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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Tomas Izo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gal Chechik, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tomas Izo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gal Chechik, Los Altos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to providing audio playback to a mobile device user. According to one aspect of this disclosure, a mobile device may be to modify audio playback in response to detecting an inclination of the mobile device (and thereby a user) with respect to a reference plane. According to another aspect of this disclosure, a mobile device may be configured to automatically identify an audible sound that may be motivational to a user, and store an indication of the audible sound in response to the identification. According to another aspect of this disclosure, a mobile device may automatically play back a previously identified motivational song in response to detection of user movement.