Single-screen view in response to rotation

• US 8,665,215 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Schrock, Rodney Wayne, Gimpl, Martin, Sirpal, Sanjiv, Visosky, John Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/247,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20120081280A1
• Time in Patent Office: 888 Days
• Field of Search: 345 11- 13, 345/156, 345/158, 345/169, 345/173, 345/659, 715/761, 715/778, 715/788, 715/790, 715/864
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 : Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 : Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 : for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 : Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 : for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 : Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 : Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 : using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 : for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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: G06F 3/1423 : controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 : display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 : Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 : Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 : Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 : Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 : Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation

Abstract

A multi-screen user device and methods for controlling data displayed thereby are disclosed. Specifically, a gesture sequence is disclosed which enables a user to toggle or shift though applications that are displayed by the multi-screen user device. The gesture sequence may correspond to various rotation or partial rotations of the multi-screen user device.

Claims

1. A method of controlling data displayed by a multi-screen device, comprising:

receiving a first rotation input, the first rotation input corresponding to an indication that the multi-screen device has been rotated a first time from a first open state to a different second open state, wherein data from a first application is displayed while the device is in the first open state on a first screen of the device and not on a second screen of the device, and wherein data from the first application is displayed on the first and second screens of the device in the second open state;

receiving a second rotation input, the second rotation input corresponding to an indication that the device has been rotated a second time after the first time;

after receiving the second rotation input, referencing display rules for the first application;

displaying the first application on one of the first and second screens according to the display rules for the first application; and

updating a gesture capture region, each of the first and second screens including a respective gesture capture region, the updating of the gesture capture region including updating at least one of the gesture capture regions based on a context of the multi-screen device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the display rules for the first application are stored prior to receiving the second rotation input and correspond to a display configuration of the first application when the device is in the first open state prior to receiving the first rotation input.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the display rules for the first application indicate that the data from the first application is presented substantially identically to the way in which the data from the first application is presented prior to receiving the first rotation input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second rotation inputs are received from an accelerometer.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a first stack-altering input after the first rotation input but before the second rotation input; and

updating the display rules for the first application to correspond to display rules that are different from display rules for the first application prior to receiving the first rotation input.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first stack-altering input corresponds to at least one of a minimization instruction for the first application and an application-navigation instruction.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein data from a first desktop is displayed on the second screen prior to receiving the first rotation input, wherein the data from the first desktop is not displayed after receiving the first rotation input but before receiving the second rotation input, and wherein the data from the first desktop is re-displayed on the second screen after receiving the second rotation input.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the data from the first application is automatically maximized and displayed across both the first and second screens after receiving the first rotation input.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first rotation input corresponds to a rotation of the device by about 90 degrees in a first direction and wherein the second rotation input corresponds to a rotation of the device by about 90 degrees in a second direction that is opposite the first direction.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that cause a computing system to execute a method, the instructions comprising:

instructions configured to receive a first rotation input, the first rotation input corresponding to an indication that a multi-screen device has been rotated a first time from a first open state to a different second open state, wherein data from a first application is displayed while the device is in the first open state on a first screen of the device and not on a second screen of the device, and wherein data from the first application is displayed on the first and second screens of the device in the second open state;

instructions configured to receive a second rotation input, the second rotation input corresponding to an indication that the device has been rotated a second time after the first time;

instructions configured to reference display rules for the first application after receiving the second rotation input;

instructions configured to render a display of the first application on one of the first and second screens according to the display rules for the first application; and

instructions configured to update a gesture capture region, each of the first and second screens including a respective gesture capture region, the updating of the gesture capture region including updating at least one of the gesture capture regions based on a context of the multi-screen device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the display rules for the first application are stored prior to receiving the second rotation input and correspond to a display configuration of the first application when the device is in the first open state prior to receiving the first rotation input.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the display rules for the first application indicate that the data from the first application is presented substantially identically to the way in which the data from the first application is presented prior to receiving the first rotation input.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein at least one of the first and second rotation inputs are received from an accelerometer.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising:

instructions configured to receive a first stack-altering input after the first rotation input but before the second rotation input; and

instructions configured to update the display rules for the first application to correspond to display rules that are different from display rules for the first application prior to receiving the first rotation input.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first stack-altering input corresponds to at least one of a minimization instruction for the first application and an application-navigation instruction.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein data from a first desktop is displayed on the second screen prior to receiving the first rotation input, wherein the data from the first desktop is not displayed after receiving the first rotation input but before receiving the second rotation input, wherein the data from the first desktop is re-displayed on the second screen after receiving the second rotation input, and wherein the data from the first application is automatically maximized and displayed across both the first and second screens after receiving the first rotation input.

17. A multi-screen user device, comprising:

a first screen including a first display area;

a second screen including a second display area;

a sensor configured to produce an electrical signal indicative of a rotation of the user device; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium of the multi-screen device having instructions stored thereon that include;

a first set of instructions configured to receive a first rotation input, the first rotation input corresponding to an indication that the multi-screen device has been rotated a first time from a first open state to a different second open state, wherein data from a first application is displayed while the device is in the first open state on a first screen of the device and not on a second screen of the device, and wherein data from the first application is displayed on the first and second screens of the device in the second open state;

a second set of instructions configured to receive a second rotation input, the second rotation input corresponding to an indication that the device has been rotated a second time after the first time;

a third set of instructions configured to reference display rules for the first application after receiving the second rotation input;

a fourth set of instructions configured to render a display of the first application on one of the first and second screens according to the display rules for the first application; and

a fifth set of instructions configured to update a gesture capture region, each of the first and second screens including a respective gesture capture region, the updating of the gesture capture region including updating at least one of the gesture capture regions based on a context of the multi-screen user device.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the display rules for the first application are stored prior to receiving the second rotation input and correspond to a display configuration of the first application when the device is in the first open state prior to receiving the first rotation input and wherein the display rules for the first application indicate that the data from the first application is presented substantially identically to the way in which the data from the first application is presented prior to receiving the first rotation input.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the first open state corresponds to an open portrait state and wherein the second state corresponds to an open landscape state.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the data from the first application is automatically maximized across both the first and second screens in response to receiving the first rotation input.