MULTIPLE SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD

• US 20100194683A1
• Filed: 02/02/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Pansolli, Roberto, Piper, John D.
• Application Number:
  US12/698,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20100194683A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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 1/1643 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer

Abstract

Image browsing method and display device having a body with a plurality of display faces according to different planes, a plurality of display screens able to simultaneously display different digital images, the screens being respectively on different display faces of the body, image selection means for selecting a plurality of digital images in an image collection to be displayed on the screens; and motion sensors connected to the image selection means to trigger a display change, the display change comprising the replacement of the display of at least one image on at least one of the display screens by another image from the image collection, as a function of the device motion.

Claims

1. Image browsing and display device having:

a body with a plurality of display faces according to different planes,

a plurality of display screens able to simultaneously display different digital images, the screens being respectively on different display faces of the body,

image selection means for selecting a plurality of digital images in an image collection to be displayed on the screens; and

motion sensors connected to the image selection means to trigger a display change, the display change comprising the replacement of the display of at least one image on at least one of the display screens by another image from the image collection, as a function of the device motion.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the motion sensors comprise at least one accelerometer and an electronic compass.

3. Device according to claim 1, further comprising at least one user interface.

4. Device according to claim 3 comprising a processor receiving signals from the user interface or from the motion sensors to determine one display face amongst the plurality of display faces deemed to be remote from a user, and for triggering the display change on the remote display face.

5. Device according to claim 1 comprising means for sensing gravitational acceleration and for changing image orientation of displayed images as a function of gravitational acceleration.

6. Method for image scrolling and display on a device according to claim 1 comprising:

selection of a plurality of images in an image collection;

display of the selected images respectively on the plurality of screens of the device;

determination of a possible motion of the device; and

replacement of at least one displayed image on at least one screen by another image from the image collection as a function of the device motion.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the images of the collection are ordered in at least one image order, the images being displayed on screens of a at least one set of adjacent display faces of the device, according to respectively the at least one order, and, upon detection of a rotation motion of the device about at least one axis, changing the display of at least one display screen of the set of adjacent display faces, so as to display an image having a higher rank, respectively a lower rank, in the respective image order, as a function of a direction of rotation.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein:

the images are classified in at least a first and a second image subsets, images of the first subset being respectively displayed on screens of a first set of adjacent display faces of the device and images of the second subset being displayed on screens of a second set of adjacent display faces of the device, the first and second sets of adjacent display faces being respectively associated to a first and second rotation axis; and

upon detection of a rotation motion of the device about at least one of the first and second rotation axis, changing the display of at least one display screen respectively with images from the first and second image subsets.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising the detection of a display face of the device that a user is watching and wherein the image display is changed on at least one display face remote to the display face the user is watching.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display is changed upon rotation of the device about an angle exceeding at least one threshold rotation angle, with respect to an initial device position, the initial position being determined upon user interaction with the device.

11. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

generating a gravity detection signal and

orienting the displayed images as a function of the gravity detection signal.

12. The method according to claim 6, wherein all images displayed on display screens are replaced by other images, upon detection of shaking motion or detection of an absence of motion over a preset duration of time.