Patents by Inventor Daryl Cromer
Daryl Cromer 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).
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Patent number: 11762203Abstract: A headset can include a frame; a display assembly supported by the frame; a motion sensor that generates motion data responsive to motion of the frame; and circuitry that generates a frame fit signal via the motion data.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard J. Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11741951Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
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Patent number: 11508033Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device having a display, an indication to capture an image of a scene using a camera sensor positioned underneath the display; capturing, responsive to the receiving, a plurality of partial images of the scene, wherein the capturing comprises adjusting, using an adjustment mechanism, a physical position of the camera sensor after each of the plurality of partial images of the scene are captured; and stitching, subsequent to the capturing, the plurality of partial images together to form the image of the scene. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11506890Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, using one or more optical engines of an augmented reality display, an augmented reality scene; determining, using at least one sensor, a location of a gaze of the user on the augmented reality display; identifying, based upon the location of the gaze, at least one object a user is viewing; and adjusting, based upon identification of the at least one object, luminance within the augmented reality scene. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11467646Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device in a low power mode, a wake indication; waking, responsive to the receiving, the information handling device from the low power mode; receiving, at the awoken information handling device, context data obtained by at least one other device; and performing an action based on the received context data. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
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Publication number: 20220317445Abstract: A headset can include a frame; a display assembly supported by the frame; a motion sensor that generates motion data responsive to motion of the frame; and circuitry that generates a frame fit signal via the motion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard J. Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Patent number: 11397456Abstract: For selectively providing notifications based on charge history, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor determines a device location for the apparatus and identifies a charge history corresponding to the device location. The processor further selects a notification based on the charge history and presents the notification based on a charging status of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11250861Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using an audio capture device associated with an information handling device, audible input; determining, using a processor, whether the audible input is associated with an authorized user; and performing, responsive to determining that the audible input is not associated with the authorized user, a silencing action associated with the audio capture device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11233923Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, comprising: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to activate a camera positioned underneath a display portion of the information handling device; identifying, using a processor, a location of at least one pixel on the display portion positioned overtop the camera; disabling, based on the identifying, the at least one pixel; performing, subsequent to the disabling and using the camera, a function; and enabling, responsive to identifying that the function was performed, the at least one pixel. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
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Patent number: 11195477Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, using one or more optical engines of an augmented reality display, an augmented reality scene; identifying, based upon a location of a gaze of a user, at least one object the user is viewing; and adjusting, based upon the identification of the at least one object, a drive strength of one or more pixels associated with at least one virtual object on the augmented reality display. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11178280Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: engaging, at an information handing device, in a conversational session with a user; receiving an input from a source other than the user during the conversational session; and performing, at the information handling device, an action related to the conversational input in response to the received input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Ming Qian, Song Wang, David Alexander Schwarz, Aaron Michael Stewart, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Jeffrey E. Skinner
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Patent number: 11170160Abstract: A method, device and computer program product are provided. The method is under control of one or more processors includes program instructions to perform resource context awareness (RCA) by automatically. The method accesses an active destination resource at a computing device, matches the active destination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCA transfer library and transfers an outbound resource advancement (RA) content segment stored in memory of the computing device to the active destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer
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Publication number: 20210304685Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, using one or more optical engines of an augmented reality display, an augmented reality scene; identifying, based upon a location of a gaze of a user, at least one object the user is viewing; and adjusting, based upon the identification of the at least one object, a drive strength of one or more pixels associated with at least one virtual object on the augmented reality display. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11129550Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, at an information handling device, at least one physiological data point that corresponds to a physiological metric associated with a user; determining, using a processor, an activity type of the user; determining, using a processor, whether the at least one physiological data point is outside a threshold range for the physiological metric based on the activity type; and providing, responsive to determining that the at least one physiological data point is outside the threshold range, a notification. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11126396Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an information handling device, a position of an application window on one of at least two connected display devices operatively coupled to the information handling device; determining, using a processor, an audio output device associated with the one of the at least two connected display devices; and directing audio originating from the application window to the audio output device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
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Publication number: 20210263310Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, using one or more optical engines of an augmented reality display, an augmented reality scene; determining, using at least one sensor, a location of a gaze of the user on the augmented reality display; identifying, based upon the location of the gaze, at least one object a user is viewing; and adjusting, based upon identification of the at least one object, luminance within the augmented reality scene. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Patent number: 11076071Abstract: A device, method and computer program product are provided. The device includes a housing having display and back surfaces. A digital camera unit (DCU) is held in the housing and is oriented to face the display surface. The DCU includes sensor pixels to capture image data for a scene in a field of view of the DCU. The sensor pixels are arranged in a sensor matrix with a sensor pixel density. A display layer is held in the housing proximate to the display surface. The display layer includes display pixels arranged in a display matrix having a first pixel density. The display pixels are separated by gaps arranged in rows and columns. The display layer overlays the DCU such that a first subset of the sensor pixels aligns with, and are covered by, the display pixels and a second subset of the sensor pixels align with, and are exposed through, the gaps between the display pixels. The device includes a processor and memory storing program instructions accessible by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard J. Locker
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Patent number: 11076495Abstract: An electronic device includes a hinge coupling at least a first device housing to a second device housing. A flexible display is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. The first device housing defines a curvilinear recess forming at least some of the flexible display into an asymmetrical service loop when the first device housing and the second device housing pivot about the hinge from an axially displaced open position to a closed position. Additional hinges and device housings can be added to accommodate flexible displays of varying lengths.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Daryl Cromer, Scott P DeBates, Grant Lloyd, Alberto R Cavallaro
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Patent number: 11064297Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using at least one sensor, that a position of a microphone attached to a headset is associated with an audible input position; determining, using a processor, that the position is not associated with an optimal audible input position; and notifying, responsive to the determining, a user that the position is not associated with the optimal audible input position. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Publication number: 20210209728Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device having a display, an indication to capture an image of a scene using a camera sensor positioned underneath the display; capturing, responsive to the receiving, a plurality of partial images of the scene, wherein the capturing comprises adjusting, using an adjustment mechanism, a physical position of the camera sensor after each of the plurality of partial images of the scene are captured; and stitching, subsequent to the capturing, the plurality of partial images together to form the image of the scene. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer