INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING A VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

• US 20110285631A1
• Filed: 05/19/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Aiba, Hiroshi, Imamura, Akira
• Application Number:
  US13/111,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• 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 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• 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 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first touch screen, a second touch screen display, and a display module. The display module is configured to display a first virtual keyboard includes first virtual keys in order to input key codes on the first touch screen display, and to display a second virtual keyboard includes second virtual keys in order to input key codes on the second touch screen display.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first touch screen display;

a second touch screen display; and

a display module configured to display a first virtual keyboard comprising one or more first virtual keys and to display a second virtual keyboard comprising one or more second virtual keys,

wherein the one or more first virtual keys are configured to input key codes on the first touch screen display, and

wherein the one or more second virtual keys are configured to input key codes on the second touch screen display.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a first housing having the first touch screen display;

a second housing having the second touch screen display; and

a hinge rotatably connecting an end portion of the first housing to an end portion of the second housing,

wherein the first touch screen display comprises a first shorter side and a first longer side extending along the end portion of the first housing, and

wherein the second touch screen display comprises a second shorter side and a second longer side extending along the end portion of the second housing.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a detector configured to detect a tilt of the first housing,

wherein the display module is further configured to display the first virtual keyboard on the first touch screen display while displaying the second virtual keyboard on the second touch screen display when the detector detects that the first shorter side of the first touch screen display is downwardly tilted.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the display controller is further configured to display a third virtual keyboard including one or more third virtual keys when the detector detects that the first side of the first touch screen display is not downwardly or upwardly tilted,

wherein the one or more third virtual keys are configured to input key codes.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the one or more third virtual keys comprise the one or more first virtual keys and the one or more second virtual keys.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the display module is further configured to display the second virtual keyboard on the first touch screen display while displaying the first virtual keyboard on the second touch screen display when the detection module detects that the first shorter side of the first touch screen display is upwardly tilted.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display module is further configured to change the size of the first virtual keyboard and the second virtual keyboard.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display module is further configured to change a display position of the first virtual keyboard and the second virtual keyboard.

9. A method of controlling a display of an information processing apparatus, the apparatus comprising a first touch screen display and a second touch screen display, the method comprising:

displaying a first virtual keyboard comprising one or more first virtual keys, the one or more first virtual keys configured to input key codes on the first touch screen display; and

displaying a second virtual keyboard comprising one or more second virtual keys, the second virtual keys configured to input key codes on the second touch screen display.

10. A non-transitory, computer-readable, medium comprising computer executable instructions, which when executed, cause a computer to perform a method of controlling a display of an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a first virtual keyboard comprising one or more first virtual keys, the one or more first virtual keys configured to input key codes on a first touch screen display; and

displaying a second virtual keyboard comprising one or more second virtual keys, the one or more second virtual keys configured to input key codes on a second touch screen display,

wherein the computer comprises the first touch screen display and the second touch screen display.