Blackberry Corporation

Karl-Anders Johansson

Dan Zacharias Gärdenfors

Leif Fredrik Ademar

Jason Tyler Griffin

Mihal Lazaridis

Alistair Robert Hamilton

Mathias Lewin

Michael Erik Winberg

Emil Wasberger

James Haliburton

Dan Gärdenfors

The system comprises the ability to detect certain gestures made by sliding a finger or stylus on a touch sensitive screen on a handheld device, even when a so called 'screen lock' is active where the gesture is used to unlock the device and trigger the desired function associates with the gesture.

Method for application launch and system function invocation

Displaying information related to a message on a display screen of a handheld electronic device. In response to a movement of the handheld electronic device from an initial position to a first orientation, displaying on the display screen a first notice related to the message.

Handheld device with notification message viewing

Disclosed are methods and systems for generating display pixel data so as to reduce latency when rendering a representation of a graphic on a display, such as for augmented-reality applications. The method comprises: receiving a set of display pixel coordinate-pairs at the graphics processing unit; applying a transform matrix to the set of display pixel coordinate-pairs to obtain a set of graphic pixel coordinate-pairs, the transform matrix calculated using orientation data received from an external reference; retrieving a set of graphic pixel data associated with the set of graphic pixel coordinate-pairs; and, determining a set of display pixel data based on the retrieved set of graphic pixel data.

Reducing latency in an augmented-reality display

A computer implemented method performed by an electronic device connected to a plurality of other devices. The electronic device comprises a display and an input device for receiving user input. The method comprises receiving a predefined user input at the electronic device, causing the display of information at the plurality of connected devices in response to receiving the predefined user input, and preventing the plurality of connected devices from causing the information to not be displayed.

Method and apparatus for interconnected devices

A computer device with a sensor subsystem for detecting off-surface objects, that carries out continued processing of the position and shape of objects detected in the vicinity of the device, associates these positions and shapes with predetermined gesture states, determines if the object is transitioning between gesture states and provides feedback based on the determined transition between the gesture states.

System and method for gesture detection and feedback

A computer implemented method includes, at an electronic device having an input interface and a display, receiving information relating to a current relative location of at least one other electronic device, displaying on the display a representation of the at least one other electronic device and its relative location, and receiving at the input interface user input associated with the displayed representation of the at least one other electronic device for communicating with the at least one other electronic device. The electronic device has up-to-date knowledge of the relative position of the at least one other device and displays this visually. Information may be sent to the at least one other electronic device in response to receiving the user input associated with the displayed representation of the at least one other electronic device.

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Staffanstorp, Sweden

Karl-Anders Johansson