Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Robert John Anderson

Gur Kimchi

Brian C Beckman

Vijay Mital

Daniel Buchmueller

Darryl Ellis Rubin

Olivier Colle

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Amir Navot

Frederik Schaffalitzky

David G Green

John Alfred Payne

Jeremy William John Newton-Smith

Khaled Salah Sedky

Daniel Oliver

Jerry K Koh

Steve Seixeiro

Lindsey R Noll

J Adrian Lannin

Mahmood Ahmed Dhalla

Brian Adelberg

Shawn E Maloney

Frank Olivier

Donny Amalo

This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.

Object avoidance methods for automated aerial vehicles

A graphical manipulation tool to create and/or make modifications to a graphical object suitable for visually representing data. The graphical manipulation tool analyzes the graphical object to determine parameters of visual characteristics of the graphical object that can be used to visually represent data. A computing system, through the graphical manipulation tool, may generate metadata that defines a capacity for visual characteristics to represent data. In some cases, a preview is displayed on a user interface indicating to a user how the metadata, if incorporated with the graphical object, may result in the visual characteristics of the graphical object being used to visually represent data. If incorporating the metadata with the graphical object is desirable, the user may provide to include the additional metadata with the graphical object.

Extensions for modifying a graphical object to display data

Object avoidance for automated aerial vehicles

In accordance with the automatic peripheral device sharing, a peripheral device that has been newly installed on a device is detected and is shared with one or more additional devices coupled to the device. A notification of the peripheral device is automatically published to the one or more additional devices. This notification includes an indication of how the one or more additional devices can access the peripheral device. Each of the one or more additional devices can receive this notification and determine whether the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input. For each of the one or more additional devices, the peripheral device is installed on that device only if the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input.

Automatic peripheral device sharing

XPS documents are created and accessed via a collection of interfaces of various classes of an application programming interface. The application programming interface includes a document sequence class for reading and writing the document sequence of the XPS document, a fixed document class for reading and writing the fixed documents of the document sequence, a page class for reading and writing the pages of the fixed documents, and a resource class for accessing the resources of each page. Applications seeking to create or read XPS documents may utilize the application programming interface such that the complexities of creating and accessing the XPS document are abstracted away.

Interfaces for creation and access of extensible markup language paper specification documents

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