Projection display system for a laptop computer or a notebook computer

• US 5,483,250 A
• Filed: 04/25/1991
• Issued: 01/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mei California, Inc. (Micron Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ZEOS International Incorporated
• Inventors: Herrick, Gregory E.
• Primary Examiner(s): BRIER, JEFFERY A
• Application Number:
  US07/691,531
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• Field of Search: 340/705, 340/784, 364/708, 361/380, 361/681, 353/39, 353/74, 312/7.2, 359/443, 345/32
• US Class Current: 345/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1603 Arrangements to protect the display from incident light, e.g. hoods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1639 the display being based on projection

Abstract

A projection display system for a laptop computer or notebook computer for projection of a display of stored information on a flexible screen attached to or adjacent to the computer or any surface adjacent to the computer. A display screen can be attached to the laptop computer or notebook computer or adjacent to the laptop computer or notebook computer.

Claims

1. A laptop computer or notebook computer comprising:

a. a housing with a hinged display screen for displaying video images;

b. a processing means in said housing;

c. means for inputting information into said processing means; and

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d. video projection means connected to said processing means and mounted on the housing for projecting processed information onto a front of the screen for visual viewing of said processed information.

2. A laptop computer or notebook computer comprising:

a. a housing;

b. a processing means in said housing;

c. means for inputting information into said processing means; and

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d. video projection means connected to said processing means for projecting video images of processed information onto a front of a video screen mounted on the housing for visual viewing of said processed information.

3. A laptop computer display system comprising:

a. a computer housing having a top surface;

b. a display movably mounted on said housing having a first position at an angle to the top surface, the display having a screen surface for displaying video image; and

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c. video projection means mounted on the top surface of a housing for projecting computer information on the front of the screen.

4. The display system of claim 3 wherein the display is pivotally mounted from the first position to a second storage position.

5. The display system of claim 3 wherein a display is mounted in a slot in a top surface of the housing.