Portable terminal device

• US 9,026,181 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tani, Minako, Yoshihara, Takeru, Asai, Tomona
• Primary Examiner(s): URBAN, EDWARD F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hu, Rui
• Application Number:
  US13/878,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20130196718A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,308 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 4554561-460
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3632 Guidance using simplified or iconic instructions, e.g. using arrows G01C21/365 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• 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 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: G09B 29/106 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

A portable terminal device includes a display module which can be set to be in a see-through state that a user can see-through a scenery behind, a display control module which controls the display module, a storage module which stores a destination position, a position obtaining module which obtains a current position, and a comparison module which compares the destination position and the current position. Then, the display control module displays information showing the destination position on the display module according to a comparison result of the comparison module, and sets a display area other than information showing the destination position on the display module to be in the see-through state.

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a display module made of a transparent material and comprising a display surface, the display module configured to set the display surface in a transparent state to allow scenery on one side of the display surface to be seen through another side of the display surface;

a display control module configured to control the display module;

a storage module configured to store a destination position;

a position obtaining module configured to obtain a current position;

a comparison module configured to compare the destination position and the current position;

a tilt detecting module which detects a tilt of the display module;

a determining module which determines whether a back surface of the display module is facing down or not based on an output of the tilt detecting module;

a designation detecting module which detects when the display module is designated by the user; and

a registration module which registers the destination position,

wherein the position obtaining module obtains the current position when it is detected that the display module is designated, in a state in which a back surface of the display module is facing down, and

wherein the registration module registers the current position, which the position obtaining module obtained, as the destination position, and

wherein the display control module is configured to display information showing the destination position on the display module according to a comparison result of the comparison module, and set a display area other than the information showing the destination position in the display module to be in the transparent state.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a direction obtaining module which obtains a direction from the current position to the destination position, wherein

the display control module displays an image showing a direction to the destination position as the information showing the destination position on the display module based on the direction obtained by the direction obtaining module, and sets the display area other than information showing the destination position in the display module to be in the transparent state.

3. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the designation detecting module detects a position on the display module designated by the user, and

the display control module displays the information showing the destination position at the position, which the designation detecting module detected, on the display module, and sets the display area other than information showing the destination position in the display module to be in the transparent state.

4. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the display control module displays the information showing the destination position on the display module and sets the display area other than the information showing the destination position in the display module to be in the transparent state when the current position obtained by the position obtaining module matches the destination position registered in the registration module in a state where a back surface of the display module is facing down.

5. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, comprising:

a first unit; and

a second unit capable of moving between a first position where the first unit overlaps the second unit and a second position where the second unit lies next to the first unit,

wherein the display module has a first display module set to be in the transparent state and a second display module set to be not in the transparent state, where

the first display module is set on the first unit; and

the second display module is set on the second unit.

6. The portable terminal device according to claim 5, wherein the display control module

displays the information showing the destination position on the first display module,

sets the display area other than the information showing the destination position in the first display module to be in the transparent state, and

displays map information on the second display module while the second unit is positioned in the second position.