Phone handset with a near-to-eye microdisplay and a direct-view display
First Claim
1. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying images, wherein at least two of said displays are in the same line of sight.
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Abstract
This invention provides a hand-held electronic device that enables users to comfortably view large high-resolution content on the device while still being able to easily interact with that content and with the device'"'"'s other functions. The device includes two displays in the device. One is a microdisplay for viewing the large high-resolution images when the microdisplay is held near the eye, and a traditional “direct-view” display like those found on most cell phones today for viewing lower resolution text or images when the phone handset is held at normal or arms'"'"' length reading distance. The two displays should be positioned close to one another and in the same line of sight, so that transitioning between near-to-eye viewing of the microdisplay and arms'"'"'-length viewing of the direct-view display is a simple matter of moving the device nearer or further from the eye in a straight line.
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137 Claims
- 1. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a face, said face having two or more displays for displaying images, wherein at least two of said displays are in the same line of sight.
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6. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a direct-view display on one part of the device, said one part connected by a hinge to a second part of the device, said second part including a microdisplay and a keypad, wherein said microdisplay is positioned between said hinge and said keypad.
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7. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a face, said face having a microdisplay, a direct-view display and a keypad, wherein said microdisplay is positioned above said direct-view display on said face, and wherein said keypad is positioned below said direct-view display on said face.
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35. A hand-held phone handset, hand-held computer, or PDA, having one or more embedded or attached microdisplays and further including a distance sensor, said distance sensor causing said one or more microdisplays to be activated only when said distance sensor senses that an object is within a predetermined distance from said one or more microdisplays.
- 51. A hand-held device having thereon a direct-view display located adjacent to a microdisplay.
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57. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having at least one direct-view display, at least one microdisplay and having a multi-speed cursor control to control the cursors on said displays.
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67. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a cursor control, and having a multi-speed tab-backward/tab-forward toggle control or multi-speed tab-forward and tab-backward buttons.
- 74. A hand-held phone having at least one direct-view display on its face, and having a detachable microdisplay module.
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78. A hand-held phone or other hand-held device having at least one direct-view display, at least one microdisplay, and a touchpad.
- 81. A hand-held phone or other hand-held device having at least one direct-view display, at least one microdisplay, and having a GPS or assisted-GPS receiver.
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84. A hand-held phone or other hand-held device having at least one direct-view display and exactly one embedded or detachable microdisplay module, wherein said embedded or detachable microdisplay module is embedded or attached near the top of the phone, and wherein the microdisplay module is tilted back slightly relative to the rest of the face of the device, allowing the user to look directly into the microdisplay while tilting the top of the phone slightly toward the user'"'"'s forehead.
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120. A hand-held phone or other hand-held device having exactly one slidably mounted microdisplay module attached to said device, wherein said slidably mounted microdisplay module, when not in use, is positioned within the body of the device, substantially hiding the view window of said microdisplay module;
- and wherein said microdisplay module, when it is to be used, slides substantially straight out of the body of said device, remaining attached to said body of said device but extending out from said body of said device far enough for a user to look into said view window of said microdisplay module.
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126. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device including a roller control which, (a) when rolled in one direction changes the highlighting in the selectable items defined by a Web-page'"'"'s HTML from the currently highlighted item to the next selectable item, and (b) when rolled in the other direction changes the highlighting from the currently highlighted item to the previous selectable item.
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130. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device including two buttons and one or two embedded or attached microdisplays, wherein the microdisplays can display a Web-page whose HTML defines a list of selectable items, and wherein depressing the first of said buttons changes the highlighting in the said list of selectable items from the currently highlighted item to the next selectable item in said list, and depressing the second of said buttons changes the highlighting from the currently highlighted item to the previous selectable item.
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131. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a first part and a second part, said parts connected by a hinge, wherein a microdisplay is located on said first part, and a direct-view display and a keypad are located on said second part, wherein said direct-view display is positioned between said hinge and said keypad.
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132. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a face, said face having a microdisplay, a direct-view display, and a keypad, wherein said microdisplay is positioned below said direct-view display on said face, and wherein said keypad is positioned below said microdisplay on said face.
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133. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having at least one display for displaying selectable items on displayed Web pages, said device further including multi-speed tab-backward and tab-forward buttons each of said buttons actuable to two positions so that the user can actuate said buttons to (1) a first position to quickly tab backward or forward through selectable items on displayed Web pages or (2) a second position to slowly tab backward or forward through said selectable items on displayed Web pages.
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134. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having an associated display for displaying selectable items on displayed Web pages or documents, said device further including multi-speed tab-backward and tab-forward controls, each of said controls actuable to at least two pressure levels so that the user can actuate said buttons to tab backward or forward at varying speed through said selectable items, said speed being a function of the level of pressure applied by the user to said buttons.
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135. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device with an embedded or detachable microdisplay, wherein said microdisplay has at least 800 horizontal pixels and at least 600 vertical pixels and wherein each pixel can be any of at least 256 colors.
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136. A hand-held phone handset or other hand-held device having a first part and a second part, said parts connected by a hinge, said first part including a direct-view display and said second part including a microdisplay and a keypad.
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