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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2011
Steven Ka Cheung Moy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kah Kuen Fu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gunnar Hovden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Steven Ka Cheung Moy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kah Kuen Fu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gunnar Hovden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
An electronic device automatically reverses a left-right orientation of content displayed by the device when detecting that a user is viewing content of the device via a mirror. Some embodiments reverse the content upon detecting a trigger such as a reflection of an image displayed by the device, indicating that the device is displaying content against a mirror. In some embodiments, the device reverses the content upon detecting that blinking markers displayed by the device are inverted or upon detecting a blinking marker flashing in a particular pattern consistent to that emitted by the device. Some embodiments reverse the content upon detecting both the reflection of the image and a reflection of the user. Further, some embodiments reverse the content upon determining that the user is facing a mirror and switches back to its normal orientation when the user is viewing the content by directly looking at the device.