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Stiehl Technologies, LLC

Stiehl, Kurt R.

Stiehl, James Bowen

Kurt R Stiehl

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Cameron P Frazier

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Yacine Azmi

Benjamin A Cousins

Paul Choiniere

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Scott W Slabaugh

Christopher D Prest

Michelle Yu

Michael B Howes

Wilhelmus M C Crooijmans

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jahan C Minoo

Robert D Watson

Jerzy S Guterman

Esge Brandt Andersen

Augustin Prats

Wey-Jiun Lin

David John Shaw

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Zachary C Rich

Axel Dominique Berny

Benjamin W Cook

Aarti Kumar

Christopher P Child

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Jeffrey Y Hayashida

Clarisse Mazuir

Edward Siahaan

Lee M Panecki

Xiaofeng Tang

Scott A Myers

Emery Artemus Sanford

Mathias W Schmidt

Donald Joseph Novotney

Benjamin B Lyon

Craig Matthew Stanley

Birju N Shah

James Bowen Stiehl

James J Reuther

Richard P Howarth

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jeremy D Bataillou

Eric Steven Jol

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Christopher S Graham

Daniel C Wagman

Trent Weber

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Melody L Kuna

Daniel Max Strongwater

Tyson Benner Manullang

Stanley Rabu

Shannon X Yang

Kirk M Mayer

Wim Crooijmans

Siddhartha Hegde

Christopher J Walton

Marcus Albonico

Robert Steinfeld

Ian Davison

Ramachandran Chundru

Athena Yeh Huang

Ida Y Lo

Craig Lim

Bryce E Wallis

Julian Hoenig

Stephen Brian Lynch

Stephen Paul Zadesky

John Benjamin Filson

Arian Behzadi

Phillip Michael Hobson

Albert John Golko

Jean-Pierre M Mouilleseaux

Rong Liu

Michael J Webb

Karlin Y Bark

Daniel K Boothe

Romain A Teil

Ryan Joseph Garrone

Ian P Colahan

Osamu Yabe

Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva

William A Bredall

Yu P Sun

Eric Weijia Wang

Daniel De Rocha Rosario

Samuel B Schaevitz

Karen Y Cheng

Andrew W Kooker

Jeffrey A Sewell

Stuart J Wood

Greg Dunham

Michael C Wharton

Matthew J Allen

Yong Seok Choi

Gregory D Dunham

Brian Wark

A method includes displaying a dynamic graphical element in a first state and graphical content in a second state. While displaying the graphical content in the second state, the graphical content is displayed in the second state and the dynamic graphical element is displayed in a third state, where the third state is different from the first state, and the third state is based on detected motion.

Methods and user interfaces based on motion

A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Wireless earphone

A vehicle may have a vehicle body and one or more movable sensors mounted to the body. A movable sensor may be rotated, linearly translated, or otherwise moved between multiple positions in response to location information, driving mode information, vehicle speed, and/or other information. The movable sensor may be moved to track objects, to provide pedestrians and others with visual feedback, to allow the sensor to gather desired sensor information to support driver assistance and autonomous driving operations, to place the sensor in a stowed position, and to perform other functions. The movable sensor may be protected with a movable cover. A cleaner may clean the sensor. The sensor may be a radar sensor, lidar sensor, camera, or other sensor. Information from the sensor may be used to detect roadway obstructions, to detect objects near the vehicle, to monitor pedestrians, and to monitor other conditions.

Systems with sensor deployment mechanisms

A system may have an exterior display. The exterior display may display symbols that correspond to intended actions for the system or instructions for nearby viewers. The exterior display may include an array of light-emitting diodes, a collimator, a one-way filter to prevent sunlight from washing out the display, and a cover layer. The one-way filter may include a microlens array and a masking layer. The collimator is configured to collimate light from the array of light-emitting diodes and provide the collimated light to the one-way filter. The microlens array receives the collimated light and focuses the collimated light through a plurality of holes in the masking layer. In this way, the majority of display light is passed through the one-way filter towards a viewer. However, the majority of ambient sunlight is blocked by the masking layer, thus preserving a high contrast for the exterior display even in bright sunlight.

System with one-way filter over light-emitting elements

A transit request is initiated, which requests dispatch of a vehicle to a location of the electronic device. Information, including authentication information, is received and a communication channel is established with the vehicle.

User-to-vehicle interaction

A support surface includes a table top, moving portions, base portions, and sensors. The moving portions are configured to move the table top in multiple degrees of freedom. Each moving portion is configured to move the table top in a degree of freedom and prevent movement of the table top in other degrees of freedom. The base portions are coupled to the moving portions and are configured to support the moving portions. The sensors are configured to receive a user input and communicate the user input to the moving portions so that the moving portions move the table top based upon the user input.

Movable support surfaces

A system may have lights produce illumination. A light may be provided with a collimated light source that produces collimated light. The collimated light source may use lenses or reflective optical elements to produce the collimated light. The light may have an array of light elements each of which emits a respective beam of the illumination. Each light element may have a preshaping lens that receives the collimated light and produces corresponding preshaped output light and an output lens that receives the output light from the preshaping lens and produces a corresponding beam of the illumination. An electrically adjustable shutter may be located between each preshaping lens and output lens to adjust the illumination between a low-beam pattern and high-beam pattern.

Lights with microlens arrays

A vehicle may have lights such as headlights. The lights may be moved using a positioner. Control circuitry in the vehicle may use sensor circuitry to monitor the environment surrounding the vehicle. The sensor circuitry may include one or more sensors such as a lidar sensor, radar sensor, image sensor, and/or other sensors to measure the shape of a surface in front of the vehicle and the location of the surface relative to the vehicle. These sensors and/or other sensors in the sensor circuitry also measure headlight illumination on the surface. Based on the known shape of the surface in front of the vehicle and the distance of the surface from the vehicle, the control circuitry can predict where a headlight should be aimed on the surface. By comparing predictions of headlight illumination on the surface to measurements of headlight illumination on the surface, the vehicle can determine how to move the headlight with the positioner to align the headlight.

Vehicles with automatic headlight alignment

A controller may have an input device and a sensor adjacent to the input device. The input device may be a touch sensor, a touch screen display, a button, a rotatable knob, or other device that gathers user input. The input device may be reachable by different users occupying different respective seats. The sensor may be an infrared optical sensor that emits infrared light and measures the emitted infrared light after the emitted infrared light has reflected from the hand of a user. The sensor may determine from these hand measurements which of the different users is supplying user input to the input device. Hand distance information and other information on the current user of the input device may also be gathered. The input device may be deployed by an actuator based on hand speed information.

Systems with deployable controllers and user identification

An earbud includes a housing that includes a driver assembly positioned within the housing forming a front volume in front of the driver and a back volume behind the driver. An acoustic insert is positioned behind the driver assembly and attached to an interior surface of the housing such that it forms a bass channel that is routed from the back volume to a vent in the housing.

Portable listening device with sensors

A system may have lights. A light may include a first light source and a first reflector configured to provide lighting for a high-beam mode and for a low-beam mode. The light may include a second light source and a second reflector configured to provide lighting for a cornering light mode. The lighting provided by the first light source and the lighting provided by the second light source may pass through the same headlight lens aperture. A light blocking structure may provide a cutoff pattern that define the illumination pattern of the low-beam lighting and the cornering lighting. One or more additional light sources may be provided to boost the intensity of a hot spot for high-beam lighting.

Multi-mode lights

In some exemplary processes for accessing a vehicle, a transit request is initiated. The transit request summons a vehicle towards a location of a user device. Information generated in response to the transit request is received. The information includes first authentication information and second authentication information. Third authentication information from the vehicle is received using a first wireless communication protocol. A determination is made as to whether the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information. In accordance with determining that the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information, a wireless communication connection is established with the vehicle using a second wireless communication protocol and the second authentication information. The second wireless communication protocol is different from the first wireless communication protocol. Using the second wireless communication protocol, instructions to unlock a cabin of the vehicle are sent.

Portable listening device with accelerometer

A support surface includes a table top, a movement stage, a movement actuator, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The movement stage is coupled to the table top and configured to couple to a structure. The movement stage is further configured to permit the table top to move in a degree of freedom. The movement actuator is operable to move the table top in the degree of freedom. The first sensor is for receiving a first user input. The second sensor is for receiving a second user input. The controller operates the movement actuator to move the table top according to the first user input received by the first sensor when the second user input is simultaneously received by the second sensor.

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Kurt R Stiehl