Kathryn P Thomas

US Patent:

20220300234, Sep 22, 2022

Filed:

Mar 22, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/209146

Inventors:

- Chicago IL, US
Luciano Bevilacqua Pereira da Silva - Rio de Janeiro, BR
Caio Luiz Leal Chagas do Nascimento - Campinas, BR
Amit Kumar Agrawal - Bangalore, IN
Kathryn Ellen Thomas - Chicago IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G06F 3/14
H04N 5/232
G06K 9/00

Abstract:

In aspects of managing quickview content for a multi-display device, the multi-display device has a primary display screen to display digital image content and a secondary display screen to display quickview content. The multi-display device implements a content control module to determine a context that indicates a characteristic of the digital image content displayed on the primary display screen. The content control module also determines the quickview content to display on the secondary display screen based on the context of the digital image content displayed on the primary display screen. The content control module then initiates displaying the quickview content on the secondary display screen. The content control module can also detect at least one individual in a region from which a secondary display screen of the multi-display device is viewable, and activate the secondary display screen in response to the individual being detected.

US Patent:

20210400128, Dec 23, 2021

Filed:

Jun 22, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/907527

Inventors:

- Chicago IL, US
Kathryn Thomas - Chicago IL, US
Rachid Alameh - Crystal Lake IL, US

International Classification:

H04M 1/02
G06F 1/16
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/01

Abstract:

An electronic device includes a first touch sensitive display positioned on a first major surface of the electronic device and a second touch sensitive display positioned on a second major surface of the electronic device, or alternatively a single display wrapping about the first major surface and the second major surface. One or more processors cause a presentation of content on the first touch sensitive display while the one or more sensors receive user input. In response to the user input, which can be received by the second touch sensitive display, the one or more processors cease the presentation of the content on the first touch sensitive display and commence another presentation of the content on the second touch sensitive display. The process is reversible to send the content back to the first touch sensitive display.

US Patent:

20200097117, Mar 26, 2020

Filed:

Sep 20, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/137045

Inventors:

- CHICAGO IL, US
KIYOUN CHO - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS IL, US
JONATHON J. PRINZ - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
KATHRYN E. THOMAS - CHICAGO IL, US
FRANCIS KUZHIYIL - DEERFIELD IL, US
ALEXIS G. VALASEK - CHICAGO IL, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/041
G01L 5/22

Abstract:

A method for detecting, by a force sensing circuit within an electronic device, a change in force applied to a surface of the electronic device. The method includes correlating the change in the force applied to the surface to a functional change of at least one setting of the electronic device. The method further includes identifying when a detected change is a first change of the change in force, which corresponds to a trigger that activates at least one of a plurality of sensing devices within the force sensing circuit to monitor for a subsequent change in the force. In response to detecting the subsequent change of the change in force, the method includes adjusting the at least one setting of the electronic device based on the subsequent change of the force.

US Patent:

20190113961, Apr 18, 2019

Filed:

Oct 12, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/782609

Inventors:

- Chicago IL, US
Kathryn Thomas - Chicago IL, US
Kenny Kessler - Lake Zurich IL, US

International Classification:

G06F 1/32
G05B 15/02
G06F 1/26
H02J 3/14
H02J 7/35

Abstract:

A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more processors of the electronic device operating with an attachment having a predefined functionality, whether a function of the predefined functionality is operational on the electronic device. When the function is operational on the electronic device, the one or more processors can cause the following: an auxiliary energy storage device carried by the attachment to deliver power to the electronic device; a power management control circuit carried by the electronic device to power the one or more processors with the power delivered from the auxiliary energy storage device; and the power management control circuit to preclude charging of a primary energy storage device carried by the electronic device with the power delivered from the auxiliary energy storage device.