Extended user interface

• US 20100156887A1
• Filed: 12/18/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Budde, Alexander, Smolander, Katja, Lindroos, Sanna, Saunamaki, Jarkko, Koskinen, Sanna Maria, Jarventie-Ahonen, Heli
• Application Number:
  US12/317,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• 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 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/026 Video wall, i.e. juxtaposition of a plurality of screens to create a display screen of bigger dimensions

Abstract

An apparatus including a housing having an exterior including a first display face and a second display face arranged such that it is contiguous to the first display face; and a processor configured to define a graphical user interface distributed simultaneously over both the first display face and the second display face.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a housing having an exterior comprising a first display face and a second display face arranged such that it is contiguous to the first display face; and

a processor configured to define a graphical user interface distributed simultaneously over both the first display face and the second display face.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second display face is arranged such that it is contiguous to but not parallel with the first display face.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the first display face and the second display face are touch sensitive displays configurable to define touch sensitive control keys.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first display face is touch sensitive and configurable to define first touch sensitive control keys and the second display face is touch sensitive and configurable to define second touch sensitive control keys.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to

control the displayed configuration of the first control keys

control the displayed configuration of the second control keys

in response to a first detected event enable use of the first control keys while disabling use of the second control keys

in response to a second detected event disabling use of the first control keys while enabling use of the second control keys.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to control an output of the first display face and change a presented touch-sensitive keypad when a context of the apparatus changes.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor provides content present on the first display portion in a larger font on the second display portion.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor controls at least one of the first display portion and the second display portion to provide a personalized skin for,the apparatus.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the exterior of the housing comprises a folded net of interlinked display panels including a first display panel and a second display panel wherein the first display panel defines at least a portion of the first display face and the second display panel defines at least a portion of the second display face.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the display panels are touch sensitive.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the net has a cut out portion for a display component.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first display face is provided by a display component and the second display face is provided by a bi-stable display.

13. A method comprising:

distributing a graphical user interface simultaneously over both a first display face of an apparatus and a second display face of the apparatus, wherein the apparatus has an exterior comprising the first display face and the second display face arranged such that it is contiguous to the first display face; and

detecting an input from at least one of the first display face of the apparatus and the second display face of the apparatus.

14. A method as claimed in claim 13,

configuring the first display face to define first touch sensitive control keys;

and

configuring the second display face to define second touch sensitive control keys.

15. A method as claimed in claim 14, comprising:

enabling use of the first control keys while disabling use of the second control keys in response to a first detected event; and

disabling use of the first control keys while enabling use of the second control keys in response to a second detected event.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a housing having an exterior comprising a folded net of interlinked panels including a first display panel

and a second display panel

wherein the exterior has a first face and a second face and the first panel defines at least a portion of the first face and the second display panel defines at least a portion of the second face.

17. An apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the display panels are touch sensitive.

18. An apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the net is a flexible display with a cut-out for a display component.

19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the net is a flexible bi-stable display.

20. An apparatus comprising:

a housing comprising a first portion and a second portion wherein the first portion defines a first display area and the second portion defines a second display area that is touch-sensitive; and

a processor configured to control an output of the second display area to change a presented touch sensitive keypad when a context of the apparatus changes.