ADJUSTING A DISPLAY BASED ON A BRACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE

• US 20150062206A1
• Filed: 08/30/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Osborne, Christopher Miles
• Application Number:
  US14/015,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/698
• 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 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal

Abstract

For integrating multiple different touch based inputs, a method is disclosed that includes detecting a pressure at a screen pressure module, enabling a first touch module based on the pressure exceeding a pressure threshold value, and integrating input from a second touch module and the first touch module, the input from the first touch module and the second touch module being concurrently received.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a screen operatively coupled to the processor;

a grip module configured to detect a brace status;

an analysis module configured to determine if the brace status matches a brace pattern; and

a display module configured to alter a portion of the screen used for display based on the determined brace pattern.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a motion module, the motion module configured to detect a motion of the apparatus, the grip module further configured to detect a brace status based on the detected motion.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an orientation module, the orientation module configured to detect an orientation of the apparatus, the grip module further configured to detect a brace status based on the detected orientation.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the brace status comprises a grip of the apparatus.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the brace status matches a plurality of brace patterns.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the brace status does not match a brace pattern, the display module further configured to increase the portion of the screen used for display, based on the brace status.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the display module alters the aspect ratio of the display, based on the portion of the screen used for display.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the brace status comprises a detected brace of the apparatus, the display module further configured to decrease a portion of the screen used for display, based on the brace status.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display module adjusts the display to fit inside the determined brace pattern.

10. A method comprising:

detecting a brace of a computing device, the brace comprising touching a portion of the screen for the computing device;

determining if the brace matches one of a set of brace patterns; and

altering a displayable portion of a screen based on the matched brace pattern.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising increasing a portion of a screen being used for display in response to determining that the screen is no longer being touched.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the altering a displayable portion of the screen comprises decreasing the size of the display in response to a determined brace pattern, the display not using a portion of the screen that is being touched.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the decreasing the size of the display comprises disabling a top portion of the screen and disabling a bottom portion of the screen.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the altering further comprises altering a displayable portion of a screen based on a configuration parameter.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein detecting the brace comprises detecting one of a motion, or an orientation for the computing device, the determining comprising determining if the brace matches a brace pattern, based on one of the detected motion and the detected orientation.

16. A program product comprising a computer readable storage medium storing machine readable code executable by a processor to perform:

detecting a brace of a computing device, the brace comprising touching a portion of the screen for the computing device;

determining if the brace matches one of a set of brace patterns; and

altering a portion of a screen being used for display based on the matched brace pattern.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the executable code, when executed by the processor, further increases a portion of a screen being used for display in response to determining that the screen is no longer being touched.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the altering a portion of the screen comprises decreasing the size of the display to no longer use a portion of the screen that is being touched.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the altering a portion of the screen comprises disabling a top portion of the screen, disabling a bottom portion of the screen, and adjusting an aspect ratio for the display based on a usable portion of the screen.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the determining if the brace matches one of a set of brace patterns comprises detecting one of a motion or an orientation of the computing device.