Motorola Mobility LLC

Motorola Corporation

Google Inc.

Motorla, Inc.

Thomas E Gitzinger

Rachid M Alameh

Michael L Charlier

Dickon Isaacs

Steve C Emmert

Chad E Davis

Robert A Zurek

Daniel T Berg

Nicholas Alan Fraser

Michael E Russell

Paul R Steuer

Jeong J Ma

Yong-Ho Lim

Daniel J Meer

John Joseph Gorsica

Alberto R Cavallaro

Jarrett K Simerson

Tomohiro Ishikawa

Thomas J Walczak

David P Townsend

Mitul R Patel

Daniel Philip Groebe

Aaron L Dietrich

Ajit C Cotha

James E Wicks

Brett Coakley

Amit Kumar Agrawal

John W McConnell

Paul M Pierce

Mikhail T Galeev

Thomas Y Merrell

Eric LeRoy Krenz

Mark D Zaveson

Patrick J Cauwels

Bill Ryan

Zhengping Ji

Hae Rim Jeong

Nicholas Woodley

Michael F Paradise

Toshihiro Fujimura

Daniel V Clements

Giles T Davis

Michael E Caine

Marcello Zuffo

Istvan Janos Szini

Manuel Oliver

David R Zeiger

David B Cranfill

Yi Wu

Kathryn Ellen Thomas

Michael W Schellinger

Michael Neau

Rohit Sisodia

Nigil George Valikodath

Lei Xia

Katherine C Morgenroth

Simone Koo

Keith J Pump

Katherine Coles

Christopher S Gremo

John Delianides

Scott A Puckett

Matthew D Thomas

Sridhar Vashist

Alexis Grace Valasek

Tom R Schirtzinger

Chris Gremo

Jaeshin Kim

Frank C Colonna

Jun Hee Lee

Michael Joseph Slade

Michael E Russel

Steve E Emmert

Kent Allen Campbell

Sanjeev Kumar Poluru Venkata

Thomas D Derengowski

Eric J Dayringer

Matthew C Loppnow

Dickson Isaacs

An electronic device includes a flexible display and a device housing that defines a translation surface for the flexible display. A blade assembly is positioned between the flexible display and the translation surface. A rotor is positioned within a curvilinear section of the blade assembly and flexible display. A translation mechanism translates the blade assembly and flexible display between an extended position, a retracted position, and a peek position revealing an image capture device.

Electronic devices with translating flexible display and corresponding methods

An electronic device includes a device housing and a blade assembly carrying a blade and slidably coupled to the device housing. The electronic device includes a translation mechanism operable to slide the blade assembly relative to the device housing. The electronic device includes one or more processors operable with the translation mechanism. The one or more processors automatically transition the blade assembly to the peek position when a front-facing imager or front-facing loudspeaker is required unless a privacy mode of operation is enabled, wherein transition of the blade assembly to the peek position is precluded.

An electronic device, method, and computer program product provide a flexible display that is configurable when being worn around a wrist of a user to increase a display width area. The electronic device includes a strap having an outer layer presenting the flexible display and an inner support layer attached to an underside of the flexible display. The strap is positionable between an uncoiled position and the coiled position with lateral edges of first and second terminal ends of the strap juxtaposed in abutted alignment. In response to determining the coiled position based on a sensor or a user interface input, a display driver of the electronic device selectively renders display content and presents rendered display content within a coil display area that is two straps wide of terminal ends of the strap in juxtaposed adjacent position.

Coiled wearable reconfigurable screen

An apparatus for autonomous form factor control of a foldable mobile device includes a processor that determines a current form factor of the foldable mobile device and senses a forward motion or a backward motion of a subject within a field of view of a camera of the device. In response to forward motion of a user, the processor raises a pointing elevation angle of the camera to maintaining the user within the field of view by autonomously controlling the hinge angle between the first device housing and the second device housing of the foldable mobile device and in response to backward motion the processor lowers the pointing elevation angle by autonomously using shape memory actuators to control the hinge angle in the direction determined based on the form factor.

Autonomous form factor control of a foldable mobile device

An electronic device includes a first device housing and a second device housing that is slidable along the first device housing. The electronic device includes a flexible display and a slider framework fixedly coupled to the first device housing. A display mover slidably couples the flexible display to the slider framework, while a housing mover slidably couples the second device housing to the slider framework. An actuator coupled between the display mover and the housing mover causes the display mover and the housing mover to slide symmetrically in opposite directions along the slider framework when the second device housing slides relative to the first device housing between a closed position and an open position.

Electronic devices with sliding device housings and translating flexible displays and corresponding methods

A hinge housing of an electronic device is coupled to a first hinge arm extending into to a first device housing a second hinge arm extending into a second device housing. The first hinge arm has a first pin extending from a terminal edge of the first hinge arm that engages a first slot defined by a first plate fixedly coupled to the first device housing. The second hinge arm has a second pin extending from a terminal edge of the second hinge arm that engages a second slot defined by a second plate fixedly coupled to the second device housing. The pins translate when the first device housing and the second device housing pivot to change a displacement between the hinge housing and the device housings, as well as to separate proximal ends of the first device housing and the second device housing in the closed position.

Hinged electronic device with displacement altering hinge and corresponding systems

An electronic device includes first device housing and a second device housing. The hinge housing is coupled to a first hinge arm extending into to the first device housing a second hinge arm extending into the second device housing. The first hinge arm has a first pin extending from a terminal edge of the first hinge arm that engages a first slot defined by a first bracket fixedly coupled to the first device housing. The second hinge arm has a second pin extending from a terminal edge of the second hinge arm that engages a second slot defined by a second bracket fixedly coupled to the second device housing. The first pin translates with the first slot and the second pin translates within the second slot, respectively, when the first device housing and the second device housing pivot to change a displacement between the hinge housing and the device housings.

Systems and methods for providing multiple paths through a mobile electronic device entail providing one of multiple levels of device access and cloud access based on an identity determination and authentication as to a potential user. In an embodiment, the device attempts to identify the user based on traditional touch/touchless authentication techniques. If this attempt is unsuccessful, the device then tries to identify the user by alternative means. If the user can be identified, the device attempts to authenticate the user for full access to the device and associated cloud data. If this is successful, the user is granted full access. If instead the identified user is not qualified for full access, the user is given pass-through access to their personal cloud storage. If, however, the device is unable to even identify the user, the user may be given pass-through access to the cloud generally.

Mobile electronic communications device having multiple device paths

An Internet-of-things device can detect, using one or more sensors, a condition exceeding a predefined condition threshold. If the condition is occurring at a location outside of an area monitored by the sensors of the Internet-of-things device, a communication device can transmit an investigation request to an unmanned aircraft. The investigation request can include a request to monitor an environment at the location. The Internet-of-things device can then receive an event report identifying whether a class of event is or was occurring at the location from the unmanned aircraft. The event report can include one or more event labels. The Internet-of-things device can transform, with an artificial intelligence engine, the one or more event labels into machine learned knowledge in an Internet-of-things knowledge domain.

Methods and systems for unmanned aircraft monitoring in response to Internet-of-things initiated investigation requests

In embodiments of wearable device heart monitor systems, a wearable device has electrical contacts integrated in a housing base of the wearable device as electrodes designed to contact skin of a user while wearing the wearable device. A housing bezel of the wearable device designed as an additional point of contact on the wearable device. The wearable device includes an electromyography (EMG) system to receive electrical signals from at least two of the electrodes and detect muscular movement of the user. Further, the wearable device includes an electrocardiogram (ECG) system to receive and combine the electrical signals from the electrodes when the user touch contacts the housing bezel while wearing the wearable device to complete an ECG loop between the electrodes and the housing bezel for a heart rate reading of the user.

Wearable device heart monitor systems

A method in an electronic device includes receiving, with an audio input device, an audio input from one or more sources. The method includes determining, with one or more sensors operable with one or more processors, whether the audio input was received from a single source or a plurality of sources. Where the audio input is received from the single source, the method includes adjusting, with one or more processors, an audio output sound pressure level of an audio output device to a first audio output sound pressure level. Where the audio input is received from the plurality of sources, the method include adjusting, with the one or more processors, the audio output sound pressure level of the audio output device to a second audio output sound pressure level that is less than the first audio output sound pressure level.

Electronic devices and corresponding methods for adjusting audio output devices to mimic received audio input

An electronic device includes a two-dimensional imager, a three-dimensional imager, and a thermal sensor. One or more processors determine whether at least one image captured by the two-dimensional imager matches a first predefined criterion, whether at least one facial depth scan captured by the three-dimensional imager matches a second predefined criterion, and whether thermal energy detected by the thermal sensor matches a third predefined criterion. Touchless authentication of a person as an authorized user of the electronic device occurs when the at least one image matches the first predefined criterion, the at least one facial depth scan matches the second predefined criterion, and the thermal energy matches the third predefined criterion. Additional security factors, such as the expression of a predefined mien, can be used as well.

Method and devices for authenticating a user by image, depth, and thermal detection

A wearable electronic device includes a conductive housing, which has a main body and at least a first pair of conductive lugs external to and mechanically coupled to the main body. The main body of the conductive housing forms at least part of an antenna structure that is adapted for at least one of generating or receiving the wireless radio frequency signal. The wearable electronic device further includes a non-conductive pin, which extends between the ends of the conductive lugs, and a use location attachment. The use location attachment includes a plurality of segments, where at least one of the segments, which most closely mechanically couples to the non-conductive pin and the first pair of conductive lugs, is nonconductive, and where other ones of the plurality of segments of the use location attachment are conductive.

Wearable electronic device adapted for supporting wireless communications

A device includes a case having a case sidewall defining a circular receiver having a receiving opening and a central axis. A device body, which is waterproof in one or more applications, includes a sidewall defining a receiving aperture. A crown stem includes a push button disposed within a duct of a threaded bushing and one or more O-rings disposed about the actuation stem to allow translation of the actuation stem in the duct while preventing liquids from passing through the duct. The crown stem inserts through the aperture in the case so that the threaded bushing can hermetically seal the receiving aperture when the device body is inserted into the circular receiver to prevent the liquids from entering the receiving aperture.

Device with axial lock and retention device and methods therefor

This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for rotational alignment of a circular display and a circular lens. In one or more implementations, a display device, such as a smart watch, includes a circular lens assembly that overlays a circular display assembly. The display device includes at least two alignment points positioned along the perimeter of the circular display assembly that enable a machine vision system to rotationally align the circular display assembly to the circular lens assembly. At least one of the alignment points includes a target mark on the perimeter of the circular lens assembly that is viewable by the machine vision system through a corresponding alignment hole on the perimeter of the circular display assembly. The alignment hole is within a border region of the circular display assembly, but is sized and positioned so that it does not impact the structure of the circular display assembly.

Rotational alignment of a circular display and a circular lens

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Libertyville, IL, United States of America

Thomas E Gitzinger