Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Maya Shirish Sathaye

Manish Avinash Mantrawadi

Ippei Matsumoto

Joshua John Watson

Simon Quay

Sameet Ramakrishnan

Christopher Raymond Grajewski

Benjamin Douglas Garcia

Kelly Erin Johnson

Matthew Tyler Wilkinson

Douglas W Moskowitz

A wearable device has a housing containing electronics and a band that retains the wearable device on a user's arm. Each end of the housing has a receptacle with a ridge around the opening of the receptacle. A band comprises a strip of flexible material. A pair of protrusions with enlarged ends made from an elastomeric material extend from an inner surface of the band. A portion of the inner surface of the band between the protrusions is in contact with at least a portion of an upper surface of the housing. The band is joined to the housing by aligning each protrusion with a corresponding receptacle and applying pressure. As a result of the applied pressure part of the protrusion temporarily deforms, enters the receptacle, and resumes substantially the previous shape thus holding the protrusion within the receptacle and the band to the housing.

Wearable device with field replaceable band

A wearable device includes various sensors including a microphone, heart rate monitor, pressure sensor, and so forth. The user can set the device to acquire audio data of their speech. For example, if the pressure sensor indicates the device is being worn and the user's heart rate exceeds a threshold value, audio data may be acquired. Onboard the device the audio data is processed in various ways such as detecting whether the audio data includes speech, applying a beamforming algorithm, compressing and encrypting the audio, and so forth. The audio data may be processed onboard the device, sent to another device, or a combination thereof for processing to determine sentiment data indicative of perceived emotional content of the speech. A user interface provides the user with information based on the sensor data, sentiment data, and so forth.

Multi-sensor wearable device with audio processing

Charging clip

A dock includes a first section and a second section joined with a spring hinge assembly. An applied force opens the dock and a device may be placed within the dock. The first section includes a first concavity which approximately conforms to a top surface of the device. Within the first concavity is a ridge which comes into contact with part of the top surface of the device. The second section includes a second concavity within which a bottom surface of the device fits. Electrical contacts such as pogo pins within the second section come into contact with electrical contacts on the bottom surface of the device. Annular elastomeric features around at least some of the pogo pins have a top edge which may come into contact with the bottom surface of the device. The spring hinge applies a force that closes the dock, retaining the device therein.

Dock device with integrated clamp

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Maya Shirish Sathaye