Coordinating images displayed on devices with two or more displays
First Claim
1. A phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said device having a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying said images and control elements for controlling said displays, wherein a user can operate said control elements to affect visual changes on one or more of the displays.
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Abstract
A hand held electronic device having at least two displays is disclosed. At least one display is a direct-view display, like those on most cell phones or PDAS in use in 2001, for viewing at normal reading distance of approximately 12 to 24 inches (“arms'"'"'-length” viewing). At least one of the other displays is a microdisplay, a tiny display with magnifying optical elements, for viewing larger, higher-resolution images when the microdisplay is positioned close to the eye. The invention allows coordinating microdisplays and direct-view displays in ways that allow people to comfortably access and interact with full-page Web content on pocket-size devices. When a user is viewing a Web page (or other content) on a device'"'"'s microdisplay held near-to-eye, the device allows the user to position a cursor or a rectangular outline (or some other indication of a “region of interest”) on a particular part of the Web page, and then when the user moves the device out to arms'"'"'-length viewing, the user should be able to view that region of interest on the direct-view display—that is, view a subset of the larger image that appeared on the microdisplay.
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- 1. A phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said device having a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying said images and control elements for controlling said displays, wherein a user can operate said control elements to affect visual changes on one or more of the displays.
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18. A phone handset or other hand-held device with two or more displays, said device having controls operable by a user to (1) cause one of the displays to display first content that includes one or more references to other content, and (2) cause that referred-to content to be displayed in one of the other displays.
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24. A phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said device having two or more displays for displaying said images and control elements for controlling said displays, wherein a user can operate said control elements to cause a first display to display an image and cause a second display to display a region of interest subset of said image.
- 53. A computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said phone handset or other device having (1) a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying said images and (2) control elements operable by a user for controlling said displays, said codes effecting visual changes on one or more of the displays in response to such operation.
- 66. A computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device having two or more displays, said phone handset or other device having first control elements operable by a user to (1) cause a first display to display first content that includes one or more references to other content, and (2) to cause that referred-to content to be displayed in a second display, and said codes effecting each said displays in response to operation of said controls.
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69. A computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said phone handset or other device having (1) two or more displays for displaying said images and (2) control elements for controlling said displays, wherein a user can operate said control elements to cause a first display to display an image and cause a second display to display a region of interest subset of said image, and said codes effect displaying of said subset in response to the operation of said control elements.
- 97. A storage medium having embedded therein a computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said phone handset or other device having (1) a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying said images and (2) control elements operable by a user for controlling said displays, said code effecting visual changes on one or more of the displays in response to such operation.
- 110. A storage medium having embedded therein a computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device having two or more displays, said phone handset or other device having first control elements operable by a user to (1) cause a first display to display first content that includes one or more references to other content, and (2) to cause that referred-to content to be displayed in a second display, and said codes effecting each said displays in response to operation of said controls.
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113. A storage medium having embedded therein a computer implemented process generating codes for interpreting the operation of control elements on a phone handset or other hand-held device which displays images, said phone handset or other device having (1) two or more displays for displaying said images and (2) control elements for controlling said displays, wherein a user can operate said control elements to cause a first display to display an image and cause a second display to display a region of interest subset of said image, and said codes effect displaying of said subset in response to the operation of said control elements.
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