公开(公告)号：US12235625B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US17568222

申请日：2022-01-04

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： John Trevor Morrison ,  Jace W. Files ,  Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert

IPC: G05B19/4155 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: End users subscribe to use information handling systems having a selected of available performance characteristics defined by a keyboard and touchpad configuration selected to build the information handling systems. A manufacturer meets subscriptions with information handling systems built from an inventory of new keyboards, deployed keyboards of information handling system in use by subscribers, and separated keyboards taken from returned information handling systems and re-used. End user subscriptions are met in part by building replacement information handling systems with separated keyboards having a useful life remaining that aligns with end user keyboard usage patterns tracked over time, benchmarked performance metrics and end user subscription performance characteristics.

公开(公告)号：US12216512B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US18081142

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： John Trevor Morrison ,  Chiu-Jung Tsen ,  Jace W. Files

IPC: G06F1/18 ,  G06F1/20 ,  H05K7/20

Abstract: A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the retaining nuts having a lip to engage the motherboard, a stop feature to define motherboard sliding movement and an alignment feature to align the lip and stop feature in a predetermined configuration. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position.

公开(公告)号：US12158690B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US17577986

申请日：2022-01-18

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： Jace W. Files ,  John Trevor Morrison ,  Andrew T. Sultenfuss

IPC: G03B17/18 ,  G03B17/02 ,  G03B17/56 ,  H04N23/62 ,  H04N23/65 ,  H04N23/667

Abstract: A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. Camera position movement at a display panel front face is detected, such as with a touchscreen of the display panel, and accelerometer or an infrared curtain presented from the camera dock along the display panel front face. Audio and visual information communicated from the camera is altered when movement is detected at the camera, such as muting a microphone of the camera and cutting off capture of visual images by the camera module.

公开(公告)号：US12126883B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US18104017

申请日：2023-01-31

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： Jace W. Files ,  John Trevor Morrison ,  Andrew P. Tosh

IPC: H04N23/51 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N23/69

CPC classification number: H04N23/51 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N23/69

Abstract: An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display and a magnet included in the camera housing. A capacitive touch sensor disposed at an inner surface of the magnet detects touches made by an end user at an outer surface of the magnet. For instance, a single tap at the magnet commands capture of a still image by the camera, which is stored locally until the camera docks to receive external power and then communicated to an information handling system.

公开(公告)号：US12108147B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US17577979

申请日：2022-01-18

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： Jace W. Files ,  John Trevor Morrison ,  Andrew T. Sultenfuss

IPC: H04N23/667 ,  H04N23/68 ,  H04R3/04

CPC classification number: H04N23/667 ,  H04N23/6812 ,  H04R3/04 ,  H04R2430/01

Abstract: A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. Camera position movement at a display panel front face is detected, such as with a touchscreen of the display panel, and accelerometer or an infrared curtain presented from the camera dock along the display panel front face. Audio and visual information communicated from the camera is altered when movement is detected at the camera, such as muting a microphone of the camera and cutting off capture of visual images by the camera module.

公开(公告)号：US12069356B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US17577957

申请日：2022-01-18

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： Jace W. Files ,  John Trevor Morrison

IPC: H04N23/54 ,  H04N23/51

CPC classification number: H04N23/54 ,  H04N23/51

Abstract: A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. Camera position at a display panel front face is maintained by magnetic attraction to a ferromagnetic material backplate having crossbeams to strengthen the backplate construction and sized so that a substantially equal magnetic attraction is provided for the camera magnet across plural adjacent crossbeams.

公开(公告)号：US20240256471A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18103259

申请日：2023-01-30

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： John Trevor Morrison ,  Jace W. Files

IPC: G06F13/10

CPC classification number: G06F13/102 ,  G06F3/0202 ,  G06F3/03543 ,  G06F3/03545

Abstract: A peripheral device having one or more input devices tracks total inputs at the input devices locally and reports the total inputs to an information handling system to track health of the peripheral for reuse. Input device actuations and/or values are queued in batches of sufficient size so that communication to non-transitory memory and to the information handling system hides the values of the inputs made by an end user. The peripheral devices can include peripheral keyboards that track key inputs, peripheral mouse devices that track button presses and peripheral stylus devices that track battery charges, button presses and writing tip use.

公开(公告)号：US12038795B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US17119594

申请日：2020-12-11

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： Travis C. North ,  Jace W. Files ,  Yongook Guack ,  John Trevor Morrison

IPC: A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/53 ,  A63F13/537 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/20 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F13/14 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G10L21/10 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G11B33/02 ,  G11B33/14 ,  H04R1/02 ,  H04R5/02 ,  H04S3/00 ,  H05K7/20

CPC classification number: G06F1/203 ,  A63F13/537 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1673 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G11B33/025 ,  G11B33/142 ,  H04R1/028 ,  H04R5/02 ,  H04S3/008 ,  H05K7/20136 ,  H05K7/20209 ,  G05B2219/49216 ,  H04R2499/11 ,  H04R2499/15 ,  H04S2400/01

Abstract: A portable information handling system executes an application, such as a game, that generates audio information for presentation at multiple speakers through multiple channels. An audio vector engine analyzes the channels to derive a direction and distance associated with the audio information so that a visual cue of the relative location of the origin of the audio information may be presented at a display. In one embodiment, the display is a secondary display having a transparent view into the information handling system. In another embodiment, the direction and distance to a sound origin is presented over a map of a game in which the sound originated, such as a shot fired in a game.

公开(公告)号：US20240206113A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18081162

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： John Trevor Morrison ,  Chiu-Jung Tsen ,  Jace W. Files ,  Jheng-Ting Ye ,  Yi-Ming Chou ,  Hsu-Feng Lee

IPC: H05K7/20 ,  G06F1/18 ,  G06F1/20

CPC classification number: H05K7/20172 ,  G06F1/184 ,  G06F1/203 ,  H05K7/20209

Abstract: A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the openings having a varied size so that the motherboard slides between released and engaged positions. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position. Plural cooling fans interface in series with the motherboard to provide additional cooling capacity.

公开(公告)号：US20240201796A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18081061

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: Dell Products L.P.

Inventor： John Trevor Morrison ,  Jason S. Morrison ,  Chiu-Jung Tsen ,  Jace W. Files ,  Chun-Wei Lin

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G06F3/038

CPC classification number: G06F3/0213 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  G06F1/1681 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/038

Abstract: A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having a first portion with key press detection sensors contiguous to a second portion with a touch detection sensor that supports a touchpad. In one embodiment, the membrane integrates a printed circuit board that couples a key matrix controller and a touch detection controller interfaced with a communications hub, such as a USB hub, to communicate key and touchpad inputs to a motherboard through a flexible connector portion of the membrane.