Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a housing that has a sensor mounting panel, and first and second sensors mounted in the housing and oriented to extend through the sensor mounting panel to face an environment of interest. The electronic device is operable to change an operating state, of the first sensor, between first, second and third operating states. The first operating state represents a network sharing state in which the first type of information collected by the first sensor is shared with the network resource through the communications interface. The second operating state represents a local state in which the first type of information is maintained locally on, and is solely accessible to, the one or more processors of the electronic device and is not shared with the network resource.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and device for augmenting a communal display device (CDD) are provided. The method includes, under control of one or more processors configured with specific executable program instructions, capturing CDD image data at a digital camera unit (DCU) of a client device. The CDD image data is indicative of an image presented on the CDD. The method displays the CDD image data on a display of the client device and processes the CDD image data to determine interactive regions associated with the image presented on the CDD. The method generates an instruction in response to a user-based selection on the client device of at least one of the interactive regions and transmits the instruction to one or more processors associated with the CDD.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and device for augmenting a communal display device (CDD) are provided. The method includes, under control of one or more processors configured with specific executable program instructions, capturing CDD image data at a digital camera unit (DCU) of a client device. The CDD image data is indicative of an image presented on the CDD. The method displays the CDD image data on a display of the client device and processes the CDD image data to determine interactive regions associated with the image presented on the CDD. The method generates an instruction in response to a user-based selection on the client device of at least one of the interactive regions and transmits the instruction to one or more processors associated with the CDD.