Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090054058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHORT RANGE SHARING OF BANDWIDTH BETWEEN ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A system and method for a plurality of electronic equipment located within a short range communication zone to share bandwidth with each other. In one aspect of the invention, an electronic equipment (a requesting electronic equipment) transmits a request for content over a cellular telephone network (e.g., 3G, GPRS, etc.). In addition, the electronic equipment communicates with other electronic equipment through a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface (e.g., Bluetooth, 802.11, etc.) to determine if the other electronic equipment are available to share bandwidth with the requesting electronic equipment. The other electronic transmit the requested content to the master portable communication device through the WLAN interface. | 02-26-2009 |
20090061890 | Portable Electronic Devices and Methods for Downloading Applications Based on Presence of the Portable Electronic Device in a Defined Geographical Region - Methods, portable electronic devices and servers are provided for downloading applications to the portable electronic device from the server based on a geographical location of the portable electronic device. One or more applications are stored at the server. The one or more applications have an associated region and duration. A current position of the portable electronic device is determined. Ones of the stored applications are downloaded from the server to the portable electronic device if the current position of the portable electronic device is within the associated region. | 03-05-2009 |
20090265165 | AUTOMATIC META-DATA TAGGING PICTURES AND VIDEO RECORDS - A method and apparatus for labeling an image recorded by a portable electronic device with descriptive tags is disclosed. Sounds in the vicinity of the portable electronic device are recorded. When the image is captured, the audio record of recorded sounds from a first predetermined period of time prior to the capture of the image until a second predetermined period of time after the capture of the image is retrieved. The retrieved audio record is processed to create a list of recognizable words in the retrieved audio record. The list of recognizable words is then stored in a metatag field associated with the captured image. | 10-22-2009 |
20100015955 | CALL MANAGEMENT BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - The invention relates to a method for managing communications between communication devices. The method comprise initiating a communication between a first and a second communication device, during which the second communication device may identify a third communication device, and provide the contact information of the third communication device to the first communication device. The first communication device receives the contact information and initiates communications with the third communication device. | 01-21-2010 |
20110230238 | POINTER DEVICE TO NAVIGATE A PROJECTED USER INTERFACE - A method including projecting a content associated with a user device; receiving a projected content including an invisible cursor content; determining a position of the invisible cursor content with respect to the projected content; outputting a visible cursor having a position in correspondence to the invisible cursor content; receiving an input from a pointer device; mapping a position of a visible cursor content to the content; and performing an input operation that interacts with the content and corresponds to the input from the pointer device and the position of the visible cursor content. | 09-22-2011 |
20110291943 | TOUCH INTERFACE FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY CONTROL - An electronic device includes a first touch panel disposed on a first side of the device. The first touch panel receives a first touch input. The electronic device further includes a display disposed on the first side of the device, and a touch interface disposed on a second side of the device, where the second side is different than the first side. The touch interface receives a second touch input. A control unit receives an indication of the first touch input from the first touch panel and receives an indication of the second touch input from the touch interface. The control unit further determines alterations to a three dimensional view of the display in the x, y and/or z directions based on the first touch input, and rotates the three dimensional view on the display angularly in accordance with movement of the second touch input. | 12-01-2011 |
20120019557 | DISPLAYING AUGMENTED REALITY INFORMATION - A device may obtain location information of an AR display device and obtain identifiers associated with objects that are within a field of view of the AR display device based on the location information. In addition, the device may obtain, for each of the objects, AR information based on the identifiers and determine, for each of the objects, a distance of the object from the AR display device. Furthermore, the device may generate, for each of the objects, images of the AR information at a virtual distance from the AR display device, the virtual distance corresponding to the determined distance. The device may display the generated images at the AR display device. | 01-26-2012 |
20120068937 | QUICK INPUT LANGUAGE/VIRTUAL KEYBOARD/ LANGUAGE DICTIONARY CHANGE ON A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - A device having a touch screen display selects a first language as an active input language. The device presents a first virtual keyboard associated with the first language on the touch screen display and receives a touch input that includes a directional touch swipe on the touch screen display. The device selects selecting a second language as the active input language based on the directional touch swipe, wherein the second language is different than the first language. The device further presents a second virtual keyboard associated with the second language on the touch screen display, wherein the second virtual keyboard is different than the first virtual keyboard. | 03-22-2012 |