Display outputting image

• US 20120320085A1
• Filed: 04/29/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Mei, Ping, Jackson, Warren
• Application Number:
  US13/068,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20120320085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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: Y10T 29/49126 Assembling bases

Abstract

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to display outputting a user interface.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a first display to output a first image; and

a second display to output a second image and to overlap the first display, wherein

the second display is transparent,

the second display includes a touch sensitive surface, and

at least one of the first and second image corresponds to a user interface.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein,

a transparency of the second image is variable, and

the first image and the second image are simultaneously viewable by a user.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein,

the first display is a high-resolution display and the second display is a low-resolution display, and

the second image corresponds to the user interface.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein keys of the user interface for the second display are predefined.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein,

the second display is at least one of removable and interchangeable with a third display,

the third display is transparent and includes a touch sensitive surface,

the third display to output a third image, where the third image is predefined and a transparency of the third image is variable.

6. The display device of claim 2, wherein,

the first and second displays are high-resolution displays, and

the first image corresponds to the user interface.

7. A display device, comprising:

a flexible display to output an image; and

a feedback board under the flexible display, the feedback board to output a tactile response at only a portion of a surface of the flexible display that is at least one of pressed and depressed by a user.

8. The display device of claim 7, wherein,

the image is a user interface including a plurality of keys,

the feedback board includes a plurality of actuators to provide at least one of an active and a passive tactile response, wherein

each of the keys corresponds to at least one of the plurality of actuators, and

only the corresponding actuator is to provide the tactile response when the portion of a surface of the flexible display displaying the key is at least one of pressed and depressed.

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein the corresponding actuator is to move in a direction at least one of parallel and perpendicular to a surface of the flexible display.

10. The display device of claim 9, wherein,

the flexible display is segmented into a plurality of segments,

each of the segments is to at least one of be pressed and depressed independently, and

the plurality of segments do not include substantially visible gaps therebetween.

11. The display device of claim 10, wherein,

each of the segments includes a flexible electrical connection to at least an other of the plurality of segments under a surface of the flexible display, and

each of the segments are to correspond to one of the keys.

12. The display device of claim 8, wherein the plurality of actuators include at least one of a spring-like, piezoelectric, magnetic, pneumatic component, and

the surface of the flexible display is to be pressed at a depth less than an image threshold related a visibility of the image.

13. The display device of claim 7, further comprising:

a transparent display over the flexible display to output a user interface, wherein

transparent display includes a touch sensitive surface.

14. A method for forming a display device, comprising:

forming a flexible display including a plurality of electrical connections underneath a surface of the flexible display, the flexible display to output a user interface;

segmenting only the surface of the flexible display into a plurality of segments; and

providing a feedback board under the flexible display, the feedback board to provide a tactile response to only the segments at least one of pressed and depressed by a user.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the tactile response is in a direction at least one of parallel and perpendicular to the surface of the flexible display.