NAVIGATION FOR A NON-TRADITIONALLY SHAPED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY FOR MOBILE HANDSET DEVICES

• US 20090085851A1
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Oliver, Mark, Finney, Mark, Sawadski, Michael, Voss, Karl, Lim, David, Pierce, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,094,105 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/90
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying data are disclosed. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display 402 with a non-rectangular active area active matrix 334 may display an adjustable presentation of data. A display-integrated control key may control the presentation of data. A scrolling navigation control may scroll through the adjustable presentation of the data.

Claims

1. A method of displaying data in a mobile device comprising:

displaying an adjustable presentation of data on a non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display with a non-rectangular active area active matrix; and

controlling display of the presentation of data with a display-integrated control key.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-rectangular active area active matrix is a circular active area active matrix.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying data on the non-rectangular liquid crystal display with a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data with a scrolling navigation control.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

8. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus for displaying data comprising:

a non-rectangular active area active matrix that displays an adjustable presentation of data; and

a display-integrated control key that controls the presentation of data.

9. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

10. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

11. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the non-rectangular active area active matrix is a circular active area active matrix.

12. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.

13. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a scrolling navigation control for scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data.

14. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 13, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

15. An electronic device for displaying data comprising:

a non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display with a non-rectangular active area active matrix that displays an adjustable presentation of data; and

a scrolling navigation control for scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a display-integrated control key that controls the presentation of data.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

19. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

20. The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.