MIRROR DETECTION-BASED DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY

Patent №

US 8,743,051

Granted

2014-06-03

Filed 2011

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13237752

An electronic device automatically reverses a left-right orientation of content displayed by the device when detecting that a user is viewing content of the device via a mirror. Some embodiments reverse the content upon detecting a trigger such as a reflection of an image displayed by the device, indicating that the device is displaying content against a mirror. In some embodiments, the device reverses the content upon detecting that blinking markers displayed by the device are inverted or upon detecting a blinking marker flashing in a particular pattern consistent to that emitted by the device. Some embodiments reverse the content upon detecting both the reflection of the image and a reflection of the user. Further, some embodiments reverse the content upon determining that the user is facing a mirror and switches back to its normal orientation when the user is viewing the content by directly looking at the device.

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AI classification

Vision1.00
Evolutionary computation0.05
Natural language0.02
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 277320476

Assignors

MOY, STEVEN KA CHEUNG, FU, KAH KUEN, IVANCHENKO, VOLODYMYR V., HOVDEN, GUNNAR

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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