Motorola Mobility Comments on Initial Determination from ITC

ALJ determines that Motorola Mobility does not violate Apple’s patents

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) ("Motorola Mobility") announced that it has received notice that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) in the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) action brought by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) against Motorola Mobility has issued an initial determination. The ALJ ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility, finding no violation for any of the three Apple patents listed in Apple’s suit.

“We are pleased with today’s favorable outcome for Motorola Mobility,” said Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility. “Motorola Mobility has worked hard over the years to develop technology and build an industry-leading intellectual property portfolio. We are proud to leverage this broad and deep portfolio to create differentiated innovations that enhance the user experience.”

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About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.

LG and Microsoft have signed a license agreement relating to Android and Chrome OS devices

Microsoft and LG Electronics announced the signing of the patent agreement, affecting the portfolio of patents to Microsoft for the products of LG Electronics, has an operating system Android and Chrome OS.

Primarily this agreement affects the Tablet PCs and mobile phones, as well as other household appliances, which uses the above-mentioned software platforms.

The content of the agreement were not disclosed.

Kodak sues HTC, Apple over patent infringement

The two smartphone and tablet vendors are infringing on its digital imaging technology, the company alleges

Struggling Eastman Kodak is alleging that Apple's and HTC's smartphones and tablets infringe on its digital imaging technology, and has filed a complaint and lawsuits with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, it said on Tuesday.

The complaint to the ITC claims that some of Apple's iPhones, iPads, and iPods, and HTC's smartphones and tablets, infringe Kodak patents related to technology for transmitting images.

Kodak also alleges that HTC's smartphones infringe on a patent related to a method for previewing images, which is already the subject of pending actions against Apple.

Separately, Kodak also filed suits against Apple and HTC in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York alleging the same infringement, it said.

Four patents are the basis for Kodak's actions, including one for "automatically transmitting images from an electronic camera to a service provider using a network configuration file" and another patent for "capturing digital images to be transferred to an email address."

Kodak wants the ITC to stop the import of products that infringe on its patents, and has asked the District Court to stop Apple and HTC from infringing on the patents and award it damages.

Kodak has had numerous discussions with both companies in an attempt to resolve this issue, but has failed to reach an agreement, it said. The company's goal isn't to disrupt the availability of Apple's and HTC's products, but to get "fair compensation for the unauthorized use" of its technology, it said.

An HTC spokeswoman declined to comment until the company had reviewed the complaint. Apple didn't answer a request for a comment.

Kodak has already licensed patents related to its digital imaging technology to more than 30 companies, including LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Nokia, it said.

The company is also using the technology in its own products, including two new cameras that were launched at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Toward the end of last year, Kodak lowered projections for its full-year revenue and year-end cash balance, and on Jan. 3 warned that it could face delisting from the New York Stock Exchange, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company has warned that performance this year will depend on it selling its digital imaging patents to raise cash for future investments, and there have been reports that the company is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection.

In this age of intellectual property lawsuits, patents have proven to be a very valuable commodity. For example, last year, Nortel sold 6,000 patents and patent applications for $4.5 billion to a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony, following a bidding war with Google, which later made a $12.5 billion bid to buy Motorola Mobility. The reasoning behind that deal is in part to better protect Android from patent lawsuits.

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TidyTilt for iPhone

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Meet TidyTilt.
TidyTilt is an earbud cord wrap, multi-position kickstand, and mount for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. TidyTilt takes up less space than any one of these devices - yet does all three things - without adding something extra to carry.

Tidies
Wrap your earbud cords without skipping a beat. TidyTilt is always at hand, since it lives on the back of your iPhone. When you're done using your earbuds, simply wrap them over your iPhone, snap TidyTilt closed, and pop your earbuds right off. TidyTilt keeps your cords neat and secure, whether in a bag, pocket, or attached to your iPhone.

Tilts
TidyTilt serves as a stand for iPhone, enabling landscape and portrait orientation at multiple angles - perfect for watching movies, typing, or making video calls. It even does so while simultaneously keeping your earbuds secured. Gaming with a friend? Position Tidytilt at the center of iPhone for a new seesaw-like head-to-head gaming experience.

Mounts
Thanks to TidyTilt's strong, strategically-placed magnets, you can tack your earbuds or whole iPhone to any magnetically-responsive surface. Pop iPhone onto your fridge for referencing cooking recipes, stick it to a dry-erase board for brainstorming, or park it on the key-holder by your front door.

A Design Based Upon Ethnographic User Research
After researching how and where people use and store their headphones, we discovered several common workarounds that users regularly fall back on: wrapping the headset cord around iPhone (rendering the touchscreen unusable); coiling the wire around fingers and putting it in a bag or pocket (only to dig it out later fully tangled) or surrendering to the chaos, stuffing the wad of tangled earphone cords somewhere and hoping for the best.

These behaviors aren’t ideal, but neither is carrying an extra doodad with you to wrap headphone cords around. We think TidyTilt untangles the headphone cord predicament whilst also serving as a handy kickstand and magnetic mount for iPhone.

Our Prototyping Process
We built and tested dozens of prototypes before settling on TidyTilt‘s final design. Using rapid prototyping techniques such as laser cutting, we were able to quickly make modifications and test the impact of our changes.

Manufacturing TidyTilt
We have a manufacturer lined up and ready to begin production. They have provided us with the prototypes you see in the video. We’ve been working closely to ensure TidyTilt will be a quality product that minimizes environmental impact (through efficient packaging, fewest shipping hops, etc).

A Bit More About Us
We are two human-centered design students looking for funding to make our iPhone accessory a reality. We believe that TidyTilt can make iPhone users’ everyday lives just a tiny bit easier.

We have the design and the drive, now we just need funding to bring TidyTilt to market. If we are successfully funded, we will be able to do a first production run of TidyTilt, including investing in the up-front machining and material costs.

In doing so, we hope to pursue our dream of creating solutions for the modern lifestyle, and establish our young design firm in the process.

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Galaxy Tab vs. iPhone 4S: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Advertisement Features Same Child Actress in iPhone 4S TV Ad

Is it Deliberate or Just Coincidence? Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 TV Ad Features Same Child Actress in Apple iPhone 4S Camera Commercial

Samsung has been accused of “slavishly” stealing ideas from Apple in designing the Galaxy smartphone and tablet series. But is Samsung also stealing the same TV commercial actors in promoting their products?

The Sydney Morning Herald calls her “Little Miss Tablet,” although Cult of Mac calls her a turncoat for seemingly switching over from Apple to Samsung. Either way, most who have watched the TV ads the little girl has featured in so far say she’s cute. But the fact that she has appeared in both Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE and Apple iPhone 4S ads has caught the attention of both Apple and Android fans alike.

Said actress is unnamed, although her features are distinct, and one can clearly see it’s the same girl in both commercials. Apple’s iPhone 4S ad (pictured to the right) highlighted the new smartphone’s camera capabilities, and currently airs worldwide. Meanwhile, Samsung’s ad for the LTE variant of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 (pictured left) has aired in South Korea, and is available on YouTube. But when Samsung learned of the apparent slip-up, the ad was pulled out of Samsung’s own website. Thus, there is question whether the use of the same actress was mere coincidence or deliberate on Samsung’s or their ad agency’s part.

Apple and Samsung have been locked in legal battles in at least 10 countries, with Apple suing Samsung for design patent infringement. Meanwhile, Samsung has also sued Apple for alleged infringement of technology patents relating to cellular phone technology. Either way, both companies have sought sales bans on the other’s products, with Apple successful in getting temporary Galaxy Tab bans in Australia and Germany, so far. What’s next? Will Apple also seek a ban of the ad because of the same endorser?

You can check out both videos below. Which product would you buy? Maybe we can ask the little kid which she prefers — the Apple iPhone 4S or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 inch with LTE.

Here’s Apple’s ad:

Here’s Samsung’s ad:

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Apple Envisions Face & Presence Detection Security for iOS Devices

On December 29, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for device security. In 2009, Apple's presence detection patent first came to light in relation to future MacBooks. Then in November of this year, Apple revealed a heavy duty 3D face and object recognition system that could be used for home and enterprise security applications. In today's revelations, Apple introduces us to a more down to earth and practical security system for our portable devices. For simple home or personal use, the system could be setup to recognize your presence and face to quickly turn on your device. This would bypass the need for entering a password or even having to touch the home button to get to your homepage. For use at work, the facial recognition system could be set to higher levels of security. All in all it sounds like a very promising security system is in our future.

The Problems of Face Recognition Apple Seeks to Solve

Most face recognition systems fall into one of two categories. A first category system tends to be robust and could tackle various lighting conditions, orientations, scale and the like, and tends to be computationally expensive. A second category system is specialized for security-type applications and could work under controlled lighting conditions.

Adopting the first category systems for face recognition on consumer operated portable appliances that are equipped with a camera would unnecessarily use an appliance's computing resources and drain its power. Moreover, as the consumer portable appliances tend to be used both indoor and outdoor, the second category systems for face recognition may be ineffective. Such ineffectiveness may be further exacerbated by the proximity of the user to the camera, i.e., small changes in distance to and tilt of the appliance's camera dramatically distort features, making traditional biometrics used in security-type face recognition ineffective.

A Basic Overview of Apple's Solution

One aspect of Apple's invention could be implemented in methods performed by an image processor that include the actions of processing a captured image of a face of a user seeking to access a resource by conforming a subset of the captured face image to a reference model. The reference model corresponds to a high information portion of human faces. The methods further include comparing the processed captured image to at least one target profile corresponding to a user associated with the resource, and selectively recognizing the user seeking access to the resource based on a result of said comparing.

These and other implementations could include one or more of the following features. In some cases, the high information portion includes eyes and a mouth. In some other cases, the high information portion further includes a tip of a nose. Processing the captured image could include detecting a face within the captured image by identifying the eyes in an upper one third of the captured image and the mouth in the lower third of the captured image.

The reference model includes a reference image of a face, and processing the captured image further could include matching the eyes of the detected face with eyes of the face in the reference image to obtain a normalized image of the detected face. Additionally, processing the captured image could further include vertically scaling a distance between an eyes-line and the mouth of the detected face to equal a corresponding distance for the face in the reference image in order to obtain the normalized image of the detected face. In addition, processing the captured image could further include matching the mouth of the detected face to the mouth of the face in the reference image in order to obtain the normalized image of the detected face.

In some implementations, comparing the processed captured image could include obtaining a difference image of the detected face by subtracting the normalized image of the detected face from a normalized image of a target face associated with a target profile. Comparing could further include calculating scores of respective pixels of the difference image based on a weight defined according to proximity of the respective pixels to high information portions of the human faces. The weight decreases with a distance from the high information portions of the human faces. For example, the weight decreases continuously with the distance from the high information portions of the human faces. As another example, the weight decreases discretely with the distance from the high information portions of the human faces. As yet another example, the weight decreases from a maximum weight value at a mouth-level to a minimum value at an eyes-line.

In some implementations, processing the captured image could include applying an orange-distance filter to the captured image, and segmenting a skin-tone orange portion of the orange-distance filtered image to represent a likely presence of a face in front of the image capture device. Processing the captured image could further include determining changes in area and in location of the skin-tone orange portion of the captured image relative to a previously captured image to represent likely movement of the face in front of the image capture device. Also, processing the captured image further could include detecting a face within the skin-tone orange portion of the orange-distance filtered image when the determined changes are less than predetermined respective variations.

The Advantages of Apple's Invention

Particular implementations of the subject matter described in this specification could be configured to realize one or more of the following potential advantages. The techniques and systems disclosed in this specification could reduce the impact of lighting and emphasize skin variance. By acquiring images with the appliance's own image capture device, the approximate location and orientation of face features could be pre-assumed and could avoid the overhead of other face recognition systems. The disclosed methods could ignore face biometrics, and rather use feature locations to normalize an image of a test face. Further, the face recognition techniques are based on a simple, weighted difference map, rather than traditional (and computationally expensive) correlation matching.

The iOS Device Acknowledging Presence

Apple's patent FIG. 1 shown below illustrates an iPhone with its face side camera sitting in a dock. The iPhone could be turned off while the camera could remain on. Panel 100 shows a potential user who is approaching the iOS device sitting in its dock. In response to the iPhone detecting (120) that the potential user has stopped in front of its face side camera, the iPhone will be able to transition to a new state (shown in patent point 102') to acknowledge the presence and attention of the potential user.

In some implementations, the iOS device acknowledges the presence of the potential user by turning on the display. Further in response to detecting the presence of the potential user, the iOS device could trigger a subsequent process for recognizing the potential user's face.

Could be configured to Recognize Faces in your Family or Workplace

Furthermore, the iOS device could be configured to recognize faces of a predetermined group (including a small number) of users that may login on the iOS device and could present each user with a personalized configuration (see patent point 142). For example, to comply with such personalized configurations, the iOS device could modify screen saver slide shows or other appliance non-security preferences.

I also see that patent point 142 noted above shows us that we could be greeted with a message saying Hello! Although that will likely be optional, I'm curious as to how Apple will implement such a feature. Will they use a text only greeting or will they venture out and introduce a more personalized greeting from Siri (if you're an iCloud subscriber, that is). Depending on your view of talking devices, that could either be cool or creepy (ha!).  

Apple's Method taps into the GPU of an iOS Device or MacBook

The methods disclosed in Apple's patent specification could adequately recognize a user associated with an iOS device without computing resources overhead that is characteristic of other face recognition techniques. Therefore, the face detection and recognition methods described in Apple's specification could be implemented in hardware, for example in graphical processing units (GPUs) of the iOS device. Apple clarifies that the new face detection and recognition system will apply to the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and MacBook.

Apple's patent FIG. 4 shown below illustrates a flowchart for detecting potential presence of a person's face in front of an image capture device and for inferring the person's level of attentiveness. The latter feature is likely to secure against those trying to access an iOS device with a simple picture, as was the case with Google's failed Android feature.

2D Correlation Matching System

Apple's patent FIG. 7 shows an example of a process for matching a normalized image of a test face with a normalized image of a target face.

The normalized image (see patent point 644) of a test face could be iteratively compared with each of target faces (see patent point 710) based on two-dimensional correlation matching (patent point 750). The 2D-correlation matching used in this method is based on generating a difference map between the two images, in contrast to other complex correlation matching algorithms that are based on correlations of the underlying face-shapes. Moreover, the 2D-correlation matching could be performed in accordance with weighting rules and scoring rules maintained by the computerized device configured to execute the process (see patent points 730 and 740).

And lastly, Apple's new security features could, in logical theory, do away with the necessity to use the classic iOS device feature known as "Slide to Unlock." Of course it will depend on the speed of the facial recognition system. If it's fast enough, I know that I'd definitely prefer that option over the process of hitting the home button and then sliding the bar over to unlock my idevice to get to the home screen. Only in time will we know if that pans out, but it sure sounds very promising indeed.

Apple's patent application was originally filed in Q2 2010 by inventor Robert Mikio Free.

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Apple Seen Hurting Shareholders With Jobs’s Thermonuclear Patent War: Tech

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple (AAPL) Inc., told his biographer that he’d rather wage “thermonuclear war” with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system.
That was no empty threat. In the 18 months before Jobs died on Oct. 5, Apple sued HTC Corp. (2498), Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Mobility Inc., the three largest Android users. It alleged that the phone makers stole Apple’s technology and asked courts to make them stop.
Now, as rulings start coming in, it might be time for a détente that helps Apple maximize the value of its patents, said Kevin Rivette, a managing partner at 3LP Advisors LLC, a firm that advises on intellectual property. When courts side with Apple and impose bans on infringing products, competitors can often devise workarounds; in cases where Apple doesn’t win import restrictions, it would be better off striking settlements that ensure access to a competitor’s innovation, he said.
“A scorched-earth strategy is bad news because it doesn’t optimize the value of their patents -- because people will get around them,” said Rivette, whose clients include Android licensees. “It’s like a dam. Using their patents to keep rivals out of the market is like putting rocks in a stream. The stream is going to find a way around. Wouldn’t it be better to direct where the water goes?”
Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, declined to comment for this story.
Early Victories
For a time, Apple’s strategy looked sound. In October, an Australian court banned the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1 tablet in that country, and the U.S. International Trade Commission agreed to consider an import ban on sales of certain HTC devices.
Then the tide began to turn. Apple suffered a setback Nov. 30 when a higher Australian court overturned the ruling against Samsung. On Dec. 22, a German judge said he was unlikely to uphold an import ban on a version of the Galaxy, which Samsung had modified in response to a ban on the original design.
The ITC gave Apple only a partial victory on Dec. 19 by ruling that HTC had violated only one of four patents Apple said it infringed. The patent covered so-called data detection, a feature that helps users make a call, send an e-mail or find an address on a map with a single keystroke.
Can’t Last?
HTC decided to drop the feature. That’s a significant loss for HTC, since the capability has come to be an expected part of using a smartphone. Still, the ruling reinforced predictions that Apple won’t succeed forever in preventing Android rivals from selling gadgets with the now-familiar hallmarks of Apple’s pioneering devices. These include touch screens and app stores.
Legal history isn’t on Apple’s side, said Marshall Phelps, former head of intellectual property at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Microsoft Corp.
“Nobody has ever kept competitors out of any market with patents,” in part because software can usually be slightly changed to find a non-infringing alternative, he said.
Exceptions, he said, include an IBM patent that characterized the basic architecture of a computer and Texas Instruments Inc.’s original patent for the integrated circuit, or computer chip. IBM was ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice to license its patent, while Texas Instruments decided to do the same, which has resulted in billions of dollars in royalties, Phelps said.
Many of Apple’s patents, by contrast, relate to the look and feel of devices or particular ways of using a machine, rather than a basic technology breakthrough.
Shift Ahead
The question on the minds of many patent lawyers isn’t whether Apple should adapt its legal stance, but when. For now, the company’s approach is costing rivals millions of dollars in fees, distracting management and preventing them from emulating Apple’s products more boldly, said Ron Epstein, a former attorney at Intel Corp. who now runs patent licensing firm Epicenter IP Group.
Apple’s patent portfolio remains strong compared with those of rivals, thanks both to the innovations that went into groundbreaking products such as the iPhone and iPad, and to the effectiveness of Apple’s legal department in obtaining patents for those innovations, said Christopher Marlett, chairman and co-founder of MDB Capital Group, an investment bank that advises companies on buying and selling patents.
“Apple has the patents, the money and the expertise to go to war,” Marlett said. “I just don’t see why Apple would seek détente, since they’re the clear leader. Until they’re hit with an injunction by Google (GOOG) or Samsung, they don’t need to get serious about licensing.”
Right Back at You
Still, as more companies pour resources into the booming mobile-devices market, Apple should eventually cut deals to ensure access to rivals’ innovations as well, Epstein said.
“How long can you beat everyone else over the head before they can do the same to me?” he said.
Tim Cook, who took over in August when Jobs announced he would be unable to come back as CEO, has many other ways to take advantage of the company’s patent portfolio. The company could probably collect as much as $10 in royalties for every device sold, more than the amount analysts speculate Microsoft (MSFT) receives from Samsung and HTC, which use its mobile technology, said Rivette at 3LP.
Other Arrangements
With $81 billion in cash and investments, Apple has little need for more. Instead, the company could pursue out-of-court settlements that would help it take on Android in other ways, Rivette said. The company could offer to drop its more than two dozen patent claims against Samsung in exchange for an agreement to hold off using Apple technology for six months or a year, he said. Cook could also try to get price breaks or guarantees that would give it greater access to Samsung parts, Rivette said.
Apple and Samsung also could agree to focus on different parts of the market. For example, Apple might make iPad-sized devices while agreeing to stay out of the market for smaller devices with 7-inch displays that could compete with Amazon (AMZN).com Inc.’s new Android-based Fire tablet, Rivette said.
If Apple agreed to let Samsung include Apple’s proprietary iTunes software in such a device -- an unprecedented and unlikely step, he said -- Samsung’s sales would probably increase. That would help slow gains by Amazon, whose push into hardware makes it a threat to Apple. The move also would make Samsung more reliant on Apple, lessening its dependence on Google.
‘Divided Loyalties’
“If I’m Apple, I want divided loyalties” from Android licensees, Rivette said. “At this point, it would make more sense for Apple to build an ecosystem that everyone can live in. If you’re going to license, why not go for the big deal where you lock down supply chains, get your technologies broadly adopted and slow down competitors? That is the game.”
Apple should pursue such settlements soon, before it winds up in need of other companies’ technology, Rivette said. The ITC is expected to rule in September on an import ban on Apple and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)’s mobile devices, for improper use of a photo preview feature patented by Eastman Kodak Co. (EK)
If the Commission decides there was infringement of the Kodak patent, Apple would need to settle the dispute by licensing the technology or buying some or all of Kodak’s patent portfolio to continue selling its products in the U.S. Because Kodak has been actively trying to sell its portfolio of 1,100 patents in recent months, Apple runs the risk that they may be purchased by Google, Samsung or another competitor.
Google Maps
While Apple is working on its own location-tracking technology, many iPhone and iPad users now rely on Google mapping tools to get directions or find the nearest coffee shop, by way of a partnership between Apple and Google that predates the rise of Android. Nokia Oyj, Microsoft and Skyhook Inc. also hold valuable patents for tools that keep tabs on a device’s whereabouts. Apple has made little headway in social networking and may need deals with companies such as Facebook Inc. to add features that help users connect with one another.   “If Apple wanted to get into social networking, they’d have a big problem,” said Ron Laurie, managing director of Inflexion Point Strategy, a Palo Alto, California-based intellectual property consulting firm.
Working toward settlements sooner would help Apple and its rivals maintain the fast pace of innovation that has fueled the mobile-device market, he said.
“At some point, there has to be some kind of settlement, some kind of peace,” Laurie said.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphone will call the new Ion

The site United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office of Patent and Trademark Office U.S., USPTO), was found documentation of the brand Xperia Ion. It was incorporated December 13 - that is, the more recently - by Sony Ericsson. This title company will give its new mobile device and most likely it will be a new smartphone. At the very least, the application states that it has provided the company name for a category of "mobile phones", which, in fact, are smartphones. While it is not clear that it will be for the device, but there were suggestions that, under the name Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion in sale is a powerful model, known as Sony Ericsson LT28at / LT28i. This Android-smartphone boasts a 4.55-inch touchscreen, Reality display high-definition (720 x 1280 pixels), 1.5-GHz dual-core processor, 13-megapixel camera and support for LTE networks in one version. Its release to the market is expected next year.