Patents Assigned to Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9836139
    Abstract: A method and a terminal device for operation control of an operation object are provided. The method includes getting a first operation direction and a second operation direction of the operation object, determining an operation corresponding to the direction combination relation between the first operation direction and the second operation direction, and performing the operation on the operation object. The solution enables two kinds of operations on the operation object simultaneously and generates an operation effect that two kinds of operations are performed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanyi Zhang, Junfeng Liu, Qianying Wang, Zhiqiang He
  • Patent number: 9839057
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for exchanging information between electronic devices, and an electronic device. The method includes at a first electronic device: determining that a request for exchanging information from a second electronic device is valid, after receiving the request; acquiring an information area with respect to the request, and selecting area data corresponding to the information area; and after or at the same time of the selection of the area data, establishing a communication connection with the second electronic device, and transmitting the area data over the communication connection. After coming into contact with the second electronic device, the electronic device equipped with the touch screen, as the first electronic device, may establish and perform data transmission with the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Xiaobing Guo
  • Patent number: 9830043
    Abstract: A processing method and a processing device for displaying an icon and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device has a plurality of variable operation forms. Specifically, a current operation form of the electronic device is detected and determined. A first application applicable to the electronic device in the currently determined operation form is selected according to the determined operation form. Then, a display policy for the icon which corresponds to the selected and determined application and is displayed on the display screen of the electronic device is correspondingly adjusted. Therefore, it is ensured that the user can rapidly, conveniently and accurately select the available application in the case of the operation form of the electronic device, thus improving the user experience when the user uses the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Wenhua Yuan, Qian Zhao
  • Patent number: 9829969
    Abstract: A method for determining a bent state of an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a detecting device and a flexible screen. The method includes obtaining at least one parameter value, the at least one parameter value being obtained by the detecting device in the case that the flexible screen is bent; and determining a bent state of the flexible screen based on the at least one parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guang Yang, Qian Zhao, Ke Shang, Quan Niu
  • Patent number: 9829887
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhu, Yan Gao
  • Patent number: 9824650
    Abstract: A method for an electronic device with a display unit and an electronic device are provided. The method may comprise: obtaining an environmental parameter under an environment where the electronic device is disposed when the display unit is in a first display status, the environmental parameter including at least an environmental color temperature parameter of the environment and configured for adjusting the display status of the display unit; determining whether to adjust the display status based on at least the environmental color temperature parameter included in the environmental parameter to get a first determination result; and adjusting the display status from the first display status to a second display status different from the first display status if the first determination result indicates that it is to adjust the display status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenhua Zhang, Ke Shang
  • Patent number: 9820076
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises: modulating a first audio signal associated with a first channel in a first sound source file onto a first ultrasound signal to obtain a first modulated ultrasound signal; modulating a second audio signal associated with a second channel in a second sound source file onto a second ultrasound signal to obtain a second modulated ultrasound signal; transmitting a first ultrasound wave associated with the first modulated ultrasound signal, such that the first ultrasound wave, once reflected by a first reflection plane, produces a first audible sound signal corresponding to the first audio signal; and transmitting a second ultrasound wave associated with the second modulated ultrasound signal, such that the second ultrasound wave, once reflected by a second reflection plane, produces a second audible sound signal corresponding to the second audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Ping Guo, Weiyu Yang, Gang Yan
  • Patent number: 9812075
    Abstract: A display screen is disclosed. The display screen comprises a light source layer, configured to be in an “on” state for providing a display light source corresponding to a first display mode, when the display screen is in the first display mode, and to be in an “off” state when the display screen is in a second display mode different from the first display mode; a liquid crystal layer, disposed in front of the light source layer; a polarizer, disposed in front of the liquid crystal layer; and a control unit, in connection with the liquid crystal layer and configured to control the liquid crystal layer. An electronic device is also disclosed, including the above described display screen and a method for processing information of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Fang Xu, Zhenhua Zhang, Ke Shang, Like Zhong
  • Patent number: 9811185
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device comprising a touch sensitive unit and a display unit separated from each other are described. The electronic device includes at least a first display mode, and a second display mode suitable for the touch sensitive unit. The method includes acquiring a third display mode of the display unit at a first timing when the electronic device is turned on; detecting whether the third display mode is the second display mode or not; acquiring coordinates of each point of N points of the display unit and generating a first control instruction, when the third display mode is the second display mode, wherein N is an integer above 2; and performing the first control instruction, to correspond the coordinates of the each point of the N points to coordinates of each touch sensitive point of the touch sensitive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingxu Mao
  • Patent number: 9806752
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and an information processing method of providing an electronic device which may be used more conveniently. The electronic device comprises: a main body; a first audio output component arranged on a first outer surface of the main body; a display arranged on a second outer surface of the main body, the first outer surface and the second outer surface being opposite to each other; an audio input component arranged on the main body; a second audio output component arranged on the main body, wherein an attribute parameter of the second audio output component is higher than that of the first audio output component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Jie Xia, Ge Gao
  • Patent number: 9803655
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an airflow accelerating device and an electronic apparatus. The airflow accelerating device comprises: a housing, having a chamber formed therein; at least one vibrating plate, disposed within the chamber; at least one division plate, fixed in the housing, for dividing the chamber into at least two sub-chambers, each of the at least two sub-chambers having at least one air outlet configured to transmit airflow generated by vibration of the vibrating plate to outside of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Ting Tian, Jinyu Li
  • Patent number: 9798139
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device and a display method are described. The wearable electronic device includes a fix unit, by which the wearable electronic device can maintain a position relationship with respect to a first part of a user body; a detection unit, configured to detect a posture of the first part of the user body, and to acquire a detection result; a posture determination unit, configured to determine whether the detection result meets a predetermined acquisition condition; a first acquisition unit, configured to acquire weather information when the posture determination unit determines that the detection result meets a predetermined acquisition condition; an image generation unit, configured to generate a weather image corresponding to the weather information; and a display unit, configured to display the weather information and/or the weather image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shifeng Peng, Xinru Hou
  • Patent number: 9781475
    Abstract: An information processing method, a system and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first motion locus with the first electronic component, where the first motion locus is generated by the first part from a first time instant to a second time instant; and acquiring a second motion locus with the second electronic component, where the second motion locus is generated by the second part from the first time instant to the second time instant. The first electronic device may obtain and execute a first control instruction corresponding to the first motion locus and the second motion locus. With the method and electronic device, an advantage of precisely recognizing a slight local action of the user is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fanzhi Li
  • Patent number: 9779522
    Abstract: A method for processing information and an electronic device are disclosed according to the disclosure, and a display unit of the electronic device is capable of being bended with certain curvature. The method includes: once notification signal for notifying the electronic device that a first plane image needs to be displayed is received, detecting and obtaining current bending state parameters for characterizing a current bending state of the display unit based on the notification signal; acquiring the first plane image from memory; performing image processing on the first plane image according to the current bending state parameters; and transmitting the second image to video memory of the display unit, to make a projected image of the second image on a preset plane is the same as the first plane image when the second image is displayed on the display unit of the curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fulei Tian
  • Patent number: 9778776
    Abstract: A method and system for processing data is provided. The method for processing data includes: generating, by a touch module of a first electronic device, touch information of the first electronic device, in the case that the first electronic device is in contact with a second electronic device; and determining, by the second electronic device, related information of the first electronic device, according to the touch information of the first electronic device. In the solution, the first electronic device generates the related information via the touch module and the second electronic device determines the related information, so as to improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ke Chen, Rongyao Fu, Jinping Yang, Haidong Lu
  • Patent number: 9781334
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiefeng Chen
  • Patent number: 9781112
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus are provided. The method is applicable to a first electronic device, where information about a first preset relationship between the first electronic device and a second electronic device is recorded upon detection of the first preset relationship. If it is judged from the recorded information on the first preset relationship that the first preset relationship between the second electronic device and the first electronic device satisfies a first preset condition, then the second electronic device is authorized for a data access privilege so that the second electronic device has a privilege to access data in the first electronic device. This method can lower the complexity of the data access and improve the convenience of the data access between the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Li
  • Patent number: 9779106
    Abstract: Disclosed are an application management method and device, applied to a first device connected to a second device. The method includes mapping at least one application in the second device, to obtain at least one corresponding application identifier; detecting a first operation; when the first operation satisfies a first preset condition, determining an application identifier of a first application according to the at least one application identifier; detecting a second operation; when the second operation satisfies a second preset condition, obtaining a corresponding application management command according to the second operation; and sending the application management command to the second device, so that the second device manages the first application according to the application management command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD., BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Qiming Deng, Dong Chen, Sheng Wang, Shiguang Huang, Qing Liu, Yanxia Chen
  • Patent number: 9767805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a voice recognition method for use in an electronic apparatus comprising a voice input module. The method comprises: receiving voice data by the voice input module; performing a first pattern voice recognition on the received voice data, including identifying whether the voice data comprises a first voice recognition information; performing a second pattern voice recognition on the voice data if the voice data comprises the first voice recognition information; and performing or refusing an operation corresponding to the first voice recognition information according to a result of the second pattern voice recognition. The present disclosure also provides a voice controlling method, an information processing method, and an electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Haisheng Dai, Qianying Wang, Shi Chen
  • Patent number: 9766777
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for window display, and methods and apparatuses for touch-operating an application. The method for window display enables displaying a window in an appropriate position for convenient use. The method include displaying a main menu including at least one menu item, determining a first window corresponding to a first menu item in the main menu based on a first input operation on the first menu item, determining a position parameter and/or a direction parameter for the first window, and displaying the first window according to the position parameter and/or the direction parameter. The present application also discloses an apparatus for implementing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Lu Lu, Yu Chen, Jun Li, Xin Li, Shuangxi Huang