Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC

Motorola Mobility LLC

Lenovo Limited

Ming Qian

Song Wang

Jian Li

John Weldon Nicholson

Jianbang Zhang

David Alexander Schwarz

Jatinder Kumar

Russell Speight VanBlon

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu

Ryan Charles Knudson

Bradley Park Strazisar

Roderick Echols

Lincoln Penn Hancock

Mario Aguilar

Jun-Ki Min

Aaron Michael Stewart

Steven Richard Perrin

Jeffrey Earle Skinner

Joseph Vincent Nasti

Yunming Wang

Qigang Wang

Scott Wentao Li

Scott Edwards Kelso

Scott DeBates

Jason Aaron Matteson

Axel Ramirez Flores

Suzanne Marion Beaumont

Mengnan Wang

Claudio M Privitera

John Miles Hunt

Mir Farooq Ali

Zhenyu Yang

Patrick M Connolly

Aaron B Hawkins

Geoffrey Simon Bula

Krishna C Garikipati

Karen Zachery

Sujin Jang

Yang Wang

Erin Wang

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a request from a user to access content; detecting, using at least one sensor associated with the information handling device, a face of the user; generating, using at least one audio output device and subsequent to the detecting, an audible sound; determining, using a processor, whether an expected movement of the face is identified with respect to the audible sound; and granting, responsive to determining that the expected movement is identified, the user access to the content. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Sound-based user liveness determination

In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor, a display accessible to the 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 present an icon on the display so that the icon appears disposed within the real world at or proximate to a location of a second device associated with the icon. The second device may be different from the first device and exist in the real world. The instructions may also be executable to identify a user of the first device as looking at the icon, receive audible input from the user, and issue a command to the second device to execute at least one function in conformance with the audible input based on the identification of the user as looking at the icon.

Techniques for processing audible input directed to second device based on user looking at icon presented on display of first device

One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting user activation input provided to a voice input button displayed on a display screen of an information handling device, wherein the user activation input triggers a voice input mode; expanding, responsive to the detecting, a voice input menu, wherein the voice input menu comprises at least two content input options; identifying a selection of one of the at least two content input options; receiving, after the identifying, voice input; converting the voice input into another input type, wherein the another input type is designated by the selection; and providing, based on the converting, input associated with the another input type into an underlying application. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Content input selection and switching

In one aspect, a controller for engaging with augmented reality (AR) content and/or virtual reality (VR) content includes a housing and a wrist strap engageable with the housing. The controller also includes at least one reel engageable with the housing and the wrist strap to move the housing relative to the wrist strap while the wrist strap is worn by a person to simulate force indicated in the AR or VR content.

Controller with reel(s) and/or other mechanism(s) for simulating force indicated in augmented or virtual reality content

One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying a defined display region; receiving, on an off screen input device, user input; scaling, using a processor, the user input based on the defined display region; and displaying, on a display device, the scaled user input within the defined display region. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Flexible mapping of a writing zone to a digital display

In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage comprises instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine an attention center that corresponds to at least a portion of a real-world environment and present, on a display, content at a display location determined based on the attention center.

Presentation of content based on attention center of user

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user command input comprising identification of an object; receiving, at an information handling device, image input comprising at least one object; determining, using a processor, whether the object in the user command input is associated with the at least one object in the image input; and responsive to determining that the object in the user command input is associated with the at least one object, performing a function based on the determination.

Object association determination

For determining structure from a language block, a processor determines phrase tags from phrase vectors for phrases of a language block. The phrase tags specify a phrase function. The processor further determines structure tags for the phrases from the language block.

Determining structure from a language block

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, audible user input; determining, subsequent to the receiving, an intonation with which the audible user input was provided; assigning, based on the determined intonation, an expressive meaning to the audible user input; and performing, based on the expressive meaning, a corresponding function. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Function performance based on input intonation

For multiuser information exchange management, a processor receives information permissions for a plurality of participants in an electronic forum. The information permissions include an audio permission, a video permission, a file share permission, a drawing permission, and/or a presentation permission for each participant. The processor provides forum information to each participant based on the information permissions. The audio permission is required to receive audio from the electronic forum. The video permission is required to receive video from the electronic forum. The file share permission is required to receive a file from the electronic forum. The drawing permission is required to receive a drawing from the electronic forum. The presentation permission is required to receive a presentation from the electronic forum.

Multiuser information exchange management

A device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a microphone operatively coupled to the processor; a network interface operatively coupled to the processor; circuitry that parses audio signals received via the microphone for a name and a type of device; circuitry that analyzes network information associated with remote devices accessible via the network interface based at least in part on at least one of the name and the type of device to associate the name and the type of device with one of the remote devices; and circuitry that stores the name and the type of device to the memory in association with the one of the remote devices.

Natural language connectivity

A method for indicating a responding virtual assistant from one of a plurality of virtual assistants is disclosed. The method includes receiving a spoken query from a user of an electronic device. The method includes determining whether the spoken query addresses a particular one of a plurality of virtual assistants on the electronic device. The method includes polling a first set of the virtual assistants with the spoken query in response to the spoken query not addressing a particular one of the plurality of virtual assistants. The method further includes presenting a response to the spoken query with an indicator of a virtual assistant providing the response. An apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed, which perform the method.

Indicating a responding virtual assistant from a plurality of virtual assistants

One embodiment provides a method, including: engaging, at an information handing device, in a conversational session with a user; receiving an input from a source other than the user during the conversational session; and performing, at the information handling device, an action related to the conversational input in response to the received input. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Input during conversational session

An approach is provided to use a first translation attribute that is received at a user interface from a user to automatically translate a document. The source document that is in a source natural language is translated to a target document that is in a target natural language by using a machine translator that utilizes the first translation attribute, such as adequacy or fluency. The target document is analyzed with the analysis resulting in a second translation attribute (e.g., either adequacy or fluency, whichever is different from the first translation attribute). The target (translated) document and the second translation attribute are then provided to the user, such as at the user interface.

User interface for natural language translation using user provided attributes

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for adjusting display settings of a head-mounted display. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive sensor data from one or more sensors operably connected to a head mounted display ('HMD') unit while a user wears the HMD unit. The code is executable by the processor to determine a user's cognition level based on the sensor data. The code is executable by the processor to adjust one or more display settings of the HMD unit based on the determined cognition level for the user.

Adjusting display settings of a head-mounted display

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