Mobile device support for sensors in peripherals

    公开(公告)号:US10120697B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15304590

    申请日:2014-04-24

    Abstract: Examples relate to extending hardware support for sensors embedded in peripherals. In some examples, a driver is used to determine that a peripheral device includes a sensor in response to the peripheral device being attached to a mobile computing device, where the driver is preloaded in an operating system kernel of the mobile computing device. Next, a list of supported hardware features is updated to include a peripheral hardware feature that is provided by a sensor of the peripheral device, and the list of supported hardware features is sent to an application store server. At this stage, a list of available applications that are compatible with the list of supported hardware features is received from the application store server.

    Regulating environmental conditions inside cups of headphones

    公开(公告)号:US11228829B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-18

    申请号:US16076909

    申请日:2017-07-14

    Abstract: Headphones include a pair of cups, each housing a speaker to be positioned over an ear of a user, a processor, a cooling mechanism disposed within each of the cups to regulate environmental conditions inside of the cups to match environmental thresholds provided by a virtual reality device displaying a virtual reality environment to the user, a temperature sensor and at least one additional environmental sensor disposed within each of the cups to monitor the environmental conditions inside the cups, the processor to subsequently analyze data associated with the sensors and compare the data to the environmental thresholds and the processor to selectively activate the cooling mechanism based on the comparison.

    Communication apparatuses
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11367436B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US16074280

    申请日:2016-09-27

    Abstract: In one example of the disclosure, a communication apparatus includes a first microphone. The communication apparatus is to be wirelessly and contemporaneously connected to a set of microphones including the first microphone. The communication apparatus is to receive microphone data from each microphone of the set of microphones, wherein the microphone data is indicative of a user spoken phrase captured by the set of microphones. The communication apparatus is to establish based on the received microphone data a selected microphone from among the set of microphones.

    Alerting users to events
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11228828B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-18

    申请号:US16076382

    申请日:2017-07-14

    Abstract: Headphones includes a pair of cups, each housing a speaker to be positioned over an ear of a user, a microphone, a processor, an actuator to move a member of at least one of the cups to uncover at least a portion of the ear of the user to expose the user to ambient sound, a user control to active a training mode of the headphones in which the processor operates the microphone to record relevant sounds occurring when the training mode is activated, the processor to subsequently analyze ambient sounds external to the headphones that are received by the microphone and compare those ambient sounds to the recorded relevant sounds and the processor to selectively activate the actuator to uncover at least a portion of the ear of the user to expose the user to ambient sound in response to determining that the ambient sounds match the relevant sounds.

    Utilizing a data cable infrastructure to provide power

    公开(公告)号:US11044109B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US15764931

    申请日:2015-09-30

    Abstract: Utilizing a data cable infrastructure to provide power includes a detector to determine whether data cables in the data cable infrastructure are being used by a data service provider, a circuit to determine an amount of power that can be provided on each of a number of wires within the data cables, and an adjustable power supply of a power system to selectively provide power over the wires within the data cables in the amount determined by the circuit and based on whether the detector determines the data cables to be in use by the data service provider.

    UTILIZING A DATA CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE TO PROVIDE POWER

    公开(公告)号:US20180287807A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15764931

    申请日:2015-09-30

    Abstract: Utilizing a data cable infrastructure to provide power includes a detector to determine whether data cables in the data cable infrastructure are being used by a data service provider, a circuit to determine an amount of power that can be provided on each of a number of wires within the data cables, and an adjustable power supply of a power system to selectively provide power over the wires within the data cables in the amount determined by the circuit and based on whether the detector determines the data cables to be in use by the data service provider.

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