Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Olivier David Meirhaeghe

Amit Kumar Agrawal

Jeffrey T Snow

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Rahul Bharat Desai

Cai Zhiyi

Bill Ryan

Alexandre Neves Creto

Rachid M Alameh

Liang Zhang

Mary Khun Hor-Lao

Zhengping Ji

Boby Iyer

Satyabrata Rout

Long Peng

Xin Guan

Igor Kovalenko

Lucie Corinne Evelyne Papelier

Andre Luiz Silva Bazante

Zhiyi Cai

Gokula Ramanan

Xiu Jin Wang

When the two electronic devices are connected (e.g., wired or wireless connection), a determination is made as to whether a contextual state of at least one of the electronic devices (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) indicates that a virtual view of the electronic device is to be displayed by the other electronic device. The contextual state may include, for example, whether the displays of the two electronic devices are spatially aligned, whether the one electronic device is upside down, whether a display of the one electronic device is turned off, and so forth. The virtual view of the electronic device is a display of the user interface of the electronic device, allowing a user to interact with the electronic device via the virtual view of the electronic device.

Virtual view of a device based on device contextual state

An electronic device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) can be connected to another electronic device that is typically a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a laptop or a non-mobile device such as a desktop computer or workstation), allowing the electronic devices to be used together. This connection can be a wired connection or a wireless connection. When the electronic device and the computing device are connected, and optionally also when a universal control mode is activated, the electronic device automatically operates in a non-gesture-based input style, allowing a single input control device (e.g., a trackpad on a laptop) to control user input for both devices.

Automatic input style selection for a connected device

An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product provides freeze frame videos in place of a live video feed or a low-quality video feed to a video communication session. The electronic device hosts the video communication session between a first participant device and second participant devices. The electronic device receives, from the first participant device, a first video feed of a first participant to the video communication session. The electronic device determines a video segment of the received first video feed to identify as the first freeze frame video, generates the first freeze frame video from the video segment, and stores the first freeze frame video within a server repository. In response to a trigger condition, the electronic device temporarily presents to the video communication session the first freeze frame video in place of the first video feed as video content from the first participant device.

Freeze frame video presentation for select participants during a video communication session

Techniques for guidance image generation for a mobile device are described and are implementable to generate a guidance image for display by a first device based on digital content displayed by a second device. For instance, a mobile device executes and controls a gaming application, and communicates digital content from the application to a display device. A screenshot of the digital content displayed by the remote display device is captured, and based on the screenshot the mobile device generates a guidance image. The guidance image depicts one or more touchpoints of the application, and is displayed by the mobile device. The mobile device is further operable to terminate display of the guidance image, such as based on receipt of an instance proximity-based input. The mobile device recalls the guidance image subsequent to termination of display, such as based on a user request to recall the guidance image.

Guidance image generation for a mobile device

An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product provides freeze frame videos in place of a live video feed to a video communication session. A processor of the electronic device determines that a local participant is connected via the electronic device to an ongoing video communication session with second participants having corresponding second participant devices. The processor captures, via an image capturing device, local video encompassing the local participant. The processor determines a video segment of the local video to identify as a freeze frame video. The processor presents the freeze frame video to the video communication session in response to a trigger condition that pauses a presentation of live video feed of the local participant to the video communication session. The processor loops the presentation of the freeze frame video until an expiration of a threshold maximum time established for presenting the freeze frame video.

Freeze frame video presentation during a video call

An electronic device, method, and computer program product support sharing of a cross-view by a first communication device in a communication session with a second communication device. First semantic inputs by a first participant are communicated to the second communication device for presenting to a second participant. Second semantic inputs by the second participant are communicated to the first communication device for presenting to the first participant. The first communication device presents first visual content selected by the first participant. The second communication device presents second visual content presented by the second participant. In response to determining that the semantic input(s) are associated with the visual content, the first communication device communicates a duplicate copy of the first visual content to the second communication device. The first communication device receives a duplicate copy of the second visual content from the second communication device, as a cross view to enhance discussion.

Peer managed automated dual screen sharing based on associating semantic inputs and viewed visual content

An electronic device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) can be connected to another electronic device that is typically a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a laptop or a non-mobile device such as a desktop computer or workstation), allowing the electronic devices to be used together. This connection can be a wired connection or a wireless connection. The relative location of one of the electronic devices relative to the other of the electronic devices is automatically determined by analyzing changes in the gaze of the user of the electronic devices. An indication of the position of one of the electronic devices relative to the other is then displayed on one of the electronic devices.

Determining relative positions of devices using gaze detection

An electronic device, method, and computer program product support automatically selecting cross-view screen sharing for a secure peer-to-peer application during a communication session. A processor of a first electronic device executes application(s) to present a first user interface at a first display of the first electronic device. The first electronic device establishes a secure peer-to-peer connection for wireless communication, via a communication subsystem, with a second electronic device having a second display. The first electronic device enables a cross-view mode. The electronic device transmits a duplicate copy of the first user interface to the second electronic device for presenting at the second display. The first electronic device receives, from the second electronic device, a duplicate copy of a second user interface being presented at the second display. The first electronic device presents, at the first display, the duplicate copy of the second user interface concurrently with the first user interface.

Secure peer-to-peer application cross-view screen sharing

An electronic device, method, and computer program product support automatic sharing of a cross-view by a network device hosting a communication session for first and second communication devices. The first communication device presents first visual content that is selected by a first participant. The second communication device presents second visual content that is selected by a second participant. First semantic inputs by the first participant are communicated to the second communication device for presenting to the second participant. Second semantic inputs by the second participant are communicated to the first communication device for presenting to the first participant. In response to determining that the semantic input(s) are associated with the visual content, the network device communicates a duplicate copy of the first visual content to the second communication device and a duplicate copy of the second visual content to the first communication device, as a cross view to enhance discussion.

Network managed application dual screen sharing based on associating semantic inputs and viewed visual content

Techniques for connectivity session between devices based on a connectivity trigger are described and may be implemented to enable a first device (e.g., a mobile device) to provide network connectivity for a second device. Generally, the described implementations enable multiple different connectivity triggers to be utilized to trigger a connectivity session between devices, such as for enabling network connectivity of a first device to be provided to a second device.

Connectivity session between devices based on a connectivity trigger

In aspects of adaptive grip suppression, a wireless device has a display screen with curved display edges to display a user interface associated with a device application, the user interface including a selectable element to initiate a device application action. The wireless device implements an adaptive control module to adaptively manage grip suppression in the curved display edges of the display screen, which limits the device application action from being initiated based on inadvertent touch inputs on the selectable element. The adaptive control module can determine that the selectable element of the user interface is displayed within a region of a curved display edge of the display screen, and decrease the grip suppression in the region of the curved display edge proximate the selectable element of the user interface.

Adaptive grip suppression within curved display edges

An electronic device includes a communication device and a user interface. The communication device detects establishment of an electrical communication channel to a content presentation companion device. One or more processors operable with the communication device and the user interface cause the communication device to query the content presentation companion device for a content presentation companion device port facilitating the electrical communication channel and, in response, cause the user interface to identify the content presentation companion device port.

Electronic devices and corresponding methods for identifying a companion device type

An electronic device, computer program product, and method mitigates loss of communication between participants in a communication session when a remote participant attempts to speak without manually unmuting the electronic device. A controller configures the electronic device to monitor one or more image streams originating respectively at one or more second electronic devices during a video communication session. The controller identifies, in a particular image stream of the one or more image streams, at least one of a speaking movement of a mouth of a particular participant or a gesture by the particular participant to present an audio input via the video communication session. A user interface presented on at least one user interface device of the electronic device presents an alert that the particular participant is attempting to speak to other participants in the video communication session.

Electronic device that visually monitors hand and mouth movements captured by a muted device of a remote participant in a video communication session

Techniques for input session between devices based on an input trigger are described and may be implemented to enable a first device (e.g., a mobile device) to serve as an input device for a second device. Generally, the described implementations enable multiple different input triggers to be utilized to trigger an input session between devices, such as for enabling proximity-based input (e.g., stylus input, touch input, etc.) to a first device to be provided as input to a second device.

Input session between devices based on an input trigger

An electronic device, computer program product, and method mitigates loss of communication between participants in a communication session when a local participant attempts to speak without manually unmuting the electronic device. The electronic device includes an image capturing device, a user interface device having a microphone, and a controller. The controller is communicatively coupled to the image capturing device and to the user interface device. The controller monitors, during the communication session with a second electronic device, an image stream received from the image capturing device for movements by the local participant in the communication session. The controller autonomously generates a prompt to unmute the microphone in response to determining that the microphone is muted while identifying at least one of a speaking movement of a mouth of the local participant to speak or a gesture by the local participant that correlates with the participant wanting to speak.

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Olivier David Meirhaeghe