Computer system

• US 20020024512A1
• Filed: 07/13/2001
• Published: 02/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishibayahi, Hiroshi, Nakamura, Nobutaka, Furuta, Shinichi, Kishida, Ken, Matsubara, Tadayuki, Terasawa, Michiyuki
• Application Number:
  US09/903,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20020024512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt

Abstract

A computer system comprises a computer body that is attachable to a user'"'"'s body. A projection port is formed in the outer surface of a housing of the computer body. The housing contains therein a display element that projects an image outward from the housing through the projection port. The housing further contains therein a vibration detecting element for detecting vibration of the computer body, a discriminating element for determining whether or not the computer body is moving, in accordance with a vibration pattern detected by means of the vibration detecting element, and a main control element adapted to stop the image display by means of the display element when it is concluded by the discriminating element that the computer body is moving.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a computer body attachable to a user'"'"'s body, the computer body including a housing, a projection port in the outer surface of the housing, and a display element provided in the housing and configured to project an image outward from the housing through the projection port.

2. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the display element includes a transmission-type liquid crystal display device for displaying the image, a light source for applying light to the liquid crystal display device, an optical lens system opposed to the projection port, for outwardly emitting the light transmitted through the liquid crystal display device from the housing through the projection port, and a display controller configured to control the liquid crystal display device in accordance with imaging information.

3. A computer system according to claim 1, which further comprises a projection unit attached to the computer body and including a screen portion on which the image projected from the projection port is cast.

4. A computer system according to claim 3, wherein the projection unit is removably mounted on the computer body.

5. A computer system according to claim 3, wherein the projection unit includes a telescopic support arm having one end connected to the housing and the other end connected to the screen portion.

6. A computer system according to claim 3, wherein the housing includes a storage portion for storing the projection unit.

7. A computer system according to claim 1, which further comprises an auxiliary fixture for attaching the computer body to the user'"'"'s body and a projection unit attached to the auxiliary fixture and including a screen portion on which the image projected from the projection port is cast.

8. A computer system comprising a computer body attachable to a user'"'"'s body, the computer body including a housing and a support portion supporting the housing on the user'"'"'s body so as to be rockable around a given central axis.

9. A computer system according to claim 8, wherein the computer body includes an operating element provided on the outer surface of the housing, the operating element including a pointing device located on the central axis and click switches arranged side by side with the pointing device in a direction perpendicular to the central axis.

10. A computer system according to claim 9, wherein the housing has a rear face situated on the user'"'"'s-body side, a front face opposite to the rear face and provided with the operating element, a top face, a first side face provided with the projection port, and a second side face opposite to the first side face, and the central axis extends substantially at right angles to the front face.

11. A computer system according to claim 10, wherein the computer body is provided with a connector on the second side face of the housing.

12. A computer system according to claim 10, wherein the computer body is provided with a connector on the top face of the housing.

15. A computer system according to claim 14, wherein the memory device includes a disc-shaped record medium, a motor for rotating the record medium, a head for processing information on the record medium, a head actuator for moving and positioning the head between an information processing position and a retreated position off the record medium, and a power supply element, and the main control element is configured to move the head to the retreated position, stop the motor, and/or cut off the power supply element when it is concluded by the discriminating element that the computer body is moving.

16. A computer system according to claim 14, wherein the memory device includes a disc-shaped record medium, a motor for rotating the record medium, a head for processing information on the record medium, a head actuator for moving and positioning the head between an information processing position and a retreated position off the record medium, a device control element for controlling the motor, head, and head actuator, and a power supply element, the device control element being configured to move the head to the retreat position and inform the main control element of completion of head movement when it is concluded by the discriminating element that the computer body is moving.

13. A computer system comprising:

a computer body attachable to a user'"'"'s body; and

a display element for displaying an image in accordance with imaging information from the computer body,

the computer body including a vibration detecting element for detecting vibration of the computer body, a discriminating element for determining whether or not the computer body is moving, in accordance with a vibration pattern detected by means of the vibration detecting element, and a main control element adapted to stop the image display by means of the display element when it is concluded by the discriminating element that the computer body is moving.

14. A computer system comprising a computer body attachable to a user'"'"'s body, the computer body including a memory device having a movable part and stored with an operating system, a vibration detecting element for detecting vibration of the computer body, a discriminating element for determining whether or not the computer body is moving, in accordance with a vibration pattern detected by means of the vibration detecting element, and a main control element configured to stop the operation of the memory device when it is concluded by the discriminating element that the computer body is moving.