Patents Assigned to Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9560217
    Abstract: Adapters, terminal devices, USB connection devices and charging stations are disclosed. The adapter includes a first port configured to connect to an alternate current (AC) source, a conversion module configured to convert an AC power from the AC source into a direct current (DC) power, a second port configured to connect to a first electronic device and provide power thereto, an uplink interface configured to connect to the first electronic device, a downlink interface coupled with the conversion module to obtain an external power supply therefrom and configured to connect to a second electronic device, and a signal control module arranged between the uplink and downlink interfaces, and configured to control a status of a signal in the downlink interface based on a status of a power supply of the uplink interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Jian cheng Song, Ting ting Wang, Guang ting Jiang
  • Patent number: 9552059
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method is applied in an electronic device comprising or being connected to a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Rui Li
  • Patent number: 9554055
    Abstract: The present application provides a data processing method and an electronic device. The data processing method comprises: detecting a movement status of the electronic device by a sensor unit; generating a movement parameter of the electronic device based on the movement status; and generating an exposure parameter threshold for an image capture unit of the electronic device based on the movement parameter of the electronic device, such that the image capture unit captures an image with an exposure parameter higher than the exposure parameter threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Qizhong Zheng, Lihua Li, Rui Li, Yigan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9552017
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device has a functional body and a supporting apparatus. The supporting apparatus supports the functional body on a supporting surface. The supporting apparatus has a supporting rod, which is connected to the functional body, and a base. When the electronic device is in a first usage mode, the functional body is approximately perpendicular to the supporting surface. When the electronic device is in a second usage mode, the functional body is approximately parallel to the supporting surface. When the electronic device is switched between the first usage mode and the second usage mode, a relative position of the supporting rod and the base is unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Yu, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9552186
    Abstract: A data processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method comprises: causing at least one display content displayed by the at least one input/output display unit respectively to be independent from each other, so that processing on one current input/output display unit only affects the display content of the current input/output display unit, but does not affect other input/output display unit(s); obtaining a user operation on the at least one display area; synchronizing a system message between the at least one input/output display unit in response to the user operation, so that consistent system service is obtained from the at least one input/output display unit, wherein the at least one display content are identical or not identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping Guo
  • Publication number: 20170010849
    Abstract: A control method and an apparatus thereof applied to a terminal apparatus with a display device are provided. The terminal apparatus can establish a data connection with a wearable device. The method includes: receiving a control instruction generated by the terminal apparatus; acquiring a display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus based on the control instruction; and sending the display picture to the wearable device through data connection, so that the wearable device displays the display picture. After the control instruction is generated by the terminal apparatus, the display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus is sent to the wearable device through the data connection, to display the display picture on the wearable device. Thus, viewing experience different from viewing through the terminal apparatus is provided for a user and the viewing experience for the user is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui DENG, Xiaohai ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9544003
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device comprises: a main body; a fixing member movably connected to the main body and configured to fix the main body on a supporting member; a connecting member configured to connect the main body and the fixing member; at least one antenna arranged in the fixing member, connected to a radio frequency unit in the main body via the connecting member, and configured to transmit signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Peng Wang
  • Patent number: 9542764
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method includes: acquiring a first file; displaying a first content in a first region in a first display mode, the first content characterizes a first part of a display content of the first file and the first region is a region capable of triggering the display content of the first file to be displayed upon a triggering operation is detected; and displaying a second content in a second region in a second display mode if a first preset condition is satisfied, the second content characterizes a second part of the display content of the first file and the second region is a region capable of triggering the display content of the first file to be displayed upon a triggering operation is detected, the first region is different from the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Mingxiang Cai
  • Publication number: 20170003863
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for setting application property and message processing. Based on a setting instruction, an object for the setting instruction is determined. The object is a preset group including at least one application. Properties of all the applications in the group are set uniformly in accordance with the setting instruction. With the above setting process, after a message has been received, a group to which the application as the recipient of the message belongs is determined, a property common to the applications in the group is obtained and the message is processed based on the public property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Dongyuan ZHANG, Chunlong YANG
  • Publication number: 20170004702
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic system and a control method for the electronic system. The electronic system includes a maintenance apparatus configured to maintain a position of the electronic system relative to a user in a case that the electronic system is worn by the user; a first acquisition apparatus configured to detect triggering data; and a processing apparatus configured to determine whether the triggering data meets a first condition, and control the electronic system to perform a preset function based on a result of the determination. When using a wearable electronic device including the electronic system, a user can control the electronic system to perform a preset function only by triggering the first acquisition apparatus, thereby simplifying the control operation. And the control method can be used for driving the electronic system to perform a preset function, thereby providing convenience in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-ho LEE, Xiaotian ZHU
  • Publication number: 20170005822
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are described where the method includes receiving and storing a first set of rule information, the first set of rule information including one piece or more pieces of first rule information, each piece of first rule information indicating a specific rule that a first control device triggers a second sub-device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first sub-device; extracting second rule information from each piece of first rule information to generate a second set of rule information; and transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD., BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventor: Changlei Gao
  • Patent number: 9538066
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: controlling a first lens of a first image acquisition unit to move from a first position in a first direction, and controlling a second lens of a second image acquisition unit to move from the first position in a second direction opposite to the first direction; obtaining at least one first focus value in a first focus area corresponding to the first image acquisition unit during said moving in the first direction, and obtaining at least one second focus value in a second focus area corresponding to the second image acquisition unit during said moving in the second direction; performing a first calculation on the at least one first focus value and the at least one second focus value to obtain a third focus value; and controlling the first and second image acquisition units to implement focusing based on the third focus value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventor: Qizhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 9537542
    Abstract: A method for processing information and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: sending a first instruction to a second electronic device through a radio frequency identification unit to inquire identification information of the second electronic device; acquiring the identification information of the second electronic device; and obtaining position information of the second electronic device according to the identification information of the second electronic device. With the disclosure, a more enriched usage scene for man-machine interaction is provided, and user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Hong Cheng, Xuexia Li, Hai Lu, Jie Yang, Qiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9535796
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer for data operation are provided. The method includes: determining, when writing data to a sector of a storage device, whether the sector belongs to an old block for a restore point of the storage device. If so, the method further includes: allocating a new block and writing the data into the new block; creating a table including an address of the old block, an address of the new block and a first identifier, wherein the first identifier has first identification elements corresponding to the sector in the old block and in the new block, respectively, and wherein each of the first identification elements has a first state indicating to read data from the old block during data restoration in the sector and a second state indicating to read data from the new block during data restoration in the sector; and pointing the address of the old block in an address index table for the restore point to the created table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Tang, Changsheng Guo, Chunmei Liu, Yizun Guo
  • Publication number: 20160378510
    Abstract: A configuration method, a data exchange method, and a server system are described. The configuration method includes virtualizing at least one first storage apparatus into a number of M booting virtual storage space, and virtualizing at least one second storage apparatus into a number of M data virtual storage space, wherein M is an integer larger than or equal to 2; creating the i-th first corresponding relationship between the i-th server of the number of M servers and the i-th booting virtual storage space of the number of M booting virtual storage space with i from 1 to M in order; creating the i-th second corresponding relationship between the i-th server and the i-th data virtual storage space of the number of M data virtual storage space, with i from 1 to M in order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junxian Ye, Shidian Cheng, Shouyi Qiu
  • Publication number: 20160375586
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a first parameter related to a first behavior of a user of an electronic device, in a case that a current position of the electronic device is a first position, where the first behavior is a behavior which does not cause the electronic device to move; determining whether the first parameter meets a preset condition to obtain a first determination result; and adjusting the current position from the first position to a second position, in a case that it is determined that the first parameter meets the preset condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhu, Yan Gao
  • Publication number: 20160381286
    Abstract: A control method, a camera device and an electronic equipment are provided in the disclosure. After acquiring a first control instruction, the lens of the camera device is controlled to perform a preset operation according to the first control instruction, until a preview image captured by the camera device meets a first preset requirement. The preset operation at least includes controlling the lens to form a first inclination angle with respect to an initial position of the lens. Thus the angle between a lens plane and an image plane is adjusted, i.e., the clarity at various parts of the image acquired by the camera device is adjusted, thus a target image desired by a user can be acquired by the camera device, thereby improving user experiences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiefeng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160378210
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method is applicable to the electronic apparatus. The method includes: detecting, with a touch display unit of the electronic apparatus, a first trajectory generated by a first input operation of an input unit; acquiring motion parameters of the input unit collected by a sensing unit in a case that it is determined that the first trajectory meets a predetermined condition; and using the motion parameters to correct the first trajectory in accordance with a first correction strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bin SHI
  • Publication number: 20160379071
    Abstract: A user identification method and a user identification electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining user state information of a user; determining available user identification modes based on the user state information; determining user identification accuracy information corresponding to each of the available user identification modes; determining a selected user identification mode, based on a service requiring user identification and the user identification accuracy information; and performing user identification in the selected user identification mode. With the method or the electronic device, the user can be identified based on various types of information, thus an application range of the user identification method is expanded, and robustness of the user identification method is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hao SHEN
  • Patent number: 9529526
    Abstract: An information processing method and information processing device, used in an electronic device that has a display area and an operation detecting area corresponding to the display area are described. The information processing method includes detecting the gesture operation in the operation detecting area when the first operation object and the second operation objects are displayed on the display area; generating a corresponding operating instruction based on the gesture operation when the gesture operation corresponds to the first operation detecting area; performing the operation corresponding to the operating instruction to the first operation object when the operation object parameter indicates the first operation object; performing the operation corresponding to the operating instruction to the second operation object when the operation object parameter indicates the second operation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Zhang