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Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Trimble Navigation Limted

Jason Evans Goulden

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Rochus Emanuel Jacob

William Raeming Dong

Nicholas Unger Webb

Adam Scott Kilgore

Hae Rim Jeong

Minjung Kim

Mark Kraz

Oliver Maximilian Mueller

Kevin Edward Booth

Tyler Scott Wilson

Jacobi Colton Grillo

Étienne Bérubé

Jeffrey Law

Shih Ming Tsung

Amber Luttmann Volmering

Mi Zhou

Gregory Daniel Louis Germe

Francois Rybarczyk

Poll Shih

Jeffrey Alan Boyd

Rafat E Mehdi

Michael D Dixon

James Edward Stewart

Rajeev Conrad Nongpiur

Seungho Yang

Christopher Charles Burns

Rengarajan Aravamudhan

Yu-An Lien

Sahana Mysore

Sayed Yusef Shafi

Dietrich Ho

Jason Rundle Rukes

Shelomon Patrick Doblack

Rochus Emmanuel Jacob

Daniel Patrick Foran

Guangxun Liao

Benjamin Zachary Niewood

Manuel Rinley Deeds, Iii

Michael Joseph Solomon

Samuel W Kortz

Charles Calvin Byers

Christopher Green

Scott P Mullins

Brian Jonathan Conner

Matthew Michael Seflic

Babak Radi

David A Pearson

William James Carter-Giannini

Jeffrey Hui-Kwun Law

Henry Tomas Juskevicius

Arun Prakash Raghupathy

Robert M Khamashta

Colter Earl Cederlof

Cheng-Jung Lee

Daniel David Hershey

Haerim Jeong

Hsueh Jang Su

William Rodgers Wylde

Emma Feshbach

Doorbell

The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image sensor; and (b) an outer section between the housing and the inner section, the outer section having a concave shape that extends from an outer periphery of the outer section to an inner periphery of the outer section; and where the concave shape extends around an entirety of the outer periphery.

Camera assembly with concave-shaped front face

The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor encased in the housing and configured to capture activity of the smart home environment; (3) a wireless radio configured to transmit video frames captured by the image sensor to an electronic device via a remote server; (4) at least one infrared transmitter configured to selectively illuminate the smart home environment; (5) one or more circuit boards encased in the housing, the one or more circuit boards including at least one processor mounted thereon; and (6) a heating component coupled to the image sensor, the heating component configured to continuously maintain the image sensor at a temperature above a threshold temperature while the image sensor is capturing the activity of the smart home environment.

Outdoor camera assembly

A method of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including determining that a visitor is approaching an entryway of the smart home environment; initiating a facial recognition operation while the visitor is approaching the entryway; initiating an observation window in response to the determination that a visitor is approaching the entryway; obtaining context information from one or more sensors of the smart home environment during the observation window; and at the end of the time window, initiating a response to the detected approach of the visitor based on the context information and/or an outcome of the facial recognition operation.

Systems and methods of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

Camera

This application is directed to a surveillance camera system including a magnet mount for physically receiving a camera module. The camera module includes a housing having an exterior surface of a first shape. A surface of the magnet mount has a second shape that is substantially concave and complementary to the first shape, and is configured to engage the exterior surface of the housing of the camera module. A magnetic material is disposed inside the magnet mount and configured to magnetically couple to a magnetic material of the camera module. A friction pad is embedded on the surface of the magnet mount, has a substantially concave shape and protrudes beyond the second surface. The friction pad is configured to come into contact with the exterior surface of the housing of the camera module at least via a peripheral edge of the substantially concave friction pad.

Camera assembly with waterproof features

Techniques are described for injection molding. When material inside a cavity of a tool is solidified into a molded part, the tool imparts a finished surface onto the part, including sidewalls with a zero or low-draft angle. To allow separation from the cavity without using sleeves or sliders, the cavity is widened, just prior to the part being ejected. The tool is made from metal with a high coefficient of thermal expansion, so the size of the cavity can be manipulated using temperature control. Heat applied to an outer portion of the metal surrounding the cavity pulls the metal away from the part creating an air gap within the cavity. Carefully applied cooling to an inner portion of the metal blocks the heat and keeps the surface temperature under control, which preserves the finished surface on the part. When the air gap allows, the part releases from the cavity with the finished surface intact.

Injection molding systems and methods

The various implementations described herein include a camera device that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; (3) at least one infrared (IR) illuminator positioned with the housing, the IR illuminator configured to selectively illuminate the scene; and (4) a front face that is at least partially concave-shaped and coupled to the housing, the front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor, and the front face positioned in front of the IR illuminator such that IR light from the IR illuminator is directed through the front face.

A method of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including detecting a visitor of the smart home environment; obtaining context information from the smart home environment regarding the visitor; based on the context information, identifying a plurality of appropriate actions available to a user of a client device for interacting with the visitor via the electronic greeting system; and causing the identified actions to be presented to the user of the client device.

Systems and methods of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Jason Evans Goulden