Navigation for a non-traditionally shaped liquid crystal display for mobile handset devices

• US 8,094,105 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lim, David, Finney, Mark, Oliver, Mark, Pierce, Paul, Sawadski, Michael, Voss, Karl
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US11/863,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20090085851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-173
• US Class Current: 345/87
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying data are disclosed. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display 402 with a non-rectangular active area active matrix 334 may display an adjustable presentation of data. A display-integrated control key may control the presentation of data. A scrolling navigation control may scroll through the adjustable presentation of the data.

Claims

1. A method of displaying data in a mobile device comprising:

displaying an adjustable presentation of data on a non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display with a non-rectangular active area active matrix; and

controlling display of the presentation of data with a display-integrated control key.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-rectangular active area active matrix is a circular active area active matrix.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying data on the non-rectangular liquid crystal display with a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data with a scrolling navigation control.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

8. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus for displaying data comprising:

a non-rectangular active area active matrix that displays an adjustable presentation of data; and

a display-integrated control key that controls the presentation of data.

9. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

10. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

11. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the non-rectangular active area active matrix is a circular active area active matrix.

12. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.

13. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a scrolling navigation control for scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data.

14. The non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display apparatus of claim 13, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

15. An electronic device for displaying data comprising:

a non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display with a non-rectangular active area active matrix that displays an adjustable presentation of data; and

a scrolling navigation control for scrolling through the adjustable presentation of the data.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a display-integrated control key that controls the presentation of data.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the display-integrated control key is a soft key.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the display-integrated control key is a touch screen key.

19. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the scrolling navigation control is a perimeter touch screen scrolling navigation control.

20. The electronic device of claim 15, further comprising a rectangular active area active matrix contiguous with the non-rectangular active area active matrix.