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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte, Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Inventors:
Amy Leigh Rose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Guillermo Regulez, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Justin Michael Ringuette, Morrisville, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Durham, NC (US);
Jennifer Lee-Baron, Morrisville, NC (US);
John Scott Crowe, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00335 (2013.01); G06F 1/3215 (2013.01); G06F 1/3231 (2013.01); G06F 1/3265 (2013.01); G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06K 9/00617 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1242 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1289 (2013.01);
Abstract
For preventing clearing of a display, a method is disclosed that includes receiving input from a non-tactile sensor, determining user activity based on the input from the sensor, and preventing a display from clearing in response to determining the user activity.