US 10,757,744 B2Granted

Mobile device and method for establishing a wireless link

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsShin Saito, Stefan Koch, Ralf Boehnke

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Abstract

A mobile device that enables a user friendly selection of a target wireless enabled device, a wireless enabled device being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices, includes an imaging unit that acquires images of the surrounding of the mobile device and a display that displays images acquired by the imaging unit. An object detection unit is provided to detect wireless enabled devices within images acquired by the imaging unit, the wireless enabled devices being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices. Further, a user interface and a wireless interface are provided to establish a wireless link to a selected wireless enabled device. The display is configured to indicate detected wireless enabled devices in images displayed on the display and the user inter-face is configured to enable a user to select a wireless enabled device indicated on the display.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising a display, a wireless interface, a user interface, and a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to:

acquire images of the surrounding of the mobile device,
display the acquired images on the display,
detect wireless enabled devices within the acquired images, said wireless enabled devices being configured to establish a wireless link with other devices,
display wireless connection indicators on said display to indicate the detected eless enabled devices in images displayed on said display,
display a task availability indicator on said display to indicate if a detected wireless enabled device is configured to perform a pre-selected task after establishing a wireless link with said wireless interface, wherein the task availability indicator is displayed prior to establishing a wireless link to the detected wireless enabled device configured to perform the pre-selected task,
enable a user to select a wireless enabled device indicated on said display via the user interface, and
establish a wireless link to the wireless enabled device selected by the user,
wherein the wireless connection indicators and the task availability indicator are different.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/195,143Filed 19 Nov 2018 · continuation
Priority: EP 131506879 Jan 2013
Published: US 2019/0090295 A121 Mar 2019
Granted: 25 Aug 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04W 76/14
Connection setup: direct-mode setup
G06T 7/11
Segmentation; Edge detection: region-based segmentation
G06T 7/73
Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras: using feature-based methods
H04M 1/724
Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection: user interfaces…

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PCT/EP2013/077074Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Dec 2013
US 2019/0090295 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Mar 2019
Application14/648,996Parent of this continuation
US 10,154,521 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0021692 A1Published application
US 10,757,744 B2This patent

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