Method and Apparatus for Display Device

• US 20130174062A1
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Stoustrup, Asger Andreas
• Application Number:
  US13/518,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20130174062A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/761
• 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 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display

Abstract

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising: a processor, a first input device and a second input device, the first input device being configured to display a first icon and the second input device being configured to display a second icon. The processor being configured to detect an input on the first icon and to cause a movement of the first icon towards a perimeter of the first input device in response to the input and the processor being further configured to move the first icon from the first input device to the second input device.

Claims

1-28. -28. (canceled)

29. An apparatus, comprising

a processor configured to display a first icon on a first input device;

the processor is further configured to detect an input on the first icon and to cause a movement of the first icon towards a perimeter of the first input device in response to the input; and

wherein in response to the detection of the input the processor is further configured to move the first icon from the first input device to a second input device.

30. The apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the second input device is configured to display the first icon and the second icon.

31. The apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the processor is further configured to replace the second icon with the first icon, and the second input device is configured to display only the first icon.

32. The apparatus according to claims 30, wherein the first icon is an actuable icon.

33. The apparatus according to claim 29, wherein at least the first input device is configured to be touch responsive and the input is configured to be a touch input.

34. The apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the second input device comprises at least one mechanical key.

35. An apparatus according to claim 29, further comprising a first housing comprising the processor and the first input device.

36. The apparatus according to claim 35, wherein the apparatus further comprises a second housing.

37. The apparatus according to claim 36, wherein the second housing comprises the second input device.

38. The apparatus according to claims 36, wherein the apparatus further comprises a mechanism coupled to the first and second housing, the mechanism configured to move at least one of the first and second housings relative to the other of the at least one of the first and second housings between a first configuration and a second configuration of the apparatus.

39. The apparatus according to claim 38, wherein the movement reveals at least the first and second input devices to enable a user to provide the touch input to any of the first and second input devices when the apparatus is in the second configuration.

40. The apparatus according to claim 38, wherein the first configuration is a closed configuration of the apparatus, and the second configuration is an open configuration of the apparatus.

41. The apparatus according to claim 35, wherein the first housing further comprises a first surface, and wherein the first surface comprises the first input device and the second input device.

42. The apparatus according to claim 35, wherein the first housing further comprises a first and second surface, and wherein the first surface comprises the first input device and the second surface comprises the second input device.

43. The apparatus according to claim 42, wherein the first surface is a front surface of the apparatus, and the second surface is a rear surface of the apparatus.

44. The apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the apparatus is a portable electronic device.

45. A method, comprising:

displaying a first icon to be displayed on a first input device;

detecting an input on the first icon and causing a movement of the first icon towards a perimeter of the first input device in response to the input, and

in response to the detection of the input moving the first icon from the first input device to a second input device.

46. The method according to claim 45, further comprising configuring the second input device to display the first icon and the second icon.

47. The method according to claim 45, further comprising replacing the second icon with the first icon and displaying on the second input device the first icon.

48. The method according to claim 45, wherein the first icon is an actuable icon.

49. The method according to claims 45, further comprising configuring at least the first input device to be touch responsive and configuring the input to be a touch input.

50. An apparatus, comprising:

a first input device configured to display a first icon;

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 to perform at least the following;

detection of an input on the first input device;

movement of the first icon towards a perimeter of the first input device in response to the input; and

movement of the first icon from the first input device to a second input device.

51. A computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform:

detection of an input on a first icon configured to be displayed on the first input device;

movement of the first icon towards a perimeter of the first input device in response to the input; and

movement of the first icon from the first input device to a second input device, the second input device configured to display the first icon.