Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Olusanya Temitope Soyannwo

Edward Dietz Crump

Renwei Yan

Makarand Damle

Kurt W Piersol

Rohan Mutagi

Samuel Henry Chang

Kavitha Velusamy

Ning Yao

Adam Barry Fineberg

Stanislaw Ignacy Pasko

Roger Robert Webster

Mark Aran Aiken

Philip Alexander Lee

Weijian Wang

Vibhav Hemant Salgaonkar

Tina Yung-Ting Chen

Jigar Vora

Ramy Sammy Sadek

Aditya Bhave

Sankara Narayana Hemanth Meenakshisundaram

Siddarth Raghunathan

Ankit Premrajka

A hub is configured to provide voice control without assistance from a remote system, which allows the hub to provide a user with the ability to control second devices in an environment by issuing voice commands, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet). The hub is also configured to execute rules without assistance from the remote system, which allows the hub to execute rules, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet).

Architecture for a hub configured to control a second device while a connection to a remote system is unavailable

Systems and methods for functionality management of devices are disclosed. Multiple computing devices may be located in the same environment and/or space and at least two of those computing devices may be configured to perform a given functionality. In these and other examples, one of the devices may be identified as a primary device and the other devices may be identified as secondary devices based on, for example, historical usage data, audio-signal data, computer-vision analysis, and/or one or more other criteria. The functionality may be disabled on the secondary devices until the secondary devices are utilized and/or until a triggering event occurs.

Functionality management for devices

A sequence of 3D hand poses may be used to define a hand gesture, and different hand gestures may be represented by different sequences of poses. One or more hand gestures may be used to generate a virtual input device. Another one or more hand gestures may subsequently be used to provide input via the virtual input device.

Gesture based virtual devices

A computing system with multiple devices local to an environment facilitates active transfer among the multiple devices as a user moves about the environment. The devices may sense a presence or non-presence of the user and attempt to coordinate transfer to a device proximal to the user. In another implementation, the devices may communicate with a remote system that monitors a location of the user within the environment and causes content associated with the user to transfer between computing devices of the system based on the location and movement of the user.

Automatic content transfer

Techniques are described for performing automatic focusing of a projected image on a mobile projection surface. Specific regions of the projected image are identified that are likely to be desired to stay in optimal focus, and attributes of those specific regions, such as sharpness and contrast, can be used to determine the need to refocus the image. Advanced knowledge of the image data being projected can be utilized to determine the specific regions of the projected image that require monitoring for optimal focusing.

Automatic projection focusing

In a content browsing environment, a system analyzes content to identify audio commands to be made available to users. The audio commands may be chosen so that they are easily differentiable from each other when using machine-based speech recognition techniques. When the content is displayed, the system monitors a user's speech to detect user utterances corresponding to the audio commands and performs content navigation in response to the user utterances.

Navigating content utilizing speech-based user-selectable elements

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