Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Other

Mary G Baker

Ian N Robinson

Ramin Samadani

Rafael A Ballagas

Eric Faggin

Mitchell D Trott

Daniel George Gelb

Alexander Thayer

Wai-Tian Tan

Kent E Biggs

Alexander Wayne Clark

Helen Ann Holder

Mithra Vankipuram

Kevin Smathers

Madhu Sudan Athreya

Ji Won Jun

Sarthak Ghosh

Jeremy Gummeson

Walter Flores Pereira

Shrirang Mare

Alexandra Ju

Animesh Srivastava

Examples associated with BIOS access are described. One example device includes receiving data associated with a basic input/output system (BIOS) access request. The data may be received by a print device. The access request may be for a computing device. The method also includes printing a set of instructions for accessing the BIOS of the computing device.

BIOS access

An example system includes an identification engine to determine production data associated with a three-dimensionally printed object. The system also includes an alignment engine to determine a placement of the three-dimensionally printed object relative to a display device. The system includes a rendering engine to generate an image including a visual representation of the production data. The rendering engine is to position the visual representation of the production data so that representations of data points in the production data will overlay corresponding portions of the three-dimensionally printed object upon displaying by the display device.

Overlaying production data on rendered 3D printed object

Examples of devices are described herein. In some examples, a device may include a plurality of electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is mechanically interlockable to another of the electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is to control a lock state based on a broadcast signal to modify a shape of the device to a predetermined target shape.

Interlockable devices

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses involving 3D imaging. In accordance with certain aspects, a plurality of images of a 3D object are captured while movement of the 3D object is sensed by a sensor physically coupled thereto. The plurality of images include complementary portions and a feature of the 3D object. Pose data is generated for one of the plurality of images, based on data corresponding to the sensed movement and on the feature. The complementary portions are combined to generate a visual 3D image of the 3D object, based on the pose data.

3D imaging

An actuation device includes a controller that interfaces with a sensing module to cause the sensing module to be non-responsive to events of a class that exceed the threshold level of detectability. The controller may be triggered by a corresponding sensor interface to switch the sensing module to be responsive to events of the class that exceed the threshold level of detectability.

Actuation module to control when a sensing module is responsive to events

A computer device including an integrated input device is provided. The integrated input device includes a positive disconnect system including a display of an open connection to the integrated input device when the integrated input device is deactivated. The open connection comprises a visible metal trace on a line coupling the integrated input device to the computer device.

Positive disconnection of integrated input devices

An example system includes a microphone sensor for an electronic device and a chamber coupled to the microphone sensor. The chamber is to be selectively filled with a fluid or having a vacuum therein. When the chamber is filled with the fluid, sound waves are allowed to travel through the chamber to the microphone sensor, and fluid pressure in the chamber causes an indicator to be in a first position. When the chamber has a vacuum therein, sound waves are prevented from traveling through the chamber to the microphone sensor and the vacuum in the chamber causes the indicator to be in a second position different from the first position.

Vacuum-based microphone sensor controller and indicator

In example implementations, a head mounted display (HMD) is provided. The HMD includes a first display, a sensor, an outward facing camera, a processor, and a second display. The first display is to display an image towards a user wearing the HMD. The sensor captures a gaze of the user wearing the HMD. The outward facing camera captures images of a portion of an environment within a view of the user. The processor is communicatively coupled to the sensor and the outward facing camera to generate an animation of the gaze of the user and an augmented reality image on the first display based on the images captured by the outward facing camera. The second display is communicatively coupled to the processor and the first display. The second display displays the animation of the gaze of the user away from the user.

Animated gazes on head mounted displays

A scanning suspension box is disclosed, enabling the creation of a 3D model of an object. The box is a sealable enclosure for receiving the object to be scanned. A camera coupled to a surface of the enclosure images the object to generate a three-dimensional model of the object, which does not move once contained in the box.

Scanning suspension box

Examples disclosed herein provide the ability for a computing device to configure one microphone at a time from physically colocated devices to remain active for participating in a teleconference. In one example method, the computing device determines whether a first device with a first microphone on the teleconference is physically colocated with respect to a second device with a second microphone on the teleconference. When the first and second devices are physically colocated with respect to each other, the computing device configures either the first or second microphone to remain active for participating in the teleconference while the other of the first or second microphone is to be muted.

Muting microphones of physically colocated devices

Examples included herein involve analyzing first movement data measured by a first accelerometer of the first device, analyzing second movement data measured by a second accelerometer of a second device, determining whether the first device and the second device are collocated on a same user based on the first movement data and the second movement data, and controlling a function of the first device or the second device based on whether the first device and the second device are collocated on the same user.

Controlling devices based on collocation of the devices on a user

A method performed by a processing system. The method includes generating silence signatures of audio signals from a plurality of device based on energy levels of the audio signals, providing the silence signatures to an interaction service, and outputting interaction information corresponding to the devices.

Silence signatures of audio signals

A method of determining context-appropriate behavior for mobile devices.

Controlling behavior of mobile devices using consensus

A visual-collaborative system including a display screen configured to display images captured at a remote location and a camera configured to capture an image of an object to be transmitted to a remote location. The visual-collaborative system also includes a privacy controller configured to transmit the image comprising a first fidelity in response to the object located in a designated proximity area and to transmit the image comprising a second fidelity in response to the object located outside the designated proximity area.

Privacy control for a visual-collaborative system

Methods and systems for communicating each participant's focus of attention in a video conference are described. In one aspect, a method for communicating where each participant's attention is focused in a video conference includes receiving each remote participant's video and audio streams and focus of attention data, based on the remote participant's head location. The at least one remote participant's video streams are presented in separate viewing areas of the local participant's display. The viewing areas presenting the remote participants are modified to indicate to the local participant each remote participant's focus of attention, based on the focus of attention data.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Mary G Baker