Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130257750 | ESTABLISHING AN INPUT REGION FOR SENSOR INPUT - An apparatus for establishing an input region for sensor input includes a storage device storing machine-readable code and a processor executing the machine-readable code. The machine-readable code includes a recognizing module recognizes a control gesture sensed by a sensor. The machine-readable code includes an establishing module establishes an input region for sensor input in response to the recognition module recognizing the control gesture. The input region includes a confined region of a total sensing area sensed by the sensor. | 10-03-2013 |
20130314364 | User Interface Navigation Utilizing Pressure-Sensitive Touch - An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application. | 11-28-2013 |
20130345842 | EARPHONE REMOVAL DETECTION - An aspect provides a method, including: detecting that a first earphone and a second earphone are not both positioned in a listening position with respect to a user; generating a signal in response to detecting that a first earphone and a second earphone are not both positioned in a listening position with respect a user; and in response to the generated signal, halting an application on a device providing audio to the first earphone and second earphone. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346776 | SLEEP STATE VIDEO INTERFACE OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING DEVICE - An apparatus for a sleep state video interface of an information handling device includes a storage device storing machine-readable code and a processor executing the machine-readable code. The apparatus includes a notification module receiving a sleep notification to place an information handling device into a sleep state. The information handling device receives a video signal. The apparatus includes a sleep module entering the information handling device into the sleep state in response to the notification module receiving the sleep notification. The video signal passes through the information handling device to a display as the information handling device is in the sleep state. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002374 | TEXT SELECTION UTILIZING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE TOUCH | 01-02-2014 |
20140049518 | DETECTING A TOUCH EVENT USING A FIRST TOUCH INTERFACE AND A SECOND TOUCH INTERFACE - An apparatus for detecting a touch event using a first touch interface and a second touch interface includes one or more touch-sensitive sensors, a first touch interface, and a second touch interface. The first touch interface includes an optical touch interface. The second touch interface is of a different type than the first touch interface. The apparatus also includes a storage device storing machine-readable code and a processor executing the machine-readable code. The machine-readable code includes a first interface module determining a touch position on the one or more touch-sensitive sensors using the first touch interface. The machine-readable code further includes a second interface module detecting a touch contact on the one or more touch-sensitive sensors using the second touch interface. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051484 | MASS SHIFTING NOTIFICATION - A device can include a processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; a battery having a battery length; a chassis that includes a bay having a bay length, the bay length being of sufficient length to allow translation of the battery along the bay length; a translation mechanism to translate the battery in the bay; and communication circuitry operatively coupled to the processor and the translation mechanism. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 02-20-2014 |
20140078066 | OBJECT MOVEMENT ON SMALL DISPLAY SCREENS - An aspect provides a method, including: detecting a selection of an object on a touch screen display using touch based input; providing a visual indication of the object on the touch screen display in response to the detection of a selection; accepting gesture input at the touch screen display to fly out from the underlying document while maintaining the visual indication of the object on the touch screen display, such that during the fly out more of the underlying document is displayed; and moving the visual indication of the object about the underlying document in response to the accepted gesture input at the touch screen display. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085793 | ADJUSTABLE HINGE STIFFNESS - An assembly can include a first component; a second component that includes a socket; a processor and a memory accessible by the processor, the processor and memory being included in one or more of the first component and the second component; and an interconnection mechanism for pivotable interconnection of the first component and the second component about a pivot axis where the interconnection mechanism includes a hinge that defines the pivot axis, a prong pivotable about the pivot axis, a latch mechanism to latch the second component to the interconnection mechanism with the prong received by the socket of the second component, an actuator to unlatch the latch mechanism, and a lever to adjust the hinge to a high stiffness state to adjust the hinge to a low stiffness state. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 03-27-2014 |
20140141759 | MODIFYING A FUNCTION BASED ON USER PROXIMITY - For modifying a function based on user proximity, a proximity module determines a distance between an electronic device and a transported device in wireless communication with the electronic device. The proximity module further modifies a function of the electronic device if the distance is within the specified range. | 05-22-2014 |
20140157161 | VARIABLE OPACITY ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD - An aspect provides a method, including: determining, at an information handling device, user input triggering display of an on-screen keyboard; and displaying the on-screen keyboard on a touch screen display of the information handling device according to a variable opacity setting; wherein the variable opacity setting establishes at least an initial opacity of the on-screen keyboard, and further wherein at least one sub-portion of the on-screen keyboard is semi-transparent. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160907 | ORGANIZING FILES FOR FILE COPY - For organizing files for file copy, an order module determines a first order for a plurality of files. The store module stores each file in the first order. File data and file metadata for the file are stored contiguously on a storage disk. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164307 | PREDICTING WEB PAGE - For predicting web pages, a calculation module predicts a web page from a current context and displays the predicted web page. | 06-12-2014 |
20140173050 | MULTIPLE FILE TRANSFER SPEED UP - An aspect provides a method, including: ascertaining, at a source device, an area of a storage device inclusive of multiple selected files for transfer to a sink device; copying, at the source device, files resident in the area of the storage device inclusive of the multiple files selected for transfer to a sink device into a transfer file; creating, at the source device, a control file comprising information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file; and transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140194102 | INTELLIGENT MUTING OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A device includes a transceiver, a microphone, a sensor, and a controller coupled to receive signals from the sensor and to place the device into a mute mode when the signals from the sensor are indicative of a user action to reduce transmission of the user's voice. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198040 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-CALIBRATION OF INDIRECT POINTING DEVICES - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for pointing device calibration. An observation module may track physical movement sensed by an indirect pointing device and record actual cursor behavior corresponding to the physical movement. An analysis module may compare the actual cursor behavior to reference cursor behavior to detect a deviation. A calibration module may adjust one or more settings of the pointing device in a manner calculated to reduce the deviation. | 07-17-2014 |
20140237407 | USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION UTILIZING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE TOUCH - An approach is provided to direct data to different applications based upon the amount of pressure applied by a user of a pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. In this approach, a touch input is received at a location of the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. The various applications currently being displayed at the location are identified along with the physical pressure level (amount of pressure applied) at the location on the pressure sensitive touch-enabled screen. One of the applications running on the device is selected based on the amount of pressure applied and the touch-based input provided by the user is directed to the selected application. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244239 | IDENTIFYING WORDS FOR A CONTEXT - For identifying words for a context, a monitor module monitors first communications at a digital processing system and determines usage frequencies of a plurality of words in one or more contexts. An identity module identifies a first word in response to a usage frequency for the first word exceeding a use threshold. | 08-28-2014 |
20140282149 | ALIGNMENT BASED ON VISUAL CONTENT - Disclosed is a method including storing in a memory presentation data, including image data, processing the image data to generate positioning data for positioning the image on a presentation in accordance with a plurality of image positioning techniques, and selecting positioning data for positioning the image in accordance with at least one of the plurality of image positioning techniques. A user interface, which may be graphical, permits a user to toggle through the positions generated by the various techniques, and to lock the image in a desired position. Also disclosed are a system and a computer-usable storage medium having instructions thereon for implementing the method. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282239 | SELECTING A TOUCH SCREEN HOT SPOT - For selecting a touch screen hot spot, an indication module sequentially indicates each hot spot within a specified selection area about a projection of the selection object onto a touch screen. The sequential indication may be in response to the selection object hovering within a hover range of the touch screen. A selection module selects a hot spot in response to detecting movement of the selection object towards the touch screen concurrent with the indication of the selected hot spot. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285463 | TOUCHSCREEN AND TOKEN INTERACTIONS - 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. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292669 | INTUITIVE TOUCH GESTURE-BASED DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN DEVICES - An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a network device, data from a source device and a user identification derived from a user device; storing, at the network device, the data from the source device; detecting, at the network device, a request from a destination device, the request from the destination device comprising a request for data derived from gesture input and associated with the user identification derived from the user device; and transferring, from the network device to the destination device, the data from source device. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140298246 | AUTOMATIC DISPLAY PARTITIONING BASED ON USER NUMBER AND ORIENTATION - A method, program product, and apparatus are disclosed for automatic display partitioning based on user number and orientation. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a detection module that detects a plurality of users, a partitioning module that creates a plurality of display-screen partitions on a display screen, and a positioning module that orients one of the display-screen partitions to correspond to the position of one of the device users in relation to the display screen. | 10-02-2014 |
20140359539 | ORGANIZING DISPLAY DATA ON A MULTIUSER DISPLAY - For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a first user position from a first hover presence at a multiuser display. An organization module organizes display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position. | 12-04-2014 |
20150022480 | ORGANIZING DISPLAY DATA ON A MULTIUSER DISPLAY - For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a first user position from the disposition of a first touch object on the multiuser display. An organization module organizes the display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position. | 01-22-2015 |
20150023221 | SPEAKING PARTICIPANT IDENTIFICATION - For speaking participant identification, a communication module simulates a virtual communication channel for each participant in a media conference. An identification module identifies a speaking participant. The communication module further communicates audio input over the virtual communication channel for the speaking participant. | 01-22-2015 |
20150030179 | PRESERVING PHASE SHIFT IN SPATIAL FILTERING - For preserving phase shift in spatial filtering is disclosed, an electronic device includes a microphone array. A filtering module spatially filters a plurality of received audio signals from the microphone array to increase the signal-to-noise ratio in one or more corresponding output audio signals. A phase module preserves a phase shift of at least one received audio signal in the corresponding output audio signal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150042538 | USING INFORMATION HANDLING DEVICE FOOTPRINT FOR TRANSFER - 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. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046161 | DEVICE IMPLEMENTED LEARNING VALIDATION - An aspect provides a method, including: collecting, at one or more device sensors, one or more inputs selected from the group of inputs consisting of audio inputs from a learning environment and visual inputs from a learning environment; processing, using one or more processors, the one or more inputs to detect an unauthorized behavior pattern; mapping, using the one or more processors, the unauthorized behavior pattern to a predetermined action; and executing the predetermined action. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049010 | ORGANIZING DISPLAY DATA ON A MULTIUSER DISPLAY - For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a user position from an audible signal. An organization module organizes display data on a multiuser display in response to the user position. | 02-19-2015 |
20150074524 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ACTION ITEMS - An aspect provides a method, including: operating an audio receiver and a memory of an information handling device to store audio; receiving input activating a virtual assistant of the information handling device; and after activation of the virtual assistant, processing the audio stored to identify one or more actionable items for the virtual assistant. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078573 | DEVICE CONTROL BASED ON WORN HEADPHONE DETECTION - A system and method include receiving a headphone worn signal at a system representative of a detection of headphones being worn and controlling selection of a playback device via the system for audible sounds as a function of the headphone worn signal. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081301 | BIOMETRIC PASSWORD SECURITY - A system includes a user speech profile stored on a computer readable storage device, the speech profile containing a plurality of phonemes with user identifying characteristics for the phonemes, and a speech processor coupled to access the speech profile to generate a phrase containing user distinguishing phonemes based on a difference between the user identifying characteristics for such phonemes and average user identifying characteristics, such that the phrase has discriminability from other users. The speech processor may also or alternatively select the phrase as a function of ambient noise. | 03-19-2015 |
20150084735 | WEARABLE INFORMATION HANDLING DEVICE OUTPUTS - An aspect provides a wearable information handling device, including: a display; a band; one or more processors operatively coupled to the display; and a memory device accessible to the one or more processors and storing code executable by the one or more processors to: after identifying information to be communicated, form an output directed to the band of the wearable information handling device; and provide the output to the band; the output actuating one or more elements of the band. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084873 | INTEGRATING MULTIPLE DIFFERENT TOUCH BASED INPUTS - For integrating multiple different touch based inputs, a method is disclosed that includes detecting a pressure at a screen pressure module, enabling a first touch module based on the pressure exceeding a pressure threshold value, and integrating input from a second touch module and the first touch module, the input from the first touch module and the second touch module being concurrently received. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085615 | MOTION MODIFIED STEERING VECTOR - For a motion modified steering vector, a motion module modifies a prior steering vector with a motion vector. A steering module spatially filters audio signals using the modified steering vector. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088512 | CONTEXT-BASED AUDIO FILTER SELECTION - For context-based audio filter selection, a type module determines a recipient type for a recipient process of an audio signal. The recipient type includes a human destination recipient type and a speech recognition recipient type. A filter module selects an audio filter in response to the recipient type. | 03-26-2015 |