Patents Assigned to Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9600081
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device using the same. The method comprises: when the electronic device is in a first operation mode in which there is a first angle between a first body and a second body of the electronic device, acquiring first operation information of an operating object, the first operation information including at least a first angle; acquiring a predefined correspondence relationship set; matching the acquired first angle with a first relationship in the relationship set to obtain a first matching result; and outputting the first matching result. The disclosure also provides an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Lin Xu
  • Publication number: 20170075390
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a housing of an electronic apparatus includes forming a planar portion of the housing as a carbon fiber plate from carbon fiber material via a hot pressing process; during the hot pressing process, attaching a thermosensitive adhesive film onto a male mould surface of the carbon fiber plate corresponding to a junction between a fastening portion of the housing and the planar portion; forming the fastening portion of the housing from thermosetting resin via embedded injection molding process; and during the embedded injection molding process, curing the thermosensitive adhesive film onto the surface of the carbon fiber plate by curing the thermosetting resin so as to join the fastening portion and the planar portion of the housing together. A housing of the electronic apparatus made by the manufacturing method is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Hao, Detao You, Qiang Zhang, Zhifeng Yang
  • Publication number: 20170077978
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a bentable device having rigid receiving space that include a bentable housing having a receiving space therein, and in the process of the bentable housing being bent, at least a part of the volume of the receiving space is free from bending influence, thus the at least partial volume of the receiving space free from the bending influence constitutes a rigid receiving space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ran Zhang
  • Patent number: 9588927
    Abstract: An interface switching control method, a portable terminal and a portable mobile device using the method are disclosed. The method is applied in a portable terminal including a first device and a second device. The first device is connected to a shared device via a first interface, and the second device is connected to the shared device via a second interface. The portable terminal has a first state in which the first device and the second device are connected, and a second state in which the first device and the second device are disconnected. The method includes detecting a state of the portable terminal; and when the detection result indicates that the portable terminal is in the first state, controlling the first interface to be in an enabled state and controlling the second interface to be in a disabled state. The method achieves a real-time switching control over the interfaces for the shard device, and optimizes the interface control for the hybrid-system portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Guangbin Li
  • Publication number: 20170063868
    Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The control method for the electronic device includes: acquiring a call instruction; calling a target application to acquire collection data; acquiring a security label, in a case that the target application operates in a first operating mode; storing the acquired collection data based on the security label, as a collection data with the security label, wherein the collection data with the security label is in an accessible state when a first access authority is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyang Zhao, Yang Zhang, Jinxuan Cui
  • Publication number: 20170060336
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises obtaining display parameters of the display unit; determining a refresh rate of the display unit based on the display parameters; setting a first period and a second period in the refresh cycle; and generating a first control instruction to control the electronic device to refresh the touch detection unit while stopping refreshing the display unit during the first period of each refresh cycle, so as to enable the touch detection unit to detect a touch operation, and control the electronic device to refresh the display unit during the second period of each refresh cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Minggui QIAN, Nan LIN
  • Patent number: 9578423
    Abstract: An electronic device and a sound capturing method are described. The electronic device includes at least one first bone conducting unit, which is operable to detect vibration produced by an object in contact with the first bone conducting unit, and to generate an alternating current signal based on the detected vibration to capture a sound produced by the vibration; and a processing unit, which is operable to receive the alternating current signal and to perform an audio processing on the alternating current signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junfeng Liu, Yunfeng Pan, Fei Wu
  • Patent number: 9575396
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device comprising a projector. The projector comprises: a projection module comprising a lens for projection, and a motor, wherein the motor is operable to rotate the lens of the projection module, in order to adjust an orientation of a projection by the projection module. Meantime, the disclosure also provides a control method for this electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Cheng, Xiaodan Zhang, Zhurong Fu, Yanjiang Hu, Yuling Wei
  • Patent number: 9575590
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an input method and an input apparatus. The input apparatus is able to communicate with an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a touch control display unit. The method includes a recognizing device in the input apparatus recognizing to obtain a first shape under press of a contact pressure of the input end based on a light-reflective encode coating when the deformable input end of the input apparatus contacts with the touch control display unit; the recognizing device obtaining a deformation parameter of the input end based on the first shape; and a transmitting device in the input apparatus transmitting the deformation parameter to the electronic apparatus to be processed by the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD, LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Guang Yang
  • Publication number: 20170048996
    Abstract: The present application discloses a bendable structure for an electronic device, which includes a first structural layer and a second structural layer arranged to be overlapped with the first structural layer. The bendable structure has a straight state and a bent state, the first structural layer has a first bendable section which can be bent, and the second structural layer has a second bendable section which can be bent. The first bendable section corresponds to the second bendable section in an overlapped manner. When the bendable structure is in the bent state, a central angle corresponding to the first bendable section and a central angle corresponding to the second bendable section are same, such that both ends of the first bendable section are flush with corresponding ends of the second bendable section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoqin HAN, Beiou LUAN
  • Publication number: 20170039996
    Abstract: A control method applied to an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a display unit arranged on a first surface and a display unit arranged on a second surface, and inherent light transmittances of the display units are greater than a predetermined value. The control method includes: determining a first display unit and a second display unit, where the first display unit is a display unit arranged on a surface facing a user, and the second display unit is a display unit arranged on the other surface; detecting a light intensity around a surface where the second display unit is arranged; and in a case that a detected light intensity reaches a predetermined light intensity, adjusting at least display effect of the second display unit to reduce a light transmittance of the second display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoupeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9564677
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and an antenna thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a main board arranged within said housing, and an antenna arranged on the outer surface of said housing such that the antenna is connected with said main board. The height of the mobile phone antenna can be effectively increased and, thus the performance of the antenna is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoudong Tian, Gang Yan, Shaolian Liu, Rong Zhang, Zhijun Gao
  • Patent number: 9564100
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device, the method comprising: acquiring a first value of a first parameter by the first sensor; acquiring a second value of the first parameter by the second sensor; judging whether a difference value between the first value and the second value is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not; determining a third value based on a first algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the third value as a value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is larger than or equal to the first threshold; determining a fourth value based on a second algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the fourth value as the value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is smaller than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Sun, Zhenhua Zhang, Wenjun Gao, Ke Shang, Guang Yang
  • Patent number: 9563284
    Abstract: An information processing device and a control method applied to the information processing device is described. The information processing device includes a display unit configured to display images; an input unit configured to receive inputs from a user; a motion detecting unit configured to detect motion of the information processing device and to generate data related to the motion; and a processing unit connected to the display unit, the input unit and the motion detecting unit. The processing unit is configured to receive the motion-related data from the motion detecting unit, and enable/disable of the display unit and/or the input unit based on the data related to the motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunlei Zhao, Wei Wei
  • Publication number: 20170032164
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic device, a display screen and a panel. The panel includes: a transparent substrate; a detection electrode and a fingerprint detection circuit which are arranged on the transparent substrate, wherein the detection electrode includes a fingerprint detection electrode, the fingerprint detection circuit being connected to the fingerprint detection electrode and configured to drive the fingerprint detection electrode for fingerprint identification. It can be seen that, the panel directly integrates a fingerprint detection electrode and a fingerprint detection circuit. Therefore, as compared with the prior art, the display screen or the electronic device with the panel does not need to have an opening on the panel, thereby eliminating the need for aligning the opening and a fingerprint identification chip, which can result in a simple process and a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heng LIU, Chunhui SUN
  • Publication number: 20170032845
    Abstract: A storage device and an information processing method are provided. The storage device has a first power supply unit and at least one first storage cell. The at least one first storage cell stores first data which are associated with a number of charges within the first storage cell. The first power supply unit is electrically connected to the at least one first storage cell. The storage device further has a first control unit configured for controlling the first power supply unit to supply power to the at least one first storage cell according to a predetermined policy, so that the number of charges within the first storage cell satisfies a first preset condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Honglei ZHANG, Xiaohui XIE, Zhigang LI
  • Publication number: 20170031555
    Abstract: A display processing method and a display processing device are described. The method includes receiving a first gesture operation on a touch display region of an electronic device, when a first application interface of a first application installed in the electronic device is displayed in the touch display region; determining whether the first gesture operation satisfies a first predetermined condition or not; generating a first sub interface to be displayed in a first sub region of the touch display region and a second sub interface to be displayed in a second sub region of the touch display region when it is determined that the first gesture operation satisfies the first predetermined condition; and displaying the first sub interface in the first sub region, and displaying the second sub interface in the second sub region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Ma
  • Publication number: 20170031537
    Abstract: A display method is provided. Multiple application identifications of multiple application programs being running are displayed in queues on a display screen of an electronic device based on an instruction for calling a task manager generated via a first input operation. N object identifications are displayed in a second area of the display screen in a case that a first application identification is displayed in a first area of the display screen; the N object identifications correspond to N application programs, the N application programs are associated with a first application program corresponding to the first application identification. A number of application programs being currently running in the electronic device are displayed in a page of the task manager; and the application programs associated with an application program being running are directly displayed in a case that the application program being running is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan CHEN, Shu GAO, Xuling XU
  • Publication number: 20170031563
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for display control as well as an electronic device. The method comprises: loading a desktop application, the desktop application having an interaction interface including a plurality of folders; obtaining a first input operation on an icon of a first folder on the interaction interface currently displayed on the display screen; generating, in response to the first input operation, an invocation instruction; activating the folder manager in response to the invocation instruction; obtaining all folders in the electronic device with the folder manager; setting all the folders to an unfolded state; displaying the folders in the unfolded state in a queue on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Shoupeng ZHANG, Yang YANG, Xiaohai ZHANG, Li DING
  • Publication number: 20170031822
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method and an electronic device. The electronic device detects and obtains operation parameters associated with a first operation on the electronic device; determines an operation type based on the operation parameter; and generates an adjustment scheme for a first cache region and/or a second cache region of a storage unit based on the operation type to adjust the first cache region and/or the second cache region, so as to change a ratio between their storage spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Qian MA, Chen YANG