Patents by Inventor Mengnan WANG
Mengnan WANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11977676Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for adjusting content of a head mounted display. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to determine a field of view for a user relative to a display of a head-mounted display unit, detect that the user is attempting to look at content that is presented on the display of the head-mounted display unit but is out of the user's field of view, and adjust the content that is out of the user's field of view to make the content visible to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11935324Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for capturing an image and determining whether a switch is in a filtering position or a non-filtering position. When the switch is in the filtering position, the camera apparatus detects a switch position and determines whether the switch is in the filtering position or the non-filtering position. The camera captures the image, including audio/visual signals, while the switch is detected to be in the filtering position and modifies the image to inhibit biometric data collection from the image in response to the switch being in the filtering position when the image is captured.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (United States) Inc.Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Publication number: 20240073312Abstract: Methods, communication devices, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for preventing unintentional outgoing communications initiated from a communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request via a first input device to initiate a communication to a contact, determining whether the request is unlikely, receiving a confirmation that the request is intentional responsive to determining the request is unlikely, and sending the communication to the contact responsive to receiving the confirmation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11886722Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for technology management on a hardware component of a device at the time of assembly. An apparatus has a processor and memory storage that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains a feature of the hardware component to be removed from the hardware component and operates a virtual fuse that removes a data region associated with the hardware component and permanently removes access to the feature on the hardware component. In response to operating the virtual fuse to remove access to the feature, the processor may indicate the status of the feature on the hardware component.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Systems, apparatus, and methods for embedded opt-in permission for an artifical intelligence service
Patent number: 11822667Abstract: Methods that can embed opt-in permission for an artificial intelligence (AI) service are provided. One method includes implementing, by a processor, an access level of a plurality of access levels for user sensor data. The method further includes, based on the implemented access level, generating, from a set of raw sensor data received from a set of sensors, a set of sensor data for a user of an apparatus and gaining insight about the user of the apparatus via an AI service utilizing the set of sensor data. Here, implementing the access level provides to the user of the apparatus an embedded opt-in permission for the AI service. Systems and apparatus that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang -
Publication number: 20230367889Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: tracking, using a virtual privacy creation system, a user having an augmented reality device within an environment; detecting, with the virtual privacy creation system, the user is in proximity to another user having a privacy mode enabled, wherein the privacy mode of the another user identifies privacy settings for the another user; and enabling, at the augmented reality device, a privacy view based upon the privacy settings for the another user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Song Wang, Jian Li, Mengnan Wang, Zhenyu Yang
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Publication number: 20230316455Abstract: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that receive video feeds from corresponding cameras distributed at different positions and orientations throughout a physical environment, and obtain location data associated with the cameras. The location data is indicative of at least one of the position or orientation for the corresponding camera. The method, system and computer program product identify, from the multiple cameras, a camera combination that includes first and second cameras that have overlapping fields of view (FOV) based on the location data and form a panoramic video of at least a portion of the environment by combining the content from the first and second cameras identified based on the location data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Mengnan Wang, John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker
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Publication number: 20230308602Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a remote video feed fusion system, an indication of a meeting facilitated through a meeting application allowing access to participants in a location other than a location of a host of the meeting and supporting video transmissions between connected participants; identifying, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of devices each having at least one image capture device and within the location of the host; capturing, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of video feeds of the location of the host using the plurality of devices; creating, using the remote video feed fusion system, a fused video feed of the location of the host from the plurality of video feeds; and transmitting, using the remote video feed fusion system, the fused video feed to at least one participant accessing the meeting from a location other than the location of the host.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Mengnan Wang, John W Nicholson, Daryl C Cromer, Howard Locker
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Publication number: 20230306098Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor obtains context data, and provides a login prompt. The processor may also vary input device input configured to enter values into the login prompt based on the context data, rearrange keys of a touchscreen keyboard on a display, the displayed input configured to enter the values into the login prompt based on the context data, or vary the location of a touchscreen keyboard based on the context data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Mengnan Wang, John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker
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Publication number: 20230304815Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying a user of a wearable device within an environment; determining a security level of the user for the environment; generating, based upon the determined security level of the user, a navigational path within the environment; displaying, on a display of the wearable device, the generated navigational path on the wearable device of the user; and tracking the user while moving along within the environment. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Song Wang, Jian Li, Mengnan Wang, Zhenyu Yang
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Patent number: 11762203Abstract: A headset can include a frame; a display assembly supported by the frame; a motion sensor that generates motion data responsive to motion of the frame; and circuitry that generates a frame fit signal via the motion data.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard J. Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Publication number: 20230281335Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes an input device configured to receive sound, a processor, and a memory storing program instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the program instructions, the processor is configured to identify a third party application that accesses the electronic device, and vary sound characteristics obtained by the input device based on the third party application identified to prevent a biometric algorithm from obtaining user information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Mengnan Wang, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, John W. Nicholson
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Publication number: 20230260481Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a display stack having display pixels and at least one camera sensor located proximate to the display stack. The electronic device also includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the program instructions, the processor is configured to determine an identification of a user of the electronic device. The processor is also configured to determine selected display pixels of the display pixels based on a location of the display stack of the electronic device to the user, and actuate the selected display pixels to obstruct a field of view of the at least one camera sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Mengnan Wang, John W. Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer
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Patent number: 11677899Abstract: An apparatus for intelligent video source selection includes a processor and a memory storing machine-executable code to establish data connectivity with a plurality of video sources based on the sources being within a predetermined proximity of the apparatus. The code is executable by the processor to determine a set of video parameters for the individual video sources of the plurality, the video parameters including user gaze, gesture detection, activity level, and combinations thereof. The processor operates to select a first video source of the plurality of video sources as an active video source based on one or more application context parameters and to switch the active video source from the first video source to a second video source based on the set of video parameters of the second video source meeting predetermined switching criteria. Systems, computer program products, and methods may perform the functions of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Mounika Vanka, John Weldon Nicholson, David Alexander Schwarz, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11665158Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying a biometric pattern present in a wireless signal associated with an information handling device; determining, using a processor, whether the biometric pattern corresponds to an authorized biometric pattern; and authenticating, responsive to determining that the biometric pattern corresponds to the authorized biometric pattern, a user of the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Hong Xiong, Song Wang, Jatinder Kumar, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11606513Abstract: There is disclosed an information handling system, including a camera, which may include an input lens, and an image signal processor, which may include circuitry that converts an analog image received at the input lens to a digital image data structure; a device interface may include circuitry that provides the image data structure to an information handling device, and a modifier circuit that modifies human features of the digital image data structure before the digital image data structure is provided to the device interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Publication number: 20230055285Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed to securely erase user data using storage regions on a shared computing device. Memory stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to configure a nonvolatile storage device of a shared device that may be used by multiple users but is exclusively used by one user at a time. The nonvolatile storage device has shared files storing system data and a data region storing user data associated with a user. The code executes to assign read-only privileges to the system region and read-write privileges to the data region before sharing the device with the user. Requests to write data to the nonvolatile storage device while the device is shared are serviced on the data region. When the user returns the shared device to the originator the code executes to erase the data region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11586707Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for modifying the enabled features of a hardware component at the time of use. An apparatus includes a processor and memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to obtain a feature of the hardware component that is not enabled and generates an encrypted code associated with the feature of the hardware component to be enabled. The apparatus processes a payment for the cost of enabling the hardware component and enables the feature of the hardware component in response to the association of the payment processed with the encrypted code for the feature of the hardware component.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Publication number: 20230041814Abstract: A system and method include a depth sensing device configured to sense an object within a sensing space at an object sensing location. The depth sensing device is configured to output one or more depth signals regarding the object. A control unit is in communication with the depth sensing device. The control unit is configured to receive the one or more depth signals and construct a model of the object from the one or more depth signals. The control unit is further configured to output a model signal regarding the model of the object to one or more object reproduction devices at one or more monitoring locations that differ from the object sensing location. The model of the object is shown by the one or more object reproduction devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer, Mengnan Wang
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Publication number: 20230034773Abstract: In one aspect, a headset may include at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, a camera accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive one or more images from the camera. Based on the one or more images, the instructions may then be executable to identify a predetermined object within a user's field of view and/or identify a location of the display at which or through which the user is looking. Based on the identification(s), the instructions may then be executable to take at least one action related to administration of a test or examination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Song Wang, Jian Li, Zhenyu Yang, Mengnan Wang