Patents Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
  • Publication number: 20240045480
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis; a second chassis that is mounted with a display; and a hinge device that relatively rotatably connects one edge portions of the first chassis and the second chassis to each other. A protruding portion in which a portion except for both side portions in a longitudinal direction protrudes toward a rear side is provided in the one edge portion of the first chassis. The hinge device includes a pair of hinge shafts that are connected to both end surfaces of the protruding portion in the longitudinal direction, and relatively rotatably connect the protruding portion and the second chassis, and a pair of hinge arms that integrally fix each of the pair of hinge shafts and the one edge portion of the second chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihito Nakagaki
  • Publication number: 20240045510
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one foldable display having a first display mode in which the entire screen region is displayed and a second display mode in which a partial screen region excluding a predetermined screen region is displayed; determines whether an external keyboard is placed on the predetermined screen region; controls, in a first operation state, a first display mode where the keyboard is not placed and a second display mode where the keyboard is placed; and when a state is switched from the first operation state to a second operation state in which processing executed by the system is restricted more than in the first operation state, selects and controls a display mode when a next state is switched from the second operation state to the first operation state, and a previous display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ito
  • Patent number: 11895270
    Abstract: A phone tree traversal system includes an input device configured to receive a user call request, a memory, and one or more processors. The one or more processors analyze the user call request to identify an entity to call and an objective of the call, and obtain a map of a phone tree utilized by an automated call receiving system of the entity. The phone tree includes at least one node with multiple path segments that branch from the node, and each node includes a respective prompt. The one or more processors determine a route along the map to an endpoint of the phone tree associated with the objective. During the call, the one or more processors navigate the phone tree to reach the endpoint by submitting information in response to the respective prompt at each node along the route that is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Lindsay Nelson, Sathish Kumar Ganesan, Matthew Fardig, Dane Hixson
  • Publication number: 20240036880
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a foldable display; a camera which captures a direction to face at least part of the display surface; a sensor for detecting the posture of the information processing apparatus; a first processor which controls the operation of the system; a second processor which detects a face area from an image captured by the camera; and a third processor which processes while switching, based on the posture, between first processing to output first information when the face area is detected by the second processor, or output second information when the face area is not detected, and second processing to output either one of the first information and the second information regardless of the detection of the face area by the second processor. The operation of the system is controlled based on the first processing and the second processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nishio, Kazuhiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20240038622
    Abstract: A heat radiation component radiates heat from a GPU that generates heat, and includes a mesh impregnated with a liquid metal, and two film bodies that cover both surfaces of the mesh and have sealed peripheries. An opening is formed in the film body. In the mesh, an exposed portion that is exposed through the opening abuts on a surface of a die of the GPU. In the mesh, the portion exposed through the opening is formed of two layers, a first layer and a second layer. In the mesh, an area of the exposed portion exposed through the opening is smaller than an area of the other portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Watanabe, Masahiro Kitamura, Junki Hashiba, Takuroh Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20240039316
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a system device; a controller; a battery; a converter configured to convert an input voltage into an intermediate voltage at a predetermined voltage ratio, the input voltage is a voltage of input power from a power adapter; and a power feeder. The power feeder is configured to supply part or all of intermediate power that is power supplied from the converter, to the system device as system supply power; and charge the battery with part of the intermediate power left unsupplied to the system device, as charging power. The controller is configured to monitor a charging voltage and the system supply power, the charging voltage is a voltage of the charging power; and determine the input voltage based on the charging voltage and the system supply power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Jhan Chien, Mitsuru Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240036613
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing which has an opening in one face, a cover member which is detachably coupled to the housing and closes the opening in the housing, a first board which is housed in the housing, a second board which is supported to the cover member, a first connector which is mounted on the first board and is fixed to the housing relatively and a second connector which is mounted on the second board, is supported to the cover member in a floating state and is connected with the first connector in a state that the cover member is coupled to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Onda, Kazuo Fujii
  • Publication number: 20240038710
    Abstract: A heat radiation structure includes a vapor chamber provided along a surface of a die, a mesh interposed between the die and the vapor chamber, and a liquid metal impregnated in the mesh. In the mesh, a peripheral portion has a higher material density per unit volume than a central portion. In the mesh, the central portion may be formed of a single layer, and the peripheral portion is formed of two layers. The mesh may be a resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Junki Hashiba, Takuroh Kamimura, Masahiro Kitamura, Ryota Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11888129
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: monitoring, using a battery management unit, a condition of one or more cells within a block of a battery, wherein the monitoring comprises capturing, using a camera associated with the battery management unit, an image of an exterior of the one or more cells; determining, using a processor, that the condition of at least one of the one or more cells has fallen below a predetermined threshold, wherein the determining comprises identifying that the exterior of the at least one of the one or more cells has undergone a color change event; and providing, responsive to the determining, a notification. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John M Petersen, Bouziane Yebka, Gary D Cudak, Nathan Peterson
  • Patent number: 11886722
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for technology management on a hardware component of a device at the time of assembly. An apparatus has a processor and memory storage that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains a feature of the hardware component to be removed from the hardware component and operates a virtual fuse that removes a data region associated with the hardware component and permanently removes access to the feature on the hardware component. In response to operating the virtual fuse to remove access to the feature, the processor may indicate the status of the feature on the hardware component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
  • Patent number: 11887519
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for enabling a rollable OLED screen extension with custom curvature. An apparatus includes an OLED screen capable of rendering an OLED image, a first rollable OLED screen extension including a support structure that can be flexed to form a first curvature, a processor, and coupled to the processor, a memory that stores code executable by the processor to enable a user to extend the first rollable OLED screen extension in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian William Wallace, Samuel Patterson, Kathryn Cubrilovic, John Travis Wettroth
  • Patent number: 11888571
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring information for location determination. One method includes transmitting, from a location server, a request including an indication to provide beam configuration information and associated received signal strength measurements of a target user equipment. The method includes receiving a response message including the beam configuration information and associated received signal strength measurements. The method includes determining the location of the target UE based on a mapping between the beam configuration information and the associated received signal strength measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sher Ali Cheema, Robin Thomas, Majid Ghanbarinejad, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 11887551
    Abstract: A shutter system includes an electronic device having a camera with a lens. A shutter is supported by the electronic device to block light transmission through the lens in a first state and permit light transmission in a second state. The shutter includes a shutter body containing electrically charged light blocking particles in suspension, a first pair of electrodes positioned to move the electrically charged light blocking particles to achieve the first state in response to a first voltage being applied to the first pair of electrodes, and a second pair of electrodes positioned to move the electrically charged light blocking particles to achieve the second state in response to a second voltage being applied to the second pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Justin Michael Ringuette, Mark Summerville, Sandy Collins
  • Patent number: 11889432
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for reporting power headroom. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that transmits to a User Equipment (“UE”) a configuration for a transmission occasion for autonomous uplink (“AUL”) transmission on an unlicensed serving cell and receives a power headroom report (“PHR”) Medium Access Control (“MAC”) Control Element (“CE”) with an AUL transmission. The processor identifies timing information corresponding to the PHR, wherein the timing information indicates a time when power headroom information was generated, where receiving the PHR MAC CE includes receiving an indication of the timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 11886888
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a command from a user to load an application; determining, using a processor, whether a forecasted loading time for the application exceeds a loading tolerance threshold associated with the user; and providing, responsive to determining that the forecasted loading time exceeds the loading tolerance threshold, a reduced view of the application during a time period that the application is loading. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11889511
    Abstract: A method and apparatus communicate a transport block in an unlicensed uplink transmission on a wireless network. Downlink Control Information (DCI) can be sent on a control channel. The DCI can schedule an unlicensed uplink (UL) transmission for a UE. The DCI can include a field that indicates whether the UE should apply a scaling factor when determining a Transport Block Size (TBS). A transport block can be received in the unlicensed UL transmission based on the sent DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Robert T. Love, Vijay Nangia
  • Publication number: 20240028152
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touch device, and a main controller that processes a pen input and a touch input. The touch device includes a touch sensor for detecting a contact position of a finger and a contact position of a pen on a screen of a display, a wireless communication for detecting an approach of the pen and a position of the pen on the screen, and a detection controller operable, in a state where an approach of the pen is detected and the pen is not in contact with the screen and the finger is in contact with the screen, to detect in a first mode in which pen input detection and touch input detection are performed in a time-division manner, and to change the mode to a second mode in which the pen input detection is performed for an entire detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Asahi Tokyo
  • Publication number: 20240030732
    Abstract: A charging controller includes an internal resistance measurement unit configured to measure an internal resistance of a rechargeable battery multiple times over a charging period of the rechargeable battery; a detection unit configured to detect a peak of the internal resistance based on a change in the internal resistance measured by the internal resistance measurement unit; and an update unit configured to update a full charge capacity of the rechargeable battery referring to the peak of the internal resistance detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Yamaguchi, Tadashi Kosuga, Hideki Otsuki, Koichi Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20240029606
    Abstract: An information processing device comprising: a first chassis and a second chassis connected to be rotatable relative to each other; a foldable one display provided over the first chassis and the second chassis; a memory; and a processor. The processor performs: orientation detection processing to detect an orientation of a screen area of the display; display control processing to change a display orientation in the screen area according to the orientation of the screen area detected by the orientation detection processing; connection detection processing to detect mounting of an external keyboard on a surface of the second chassis with the display provided thereon, and display mode switching processing to, when the mounting of the keyboard is detected by the connection detection processing, control a display area of the screen area to be in a preset display orientation regardless of the orientation of the screen area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Patent number: 11880449
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an application on an information handling device, a password reset request from a user; accessing, subsequent to the receiving, a data store comprising a list of answers that are responsive to a list of security questions; constructing, using the data store, a temporary password, wherein the temporary password consists of at least one answer selected from the list of answers; and providing, to the user, a prompt containing an indication of the temporary password, wherein the prompt comprises at least one security question, from the list of security questions, that corresponds to the at least one answer. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Robert James Norton, Jr., Scott Wentao Li, Russell Speight VanBlon