Patents by Inventor Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert

Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert 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).

  • Patent number: 11960783
    Abstract: An extended reality (XR) head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a processor, a memory device, a battery, an HMD video display to present to a user an extended reality image of an environment, an HMD shield formed to be fitted around a user's eyes and to house the HMD video display, an HMD hood comprising a fabric shroud formed over a shroud frame operatively coupled to the HMD shield, and a head strap operatively coupled to the HMD shield via a shield hinge to secure the HMD device to the user's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Patent number: 11928382
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for providing contextual intelligence for virtual workspaces produced across Information Handling Systems (IHSs) are described. A first IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the first IHS to: establish a virtual workspace across a first display of the first IHS and a second display of a second IHS, at least in part, through a backend IHS, and provide a contextual menu for rendering by a given one of the first or second displays, where the given display is selected, at least in part, based upon a relative position of the first display with respect to the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
  • Patent number: 11923842
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be mechanically coupled to actuatable portions of the human interface device thereby facilitating both translation and rotation of the magnet responsive to actuations by a user. The translation and rotation of the magnet may be sensed and used to identify user input provided by the user. Sensing elements integrated into a keyboard may be used to obtain user input from the human interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11886700
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a human interface device may be used. Interpretation of actuation of the human interface device may be based on a location of the human interface device relative to a sensing system when the actuation is performed. Sensing elements integrated into the sensing system may be used to obtain user input from the human interface device at the location, the user input then being interpreted based on the location to provide the computer implemented services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hsu-Feng Lee, Chiu-Jung Tzen, Brandon Joel Brocklesby, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11874687
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be mechanically coupled to actuatable portions of the human interface device thereby encoding information regarding both of changes in position of the human interface device and actuations of the actuatable portions into a magnetic field emanating from the human interface device. Sensing elements integrated into a sensing system may be used to sense the emanating magnetic field to obtain user input from the human interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11868551
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a human interface device may be used. Interpretation of actuation of the human interface device may be customized to the types of actuations that users are able to perform. To customize the types of the actuations, users may perform actuations of the human interface device for various types of user input to establish associations between the actuations and the user input. The associations may be used to train an inference model usable to identify user input based on performed actions of the human interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald Rene Pelissier, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Loo Shing Tan, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11861076
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be mechanically coupled to actuatable portions of the human interface device thereby facilitating both translation and rotation of the magnet responsive to actuations by a user. The translation and rotation of the magnet may be sensed and used to identify user input provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 11836012
    Abstract: Embodiments of a foldable case for a multi-form factor IHS with a detachable keyboard are described. In some embodiments, a folio case may include: a first panel comprising a left-side magnet and a right-side magnet; a second panel comprising a left-side magnet and a right-side magnet, where a top edge of the second panel is coupled to a bottom edge of the first panel; and a third panel comprising a left-side magnet and a right-side magnet, where a top edge of the third panel is coupled to a bottom edge of the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Mark R. Ligameri
  • Patent number: 11829223
    Abstract: End users subscribe to use information handling systems having a selected of available performance characteristics defined by a battery configuration selected to build the information handling systems. A manufacturer meets subscriptions with information handling systems built from an inventory of new main batteries, deployed batteries of information handling system in use by subscribers, and separated batteries taken from returned information handling systems and re-used. End user subscriptions are met in part by building replacement information handling systems with separated batteries having a useful life remaining that aligns with end user battery usage patterns tracked over time, benchmarked performance metrics and end user subscription performance characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
  • Patent number: 11816263
    Abstract: A handheld controller to operate with a head-mounted display (HMD) and information handling system may include a data storage device; the HMD having an HMD processor and an HMD display device to present to a user an extended reality extended reality image of an environment; and the handheld controller, including: a handheld controller processor executing code instructions of a strap fit adjustment system to activate a strap tensioner mechanism to tighten a strap across a user's hand until a tightness threshold level has been achieved; a strap tightness measurement system to measure a tightness level of the strap across a user's hand as the strap tensioner mechanism tightens the strap across the user's hand; and the tightness level of the strap being set to the tightness threshold level by the user and accessible at a data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Patent number: 11809646
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include a magnet that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnet may be repositioned thereby facilitating both translation and rotation of the magnet responsive to actuations by a user. The translation and rotation of the magnet may be sensed by a sensing system and used to identify user input provided by the user. Sensing elements integrated into the sensing system may be used to obtain user input from the human interface device, the user input then being interpreted to provide the computer implemented services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Publication number: 20230350620
    Abstract: An extended reality (XR) head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a processor, a memory device, a battery, an HMD video display to present to a user an extended reality image of an environment, an HMD shield formed to be fitted around a user's eyes and to house the HMD video display, an HMD hood comprising a fabric shroud formed over a shroud frame operatively coupled to the HMD shield, and a head strap operatively coupled to the HMD shield via a shield hinge to secure the HMD device to the user's head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Publication number: 20230350224
    Abstract: An extended reality (XR) head-mounted display (HMD) device may include a processor; a memory device; a power management unit; an HMD video display to present to a user an extended reality image of an environment; an HMD housing fitted to be formed around a user's eyes; and a swappable nose bridge, including: a nose bridge extension to fit within a nose bridge slot formed into the HMD housing; and a nose bridge magnet formed at the nose bridge extension to magnetically engage within the nose bridge slot formed in the HMD housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Publication number: 20230350490
    Abstract: A handheld controller to operate with a head-mounted display (HMD) and information handling system may include a data storage device; the HMD having an HMD processor and an HMD display device to present to a user an extended reality extended reality image of an environment; and the handheld controller, including: a handheld controller processor executing code instructions of a strap fit adjustment system to activate a strap tensioner mechanism to tighten a strap across a user's hand until a tightness threshold level has been achieved; a strap tightness measurement system to measure a tightness level of the strap across a user's hand as the strap tensioner mechanism tightens the strap across the user's hand; and the tightness level of the strap being set to the tightness threshold level by the user and accessible at a data storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Publication number: 20230350213
    Abstract: An extended reality (XR) head-mounted display (HMD) device may include a processor, a memory device, a power management unit, an HMD video display to present to a user an extended reality image of an environment, and an HMD housing fitted to be formed around a user's eyes. The HMD housing includes an HMD shield, an HMD hood comprising a fabric shroud operatively coupled to a shroud frame and a face mask operatively coupled to the shroud frame to interface with a suer's face and the HMD hood operatively coupled to the HMD shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Thomas Marcus Hinskens, Loo Shing Tan, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
  • Patent number: 11731046
    Abstract: A controller couples to a rear surface of a portable information handling system at a gimbal motor that supports rotation of the controller relative to the portable information handling system. A gyroscopic sensor detects rotation of the controller for application to the gimbal motor so that the information handling system maintains a viewing position relative to an end user who rotates the controller. The controller selectively couples and de-couples from the information handling system to provide inputs to the information handling system both as an integrated input device and as a separate input device through a wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
  • Patent number: 11733857
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling virtual workspaces produced across Information Handling Systems (IHSs) are described. An IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: establish a virtual workspace across a screen of the IHS and a second screen of a second IHS, at least in part, through a backend IHS; and provide a virtual workspace interface on the screen, where the virtual workspace interface comprises a first graphical representation of the IHS and a second graphical representation of the second IHS, and where in response to a user dragging a first instance of an application window displayed on the screen to the second graphical representation of the second IHS, a second instance of the application window is rendered on the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Mark R. Ligameri
  • Publication number: 20230251765
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing projects and organizing activities in a web-based workspace are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to, in response to a determination that a user has selected a project management control in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a web browser, assemble a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) open in distinct web browser tabs into a project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Mark R. Ligameri, David O. Garner, Christopher Alan Robinette
  • Publication number: 20230251766
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing application management and navigation in a web-based environment are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: determine that a user has dragged-and-dropped a tab onto a launch bar of a web browser, parse a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the tab into a resource and a data source, and add a web app icon corresponding to the resource to the launch bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Mark Ligameri, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Christopher Alan Robinette
  • Publication number: 20230245017
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assisting users in a web-based workspace are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: render an assist panel in a web browser, where the assist panel comprises a plurality of cards, where each of the plurality of cards represents an aspect of a project, and where the project comprises a plurality of web apps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert