E Ink Corporation

Bose Corporation

Irobot Corporation

Gregg Michael Duthaler

Guy Danner

Robert Waverly Zehner

Karl Raymond Amundson

Charles Howie Honeyman

Steven J O'Neil

Alberto Goenaga

Ara N Knaian

Jonathan D Albert

Benjamin M Davis

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Thomas Henry Whitesides

Peter T Kazlas

Michael D McCreary

Michael L Steiner

Andrew P Ritenour

Jianna Wang

John E Ritter

Richard J Paolini, Jr

Shamus Ford Patry

Anthony Edward Pullen

Andrew L Loxley

Ian D Morrison

Michael William Elliot

Debasmit Banerjee

David Darrell Miller

Barrett Comiskey

Holly G Gates

Richard M Webber

John Edward Cronin

Joseph M Jacobson

Bin Wu

Russell J Wilcox

Barrett O Comiskey

Glen Crossley

Richard D LeCain

Randolph W Chan

Yu Chen

Kevin L Denis

Seungman Sohn

Justin J Abramson

Matthew Christopher Smith

Trevor Irving Lai

Michael Malone

Nathan R Kane

Harit Doshi

Simon Pang

Mavyn M Holman

Libing Zhang

Lan Cao

Jonathan L Zalesky

Michael D Walls

Charles Howard Honeyman

Matthew A King

Katharine Geramita

Vincent Edward Colella

James P Araujo

Alain Bouchard

Emily J Pratt

Eva Chen

John Atkinson

Caprice L Gray

Thomas H Whitesides

Katherine Geramita

Jason C Pinto

Guy M Danner

Benjamin Max Davis

David Miller

James Araujo

A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot includes receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, where the privacy mode setting is based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode. An image stream of an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot is permitted in an absence of a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings. At least a portion of the image stream is restricted or disabled based at least in part on a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings.

Systems and methods for privacy management in an autonomous mobile robot

A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, where the privacy mode setting is based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode. An image stream of an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot is permitted in an absence of a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings. At least a portion of the image stream is restricted or disabled based at least in part on a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings.

The invention provides an electrophoretic medium comprising at least two types of particles having substantially the same electrophoretic mobility but differing colors. The invention also provides article of manufacture comprising a layer of a solid electro-optic medium, a first adhesive layer on one surface of the electro-optic medium, a release sheet covering the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer on an opposed second surface of the electro-optic medium.

Method of forming an electrophoretic display having a color filter array

Various aspects include systems and approaches for providing audio performance capabilities with one or more far field microphones. One aspect includes a method of controlling a speaker system with at least one far field microphone that is coupled with a separate display device. The method can include: receiving a user command to initiate an audio performance mode; initiating audio playback of an audio performance file at a transducer at the speaker system; initiating video playback including musical performance guidance associated with the audio performance file at the display device; receiving a user generated acoustic signal at the at least one far field microphone after initiating the audio playback and the video playback; comparing the user generated acoustic signal with a reference acoustic signal; and providing feedback about the comparison to the user.

Audio performance with far field microphone

A front plane laminate useful in the manufacture of electro-optic displays comprises, in order, a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer, a layer of an electro-optic medium in electrical contact with the electrically-conductive layer, an adhesive layer and a release sheet. This front plane laminate can be prepared as a continuous web, cut to size, the release sheet removed and the laminate laminated to a backplane to form a display. Methods for providing conductive vias through the electro-optic medium and for testing the front plane laminate are also described.

Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays

A method for dynamically changing the master audio playback device of a set that includes at least two audio playback devices, wherein one audio playback device of the set is a set master audio playback device that controls the play of audio data by at least one other slave audio playback device of the set. A first slave audio playback device receives its selection as a new recipient of audio data and, in response, the first slave audio playback device is designated as a new set master audio playback device and the set master audio playback device is designated as a new slave audio playback device. The new set master audio playback device controls the play of audio by the new slave audio playback device.

Dynamically changing master audio playback device

Electro-optic displays

Various types of edge seals for protecting electro-optic displays against environmental contaminants are described. In one type of seal, the electro-optic layer is sandwiched between a backplane and a protective sheet and a sealing material extends between the backplane and the protective sheet. In other seals, the protective sheet is secured to the backplane or to a second protective sheet adjacent the backplane. The electro-optic layer can also be sealed between two layers of adhesive or between one layer of adhesive and the backplane. Other seals make use of flexible tapes extending around the periphery of the display.

Electro-optic display with edge seal

A backplane for an electro-optic display comprising pixels with reduced capacitance. The pixel architecture results in a backplane with some voltage spiking, but well-suited for use with electro-optic media having at least a small threshold for switching, for example, electrophoretic media comprising particles.

Backplane for electro-optic display

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Needham, MA, United States of America

Gregg Michael Duthaler