Patents by Inventor Zhiping XIA

Zhiping XIA 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: 10025494
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting a display of a portable electronic device having a display unit are provided. The method includes detecting a user's touch of the portable electronic device, determining touch information including at least one of a location and an area of the user's touch on the display unit, determining whether the user's touch is a touch input for executing an operation on the portable electronic device or a user's gripping of the portable electronic device according to the touch information, and adjusting the displaying of a User Interface (UI) according to the user's gripping of the portable electronic device, wherein an entirety of an outward facing surface of the display unit is touch-enabled so as to receive a touch input of a user at any point of the outward facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiping Xia, Howard Z. Lee
  • Patent number: 9743255
    Abstract: A telephony collaboration system and method are provided. The method includes activating a wireless feature on an admin device, determining, whether a new group is to be created, determining whether to subscribe a guest device to an existing group, determining whether to join the guest device to a previously subscribed to group, when the admin device is to create the new group, creating the new group and assigning a name to the new group, when the guest device is to subscribe to the existing group, scanning for the existing group and transmitting a subscription request requesting that the guest device be subscribed to the existing group, and when the admin device is to join the previously subscribed to group, scanning for the previously subscribed to group and transmitting a join request requesting that the admin device be registered with the previously subscribed to group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiping Xia, Abraham Kang, Peter King
  • Publication number: 20160381522
    Abstract: A telephony collaboration system and method are provided. The method includes activating a wireless feature on an admin device, determining, whether a new group is to be created, determining whether to subscribe a guest device to an existing group, determining whether to join the guest device to a previously subscribed to group, when the admin device is to create the new group, creating the new group and assigning a name to the new group, when the guest device is to subscribe to the existing group, scanning for the existing group and transmitting a subscription request requesting that the guest device be subscribed to the existing group, and when the admin device is to join the previously subscribed to group, scanning for the previously subscribed to group and transmitting a join request requesting that the admin device be registered with the previously subscribed to group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Zhiping XIA, Abraham KANG, Peter KING
  • Publication number: 20150187357
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for recognizing and translating natural input signals into User Interface (UI) commands and messages to manage and control a Palmtop virtual UI system. The method includes receiving the natural input signals in a field of view of an input device, recognizing and translating the received natural input signals into the UI commands and messages, and generating and displaying the UI on the input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiping Xia, Wenwei Tao
  • Publication number: 20140198057
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for adjusting a display of a portable electronic device having a display unit are provided. The method includes detecting a user's touch of the portable electronic device, determining touch information including at least one of a location and an area of the user's touch on the display unit, determining whether the user's touch is a touch input for executing an operation on the portable electronic device or a user's gripping of the portable electronic device according to the touch information, and adjusting the displaying of a User Interface (UI) according to the user's gripping of the portable electronic device, wherein an entirety of an outward facing surface of the display unit is touch-enabled so as to receive a touch input of a user at any point of the outward facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping XIA, Howard Z. LEE
  • Patent number: D1013682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Zhiping Xia
  • Patent number: D1017599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Zhiping Xia