Apple Inc.

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Google Inc.

Shawn A Ellis

Policarpo Bonilla Wood

Anthony Michael Fadell

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Alan Cannistraro

Gloria Lin

Taido Lantz Nakajima

Sean Anthony Mayo

Amir Mahmood Mikhak

Jeffery Theodore Lee

Aram M Lindahl

Andrew Bart Hodge

Benjamin A Rottler

Andrew Bert Hodge

Allen Paul Haughay, Jr

Jeffrey Theodore Lee

Allen P Haughay

Jonathan Switkes

Wendy Goh

Alan Christopher Cannistraro

Michael Rosenblatt

Andrew Hodge

Policarpo Wood

Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off.

System and method for placeshifting media playback

Various techniques for adaptively varying audio feedback data on an electronic device are provided. In one embodiment, an audio user interface implementing certain aspects of the present disclosure may devolve or evolve the verbosity of audio feedback in response to user interface events based at least partially upon the verbosity level of audio feedback provided during previous occurrences of the user interface event. In another embodiment, an audio user interface may be configured to vary the verbosity of audio feedback associated with a navigable list of items based at least partially upon the speed at which a user navigates the list. In a further embodiment, an audio user interface may be configured to vary audio feedback verbosity based upon the contextual importance of a user interface event. Electronic devices implementing the present techniques provide an improved user experience with regard to audio user interfaces.

Adaptive audio feedback system and method

Speakers (e.g. 'loudspeakers') from different manufactures may have differing characteristics. In order to improve audio performance, an audio system may customize audio settings based on characteristics of an attached speaker. Described is a technique for determining speaker characteristics by sending a signal through a filter of the attached speaker. The signal may be a probing signal that produces no audible effect from the speaker. The signal may progress through one or more frequency ranges and an impedance signature may be measured. When the signal progresses through a frequency range, the impedance may be measured and a speaker model type and/or characteristics or condition of the speaker may be determined based on the measured impedance.

Impedance sensing for speaker characteristic information

This is directed to recommending media items of a user's media library. In particular, this is directed to transferring a portion of the user's media library to an electronic device so that the user may discover the portion of the media library. The library can recommend particular media items to the user using any suitable approach, including for example based on one or more preference profiles. The user can accept or reject recommended media items as they are played back to further adjust the user's preference profile, and to revise the selection of recommended media items stored on the device.

Recommending media items

Systems and methods of performing a simplified data transfer are provided. For example, a method of simplified data transfer may involve downloading an index of files accessed or modified on a home computer onto a handheld device from an online data storage server, displaying on the handheld device a user selectable list of files based on the index of files, issuing a request for a file selected by a user from the list of files from the handheld device to the data storage server, and receiving the file selected by the user onto the handheld device from the data storage server.

System and method for simplified data transfer

This invention is an airgun that is loaded and fired electronically. It is comprised of an 'electronic decision maker' 12 capable of accepting input and supplying output, sensors (8, 22, 24, 26) to report to the decision maker 12 the condition of various parts of the airgun or the projectile 18 to be fired, and actuators (2, 28, 4) that will effect the operations required to load and fire the airgun and are capable of responding to the commands of the decision maker 12 so it may `oversee` these operations. The present invention will be applicable to paintball, bb, pellet, and other projectile firing airguns. Instead of relying on unreliable and 'dumb' mechanical mechanisms, this airgun senses its projectile 18 and mechanism positions to determine when it can fire, using an electronic decision maker 12. This decision maker 12 can also be used to determine firing rate and velocity, adding more flexibility than a fixed, mechanical determination of these functions. Mechanical airguns cannot be reliable if fully-automatic because their loading mechanism is not consistent enough and will load paint-balls, bbs, pellets, etc., at different rates. Because projectiles 18 load into an airgun's chamber at different rates, a mechanical fully-automatic airgun would often chop its projectile 18 and foul the workings. The present invention will fire on fully automatic only as fast as its sensor 22 detects the projectile 18 presence in the barrel 10. Since the present invention waits for the projectile 18 to fall into the barrel 10 before it works its bolt 38, the electronic airgun should eliminate projectile-chopping. Using an electronic circuit 12 to trigger the airgun gives the electronic airgun the ability to fire full-automatic, three-round burst, or semi-automatic with a flick of a switch. Most prior designs use compressed gas to operate the airgun's mechanisms; since the present invention uses an electrically powered loading mechanism, it will improve compressed gas efficiency and recoil over mechanical designs.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Shawn A Ellis