SMARTPHONE

• US 20140313414A1
• Filed: 04/22/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jane-Yuan Li
• Original Assignee: Jane-Yuan Li
• Inventors: WU, Pao-Tse
• Application Number:
  US13/867,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313414A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/552
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4184 providing storage capabilities, e.g. memory stick
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4356 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. to reformat additional data on a handheld device, attached to the STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43635 HDMI
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4621 Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data, e.g. lowering the resolution or bit-rate of the video stream for a mobile client with a small screen arrangements for using the results of monitoring on user's side in broadcast systems H04H60/65; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A smartphone characterized in that: an application processor enables a first user interface to be sent and displayed on a touch screen of the smartphone if a smartphone is not electrically connected to an external display or a flat-screen TV set and a displaying criterion of the touch screen is met, wherein the first user interface comprises at least a mobile phone application; and the application processor sends a second user interface to the external display or the flat-screen TV set if the smartphone is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set and a displaying criterion of the external display or the flat-screen TV set is met, wherein the second user interface comprises at least an application for use in operating the external display or the flat-screen TV set. The application processor sends commands and/or data to the external display or the flat-screen TV set.

Claims

1. A smartphone comprising an application processor, a touch screen, a communication connector, and a video port connector and is characterized in that:

the application processor enables a first user interface to be sent and displayed on the touch screen if the smartphone is not electrically connected to an external display or a flat-screen TV set, wherein the first user interface is designed to meet the touch screen, wherein the first user interface comprises at least a mobile phone application (App), and the application processor sends a second user interface to the external display or the flat-screen TV set if the smartphone is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set, wherein the second user interface is designed to meet displaying criteria of screen displaying area and screen resolution of the external display or the flat-screen TV set, wherein the second user interface comprises at least an application (App) for use in operating the external display or the flat-screen TV set;

the communication connector is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set, wherein the application processor sends commands and/or data to the external display or the flat-screen TV set via the communication connector; and

the video port connector is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set and adapted to send video signals corresponding to the second user interface.

2. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the communication connector is a two-way high-speed communication connector.

3. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the video port connector is one of a HDMI connector, a DVI connector, and a display port connector.

4. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the external display or the flat-screen TV set to sends commands and/or data to the application processor of the smartphone via the communication connector.

5. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein a screen of the flat-screen TV set is one of a liquid crystal screen. a plasma screen, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, and an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screen, wherein a screen of the external display is one of a liquid crystal screen, a plasma screen, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, and an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screen.

6. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the second user interface comprises a plurality of applications (App) associated with a smart TV.

7. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the second user interface comprises at least a user interface having a small display region, wherein the small display region is reserved for use by the flat-screen TV set in displaying a currently-watched TV program at a screen location corresponding to the small display region.

8. The smartphone of claim 1, wherein the first user interface is a graphic user interface, and the second user interface is a graphic user interface.

9. A smartphone comprising an application processor, a touch screen and is characterized in that:

a user human-machine interface (UI) switching unit generates a user human-machine interface (UI) switching signal;

the application processor receives the UI switching signal during a boot-up process and chooses between a first user interface and a second user interface according to the UI switching signal;

after choosing the first user interface, the application processor enables the first user interface to be sent and displayed on the touch screen, wherein the first user interface is designed to meet displaying criteria of screen displaying area and screen resolution of the touch screen, wherein the first user interface comprises at least a mobile phone application (App); and

after choosing the second user interface, the application processor sends the second user interface to the external display or the flat-screen TV set, wherein the second user interface is designed to meet displaying criteria of screen displaying area and screen resolution of the external display or the flat-screen TV set.

10. The smartphone of claim 9, wherein the second user interface comprises at least an application (App) for use in operating the external display or the flat-screen TV set.

11. The smartphone of claim 9, further comprising a communication connector, wherein the communication connector is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set, wherein the application processor sends commands and/or data to the external display or the flat-screen TV set via the communication connector.

12. The smartphone of claim 11, wherein the communication connector is a two-way high-speed communication connector.

13. The smartphone of claim 11, wherein the external display or the flat-screen TV set sends commands and/or data to the application processor of the smartphone via the communication connector.

14. The smartphone of claim 9, wherein a screen of the flat-screen TV set is one of a liquid crystal screen, a plasma screen, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, and an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screen, wherein a screen of the external display is one of a liquid crystal screen, a plasma screen, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen, and an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screen.

15. The smartphone of claim 9, wherein the second user interface comprises a plurality of applications (App) associated with a smart TV.

16. The smartphone of claim 9, wherein the second user interface comprises at least a user interface having a small display region, wherein the small display region is reserved for use by the flat-screen TV set in displaying a currently-watched TV program at a screen location corresponding to the small display region.

17. The smartphone of claim 9, wherein the first user interface is a graphic user interface, and the second user interface is a graphic user interface.

18. The smartphone of claim 9, further comprising a video port connector, wherein the video port connector is electrically connected to the external display or the flat-screen TV set and adapted to send video signals corresponding to the second user interface.

19. The smartphone of claim 18, wherein the video port connector is one of a HDMI connector, a DVI connector, and a display port connector.