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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony Michael Fadell, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Yoky Matsuoka, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Lee Rogers, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Sloo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael Plitkins, Berkeley, CA (US);
Rangoli Sharan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph Adam Ruff, San Jose, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A thermostat includes a control unit, a plurality of connection ports, and a user interface operatively coupled to the control unit an having an electronic display. The control unit may be configured and programmed to operate the wire insertion sensing circuits to identify a set of the plurality of connection ports into which corresponding ones of the plurality of HVAC wires have been inserted; cause the electronic display to display a photograph of the plurality of connection ports as they actually appear to a user; and cause the electronic display to visually highlight the set of the plurality of connection ports into which the corresponding ones of the plurality of HVAC wires have been inserted.