DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20100103115A1
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: HAINZL, Richard
• Application Number:
  US12/257,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20100103115A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0414 using force sensing means to determine a position

Abstract

A display arrangement for portable electronic devices is disclosed. The arrangement comprises a display element comprising one or more layers arranged to provide electro-optical modulation of light or provision of patterned light for providing graphical content to a viewer, and a rigid protective layer; and a force sensitive layer arranged on, from a viewer, a distal side of the display element. An electronic apparatus comprising such an arrangement is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A display arrangement for portable electronic devices, comprising

a display element comprising one or more layers arranged to provide electro-optical modulation of light or provision of patterned light for providing graphical content to a viewer, and a rigid protective layer;

and

a force sensitive layer arranged on, from a viewer, a distal side of the display element.

2. The display arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the rigid protective layer is a glass layer, or a layer of transparent and rigid polymer, preferably polycarbonate or polymethyl methacrylate.

3. The display arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the force sensitive layer is arranged only over a part of an area of the distal side of the display element.

4. The display arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the force sensitive layer comprises at least one polyvinylidene fluoride film.

5. A portable electronic device comprising

a display element comprising one or more layers arranged to provide electro-optical modulation of light or provision of patterned light for providing graphical content to a viewer, and a rigid protective layer;

and a force sensitive layer arranged on, from a viewer, a distal side of the display element.

6. The portable electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the rigid protective layer is a glass layer.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the force sensitive layer is arranged only over a part of an area of the side of the display element.

8. The portable electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the force sensitive layer comprises at least one polyvinylidene fluoride film.

9. The portable electronic device according to claim 5, being any of a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a digital camera, or a gaming console.