Abstract: A camera built into a cylindrical housing couples to a stand with a stand member that inserts into an opening having a magnet attracted to ferromagnetic material integrated in the stand member. The stand member may couple to a bracket that holds the camera at a display or to a tripod that places the camera between the display and an end user participating in a video conference. A lens cover couples over a front face of the camera with magnetic attraction and is stored at a rear face of the camera with magnetic attraction. In various embodiments, sensors detect lens cap and/or stand member position to control camera power and/or camera visual image capture operations.

Abstract: An information handling system peripheral camera is built by inserting a subassembly into a cylindrical housing and enclosing the subassembly with a bezel at the front and cover at the rear. The cylindrical housing is extruded with aluminum to have seams formed along the length of the interior. The seams provide alignment of the subassembly and are machined at the front and rear to form threads that accept screws to couple the bezel and rear cover to the cylindrical housing. To hide the screws, a back plate couples over the rear cover and an opaque treatment is applied to a circumference of a cover glass placed over the bezel.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a multilayer composite display cover include stacking a plurality of composite layers, each comprising an ultra-thin glass sheet covered in a polymer layer. After a cover glass sheet is placed on an exposed polymer layer, the composite layers may be bonded together. A ceramic coating may be applied to the external surfaces to increase hardness.

Abstract: An information handling system with a haptic stylus may include a processor; a display device includes a digitizer sensor; the haptic stylus, including: a stylus housing; a microcontroller housed within the housing; a stylus writing tip operatively coupled to a pressure sensor and to detect a pressure on the display device of the information handling system; a spacer mounted around and operatively coupled to a circumferential surface of the stylus housing; a haptic film assembly operatively coupled to the spacer at the circumferential surface of the stylus housing and operable to provide haptic output via an EAP section to a user; and the microcontroller to: receive, as input, a detected pressure applied at the stylus tip from the pressure sensor; and provide the haptic output, via the haptic film assembly and EAP section, at an amplitude and a frequency mimicking an inking sensation.

Abstract: Enclosure parts for portable information handling systems may be made by heat pressing material layers together. The material layers may include outer fiber-reinforced thermoplastic layers and a core thermoplastic layer comprising a plurality of thermoplastic film layers. The core thermoplastic layer may be die cut to create voids that reduce weight of the enclosure part. A finishing layer may be added, along with attachment features.

Abstract: An information handling system peripheral camera is built in a cylindrical housing, such as an extruded aluminum cylinder, having a bottom portion rotationally coupled to an upper portion by a hinge to act as a bracket that couples the peripheral camera to a display upper surface. A bracket disposed in the housing and exposed by rotation of the bottom portion to an open position rests on the display upper surface to rotate for varied camera tilt. The bottom portion leverages against a rear surface of the display to hold the camera in position.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide haptic feedback at locations of a keyboard palm rest during operation of a software program, such as a video game. During game play, a haptic event, such as an explosion, is detected within the game. A magnitude of the event and a direction of the event from a reference location in the game, such as an avatar's location, are determined. Haptic feedback locations on the palm rest are selected based on the magnitude of the event and the direction of the event from the reference location. Mechanical and thermal haptic feedback are generated at the selected locations of the palm rest, where the strength and timing of the feedback at each location are selected based on the magnitude and direction information for the event. Embodiments thus provide multi-dimensional haptic feedback that relates positional awareness to a user of events occurring within a video game.

Abstract: An information handling system organic light emitting diode (OLED) display adapts presentation of visual information to manage a display thermal state, such as to maintain a uniform thermal condition. In one example embodiment, a first display zone of plural pixels presents visual images with a first refresh rate, such as the nominal refresh rate established by the display settings, and a second display zone presents visual images with a partial pixel refresh rate that reduces power dissipation and, thus, thermal energy release so that a more uniform thermal state may be achieved at the display.

Abstract: Minimizing an energy use of virtual machines at one or more information handling systems, including receiving a plurality of computing tasks, each task associated with an energy efficiency indicator; positioning each of the tasks within a task queue indicating an order of execution of the tasks based on the energy efficiency indicator for each task; identifying a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine associated with a thermal efficiency indicator based on a historical energy usage of the virtual machine; sorting the virtual machines to identify a distribution of the virtual machines based on the thermal efficiency indicator of the respective virtual machines; allocating the virtual machines to execute the tasks based on i) the distribution of the virtual machines and ii) the task queue; and executing the tasks by the virtual machines based on the allocation.

Abstract: An information handling system housing forms an audio chamber within which a speaker generates audible noise based upon audible information. An adaptive material, such as an electroactive polymer, is disposed at an opening formed in the audio chamber to selectively expand to increase the audio chamber size and contract to decrease the audio chamber size. An increased audio chamber volume enhances audible noise, such as music or audio associated with audiovisual content. A decrease audio chamber can improve airflow within the housing, such as during times of thermal stress.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may acquire, via a camera associated with an information handling system (IHS), a first digital image; determine, from the first digital image, that a person is within a field of view of a display associated with the IHS; determine a first brightness level of first multiple light emitting diode (LED) pixels associated with a central zone associated with the display; set a brightness level of the first multiple LED pixels to the first brightness level; determine, based at least on the first brightness level, multiple second brightness levels for respective multiple zones associated with the display outside the central zone; and for each zone of the multiple zones, set a brightness level of LED pixels associated with the zone to a respective one of the multiple second brightness levels for the zone.

Abstract: Managing a display of an information handling system, including: identifying a first magnitude of a frame rate of a display coupled to an information handling system; detecting an ambient light level of a physical environment surrounding the information handling system; determining that the ambient light level of the physical environment surrounding the information handling system is below a first threshold; in response to determining that the ambient light level of the physical environment surrounding the information handling system is below the first threshold: identifying a second magnitude of the frame rate of the display that corresponds to the ambient light level, wherein the second magnitude is a flicker fusion rate of the display for the ambient light level of the physical environment surrounding the information handling system, wherein the second magnitude is less than the first magnitude; and reducing the frame rate of the display to the second magnitude.

Abstract: A disclosed wireless charging clip for an information handling system includes a first surface comprising a charging coil, a ferrite sheet positioned below the first surface, mating elements to be coupled to respective mating elements of the information handling system when the charging clip is installed on the information handling system, charging circuitry configured supply inductive power to charge an auxiliary device when the device is placed on top of the first surface, and a connector through which input power is received from the information handling system when the charging clip is installed. The charging coil may include multiple graphene layers. The charging clip may include a second surface and a third surface including the connector through which input power is received from the information handling system. The mating elements may include magnets to align and hold the charging clip in position with respect to the information handling system.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may: if historical biometric data associated with a user is available is not available, collect the historical biometric data; if the historical biometric data is available, retrieve the historical biometric data; execute an application; display at least a portion of a graphic; determine that a gaze of the user includes the at least the portion of the graphic; determine a stress index threshold associated with the user; determine a stress index associated with the user, accounting for the at least the portion of the graphic exceeding the brightness threshold; determine that the stress index has reached or exceeded the stress index threshold; provide a notification indicating that the first stress index has reached or exceeded the stress index threshold; and reduce one or more stress inducing attributes associated with the application.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a display comprising an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel and an OLED degradation management subsystem configured to, responsive to a condition for initiating a calibration of the OLED panel, logically divide the OLED panel into a plurality of non-overlapping test windows of a defined size, measure a physical quantity for a pixel of at least one of the plurality of non-overlapping test windows to determine a deviation of the at least one test window from a linear degradation profile, and correct for non-linear degradation occurring in the at least one test window based on the deviation.

Abstract: A haptic peripheral device ecosystem coordination system may comprise a display device displaying a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment, the processor identifying a gaming action event occurring in the 3D gaming environment, based on a detected action event indicator, and determining a position of the gaming action event relative to a player avatar image within the 3D gaming environment, the processor transmitting a haptic command to a controller for a triggered haptic peripheral device, the haptic command selected from a plurality of haptic commands based on an identification of the gaming action event, the triggered haptic peripheral device selected from a plurality of peripheral devices based on the position of the gaming action event, the controller for the triggered haptic peripheral causing haptic feedback at the triggered haptic peripheral device at a position relative to the user that is correlated to the position of the gaming action event with respect to the player avatar image.

Abstract: A biofeedback headset for providing input to and receiving output from an information handling system may include a controller to send and receive audio signals to and from the information handling system and send biofeedback signals to the information handling system; one or more speakers mounted to a wearable head band to provide audio output from the information handling system to a user; and a mouthpiece operatively coupled to the wearable headband including: a microphone to receive audio input from the user; a pressure sensor to detect a breathing rate and amplitude of the user and, with the controller, provide breathing rate and amplitude biofeedback signals to the information handling system; and a gas sensor to detect a composition of air at the mouthpiece as the user respirates and, with the controller, provide air composition biofeedback signals to the information handling system.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, a data storage device, a power management unit, a thermo-haptic mouse, including an array of thermoelectric generators of a thermo-haptic module to selectively heat or cool a portion of the thermo-haptic mouse to be felt by a user of the thermo-haptic mouse, and a piezoelectric actuator of the thermo-haptic module to selectively apply a vibration to the portions of the thermo-haptic mouse to be felt by the user of the thermo-haptic mouse, and the processor executing code of a mouse training machine learning system to: receive, as training input, captured images during the execution of a gaming application and provide, as output, image recognition dataset descriptive of recognized game action event environmental data during execution of the gaming application, the image recognition dataset to be used by the processor executing a thermo-haptic feedback model evaluation system to provide thermo-haptic signals to the array of thermoelectric generators and th

Abstract: A system for provisioning information to a user comprises a first display for displaying information for an application executing on an information handling system and a second display with a first zone for displaying information associated with the application and a second zone for displaying information associated with the information handling system. A biometric sensor determines which display the user is viewing. If the user is viewing the first display, eye tracking software determines actions based on the application. If the user is viewing the second display, eye tracking software determines if the user is viewing the first zone or the second zone. If the user is viewing the first zone, advanced or additional information associated with the application is displayed. If the user is viewing the second zone, advanced or additional information associated with the information handling system is displayed.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) haptic keyboard and palm rest experience system for an information handling system may comprise a display device displaying an avatar image located within a virtual 3D gaming environment generated by a gaming application, a processor determining an action involving the avatar image is being displayed, and a position of the action within the virtual 3D gaming environment, a keyboard controller identifying a haptic region of a keyboard and palm rest assembly having a location with respect to the user that correlates to the position of the action within the virtual 3D gaming environment, and the keyboard controller applying a change in voltage, via a printed circuit board assembly, across a piezoelectric actuator disposed beneath the haptic region to cause haptic movement in the haptic region correlated to the position of the action displayed within the virtual 3D gaming environment.