Patents by Inventor Howard Locker

Howard Locker 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).

  • Publication number: 20220214955
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for determining usage of an information handling device. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to monitor, by use of the at least one processor, a plurality of parameters indicative of a usage of an information handling device. The plurality of parameters is for a plurality of components of the information handling device. The code is executable by the processor to store data corresponding to the plurality of parameters. The code is executable by the processor to compute the usage of the information handling device based on the stored data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Philip Jakes, Jeremy R. Carlson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Joseph David Plunkett, Kenneth Seethaler
  • Patent number: 11343864
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving data relating to a first command from a user; recognizing the data relating to the first command as being directed to a first user device; receiving data relating to a second command from a user; recognizing the data relating to the second command as being directed to a second user device; determining that the first user device and the second user device are to be paired with one another based on the data relating to the first command and the data relating to the second command; and pairing the first device with the second device; wherein one or more of the data relating to the first command and the data relating to the second command comprises data related to a non-touch input modality. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Xin Feng, Paul Hilburger
  • Patent number: 11288030
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying content on a display screen of a first device; determining a position of a second device relative to the display screen of the first device; selecting a portion of the display screen of the first device based on a determined position of the second device; and transferring the portion of the display screen selected to one or more devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • Patent number: 11250861
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 11233923
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 11209918
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for measuring light using a digital pen. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor determines whether a digital pen that is configured to communicate with an information handling device is in a docked position. The processor receives a light measurement sensed by the digital pen and performs an adjustment to an output parameter of a display for the information handling device in response to receiving the light measurement. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer
  • Patent number: 11195477
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Publication number: 20210304685
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 11126396
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Publication number: 20210263310
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Publication number: 20210248786
    Abstract: For displaying a window in an augmented reality view, a processor detects a new augmented reality placetime that includes a new augmented reality position and/or a new augmented reality time of an augmented reality device. The processor calculates new window characteristics for a window at the new augmented reality placetime based on previous window characteristics. The processor further displays the window with the new window characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 11064297
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Publication number: 20210209728
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 11048931
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to convert handwriting input to machine typeset, wherein the handwriting input comprises one or more handwriting objects; determining, using a processor, a recognition confidence level for each of the one or more handwriting objects; and converting, response to the determining, each of the one or more handwriting objects having a recognition confidence level above a predetermined confidence threshold to one or more corresponding machine typeset words. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 10996924
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for drawing attention to a graphical element on a display. An apparatus includes a display, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The memory stores code executable by the processor to detect a voice cue. The voice cue may include a predefined command associated with drawing a user's attention to a graphical element that is presented on the display. The memory stores code executable by the processor to determine a location of the graphical element that is presented on the display in response to the voice cue. The memory stores code executable by the processor to draw the user's attention to the graphical element on the display in response to determining the location of the graphical element on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Publication number: 20210124432
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for measuring light using a digital pen. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor determines whether a digital pen that is configured to communicate with an information handling device is in a docked position. The processor receives a light measurement sensed by the digital pen and performs an adjustment to an output parameter of a display for the information handling device in response to receiving the light measurement. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer
  • Publication number: 20210097955
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for automatically calibrating display color output on lid closure. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to detect a lid closure event for a lid that closes to obscure a display of a portable electronic device. In response to detecting the lid closure event, the processor performs a color calibration of the display, including using a color sensor to measure a color output by the display with the lid in a closed position and updating color calibration parameters for optimizing the color output. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl C. Cromer
  • Publication number: 20210058706
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 10902265
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: determining, using a processor, a location of an information handling device; providing, using a camera of the information handling device, a camera view encompassing at least a portion of the location, wherein the portion encompassed by the camera view comprises at least one object; accessing a data store comprising depth information for the at least one object in the location; and leveraging the depth information to produce an imaging effect on the at least one object in the camera view of the portion. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker
  • Patent number: 10896666
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a device employing two or more audio capture devices, an audio signal; determining a distance between two of the two or more audio capture devices capturing the audio signal; and reducing, using a noise cancellation technique employing the determined distance, an amount of unwanted noise from the audio signal. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer