Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Martin Peter Aalund

Jon Stuart Battles

Jayson Michael Jochim

Timothy Alan Talda

Toby Ge Xu

Samuel Gardner Garrett

David Bruce McCalib, Jr

Benjamin Douglas Garcia

Yan Yan

Arivazhagan Chandrashekaran

Vahideh Kamranzadeh

Jon David DeFant

Dinesh Mahadevan

Jeremiah David Brazeau

Rahul Gupta

Gregory Karl Lisso

James Merton Tidman

Kevin Charles Flick

Ryan Scott Russell

William Scott Kalm

Sydney Tye Minnis

David Henry Clark

Brian Hoffman

David L Alspaugh

Ned Lecky

Akshay Rajendra Tilekar

Kaushik Mani

Ali Alex Moayer

Tak Keung Joseph Lui

Jeetendra G Mirchandani

Seshachalamgupta Motamarri

Paul Roy Raines, Jr

Hung-Bing Tan

Pierre Della Nave

Sudarshan Rangaraj

Oszkar Tiberius Bajko

Mona Mayeh

Kristina Perez De Tagle

George Davies

Steven Eric Nuetzman

Stephanie Tomasetta

Samuel Christopher Uhlman

Michael Barrett Hill

Eric K Wyman

Babak Amir Parviz

Tyson Wittrock

Tamas Pikler

Fei Hoai Lee

Jiayi Liang

Vinay Balan

John Elias Darrow

Longyu Zhao

Brent James Lutz

John Tan

Chen Ge

Bryan Gregory Drake

Ana Sande Do Vale Pinto Da Silva

Sonia Thosar

Akhil Ranka

Bhaskar Gupta

David Bruce Mccalib

Jr Paul Roy Raines

Vahida Kamranzadeh

Jr Raines Paul Roy

A device includes a housing having a top, a bottom opposite the top, a front, and a back opposite the front. One or more microphones are oriented substantially towards the top. A first camera, a display, a loudspeaker, and an emitter are oriented substantially towards the front. A second camera, a projector, and a sensor are oriented substantially towards the bottom. The second camera and the sensor may include field of views that at least partially overlap with a projection area of the projector.

Audiovisual device

A device include a first camera, a second camera, and a shutter assembly. The shutter assembly includes a switch, a link coupled to the switch and having a first cover, and an arm coupled to the link and having a second cover. Actuating the switch to a first position disposes the first cover within a first field of view of the first camera and the second cover within a second field of view of the second camera. Actuating the switch to a second position disposes the first cover outside of the first field of view and the second cover outside of the second field of view.

Electronic device with shutter assembly

Systems and methods for capacitive field tuning for detecting touches on objects are disclosed. For example, an identity of an object placed on a touch-sensitive surface is determined and signal impedance characteristics associated with the object are also determined. The signal impedance characteristics may be utilized to determine tuning settings to apply to capacitive sensors such that the capacitive field of the device extends from the touch-sensitive surface to a touch surface of the object.

Capacitive field tuning for detecting touches on objects placed on a touchscreen

Projector device

A smart block can include a plurality of displays and configurable magnet components to selectively attract or repel other smart blocks. The smart block can include proximity sensors to identify a surface of another smart block close to the smart block to determine if the smart blocks are correctly oriented based on an application or game associated with the operation of the smart blocks. A plurality of smart blocks can be configured to display a portion of a picture (as a puzzle), such that when the smart blocks are oriented correctly they collectively display the complete picture. The smart blocks can be used in conjunction with a smart mat that is configured to move the smart blocks in response to commands received from a remote computing device. The smart blocks and the smart mat can facilitate interactivity with other, remote users, such as between a caregiver and a child.

Mat controllable by remote computing device

Configurable devices

Described are systems, methods, and apparatus for injecting dunnage into a container after an item has been placed in the container and the container has been sealed or otherwise closed. A dunnage injection apparatus is configured to penetrate a surface of the sealed container and expel gas and dunnage into an interior space of the container. The gas fills the expelled dunnage forming gas-filled pouches of dunnage that fill voids within the interior space of the container and secure and protect the item within the container.

Gas injected auto-dunnage formation within a filled and sealed container

Systems and methods for controlling display of content using objects are disclosed. Objects may be placed on a surface and one or more computing devices may be configured to identify the objects, determine the shape of the objects, and/or determine the locations of the objects with respect to the surface. Content displayed on the surface may be updated based at least in part on interaction of the object with the surface, such as changing locations of the objects, object proximities, object flipping, and/or object stacking, for example.

Display control using objects

The apparatus includes a moveable support platform within the container to reduce a distance that items fall into the container when stowed. The support platform is lowered by a movement mechanism as items are placed into the container. The movement mechanism may be a bladder filled with air, a biasing device, a pneumatic device, or a mechanical device. The moveable support may form a bottom portion of the container during transport of the container. In some instances, the movement mechanism may lift items out of the container to empty the container at a destination.

Movable loading support platform within a container

In one embodiment, a trolley for an inventory storage module has a trolley frame and first and second track engagement features on opposed sides of the trolley frame that engage first and second rails of a track, respectively, such that the trolley frame is translatable along the track. The trolley has a power collector that is supported by the trolley frame, and that electrically couples to an electrical rail that is disposed above the trolley frame so as to collect power from the electrical rail as the trolley frame is translated along the track. The trolley has a robotic manipulator having a robotic arm and an end effector. The robotic arm extends below the trolley frame with respect to the vertical direction, and the end effector removeably couples inventory items to the robotic arm.

Robotic transport system for an inventory storage module

In one embodiment, an inventory storage system has at least one storage module having a shelving system, a conveyor, and a robotic transport system. The shelving system has a plurality of shelves that are spaced from one another along a vertical direction and that define a plurality of inventory storage locations. The conveyor is positioned alongside the shelving system and is configured to convey inventory items along a longitudinal direction. The robotic transport system is positioned alongside the shelving system and spaced above the conveyor along the vertical direction. The robotic transport system has a track, and a trolley that translates along the track and that includes a robotic manipulator. The trolley moves the robotic manipulator along the track to a position that is adjacent a select one of the inventory storage locations so as to stow an inventory item to, or retrieve the item from, the select storage location.

Inventory storage module with robotic transport system

Injecting dunnage into a closed item shipping container

In one embodiment, an inventory storage module has a pair of upper tracks and a pair of lower tracks that are connected to one another so as to define a closed movement path in a vertical plane. The module has a plurality of carriers arranged end-to-end along the upper and lower tracks. Each carrier is elongate along a direction that extends between a pair of the upper or lower tracks so as to carry a set of the storage containers that are arranged side-by-side. Each carrier has first and second first wheel assemblies that couple the carrier to the pairs of upper tracks and lower tracks when supported by the pairs of upper tracks and lower tracks, respectively. The storage module can move the inventory carriers around the movement path until a desired one of the inventory carriers is presented at one of the first and second ends.

Storage module having inventory carriers that are elongate along a lateral direction to carry a plurality of storage containers

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Martin Peter Aalund