Electronic Apparatus And Display Method

• US 20160091969A1
• Filed: 12/27/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Junfeng
• Granted Patent: US 10,379,608 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/06 Passive matrix structure, i.e. with direct application of both column and row voltages to the light emitting or modulating elements, other than LCD or OLED
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0278 Details of driving circuits arranged to drive both scan and data electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3622 using a passive matrix G09G3/3674 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a fixing body, and a first display unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body, wherein the first display unit has a first visible area and when the eyes of the viewer are a first distance away from the first visible area, a first image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, and when the eyes of the viewer are a second distance away from the first visible area, a second image area of the image is perceived by the viewer. The second image area includes the first image area and the first distance is larger than the second distance. A first content in the first image is displayed in the first image area, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a main body comprising a processing unit configured to generate a first image and to execute display control;

a fixing body connected with the main body and configured to fix the electronic apparatus with a position relationship relative to a viewer of the electronic apparatus; and

a first display unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body, and configured to output the first image, wherein the first display unit comprises a first display component configured to display the first image and a first light path converting component configured to perform light path conversion on the light corresponding to the first image as emitted from the first display component to thereby form an amplified virtual image corresponding to the first image,

wherein the first display unit comprises a first visible area, when eyes of the viewer are a first distance away from the first visible area, a first image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, and when eyes of the viewer are a second distance away from the first visible area, a second image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, the second image area comprises the first image area, the first distance is larger than the second distance;

a first content in the first image is displayed in the first image area, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first sensor unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body and configured to sense a relative position parameter between eyes of the viewer and the first visible area,

when the distance between eyes of the viewer and the first visible area maintains unchanged and the relative position parameter changes, the processing unit generates a first updated image comprising the first content and controls the first display unit to display the first updated image comprising the first content, wherein the first content still is perceived by the viewer.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a second content in the first image is displayed in the second image area, the second content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the second distance away from the first visible area, and information quantity of the second content of the first image in second image area is larger than information quantity of the first content of the first image in the first image area.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a second sensor unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body, and configured to sense a parameter of distance between eyes of the viewer and the first visible area, when it is sensed that the distance changes from the first distance to the second distance, the processing unit generates a second image and controls the first display unit to display the second image, wherein a second content in the second image is displayed in the second image area, the second content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the second distance away from the first visible area, information quantity of the second content of the second image in the second image area is larger than information quantity of the first content of the first image in the first image area.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first distance is larger than a first distance threshold, and the second distance is smaller than the first distance threshold.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a second sensor unit provided on the main body and/or the fixing body and configured to sense a parameter of distance between eyes of the viewer and the first visible area, when it is sensed that the distance changes from the second distance to the first distance, the processing unit generates a third image and controls the first display unit to display the third image, a third image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, the third image area comprises a portion of the first image located outside the third image area and within the second image area in the second distance, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fixing body comprises at least a fixed state in which the fixing body can serve as at least a portion of an annular space or an approximate annular space that satisfies a first predetermined condition, the annular space or the approximate annular space can surround periphery of a columnar body that satisfies a second predetermined condition.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second display unit configured to execute display of image and provided within the main body and/or the fixing body, wherein the first display unit and the second display unit are different types of display unit.

9. A display method comprising:

generating or acquiring a first image signal to be displayed; and

executing display of a first image based on the first image signal,

wherein a first display unit comprises a first visible area, when eyes of a viewer are a first distance away from the first visible area, a first image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, and when eyes of the viewer are a second distance away from the first visible area, a second image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, the second image area comprises the first image area, the first distance is larger than the second distance;

displaying a first content in the first image in the first image area, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.

10. The display method according to claim 9, wherein executing display of the first image based on the first image signal comprises when the distance between eyes of the viewer and the first visible area maintains unchanged and the relative position parameter changes, generating a first updated image comprising the first content and controlling the first display unit to display the first updated image comprising the first content, wherein the first content still is perceived by the viewer.

11. The display method according to claim 9, further comprising when it is sensed that the distance changes from the first distance to the second distance, generating a second image and controlling the first display unit to display the second image, wherein a second content in the second image is displayed in the second image area, the second content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the second distance away from the first visible area, and information quantity of the second content of the second image in the second image area is larger than information quantity of the first content of the first image in the first image area.

12. The display method according to claim 11, further comprising when it is sensed that the distance changes from the second distance to the first distance, generating a third image and controlling the first display unit to display the third image, a third image area of the image is perceived by the viewer, the third image area comprises a portion of the first image located outside the third image area and within the second image area in the second distance, wherein the first content is perceived by the viewer when eyes of the viewer are the first distance away from the first visible area.