Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sandisk Corporation

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Brian Murphy

Stephen G Latta

Kevin Geisner

Relja Markovic

Darren Bennett

Shawn Crispin Wright

Daniel C Guterman

George Samachisa

Chi-Ming Wang

Khandker N Quader

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Christopher Harley Willoughby

Joel Deaguero

John S Mangan

David M Hill

Pedro Perez

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Jason Bradley Scott

Cameron Graeme Brown

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Evan Michael Keibler

David C Haley, Jr

Christopher Vuchetich

Dave Hill

Thomas Forsythe

Matt Coohill

A Dylan Vance

Xiang Yang

Alex A Kipman

Michal Hlavac

Kudo Tsunoda

Qing Li

Xiaoyu Yang

Karen M Cross

Lito De La Rama

Jia Wang

Albert T Meeks

Emiko Valiane Charbonneau

Raz Dan

Houman Pournasseh

Zac Shepard

Kim Le

Travis William Steiner

Enosh Levi

Matthew M Klee

Gilles Peigné

Mohamed A Hassanin

Shannon Richard Monroe

Apparatuses and techniques are presented for detecting bit line open circuits and short circuits in a memory device in which a memory die is inverted and bonded to a control die. In one approach, the control die comprises a set of bit lines which are connected to a set of bit lines of the memory die, and the set of bit lines of the control die comprise ground transistors, e.g., transistors connected to a ground node. Ground transistors of even-numbered bit lines may be commonly controlled, while ground transistors of odd-numbered bit lines are commonly controlled. The ground transistors may be controlled to detect open circuits and short circuits in the bit lines of the control die and the memory die. A laser scanning technique can also be used to determine a physical location of a defect of a bit line.

Detecting bit line open circuits and short circuits in memory device with memory die bonded to control die

Techniques for context-aware recommendations of relevant presentation content are disclosed. In some configurations, the techniques involve the processing of contextual data from one or more resources to dynamically direct a presentation. A computing device can receive contextual data from one or more resources. The contextual data can be processed to select one or more sections of content data, e.g., a slide of a slide deck or a page of document. The computing device can then cause a display of the one or more sections on one or more devices. In some configurations, a hardware display surface can be configured to provide a real-world view of an object, e.g., a model or other item that may be related to the presentation, through the hardware display surface while also providing a display of the one or more sections of the presenter's material.

Context-aware recommendations of relevant presentation content displayed in mixed environments

A source side programming method and system are provided. A bad trigger block, of a plurality of blocks of a memory array, may be detected by determining a threshold voltage distribution of a drain side select gate of a block and determining whether the distribution is abnormal. If the distribution is abnormal, the block is a bad trigger block which may cause a failure in another block. IF the block is a bad trigger block, source side programming is performed on at least one word line of the bad trigger block by applying a non-zero voltage to at least one source side word line of the bad trigger block via a source side line.

Source side program, method, and apparatus for 3D NAND

Various embodiments relating to detecting at least one of conversation, the presence and the identity of others during presentation of digital content on a computing device. When another person is detected, one or more actions may be taken with respect to the digital content. For example, the digital content may be minimized, moved, resized or otherwise modified.

Conversation, presence and context detection for hologram suppression

Synchronous and asynchronous communications between avatars is allowed. For synchronous communications, when multiple users are playing different games of the same game title and when the avatars of the multiple users are at the same location in their respective games they can communicate with one another, thus allowing the users of those avatars to communicate with one another. For asynchronous communications, an avatar of a particular user is left behind at a particular location in a game along with a recorded communication. When other users of other games are at that particular location, the avatar of that particular user is displayed and the recorded communication is presented to the other users.

Communication between avatars in different games

An on-screen shopping application which reacts to a human target user's motions to provide a shopping experience to the user is provided. A tracking system captures user motions and executes a shopping application allowing a user to manipulate an on-screen representation the user. The on-screen representation has a likeness of the user or another individual and movements of the user in the on-screen interface allows the user to interact with virtual articles that represent real-world articles. User movements which are recognized as article manipulation or transaction control gestures are translated into commands for the shopping application.

Motion-based interactive shopping environment

A method of finding a new social network service friend for a player belonging to a social network service and having a friend group including one or more player-accepted friends includes recognizing the player, automatically identifying an observer within a threshold proximity to the player, and adding the observer to the friend group of the player in the social network service if the observer satisfies a friending criteria of the player.

Automated sensor driven friending

One or more physical characteristics of each of multiple users are detected. These physical characteristics of a user can include physical attributes of the user (e.g., the user's height, length of the user's legs) and/or physical skills of the user (e.g., how high the user can jump). Based on these detected one or more physical characteristics of the users, two or more of the multiple users to share an online experience (e.g., play a multi-player game) are identified.

Physical characteristics based user identification for matchmaking

In a motion capture system, a unitary input is provided to an application based on detected movement and/or location of a group of people. Audio information from the group can also be used as an input. The application can provide real-time feedback to the person or group via a display and audio output. The group can control the movement of an avatar in a virtual space based on the movement of each person in the group, such as in a steering or balancing game. To avoid a discontinuous or confusing output by the application, missing data can be generated for a person who is occluded or partially out of the field of view. A wait time can be set for activating a new person and deactivating a currently-active person. The wait time can be adaptive based on a first detected position or a last detected position of the person.

Tracking groups of users in motion capture system

In accordance with one or more aspects, for a particular user one or more other users associated with that particular user are identified based on a social graph of that particular user. An avatar of at least one of the other users is obtained and included as a non-player-character in a game being played by that particular user. The particular user can provide requests to interact with the avatar of the second user (e.g., calling out the name of the second user, tapping the avatar of the second user on the shoulder, etc.), these requests being invitations for the second user to join in a game with the first user. An indication of such an invitation is presented to the second user, which can, for example, accept the invitation to join in a game with the first user.

Avatars of friends as non-player-characters

A method of matching a player of a multi-player game with a remote participant includes recognizing the player, automatically identifying an observer within a threshold proximity to the player, using an identity of the observer to find one or more candidates to play as the remote participant of the multi-player game, and when selecting the remote participant, choosing a candidate from the one or more candidates above a non-candidate if the candidate satisfies a matching criteria.

Automated sensor driven match-making

Techniques for enhancing the use of a motion capture system are provided. A motion capture system tracks movement and audio inputs from a person in a physical space, and provides the inputs to an application, which displays a virtual space on a display. Bodily movements can be used to define traits of an avatar in the virtual space. The person can be directed to perform the movements by a coaching avatar, or visual or audio cues in the virtual space. The application can respond to the detected movements and voice commands or voice volume of the person to define avatar traits and initiate pre-scripted audio-visual events in the virtual space to provide an entertaining experience. A performance in the virtual space can be captured and played back with automatic modifications, such as alterations to the avatar's voice or appearance, or modifications made by another person.

Directed performance in motion capture system

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