Patents by Inventor Michaela Rose Case
Michaela Rose Case 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: 10437350Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: identifying two or more inputs ascertained via a device surface, the two or more inputs comprising: a symbol input; and one or more of an additional symbol input and a writing input; determining, using at least one processor, a relationship between the two or more inputs; and executing an action corresponding to the determined relationship. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell
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Patent number: 10387721Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, handwriting input; identifying, using one or more processors, one or more characters included in the handwriting input; modifying one or more of the one or more characters included in the handwriting input to match penmanship; and rendering, on a display device, the handwriting input including one or more modified characters. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Aaron Michael Stewart, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 10331219Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: operating one or more sensors to detect gesture input proximate to a surface of an input device of an information handling device, wherein the input device is configured to receive one or more input types in addition to gesture input; determining, using a processor, if the gesture input detected matches a predetermined gesture; and executing at least one response action associated with the predetermined gesture. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singaore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Aaron Michael Stewart, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Mamoru Okada, Xin Feng
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Patent number: 9824475Abstract: A method can include rendering pixel representations of information to a rectangular display; and rendering pixel representations of perspectival text to the rectangular display where the pixel representations of perspectival text overlay a portion of the pixel representations of information. Various other methods, apparatuses, systems, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Howard J. Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9639152Abstract: For display alignment based on eye tracking, a method is disclosed that includes displaying, by use of a processor, a graphical object on a display screen, detecting an aspect of a user relative to the display screen, and moving the graphical object to reduce a viewing angle between the graphical object and the aspect of a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Howard Locker, Michaela Rose Case, John Weldon Nicholson, Aaron Michael Stewart
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Patent number: 9566512Abstract: An apparatus for providing input via a selectively arrangeable, multi-mode input controller is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor, a first body having a first input device, a second body pivotably connected to the first body and having a second input device, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, the code comprising code that receives indication of an orientation of the first body with respect to the second body and code that alters operation of the first input device based on the orientation of the first body with respect to the second body.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9557826Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for flexible tactile computer input. A surface module may define a pressure-sensitive surface, any physical surface, or a virtual surface of a flexible input device, the surface having a default shape, reshaping the surface in response to physical proximity to one or more external objects, including one or more bodily appendages of a user, and restoring the default shape when the surface is not in physical proximity to the objects. A sensing module may sense manipulation of the flexible input device by the bodily appendages in proximity to the surface. An analysis module may interpret the manipulation of the flexible input device as input to a computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Xin Feng
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Patent number: 9423890Abstract: An aspect provides a method including: identifying one or more symbols input to a surface of a first device; determining, using at least one processor, an association for the one or more symbols; executing an action corresponding to the determined association for the one or more symbols; and storing the one or more symbols identified and the determined association therefor in a lexicon accessible to other devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell
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Patent number: 9369658Abstract: A method can include determining characteristics of a surface; determining a point of view for an object with respect to the surface; and projecting an adjusted image onto the surface, the adjusted image being adjusted based at least in part on the characteristics of the surface and the point of view for the object with respect to the surface. Various other methods, apparatuses, systems, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Howard J. Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9325578Abstract: An apparatus, program product, and method are disclosed for receiving an automation setting from a sharing participant, the automation setting being associated with the sharing participant, comparing the received automation setting to a corresponding local automation setting, and adjusting the local automation setting based on the comparison of the received automation setting to the corresponding local automation setting.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Michaela Rose Case, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson
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Patent number: 9317142Abstract: An aspect provides an information handling device, including: one or more processors; a memory device that stores instructions executed by the one or more processors; and a housing that contains the one or more processors and the memory device; the housing having a substantially rectangular shape with a length and height dimension that exceed a width dimension; and the housing further comprising a shaped pen dock running along an end of the housing defining the width dimension. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard Locker, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Michaela Rose Case, Scott Edwards Kelso, Christopher Miles Osborne
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Patent number: 9304610Abstract: An aspect provides an expandable pen, including: an internal portion; an external portion that is flexible; and a biased component that is flexible and positioned between the internal portion and the external portion; the biased component applying force to the external portion to flex it away from the internal portion. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Christopher Miles Osborne, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Howard Locker, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 9235275Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a touchscreen display operatively coupled to the processor; a stylus that includes a first axial end, a second axial end and an axially translatable grip; and a housing that includes a stylus socket for docking the stylus. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Christopher Miles Osborne, Scott Edwards Kelso, Michaela Rose Case, Howard J. Locker
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Patent number: 9232201Abstract: The color of a projected image is dynamically corrected by sensing the color of the surface onto which the image is projected before the image is projected, and/or sensing the color of the surface between frames of the projected image, and/or by sensing the projected image as it is displayed on the surface and comparing what is sensed to the original image. Corrections to the color of the projected image are then made based on the sensed information from the surface onto which the image is projected.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Howard Jeffrey Locker, Aaron Michael Stewart, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9229543Abstract: An aspect provides a method including: identifying one or more symbols input to a surface of a first device; determining, using at least one processor, one or more modified input parameters associated with input of the one or more symbols; determining a modification to an association for the one or more symbols based on the one or more modified input parameters; and executing an action corresponding to a modified association for the one or more symbols. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Daniel Jordan Schantz, Wesley Abram Luttrell
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Patent number: 9223340Abstract: For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a user position from an audible signal. An organization module organizes display data on a multiuser display in response to the user position.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Howard Locker, Michaela Rose Case, John Weldon Nicholson, Aaron Michael Stewart
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Patent number: 9128552Abstract: For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a first user position from the disposition of a first touch object on the multiuser display. An organization module organizes the display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Aaron Michael Stewart
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Publication number: 20150234479Abstract: An apparatus for providing input via a selectively arrangeable, multi-mode input controller is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor, a first body having a first input device, a second body pivotably connected to the first body and having a second input device, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, the code comprising code that receives indication of an orientation of the first body with respect to the second body and code that alters operation of the first input device based on the orientation of the first body with respect to the second body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Daniel Jordan Schantz, Michaela Rose Case
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Patent number: 9104898Abstract: For utilizing force information to improve fingerprint reading, a fingerprint scanner generates a digital representation of a fingerprint for a finger in contact with the fingerprint scanner. A pressure sensor is in physical communication with the fingerprint scanner and measures a finger force of the finger.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventor: Michaela Rose Case
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Publication number: 20150212551Abstract: In one aspect, a multi-panel keyboard computer assembly can be moved between a notebook configuration relative to a tablet computer, in which the main key-bearing panel lies flat in front of the tablet display and the other panels support the display in an erect position, and a tablet footprint configuration, in which the main panel lies flat against the bottom half of the tablet display, with non-virtual keyboard content being moved to the uncovered areas of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: ROBERT ADAM PARCHMAN, Michaela Rose Case