APPARATUS COMPRISING A SLIDING DISPLAY PART

• US 20110151935A1
• Filed: 12/22/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Oksman, Markku, Kapiainen, Tomi, Ivaskevicius, Tomas, Ruotsalainen, Kaisa, Heikkinen, Kim, Väänänen, Jenni
• Granted Patent: US 8,195,254 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• 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 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• 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: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An apparatus including a first part slidingly attached to a second part, the first part having a main display and a secondary display, wherein the first part has a surface providing the main display, and wherein the surface bends or folds forming a side or side surface that provides the secondary display.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a first part slidingly attached to a second part, the first part having a main display and a secondary display, wherein

the first part has a surface providing the main display, and wherein the surface bends or folds forming a side or side surface that provides the secondary display.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein both the main display and the secondary display are touch displays.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to show an icon or a link to a content on the secondary display and to show the content on the main display.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to show an icon or a link to a content on the secondary display and to activate the content on the main display from the icon or link.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises a set of control buttons on the secondary display, and wherein the apparatus is configured to control information on the main display based on input received from the user via the control buttons.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to transfer information between the main display and the secondary display as controlled by a user.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the main display and the secondary display form one continuous bigger display.

8. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an outer surface of the apparatus is mostly covered by the displays.

9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first part is a sliding lid.

10. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the first part is a trapezoid, the main display being on the top plane of the trapezoid and the secondary display being on at least one of the side planes.

11. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surface bends or folds over an edge towards the outer edge of the first part forming the side or side surface which is of a wedge shape providing the secondary display.

12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a mobile handheld electronic device.

13. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium comprising computer executable program code which, when executed by at least one processor of an apparatus comprising a first part slidingly attached to a second part, the first part having a main display and a secondary display, the first part having a surface providing the main display, and wherein the surface bends or folds forming a side or side surface that provides the secondary display, causes the apparatus to perform:

operating the apparatus and controlling the use of the main and the secondary display.