Transparent display and operation method thereof

• US 8,195,243 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jong-Hwan, Park, Nam-Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): PHUONG, DAI
• Application Number:
  US12/352,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20090298546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• Field of Search: 4555751-5758, 455/566, 345/156, 345/173
• US Class Current: 455/566
• 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 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• 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 1/163 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 1/1643 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 1/1677 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 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0247 comprising more than two body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 : including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 : including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 : including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/133 : including elements passing panchromatic light, e.g. filters passing white light

Abstract

A terminal including a first body, a second body connected to the first body, a first display disposed on the first body, a second display disposed on the second body and having a transparency such that information displayed on the first display can be seen though the second display having the transparency when the first and second displays overlap each other, and a controller configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on an opening and closing of the first and second bodies of the terminal.

Claims

1. A terminal, comprising:

a first body;

a second body connected to the first body;

a non-transparent display disposed on the first body;

a transparent display disposed on the second body; and

a controller configured to;

display an object on the transparent display and information on the non-transparent display through the transparent display when the first body and the second body are closed and the non-transparent display and the transparent display overlap each other, wherein a first item is selected from the information displayed on the non-transparent display in response to an input for selecting thereof while the first and second bodies are closed; and

separately display the object on the transparent display and the information on the non-transparent display in response to a separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display,

wherein the first item is automatically executed on the transparent display in response to the separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display,

wherein the information comprises at least one WebPage, and the object comprises at least one item in the at least one Webpage, and

wherein the controller is further configured to move a second item of the information displayed on the non-transparent display to the transparent display in response to the separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the object comprises a link or item selected from the at least one Webpage.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to display a new displayable object on the transparent display when the first body and the second body are opened.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to rearrange remaining items of the information on the non-transparent display.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the transparent display is a Transparent Organic Light Emitting Display (TOLED).

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first item is automatically executed on the transparent display only when the non-transparent display is separated from the transparent display.

7. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first item displayed on the non-transparent display is selected through the transparent display when the first and second bodies are closed.

8. A method of controlling a terminal, the method comprising:

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displaying an object on a transparent display disposed on a first body of the terminal and information on a non-transparent display disposed on a second body of the terminal that is connected to the first body through the transparent display when the first body and the second body are closed and the non-transparent display and the transparent display overlap each other, wherein a first item is selected from the information displayed on the non-transparent display in response to an input for selecting thereof while the first and second bodies are closed;

separately displaying the object on the transparent display and the information on the non-transparent display in response to a separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display; and

moving a second item of the information displayed on the non-transparent display to the transparent display in response to the separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display,

wherein the first item is automatically executed on the transparent display in response to the separation of the non-transparent display from the transparent display, and

wherein the information comprises at least one WebPage, and the object comprises at least one item in the at least one WebPage.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the object comprises a link or item selected from the at least one Webpage plurality of Webpages.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying a new displayable object on the transparent display when the first body and the second body are opened.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising rearranging remaining items of the information on the non-transparent display.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first item is automatically executed on the transparent display only when the non-transparent display is separated from the transparent display.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the first item displayed on the non-transparent display is selected through the transparent display when the first and second bodies are closed.