Apparatus comprising a sliding display part

• US 8,195,254 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2009
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2009
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Oksman, Markku, Ivaskevicius, Tomas, Heikkinen, Kim, Kapiainen, Tomi, Väänänen, Jenni, Ruotsalainen, Kaisa
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US12/645,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20110151935A1
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• Field of Search: 455/475.3, 455/575.4, 455/566
• US Class Current: 455/575.3
• 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 electronic apparatus comprising:

a first part slidingly attached to a second part, the first part having

a surface that provides a main display and that bends forming a side surface that provides a secondary display.

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

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to show one of an icon and 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 one of an icon and a link to a content on the secondary display and to activate the content on the main display from said one of an icon and a 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 a 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 together comprise one continuous larger display.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a first part slidingly attached to a second part, the first part having a surface that provides a main display and that folds forming a side that provides a secondary display.

15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein both the main display and the secondary display comprise touch displays.

16. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the apparatus is configured to show one of an icon and a link to a content on the secondary display and to show the content on the main display.

17. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the apparatus is configured to show one of an icon and a link to a content on the secondary display and to activate the content on the main display from said one of an icon and a link.

18. An apparatus according to claim 14, 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 a user via the control buttons.

19. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the apparatus is configured to transfer information between the main display and the secondary display as controlled by a user.

20. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the main display and the secondary display together comprise one continuous larger display.

21. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein an outer surface of the apparatus comprises mostly the displays.

22. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the first part comprises a sliding lid.

23. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a cross section of the first part comprises a trapezoid, the main display being on a top plane of the trapezoid and the secondary display being on at least one side plane of the trapezoid.

24. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the surface folds over an edge towards an outer edge of the first part forming the side which comprises a wedge shape for providing the secondary display.

25. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile handheld electronic device.

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

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