DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20130154990A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hamada, Minoru
• Application Number:
  US13/819,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154990A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133391 Constructional arrangement for sub-divided displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0842 forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/32 with means for controlling the display position see provisionally G09G5/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A display method for displaying performed by a display device having, in a display screen, a first display area (1) which requires power for displaying information, and a second display area (2), having a smaller dimension than the first display area, which requires power for displaying information, and including a housing (3) framing the display screen, the housing having a surface on a same side of the display screen, on which surface any operating section for touch operation is not provided, the method including displaying constantly information in the second display area (2) regardless of whether the first display area (1) is in the on-state or the off-state.

Claims

1. A display method for displaying performed by a display device (i) having, in a single display screen, a first display area which requires power for displaying information, and a second display area, having a smaller dimension than the first display area, which requires power for displaying information, and (ii) including a housing surrounding the display screen, the housing having a surface on a same side of the display screen, on which surface any operating section for touch operation is not provided,

the method comprising displaying constantly information in the second display area regardless of whether the first display area is in the on-state or the off-state.

2. The display method as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the display device is a portable display device, and

an exterior appearance of the housing and the display screen has a symmetry shape whose upside and downside, and left side and right side are not distinguishable from the exterior appearance when viewed in plane from above in a direction vertical to the display screen.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein information displayed constantly in the second display area is (i) a display content selected by a user from a plurality of display contents stored in a storing section of the display device, or (ii) information corresponding to the display content selected by a user.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display device includes a touch panel at least in the first display area, and

the step of displaying is such that:

when display of the first display area is off and a sensing of the touch panel is on, information of a first display content is displayed constantly on the second display area; and

when the display of the first display area is off and the sensing of the touch panel is also off, information of a second display content which is different from the first display content is displayed constantly on the second display area.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the information displayed constantly in the second display area changes over circularly in accordance with an instruction from a user to the display device.