Patents Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
  • Publication number: 20230289014
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section; a touch sensor section which is arranged on a screen of the display section and detects touching of a manipulation medium on the screen; a denoising filter part which acquires first detected position data on the manipulation medium on the screen detected at predetermined detection intervals in response to touching of the manipulation medium on the screen, denoises the first detected position data on the basis of the first detected position data and thereby generates second detected position data; and an input processing part which acquires the second detected position data that the denoising filter part generates and makes the display section display a movement locus of the manipulation medium that the manipulation medium is moved on the screen in a state of touching on the screen on the basis of the second detected position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Qiang Yao
  • Publication number: 20230288964
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member; a second chassis member that is adjacent to the first chassis member and relatively rotatably connected to the first chassis member; a first plate that is supported by the first chassis member; a second plate that is supported by the second chassis member and aligned with a gap between the first plate and the second plate; a display that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and has a first region fixed to a front surface of the first plate, a second region fixed to a front surface of the second plate, and a folding region capable of being folded and provided to straddle a gap between the first region and the second region; and a first fastening portion that fixes the first plate to the first chassis member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Daisuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230289484
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores a program of an Operating System (OS); a first processor which executes processing based on the program of the OS stored in the memory; a display unit which displays display information according to processing based on the program of the OS; a sensor for detecting distance to and position of one or more persons present within a predetermined range in a direction to face a display surface of the display unit; and a second processor which acquires detection results of the sensor to execute processing based on the acquired detection results. The first processor performs user authentication processing for determining whether or not to allow use of at least some of functions of the OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Nishio
  • Publication number: 20230288967
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member that has a first edge portion; a second chassis member that has a second edge portion adjacent to the first edge portion, and is adjacent to the first chassis member; a hinge device that connects the first chassis member and the second chassis member so as to be relatively rotatable between a first posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are laminated so as to overlap each other in a surface normal direction and a second posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the surface normal direction; and a cover component that is disposed so as to straddle the first edge portion and the second edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Takahashi, Takehito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takayuki Morino
  • Publication number: 20230289195
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores a program of an Operating System (OS); a first processor which executes the program to implement functions of the OS; and a second processor which detects a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit. When the face area is no longer detected from a state where the face area is detected by the second processor, the first processor performs first processing to limit use of at least some of the functions of the OS in response to the fact that a state where the face area is not detected has lasted for a predetermined first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20230288960
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis which has a first frame member; a second chassis which has a second frame member which is adjacent to the first frame member and is adjacent to the first chassis; a display which is supported to the first chassis and the second chassis; and a hinge device which so connects the first chassis and the second chassis as to be rotationally movable relative to each other between a first posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are so folded as to mutually overlap in a surface normal direction and a second posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are mutually arrayed in a direction which is vertical to the surface normal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Daisuke Takahashi, Takehito Yamauchi, Yalu Liu
  • Publication number: 20230292565
    Abstract: A display assembly includes: a display body that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and includes an active region and a non-active region; a plate that is disposed on a side of a rear surface of the display body, and supports the display body on a first surface; a control board that performs display control of the display body; and a wire that connects the display body and the control board. The display body has an extended portion that extends a part of the non-active region, and a folded portion that is provided in a middle of the extended portion and folded back so as to wrap around an end surface of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11758672
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis accommodating a first electronic component; a second chassis accommodating a second electronic component; a hinge connecting the first chassis and the second chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; and a flexible board connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component. The flexible board includes a first folded portion that is offset from adjacent ends of the first and second chassis in the direction toward the first chassis, the first folded portion being folded from a first direction, which is directed from the second chassis to the first chassis, to a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Morino
  • Patent number: 11758393
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative apparatuses, methods, and program products. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor, a network interface, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code receives signed keys from a computing device over a network via the network interface. The signed keys include a key signed by a mobile device associated with the computing device and the signed keys were generated responsive to a first key agreement protocol configured to provide one of forward secrecy protection and time-based expiration. The code authenticates the received signed keys responsive to prior knowledge of public keys associated with at least one of the computing device and the mobile device according to a second key agreement protocol configured to provide one of forward secrecy protection and time-based expiration and code that initiates a communication between the processor and the device responsive to the received signed keys being authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Igor Stolbikov, John M. Petersen, Gary D. Cudak, Nathan Peterson
  • Patent number: 11755072
    Abstract: An information processing device that controls a display in two or more display areas, which do not overlap one another and include at least a first display area and a second display area, is provided. The information processing device includes: a display mode switching unit that switches between: a first display mode in which the display areas are controlled as one combined display area, and a second display mode in which the display is controlled as two display areas of at least the first display area and the second display area; and a display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Tatsumi Nagasawa, Noritoshi Yoshiyama, Kyoko Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20230280799
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis and a second chassis; a hinge connecting the second chassis to the first chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; an electrical device including a display provided in the first chassis; a printed circuit board provided in the second chassis; and a flexible substrate for electrically connecting the electrical device and the printed circuit board, the first chassis including a rotating body that rotates coaxially with the hinge by a rotational movement with respect to the second chassis and has the flexible substrate passed therethrough, and the rotating body including: a first opening guiding the flexible substrate to the electrical device; a second opening guiding the flexible substrate to the printed circuit board; and a substrate opening through which the flexible substrate passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kinoshita, Kazuya Tatsuno, Shinichi Kubota, Satoshi Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20230283313
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus has: a tray holding a communication card; a card socket accommodating the tray; an eject mechanism that ejects the tray in response to an operation of inserting a pin; a cover which is provided integrally with the tray and in which an eject hole through which the pin is inserted to operate the eject mechanism is formed; a reset switch for resetting a system in response to the operation of inserting the pin; and a reset hole into which the pin is inserted to operate the reset switch. The card socket and the reset switch are provided adjacently to a position along a first edge of a flat rectangular chassis, and the reset hole is covered by the cover while the tray is in the card socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Daisuke Takahashi, Masaaki Bandoh, Hiroaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11748415
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device comprising a digital assistant, a user command, wherein the digital assistant is providing a current output; determining whether an attribute of the current output should be modified, wherein the determining is based on a content type of the current output and a request type of the command; and providing a response to the user command; wherein the providing comprises modifying, responsive to determining that an attribute should be modified, an attribute of the current output during provision of the response, wherein the modification and the attribute to be modified are based on the content type and the request type; and wherein the providing comprises continuing the current output with no modification responsive to determining that an attribute should not be modified. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Roderick Echols, Ryan Charles Knudson, Bradley Park Strazisar
  • Patent number: 11751341
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a bottom cover, a main board provided with a stud, a screw, a washer, and a sponge. The screw has a head portion having a diameter larger than that of an attachment hole, a male screw portion configured to be screwed into a first female screw portion, and a columnar portion having a diameter smaller than a root diameter of the male screw portion. The washer has a flange portion having a diameter larger than that of the attachment hole, a cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than that of the attachment hole, and a second female screw portion which the male screw portion is screwable into and passable through. The head portion abuts on the bottom cover to fix the bottom cover by the male screw portion. The flange portion is between the stud and the bottom cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ushioda, Jun Iwasaki, Masaaki Bandoh, Ryota Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11747862
    Abstract: A portable information device includes: a chassis; a decorative plate fixed to a part of an outer face of the chassis with stretch releasable double-sided adhesive tape; and a cover member that covers the outer face and the decorative plate. The double-sided adhesive tape has: an adhesive portion including adhesive layers on first and second faces of a substrate for adhesively fixing between the decorative plate and the outer face; and a tab including release paper partially covering the adhesive layers to let a user hold the tab for stretch release of the adhesive portion from between the decorative plate and the outer face. The double-sided adhesive tape has a first groove and a second groove on the first face and the second face, respectively, that are positioned not to overlap in a thickness direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Tetsuya Sano, Yuta Tsuganezawa
  • Patent number: 11747865
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; a processor which executes the program stored in the memory; and a sensor which detects orientation of the own information processing device. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: orientation detection processing to detect orientation of a screen area of the display based on the detection result of the sensor; and display control processing in which the screen area is split into a plurality of display areas to display display-data in each of the plurality of display areas, respectively, and display orientation of each of the plurality of display areas is changed according to a change in the orientation of the screen area without replacing pieces of display data to be displayed respectively in the plurality of display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Patent number: 11751154
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for synchronization signal block selection. One method includes receiving multiple synchronization signal blocks on a first wideband carrier. Each synchronization signal block includes at least one synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel. The method includes detecting at least one synchronization signal block of the synchronization signal blocks, determining at least one synchronization signal frequency associated with the at least one detected synchronization signal block, and selecting a first synchronization signal block of the at least one detected synchronization signal block and a first synchronization signal frequency of the at least one synchronization signal frequency. The first synchronization signal block is associated with the first synchronization signal frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Robert T. Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11743934
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for providing enhanced QoS via a non-3GPP access network. One apparatus includes a transceiver communicates with a gateway function in a non-3GPP access network. The apparatus includes a processor that receives a create security association request for each of at least one security association. Here, each create security association request includes additional QoS information for the security association. The processor reserves, for each create security association request, at least one access resource in the access network based on the additional QoS information and sends a create security association response to the gateway function for each create security association request, each create security association response indicating whether the corresponding security association is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Apostolis Salkintzis, Roozbeh Atarius, Dimitrios Karampatsis, Genadi Velev
  • Patent number: 11743820
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for reporting transmission for discontinuous reception. One method includes determining whether a symbol occurs within a discontinuous reception on duration time period. The method includes, in response to determining that the symbol occurs within the discontinuous reception on duration time period, determining whether to transmit a report. The method includes transmitting the report regardless of whether a discontinuous reception on duration timer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11741951
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an input device of an information handling device, voice input; determining, using a processor, whether the voice input corresponds to a voice command; identifying, responsive to determining that the voice input corresponds to a voice command, that the voice command is associated with an enabled voice command; determining, using a processor, whether a characteristic of the voice command corresponds to a predetermined input characteristic; and performing, responsive to identifying that the voice command is associated with the enabled voice command and responsive to determining that the characteristic corresponds to the predetermined input characteristic, an action corresponding to the enabled voice command. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker