Patents by Inventor David Wayne Hill

David Wayne Hill 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: 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: 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: 9996106
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a mount accessory, including: a central part having a centrally located hinge; two long edges that are hingedly attached to the centrally located hinge and extend from the central part; each of the two long edges including a ledge having a connector therein; and a centrally located connector disposed in the central part. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David Wayne Hill, Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, Cyan Godfrey, Matthew Ian Tucker
  • Publication number: 20170227984
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a mount accessory, including: a central part having a centrally located hinge; two long edges that are hingedly attached to the centrally located hinge and extend from the central part; each of the two long edges including a ledge having a connector therein; and a centrally located connector disposed in the central part. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: David Wayne Hill, Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, Cyan Godfrey, Matthew Ian Tucker
  • Publication number: 20170227996
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus, including: a housing including: a compartment; the compartment having a panel and two side walls accommodating removable computer modules; the apparatus including a movable component that slides away from the compartment to reveal an inside of the compartment; the compartment including power and data connectors for coupling to the removable computer modules; where power is removed from the removable computer modules responsive to sliding away the movable component. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Samuel Jackson Patterson
  • Patent number: 9727096
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus, including: a housing including: a compartment; the compartment having a panel and two side walls accommodating removable computer modules; the apparatus including a movable component that slides away from the compartment to reveal an inside of the compartment; the compartment including power and data connectors for coupling to the removable computer modules; where power is removed from the removable computer modules responsive to sliding away the movable component. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Samuel Jackson Patterson
  • Patent number: 9696761
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system, including: a module housing comprising a top, a bottom, and at least one lateral edge comprising a top side, a bottom side, and at least one lateral side; at least one display device element disposed at a lateral side of the module housing; and at least one display device operatively coupled to the at least one display device element; wherein the module housing is connectable to another module housing using at least one latch mechanism; wherein at least a portion of the latch mechanism is disposed at the bottom side of the module housing; and wherein at least another portion of the latch mechanism is disposed at the top side of the module housing. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Ali Kathryn Ent, Matthew Ian Tucker
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9441830
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a housing with a top portion and a bottom portion, a display coupled to at least a portion of the housing, at least one light source coupled to at least a portion of the bottom portion of the housing, and a cord coupled to at least a portion of the device. The cord protrudes from at least a portion of the device and is manipulable to actuate the light source to project light downwardly at an oblique angle with respect to a top to bottom dimension established between the top portion and the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
  • Patent number: 9424732
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising: associating, using a processor, an accessory with an information handling device; detecting, using a processor, a trigger event associated with the information handling device; determining, using a processor, the accessory is no longer within a predetermined proximity to the information handling device; and providing, using a processor, a notification to a user. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Feng, Ethan Joshua Fricklas, Christopher Miles Osborne, Kazuo Nakada, Shinnosuke Takahashi, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: 9371956
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a base supportable on a surface, a support rod having a long segment extending upwardly from the base and a short segment extending laterally away from the long segment and terminating at a free end. The long segment is longer than the short segment. The apparatus also includes a coupling located at the free end of the short segment which is configured to couple the short segment to a computer chassis to establish a clearance space between the short segment, long segment, and chassis to facilitate access to at least one electrical terminal on the chassis below the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
  • Publication number: 20160138752
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes a base supportable on a surface, a support rod having a long segment extending upwardly from the base and a short segment extending laterally away from the long segment and terminating at a free end. The long segment is longer than the short segment. The apparatus also includes a coupling located at the free end of the short segment which is configured to couple the short segment to a computer chassis to establish a clearance space between the short segment, long segment, and chassis to facilitate access to at least one electrical terminal on the chassis below the coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
  • Publication number: 20160125718
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising: associating, using a processor, an accessory with an information handling device; detecting, using a processor, a trigger event associated with the information handling device; determining, using a processor, the accessory is no longer within a predetermined proximity to the information handling device; and providing, using a processor, a notification to a user. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Xin Feng, Ethan Joshua Fricklas, Christopher Miles Osborne, Kazuo Nakada, Shinnosuke Takahashi, David Wayne Hill
  • Publication number: 20160065806
    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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: 9256249
    Abstract: A system can include a platform that includes a front end and a back end; a support that includes a column, an extension and an arm joint disposed on the extension, where the column extends vertically from the platform and where the extension extends from the column at an acute angle and positions the arm joint vertically above the platform and toward the back end of the platform; a monitor mount that includes an arm joint; a monitor that includes a computing device and a touch screen, the monitor being mountable to the monitor mount; and an arm coupled at a pivot end to the arm joint of the support and coupled at a free end to the arm joint of the monitor mount, the monitor mount being pivotable about the free end of the arm. Various other apparatuses, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Thomas John Sluchak
  • Patent number: 9212815
    Abstract: A computer display includes a row of lamps such as LEDs arranged along the bottom edge of the display to project light forwardly and downwardly from the display to the typical location at which a keyboard is positioned to provide balanced, non-glaring illumination of the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, John David Swansey, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: 9185275
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; a camera that includes a lens, an active state and a dormant state; a housing that houses at least the processor and the camera and that includes a surface where the surface comprises an aperture aligned with the lens of the camera; a flap where, in a first orientation, the flap covers the aperture and where, in a second orientation, the flap exposes the aperture; and circuitry that determines the state of the camera based on the orientation of the flap. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
  • Publication number: 20150159859
    Abstract: A computer display includes a row of lamps such as LEDs arranged along the bottom edge of the display to project light forwardly and downwardly from the display to the typical location at which a keyboard is positioned to provide balanced, non-glaring illumination of the keyboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, John David Swansey, David Wayne Hill
  • Patent number: D760718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian William Wallace, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Cuong Huy Truong
  • Patent number: D776668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian William Wallace, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Cuong Huy Truong