Nokia Technologies Oy

Qifeng Yan

Piers Andrew

Antti Salo

Teppo Tapani Jokinen

Lotta Maaria Partanen

Jarkko Tapio Saunamaki

Mikko Anttilainen

Okan Ogeturk

Wei Wang

Zhen Liu

Koray Ozcan

Zoran Radivojevic

Ling Wang

Matti Kosonen

Dhaval Jitendra Joshi

Ming Lei

Jarkko Saunamäki

Jyri Salomaa

Zhichang Wang

Lassi Kaikkonen

Jarkko Tapio SAUNAMÄKI

Okan ÖGeturk

An approach is provided for a remote lost-and-found service. A local sensor manager causes, at least in part, pairing of a device and a local sensor. The local sensor manager then determines when the local sensor is beyond a predetermined distance from the device, and causes, at least in part, a change in a profile status of the local sensor based on the determination. The profile status specifies, at least in part, a visibility of the local sensor to one or more other devices.

Method and apparatus for providing a remote lost-and-found service

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method for proximity based input is provided, comprising: receiving information on presence of an object in close proximity to a touch screen surface, detecting a display element currently associated with the object, the display element being visualized to be displaced from the screen surface level in the z-direction substantially perpendicular to the screen surface, and adapting the display element on the basis of distance between object and the screen, wherein the display element is visualized to locate substantially at the touch screen surface level in response to detecting the object to touch the touch screen surface.

Apparatus and method for user input for controlling displayed information

An apparatus comprises a transformable body configured to be elastically stretchable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration, a user input device, a user input device configured to receive user input signal, a communication interface configured to provide a wireless link for the apparatus and a flexible interconnection between at least two components within the transformable body. The apparatus may perform determining of user information based on the user input signal, transmitting at least part of the user information over the wireless link to a remote processing unit, receiving feedback information from the remote processing unit and presenting the feedback information to the user.

Apparatus with elastically transformable body

An apparatus including: a touch sensitive input responsive to manual actuation; a display output associated with the touch sensitive input; and a controller configured to provide and maintain, in response to a manual actuation at a user selected location of the touch sensitive input, an output at the user selected location to facilitate additional manual actuation via the touch sensitive input in the region of the user selected location.

Touch sensitive input

An apparatus comprising: a first substantially horn shaped structure configured to couple and amplify sound from a first speaker of a further apparatus; and a second substantially horn shaped structure configured to couple and amplify sound from a second speaker of the further apparatus, wherein the first and second substantially horn shaped structure each comprise a mouth portion with a physical separation dimension greater than a physical separation dimension of the first and second speaker acoustic outlet of the further apparatus.

Apparatus for providing passive stereo amplification for a portable device

An approach is provided distributing content to multiple devices. Specifically, a distribution module causes, at least in part, a rendering of at least one user interface for distributing content among at least one device and one or more other devices with connectivity to the at least one device. The distribution module then causes, at least in part, one or more segmentations of the at least one user interface, wherein the one or more segmentations are associated with the at least one device, respective one or more of the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof. Next, the distribution module determines one or more interactions with the at least one user interface, the one or more segmentations, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a distribution of the content.

Method and apparatus for distributing content to multiple devices

An apparatus including a body configured for resilient contortion from a neutral equilibrium shape by a user, the body having an exterior surface that resiliently contorts in response to user actuation and defines at least part of an exterior surface of the apparatus; and electronic circuitry including at least a processor and a display, controlled by the processor on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the body.

Contortion of an electronic apparatus

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Qifeng Yan