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).
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Patent number: 10136036Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 10027946Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Ali Kathryn Ent, Christopher Miles Osborne, Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 9996106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: David Wayne Hill, Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, Cyan Godfrey, Matthew Ian Tucker
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Publication number: 20170227984Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: David Wayne Hill, Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, Cyan Godfrey, Matthew Ian Tucker
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Publication number: 20170227996Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Samuel Jackson Patterson
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Patent number: 9727096Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, Ali Kathryn Ent, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Samuel Jackson Patterson
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Patent number: 9696761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, Cyan Godfrey, Ali Kathryn Ent, Matthew Ian Tucker
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Publication number: 20170171528Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Ali Kathryn Ent, Christopher Miles Osborne, Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 9441830Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
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Patent number: 9424732Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Xin Feng, Ethan Joshua Fricklas, Christopher Miles Osborne, Kazuo Nakada, Shinnosuke Takahashi, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 9371956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
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Publication number: 20160138752Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey
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Publication number: 20160125718Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Xin Feng, Ethan Joshua Fricklas, Christopher Miles Osborne, Kazuo Nakada, Shinnosuke Takahashi, David Wayne Hill
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Publication number: 20160065806Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 9256249Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Thomas John Sluchak
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Patent number: 9212815Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, John David Swansey, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: 9185275Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, David Wayne Hill
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Publication number: 20150159859Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cuong Huy Truong, John David Swansey, David Wayne Hill
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Patent number: D760718Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Brian William Wallace, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Cuong Huy Truong
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Patent number: D776668Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Brian William Wallace, David Wayne Hill, John David Swansey, Cuong Huy Truong