Patents by Inventor Alexander Hunt
Alexander Hunt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20150207914Abstract: A mobile electronic wearable device (1), adapted to be worn by a user, comprising means for providing 10 haptic notifications to a user and a method for providing haptic notifications on mobile electronic wearable devices (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander Hunt, Magnus Johansson
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Publication number: 20150179113Abstract: The invention is directed to a display comprising a transmissive portion and a reflective portion. The reflective portion presents at least one icon in an active mode and at least one notification in a sleep mode. The at least one icon is used for manipulating content presented on the transmissive portion. The at least one notification comprises a message notification, a time or date indicator, a weather indicator, a calendar, a photo, a logo, an event indicator, a moving image, or text. The reflective portion may be located above, below, or adjacent to the transmissive portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Alexander Hunt, Johan Svenér, Magnus Johansson
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Publication number: 20150153886Abstract: The present invention presents a mobile electronic device comprising dynamic hardware controls and a method for controlling dynamic hardware controls. The mobile electronic device comprises a pressure sensing film arranged to detect a pressure applied on at least one portion of at least one side of the mobile electronic device and electroactive polymer film with a conductive coating arranged overlaying the pressure sensing film. The electroactive polymer film comprises at least one deformable segment that may be deformed temporarily by the application of a voltage over the at least one deformable segment in the electroactive polymer film, the mobile electronic device further comprises a control unit arranged to control the dynamic hardware controls.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Alexander Hunt, Magnus Johansson
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Patent number: 8968022Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a receptacle that is configured to receive an electrical wire therein. An electrical contact is held by the housing. The electrical contact includes a contact beam that includes a wire interface that is configured to engage the electrical wire. The contact beam is movable between a closed position and an open position. The wire interface is configured to engage the electrical wire when the contact beam is in the closed position. The wire interface is configured to be disengaged from the electrical wire when the contact beam is in the open position. The electrical connector includes a push-button actuator having a resiliently deflectable spring that is configured to slidably engage the contact beam to thereby move the contact beam from the closed position to the open position.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Matthew Edward Mostoller, Christopher George Daily, Edward John Howard, Alexander Hunt, III
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Publication number: 20140198016Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for a low-power mode (or low-transmission state) associated with a display. An exemplary system comprises: a first display positioned on top of a second display, the first display at least partially covering the second display; the second display; a processor configured to: determine whether the first display is in low-transmission state or a high-transmission state; in response to determining the first display is in a low-transmission state, enable display of an image on the first display. Additionally, the system also updates an image on the display based on determining a frequency of updating an image on the display in the low-transmission state, and based on determining an amount of data to be updated on the display in the low-transmission state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Alexander Hunt, Martin Ek
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Publication number: 20140111667Abstract: Method for capturing an image of an object (110) by using a camera unit (120) comprising an air touch display (130) and an objective (150). The method comprises activating (401) a viewfinder mode of the camera unit (120), displaying (402) the view of the objective (150) in viewfinder mode on the air touch display (130), recognising (403), by the air touch display (130), a finger (140) situated above the surface of the air touch display (130), focusing (404) the objective (150) on the object (110) corresponding to the position of the recognised (403) finger (140), and capturing (405) and saving (406) the image focused (404) on the object (110) corresponding to the position of the recognised (403) finger (140), when a movement of the finger (140) towards the surface of the air touch display (130) is detected by the air touch display (130). Further, a computer program product and an arrangement (500) for performing the method is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2011Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Alexander Hunt, Jonas Leijon, Ola Axelsson
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Publication number: 20130187961Abstract: A device may determine a first distance between a viewer and a display of a device. The display may include a first parallax barrier including a plurality of parallax barrier clusters. Each of the parallax barrier clusters includes a plurality of parallax barrier elements that are parallel to one another and parallel to the parallax barrier clusters. The device may also determine a second distance between a right eye of the viewer and a left eye of the viewer, and move parallax barrier elements to control spacing between the parallax barrier clusters based on the first distance and the second distance. Furthermore, the device may send, from the display, light rays of a right-eye image of a stereoscopic image and a left-eye image of the stereoscopic image to a right eye of the viewer and a left eye of the viewer, respectively, through the spacing between the parallax barrier clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventor: Alexander Hunt
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Publication number: 20120268385Abstract: A user device comprising a keypad or a keyboard comprising one or more buttons; one or more light guides; one or more ultraviolet light emitting elements; and at least one of one or more fluorescently painted symbols or one or more fluorescent three-dimensional symbols, wherein the one or more ultraviolet light emitting elements are configured to expose ultraviolet light to the at least one of the one or more fluorescently painted symbols or the one or more fluorescent three-dimensional symbols via the one or more light guides.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Linus Frantzich, Alexander Hunt
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Patent number: 8285038Abstract: A portable electronic communication device includes an image memory that stores an image in its original colors; a display that presents the image, in its original colors, when received from the image memory, based on an instruction, received from a user of the portable electronic communication device, to present the image without adjustment to the original colors; and a white balance adjustment device including multiple image signal adjusters that adjust signal levels of image signals corresponding to particular colors, where, when another instruction is received from the user to adjust the original colors, the white balance adjustment device controls the multiple image signal adjusters, based on user input, to select color adjustments and apply the color adjustments to create a color-adjusted image. The portable electronic device also includes another memory that stores the color-adjusted image, where the display is configured to present the color-adjusted image when received from the other memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Alexander Hunt
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Patent number: 8243237Abstract: A device includes a display that includes a transmissive portion, a transflective portion, and a lens array associated with the transflective portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Martin Grip, Alexander Hunt
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Patent number: 8072502Abstract: A camera device includes optics to produce a projected image, where the projected image has a projected image area. The camera device also includes a moveable sensor to move to a number of positions within the projected image area and capture a portion of the projected image, as an image portion, in each of the positions, and processing logic to combine the image portions together into a final image.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Stip Martin Grip, Alexander Hunt
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Patent number: 8059239Abstract: The present invention describes a display comprising a liquid crystal layer, an illumination system and a reflective layer, where the reflective layer is arranged below the liquid crystal layer, where the reflectivity of the layer is adjustable. In this way the amount of ambient light passing through the display and being reflected by the reflective layer can be altered. Moreover, the present invention describes a method and computer program for controlling reflectivity of a flat display panel in a portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Alexander Hunt
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Patent number: 7926981Abstract: A portable device or a cover for a portable device includes a light source to emit light and an optical fiber to illuminate based on light received from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Alexander Hunt, Allan Johansson, Linda-Marie Nilsson, Rene Nilsson, Fredrik Lonn, Lars Weberg
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Publication number: 20100149469Abstract: The present invention describes a display comprising a liquid crystal layer, an illumination system and a reflective layer, where the reflective layer is arranged below the liquid crystal layer, where the reflectivity of the layer is adjustable. In this way the amount of ambient light passing through the display and being reflected by the reflective layer can be altered. Moreover, the present invention describes a method and computer program for controlling reflectivity of a flat display panel in a portable electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventor: Alexander HUNT
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Publication number: 20090309997Abstract: An image-capturing device, such as a camera or a camera-equipped wireless communication device, includes touch-sensitive user controls disposed on a housing of the device. The touch-sensitive user controls detect user movement along the controls, and allow a user to control one or more image-capturing functions of the device based on a detected direction of user movement along the touch-sensitive user controls.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Alexander Hunt, Jason M. Cope
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Publication number: 20090047995Abstract: A portable communication device is equipped with a dual camera module having a first or main camera module, a second or video telephony camera module and a common image sensor element configured to receive images from the first and second camera modules. The dual camera module includes image-shifting optics configured to shift images from the second camera module onto a portion of a common image sensor such that images from the main camera module may be received by a first or main portion of the common image sensor and images from the second camera module may be received by a secondary portion of the common image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Paul Futter, Alexander Hunt
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Publication number: 20090033675Abstract: The invention relates to a display for a mobile terminal for wireless communication comprising a first display area (2) with a high colour depth and a second display area (3) with a low colour depth. The invention further relates to a method for a display for a mobile terminal for wireless communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2005Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Alexander Hunt, Martin Ek
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Publication number: 20080278964Abstract: A portable device or a cover for a portable device includes a light source to emit light and an optical fiber to illuminate based on light received from the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Alexander HUNT, Allan JOHANSSON, Linda-Marie NILSSON, Rene NILSSON, Fredrik LONN, Lars WEBERG
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Publication number: 20080231959Abstract: Display module (10) for use in an electronic device, comprising a front window (12) and a display unit (13, 100), wherein an intermediate layer (24) of transparent material is sandwiched between the front window (12) and the display unit (13, 100). The intermediate layer (24) consists of a material which is selected taking the material of the front window (12) into consideration in order to minimize reflection at the interface between the front window (12) and the intermediate layer (24). The intermediate layer (24) consists of one or more layers whose refractive indices are chosen so that they closely match the refractive indices of the front window or the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Martin Grip, Alexander Hunt, Martin Ek
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Publication number: 20080123033Abstract: A device includes a display that includes a transmissive portion, a transflective portion, and a lens array associated with the transflective portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ABInventors: Martin Grip, Alexander Hunt