Patent ID: 11956380
Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors from two or more sensors of the device, a first indication that an aircraft on which the device is aboard has taken off;
performing quaternion calculations representative of an orientation of the device and a rotation of axes of the device;
responsive to receiving the first indication and performing the quaternion calculations, activating, by the one or more processors, an airplane mode of the device;
receiving, from the two or more sensors of the device while the device is in the airplane mode, a second indication that the aircraft is not in flight; and
responsive to receiving the second indication, deactivating, by the one or more processors, the airplane mode of the device.