Patents by Inventor Jameson H. Williams
Jameson H. Williams 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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Publication number: 20230280793Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 11599154Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Publication number: 20220057841Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 11106246Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Publication number: 20210132665Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 10831318Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 10120511Abstract: A mechanism is described for employing and facilitating placing a sensor cover over an external sensor of a computing device. A method of embodiments of the invention includes sensing, at a sensor of a computing device, user touches to an outer surface of an impregnated sensor cover placed over the sensor, wherein the sensor cover includes a plurality of holes through the outer surface and a plurality of conductive leads corresponding to the plurality of holes, and wherein sensing is performed through one or more of the plurality of holes and their one or more corresponding conductive leads; and facilitating an action in response to each of the sensed user touches.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams
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Patent number: 10001871Abstract: Mobile device rejection of unintentional sensor contact. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a first touch sensor to detect contact by a user of the mobile device for input of gestures by the user, a memory to store indicators of unintentional contact to the first touch sensor, and a processor to evaluate contact to the first touch sensor. The processor compares a contact with the first touch sensor to the indicators of unintentional contact to determine if the contact is unintentional, and the mobile device rejects the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be unintentional and accepts the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be intentional.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Sangita Sharma, David Graumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jameson H. Williams
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Patent number: 9811255Abstract: Detection of gesture data segmentation in mobile devices. An embodiment of a mobile device includes an edge, the edge including at least a first side, and a first touch sensor of one or more touch sensors, the first touch sensor being a side touch sensor to detect contact with the first side of the mobile device. The mobile device further includes one or more motion detection elements to generate motion data representing motion of the mobile device through space over a period of time, a buffer for the storage of the motion data, and a gesture recognition module to interpret the motion data stored in the buffer, wherein the mobile device begins the storage of the motion data in the buffer upon detection of a start of gesture data event, the start of gesture data event including contact with the first touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Giuseppe Raffa, David L. Graumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jameson H. Williams
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Patent number: 9495017Abstract: Embodiments of computing systems, and related methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computing system may include a peripheral device (e.g., an image capture device and/or an audio output device) and control logic. The control logic may be coupled with a sensor system and the peripheral device to receive a trigger signal; receive, from the sensor system, one or more interaction signals indicative of a user interaction with the computing system; and, in response to receipt of the trigger signal and the one or more interaction signals, generate a control signal for output to the peripheral device to control operation of the peripheral device. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Wendy March, Jameson H. Williams, Mei Lu, Todd S. Harple, Bryan R. Peebler, Benjamin S. Weigand, Mariano J. Phielipp, Min Liu
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Publication number: 20160291731Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Publication number: 20160253000Abstract: A mechanism is described for employing and facilitating placing a sensor cover over an external sensor of a computing device. A method of embodiments of the invention includes sensing, at a sensor of a computing device, user touches to an outer surface of an impregnated sensor cover placed over the sensor, wherein the sensor cover includes a plurality of holes through the outer surface and a plurality of conductive leads corresponding to the plurality of holes, and wherein sensing is performed through one or more of the plurality of holes and their one or more corresponding conductive leads; and facilitating an action in response to each of the sensed user touches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2015Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: DAVID L. GRAUMANN, JAMESON H. WILLIAMS
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Patent number: 9405600Abstract: An electronic device may be provided that includes logic, at least partially implemented in hardware, to detect an occurrence of a blocking instance at the electronic device, and store information related to an event received at the electronic device, the event received during the blocking instance, in response to the occurrence of the blocking instance at the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Benjamin S. Weigand, Phillip J. Sitbon, Jameson H. Williams, Jason Blanchard, Lakshman Krishnamurthy
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Publication number: 20160124571Abstract: Mobile device rejection of unintentional sensor contact. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a first touch sensor to detect contact by a user of the mobile device for input of gestures by the user, a memory to store indicators of unintentional contact to the first touch sensor, and a processor to evaluate contact to the first touch sensor. The processor compares a contact with the first touch sensor to the indicators of unintentional contact to determine if the contact is unintentional, and the mobile device rejects the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be unintentional and accepts the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be intentional.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Sangita Sharma, David Graumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jameson H. Williams
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Patent number: 9317156Abstract: Mobile device rejection of unintentional sensor contact. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a first touch sensor to detect contact by a user of the mobile device for input of gestures by the user, a memory to store indicators of unintentional contact to the first touch sensor, and a processor to evaluate contact to the first touch sensor. The processor compares a contact with the first touch sensor to the indicators of unintentional contact to determine if the contact is unintentional, and the mobile device rejects the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be unintentional and accepts the contact as an input to the mobile device if the contact is determined to be intentional.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Sangita Sharma, David Graumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jameson H. Williams
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Patent number: 9244577Abstract: A mechanism is described for employing and facilitating placing a sensor cover over an external sensor of a computing device. A method of embodiments of the invention includes sensing, at a sensor of a computing device, user touches to an outer surface of an impregnated sensor cover placed over the sensor, wherein the sensor cover includes a plurality of holes through the outer surface and a plurality of conductive leads corresponding to the plurality of holes, and wherein sensing is performed through one or more of the plurality of holes and their one or more corresponding conductive leads; and facilitating an action in response to each of the sensed user touches.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams
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Publication number: 20150186194Abstract: An electronic device may be provided that includes logic, at least partially implemented in hardware, to detect an occurrence of a blocking instance at the electronic device, and store information related to an event received at the electronic device, the event received during the blocking instance, in response to the occurrence of the blocking instance at the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Benjamin S. WEIGAND, Phillip J. SITBON, Jameson H. WILLIAMS, Jason BLANCHARD, Lakshman KRISHNAMURTHY
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Publication number: 20150153840Abstract: Embodiments of computing systems, and related methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computing system may include a peripheral device (e.g., an image capture device and/or an audio output device) and control logic. The control logic may be coupled with a sensor system and the peripheral device to receive a trigger signal; receive, from the sensor system, one or more interaction signals indicative of a user interaction with the computing system; and, in response to receipt of the trigger signal and the one or more interaction signals, generate a control signal for output to the peripheral device to control operation of the peripheral device. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Wendy March, Jameson H. Williams, Mei Lu, Todd S. Harple, Bryan R. Peebler, Benjamin S. Weigand, Mariano J. Phielipp, Min Liu
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Publication number: 20130293505Abstract: Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional interaction interface for mobile devices. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a touch screen to provide a display and to generate a touch screen signal upon contact to the touch screen, a touch sensor to generate a touch sensor signal upon contact to the touch sensor, and a module to provide for cooperative operation of the touch screen signal and the touch sensor signal in providing input to the mobile device upon determining that an input to the touch screen indicates a multipoint input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Sangita Sharma, Jameson H. Williams
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Publication number: 20130285969Abstract: Detection of gesture data segmentation in mobile devices. An embodiment of a mobile device includes an edge, the edge including at least a first side, and a first touch sensor of one or more touch sensors, the first touch sensor being a side touch sensor to detect contact with the first side of the mobile device. The mobile device further includes one or more motion detection elements to generate motion data representing motion of the mobile device through space over a period of time, a buffer for the storage of the motion data, and a gesture recognition module to interpret the motion data stored in the buffer, wherein the mobile device begins the storage of the motion data in the buffer upon detection of a start of gesture data event, the start of gesture data event including contact with the first touch sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Giuseppe Raffa, David L. Graumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Jameson H. Williams