Transparent display and operation method thereof to control movement of a displayable object between the transparent display and another display

• US 8,350,814 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2009
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• 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): Nguyen, Hoa T
• Assistant Examiner(s): FISCHER, MARK L
• Application Number:
  US12/407,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20090295731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,391 Days
• Field of Search: 345/5
• US Class Current: 345/168
• 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 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• 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 1/0235 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 1/72427 : for supporting games or graphical animations
• 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 digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 : including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

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 a particular condition occurring on the terminal.

Claims

1. A terminal, comprising:

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 through the second display having the transparency when the first and second displays overlap each other; and

a controller configured to;

(a) display a list of objects on the first display, wherein the list of objects comprises at least a first object and a second object, and wherein the list of objects are seen through the second display;

(b) move the first object from the list of objects displayed on the first display to the second display in response to a touch on the first object;

(c) display a preview screen of the first object on the second display if the touch is a long touch, wherein the first object is selected for execution in response to the long touch;

(d) display a preview screen of the second object on the second display in response to a dragging operation touching on the second object when the dragging operation moves a cursor from the first object to the second object; and

(e) execute the first object to display the first object on the second display when the touch is released and no subsequent touch is detected for a predetermined time,

wherein (a) through (e) are performed while the first display and the second display remain overlapped.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to the controller receiving a touch and flicking signal corresponding to a touching and flicking of the displayable object displayed on one of the first and second displays toward the other of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the touch and flicking signal, the controller is further configured to move the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to the controller receiving a touch signal corresponding to a touching of the displayable object displayed on one of the first and second displays and a touching of a portion of the other one of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the touch signal, the controller is further configured to move the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to the controller receiving a hot key signal corresponding to a selection of a hot key on the terminal, and

wherein upon receiving the hot key signal, the controller is further configured to move the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to the controller receiving a soft key signal corresponding to a selection of a soft key displayed on at least one of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the soft key signal, the controller is further configured to move the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to the controller receiving an opening or closing signal corresponding to an opening or closing of the first and second bodies, and

wherein upon receiving the opening or closing signal, the controller is further configured to move the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

7. The terminal of claim 1,

wherein the second display is a Transparent Organic Light Emitting Display (TOLED) and the first display is a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first display is in an inactive state and the second display is in an active state.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least the first object and the second object comprise images, and the list of objects comprises corresponding identifiers for the at least the first object and the second object.

10. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the predetermined time is two seconds.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the touch is a physical touch or a proximity touch.

12. A method of controlling a terminal comprising a first body with a first display and a second body with a second display, the method comprising:

(a) displaying a list of objects on the first display disposed on the first body of the terminal, wherein the list of objects comprises at least a first object and a second object, and wherein the second display has a transparency such that information displayed on the first display is seen through the second display;

(b) moving the first object from the list of objects displayed on the first display to the second display in response to a touch on the first object;

(c) displaying a preview screen of the first object on the second display if the touch is a long touch, wherein the first object is selected for execution in response to the long touch;

(d) displaying a preview screen of the second object on the second display in response to a dragging operation touching on the second object when the dragging operation moves a cursor from the first object to the second object; and

(e) executing the first object to display the first object on the second display when the touch is released and no subsequent touch is detected for a predetermined time,

wherein (a) through (e) are performed while the first display and the second display remain overlapped.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to a touch and flicking signal corresponding to a touching and flicking of the displayable object displayed on one of the first and second displays toward the other of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the touch and flicking signal, the controlling step moves the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to a touch signal corresponding to a touching of the displayable object displayed on one of the first and second displays and a touching of a portion of the other one of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the touch signal, the controlling step moves the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to a hot key signal corresponding to a selection of a hot key on the terminal, and

wherein upon receiving the hot key signal, the controlling step moves the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to a soft key signal corresponding to a selection of a soft key displayed on at least one of the first and second displays, and

wherein upon receiving the soft key signal, the controlling step moves the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal,

wherein the particular condition corresponds to an opening or closing signal corresponding to an opening or closing of the first and second bodies, and

wherein upon receiving the opening or closing signal, the controlling step moves the displayable object displayed on said one of the first and second displays to the other of the first and second displays.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the terminal is a folder-type mobile terminal, a flip-type mobile terminal, a slide-type mobile terminal, a bar-type mobile terminal, a rotating-type mobile terminal, or a watch-type mobile terminal, and

wherein the second display is a Transparent Organic Light Emitting Display (TOLED) and the first display is a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

treating the first display with a shadow processing, a semi-transparent processing, a duplicate displaying of the object, a blank displaying, or a background displaying.