Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

George Standish

Nigil George Valikodath

Scott DeBates

Christian Flowers

Nathan M Connell

Joseph Vincent Nasti

Jared S Suttles

Joseph H Swantek

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Douglas Alfred Lautner

Parikshit Dharawat

John W Kaehler

Haitang Wang

An electronic device includes a flexible display. A device housing provides a translation surface for the flexible display. A rotor positioned within a curvilinear section of the flexible display rotates with translation of the flexible display across the translation surface. The rotor can be a rechargeable electrochemical cell, can be a rechargeable electrochemical cell situated within a sheath, or can be positioned within a housing defining an outer surface of the rotor to save space within the electronic device.

Sliding electronic devices with translating flexible displays and electrochemical cell rollers

An electronic device includes a device housing. A monorail having a monorail body defining a first end and a second end separated from the first end along a major axis of the monorail body is mechanically coupled to a minor face of the device housing by a bridge member. A first electrical connector is positioned at the first end of the monorail body, while a second electrical connector positioned at the second end of the monorail body. The first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are of the same type. An attachment having a housing defining a monorail receiver with an aperture at a first end and a bounding wall at a second end includes an electrical connector situated within the monorail receiver at the bounding wall. The attachment can be coupled in two configurations to the monorail.

Electronic device with reversible railed attachment connector system

Systems and methods for user exhalation and environmental air analysis are implemented in an integrated or dockable analysis architecture including an opening adjacent a device microphone to admit an exhalation of a user while the user is speaking. In an embodiment, the opening leads to a passageway having at least one gas sensor therein, located such that a user exhalation entering the opening will impinge on the at least one gas sensor. A processor is linked to the gas sensor, and is configured to receive sensor signals from the gas sensor and generate biological information for the user.

Mobile device with VOC monitoring of user breath and environment

One disclosed method includes generating a rule set by an application running on a primary processor. The rule set specifies how the application handles events. The rule set is sent from the primary processor to a secondary processor and the primary processor is placed in sleep mode. The secondary processor may then handle at least one event corresponding to the application by executing the rule set while the primary processor is in sleep mode. In one embodiment, handling the event may include substituting for the application by the secondary processor by executing the rule set, and controlling a peripheral hardware device that is peripheral to the primary processor according to the rule set. Handling an event may also include waking the primary processor from sleep mode by the secondary processor and passing control back to the primary processor.

Apparatus and method for passing event handling control from a primary processor to a secondary processor during sleep mode

One disclosed method includes communicating with a kernel running on a primary processor, by a second processor, in response to detection of a state change; performing a hardware operation, in response to the state change, using the kernel without waking user space on the primary processor, where the user space remains suspended; and resuming a sleep mode of the primary processor by suspending the kernel after the hardware operation is completed. One example of a hardware operation is modification of display data on a touchscreen display. The method of operation may perform the hardware operation using the kernel without waking hardware drivers other than a hardware driver related to the hardware operation.

Apparatus and method for awakening a primary processor out of sleep mode

In embodiments of display co-processing, a computing device includes a display, a full-power processor, and a low-power processor that can alter visual content presented by the display without utilizing the full-power processor. The low-power processor can, responsive to a request from the full-power processor, generate additional display data to update display data stored in a frame-buffer of the display. The low-power processor can then transmit the additional display data to the frame-buffer effective to alter at least a portion of the visual content presented by the display. In some embodiments, the additional display data is transmitted via a protocol converter that forwards the display data to the display using a display-specific communication protocol.

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George Standish