processor determines a zoom factor sufficient to remove the object from the received first image content. The processor then performs a zoom operation, based on the zoom factor, such that the object causing the partial occlusion of the first image capturing device is removed from subsequently received image content.

Object interference reduction in a multi-camera system

An electronic device, method, and computer program product provide automated dynamic format of screen shot capture, based on display size and information density. The electronic device renders an electronic page of visual content into a plurality of screens of visual content and communicates one screen to a display for presentation. The electronic device determines a number of screens required to sequentially present an entirety of the electronic page of visual content via a display and determines an amount of readable information contained in each of the number of screens of the electronic page. The electronic device determines transition rate(s) required to legibly present each portion of the readable information presented in each screen in transitioning between two of the plurality of screens and generates a dynamic screen shot image comprising at least one image with automated transitions at the at least one transition rate for each corresponding transition.

Automated dynamic format of screenshot capture responsive to display size and information density

An electronic device, method, and computer program product respond to the electronic device having an inoperable touch screen display by enabling emergency authentication of and access by a user by activating secondary authentication input options and data transfer features A controller of the electronic device monitors the touch screen display for operability. In response to determining at least a portion of the touch screen display is inoperable for one or more of presenting a user interface and detecting a touch input of a touch screen access credential, the controller accesses emergency access credential(s) stored in memory of the electronic device. The controller activates an emergency access mode and initiates monitoring input device(s) for an input of emergency access credential(s). In response to authenticating a user based on detecting the emergency access credential(s), the controller enables one or more detectable input commands to control the electronic device.

Dynamically enabling emergency accessibility on touch failure detection

A monitoring system incorporates, and method and computer program product provide for learning about objects of interest to a person based on gaze direction. A controller of the monitoring system receives image stream(s) from a camera system of image capturing device(s) that capture a first image stream that encompasses eyes of a person and a second image stream that at least partially encompasses surrounding object(s) and surfaces viewable by the person. The controller determines a first region of interest (ROI) among the surrounding object(s) and surfaces that is aligned with an eye gaze direction of the person. The controller identifies an object contained within the first ROI. The controller determines an interest value of the object to the person, in part based on duration and/or frequency that the person gazes at the object. The controller stores the interest value along with identifying data of the identified object.

Eye gaze detection based learning of subjective interest

In aspects of interactive telephone system navigation, a media device maintains a record of menu inputs to navigate an interactive telephone menu based on a first call and associates a telephone number of the first call with the record. The media device detects the telephone number initiated for a second call and provides an automated navigation of the interactive telephone menu during the second call.

Interactive telephone system navigation

An electronic device, method, and computer program product support automatically modifying a virtual gamepad presented on a mobile electronic device based on frequency of use of particular controls for a game. The electronic device executes a game application to present, via an external display, a game screen. The electronic device identifies a virtual gamepad configuration having virtual controls including at least first and second virtual controls. The electronic device presents the virtual gamepad configuration on a touch screen display. The electronic device monitors frequency of input to each of the virtual controls. The electronic device defines a second virtual gamepad configuration associated with the game application that spatially adjusts at least one of the first and the second virtual controls in relation to a respective frequency of input to facilitate use of the touch screen display as a game controller to control the game application.

Touch screen display game controller customized per game application in response to control usage

In aspects of controlling display of content based on screen sharing in a video conference session, a video conference session is determined to be active on a computing device in a screen sharing mode. In the screen sharing mode, a user of a computing device shares content displayed on a display screen associated with the computing device with a remote user connected to the video conference session via a remote device. The remote user is then detected as having entered the screen sharing mode on the remote device, which causes the screen sharing mode to end on the computing device. Then, the remote user is detected as having ended the screen sharing mode on the remote device. In response to the screen sharing mode ending on the remote device, a prompt is displayed on the display screen that is selectable to resume the screen sharing mode on the computing device.

Controlling display of content based on screen sharing in a video conference session

A method in an electronic device transitions a blade assembly that carries a blade and flexible display and that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between an extended position, a retracted position, and a peek position to a position between the retracted position and the extended position when content is to be newly presented on the flexible display.

Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for managing display position as a function content presentation

An electronic device, computer program product, and method provide autonomous projecting of a selected content to a second display. The device is configured to, in response to a trigger to transmit first content of the electronic device to a connected second electronic device for presenting on a second display: (i) determine whether second display content is currently being shared with at least one third electronic device; and (ii) in response to determining that the second display content is currently being shared with at least one third electronic device: (a) withhold automatic rendering of the first content on the second display; and (b) generate and output a notification presented on at least the first display, the notification informing a user of at least one of the electronic device and the second electronic device that the content presented on the second display is being shared.

Managing device visual projection on a connected second device with a second display in shared state

A method provides techniques for modifying privilege modes on an electronic device based on circumstantial triggers. The method includes identifying, by at least one processor of an electronic device, a context corresponding to a circumstantial trigger. The method includes transitioning the electronic device from operating according to a first privilege mode to operating according to a second privilege mode in response to detecting a start of the circumstantial trigger. The method includes transitioning the electronic device from operating according to the second privilege mode to operating according to the first privilege mode in response to detecting an end of the circumstantial trigger.

Modifying privilege modes on an electronic device based on circumstantial triggers

A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more processors, a communication device electronically in communication with both a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device and a wearable companion device while an application operating on the one or more processors presents content on the content presentation companion device, one or more sensors of the electronic device determine an accessibility context of the electronic device meets at least a first predefined criterion and a proximity context of the electronic device meets at least a second predefined criterion. In response, the one or more processors redirect one or more user interface controls from a user interface of the electronic device to a user interface of the wearable companion device.

Electronic devices and corresponding methods for redirecting user interface controls during accessibility contexts

An electronic device, method and computer program product provide clear video feeds while operating within a data bandwidth limitation. The electronic system monitors eye gaze direction of a local participant viewing a display and positioned in a field of view of the at least one image capturing device. The electronic device receives, via a communications subsystem, and presents, at the display, more than one video feeds of respective participants in a video communication session. In response to determining that at least one video feed is not being gazed at by the local participant, the electronic system captures a video snippet of each of the at least one video feed and presents the video snippet within a participant tile in place of the respective video feed. The electronic system presents a live video feed in a corresponding participant tile that is being viewed by the local participant.

Reducing local bandwidth usage for a video call having multiple second participants based on directed eye gaze of the local participant

In aspects of payment recovery boot mode for mobile devices, a mobile device transmits a payment status request to a network device. The network device receives an identifier of the mobile device and, based on the identifier, determines a payment status of the mobile device indicates a payment for the mobile device is pending. The mobile device receives, from the network device, a payment status response indicating a payment for the mobile device is pending. The mobile device initiates a payment recovery boot mode of the mobile device based on the payment status response.

Payment recovery boot mode for mobile devices

In aspects of display photo update recommendations, a catalyst is identified for updating a display photo of a user on a social media website. Further, a first collection of photos that are associated with the catalyst are retrieved from a photo gallery maintained in memory of a computing device. Using a machine learning model trained on a second collection of display photos utilized by connections of the user on the social media website, one or criteria are determined for display photos. Moreover, candidate display photos that satisfy the one or more criteria are identified from the first collection of photos and output to the photo gallery.

Display photo update recommendations

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