COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20140313118A1
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories Incorporated, Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: BROWN, Alexander R., Abed, Tark, Rigazio, Luca, Feng, Haoyu
• Application Number:
  US13/866,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/1006 with means embracing the hand article to be carried
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0525 Personal portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1628 Carrying enclosures containing additional elements, e.g. case for a laptop and a printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

Abstract

An apparatus includes a housing, a band which is provided on side of the housing and has a longer length than a circumference of the housing, and a supporter configured to support the band on the side of the housing to enable the band to slide along the side of the housing. The apparatus may include a detector configured to detect a form of the band; a display configured to display a user interface for operating the communication apparatus and a controller configured to control a display position of the user interface based on the form of the band. The detector may detect pressure applied by the band on the housing, and the controller may estimate the form of the band on the basis of the pressure and to control the display position of the user interface on the basis of the estimation result.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a band which is provided on side of the housing and has a longer length than a circumference of the housing; and

a supporter configured to support the band of the side of the housing to enable the band to slide along the side of the housing.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the band comprises rubber material.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the housing has at least one chamfered corner.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detector configured to detect a form of the band;

a display configured to display a user interface for operating the communication apparatus; and

a controller configured to control a display position of the user interface based on the form of the band.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the detector comprises at least one pressure sensor disposed on the side of the housing, the pressure sensor being configured to detect pressure applied by the band on the housing, and

the controller is configured to estimate and provide an estimation result of the form of the band on the basis of the pressure and to control the display position of the user interface on the basis of the estimation result.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a position detector configured to detect a position of the communication apparatus,

wherein the controller is configured to control the display position of the user interface on the basis of the position of the communication apparatus and the form of the band.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the position detector includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration of the communication apparatus and a gyroscopic sensor configured to detect an angle of the communication apparatus.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the user interface comprises at least one of an icon, command, a software keyboard and an operating screen for controlling the communication apparatus.