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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2021
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erich Karl Nachbar, Foster City, CA (US);
Grant Alexander Uy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Carl Turner, Eugene, OR (US);
X Development LLC, Moutain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from one of two or more sensors of a device that independently determine whether an aircraft takeoff has likely occurred, an indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred; activating, based on receiving the indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred, an airplane mode of the device; receiving, while the device is in the airplane mode and from one of two or more other sensors of the device that independently determine that an aircraft flight is likely not occurring, an indication that the aircraft flight is likely not occurring; and deactivating, based on receiving the indication that the aircraft flight is likely not occurring, the airplane mode of the device. The indication that the aircraft takeoff has likely occurred may include acceleration data indicating an acceleration of the device in three dimensions.