PORTABLE TERMINAL, A CONTROL METHOD AND A PROGRAM

• US 20130181885A1
• Filed: 03/18/2011
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tamura, Norimasa
• Application Number:
  US13/810,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20130181885A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/027 Arrangements or methods related to powering off a display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0277 according to available power supply, e.g. switching off when a low battery condition is detected
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The problem addressed by the present invention is to increase usability at the same time as causing the usable time to be a long period of time in a portable terminal that is battery driven and that is mounted with two image display devices. The dual-screen portable terminal (1) includes two displays that are a left display (111) and a right display (121), and includes a display control unit (101) that performs control that turns off one of the two displays when the remaining battery power becomes at or below a predetermined remaining power, and combines a screen display of the display that was turned off with a screen display of the display that was not turned off, resulting in an aggregated displaying.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A portable terminal which is a portable terminal including two displays,

characterized by including a display control unit which performs a control that turns off any one of said two displays when the battery residual quantity becomes no more than the predetermined remaining amount and performs a consolidating display of a screen display of the display that was turned off together with a screen display of the display that was not turned off.

8. A portable terminal according to claim 7 characterized in that said display control unit performs a control that indicates a dialogue which makes a user select the display which turns off on the screen of each display before turning off any one of said two displays.

9. A portable terminal according to claim 7 characterized in that said display control unit indicates a dialogue which asks the time for the user to use a terminal before turning off any one of said two displays, and performs said consolidating display according to an answer for the dialogue.

10. A portable terminal according to claim 8 characterized in that said display control unit indicates a dialogue which asks the time for the user to use a terminal before turning off any one of said two displays, and performs said consolidating display according to an answer for the dialogue.

11. A portable terminal according to claim 7 characterized in that said consolidating display dividing a screen of said display which was not turned off into two, arranging screens display of said two displays and displaying them.

12. A portable terminal according to claim 8 characterized in that said consolidating display dividing a screen of said display which was not turned off into two, arranging screens display of said two displays and displaying them.

13. A portable terminal according to claim 9 characterized in that said consolidating display dividing a screen of said display which was not turned off into two, arranging screens display of said two displays and displaying them.

14. A portable terminal according to claim 10 characterized in that said consolidating display dividing a screen of said display which was not turned off into two, arranging screens display of said two displays and displaying them.

15. A control method which is a control method of a portable terminal including two displays,

characterized by including a processing to turn off any one of said two displays when the battery residual quantity becomes no more than the predetermined remaining amount,

and a processing to performs a consolidating display of a screen display of the display that was turned off together with a screen display of the display that was not turned off.

16. The control method according to claim 15 characterized by performing a control that indicates a dialogue which makes a user select the display which turns off on the screen of each display before turning off any one of said two displays.

17. The control method according to claim 15 characterized by indicating a dialogue which asks the time for the user to use a terminal before turning off any one of said two displays, and performing said consolidating display according to an answer for the dialogue.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a control program which is a control program of a portable terminal including two displays,

characterized to make said portable terminal carry out a processing to turn off any one of said two displays when the battery residual quantity was no more than the predetermined remaining amount,

and a processing to performs a consolidating display of a screen display of the display that was turned off together with a screen display of the display that was not turned off.

19. The medium having the control program according to claim 18 characterized to make said portable terminal carry out a processing to perform a control that indicates a dialogue which makes a user select the display which turns off on the screen of each display before turning off any one of said two displays.

20. The medium having the control program according to claim 18 characterized to make said portable terminal carry out a processing to indicate a dialogue which asks the time for the user to use a terminal before turning off any one of said two displays, and a processing to perform said consolidating display according to an answer for the dialogue.