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20110054778 | Method and Apparatus for Displaying Three-Dimensional Terrain and Route Guidance - According to one aspect of the present invention, an information display device for displaying three-dimensional route and terrain includes a plurality of databases for storing information; a display control unit to dynamically manage said information with different levels-of-detail (LODs); and a user interface communicatively coupled with the control unit to display said managed information with different levels of detail. In one embodiment, the control unit may include a terrain scaling unit which is configured to dynamically increase or decrease the height or “3D-ness” of the terrain based on the angle and height of the viewing. The control unit may also include an LOD control unit and a scene stitching unit. In addition, the information display device provides a three-dimensional real-time rendering environment including three-dimensional guidance information which allows the user to understand complex maneuvers without using two-dimensional overlays. | 03-03-2011 |
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20150094023 | Retroactively Securing a Mobile Device From a Remote Source - Described is a technique for retroactively securing a mobile device from a remote source. A user may remotely lock the bootloader of the device from a device management portal. Accordingly, a user may essentially “brick” the device rendering the device unusable by another user until an additional security check is passed. The ability to remotely lock the device may be provided in response to a notification of a potentially unauthorized access of the device. The unauthorized access may include a reset or wipe of the device. Accordingly, the technique provides the ability of an authorized user to secure the mobile device even after being maliciously disassociated from the device. | 04-02-2015 |
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20150254449 | Coordinated Passcode Challenge for Securing a Device - Described is a device that secures low level software on the device such as a boot loader. In addition, the device may coordinate a passcode challenge between a boot module, which may be provided by a first manufacturer, and an operating system of the device, which may be provided by a second distinct manufacturer. By coordinating passcodes challenges, a user may not be required to establish and/or remember two separate passcodes for securing the device. | 09-10-2015 |
20150312647 | Programmatically Determining When Credits Appear During a Video in Order to Provide Supplemental Information - Described is a system and method for programmatically determining credits for a video content item. By determining a point at which credits are displayed, a content provider may effectively provide supplementation information in a contextual and non-intrusive manner. In order to determine when credits are displayed, individual frames of content may be decoded and various characteristics of the individual frames may be analyzed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150347378 | PROVIDING LANGUAGE RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving data indicating a particular language a user has associated with their user profile; identifying a different language that (i) the user has not previously associated with their user profile, and that (ii) a language recommendation engine has associated with the particular language; providing a recommendation to the user to associate the different language with their user profile; receiving, in response to the recommendation, an indication of whether to associate the different language with the user profile; and updating the user profile based on the indication. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347407 | DYNAMIC CURRENT RESULTS FOR SECOND DEVICE - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for providing at least one dynamic current result to a second device, such as a mobile phone, where the at least one dynamic current result is related to content that is active on a first device such as a television. The dynamic current result may be generated based on a search query. | 12-03-2015 |