E-paper application control based on conformation sequence status

• US 8,466,870 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• 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, Robert W., Cohen, Alexander J., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, Jr., John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisen, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): MISHLER, ROBIN J
• Application Number:
  US12/286,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20100073278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,726 Days
• Field of Search: 345/30, 345/107
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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: one or more conformation sensor modules configured to direct 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 electronic paper assembly and one or more coordination modules configured to direct 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 electronic paper assembly 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 system comprising:

one or more conformation sensor modules configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly; and

one or more processor components configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly.

2. A system comprising:

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

circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain optical fiber derived information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

10. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain geometrical information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

12. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

13. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

14. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more rolls of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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.

17. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly comprises;

circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, (a) selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly, and (b) signaling to output information associated with the at least one application for display on at least one portion of the at least one electronic paper assembly.

18. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly comprises;

circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, (a) selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly, and (b) signaling to output information associated with the at least one application for display on at least one portion of the at least one electronic paper assembly using two or more display layers.

19. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

20. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

21. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

22. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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.

23. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

circuitry configured to obtain 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 selectable based on one or more origami-like shapes of the at least one electronic paper assembly.

24. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

25. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

26. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

27. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

28. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to obtain information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of at least one electronic paper assembly comprises:

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

29. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly comprises;

circuitry configured to process 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, (a) selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly, (b) signaling to output content associated with the at least one application for display from at least one portion of at least one inside surface of the at least one electronic paper assembly, and (c) signaling to output other content for display from at least one portion of at least one outside surface of the at least one electronic paper assembly.

30. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured to output public content for display on at least one portion of the at least one electronic paper assembly.

31. The system of claim 2, wherein the system is at least partially positioned with the at least one electronic paper assembly.

3. A system comprising:

at least one article of manufacture bearing one or more instructions for facilitating operations 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) 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 shaped object representations that the at least one electronic paper assembly may assume; and

(ii) if at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation is recognized, selecting at least one application associated with the at least one predetermined origami-like shaped object representation for use with the at least one electronic paper assembly.