For the Xbox One, Mr. Mattrick speaks of a smarter device that recognizes its users and adapts to them.
Despite resistance from some broadcasters, the company has gradually introduced the personal people meter, a cellphone-size device that recognizes which station is being tuned in.
-- Behind Kinect, the computer game device that recognizes gestures and voice commands, lies a far larger agenda for Microsoft.
When you get home, access your Photo Stream with iPhoto or Aperture, or any other device that recognizes Photo Stream.
With Flingo and Innovid, they'll be able to augment their traditional TV ad buy with ad units running on second screen devices that recognize when a certain ad is on and offers up a call to action to buy tickets.
Until now reading aids for the visually impaired and the blind have been cumbersome devices that recognize text in restricted environments, or, more recently, have been software applications on smartphones that have limited capabilities.
Both patents, as with a lot of recent Apple filings, are about making the smartphone smarter: a device that can recognize and process data on its own, and then offer up better, more immediately useful action options for a user is better than a device that is content to wait for user input on all decisions, at least according to Apple's recent trajectory with software and services.
That's pricier than many entry-level fitness trackers on the market, but Jaybird is hoping people are willing to pay more for a device that automatically recognizes what kind of sport or activity you're doing and switches its tracking rhythm accordingly.
Recognizing the need for a device that instantly knows its user, the institute's scientists installed sensors in pistol grips that measure an individual user's grasp.
When a device that is placed in a certain room is used by a user, the system recognizes a user exists in the room.
