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20080243526 | CUSTODIAN BASED CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - A custodian profile, e.g., a user profile, associated with a first content item, e.g., an associated web page in a social network, can be identified as a first content item. The first content item can be utilized to identify one or more second content items, e.g., advertisements, that are displayed when the first content item is presented, e.g., viewed by another user of the social network. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243607 | RELATED ENTITY CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - An entity relationship defining an entity, e.g., a friendship relation in a social network, user groups, etc., can be identified and entity content based on the entity relationship, e.g., user profile data of user accounts, group memberships, etc., can be processed to identify entity topics. One or more content items, e.g., advertisements, can be identified based on the entity topics. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243780 | OPEN PROFILE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - Open profile data in a user profile, e.g., free-form fields in a user profile, are processed to identify interests and preferences of the user. The interests and preferences are utilized to identify categories associated with the user profile, and content items, e.g., advertisements, can be identified based on the categories. | 10-02-2008 |
20090198711 | USER-TARGETED ADVERTISING - Structured data sets including one or more attributes are identified, each structured data set associated with, for example, a particular user. Values corresponding the at least one of the one or more attributes in each structured data set are identified. A condition established by a content provider, for instance, an advertiser, is compared to the identified values to determine if the condition is satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, one or more content items are identified to the users associated with the structured data sets containing identified values satisfying the condition. | 08-06-2009 |
20100174726 | Open Profile Content Identification - Open profile data in a user profile, e.g., free-form fields in a user profile, are processed to identify interests and preferences of the user. The interests and preferences are utilized to identify categories associated with the user profile, and content items, e.g., advertisements, can be identified based on the categories. | 07-08-2010 |
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20120042107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO INTERRUPT A COMPONENT OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO A MUTE COMMAND - A system and method to interrupt a component of a mobile communication device based on a mute command and a monitored operating condition is disclosed. In another particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a mute command at a mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is performing audio content processing. The method also includes monitoring an operating condition of the mobile communication device in response to receiving the mute command. The method includes determining whether to interrupt a component used to perform the audio content processing based on the monitored operating condition. | 02-16-2012 |
20120083258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE PROCESSES OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON AVAILABLE POWER RESOURCES - A system and method to manage processes of a mobile device based on available power resources is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes an interface configured to receive a user selection of a scheduled program to be received at a mobile device. The apparatus also includes a battery threshold calculator configured to determine a battery charge threshold based on at least one of a duration of the scheduled program and a processing complexity of the scheduled program. The apparatus includes an alert generator configured to generate a battery alert notification prior to receiving the scheduled program in response to a determination that a battery charge of the mobile device at a starting time of the scheduled program does not satisfy the battery charge threshold. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087415 | CONTEXT-BASED ADAPTATIONS OF VIDEO DECODER - A receive device receives video data in the form of an encoded video bit stream. A video decoder of the receive device identifies a portion of the video data corresponding to a first scene and determines a complexity for this first scene and also determines a quality of service for the receive device. If the complexity of the first portion of video data is greater than a complexity threshold value or the quality of service is less than a quality of service threshold value, then the video decoder uses a hardware accelerator to decode the portion of video data. If, however, the complexity of the portion of video data is less than the complexity threshold value and the quality of service is greater than the quality of service threshold value, then the video decoder may use software decoding to decode the portion of video data. | 04-12-2012 |
20120102191 | USING PAUSE ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO MANAGE RESOURCES - An electronic device for using pause to manage resources is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device monitors a pause duration and determines whether to perform a resource management operation based on the pause duration. The electronic device performs the resource management operation based on the pause duration. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102200 | APPLICATION SPECIFIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Present embodiments relate to resource management. More particularly, these embodiments relate to a system and method for adaptively monitoring a plurality of applications making use of a finite number of resources. The embodiments permit application developers to specify preferred operation guidelines without detailed knowledge of the requirements of the system designer or user. | 04-26-2012 |
20120106754 | TRANSITIONING MULTIPLE MICROPHONES FROM A FIRST MODE TO A SECOND MODE - An apparatus includes multiple microphones and a controller. The controller is coupled to receive a signal from each of the multiple microphones. The controller is configured to control a transition of the multiple microphones from an active mode to a dormant mode. When the multiple microphones are in the active mode, the controller is configured to perform signal processing responsive to signals received from at least two of the multiple microphones. When the multiple microphones are in the dormant mode, the controller is configured to select a microphone of the multiple microphones and to perform signal processing corresponding to the selected microphone while suspending signal processing corresponding to unselected microphones. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110036 | MEDIA FILE CACHING FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO CONSERVE RESOURCE - An electronic device for media file caching for conserving resources is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device monitors requests for a media file, stores media file information and determines whether the media file should be stored locally based on the media file information. If it is determined that the media file should be stored, the electronic device saves the media file and presents the media file. | 05-03-2012 |
20120147531 | PROCESSING INVOLVING MULTIPLE SENSORS - In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a first sensor that has an active mode and a dormant mode. When operating in the active mode, the first sensor has a first power consumption level. The apparatus further includes a second sensor that has a second power consumption level that is less than the first power consumption level (i.e., the power consumption level of the first sensor). The second sensor is deactivated when the first sensor is operating in the active mode. The apparatus includes logic to activate the second sensor when the first sensor transitions from the active mode to the dormant mode. | 06-14-2012 |
20120188262 | DETECTING STATIC IMAGES AND REDUCING RESOURCE USAGE ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device for detecting static images and reducing resource usage is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device determines image memory. The electronic device also sets a timer. The electronic device further monitors the image memory. The electronic device also determines whether there is a write access request for the image memory. Furthermore, the electronic device determines whether a time threshold has been reached based on the timer if there is not a write access request for the image memory. The electronic device also reduces display resource usage if the time threshold has been reached. | 07-26-2012 |
20120221651 | EMAIL ACCESS MANAGER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In general, this disclosure relates to techniques for management of email access for a wireless communication device (WCD). The techniques may utilize an email access manager that selects a synchronization mode to synchronize with a remote email server and selects a transfer mode to transfer email messages with the remote email server based on context data regarding the WCD. The context data of the WCD may include one or more of quality of service (QoS) of network connections with the remote email server, battery status of the WCD, and user settings for the WCD. The email access manager monitors the context data from one or more managers, applications, and/or memory within the WCD. The techniques described herein enable an email application on a WCD to dynamically alter synchronization and transfer of email messages with a remote email server as appropriate given the context of the WCD. | 08-30-2012 |
20120222092 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO MEDIA FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device for controlling access to media is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device obtains media information and determines remaining battery power. The electronic device also determines whether to restrict access to the media based on the media information and the remaining battery power. The electronic device restricts access to the media if it is determined to restrict access and presents the media on the electronic device if it is determined not to restrict access. | 08-30-2012 |
20120262592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SAVING POWER BY ADAPTING FEATURES OF A DEVICE - Present embodiments contemplate systems, apparatus, and methods to reduce power consumption of devices. Particularly, present embodiments contemplate modifying parameters of embedded components, including imaging sensors and electronic displays, to reduce power consumption. By modifying parameters of these components in an intelligent manner, the full capabilities of these components are available when needed by a device user, while power is conserved by reducing the capabilities of the components when those capabilities are not needed to support a current use of the device. | 10-18-2012 |
20130016114 | DISPLAYING STATIC IMAGESAANM Rabii; Khosro M.AACI San DiegoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Rabii; Khosro M. San Diego CA US - Aspects of this disclosure may describe techniques to display a static image with reduced power consumption. In some examples, a graphics processing unit (GPU) may retrieve the static image from a system memory, scale the static image to a reduced spatial resolution version of the static image, and store the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image in local memory. A display processor may retrieve the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image from local memory. The display processor may rescale the reduced spatial resolution version of the static image, and display the rescaled image on a display for presentation. | 01-17-2013 |
20130080663 | MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE WITH CONTENT PROTECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In general, this disclosure relates to techniques for management of a multimedia connection between a wireless communication device (WCD) and one or more output devices. The connection may be a multimedia interface connection with content protection, e.g., High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). In some cases, the multimedia interface connection with content protection may be inactive because the output device is no longer connected or the multimedia application is stopped or paused. The techniques include detecting a use mode of the multimedia interface connection with content protection between the WCD and one or more output devices. When the use mode of the multimedia interface connection with content protection is inactive, the WCD may reduce at least one of content processing or content protection processing. In this way, the techniques may reduce battery power consumption from multimedia processing by the WCD. | 03-28-2013 |
20130128948 | DISPLAY MODE-BASED VIDEO ENCODING IN WIRELESS DISPLAY DEVICES - This disclosure relates to techniques for performing display mode based video encoding to reduce power consumption in a source device of a Wireless Display (WD) system. More specifically, the techniques enable the source device to select an encoding process based on whether the video data to be encoded is in a static display mode or a dynamic display mode. For example, when the video data is in the static display mode, the source device selects a static encoding process that reduces an amount of video data processing and compression, which in turn reduces power consumption at the source device. When the video data is in the dynamic mode, the source device may select a conventional dynamic encoding process. The source device encodes the video data according to the selected encoding process, and transmits the encoded video data to one or more sink devices in the WD system for display. | 05-23-2013 |
20130148720 | SELECTIVE MIRRORING OF MEDIA OUTPUT - According to some aspects, this disclosure describes techniques for mirroring native media output of a source device via a different destination device. According to the techniques described herein, the source device may control the destination device to the media via an output interface associated with the destination device. The source device may receive a media element of the native media. In response to receiving the native media element, the source device may determine whether to output (mirror) the native media including the media element based on at least one parameter associated with the media element. According to other aspects, this disclosure describes techniques for preventing at least one media element from being mirrored via a destination device operating to mirror other native media. As one example, the source device may change how the source device encodes at least one region associated with the media element, in order to freeze media output associated with the at least one region. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152014 | ELECTRONIC READER DISPLAY CONTROL - This disclosure describes techniques for reducing power consumption of a display device when operated to present text to a user, such as using an electronic book application. According to some aspects, the display device may determine a reading pane within a display screen of the display device, present text to a user in the determined reading pane, determine a reading speed of the user based on user input, and automatically advance the text in the determined reading pane based on the determined reading speed of the user. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155090 | STATIC IMAGE POWER MANAGEMENT - This disclosure describes techniques for reducing power consumption of a display device. According to these techniques, a display device is configured to determine whether an image to be displayed by the display device has become static. In response to identifying such a static image, the display device may operate in a static image mode. According to the static image mode, the display device may read a current frame of image data, modify the current frame of image data to generate a modified frame of image data with a reduced size, and store the modified image data in memory. The display device may read the modified image data from memory to present the static image, which may reduce power consumption of the display device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130198541 | System and Method For Battery Load Management In A Portable Computing Device - Various embodiments of methods and systems for managing battery load in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. One such method includes tracking an active load on a battery attributable to one or more active power consuming components. Measurements associated with the battery and indicative of the battery's state of health may also be monitored. When a call for additional load on the battery is recognized, such as a user request for provision of additional functionality in the PCD, a future load on the battery that considers the newly called load can be calculated. Based on an analysis of the impact on the battery's state of health, existing, lower priority loads may be scaled or suspended to create battery load capacity for the newly called load. In this way, quality of service and user experience may be optimized while minimizing conditions that could be detrimental to the battery. | 08-01-2013 |
20140049480 | SCALABLE TOUCHSCREEN PROCESSING WITH REALTIME ROALE NEGOTIATION AMONG ASYMMETRIC PROCESSING CORES - A method for determining touch input data complexity and negotiating the processing of touch inputs from a touchscreen controller to a host processor. As touch input data is received from a touchscreen, the data may be evaluated by the touchscreen controller to determine the data's complexity. When the touchscreen controller determines the received touch input data is too complex for touchscreen controller processing, the host processor may be requested to process the data. The touchscreen controller may resume processing touch input data based on low complexity or host processor availability. Complexity may be determined based on evaluations of the number and frequency of touch inputs. Additionally, the touch input data may be evaluated to determine whether it represents multi-touch input. In an aspect, the touchscreen controller may disregard received touch input data determined to be noise. | 02-20-2014 |
20140072035 | ADAPTATION OF ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS IN PICTURES THAT FOLLOW SCENE CHANGES - A source device in a wireless display system determines whether a scene change has occurred between a first picture and a second picture prior to transmitting an encoded representation of the second picture to a sink device. The scene change occurs when the first picture and the second picture are sufficiently dissimilar. The source device may reduce, in response to determining that the scene change has occurred, a number of coding bits in the encoded representation of the second picture. Furthermore, in response to determining that the scene change has occurred, the source device increases a throughput of a wireless channel. After reducing the number of coding bits in the encoded representation of the second picture and increasing the throughput of the wireless channel, the source device transmits the encoded representation of the second picture to the sink device via the wireless channel. | 03-13-2014 |
20140160085 | ADAPTIVE ANALOG-FRONT-END TO OPTIMIZE TOUCH PROCESSING - In various aspects a host processor and a touchscreen controller may concurrently process a signal sent by a touch transducer when a touch is detected. A touch signal sent directly from a touch transducer may be formatted into a calibrated touch signal that the host processor can process. The calibrated touch signal may allow the host processor to receive and process touch signals from transducers and touchscreens from various manufacturers. The touchscreen controller and the host processor may each independently assess the touch-processing state. The touch-processing state may be set to one of a plurality of “states,” and the plurality of states may have rules for transitioning between the states. In various aspects, a host processor and a touchscreen controller may dynamically set, among other things, the scanning rate and resolution of a touchscreen panel based on the touch-processing state. | 06-12-2014 |
20140267132 | Comprehensive Framework for Adaptive Touch-Signal De-Noising/Filtering to Optimize Touch Performance - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus estimates an amount of future noise that can affect the touch screen. The apparatus alters a sensitivity of the touch screen based on the estimated amount of the future noise. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267790 | ADAPTIVE DATA PATH FOR COMPUTER-VISION APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive data path for computer-vision applications. Utilizing techniques provided herein, the data path can adapt to the needs of a computer-vision application to provide the needed data. The data path can be adapted by applying one or more filters to image data from one or more sensors. Some embodiments may utilize a computer-vision processing unit comprising a specialized instruction-based, in-line processor capable of interpreting commands from a computer-vision application. | 09-18-2014 |
20150046676 | Method and Devices for Data Path and Compute Hardware Optimization - Methods and devices for distributing processing capacity in a multi-processor system include monitoring a data input for a feature activity with a first processor, such as a high efficiency processor. When feature activity is detected, a feature event may be predicted and processing capacity requirement may be estimated. The sufficiency of available processing capacity of the first processor to meet the estimated future processing capacity requirement and process the predicted feature event may be determined. Processing capacity of a second processor, such as a high performance processor, may be distributed along with the data input when the available processing capacity of the first processor are insufficient to meet the processing capacity requirement and process the predicted feature event. | 02-12-2015 |
20150229839 | ADAPTIVE DATA PATH FOR COMPUTER-VISION APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive data path for computer-vision applications. Utilizing techniques provided herein, the data path can adapt to the needs of a computer-vision application to provide the needed data. The data path can be adapted by applying one or more filters to image data from one or more sensors. Some embodiments may utilize a computer-vision processing unit comprising a specialized instruction-based, in-line processor capable of interpreting commands from a computer-vision application. | 08-13-2015 |
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20140267104 | OPTIMIZED ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING FOR TOUCH SENSING - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for recognizing touch input for a touch panel are presented. In some embodiments, a method for recognizing touch input for a touch panel includes scanning the touch panel over a first frame including at least one touch panel blob resulting from a touch on the touch panel. The method also includes scanning the touch panel over a second frame including at least one touch panel blob resulting from a touch on the touch panel. The method additionally includes processing the touch panel blob within the first frame based at least in part on a first touch-reporting sensitivity and processing the touch panel blob within the second frame based at least in part on a second touch-reporting sensitivity. The method further includes determining whether a valid touch exists based at least in part on the processing step. | 09-18-2014 |
20140306903 | METHODS OF EVALUATING TOUCH PROCESING - A touchscreen system includes a touchscreen configured to receive touch data from a user, a plurality of modules, and a touch performance profiler module communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of modules. The plurality of modules are collectively configured to process the touch data and display an output based on the processed touch data. The touch performance profiler module is configured to monitor the at least one of the plurality of modules in real-time and output performance attributes of the at least one of the plurality of modules based at least in part on the monitoring. | 10-16-2014 |
20140368626 | COMPUTER VISION APPLICATION PROCESSING - Methods, systems, and techniques to enhance computer vision application processing are disclosed. In particular, the methods, systems, and techniques may reduce power consumption for computer vision applications and improve processing efficiency for computer vision applications. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368688 | COMPUTER VISION APPLICATION PROCESSING - Methods, systems, and techniques to enhance computer vision application processing are disclosed. In particular, the methods, systems, and techniques may reduce power consumption for computer vision applications and improve processing efficiency for computer vision applications. | 12-18-2014 |
20150023516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A HEADSET JACK TO CONTROL ELECTRONIC DEVICE FUNCTIONS - Systems and methods for automatically controlling an electronic device based on whether or not a headset is in a listening position are described. The existing wired stereo headset conductors may be used to provide power to a sensor and hardware subsystem within the headset. In some aspects, a sensor-enabled headset or headphones can sense whether each earbud of the headset is placed in the user's ears and communicate that information to an electronic device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150055008 | Systems and methods of saving power by adapting features of a device - Present embodiments contemplate systems, apparatus, and methods to reduce power consumption of devices. Particularly, present embodiments contemplate modifying parameters of embedded components, including imaging sensors and electronic displays, to reduce power consumption. By modifying parameters of these components in an intelligent manner, the full capabilities of these components are available when needed by a device user, while power is conserved by reducing the capabilities of the components when those capabilities are not needed to support a current use of the device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062022 | WEARABLE DISPLAY DEVICE USE-BASED DATA PROCESSING CONTROL - Techniques are described for controlling operation of both a host device and a wearable display device connected to the host device based on a use status of the wearable display device. The techniques include automatically determining a use status of a wearable display device based on feedback from one or more touch sensors within the wearable display device that indicates whether the wearable display device is worn by a user. Based on the determined use status, the wearable display device controls its own operation (e.g., controls operation of display screens of the wearable display device, a communication session with the host device, and display processing of data received from the host device). The wearable display device also sends an indication of the use status to the host device. The host device then controls its own data processing for the wearable display device based on the indicated use status. | 03-05-2015 |
20150227180 | User-Directed Motion Gesture Control - Apparatuses and methods for user-directed motion gesture control are disclosed. According to aspects of the present disclosure, direct user inputs can be used to predictably manipulate power control behavior. In some embodiments, a wearable mobile device may be configured to accept user commands, and be configured to sense multitude of use, use environment, and use contexts. The wearable mobile device may include a memory configured to store a set of reference power control motion gesture sequences, one or more sensors configured to sense a motion gesture sequence, and a controller configured to provide interactive power control of the device using the motion gesture sequence and the set of reference power control motion gesture sequences. | 08-13-2015 |
20150249967 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE MULTIMEDIA DEVICES USING A COMMON TIMING FRAMEWORK - Apparatuses and methods for wireless synchronization of multiple multimedia devices using a common timing framework are disclosed. In one aspect, a wireless multimedia source device is configured to establish wireless connections with a plurality of multimedia sink devices. The wireless multimedia source device is further configured to calculate a correction time interval for each multimedia sink device based on a difference between a master program clock reference (M | 09-03-2015 |
20150280904 | SERIAL TIME-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED BUS WITH BIDIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONIZATION/CONTROL WORD LINE - One feature pertains to the synchronization of a serial time-division-multiplexed bus interconnecting an audio processing subsystem (i.e. a local node) with an audio coder-decoder (CODEC) subsystem (i.e. a remote node.) Control signals are transmitted along a bidirectional transmission line of the bus from the audio processing subsystem to the audio CODEC subsystem. The audio processing subsystem tracks an internal state machine phase count as the control signals are transmitted. The audio CODEC subsystem also tracks an internal state machine phase count as the signals are received. Transmission of control signals by the audio processing subsystem is periodically paused or suspended for a fixed interval of time based on the phase count to allow the audio CODEC subsystem to send a synchronization indicator signal back to the audio processing subsystem, which the audio processing subsystem uses to verify synchronization. This may be performed, for example, once every one hundred-twenty phase counts. | 10-01-2015 |