Device and Method for Displaying Data and Receiving User Input

• US 20090079701A1
• Filed: 09/25/2007
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Grosskopf, George JR.
• Application Number:
  US11/860,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20090079701A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

Described are a device and a method for displaying data and receiving user input. The device includes a display arrangement displaying an image; a sensing arrangement generating orientation data corresponding to detected changes in an orientation of the device; and a control arrangement adjusting one of an orientation and a location of the image in response to the orientation data

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a display arrangement displaying an image;

a sensing arrangement generating orientation data corresponding to detected changes in an orientation of the device; and

a control arrangement adjusting one of an orientation and a location of the image in response to the orientation data.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the display arrangement is a touch-sensitive display.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the touch-sensitive display receives signature input at an input box of the image.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein when the image is adjusted, the device adjusts a reading of the input box to match the image adjustment.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the adjusting comprises rotating the image.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the rotation matches a change in the device orientation resulting from a rotation of the device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the adjusting comprises moving the image to maintain a position of the image relative to a viewer of the display arrangement.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the adjusting comprises removing the image from display.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the removing occurs in response to a moving of the display arrangement away from a field-of-view of a viewer.

10. The device of claim 8, wherein the image is replaced with a predetermined image.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensing arrangement includes one of an accelerometer, an optical sensor and a motion sensor.

12. A method, comprising:

generating orientation data corresponding to detected changes in an orientation of a device;

determining the orientation of the device based on the orientation data; and

displaying an image on a device display, the image corresponding to the determined orientation.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

generating further orientation data corresponding to further detected changes in the orientation of the device; and

adjusting one of an orientation and a location of the image in response to the further orientation data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the display is touch-sensitive.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the display receives signature input at an input box of the image.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein when the image is adjusted, the device adjusts a reading of the input box to match the image adjustment.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the adjusting comprises rotating the image to match a change in the device orientation resulting from a rotation of the device.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the adjusting comprises moving the image to maintain a position of the image relative to a viewer of the display.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the adjusting comprises removing the image from display.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the removing occurs in response to a moving of the display away from a field-of-view of a viewer.

21. The device of claim 19, wherein the image is replaced with a predetermined image.

22. The device of claim 12, wherein the orientation data is generated by a sensing arrangement that includes one of an accelerometer, an optical sensor and a motion sensor.

23. A device, comprising:

a display means for displaying an image;

a sensing means for generating orientation data corresponding to detected changes in an orientation of the device; and

a control means for adjusting one of an orientation and a location of the image in response to the orientation data.