Information apparatus and operation control method thereof

• US 7,733,275 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2006
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirota, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; HoangAnh T
• Application Number:
  US11/525,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20070200775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 455/557, 455/557.1, 455/557.7
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/162 changing, e.g. reversing, the face orientation of the screen with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, e.g. for folding into tablet PC like position or orienting towards the direction opposite to the user to show to a second user
• 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 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1683 for the transmission of signal or power between the different housings, e.g. details of wired or wireless communication, passage of cabling
• 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

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display unit on which an antenna is mounted, an LCD provided on the display unit, and a controller which controls the amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna, when the antenna is located in a downward direction of an image displayed on the LCD.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit on which an antenna is mounted;

a display section provided on the display unit; and

control means for controlling an amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna when the antenna is located in a downward direction of an image displayed on the display section so that the antenna is located between a user and the display section displaying the image.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the antenna is located in the downward direction, the control means stops radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the antenna is located in the downward direction, the control means reduces the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a radio module to transmit a signal to the antenna, wherein

the control means includes means for stopping transmission of the signal from the radio module to the antenna.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration; and

switching means for switching the direction of an image displayed on the display section based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, wherein

when the antenna is located in a downward direction of the image switched by the switching means, the control means controls the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining means for determining whether or not control by the control means is carried out according to information of a provider who transmits an electromagnetic wave to be received by the antenna.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit on which an antenna that radiates an electromagnetic wave is mounted;

a display section provided on a front face of the display unit;

a main body rotatably mounted to the display unit through a hinge; and

control means for controlling an amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna when the antenna is located in a downward direction from an image displayed on the display section.

8. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the control means controls the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna when a back face opposing the front face of the display unit is located to oppose the top face of the main body while the antenna is located in the downward direction of the image displayed on the display section.

9. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the antenna is disposed at the other side of the display unit to which the hinge is coupled.

10. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, when the antenna is located in the downward direction of the image displayed on the display section, the control means stops radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

11. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein, when the antenna is located in the downward direction of the image displayed on the display section, the control means reduces the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

12. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a radio module to transmit a signal to the antenna, wherein

the control means includes means for stopping transmission of the signal from the radio module to the antenna.

13. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the control means controls the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna when the antenna is located in the downward direction of the image displayed on the display section that occurs when the antenna is situated between the display section of the display unit and an user while the information processing apparatus is in use.

14. An information processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

an acceleration sensor to detect a tri-axial direction of the information processing apparatus in space; and

switching means for switching a direction of the image displayed on the display section based on information from the acceleration sensor, wherein

the control means controls the amount of radiation of the electromagnetic wave from the antenna based on information from the acceleration sensor.

15. An operation control method of an information processing apparatus in which a display section is provided on a display unit on which an antenna is mounted, the method comprising:

determining whether or not the antenna is located in a downward direction from an image displayed on the display section when the information processing apparatus is in use; and

when it is determined that the antenna is located in the downward direction from the image displayed on the display section, controlling the amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna.

16. An operation control method according to claim 15, wherein the radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna is controlled to be stopped.

17. An operation control method according to claim 15, wherein the amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna is controlled to be reduced from a previous amount of radiation.

18. An operation control method according to claim 15, wherein the amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna is controlled by stopping transmission of a signal from a radio module included in the information processing apparatus to the antenna.

19. An operation control method according to claim 15, further comprising:

detecting an acceleration by an acceleration sensor included in the information processing apparatus; and

switching a direction of an image displayed on the display section based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor.

20. An operation control method according to claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether or not the control for the amount of radiation of an electromagnetic wave from the antenna is carried out according to information of a provider who transmits an electromagnetic wave to be received by the antenna.