Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Jonathan Bernard Lester

Raja Bose

Sidhant Gupta

Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan

Paramvir Bahl

Jörg Brakensiek

Jingxian Wang

Desney S Tan

Shwetak N Patel

Nicolas Villar

Kazuhito Koishida

Gregory Ray Smith

Daniel Morris

Sumit Basu

Matthew David Mickelson

T Scott Saponas

Bhret Robert Graydon

Christina Summer Chen

Keun-Young Park

Ruchita Bhargava

Gabriel Adam Cohn

Jorg Brakensiek

Sailaja Malladi

Ronald E Paulsen

Jeremiah Wander

Michelle Lynn Holtmann

Hiroshi Horii

Jessica De Souza

Lauren Akemi Hamamoto Donegan Ryan

Scott T Saponas

The devices and methods leverage harmonics to resolve, separate, and identify devices. The devices and methods use the harmonic patterns associated with a frequency modulating (FM) signal to discern and extract information from the FM signal using correlation learning in a crowded spectrum space where the nodes are transmitting simultaneously on multiple channels. The methods and devices leverage harmonics to resolve, separate, and/or identify wireless communication devices.

Harmonic-enhanced identification (ID) and device resolution for frequency modulating communication

A photoplethysmogram device is provided comprising a light source configured to emit light to illuminate skin, a photo-detector configured to receive the light illuminating the skin and generate an electrical output as a function of an intensity of the received light, a skin temperature regulator configured to heat and/or cool a temperature of the skin adjacent to the photo-detector and light source to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the electrical output from the photo-detector, and a processor configured to generate, based on the electrical output, an output signal indicative of blood properties, including physiological parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, blood vessel elasticity, and arterial oxygen saturation.

Photoplethysmogram device with skin temperature regulator

Mobile devices provide a variety of techniques for presenting messages from sources to a user. However, when the message pertains to the presence of the user at a location, the available communications techniques may exhibit deficiencies, e.g., reliance on the memory of the source and/or user of the existence and content of a message between its initiation and the user's visit to the location, or reliance on the communication accessibility of the user, the device, and/or the source during the user's location visit. Presented herein are techniques for enabling a mobile device, at a first time, to receive a request to present an audio message during the presence of the user at a location; and, at a second time, detecting the presence of the user at the location, and presenting the audio message to the user, optionally without awaiting a request from the user to present the message.

Location-based audio messaging

A printed circuit board is provided. The printed circuit board includes a flexible region. The flexible region includes a first copper layer, a first dielectric layer, a second copper layer, an adhesive layer, and a first metal layer, in the order listed. The first metal layer includes a metal film having a tensile strength greater than the first and second copper layers and greater than the dielectric layer.

Metal layering construction in flex/rigid-flex printed circuits

A wearable radio frequency receiver device is provided, which includes a receiver antenna configured to receive an interrogation signal from a transmitter. The receiver device further includes a sensor coupled to the receiver antenna and configured to receive a physiological input from a user wearing the device and generate a sensor signal based on the physiological input, and a modulator configured to perform direct modulation on the received interrogation signal based on the sensor signal to encode the physiological input in the directly modulated interrogation signal. The receiver antenna may be configured to reflect at least a portion of the directly modulated interrogation signal as backscatter radiation. A transceiver including a transceiver antenna may be provided to receive the directly modulated interrogation signal, and the modulation receiver may be configured to process the directly modulated interrogation signal and output a decoded physiological input.

Direct frequency modulating radio-frequency sensors

A wrist-worn pressure sensing device includes a pressure sensor. The wrist-worn pressure sensing device also includes a first strap that sets the position of the pressure sensor on a wearer's wrist and a second strap that engages with the first strap to adjust the overall length of the strap without moving the set position of the pressure sensor on the wearer's wrist.

Sizable wrist-worn pressure sensing device

Golf swing aid

An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described below that can provide and/or detect dynamic fiducial markers presented on a display of an apparatus. An apparatus providing the fiducial marker may initially provide for the presentation of the fiducial marker on a display, where the fiducial marker represents one or more properties of the apparatus, such as connectivity information for the apparatus. The apparatus may modify the presentation of the fiducial marker based on a change in one or more properties of the apparatus. An apparatus configured to detect dynamic fiducial markers provided on other device displays may also be configured to provide for the presentation of its own fiducial markers, and vice versa. Thus, in some cases, apparatuses may function as both a tangible user interface display and a tangible object (e.g., in a bi-directional communication scenario).

Apparatus and method for providing dynamic fiducial markers for devices

An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that can detect the presence of a tangible object without using computer vision. The apparatus receives a signal from a device proximate the apparatus, where the signal includes at least one of a proximity component and an orientation component, and also receives a touch input from the associated display. The apparatus then determines whether there is an association between the signal and the touch input based on the proximity component and/or the orientation component. If the signal and the touch input are associated, it is an indication that the device is disposed on the display, operations may be executed, such as to facilitate interaction between the apparatus and the device. As a result, any object capable of providing a signal having a proximity component or an orientation component can be detected (e.g., without the use of cameras or fiducial markers).

Method and apparatus for determining the presence of a device for executing operations

An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that determine a position of a touch component of a user input received outside a touch sensitive area of a touch surface by correlating a position of the force component and a position of a touch component of a portion of the user input received within the touch sensitive area with a position of the force component of a portion of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area. In this way, the position of a touch component of the user input received outside the touch sensitive area, where the touch surface is not capable via hardware to detect the position of the touch component, may be determined, and operations may be executed based on the position of the touch component that is determined.

Apparatus and method for determining the position of user input

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Jonathan Bernard Lester