Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (united States) Inc.

Lenovo Limited

Howard J Locker

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Randall Scott Springfield

John Weldon Nicholson

James Peter Ward

Richard Wayne Cheston

David Carroll Challener

Philip John Jakes

Rod D Waltermann

Eric Richard Kern

Mark Charles Davis

Brandon Jon Ellison

Scott Edwards Kelso

Aaron Michael Stewart

David Benson Rhoades

Mengnan Wang

Richard Alan Dayan

Steven Richard Perrin

Michael Terrell Vanover

Dhruv Manmohandas Desai

Michaela Rose Case

Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki

Andy Lloyd Trotter

James Stephen Rutledge

Joseph Michael Pennisi

Kenneth Scott Seethaler

Axel Ramirez Flores

Jan Michael Janick

Michael Joseph Steinmetz

Michael Thano Matthews

Raymond Gary Octaviano, Ii

John Miles Hunt

Brandon John Ellison

Steven Dale Goodman

Matthew Price Roper

James Joseph Thrasher

Arnold S Weksler

Tin-Lup Wong

Joseph Wayne Freeman

James Anthony Hunt

Bradley Park Strazisar

Karen Ruth Kluttz

Yi Zhou

Matthew Lloyd Hagenbuch

Nathan J Peterson

John Carl Mese

Justin Tyler Dubs

Philip Lee Childs

Joshua Neil Novak

Daniel Jordan Schantz

Christopher Miles Osborne

Robert Bowser

Sean Michael Ulrich

Yaqiang Wu

Ernest Nelson Mandese

Qian Ying Wang

Russell Speight VanBlon

Edward Stanely Suffern

David R Safford

Jeffrey Earle Skinner

James Patrick Hoff

Jeremy Robert Carlson

David Rivera

Marc Richard Pamley

Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr

Jeffrey R Hobbet

Julie Anne Morris

Richard Ian Knox

Russell Alan Resnick

Adam Miles Smith

John Peter Karidis

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Jianbang Zhang

Song Wang

Richard F Sapper

John David Swansey

Jian Li

Xin Feng

Scott Neil Dunham

Steven R Welch

William Bradley Schwartz

William Edward Atherton

Don S Keener

John K Langgood

John Joseph Turek

Andrew B McNeill

Edward Stanley Suffern

Joseph David Plunkett

Toby John Bowen

William Fred Keown, Jr

Jerry D Dixon

Robert D Johnson

Jerry William Pearce

Shigeki Mori

Donald D Williams

Adam Lee Soderlund

Qianying Wang

Zhigang Na

Scott Edward Kelso

Robert Duane Johnson

Methods, communication devices, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for preventing unintentional outgoing communications initiated from a communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request via a first input device to initiate a communication to a contact, determining whether the request is unlikely, receiving a confirmation that the request is intentional responsive to determining the request is unlikely, and sending the communication to the contact responsive to receiving the confirmation.

Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for reducing inadvertent user interface interactions

In one aspect, a first device includes a processor assembly, a display, and storage. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor assembly to receive video from a second device different from the first device, determine whether a user is looking at the display, and process the video a first way for presentation on the display based on a determination that the user is not looking at the display. The instructions are also executable to process the video a second way for presentation on the display based on a determination that the user is looking at the display. The first way may include using a lower resolution or slower frame rate than the second way. The first way may also include using a CPU little core rather than a GPU.

Video processing adjustment based on user looking/not looking

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed to securely erase user data using storage regions on a shared computing device. Memory stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to configure a nonvolatile storage device of a shared device that may be used by multiple users but is exclusively used by one user at a time. The nonvolatile storage device has shared files storing system data and a data region storing user data associated with a user. The code executes to assign read-only privileges to the system region and read-write privileges to the data region before sharing the device with the user. Requests to write data to the nonvolatile storage device while the device is shared are serviced on the data region. When the user returns the shared device to the originator the code executes to erase the data region.

Secure erase of user data using storage regions

A video conferencing system includes an image of a participant in a video conference and a depth map of the image. The system identifies objects in the background of the image, identifies objects in the foreground of the image, and identifies objects in the middle-ground of the image. The system removes the objects from the middle-ground, and replaces the removed objects from the middle-ground with the objects from the background that are located behind the removed objects. The system then uses the image with the removed and replaced objects in a video stream of the video conference.

Object removal during video conferencing

A system and method include a control unit in communication with a plurality of communication devices at a common location. Each of the plurality of communication devices includes a microphone. The control unit is configured to receive one or more audio signals from the microphone of each of the plurality of communication devices. The control unit is further configured to selectively unmute the microphone of one of the plurality of communication devices and mute the microphone of at least one other of the plurality of communication devices based on the one or more audio signals.

Systems and methods for controlling microphones of communication devices at a common location

An image alteration system includes a memory and one or more processors. The processors receive input image data that depicts a background environment, and segment the input image data to locate objects depicted in the background environment. The processors identify a set of one or more of the objects to modify, and generate output image data that depicts a modified version of the background environment for display on a display device. The processors change an appearance of the one or more objects in the set as depicted in the output image data, relative to the appearance of the one or more objects as depicted in the input image data, without changing an appearance of one of more other objects located in the background environment. The input image data and the output image data represent video streams.

Image alteration system and method

A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that receive video feeds from corresponding cameras distributed at different positions and orientations throughout a physical environment, and obtain location data associated with the cameras. The location data is indicative of at least one of the position or orientation for the corresponding camera. The method, system and computer program product identify, from the multiple cameras, a camera combination that includes first and second cameras that have overlapping fields of view (FOV) based on the location data and form a panoramic video of at least a portion of the environment by combining the content from the first and second cameras identified based on the location data.

Method and system to combine video feeds into panoramic video

One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a remote video feed fusion system, an indication of a meeting facilitated through a meeting application allowing access to participants in a location other than a location of a host of the meeting and supporting video transmissions between connected participants; identifying, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of devices each having at least one image capture device and within the location of the host; capturing, using the remote video feed fusion system, a plurality of video feeds of the location of the host using the plurality of devices; creating, using the remote video feed fusion system, a fused video feed of the location of the host from the plurality of video feeds; and transmitting, using the remote video feed fusion system, the fused video feed to at least one participant accessing the meeting from a location other than the location of the host.

Meeting video feed fusion

In one aspect, a first device includes a processor, a camera, and storage. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor to auto-crop base images from the camera to render respective first auto-cropped images having a first field of view that is smaller than a second field of view of the respective base images themselves. The instructions are also executable to receive input from a motion sensor on the first device and, based on the input from the motion sensor, adjust the auto-cropping of the base images from the camera to render second auto-cropped images having a third field of view that is smaller than the second field of view and that is different from the first field of view. In various examples, the first and second auto-cropped images can be provided to a second device as part of a video conference.

Auto-cropping of images based on device motion

An electronic device is provided that includes an input device configured to receive sound, a processor, and a memory storing program instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the program instructions, the processor is configured to identify a third party application that accesses the electronic device, and vary sound characteristics obtained by the input device based on the third party application identified to prevent a biometric algorithm from obtaining user information.

Privacy system for an electronic device

An electronic device is provided that includes a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor obtains context data, and provides a login prompt. The processor may also vary input device input configured to enter values into the login prompt based on the context data, rearrange keys of a touchscreen keyboard on a display, the displayed input configured to enter the values into the login prompt based on the context data, or vary the location of a touchscreen keyboard based on the context data.

Method and device for providing secure access to an electronic device

In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to provide at least a first image to a model as input, where the model may have been trained using groups of training images that show respective different parts of faces of one or more people but not full faces of the one or more people. The instructions may also be executable to receive, as output from the model, an indication regarding a facial body part. Based on the indication, the instructions may be executable to present a notification during a video conference, where the notification may indicate at least one action to take for a full face to be shown in a video stream as part of the video conference.

Partial face detection for video conferencing

Methods, computing devices, and computer-readable medium storing machine-readable instructions are disclosed for rendering video images for reducing energy consumption. An exemplary method performed in a computing system includes rendering video images at a first refresh rate, sending the rendered video images to a display device, determining if a reduced refresh rate event is occurring, and rendering video images at a second refresh rate responsive to determining the reduced refresh rate event is occurring. The second refresh rate is slower than the first refresh rate.

Computing devices, computer-readable medium, and methods for reducing power consumption during video rendering

In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to facilitate a video conference with a second device and to apply a virtual background for a video stream provided to the second device as part of the video conference. The video stream may also show at least one user. The virtual background may change perspective as a field of view showing the user changes and/or as an actual background behind the user changes.

Dynamic virtual background for video conference

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for adjusting content of a head mounted display. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to determine a field of view for a user relative to a display of a head-mounted display unit, detect that the user is attempting to look at content that is presented on the display of the head-mounted display unit but is out of the user's field of view, and adjust the content that is out of the user's field of view to make the content visible to the user.

Adjusting content of a head mounted display

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Howard J Locker