Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Rpx Corporation

Petri Piippo

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Harri Wikberg

Younghee Jung

Tuomas Vaittinen

Jan Otto Blom

Marion Boberg

Severi Uusitalo

Jaakko Lehikoinen

Per Persson

Petri H Mäenpää

Toni Jarvenpaa

Marja Salmimaa

Jussi Severi Uusitalo

Peter Eskolin

Andres Lucero

Turkka Keinonen

Mikko Tapani Tarkiainen

Miika Antero Silfverberg

David L Racz

Andrés Lucero

Tapio Mansikkaniemi

Marcus Davidsson

Jan Eskolin

Timo-Pekka Viljamaa

Raphael Grignani

Anne Koppinen

Anne Kirjavainen

Fumiko Ichikawa

Sampo Tuomas Vaittinen

Charlotta Willstedt

Jason Robert Wither

Otso Ylönen

Anna Valtonen

Harri Kiljander

Natalia Boestad

Ritta Jokela

Teuvo Heikkinen

Ray William Rischpater

Panu Korhonen

Carmen Esther Au

Akseli Anttila

Rob Harr-Van-Der

Jyri Virtanen

Toni Järvenpää

Petri H MÄENPÄÄ

An apparatus including a light source; a pixel control element; and an input transmission polarizer configured to: polarize incident light from the light source into transmitted first and second light portions, wherein the first light portion has a first polarization and the second light portion has a second polarization and wherein the first and second polarizations are orthogonal; to provide the first light portion as input to the pixel control element; and to output the second light portion to provide the second light portion for illumination.

Apparatuses and methods for providing light

Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location.

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for providing interactive navigational assistance using movable guidance markers

An approach is provided for modifying the image content of returned images resulting from a search query. The portions of each image that is unrelated to the search query is omitted or other wise obscured so as to reduce the amount of image data in the search results. Additionally, related advertising, hyperlinks, or other object can be combined with the image data to enhance the information returned to the user.

Method and apparatus for providing visual search engine results

An approach is provided for presenting a measure of relevant information stored on or associated with a nearby device using one or more lighting parameters and/or one or more short-range communication technologies. An information platform determines one or more queries from at least one device. The information platform causes, at least in part, a measurement of an amount of information associated with one or more other devices that is responsive to the one or more queries. The information platform further causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more representations of the amount.

Method and apparatus for measuring information associated with another device

An approach is provided for determining a group of users based on the overlapping area of two or more existing groups and providing services and/or content to the group based on the services and content of the existing groups. An interaction platform determines shapes of groups based, at least in part, on location information associated with one or more member devices of the groups. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more representations of the shapes in a location-based user interface. The interaction platform determines one or more applications, one or more content items, or a combination thereof being used at the one or more member devices. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more other representations of the one or more applications, the one or more content items, or a combination thereof in the location-based user interface.

Method and apparatus for leveraging overlapping group areas

A method comprising: capturing, by a device equipped with a camera, at least one image about a physical object; recognizing the physical object on the basis of the at least one captured image; retrieving a 3-dimensional (3D) model of the physical object from a memory; and showing the 3D model of the physical object on a display of the device.

Remote control system

The invention provides a presentation of contextual information to a digital device in relation to a period of time. As such the invention provides for efficient user access to historical, as well as, current and future or forecasted contextual information. In addition, the present invention provides for current contextual information to be presented in an idle mode view, a scrolling bar mode view or another inconspicuous view. Additionally the present invention provides a novel means of using context information to create multimedia file presentations, image or video file presentations that can be associated with previous periods of time, locations or other context data.

Context diary application for a mobile terminal

An apparatus for determining media item privacy settings may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive media item capture data associated with a media item. The media item capture data may include at least a capture location. The processor may also be configured to identify a privacy context that corresponds to the media item capture data. In this regard, the capture location of the media item capture data may be within a geographic zone of the privacy context. The processor may be further configured to determine a privacy setting for the media item based on the corresponding privacy context, and, in some embodiments, control access to the media item in accordance with the determined privacy setting. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining media item privacy settings

An apparatus, method, computer program and user interface where the apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, enable the apparatus to: display a perspective view of a geographical location at a first scale in a first region of a display; identify a point of interest associated with the geographical location; and display the identified point of interest at a second scale in a second region of the display.

Apparatus, method and computer program for displaying points of interest

A state menu selection system that provides a function control set relating to an active application, maps at least one function from the function control set to at least one input device, and activates a function from the control set upon activation of the corresponding input device.

Multi-state unified pie user interface

The invention provides a presentation of contextual information to a digital device in relation to a period of time. As such the invention provides for efficient user access to historical, as well as, current and future or forecasted contextual information. In addition, the present invention provides for current contextual information to be presented in an idle mode view, a scrolling bar mode view or another inconspicuous view. Additionally the present invention provides a novel means of using context information to create multimedia file presentations; image or video file presentations that can be associated with previous periods of time, locations or other context data.

A method of providing content attributing during an ongoing conversation includes receiving an assignment of an attribute to a selected portion of content from the ongoing conversation, and asynchronously delivering the selected portion to selected recipients based on the attribute.

Method, mobile terminal, system and computer program product for real time content attributing

A wireless system having a central family calendar. Individual family members may access the family calendar from their wireless devices. The system also includes telephone and address information for non-family members. Important dates such as birthdays, associated with the non-family members may automatically appear in the calendar. The system may be incorporated into other family accessible devices such as a family bulletin board.

Electronic calendar system

There is provided a terminal device comprising a processing unit for controlling the functions of the terminal device, a communication unit for communicating with one or more communication devices, and a user interface. The communication unit is configured to query for nearby communication devices utilising wireless local connectivity technologies, and to detect the proximity range parameters of each queried communication device at predetermined times; the processing unit is configured to update a proximity overlap duration value of each queried communication device on the basis of the detected proximity range parameters of the queried communication devices at the predetermined times; and the user interface is configured to indicate information related to the updated proximity overlap duration values of one or more queried communication devices.

Radio system, terminal device, computer program product, and method of defining availability of queried devices

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