Patents by Inventor John Weldon Nicholson

John Weldon Nicholson 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210173475
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to present an icon on the display so that the icon appears disposed within the real world at or proximate to a location of a second device associated with the icon. The second device may be different from the first device and exist in the real world. The instructions may also be executable to identify a user of the first device as looking at the icon, receive audible input from the user, and issue a command to the second device to execute at least one function in conformance with the audible input based on the identification of the user as looking at the icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Ming Qian, John Weldon Nicholson, Song Wang, Roderick Echols, Ryan Charles Knudson
  • Patent number: 11023769
    Abstract: For modifying an image, a processor detects a feature in the image using a convolutional neural network trained on a feature training set. The processor further places the feature within the displayed image. The processor determines an intent for the image. In addition, the processor modifies the image based on the intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Qian, Sujin Jang, John Weldon Nicholson, Song Wang
  • Publication number: 20210151046
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, audible user input; determining, subsequent to the receiving, an intonation with which the audible user input was provided; assigning, based on the determined intonation, an expressive meaning to the audible user input; and performing, based on the expressive meaning, a corresponding function. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Ming Qian, Song Wang, Ryan Charles Knudson, Roderick Echols
  • Patent number: 11007445
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to analyze a user's gameplay of a video game and to curate one or more video clips based on the user's gameplay. The video game clips may be curated based on player input to an input device, player audio from a microphone, and/or player video from a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David Alexander Schwarz, John Weldon Nicholson, Barrett Bryson
  • 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: 20210110553
    Abstract: An approach is provided that captures a set of sequential images of an area where there is a selected moving object. Both a keypoint-based (KP-based) matching model and a neural network based (NN-based) matching model are used with the KP-based matching model analyzing most or all of the captured images and the NN-based model being more computational intensive and analyzing a subset of the images. When the KP-based matching model fails to identify the selected object in an image, the NN-based model is used to find the object so that the KP-based matching model can re-establish tracking of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: David Alexander Schwarz, Krishna C. Garikipati, John Weldon Nicholson, Jun Ki Min
  • 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: 20210099340
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first Internet of Things (IoT) device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to transmit a request related to one or more first settings to apply at the first IoT device, where the request transmitted using wireless communication other than Wi-Fi/Internet communication. The instructions are also executable to receive data indicating one or more second settings applied at a second IoT device using the wireless communication and to apply the one or more first settings at the first IoT device based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Jeffrey Locker
  • Publication number: 20210065449
    Abstract: In one aspect, a controller for engaging with augmented reality (AR) content and/or virtual reality (VR) content includes a housing and a wrist strap engageable with the housing. The controller also includes at least one reel engageable with the housing and the wrist strap to move the housing relative to the wrist strap while the wrist strap is worn by a person to simulate force indicated in the AR or VR content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: David Alexander Schwarz, John Weldon Nicholson, Ming Qian
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210046388
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to analyze a user's gameplay of a video game and to curate one or more video clips based on the user's gameplay. The video game clips may be curated based on player input to an input device, player audio from a microphone, and/or player video from a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: David Alexander Schwarz, John Weldon Nicholson, Barrett Bryson
  • Publication number: 20210038988
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, controlling input data, wherein the controlling input data is associated with action input provided by a user that affects an object in a video game; identifying, based at least in part on the controlling input data, a moment in the video game; and storing the identified moment in an accessible database. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: David Alexander Schwarz, John Weldon Nicholson
  • Patent number: 10915502
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that can anonymously share digital files are disclosed. Various embodiments of an apparatus include a processor of an information handling device and memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code can cause the processor to match a first client to one or more digital files provided by a second client based on a content signature in each of the one or more digital files and notify the first client of a match. The first client can be anonymous to the second client and/or the second client maybe anonymous to the first client. A method and program product can also perform the functions of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, John Weldon Nicholson, Ming Qian, Song Wang, Scott Wentao Li
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210012780
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 10867205
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising: receiving, at an information handling device, object data of at least one object; identifying, using at least one sensor, a characteristic associated with the at least one object, wherein the characteristic is based upon a condition related to the at least one object; and providing an indication of the identified characteristic to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Song Wang, Ming Qian, John Weldon Nicholson, Jian Li