E-paper display control based on conformation sequence status

• US 8,446,357 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• 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: Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, Jr., John D., Cohen, Alexander J., Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisen, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): MISHLER, ROBIN J
• Application Number:
  US12/287,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20100085298A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,685 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1615 with several enclosures having relative motions, each enclosure supporting at least one I/O or computing function constructional details of portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts H04M1/0206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• 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 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A system for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and controlling display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding display of second information in response to the information associated with the one or more sequences of two or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly. 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 system comprising:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly; and

circuitry configured for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured for outputting public content for display on one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly having two or more display surfaces.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is at least partially positioned with the at least one electronic paper assembly.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for detecting information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining from one or more sensors information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations along one or more borders of at least one electronic paper assembly.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations within one or more regions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly of at least one of the following types;

electrophoretic, twist ball, liquid crystal, electrofluidic, organic light emitting diode, and liquid powder.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more folds of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly having two or more display layers.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly operable to include one or more virtual regions.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) comparing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly with information associated with one or more predetermined origami-like folding results that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume and (ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like folding result representing at least one phone object is recognized, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly having one or more touch input portions.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining force information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly having memory storing two or more applications that are selectively activatable.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining angle information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining hinge status information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining radius information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining ratio information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

23. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining location information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining sequence information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

25. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining pattern information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining surface contact information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

27. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining information associated with one or more bends of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

28. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured for processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is persistently in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is persistently in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly.

13. A system comprising:

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

obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly; and

processing the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly.

14. A method comprising:

obtaining information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly; and

processing, using one or more processing components, the information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of the at least one electronic paper assembly including at least (i) determining whether the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object and (ii) if the at least one electronic paper assembly is in at least one origami-like shape representing at least one phone object, activating at least one phone application which communicates with one or more communication units to allow for one or more wireless based phone calls using the at least one electronic paper assembly.