Multimodal Adaptive User Interface for a Portable Electronic Device
First Claim
1. A multimodal device comprising a dynamic user interface surface configured to be blank when the device is in a first state, and when in a second state the dynamic user interface surface is configured to present one of a plurality of mode based actuators by selective actuation of a low resolution display.
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Abstract
A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys or symbols. Each keypad configuration, in one embodiment, is limited to those needed for the particular mode of operation of the device (100). The optical shutter (204) is a low-resolution display that presents user actuation targets to a user in a low-resolution key area. As each mode of the device changes, the corresponding keypad configuration presented changes accordingly.
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- 1. A multimodal device comprising a dynamic user interface surface configured to be blank when the device is in a first state, and when in a second state the dynamic user interface surface is configured to present one of a plurality of mode based actuators by selective actuation of a low resolution display.
- 5. A portable electronic device comprising a high resolution display and a segmented optical shutter device configured to present at least one keypad configuration to a user, wherein the segmented optical shutter device traverses a keypad region of the portable electronic device and the high resolution display, and is further configured to selectively transition from an opaque state to a translucent state.
- 9. A portable electronic device having a user interface comprising a high resolution display, a low resolution display configured to present any of a plurality of keypad configurations associated with a plurality of device operational modes in a keypad region of the user interface, and a navigation interface disposed adjacent with the high resolution display and the low resolution display for navigating the plurality of operational modes.
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