Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as social networking, providing demographic information, tracking mobile devices, providing business information, providing an adaptable user interface, remotely effecting a change on a portable electronic device, providing a geofence, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to and from a mobile device, providing location-based alerts, verifying transactions and tailoring information to the behavior of a user.

Location-based services

A mobile terminal including a body; a touchscreen provided to a front and extending to side of the body and configured to display content; and a controller configured to detect one side of the body comes into contact with one side of an external terminal, display a first area on the touchscreen corresponding to a contact area of the body and the external terminal and a second area including the content, receive an input of moving the content displayed in the second area to the first area, display the content in the first area, and share the content in the first area with the external terminal.

Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

The invention provides a smart sensor ( 10 ) in the form of an adhesive bandage ( 32 ). The sensor ( 12 ) sticks to people and objects and wirelessly communicates with remote receivers ( 24 ). Internal detectors ( 12 ) sense conditions associated with movement or the environment of the sensor. Typically, sensors of the invention communicate by an RF transmitter or transceiver ( 16 ). Groups of sensors may be combined within a common canister that imparts date and time information and “power on” when dispensed.

Movement and event systems and associated methods related applications

Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed including a data communication unit to transmit one or more signals related to the monitored analyte level received from the analyte sensor to a remote device.

Analyte monitoring system and methods

A visual display device is provided for delivering a generated image, preferably combinable with environment light, to the eye of a user. The device is lightweight and compact but yields a high quality image. In one embodiment, a shroud protects from stray light and holds optical elements in desired alignment. In one embodiment an image generator is masked by at least two masks to provide for a high quality image without waste. In one embodiment, a removably mounted shield or activatable device and convert the apparatus from a see-through device to an immersion device and back again. In one embodiment, the device can be comfortably mounted to the user's head while still allowing for use of conventional eyeglasses. A tracker for outputting an indication of the orientation, attitude and/or position of a head-mounted display (HMD) may be provided. The tracker can be configured so that it is incorporated in the HMD housing and/or can be easily decoupled from the HMD, so that the HMD can be used without the tracker (e.g. for watching movies). Preferably, decoupling involves unplugging a single electrical connector (such as a cable) and unfastening a mechanical connection (such as a strap). Preferably the tracker provides pass-through of signal to the HMD and, when the tracker is coupled to the HMD, only a single cable or other data link connects the HMD-tracker combination to the host computer. In one embodiment, the tracker uses magnetic sensors. In another embodiment, one or more inertial sensors, such as a rate gyro and/or accelerometers are used.

Head-mounted personal visual display apparatus with image generator and holder

A portable communication device (100) includes at least one sensing circuit (101) and a processor (104), and operates in accordance with a corresponding method of operation. The sensing circuit detects (205) either a characteristic of an external environment containing the portable communication device (e.g., a chemical in the air or acceleration of the device) or a characteristic of the portable communication device user (e.g., heart rate or blood sugar content), and generates a signal (207) representative of a feature of the sensed characteristic. The processor receives the signal and initiates an event based at least on the feature of the sensed characteristic as represented by the signal. Events include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: alerting the device user, transmitting a signal (e.g., an emergency call) to a remote communication device, re-sensing the characteristic or sensing another characteristic, and modifying a setting or profile of the device.

Portable communication device and corresponding method of operation

These and other objects are provided by a novel boxing glove impact measuring system. The boxing glove impact measuring system includes a boxing glove body and an impact measuring device disposed in the boxing glove body. The system also includes an impact display device.

Boxing glove accelerometer

Multimedia messages, including video, audio, text, and alarms, are presented on an electronic device ( 102 ) in response to an electronic device arriving at a particular location. These location dependent communications are created by a user of an electronic device and stored in the electronic device or a communication system ( 100 ) associated with the electronic device. The parameters associated with the location dependent communication include a location ( 300 ), the form and content of the location dependent communication ( 302 ), a device associated with the location ( 306 ), a device for receiving the location dependent communication ( 304 ), and other options ( 308 ), such as a time, a temperature, a speed, or a profile. The location dependent communication is presented on an electronic device when a device associated with the location dependent communication reaches the particular location ( 402. 404 ). Arrival at a location is determined by location determination technology, such as satellite based location determination, cell site location determination, inertial sensing, or the like.

Method and apparatus for creating and presenting a location dependent communication with an electronic device

A graph access device and block access device can simultaneously access a memory pool shared between the devices. The memory pool may include one or more memory arrays accessed as a single logical memory. The block access device accesses the memory pool as a flat array of memory blocks, and the graph access device accesses the memory pool as hierarchical file system. The simultaneous access is accomplished by monitoring one or more memory block access operations performed by the block access device, while it is accessing the memory pool. The block access operations are translated into a graph data structure including a plurality of pointers mapping the memory pool to the hierarchical file system. A processor regulates access to the memory pool, and is configured to permit the graph access device to access the memory pool concurrently with the block access device, in accordance with the graph data structure.

Concurrent access to a memory pool shared between a block access device and a graph access device

A method and apparatus are provided for synthesizing an image from a plurality of video streams. The method includes the steps of determining an orientation of a first and second video source of the plurality of video streams with respect to a video object lying within a field of view of both the first and second video sources and selecting an orientation of a synthesized video source with respect to the video object. The method further includes the step of interpolating among corresponding images of the first and second video sources to form a stream of perspective images of the video object from the selected orientation of the synthesized source.

Matthew H. Klapman

Papers

Portable communication device and corresponding method of operation

Boxing glove accelerometer

Method and apparatus for creating and presenting a location dependent communication with an electronic device

Concurrent access to a memory pool shared between a block access device and a graph access device

Extended view morphing