E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status

• US 20100073334A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Rinaldo, John D. JR., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A.
• Application Number:
  US12/286,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20100073334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0221 with use of split matrices G09G3/3644 and G09G3/3666 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/035 for flexible display surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/344 based on particles moving in a fluid or in a gas, e.g. electrophoretic devices electrophoretic devices per se G02F1/167

Abstract

A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly and coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. For one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers, a method comprising:

obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

detecting one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining strain information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining stress information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining calibration related information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining pattern information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining surface contact information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining sequence information associated with one or more changes in two or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining geometrical information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining information related to predetermined indicia associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining optical fiber derived information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining information based on one or more changes in one or more sequences of one or more associations between two or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly associated with the two or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

receiving signals from embedded sensors.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining selection information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining origami-like folding information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein obtaining origami-like folding information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining one or more orders of folding sequences of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein obtaining origami-like folding information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more origami-like shapes resultant from one or more folding sequences of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining angle of bend information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining bend number information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining force information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining substantially transient information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining substantially persistent information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining gestured information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining connection sequence information of one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more connections between two or more of the portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining draping information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining wrapping information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining information derived through sensing one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more curvilinear patterns of force imparted upon one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining rolling information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining hinge status information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

filtering information based upon radius of bend associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

31. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining folded to unfolded ratio information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

obtaining bend location information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

selecting content to be displayed based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

displaying the content to be displayed on one or more portions of one or more display layers.

34. The method of claim 1, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

selecting one or more portions of one or more display layers to display one or more content based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly.

35. The method of claim 1, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more applications based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

for each of the one or more activated applications, displaying one or more output from the activated application on one or more display layers.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the activating one or more portions of one or more applications based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more cell phone applications.

38. The method of claim 35, wherein the activating one or more portions of one or more applications based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more personal digital assistant (PDA) applications.

39. The method of claim 35, wherein the activating one or more portions of one or more applications based upon the obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more personal computer applications.

40. The method of claim 35, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more eBook applications.

43. The method of claim 35, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more audio applications.

44. The method of claim 35, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more video applications.

45. The method of claim 35, wherein the coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands comprises:

activating one or more portions of one or more audio-video applications.

37. (canceled)

41. (canceled)

42. (canceled)

46-49. -49. (canceled)

50. For one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers, a system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

circuitry for coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands.

51-98. -98. (canceled)

99. For one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers, a system comprising:

means for obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

means for coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands.

100. For one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers, a system comprising:

a signal-bearing medium bearing;

one or more instructions for obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly; and

one or more instructions for coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly with one or more commands.