Computing device with multiple displays

• US 10,133,317 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2007
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Duncan, Cameron C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Amy L
• Application Number:
  US11/796,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,225 Days
• Field of Search: 715771, 715773, 715831, 715864-865
• 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 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface

Abstract

A computing device comprises a plurality of on-board displays and a graphics controller configured to control output of image content to the plurality of on-board displays in an extended display mode and/or a dual display mode.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a first housing;

a second housing provided with a keyboard;

a plurality of on-board displays including a first on-board display contained in said first housing and a second on-board display contained in said second housing between said keyboard and a front wall of said second housing; and

a graphics controller configured to control output of image content to the plurality of on-board displays in a dual display mode,

wherein the second on-board display contained in said second housing includes a touchpad, the touchpad to receive user input independent of content displayed on the second on-board display contained in said second housing.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of on-board displays is disposed in a display member of the computing device and another of the plurality of on-board displays is disposed in a base member of the computing device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of on-board displays comprises a touchscreen display assembly.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of on-board displays is disposed in a display member of a notebook computer and another of the plurality of on-board displays is disposed in a base member of the notebook computer.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of on-board displays is part of a keyboard deck of the computing device.

6. A method for manufacturing a computer device, comprising:

providing a plurality of on-board displays including at least one on-board display contained in a first housing and at least one on-board display contained in a second housing, wherein the at least one on-board display contained in the second housing includes a touchpad, the touchpad to receive user input independent of content displayed on the at least one on-board display contained in the second housing; and

providing a controller configured to control output of image content to the plurality of on-board displays in a dual display mode.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing a touchscreen display as at least one of the plurality of displays.