Roku, Inc.

Carl Sassenrath

Greg Garner

Anthony John Wood

Scott Edward De Haas

Lloyd Albert Klarke

Tito Thomas

Gregory Mack Garner

David Stern

Patrick Alan Brouillette

Frank Maker

Soren Riise

Abhay Bhorkar

Lloyd Klarke

Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for generating a long exposure composite image (LECI) frame, wherein the LECI frame provides a summary of activity in a monitored environment over a duration of time. An embodiment captures, using an image-capturing device, a sequence of image frames over the duration of time using an optical sensor of the image-capturing device. The embodiment then generates the LECI frame, using an embedded low-power processor coupled to the optical sensor and dedicated to generating LECI frames, by combining the sequence of image frames. The embodiment then transmits the LECI frame to a network device using a transceiver coupled to the low-power processor.

Camera time-based motion trails and motion heat-maps for periodic captured images

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for remotely controlling a media device. An embodiment includes an apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) communications chip, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the RF communications chip and the memory. The at least one processor is configured to receive an electronic signal indicative of a user command and generate, based on the electronic signal, an action frame packet configured to instruct a media device to perform a function associated with the user command. Subsequently, the at least one processor is configured to transmit, using the RF communications chip, the action frame packet to the media device.

Radio frequency remote control

A method and system to facilitate adding a new IoT device to an IoT ecosystem that includes an existing IoT device, where a mobile device is configured to control the IoT ecosystem. In an example, the new device detects a wireless broadcast from the existing device that provides identification information of the mobile device. In response, the new device then uses the provided identification information of the mobile device as a basis to scan for and discover wireless presence of the mobile device. And responsive to the discovering wireless presence of the mobile device based on the mobile-phone identification information provided by the existing device, the new device then transmits to the mobile device, via the existing device as a wireless proxy, new-device information about the new device—which enables the mobile device to prompt for and obtain user approval to add the new device to the IoT ecosystem.

Reverse wireless discovery for adding an IoT device to an IoT ecosystem

A streaming media device includes a printed circuit board hosting components configured to access internet data. An audio/visual connector is linked to the printed circuit board, wherein the audio/visual connector is adapted for connection to an audio/visual device, wherein the audio/visual connector is adapted to operate with a first audio/visual interface having sufficient power to fully operate the printed circuit board and a second audio/visual interface having insufficient power to fully operate the printed circuit board. A power connector is linked to the printed circuit board, wherein the power connector selectively receives power based on the audio/visual connector utilizing one of the first audio/visual interface and the second audio/visual interface.

Multi-interface streaming media system

A method and system for controlling response to a voice-command utterance. An example method includes a computing system that is associated with the first device carrying out operations upon the first device receiving the voice-command utterance. The operations include (a) making a determination of whether any of one or more second devices received the voice-command utterance before the first device received the voice-command utterance and (b) controlling whether the computing system will trigger an action in response to the first device receiving the voice-command utterance, with the controlling being based on the determination of whether any of the one or more second devices received the voice-command utterance before the first device received the voice-command utterance. In an example implementation, the action could be controlling operation of a control target such as one or more lights.

Use of relative time of receipt of voice command as basis to control response to voice command

Described herein are various embodiments for customized device pairing based on device features. An embodiment operates by receiving, at a first device, a pairing message from a second device requesting a pairing between the second device and the first device. User-accessible features of the second device that are accessible for the pairing, are determined, and a sequence of actions for the pairing are generated based on the user-accessible features of the second device. The sequence of actions are provided for display on a display device communicatively coupled to the first device and independent of the second device. Indicia indicating which actions were performed with respect to the second device are received. The indicia is compared to the displayed sequence of actions. The first device is paired with the second device based on a determination that the indicia corresponds to the displayed sequences of actions.

Customized device pairing based on device features

A method and system to facilitate adding a new IoT device to an IoT ecosystem that includes an existing IoT device, where a mobile device is configured to control the IoT ecosystem. In an example, the new device detects a wireless broadcast from the existing device that provides identification information of the mobile device. In response, the new device then uses the provided identification information of the mobile device as a basis to scan for and discover wireless presence of the mobile device. And responsive to the discovering wireless presence of the mobile device based on the mobile-phone identification information provided by the existing device, the new device then transmits to the mobile device, via the existing device as a wireless proxy, new-device information about the new device&#x2014;which enables the mobile device to prompt for and obtain user approval to add the new device to the IoT ecosystem.

Disclosed herein is an electronic device that includes a plurality of user accessible control buttons, a memory module, and at least one processor coupled to the memory module. The electronic device is to be paired with another electronic device. The processor is configured to: generate a pairing message comprising information that specifies a configuration and capabilities of the electronic device, wherein the information lists the user accessible buttons; monitor user actions resulting from performing a sequence that is displayed on a display device, wherein the sequence was generated by the another electronic device in response to receiving the pairing message and based on the information in the pairing message, such that the sequence contains actions that can be performed using the electronic device; and broadcast indicia specifying the monitored user actions, wherein the another electronic device receives the indicia and determines that the monitored user actions match the sequence and, in response, pairs with the electronic device.

More secure device pairing

A streaming media device includes a printed circuit board hosting components configured for streaming media from the internet. A connector is linked to the printed circuit board and adapted for a direct physical engagement with externally accessible matching leads of a television such that the streaming media device is directly coupled onto the television. A housing encloses the printed circuit board and a portion of the connector.

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Ukiah, CA, United States of America

Carl Sassenrath