Smart watch with adaptive touch screen

• US 9,367,086 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2013
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Solomon Systech Limited
• Original Assignee: Atmel Corporation (Microchip Technology Incorporated)
• Inventors: Yilmaz, Esat
• Primary Examiner(s): Watko, Julie Anne
• Application Number:
  US14/102,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20150160621A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/659
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/02 Detectors of external physical values, e.g. temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• 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 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system includes a display, a position sensor configured to determine a relative orientation of the display, and computer-readable storage media embodying logic that is configured when executed to display first information at a first position of the display, determine a change in orientation of the display, determine a second position to display the first information in response to the change in orientation of the display, and display the first information at the determined second position.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a display;

a position sensor configured to determine a relative orientation of the display;

a touch sensor coupled to the display, the touch sensor comprising at least one array of electrodes of a single type that form capacitive nodes;

a controller configured to operate the touch sensor in a self-capacitance implementation and detect touch inputs at the touch sensor; and

one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic that is configured when executed to;

display first information at a first position of the display, the first information displayed at a first viewing angle and a first perspective angle;

display second information at a second position of the display, the second position being different from the first position;

determine a change in orientation of the display;

determine, in response to the change in orientation of the display, to display the first information at the second position of the display;

determine, in response to the change in orientation of the display, a second viewing angle at which to display the first information on the display, and a second perspective angle at which to display the first information on the display;

display the first information at the second position, the second viewing angle, and the second perspective angle; and

display the second information at a third position of the display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the position sensor includes an accelerometer;

the logic of the computer-readable non-transitory storage media is further configured when executed to;

determine a change in orientation of the display based on information from the accelerometer; and

determine to display the first information at the second position based on the information from the accelerometer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the position sensor includes one or more cameras; and

the logic of the computer-readable non-transitory storage media is further configured when executed to detect, using the one or more cameras, a location of a face proximate to the display.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the logic of the computer-readable non-transitory storage media is further configured when executed to determine to display the first information at the second position based on the detected location of the face proximate to the display.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the logic of the computer-readable non-transitory storage media is further configured to stop displaying the first information in response to detecting that the face is not proximate to the display.

6. A method, comprising:

displaying first information at a first position of a display, the first information displayed at a first viewing angle and a first perspective angle;

displaying second information at a second position of the display, the second position being different from the first position;

determining a change in orientation of the display;

determining, in response to the change in orientation of the display, to display the first information at the second position of the display;

determining, in response to the change in orientation of the display, a second viewing angle at which to display the first information on the display, and a second perspective angle at which to display the first information on the display;

displaying the first information at the determined second position, the second viewing angle, and the second perspective angle;

displaying the second information at a third position of the display;

operating, using a controller, a touch sensor coupled to the display in a self-capacitance implementation, the touch sensor comprising an array of electrodes of a single type that form capacitive nodes; and

detecting, using the controller, touch inputs at the touch sensor.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein:

determining a change in orientation of the display is based on information received from an accelerometer; and

determining to display the first information at the second position is based on the information received from the accelerometer.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein determining a change in orientation of the display is based on information received from one or more cameras, the information received from the one or more cameras indicating a location of a face proximate to the display.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising stopping the displaying of the first information in response to detecting that the face is not proximate to the display.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying logic, the logic configured when executed to:

display first information at a first position of a display, the first information displayed at a first viewing angle and a first perspective angle;

display second information at a second position of the display, the second position being different from the first position;

determine a change in orientation of the display;

determine, in response to the change in orientation of the display, to display the first information at the second position of the display;

determine, in response to the change in orientation of the display, a second viewing angle at which to display the first information on the display, and a second perspective angle at which to display the first information on the display; and

display the first information at the second position, the second viewing angle, and the second perspective angle; and

display the second information at a this position of the display;

operate a touch sensor coupled to the display in a self-capacitance implementation, the touch sensor comprising an array of electrodes of a single type that form capacitive nodes; and

detect touch inputs at the touch sensor.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the logic is further configured to execute to:

determine a change in orientation of the display is based on information received from an accelerometer; and

determine to display the first information at the second position based on the information received from the accelerometer.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the logic is further configured when executed to determine a change in orientation of the display based on information received from a one or more cameras, the information received from the one or more cameras indicating a location of a face proximate to the display.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions are further configured to stop displaying the first information in response to detecting that the face is not proximate to the display.