INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT HAVING COMMUNICATION FUNCTION

• US 20110199392A1
• Filed: 01/26/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIKAWA, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 8,466,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/649
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/06 Handling electromagnetic interferences [EMI], covering emitted as well as received electromagnetic radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

An information processing unit is configured so that in a case where a display-rotating button 4 or 11b is operated by a user so as to select a second display mode, and where either a communication unit 5 or 13 is in an activated state and the user does not halt the action of the communication unit 5 or 13, the display mode is shifted to a mode other than the second display mode. Thereby, it is possible to urge the user to change the posture of a main body 1.

Claims

1. An information processing unit comprising:

an operation unit that accepts an operation by a user;

a communication unit that has a capability of wireless information communications;

a display unit that has a capability of displaying an image; and

a control unit that controls actions of the communication unit and the display unit on the basis of operation contents accepted by the operation unit,

wherein the operation unit has a capability of an operation for changing an orientation of an image displayed on the display unit; and

the control unit is capable of changing the orientation of the image displayed on the display unit on the basis of the operation contents accepted by the operation unit, and when the orientation of the image is changed so that the lower side of the image is located close to the communication unit, the control unit allows the display unit to display a message.

2. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the operation unit comprises a display-rotation operating portion that has a capability of an operation for setting arbitrarily the orientation of the image displayed on the display unit.

3. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein

when the orientation of the image is changed so that the lower side of the image is located close to the communication unit, the control unit allows the display unit to display a message to let the user select whether to halt or not the action of the communication unit, and

when the operation unit accepts an instruction to halt the action of the communication unit, the control unit halts the action of the communication unit.