Patents by Inventor Christopher Miles Osborne

Christopher Miles Osborne 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: 11237710
    Abstract: A system can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; a touch sensitive surface that comprises a slider region; and assignment circuitry that assigns one of a plurality of assignable system functions to the slider region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, Thomas John Sluchak, Michael William Stuart Ripp
  • Publication number: 20200310531
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for displaying information on a virtual reality headset. One apparatus includes a virtual reality headset. The virtual reality headset includes an inner surface visible to a wearer of the virtual reality headset while the wearer is wearing the virtual reality headset. The virtual reality headset also includes an outer surface not visible to the wearer of the virtual reality headset while the wearer is wearing the virtual reality headset. The virtual reality headset includes a first screen on the inner surface. The virtual reality headset also includes a second screen on the outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Davis, Raymond Chen, Guangbo Meng, Christopher Miles Osborne
  • Patent number: 10565418
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a first panel at least bearing a keyboard, a second panel at least bearing a display, and a fingerprint reader on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second panels. The portion is engageable by a user to transition the first panel away from the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, Michael William Stuart Ripp
  • Patent number: 10516816
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system, including: an information handling device comprising a camera; and a cover for the information handling device, comprising: a movable area obscuring and exposing the camera; at least one button controlling activation of the camera; and a communication mechanism facilitating communication between the cover and the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola
  • Patent number: 10485056
    Abstract: A method includes sensing a hand position on a mobile device via sensors on the mobile device, providing information identifying the sensed hand position to a processor of the mobile device, identifying a position of a user interface on a touch screen display of the mobile device responsive to the information identifying the sensed hand position using the processor of the mobile device, and adjusting a user interface display position on the mobile device to the identified position using the processor of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne
  • Patent number: 10402042
    Abstract: For controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch includes a force sensor operatively coupled to a surface, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to: measure a force vector input by a user touch at the surface, the force vector including a magnitude and a direction, translate the magnitude into a cursor velocity, and control movements of a cursor based on the cursor velocity and the determined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Geary, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas John Sluchak, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu
  • Patent number: 10296279
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, using a processor, data to be displayed across at least two hingedly coupled display devices; determining, using a processor, the display mode of the data, the display mode being selected from the group consisting of an occluded mode and a non-occluded mode; in the occluded mode, processing, using a processor, the data to occlude pixels of the data based upon the determined display mode, the pixels being occluded at a location where a physical separation exists between the at least two hingedly coupled display devices; and displaying, using the at least two hingedly coupled display devices, the data according to the display mode determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wesley Abram Luttrell, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
  • Patent number: 10241584
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for gesture detection. A method includes detecting an auditory cue associated with a predefined gesture based on input received from one or more sensors. The method includes detecting a gesture in response to the auditory cue based on gesture input received from the one or more sensors. The method includes performing an action associated with the detected gesture in response to determining the detected gesture is the predefined gesture associated with the auditory cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Matthew Joseph Geary, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne
  • Patent number: 10136036
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; memory; a touchscreen display; a network interface; a camera that includes a lens; an operating system executable by the processor to establish an operating system environment; applications that execute within the operating system environment to establish corresponding application states where the applications include a camera application to establish a camera state; a housing that houses at least the processor and the camera and that includes a surface where the surface includes an opening for the lens of the camera; a cover that includes a flap where the flap includes a closed orientation with respect to the opening and an open orientation with respect to the opening; and circuitry that switches from an existing application state to the camera state responsive to a transition of the flap from the closed orientation to the open orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: 10051635
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that power from a secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received. The instructions are also executable to, responsive to the determination that power from the secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received, perform a first action regarding operating an apparatus using the secondary power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singopore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Christopher Miles Osborne, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • Patent number: 10027946
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments herein an electronic device is provided comprising a housing, a display, and a camera assembly including a camera and an articulating support that includes a base and a main leg joined to the base. The base and main leg movably coupled to the housing wherein movement of the articulating support defines camera alignment paths followed by the camera when moving between a retracted position and active positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ali Kathryn Ent, Christopher Miles Osborne, Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: 9998665
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, using one or more sensors of a device, contextual data relating to a picture taking context; assigning, using a processor, the contextual data to a predetermined picture taking context; and selecting a camera from two or more cameras of the device based on the predetermined picture taking context. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, Aaron Michael Stewart, Robert James Kapinos, Christopher Miles Osborne, Michael William Stuart Ripp
  • Publication number: 20180088672
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for interrupting a device. A method includes detecting an auditory cue associated with a predefined gesture based on input received from one or more sensors. The method includes detecting a gesture in response to the auditory cue based on gesture input received from the one or more sensors. The method includes performing an action associated with the detected gesture in response to determining the detected gesture is the predefined gesture associated with the auditory cue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Matthew Joseph Geary, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne
  • Publication number: 20170357403
    Abstract: For controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch includes a force sensor operatively coupled to a surface, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to: measure a force vector input by a user touch at the surface, the force vector including a magnitude and a direction, translate the magnitude into a cursor velocity, and control movements of a cursor based on the cursor velocity and the determined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Geary, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas John Sluchak, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu
  • Publication number: 20170344791
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a first panel at least bearing a keyboard, a second panel at least bearing a display, and a fingerprint reader on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second panels. The portion is engageable by a user to transition the first panel away from the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, Michael William Stuart Ripp
  • Patent number: 9811707
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a first panel at least bearing a keyboard, a second panel at least bearing a display, and a fingerprint reader on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second panels. The portion is engageable by a user to transition the first panel away from the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, Michael William Stuart Ripp
  • Publication number: 20170289989
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that power from a secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received. The instructions are also executable to, responsive to the determination that power from the secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received, perform a first action regarding operating an apparatus using the secondary power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Christopher Miles Osborne, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • Patent number: 9703419
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a housing, a touch-enabled pad coupled to the housing, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled pad and to present an indication of the input on the touch-enabled pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Vincent Charles Conzola
  • Publication number: 20170171528
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments herein an electronic device is provided comprising a housing, a display, and a camera assembly including a camera and an articulating support that includes a base and a main leg joined to the base. The base and main leg movably coupled to the housing wherein movement of the articulating support defines camera alignment paths followed by the camera when moving between a retracted position and active positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Ali Kathryn Ent, Christopher Miles Osborne, Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill
  • Publication number: 20170103732
    Abstract: A method includes sensing a hand position on a mobile device via sensors on the mobile device, providing information identifying the sensed hand position to a processor of the mobile device, identifying a position of a user interface on a touch screen display of the mobile device responsive to the information identifying the sensed hand position using the processor of the mobile device, and adjusting a user interface display position on the mobile device to the identified position using the processor of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Vincent Charles Conzola, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne