PORTABLE APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100255889A1
• Filed: 06/18/2010
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tsutsui, Makiko, Watanabe, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US12/818,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20100255889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0241 using relative motion of the body parts to change the operational status of the telephone set, e.g. switching on/off, answering incoming call

Abstract

A portable apparatus includes a housing unit capable of swinging; a displaying unit installed in the housing unit, the displaying unit displaying a displaying screen of an application that is currently started up; a swing state detecting unit detecting a swing state of the displaying unit; a swing starting up setting unit being set therein with an application to be started up by one of or both of the swings to left and right and the display information thereof; and a control unit that, during starting up of a first application, starts up a second application set in the swing starting up setting unit based on detection information indicative of the swing state of the displaying unit detected by the swing state detecting unit, the control unit changing display on the displaying unit from display before the swing to display of the second application started up after the swing.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus that is capable of concurrently executing two or more applications, comprising:

a housing unit that is capable of swinging to left or right;

a displaying unit that is installed in the housing unit, the displaying unit displaying a displaying screen of an application that is currently started up;

a swing state detecting unit that detects a swing state of the displaying unit;

a swing starting up setting unit that is set therein with an application to be started up by one of or both of the swings to the left and the right, and the display information of the application; and

a control unit that, during starting up of a first application, starts up a second application set in the swing starting up setting unit based on detection information that is indicative of the swing state of the displaying unit detected by the swing state detecting unit, the control unit changing display on the displaying unit from display before the swing to display of the second application started up after the swing.

2. The portable apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the control unit is capable of starting up a plurality of applications, and displays two screens that are a display screen of the first application being currently started up on the displaying unit before a swing operation and a display screen based on the second application set in the swing starting up setting unit on the displaying unit after the swing operation.

3. The portable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising

an input operating unit to execute an input operation, wherein

the control unit accepts input from the input operating unit while two screens are displayed on the displaying unit, and reflects the input on the display screen of the second application that is started up by a swing operation of the displaying unit.

4. The portable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising

an input operating unit to execute an input operation, wherein

the control unit accepts input from the input operating unit while two screens are displayed on the displaying unit, and reflects the input on the display screen of the first application.

5. A display control method of a portable apparatus that is capable of concurrently executing two or more applications, comprising:

setting an application to be started up by one of or both of swings to left and right, and display information of the application;

swinging a displaying unit that displays a display screen of an application currently started up;

detecting a swing state; and

starting up, while a first application is started up, a second application set, based on detection information that is indicative of the swing state, and changing from a display screen before the swing to a display screen of the second application started up after the swing.

6. The display control method of a portable apparatus of claim 5, further comprising

executing two-screen display that is capable of starting up thereon a plurality of applications, and that is configured by a display screen of the first application currently started up on the displaying unit before a swing operation and a display screen based on the starting up of the second application on the displaying unit after the swing operation.

7. The display control method of a portable apparatus of claim 5, further comprising

accepting input from an input operating unit while two screens are displayed on the displaying unit, and reflecting the input on the display screen of the second application that is started up by a swing operation of the displaying unit.

8. The display control method of a portable apparatus of claim 5, wherein

input from an input operating unit is accepted while two screens are displayed on the displaying unit and the input is reflected on the display screen of the first application.