Apparatus Comprising a Display and a Method and Computer Program

• US 20130033434A1
• Filed: 08/05/2011
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: RICHARDSON, Nigel, DAVIDSON, Brian, CATTERMOLE, John
• Granted Patent: US 9,110,580 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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: G09G 2300/02 Composition of display devices
• 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 1/0269 mounted in a fixed curved configuration, e.g. display curved around the edges of the telephone housing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An apparatus including: a display comprising including a central portion and a curved side portion; a memory storing pages of content; and a display controller configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising

a display comprising a central portion and a curved side portion;

a memory storing pages of content; and

a display controller configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the display is a flexible display and wherein the curved side portion of the display is formed by flexing the flexible display.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curved side portion of the display defines an elongate strip.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curved side portion of the display forms at least part of a side edge of the apparatus.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pages of content stored in the memory are ordered such that a second page of content follows a first page of content and wherein the additional information comprises a portion of the second page of content.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curved side portion of the display provides a preview screen that previews content configured to follow content displayed in the central portion of the display.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to roll content across the curved side portion of the display onto the central portion of the display.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to roll content page by page, across the curved side portion of the display onto the central portion of the display.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display is a touch sensitive display.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the additional information comprises control information displayed for touch actuation.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display controller is configured to control incorrect input via the curved side portion.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display controller is configured to disable touch input via the curved side portion of the display while maintaining touch input at the central portion of the display.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display controller is configured to reduce a sensitivity to touch input of the curved side portion of the display.

16. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11 wherein the display controller is configured to disambiguate holding from touch input at the curved side portion.

17. An apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the display controller is configured to ignore touch input at the curved side portion in dependence upon one or more of:

a duration of touch input;

an orientation of the apparatus;

an area of touch input; and

a number of different locations of touch input.

5. (canceled)

7. (canceled)

18. A method comprising

controlling a central portion of a display to display at least a portion of a first page of content;

and

controlling a curved side portion of the display to display, simultaneously, additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

19. A method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the additional information provides a preview function.

20. A method as claimed in claim 18 or 19 comprising detecting touch input at the central portion of the display and controlling the detection of touch input via the curved side portion of the display.

21. (canceled)

22. (canceled)

23. (canceled)

24. (canceled)

25. (canceled)

26. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform;

controlling a central portion of a display to display at least a portion of a first page of content; and

controlling a curved side portion of the display to display, simultaneously, additional information not forming part of the first page of content.

27. A display controller configured to control simultaneously a central portion of a display to display first content and a curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first content.