Patents by Inventor STEPHEN PAUL FLOYD

STEPHEN PAUL FLOYD 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: 20220121325
    Abstract: An approach is provided that differentiates displayed windows from one another by applying visual effects to the borders of the displayed windows. The approach retrieving user-defined visual effects with each of the user-defined visual effects corresponding to a different application. Windows are on the display screen, with each of the windows corresponding to one of the applications. The displayed windows are differentiated from each other by applying the user-defined visual effects to a border of each of the windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Roberts, Alfredo Zugasti, Fred F. Holt, JR., Robert J. Kapinos, Stephen Paul Floyd
  • Patent number: 10275047
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, an infrared (IR) detector accessible to the processor and that receives signals from a primary IR emitter on a hand-held device and a secondary IR emitter on the hand-held device, a projector accessible to the processor, a transceiver accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to use a location of the secondary IR emitter as sensed by the IR detector and orientation data of the hand-held device received from the transceiver to extrapolate a handwriting projection reference. The instructions are also executable to use the handwriting projection reference to project handwriting onto a projected whiteboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott Wentao Li, Stephen Paul Floyd, Brian Keith Hardbarger, Jennifer Jyi Shue
  • Publication number: 20180059816
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, an infrared (IR) detector accessible to the processor and that receives signals from a primary IR emitter on a hand-held device and a secondary IR emitter on the hand-held device, a projector accessible to the processor, a transceiver accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to use a location of the secondary IR emitter as sensed by the IR detector and orientation data of the hand-held device received from the transceiver to extrapolate a handwriting projection reference. The instructions are also executable to use the handwriting projection reference to project handwriting onto a projected whiteboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: SCOTT WENTAO LI, STEPHEN PAUL FLOYD, BRIAN KEITH HARDBARGER, JENNIFER JYI SHUE