ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,069, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc..
"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Liheng Mo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jacek Spiewla (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor that obtains a plurality of measured distances by measuring a distance to each of a plurality of points within a field of view of the ToF sensor, a screen, and a controller. The controller detects a presence of a user within the field of view based on the plurality of measured distances. In response to detecting the presence of t...