COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110050565A1
• Filed: 07/06/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KO, Wan-seok
• Application Number:
  US12/830,597
• Publication Number:
  US 20110050565A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

A computer system and a method for controlling the same, even while the case of the electronic device is closed by making the device capable of using various functions by a simple and convenient input method. The computer system comprises at least one device unit; a housing in which the device unit(s) is provided; a motion sensing unit configured to sense a user motion taken at an outer side of the housing; and a controller configured to control the device unit(s) to perform an operation corresponding to the user motion sensed by the motion sensing unit.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

at least one device unit;

a housing in which the at least one device unit is arranged;

a motion sensing unit configured to sense a user motion along an outer side of the housing; and

a controller configured to control the at least one device unit to perform an operation associated with the user motion sensed by the motion sensing unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises a cover that has an open position and a closed position with respect to the at least one device unit, and

wherein the controller determines an operation corresponding to a particular sensed user motion when the cover is closed.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one device unit comprises at least one of a user input unit and a display unit.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the motion sensing unit senses a user motion made along an outer side of the cover.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the motion sensing unit senses a user motion made along an outer side of the cover.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the motion sensing unit comprises a conductive sensor arranged in an inner side of the housing, the sensor being separated therefrom, and

wherein the controller recognizes the user motion according to a variation of a capacitance value between the housing and the sensor.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the sensor is arranged in a plurality thereof on a planar surface in parallel with the housing.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the controller recognizes a particular user motion according to whether or not the variation of the capacitance value is continuous.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the controller recognizes a particular user motion according to whether or not the variation of the capacitance value is continuous.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one device unit comprises a display unit having a panel shape, the display unit being arranged at the inner side of the housing, and

wherein the motion sensing unit is arranged between the housing and the display unit.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the housing comprises a cover that has an open position and a closed position with respect to the at least one device unit, and

wherein the motion sensing unit is arranged between the housing and the display unit when the cover is in a closed position.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller selects one of a plurality of predetermined shapes that corresponds to a shape of the user motion and controls the at least one device unit to perform an operation corresponding to the selected shape.

13. A method of controlling a computer system, the method comprising:

determining an operation of at least one device unit corresponding to a user motion made along an outer side of a housing, the at least one device unit being provided in the housing; and

controlling the at least one device unit to perform the operation corresponding to the user motion.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the housing unit comprises a cover that has an open position and a closed position with respect to the at least one device unit, and

wherein the determining of an operation comprises determining an operation of the at least one device unit corresponding to a particular sensed user motion when the cover is in a closed position.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one device unit comprises at least one of a user input unit and a display unit.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining of an operation comprises recognizing the user motion according to a variation of a capacitance value between the housing and a conductive sensor provided at an inner side of the housing, the sensor being separated therefrom.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining of an operation further comprises recognizing the user motion according to whether or not the variation of the capacitance value is continuous.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the determining of an operation comprises selecting one of a plurality of predetermined shapes that corresponds to a shape of the user motion, and

wherein the controlling of the at least one device unit comprises controlling the at least one device unit to perform an operation corresponding to the selected shape.