Patents Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
  • Publication number: 20240134952
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes: a chassis variable in form; a system device; a sensor for acquiring biological information; a user authentication unit which changes the operating mode of the system device from a power-saving mode to a standard mode consumed more power when a user to be registered is identified using the biological information as a pre-registered user; and a power supply circuit, wherein the sensor is placed in the chassis, and the power supply circuit controls the supply of power to the user authentication unit based on the form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Dadao Tian
  • Publication number: 20240134415
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first chassis in which a motherboard mounted with a processing device is mounted, a second chassis provided adjacent to the first chassis, a hinge device that relatively rotatably connects the first chassis to the second chassis, an electrical component that is provided in the first chassis and generates heat, a plate-shaped thermal module that is provided in the first chassis and is thermally connected to the electrical component to radiate heat, and a graphite sheet provided to extend from the first chassis to the second chassis. A connection edge portion of the first chassis is made of a heat conductive material, the thermal module is provided with a heat pipe along the connection edge portion, and the graphite sheet is thermally connected to the heat pipe and the connection edge portion by being laminated and interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ohyama, Yusuke Onoue, Akinori Uchino
  • Publication number: 20240138116
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a CPU provided in a first chassis and generating heat, a plate-shaped vapor chamber provided in the first chassis and thermally connected to the CPU to radiate heat, and two heat pipes protruding and extending from the vapor chamber at positions separated from each other. A graphite sheet that is thinner than the vapor chamber is thermally connected to the two heat pipes. A battery device having three cells is provided in the first chassis, and the heat pipe extends into a groove portion formed between the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ohyama, Yusuke Onoue, Akinori Uchino
  • Patent number: 11968733
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for providing a radio link failure indication. One method includes counting a number of consecutive discontinuous indications. The method includes comparing the number of consecutive discontinuous indications to a predetermined threshold. The method includes, in response to the number of consecutive discontinuous indications being greater than the predetermined threshold, providing a radio link failure indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Joachim Loehr, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11968623
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for receiving a discontinuous reception configuration, and receiving a configuration of a physical downlink control channel carrying a power saving downlink control information format, wherein the configuration includes an offset value with respect to a starting time of a discontinuous reception cycle of the discontinuous reception configuration. The power saving downlink control information format is detected at one of one or more monitoring occasions of the physical downlink control channel carrying the power saving downlink control information format. A determination is then made as to whether to start a drx-onDurationTimer its a following discontinuous reception cycle of the discontinuous reception configuration based on a wake-up indication of the power saving downlink control information format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ziad Ahmad, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 11968087
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, using a device repurposing system, at least one device, connected to a network comprising at least one other device, currently unused by a user; determining, using the device repurposing system, one or more attributes of the at least one device; identifying, using the device repurposing system and based upon the one or more attributes of the at least one device, at least one use for the at least one device within the network while the at least one device is unused, wherein the identifying is based upon requirements of the at least one use; and providing, using the device repurposing system, a recommendation to a user to employ the at least one device for the at least one use while the at least one device is unused by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: William Holroyd, Girishpurushottam Holabasappa Hoogar
  • Patent number: 11968519
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, at an audio provision system including at least one audio output device, an initiation of audio being provided via the at least one audio output device to a user; identifying and tracking, using at least one sensor of the audio provision system, a location of the user with respect to the at least one audio output device; and directing, using the audio provision system, audio provided by the at least one audio output device to the user, wherein the directing includes adjusting, based upon the location of the user, at least one attribute of the at least one audio output device, wherein the adjusting includes iteratively adjusting the at least one attribute as the location of the user changes. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Gary D Cudak, CheKim Chhuor, Nathan Peterson, John M Petersen
  • Patent number: 11968019
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided in which a set of reference signals is received (2102), and a set of channel signatures for a multiple antenna communication channel is estimated (2104). Channel state information including a set of quality metrics is calculated (2106). In response to the set of quality metrics satisfying a criterion, the baseline receiver for the multiple antenna communication channel is selected (2108). In response to the set of quality metrics not satisfying the criterion, the alternative receiver for the multiple antenna communication channel is selected (2110). The selectable alternative receiver for the multiple antenna communication channel at the user equipment is based on a set of integer linear combinations, where each integer linear combination is based on at least a pair of channel signatures from the estimated set of channel signatures (2112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Ahmed Hindy
  • Patent number: 11968605
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for aggregating HARQ feedback and sidelink retransmission procedure. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor coupled with the transceiver, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to transmit sidelink data to each of one or more UEs of a set of UEs and to receive SL feedback from each of the one or more UEs of the set of UEs, the sidelink feedback comprising HARQ feedback indicating a HARQ positive acknowledgement or a HARQ negative acknowledgement. Via the transceiver, the processor transmits an uplink message to a network entity, the uplink message comprising an aggregate of the received sidelink feedback from each of the one or more UEs of the set of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11968806
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis; first and second heating elements in the chassis; and a cooling module absorbing the heat. The cooling module includes: a first vapor chamber connected to the first heating element; and a second vapor chamber connected to the second heating element. The first and second vapor chambers are placed adjacent to each other with a step therebetween. The first vapor chamber has a bridge that is a part of at least one of the two first metal plates, the bridge straddling the step and extending toward the second vapor chamber to be connected to a surface of the second vapor chamber. The bridge is not provided with the closed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Yusuke Onoue, Takuroh Kamimura, Akinori Uchino
  • Publication number: 20240126370
    Abstract: The electronic apparatus includes a processor, a memory, a signal generation circuit and a vibration generator. The processor executes a program. The memory stores the program. The signal generation circuit generates a beep signal for generating a beep sound. The vibration generator generates the vibrations on the basis of the beep signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironari Nishino, Xinmei Yang, Hidehisa Mori, Thixuanmai Tran
  • Patent number: 11963333
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis; a heat generating element provided in the chassis; and a cooling device that has a cooling fin, a heat pipe connecting the cooling fin and the heat generating element, and a pressing assembly pressing the heat pipe against the heat generating element, and is provided in the chassis. The heat pipe has: a heat absorbing section that absorbs heat generated by the heat generating element; and a thin plate section having a thickness which is smaller than that of the heat absorbing section. The pressing assembly has: a base assembly relatively fixed to the chassis; and a bridge section that is provided integrally with the base assembly and placed on a surface of the thin plate section in such a manner as to extend over the heat pipe in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Akinori Uchino, Shusaku Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 11960330
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main body chassis and a display chassis that are rotatably connected at connecting edges via a hinge. The display chassis has a display, a back cover covering the rear face of the display, and a pair of reinforcing plates extending along edge walls, each reinforcing plate having a proximal end fixed to the back cover together with a connecting plate of the hinge at the connecting edge and having a front face fixed to the display and a rear face fixed to the back cover. The back cover includes a main plate having a curved shape that is convex toward rear; and an injection-molded resin frame around the main plate and having a flat surface. The reinforcing plates are fixed to the flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Hashikura
  • Patent number: 11962389
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to artificial intelligence (AI) enabled beam management. A base station may notify a user equipment (UE) of an availability of AI-enabled beam management and provide configuration parameters for an AI algorithm. The UE may utilize the configuration parameters to configure an AI algorithm. The UE may process a first set of beams utilizing the configured AI algorithm to identify a second set of beams. The UE may notify the base station (and/or other network entity) of the second set of beams, and one or more beams of the second set of beams can be utilized for wireless communication between the UE and the base station and/or other network entity or UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Ahmed Hindy, Ali Ramadan Ali
  • Patent number: 11963129
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a UE that receives a first configuration associated with a set of positioning reference signals, where the first configuration indicates a time and frequency resource for a positioning reference signal of the set of positioning reference signals. The UE also receives a second configuration that associates a positioning measurement of the positioning reference signal on the time and frequency resource, and receives one or more types of polarization associated with the first configuration and/or the second configuration. The UE also transmits a report indicating the one or more types of polarization associated with the positioning measurement of the positioning reference signal on the time and frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Sher Ali Cheema, Majid Ghanbarinejad, Robin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20240121916
    Abstract: A heat radiation structure includes a mesh that abuts on a surface of a die, and a vapor chamber that interposes the mesh between the surface of the die and the vapor chamber. The mesh includes a heat generation element abutting range portion that is provided at a central portion of the mesh, is impregnated with a liquid metal, and abuts on the surface of the die to receive heat, and a pair of heat generation element non-abutting range portions that continuously extends from both sides of the heat generation element abutting range portion and does not abut on the surface of the die. Each of the pair of heat generation element non-abutting range portions is fixed to the vapor chamber via a sheet material. Each of a pair of the heat generation element non-abutting range portions is interposed between a pair of the sheet materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Takuroh Kamimura, Ryota Watanabe, Junki Hashiba
  • Publication number: 20240121909
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: a fan having a motor that rotates around a central axis, and a plurality of blades provided on an outer periphery of the motor; and a casing which accommodates the fan, and has an intake port provided in the axial direction of the central axis, and an exhaust port provided in a direction orthogonal to the central axis, wherein an end surface of each of the plurality of blades that faces the intake port is provided with an inclined portion that inclines such that a height thereof in the axial direction gradually decreases toward the motor, and the plurality of blades include a plurality of blade groups having different start point positions at which the inclined portions start to incline in a direction from the tips of the blades toward the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Junki Hashiba, Shusaku Tomizawa, Takateru Adachi
  • Publication number: 20240118479
    Abstract: A keyboard unit includes a plurality of keytops; a baseplate supporting the plurality of keytops; and a light-emitting module having a light guide plate, a first flexible sheet covering a first surface of the light guide plate, and a second flexible sheet covering a second surface of the light guide plate opposite to the first surface of the light guide plate, wherein the light-emitting module is disposed on the baseplate such that the first flexible sheet is between the baseplate and the light guide plate, a hole is formed in the light-emitting module through the light guide plate, the first flexible sheet, and the second flexible sheet, and at a periphery of the hole, the second flexible sheet is fixed to the baseplate to form a continuous barrier from the second surface of the light guide plate to the baseplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nagase, Satoshi Douzono
  • Patent number: 11953943
    Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a base housing; a display housing that includes a front side, a back side and a display panel on the front side that spans an intermediate portion and wing portions of the display housing, where the wing portions fold over the front side of the intermediate portion, where the wing portions open to form a continuous front facing viewable display, and where the wing portions open and fold over the back side of the intermediate portion and meet to form a substantially continuous back facing viewable display; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing to the base housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Denis Leite Gomes, Carlos Eduardo Dias Duarte, Alanderson Salomao Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11954272
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display, a touch sensor on a screen of the first display detects a position of an object on the screen and detects approach of a pen within a distance above the screen, a pen input processing acquires a position of the pen on the screen by switching between a first input mode for displaying a movement locus of the pen on the screen based on the position of the pen and a second input mode for making a second display sets to a specific arrangement relation with the first display displays the movement locus of the pen and an input switch processing which switches between the first input mode and the second input mode alternately in accordance with a movement of the pen performed in a non-contact state based on the specific arrangement relation after detection of the pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki