ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYS

• US 20150220299A1
• Filed: 02/05/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Jung Han, KIM, Soo Hyung, KIM, Seong Eun, KIM, Seon Il, KIM, Young Hoon, KIM, Ju Nyun, PARK, Jung Sik, CHA, Do Hun, CHOI, Seung Ki, LEE, Chang Wan, HONG, Myung Gon, HONG, Hyun Ju
• Granted Patent: US 9,804,635 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1605 Multimedia displays, e.g. with integrated or attached speakers, cameras, microphones
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• 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 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• 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 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1634 Integrated protective display lid, e.g. for touch-sensitive display in handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1438 using more than one graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/20 : Details of the management of multiple sources of image data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 : Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 : Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An electronic device and a method for controlling displaying of information in the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a first display formed on at least a portion of a body of the electronic device, and a second display formed on at least a portion of a cover functionally connected to the body and including a transparent display area.

Claims

1. An electronic device for controlling a plurality of displays, the electronic device comprising:

a first display formed on at least a portion of a body of the electronic device; and

a second display formed on at least a portion of a cover functionally connected to the body and including a transparent display area.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first display and the second display comprises a display area where at least one of a size, shape, brightness, color, saturation, sharpness, permeability, transparency, contrast, gamma, resolution, contrast ratio, viewing angle, color reproduction, color temperature, and color tone linearity of a displayed screen is changeable dynamically.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first display and the second display is configured to detect at least one of a touch input and a proximity input.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a third display formed at another portion of the cover.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein at least one of the first display, the second display, and the third display comprises at least one transparent display area or at least one mirror display area.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a third display formed on at least one of at least a portion of a back of the body, at least a portion of a bottom surface of the cover, at least a portion covering at least a portion of a side of the body in a top surface of the cover, and a portion covering at least a portion of a side of the body in the bottom surface of the cover.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the third display comprises at least one of a transparent display area and a mirror display area.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, further comprising a fourth display formed at another portion of at least one of the back of the body and a back of the cover.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising at least one of an audio output module and an energy harvester formed on at least one of another portion of a top surface of the cover, at least a portion of a bottom surface of the cover, and at least a portion of a back of the body.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the audio output module comprises a thin film speaker.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the energy harvester is configured to generate power based on at least one of light, temperature, vibration, pressure, and sun.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising an input module configured to recognize an input relating to at least a portion of the transparent display area.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the input module is configured to recognize at least one of a first input relating to a top surface of the cover and a second input relating to a bottom surface of the cover as the input.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the input module comprises at least one of a touch sensor and a pressure sensor.

15. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a display control module configured to control at least one of the first display and the second display,

wherein, when at least part of information displayed on the first display is displayed through the transparent display area, the display control module is configured to display another information different from the at least part of the information through the transparent display area in addition to or instead of the at least part of the information.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the display control module is further configured to determine the other information based on an opened/closed state of at least one of the cover front and the cover back with respect to the body, information to be displayed on the first display, at least one of a function and application to be executed through the first display, information to be displayed on the second display, at least one of a function and application to be executed through the second display, and a user input.

17. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the display control module is further configured to determine the other information based on power state information of the electronic device, communication state information between the electronic device and an external device, external environment information of the electronic device, and situation recognition information relating a user of the electronic device.

18. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the cover is detachably coupled to the body.

19. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the cover is connected to the body through at least one of holder, hinge, flip, and slide structures that are opened/closed with respect to the body.

20. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a solar cell integrally formed with the second display.