MECHANISM FOR ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICES

• US 20080294991A1
• Filed: 05/28/2008
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Dean Comstock, Scott Richard Andress, Yoon Kean Wong
• Inventors: Comstock, Kenneth Dean, Andress, Scott Richard, WONG, Yoon Kean
• Granted Patent: US 7,671,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• 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 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The processor signals the display to individually present each of the pages. A sensor device is coupled to the processor. The sensor device is deflectable to signal the processor a deflection value that causes the processor to sequentially present at least portions of multiple pages on the display.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a display;

a wireless communication port configured to communicate with an external source to receive or access data corresponding to a portion of a data collection, the data collection including video clips that pre-arranged in a designated order, and wherein each video clip in the data collection is independently presentable;

a memory configured to store at least a portion of the data collection;

processing resources coupled to the display, the wireless communication port and the memory, the processing resources storing the portion of the data collection using data received or accessed by the wireless communication port, the processing resources being configured to present one or more video clips from the data collection on the display by retrieving the one or more video clips from the memory and driving the display to present each of the one or more video clips; and

an analog sensor device coupled to the processing resource, the sensor device detecting an input,

wherein the processing resource is configured, in response to the input detected from the analog sensor, to make a selection of some or all of the video clips from the data collection and to present the video clips of the selection in the designated order, wherein the processor is configured to present at least portions of multiple video clips individually from the data collection on the display in place of the presented one or more video clips.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the processing resource includes a first processor and a second processor, wherein at least one of the first processor and second processor is configured to control the wireless communication port.

3. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the second processor is configured to control the wireless communication port, and the first processor is configured to store data received from the wireless communication component in the memory.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the second processor performs one or more of converting or formatting data corresponding to the data collection as received over the wireless communication port.

5. The computing device of claim 2, wherein either of the first processor or the second processor (i) control the wireless communication port, or (ii) store the data in response to the input.