Application control based on flexible interface conformation sequence status

• US 8,297,495 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2009
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, Jr., John D., Cohen, Alexander J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Haupt, Kristy A
• Application Number:
  US12/456,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20100053072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,233 Days
• Field of Search: 235/472.01, 235/454, 235/375, 396/287, 715/863
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable

Abstract

A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining information associated with one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interface and coordinating the one or more changes in one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible interface with one or more commands. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material; and

processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

2. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material; and

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material that includes two or more display layers.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material that includes two or more display surfaces.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material that includes a first display surface oriented in a first direction and a second display surface oriented in a second direction.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material that includes two or more display regions.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining from one or more sensors information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining strain information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining sequence information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining angle information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining position information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining gesture information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material.

13. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more flexures of at least some electronic paper material.

14. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations along at least one border of one or more display regions of at least some electronic paper material.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations within one or more display regions of at least some electronic paper material.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material that includes one or more electrofluidic display portions.

17. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form comprises:

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least one application to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

18. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form comprises:

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least one phone application to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

19. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form comprises:

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least one communication unit to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form comprises:

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate a phone.

21. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form comprises:

circuitry for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more electronic devices represented by the at least one specified origami form.

22. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material using at least one of two or more display layers.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one of two or more display surfaces of the at least some electronic paper material.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one of two or more display regions of the at least some electronic paper material.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material comprises:

circuitry for outputting content for display from at least one portion of the at least some electronic paper material using two or more display layers.

27. The system of claim 2, wherein the system is at least partially positioned with the at least some electronic paper material.

28. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry for detecting one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material.

29. A system comprising:

means for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material; and

means for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.

30. A system comprising:

at least one article of manufacture bearing one or more instructions for facilitating one or more operations including

obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of at least some electronic paper material; and

processing the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material including determining whether the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form and, if the information associated with one or more conformations of the at least some electronic paper material is associated with at least one specified origami form, signaling to enable at least some functionality to at least partially emulate one or more objects represented by the at least one specified origami form.