Apparatus comprising a display and a method and computer program

• US 10,162,510 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Richardson, Nigel, Davidson, Brian, Cattermole, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Okebato, Sahlu
• Application Number:
  US14/790,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041716A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/02 Composition of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0269 mounted in a fixed curved configuration, e.g. display curved around the edges of the telephone housing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

An apparatus including: a display including a central portion and a curved side portion; a memory storing pages of content; and a display controller configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a touch sensitive display comprising a central portion and a curved side portion;

at least one memory storing computer program code; and

at least one processor,

wherein the computer program code, with the at least one processor, is configured to;

detect touch inputs by a user at the touch sensitive display;

detect one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion; and

determining to ignore the detected one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion in dependence upon at least;

an orientation of the apparatus.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein curved side portion is a first curved side portion, the touch sensitive display further comprises a second curved side portion and the at least one processor is configured to control input via the curved side portions.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to disable touch input via the curved side portion of the display while maintaining touch input at the central portion of the display.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to reduce a sensitivity to touch input of the curved side portion of the display.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to disambiguate holding from touch input at the curved side portion.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer program code, with the at least one processor, is configured to ignore touch input at the curved side portion in dependence of a total area of the curved side portion that is touched exceeding a threshold.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the threshold is a function of the number of different areas of the curved side portion that are touched.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the threshold is a function of the orientation of the apparatus.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer program code, with the at least one processor, is configured to determine a number of inputs at different areas of the curved side portion that are stationary and to ignore touch input at the curved side portion in dependence of the number of inputs at different areas of the curved side portion that are stationary.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer program code, with the at least one processor, is configured to:

determine a difference between a first number, N, of inputs at different areas of the curved side portion and a second number, M, of inputs at different areas of the curved side portion that are stationary; and

ignore touch input at the curved side portion in dependence upon said difference being less than a threshold.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the threshold is a function of the first number, N, of inputs at different areas of the curved side portion.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the threshold is a function of the orientation of the apparatus.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer program code, with the at least one processor, is configured to ignore the detected one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion in dependence upon a duration of the detected one or more touch inputs.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the threshold is a function of the orientation of the apparatus.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one memory stores pages of content and the pages of content are ordered such that a second page of content follows a first page of content, and the at least one processor is configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

16. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content and the additional information comprises control information displayed for touch actuation.

21. A hand-portable device comprising the apparatus of claim 1.

17. A method comprising:

detecting touch inputs by a user at a touch sensitive display of an apparatus, wherein the touch sensitive display has a central portion and a curved side portion;

detecting one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion; and

determining to ignore the detected one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion in dependence upon at least;

an orientation of the apparatus.

18. A method as claimed in claim 17, comprising disabling touch input via the curved side portion of the display while maintaining touch input at the central portion of the display.

19. A method as claimed in claim 17, wherein ignoring touch input at the curved side portion comprises ignoring the detected one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion in dependence upon a duration of the detected one or more touch inputs.

20. A method as claimed in claim 17, wherein ignoring touch input at the curved side portion comprises ignoring touch input at the curved side portion in dependence upon an orientation of the apparatus.

22. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when performed by a processor, causes at least the following to be performed:

detecting touch inputs by a user at a touch sensitive display of an apparatus, wherein the touch sensitive display has a central portion and a curved side portion;

detecting one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion; and

determining to ignore the detected one or more touch inputs at the curved side portion in dependence upon at least;

an orientation of the apparatus.