ORGANIZING DISPLAY DATA ON A MULTIUSER DISPLAY

• US 20140359539A1
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Locker, Howard, Case, Michaela Rose, Nicholson, John Weldon, Stewart, Aaron Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/907,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20140359539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

For organizing display data on a multiuser display, a position module determines a first user position from a first hover presence at a multiuser display. An organization module organizes display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a multiuser display accessible to the processor; and

a memory storing machine readable code executable by the processor, the machine readable code comprising;

a position module determining a first user position from a first hover presence at the multiuser display; and

an organization module organizing display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display data is organized as oriented toward the first user position.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first hover presence is detected by a hover detector.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first hover presence is detected by the multiuser display.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the position module further determining a second user position from a second hover presence and the organization module organizing the display data in response to the first user position and the second user position.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first hover presence is detected using a detection selected from the group consisting of capacitance detection, resistive detection, optical detection, and acoustic detection.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, the position module further identifying a first user from a biometric measurement.

8. A method comprising:

determining a first user position from a first hover presence at a multiuser display; and

organizing display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the display data is organized as oriented toward the first user position.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first hover presence is detected by a hover detector.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first hover presence comprises an edge location.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first hover presence is detected by the multiuser display.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first hover presence comprises one or more of a hover presence area and a hover presence vector.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising determining a second user position from a second hover presence and organizing the display data in response to the first user position and the second user position.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the display data is organized oriented towards a user position associated with a most recent contact.

16. The method of claim 8, further comprising prompting for a user identifier at the first user position and receiving the user identifier of a first user.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the display data is provided with user information for the first user.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the display data is configured with user preferences for the first user.

20. The program product of claim 18, wherein the display data is organized as oriented toward the first user position.

19. A program product comprising a computer readable storage medium storing machine readable code executable by a processor to perform the operations of:

determining a first user position from a first hover presence at a multiuser display; and

organizing display data on the multiuser display in response to the first user position.