Anti-glare computing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12093085-B2
Application number	US-202016914979-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2020
Priority date	Jun 29, 2020
Publication date	Sep 17, 2024
Grant date	Sep 17, 2024

Abstract

A system can include a display housing that includes a display; a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard, a processor and memory accessible to the processor; a sensor operatively coupled to the processor; a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the display housing and the keyboard housing; and adjustment circuitry that determines a recommended position for adjustment of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing using sensor data generated by the sensor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a display housing that comprises a display classified according to a haze value;
a keyboard housing that comprises a keyboard, a processor and memory accessible to the processor;
a sensor operatively coupled to the processor;
a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the display housing and the keyboard housing; and
adjustment circuitry that determines a recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing, using sensor data generated by the sensor, for orientation of the display housing in relationship to at least one environmental condition, wherein the recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing comprises a recommended anti-glare position that reduces glare from light of a light source being reflected by the display of the display housing, and wherein the glare depends at least in part on the haze value of the display.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor comprises a camera that generates image data.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one environmental condition comprises at least the light source and wherein the image data comprise light source data for at least the light source.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one environmental condition comprises a user position and wherein the image data comprise user position data for the user position.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the user position data comprise user eye position data.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor data comprise sensor data for at least two different positions of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing and with respect to at least one of the at least one environmental condition.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor data comprise time series data for at least one member of a group consisting of a position of the display housing with respect to at least one of the at least one environmental condition, and a position of the keyboard housing with respect to at least one of the at least one environmental condition.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the adjustment circuitry calls for rendering an angle indicator to the display that indicates the recommended open angle of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein, responsive to a dynamic change in the position of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing, the adjustment circuitry calls for dynamic rendering of at least one angle indicator to the display that indicates at least one new recommended open angle of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the adjustment circuitry calls for rendering the recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing to the display.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the adjustment circuitry calls for terminating the rendering of the recommended open angle responsive to determination of an angle of the display housing being within a range of the recommended open angle.

12. The system of claim 1 , comprising an electromagnetic mover operatively coupled to the adjustment circuitry and the hinge assembly, wherein the electromagnetic mover operates to move the display housing based on the recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing.

13. A method comprising:
acquiring sensor data using a sensor of a clamshell computing device that comprises a display housing, a keyboard housing and a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the display housing and the keyboard housing, wherein the display housing comprises a display classified according to a haze value; and
determining a recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing, using sensor data generated by the sensor, for orientation of the display housing in relationship to at least one environmental condition, wherein the recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing comprises a recommended anti-glare position that reduces glare from light of a light source being reflected by the display of the display housing, and wherein the glare depends at least in part on the haze value of the display.

14. The method of claim 13 , comprising rendering the recommended open angle to a display of the display housing.

15. The method of claim 13 , comprising instructing an electric motor to adjust the position of the display housing using the recommended open angle.

16. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions executable to instruct a clamshell computing device to:
acquire sensor data using a sensor of the clamshell computing device that comprises a display housing, a keyboard housing and a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the display housing and the keyboard housing, wherein the display housing comprises a display classified according to a haze value; and
determine a recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing, using sensor data generated by the sensor, for orientation of the display housing in relationship to at least one environmental condition, wherein the recommended open angle for adjustment of the display housing comprises a recommended anti-glare position that reduces glare from light of a light source being reflected by the display of the display housing, and wherein the glare depends at least in part on the haze value of the display.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the haze value is less than 25 percent.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the haze value is less than 10 percent.

Assignees

• Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Mengnan
• Bryson Barrett J
• Wang Song

Classifications

• G06F1/1662

  Details related to the integrated keyboard · CPC title

• G06F1/1686

  the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera · CPC title

• G06F1/1681

  Details related solely to hinges (hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683) · CPC title

• G08B5/22

  using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission · CPC title

• G06F1/1637

  Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing · CPC title