Contour IP Holding, LLC

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Contour, LLC

Margaret Novotny

David Randall Knaub

Laura O'Donnell

Chunshik Kim

David Thorpe

Felix Ballerstedt

Oved Valadez

Marc Barros

Jason Green

Peter Kettenring

Jeff Howard

Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

Jeffery David Howard

Andrew Donald Gordon

Thore Graepel

Christopher E Miles

William Wagner

Claudio Vittorio Russo

Andrew D Gordon

Yelisaveta Pesenson

Aryn Shelander

Sheena Stevens

Jacob Miller

Claudio Russo

An integrated hands-free, point of view, action-sports, digital video camera (or camcorder) () includes: a rotary horizon adjustment controller () for adjusting the orientation of a horizontal image plane () recorded by an image sensor with respect to the orientation of a camera housing (); a laser alignment system with laser sources () capable of projecting light to define a horizontal projection axis () that is coordinated with orientation of the horizontal image plane (); a manually operable switch (), which covers a microphone () whenever the switch () is in the OFF position, for controlling video data capture; and a 'quick-release' mounting system () that retains a desired orientation of the camera ().

Image orientation control for a portable digital video camera

Systems and methods for inferring user traits based on indirect questions. Indirect questions may be generated based on one or more triggers. The answers to the indirect questions provide cues to a system as to whether a user has one or more attributes associated with a trait. This information may be used to personalize a computing device.

Inferring cues for use with digital assistant

Personalized services often utilize individual profiles, such as social network profiles, product purchase histories, or browsing histories. However, personalization may exhibit or imply a familiarity level between the service and the individual that is beyond the individual's comfort level. Presented herein are techniques for adapting personalized services to request supplemental individual information only within a current familiarity stage that has been established by the individual with the service, and only to provide a requested usage of a service. Such solicitation may inform the individual of the intended usage of the requested information. Usages that may involve more sensitive information may be predicated upon requesting and receiving individual consent from the individual to advance to a higher familiarity stage. The user may be permitted to provide individual consent to advancing to a higher familiarity stage only for a particular service, and/or only temporarily for a particular usage of the service.

Service personalization with familiarity sensitivity

Control switch for a portable digital video camera

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Margaret Novotny