PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20130155590A1
• Filed: 08/26/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tani, Minako
• Granted Patent: US 9,192,066 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/00 : Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus casings, cabinets, drawers H05K5/00

Abstract

[Problem to be Solved] To provide a portable terminal device which can improve the interest, functionality and additional value by display even when the two display modules are in the state of being overlapped.

[Solution] A portable terminal device 100 includes a first unit 10 which has a first display module 13, and is configured such that a user is allowed to see a side of the first unit 10 opposite to a user'"'"'s side through the first display module 13, a second unit 20 which has a second display module 25, and a switching module 12 and 27a which is operable to switch the portable terminal device 100 between a first configuration that the first unit 10 covers the second display module 25, and a second configuration that the first unit 10 is moved from the first configuration with respect to the second display module 25 so that at least a part of the second display module 25 is exposed to an outside.

Claims

1. A portable terminal device, comprising:

a first unit which has a first display module, and is configured such that a user is allowed to see a side of the first unit opposite to a user'"'"'s side through the first display module;

a second unit which has a second display module; and

a switching module which is operable to switch the portable terminal device between a first configuration that the first unit covers the second display module, and a second configuration that the first unit is moved from the first configuration with respect to the second display module so that at least a part of the second display module is exposed to an outside.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control module which controls the first display module; and

a transmitting module which transmits object information by near field communication, wherein

the display control module is operative to display an image corresponding to the object information on the first display module, and to set a display area on the first display module other than the image in a see-through state, and

the transmitting module is operative to transmit the object information based on a transmitting operation with respect to the image.

3. The portable terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a position detecting module which detects a position on the first display module designated by the user, wherein

the transmitting module is operative to transmit the object information corresponding to the image at the position detected by the position detecting module.

4. The portable terminal device according to claim 2, wherein

the transmitting module is disposed on a back surface of the second unit.

5. The portable terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a receiving module which receives information by near field communication, wherein

the receiving module is disposed on a front surface of the second unit.

6. The portable terminal device according to claim 5, wherein the display control module is operative to display an image associated with the information received by the receiving module on one of the first display module and the second display module.

7. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an extracting module which extracts, from an original image, an object image designated by the user; and

a display control module which controls the first display module and the second display module, wherein

the display control module is operative to display the object image extracted by the extracting module on the first display module, and to set a display area on the first display module other than the object image in a see-through state.

8. The portable terminal device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a position detecting module which detects a position designated on the first display module, wherein

the display control module is operative to display the object image at the position detected by the position detecting module.

9. The portable terminal device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a range detecting module which detects a range designated on the original image, wherein

the extracting module is operative to extract an image in the range detected by the range detecting module, as the object image.

10. The portable terminal device according to claim 7, wherein

the display control module is operative to:

in the second configuration, display selection candidates of the object image on the second display module;

display the object image on the first display module in response to receiving a designation of selecting the predetermined object image from among the displayed selection candidates, and moving the selected object image to the first display module; and

set a display area on the first display module other than the object image in the see-through state.

11. The portable terminal device according to claim 7, wherein

the display control module is operative to:

in the first configuration, display selection candidates of the object image on the second display module and set the first display module in the see-through state;

display the object image on the first display module in response to receiving a designation of selecting the predetermined object image from among the displayed selection candidates, followed by switching the portable terminal device from the first configuration to the second configuration; and

set a display area on the first display module other than the object image in the see-through state.

12. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control module which controls the first display module and the second display module;

an information receiving module which receives communication information; and

a communication information processing module which creates a message to notify the user that the communication information is received by the information receiving module, wherein

the display control module is operative to display the message created by the communication information processing module on the first display module, and to set a display area on the first display module other than the message in a see-through state.

13. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control module which controls the first display module and the second display module; and

a message creating module which creates a message, wherein

the display control module is operative to display the message created by the message creating module on the first display module when the portable terminal device is in the first configuration, and to set a display area on the first display module other than the message in a see-through state.

14. The portable terminal device according to claim 13, wherein

the display control module is operative to display information accompanying the message on at least one of the first display module and the second display module, in the case where the portable terminal device is switched from the first configuration to the second configuration.

15. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control module which controls the first display module and the second display module, wherein

the switching module is operative to move the first unit in such a direction as to increase or decrease an amount of overlapping the first unit with respect to the second display module, and

a display area on the part of the second display module is exposed to the outside in a state that the amount of overlapping is largest.