Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150025662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIO AUGMENTED REALITY - A system, controller, and computer readable medium for providing an audio augmented reality to a user. The system can detect an object, event, or the like in the environment of a user and play a digitized sound and/or a synthesized sound in response to the detected object, event, or the like. The user can specify preferences for sounds played in response to the detected object or event. | 01-22-2015 |
20150110285 | MODIFYING AN AUDIO PANORAMA TO INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF DANGER OR OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST - A personal safety system detects imminent danger or other event of interest and then modifies a sound panorama to focus a user's attention towards the direction of the danger or other event of interest. The personal safety system may isolate sounds originating from the direction of the danger or other event of interest, collapse the sound panorama towards the direction of the danger or other event of interest, or compress the sound panorama to align with the direction of the danger or other event of interest. The personal safety system may be integrated into an automobile or a wearable system physically attached to the user. Advantageously, the attention of the user may be drawn towards imminent danger or other events of interest without introducing additional sensory information to the user, thereby reducing the likelihood of startling or distracting the user. | 04-23-2015 |
20150128067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY SHARING DATA AMONGST USER DEVICES - A system and method for sharing data between devices are provided. A source device detects one or more receiving devices that are operated in a mode to receive data from the source device. The source device detects a user action that signifies intent of a user to transmit data to the one or more receiving devices. In response to detecting the user action, the source device identifies data that is in a state designated to be transmitted. The identified content is transmitted to the one or more receiving devices. | 05-07-2015 |
20150137998 | USING EXTERNAL SOUNDS TO ALERT VEHICLE OCCUPANTS OF EXTERNAL EVENTS AND MASK IN-CAR CONVERSATIONS - An audio processing system may selectively identify certain environmental sounds and playing back these sounds, or a representation of these sounds, in the vehicle's cabin. The audio processing system may filter the environmental sounds to identify a particular sound that matches an event such as a bouncing ball, squealing tires, footsteps, and the like. The audio processing system may then provide an audio alert to an occupant in the vehicle. For example, the system may process the identified sound (e.g., amplify and/or isolate the sound) and use a speaker to output the processed sound into the interior of the vehicle. In another embodiment, the audio processing system may use environmental sounds as an audio masking sound for creating privacy zones within the vehicle. The audio processing system may filter the environmental sounds to identify a continuous sound which is then output to generate the privacy zones. | 05-21-2015 |
20150145883 | ALTERING ATTRIBUTES OF CONTENT THAT IS PROVIDED IN A PORTION OF A DISPLAY AREA BASED ON DETECTED INPUTS - A method is disclosed for providing content on a computing device. Content is provided, from execution of an application, in a defined portion of a display area that is provided by a display device of the computing device. The defined portion includes a first set of attributes. One or more attributes of the first set of attributes is altered based on one or more inputs detected by one or more sensors. The one or more attributes are altered independent of a set of settings used by the display device to provide the display area. | 05-28-2015 |
20150160033 | EYE GAZE ENABLED NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system is configured to generate a sequence of driving instructions for directing a driver of a vehicle from a current location to a final destination. The navigation system is configured to capture sensor data that reflects the field of view of the driver and to identify objects in that field of view. The navigation system then customizes the driving instructions to reference specific objects, thereby generating context-specific driving instructions. The navigation system is also configured to identify particular objects upon which the driver is focused, and to generate context-specific driving instructions relative to such objects of focus. The navigation system may also provide correction information to the driver upon determining that the driver has incorrectly focused on a different object than an object referenced in a context-specific driving instruction. | 06-11-2015 |
20150162000 | CONTEXT AWARE, PROACTIVE DIGITAL ASSISTANT - A digital assistant system may be used to proactively retrieve and provide information to a user based on an identified context of the user's environment and/or activities. By monitoring a user's environment and/or activities, an inference can be made about what supplemental information the user may find helpful and/or relevant. The supplemental information can be proactively retrieved and presented to the user. The system can include one or more sensors to gather information about the user's environment and/or activities. The system can also include one or more output modules for proactively providing information to the user, such as a speaker for providing information in an auditory format and a display for providing information in a visual format. The system can be wearable and always on so that it can quickly and unobtrusively provide information to the user. | 06-11-2015 |
20150178985 | VIRTUAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM - System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation, the operation comprising generating a three-dimensional graphical output comprising: a three-dimensional representation of a vehicle instrument cluster comprising a plurality of instruments at a first depth level, and a three-dimensional representation of a navigation system map at a second depth level, and outputting the three-dimensional graphical output for display on a three-dimensional display in a vehicle. | 06-25-2015 |