Patents by Inventor Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai

Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai 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).

  • Combined surface user interface
    Patent number: 10452203
    Abstract: Techniques for utilizing two or more mobile devices equipped with projectors to generate a combined seamless user interfaces by stitching projection areas generated by the projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Ji Zhao, Min Wang, Rui Gao, Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai, Chunshui Zhao
  • Detachable computer with variable performance computing environment
    Patent number: 9984034
    Abstract: Computing devices are often designed in view of a particular usage scenario, but may be unsuitable for usage in other computing scenarios. For example, a notebook computer with a large display, an integrated keyboard, and a high-performance processor suitable for many computing tasks may be heavy, large, and power-inefficient; and a tablet lacking a keyboard and incorporating a low-powered processor may improve portability but may present inadequate performance for many tasks. Presented herein is a configuration of a computing device featuring a display unit with a resource-conserving processor that may be used independently (e.g., as a tablet), but that may be connected to a base unit featuring a resource-intensive processor. The operating system of the device may accordingly transition between a resource-intensive computing environment and a resource-conserving computing environment based on the connection with the base unit, thereby satisfying the dual roles of workstation and portable tablet device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai, Chunhui Zhang, Rui Gao
  • Detachable Computer With Variable Performance Computing Environment
    Publication number: 20170052922
    Abstract: Computing devices are often designed in view of a particular usage scenario, but may be unsuitable for usage in other computing scenarios. For example, a notebook computer with a large display, an integrated keyboard, and a high-performance processor suitable for many computing tasks may be heavy, large, and power-inefficient; and a tablet lacking a keyboard and incorporating a low-powered processor may improve portability but may present inadequate performance for many tasks. Presented herein is a configuration of a computing device featuring a display unit with a resource-conserving processor that may be used independently (e.g., as a tablet), but that may be connected to a base unit featuring a resource-intensive processor. The operating system of the device may accordingly transition between a resource-intensive computing environment and a resource-conserving computing environment based on the connection with the base unit, thereby satisfying the dual roles of workstation and portable tablet device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai, Chunhui Zhang, Rui Gao
  • Combined Surface User Interface
    Publication number: 20150346857
    Abstract: Techniques for utilizing two or more mobile devices equipped with projectors to generate a combined seamless user interfaces by stitching projection areas generated by the projectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Ji Zhao, Min Wang, Rui Gao, Xiong-Fei (Bruce) Cai, Chunshui Zhao