公开(公告)号：US11199906B1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US14018331

申请日：2013-09-04

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan Halley Curtis ,  Andrew Dean Christian

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: Systems and approaches enable concurrent interaction with multiple user applications in a multi-tasking environment. User input, such as voice commands, head movement, hand or finger gestures, device motion, can be received to a centralized component of a system. State information for each user application can be determined, and the centralized component can send a recognized command or gesture to the appropriate user application(s) based on the state information and/or rules for propagating user input. Additionally, users can configure the input modalities of each user application to customize interaction with systems.

公开(公告)号：US10212390B1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US15810708

申请日：2017-11-13

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Dean Christian ,  David Marc Levine ,  Blair Harold Beebe

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  H04N7/14 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N5/14 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N7/01 ,  H04N5/232

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a standby mode during videoconferencing, the standby mode having reduced bandwidth consumption and configured to indicate whether a person is present while protecting a privacy of the person. For example, a local device may capture low resolution video data at a low sampling rate, downsample the video data and send the downsampled video data to a remote device, which may upsample the downsampled video data and display the upsampled video data on a display. The upsampled video data indicates an environment of the local device while blurring details, enabling a user of the remote device to identify movement or activity while maintaining privacy for anyone near the local device. The local device may identify activity, motion and/or objects of interest in the video data and may apply a special effect emphasizing the activity, motion and/or objects of interest.

公开(公告)号：US09848167B1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-19

申请号：US15188581

申请日：2016-06-21

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Dean Christian ,  David Marc Levine ,  Blair Harold Beebe

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  H04N7/14 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N7/01 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/14 ,  H04N5/265

CPC classification number: H04N7/147 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/144 ,  H04N5/23245 ,  H04N5/2621 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N7/15

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a standby mode during videoconferencing, the standby mode having reduced bandwidth consumption and configured to indicate whether a person is present while protecting a privacy of the person. For example, a local device may capture low resolution video data at a low sampling rate, downsample the video data and send the downsampled video data to a remote device, which may upsample the downsampled video data and display the upsampled video data on a display. The upsampled video data indicates an environment of the local device while blurring details, enabling a user of the remote device to identify movement or activity while maintaining privacy for anyone near the local device. The local device may identify activity, motion and/or objects of interest in the video data and may apply a special effect emphasizing the activity, motion and/or objects of interest.

公开(公告)号：US09786087B1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-10

申请号：US13956917

申请日：2013-08-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Xiangyu Liu ,  Andrew Dean Christian

IPC: G06T11/00 ,  G06T13/80

CPC classification number: G06T13/80 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06T2210/21

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are provided for management of animation collisions. An animation that may collide with another animation is represented with a sequence of one or more animation states, wherein each animation state in the sequence is associated with or otherwise corresponds to a portion of the animation. In order to manage animation collisions, a state machine can be configured to include a group of states that comprises animation states from a group of animations that may collide and states that can control implementation of an animation in response to an animation collision. In one aspect, a state machine manager can implement the group of states in order to implement an animation and manage animation collisions.

公开(公告)号：US09668298B1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-30

申请号：US14227899

申请日：2014-03-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Josh Pearl ,  Andrew Dean Christian ,  Jennifer Nicole Loomis ,  Donald Gillespie ,  Tristam Kyle MacDonald

IPC: H04W88/00 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H02J7/02

CPC classification number: H04W88/005 ,  H02J7/025 ,  H04B5/0037 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/182

Abstract: A WiFi-enabled user device charger is disclosed that may include a processor, a WiFi antenna, a connector for receiving power, a user device charging and data transmission connector, and a memory storing computer-executable instructions configuring the processor to connect to a server using the WiFi antenna to fetch data; queue a portion of the data to transfer to the user device; determine that the user device is connected to the WiFi-enabled user device charger; transmit at least a portion of the data to the user device using the device charging and data transmission connector; and transfer power to the user device using the device charging and data transmission connector. The WiFi-enabled user device charger may not provide any functionality that is not related to charging the user device or transferring data between the user device and the server.