PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20100156939A1
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: LEE, John Jong-Suk
• Application Number:
  US12/341,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20100156939A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/650
• 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 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• 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: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1438 using more than one graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/14 Electronic books and readers

Abstract

A method of controlling a portable electronic device having a display includes determining a first orientation of the portable electronic device, rendering a second screen on the display for a second orientation of the portable electronic device, and reconfiguring the display by rendering a first screen based on the first orientation of the portable electronic device if the portable electronic device is maintained in the first orientation.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a portable electronic device comprising a display, the method comprising:

determining a first orientation of the portable electronic device;

rendering a second screen on the display for a second orientation of the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is in the first orientation; and

reconfiguring the display by rendering a first screen based on the first orientation of the portable electronic device if the portable electronic device is maintained in the first orientation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said display comprises a touch screen display and wherein rendering a second screen comprises rendering a second graphical user interface and wherein rendering a first screen comprises rendering a first graphical user interface.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said reconfiguring the display is carried out in response to determining that the portable electronic device is maintained in the first orientation for a threshold period of time.

4. The method according to claim 3, comprising maintaining said second graphical user interface if the portable electronic device is moved to the second orientation within the threshold period of time.

5. The method according to claim 4, comprising rendering the one of the first graphical user interface and the second graphical user interface in response to determining a change in the orientation to the respective one of the first orientation and the second orientation after said threshold period of time.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein rendering a second graphical user interface comprises rendering a second virtual keyboard and wherein rendering a first graphical user interface comprises rendering a first virtual keyboard.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said first virtual keyboard comprises one of a portrait orientation keyboard and a landscape orientation keyboard and said second virtual keyboard comprises an other of the portrait orientation keyboard and the landscape orientation keyboard.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the landscape orientation keyboard comprises a full keyboard having a respective virtual button for each alphabetical letter.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the portrait orientation keyboard comprises a reduced virtual keyboard.

10. A portable electronic device comprising:

a housing;

a display connected to the housing and; and

functional components in the housing comprising an accelerometer, a memory device, and a processor operably connected to the display, the accelerometer, and the memory device for executing a program stored in the memory to cause the portable electronic device to determine a first orientation of the portable electronic device, render a second screen on the display for a second orientation of the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is in the first orientation, and reconfigure the display by rendering a first screen based on the first orientation of the portable electronic device if the portable electronic device is maintained in the first orientation.

11. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for execution by a processor in a portable electronic device comprising a display, for determining a first orientation of the portable electronic device, rendering a second screen on the display for a second orientation of the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is in the first orientation, and reconfiguring the display by rendering a first screen based on the first orientation of the portable electronic device if the portable electronic device is maintained in the first orientation.