Patents by Inventor Ben Xu

Ben Xu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10412572
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device discovering method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises: receiving a user instruction instructing to discover devices; if it is found from search that an inter-network connection device exists in a local network and a current device-discovering process has not yet ended, sending first prompt information which includes a manner of guiding the user to trigger the inter-network connection device to be discovered. The manners provided by the present disclosure can guide the manner of triggering the inter-network connection device to be discovered during the device-discovering process, so that the user can conveniently and simply and smoothly trigger the inter-network connection device to be discovered according to the prompt information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Liu, Lei Zhong, Jing Zhao, Ming Wang, Ben Xu, Dongmin Ma, Yafei Miao, Wanjing Wang
  • Patent number: 10318042
    Abstract: A controlling method of a touchable and foldable screen and an electronic device are described. The method includes detecting a first touch operation when the foldable screen is in a bent state; judging whether the first touch operation is located in a bent region on the foldable screen; and adjusting a first bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to a non-bent state in case that the first touch operation is located in the bent region on the foldable screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 10295403
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, and program product is disclosed. The method may include determining an environmental parameter of an environment at a location of an electronic device. The method may include identifying a first object of a virtual scenario that relates to the environmental parameter. The method may include generating a display parameter of the first object based on the environmental parameter. The method may include displaying the first object in the virtual scenario based on the display parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20190149601
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device list synchronizing method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises: after obtaining a user instruction instructing to discover devices, a smart network system sending, to a developer system, a DeviceDiscoveryRequest including first authorization information; the developer system storing the first authorization information; after obtaining information of update of a device list on a developer side, carrying the first authorization information to invoke an interface of the smart network system to trigger the smart network system to send the DeviceDiscoveryRequest to the developer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Cheng LIU, Lei Zhong, Jing Zhao, Ming Wang, Ben Xu, Dongmin Ma, Yafei Miao, Wanjing Wang
  • Publication number: 20190149975
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device discovering method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises: receiving a user instruction instructing to discover devices; if it is found from search that an inter-network connection device exists in a local network and a current device-discovering process has not yet ended, sending first prompt information which includes a manner of guiding the user to trigger the inter-network connection device to be discovered. The manners provided by the present disclosure can guide the manner of triggering the inter-network connection device to be discovered during the device-discovering process, so that the user can conveniently and simply and smoothly trigger the inter-network connection device to be discovered according to the prompt information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (Beijing) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Liu, Lei Zhong, Jing Zhao, Ming Wang, Ben Xu, Dongmin Ma, Yafei Miao, Wanjing Wang
  • Patent number: 10276126
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device has a display unit, and is capable of generating a deformation in response to a stress. The display unit of the electronic device is capable of presenting M window interfaces, each of the M window interfaces being used for displaying a separate display content. The method comprises: determining a first display sub-region of the display unit which is in a presentation state, when it is judged that the electronic device has generated a predetermined deformation; obtaining a first attribute parameter of a first window interface among the M window interfaces; and displaying the first window interface in the first display sub-region if the first attribute parameter satisfies a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20190066682
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an interface intelligent interaction control method, apparatus and system, and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: receiving user-input speech information, and obtaining a speech recognition result; determining scenario elements associated with the speech recognition result; generating an entry corresponding to each scenario element and sending the speech recognition result and the entry to a cloud server; receiving an entry which is best matched with the speech recognition result, returned by the cloud server and selected from the received entries; performing an interface operation corresponding to the best-matched entry. The solution of the present disclosure can be applied to improve flexibility and accuracy of the speech control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD .
    Inventors: Gaofei CHENG, Xiangtao JIANG, Ben XU, Linxin OU, Qin XIONG
  • Patent number: 10095029
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a controller, a display device coupled to the controller, and a detector coupled to the controller. The display device displays virtual environmental images. The detector detects a spatial parameter of a local space of the electronic apparatus in which the electronic apparatus is located. The controller receives the spatial parameter and controls the display device based on the spatial parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 10042425
    Abstract: A method for controlling vibration of an electronic device having a flexible screen and a vibration driving unit, which includes: acquiring a folding parameter of the flexible screen; and adjusting a vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device according to the folding parameter. With the method according to the disclosure, the vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device may be adjusted to different folding states, so that the vibration energy generated by the vibration driving unit could be sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 9940010
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information processing method which includes: detecting a first drag and touch operation performed by a first operation body for moving a first object displayed in a first position on the touch display unit; acquiring a first end position of the first drag and touch operation on the touch display unit, the first end position is a position where the first operation body loses contact with the touch display unit during the first drag and touch operation; and maintaining the first object to be in a selected state in the first end position for a preset duration, and displaying the first object in the first end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 9900488
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a flexible screen capable of being folded and/or bent by a user. A first camera is disposed on a first surface of the flexible screen and a second camera is disposed on a second surface of the flexible screen. A detection unit is configured to detect, in a first condition, whether the first camera and/or the second camera is blocked because the user folds and/or bends the flexible screen. A control unit is configured to control an ON/OFF state of the first camera and/or the second camera based on a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 9886101
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device having flexible display which is capable of N display surfaces, the method includes: obtaining N posture parameters of the N display surfaces; obtaining an object attribute of an i-th display object among M display objects to be displayed, where M?1 and i is an integer inclusively ranging from 1 to M; determining a display surface for displaying the i-th display object from the N display surfaces, based on the N posture parameters and the object attribute; and displaying the i-th display object on the determined display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20180003967
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a controller, a display device coupled to the controller, and a detector coupled to the controller. The display device displays virtual environmental images. The detector detects a spatial parameter of a local space of the electronic apparatus in which the electronic apparatus is located. The controller receives the spatial parameter and controls the display device based on the spatial parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Ben XU
  • Patent number: 9852713
    Abstract: A screen control method applied to a deformable electronic device is provided, which includes: acquiring attitude information of the electronic device in a case that a first region of a screen of the electronic device is deformed; selecting a second region of the screen based on a second attitude of the electronic device in a case that an attitude of the electronic device is changed from a first attitude to the second attitude; and controlling the second region to be deformed, where the second region is different from the first region. With the method, in a case that the first region of the screen of the electronic device is deformed and the attitude of the electronic device is changed, the deformed region is adjusted based on the changed attitude of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20170344944
    Abstract: In optimized container management system, a booking request with customer locations, booking time, container type, movement mode, depot locations and depot locations stock information are received as input in a solver in a container management system received in a container management system. Based on the movement mode of booking request received by customer, solver algorithm is invoked to build a bipartite graph. A bipartite graph with nodes representing customer locations and depot locations are generated, based on the movement mode. Edges between the customer locations and the depot locations are generated based on a container balancing criteria of a solver algorithm. For remaining booking request, edges between the customer locations and the depot locations are generated based on a cost minimization criteria of the solver algorithm. The depot locations are assigned to the corresponding customer locations based on satisfying the container balancing criteria and the cost minimization criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: RAYMOND YAO, XIN CHEN, BEN XU, HARALD HENGELBROCK
  • Patent number: 9798355
    Abstract: A projection method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: projecting a first projection content from a first projection unit; determining at least one second projection unit of the electronic device in the presence of a first operation; and projecting the first projection content from the at least one second projection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20170287223
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, and program product is disclosed. The method may include determining an environmental parameter of an environment at a location of an electronic device. The method may include identifying a first object of a virtual scenario that relates to the environmental parameter. The method may include generating a display parameter of the first object based on the environmental parameter. The method may include displaying the first object in the virtual scenario based on the display parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Publication number: 20170228021
    Abstract: A method for controlling vibration of an electronic device having a flexible screen and a vibration driving unit, which includes: acquiring a folding parameter of the flexible screen; and adjusting a vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device according to the folding parameter. With the method according to the disclosure, the vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device may be adjusted to different folding states, so that the vibration energy generated by the vibration driving unit could be sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben XU
  • Patent number: 9720502
    Abstract: A method for controlling vibration of an electronic device having a flexible screen and a vibration driving unit, which includes: acquiring a folding parameter of the flexible screen; and adjusting a vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device according to the folding parameter. With the method according to the disclosure, the vibration parameter of the vibration driving unit in the electronic device may be adjusted to different folding states, so that the vibration energy generated by the vibration driving unit could be sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Xu
  • Patent number: 9696840
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device related to a field of communication technique are described. The method includes obtaining an operation performed by an operator on the electronic device, wherein the operation is capable of producing a force on the electronic device detecting a parameter of the operation; deforming the electronic device in response to the operation when the parameter satisfies a first condition; and generating a control instruction based on the operation when the parameter does not satisfy the first condition or satisfies a second condition, and at the same time maintaining the electronic device to be not deformed or to be deformed in a degree lower than a preset threshold. A false operation can be avoided in the process of bending the flexible screen, and accuracy of operation with respect to the flexible screen can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ben Xu