Patents by Inventor Steven Richard Perrin
Steven Richard Perrin 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: 11288030Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying content on a display screen of a first device; determining a position of a second device relative to the display screen of the first device; selecting a portion of the display screen of the first device based on a determined position of the second device; and transferring the portion of the display screen selected to one or more devices. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Howard Locker, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10817124Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that an input device is within a proximity to the touch-enabled display, and in response to the determination and without supplemental input from a person, present on the touch-enabled display a user interface (UI) for providing input to the first device at least in part based on manipulation of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin, Jian Li
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Patent number: 10782799Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: communicating data from a smart pen to a device using a pen input data channel having a first bandwidth; said data including short range wireless connection data; establishing, using said data, a short range wireless connection between the smart pen and the device; and communicating, in a connected condition, higher bandwidth data between the smart pen and the device using the short range wireless connection. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin
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Patent number: 10698597Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, in an input overlay application, handwriting ink strokes; determining handwriting units for the handwriting ink strokes; accepting editing input of the handwriting ink strokes; and reflowing handwriting ink strokes based on the editing input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Bradley Park Strazisar, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 10671795Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, in an overlay input application, one or more ink strokes provided to an input field overlay area; and providing, in the overlay input application, a preview area that displays a typeset preview for the one or more ink strokes; wherein the preview area is displayed in a location determined by an area associated with current ink stroke input. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Sarah Jane E Cox, Geoffrey Simon Bula, Rajesh Krishna Daivajna
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Patent number: 10614300Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, in an input and display device, handwriting ink strokes; providing, using a handwriting recognition engine, one or more machine words for the one or more ink strokes; determining a characteristic of the one or more handwriting ink strokes; changing, based on the characteristic of the handwriting ink strokes, input formatting for the one or more machine words; and inputting the one or more machine words according to the input formatting. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Bradley Park Strazisar, Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang, Sarah Jane E Cox, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 10592096Abstract: One embodiment a method, including: providing, on an input and display device, an overlay handwriting input application that provides handwriting input to an underlying application; and providing, on the input and display device, a cursor initiated by the overlay handwriting application that represents an input location within at least one input field of the underlying application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang
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Presentation of representations of input with contours having a width based on the size of the input
Patent number: 10403238Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive input to the touch-enabled display and present a representation of the input on the touch-enabled display. The representation is presented with the width of one or more contours of the representation being correlated to the size of at least a portion of the input to the touch-enabled display.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin -
Patent number: 10289200Abstract: For force identification of a boundary, code detects an attention area on a display intersecting a boundary of the display. In addition the code provides a force indication through a feedback device in response to detecting the attention area intersecting the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Sinapogre) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Ming Qian, Scott Edwards Kelso, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin
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Patent number: 10255493Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input and display device, a plurality of ink strokes; converting the plurality of ink strokes into machine input for analysis; analyzing, using a processor, the machine input to determine a grouping; adjusting, according to the grouping, a layout of at least a sub-set of the plurality of ink strokes determined using a geometric relationship; and providing a display based on the grouping. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Grigori Zaitsev, Steven Richard Perrin, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Patent number: 10133368Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input and display device, an ink stroke provided to an input overlay application; providing a display of the ink stroke on the input and display device; converting the ink stroke input into a converted input for an underlying application; providing the converted input to the underlying application; detecting a user input associated with the converted input; and reverting to the ink stroke on the input and display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Steven Richard Perrin, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Bradley Park Strazisar, Sarah Jane E Cox, John Weldon Nicholson, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron Michael Stewart
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Patent number: 10097614Abstract: A system can include a base device and a satellite device configured to operate in an attached state and to operate in a detached state; circuitry that responds to a transition from the detached state to the attached state by establishing a wired communication session between the base device and the satellite device; circuitry that responds to a transition from the attached state to the detached state by establishing a wireless communication session between the base device and the satellite device; and circuitry that communicates information, via an established wired communication session in the attached state and via an established wireless communication session in the detached state, from the base device to the satellite device for rendering the communicated information to a display of the satellite device. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Lenovo PC InternationalInventors: Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Steven Richard Perrin, James Stephen Rutledge, Matthew Roper, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10088938Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; a memory device that includes memory accessible by the processor; a touchscreen operatively coupled to the processor; and circuitry to decode fields received via the touchscreen, the fields being modulated according to modulation codes associated with a set of tokens positionable on the touchscreen. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, John Weldon Nicholson, Howard J. Locker
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Patent number: 10051196Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a camera, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to initiate the camera and project light from the device at an angle corresponding to a field of view of the camera according to a current focal length of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, John Weldon Nicholson, Scott Edwards Kelso
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Patent number: 10042440Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for touch input. An apparatus for touch input includes a display and a touchpad that does not overlap the display. The touchpad has an absolute input mode and a relative input mode such that a location of a cursor within the display is controlled by input received while the touchpad is in an absolute and/or relative input mode. The apparatus also includes a sensor module and a display module. The sensor module detects an input object within a sensing range of the touchpad. The display module presents the cursor at a location within the display based on the input object. The location of the cursor within the display is determined according to the input mode of the touchpad.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Steven Richard Perrin
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Patent number: 10033718Abstract: An apparatus and method for pairing a base and a detachable device. A query module queries a detachable device in response to the detachable device connecting to a base. The detachable device provides a display for the base if the detachable device and base are connected. A determination module determines if the detachable device is paired with the base. A credential module obtains a pairing credential for a pairing in response to the determination module determining that the detachable device is unpaired with the base.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Mark Charles Davis, Scott Edwards Kelso, Bin Li, Sheng Wang
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Patent number: 10032071Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an overlay handwriting application, one or more handwriting strokes; processing the one or more handwriting strokes to obtain at least one candidate machine input word; generating, using a spell check application, at least one spell check word using the at least one candidate machine input word; and providing, on a display device, the at least one spell check word generated by the spell check application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak, Steven Richard Perrin, Jianbang Zhang
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Patent number: 9892199Abstract: An apparatus for setting up a specialized personal electronic assistant on an electronic device includes a processor, a display, a language module, a tracking module, a knowledge module, and a rendering module. The language module interprets a communication from a user into a data request. The tracking module stores the data request as one of a plurality of stored data requests. The knowledge module determines a response to the data request. The rendering module displays the response in a tiled area on an image display of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch, John Weldon Nicholson
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Patent number: 9874950Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, involving: receiving, at a device, handwriting input from a user; detecting, using a processor, a location of at least a part of the handwriting input; and providing, on a display device, at least one adaptive line to guide the handwriting input; wherein the at least one adaptive line is positioned based on the location of at least a part of the handwriting input. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jianbang Zhang, Steven Richard Perrin, Russell Speight VanBlon, Joshua Neil Novak
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Publication number: 20170367041Abstract: While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey Clark, Mark Charles Davis, Justin Tyler Dubs, Steven Richard Perrin, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Dekui Zhang