Smart pad operation with differing aspect ratios

• US 9,092,191 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, Gimpl, Martin, Visosky, John S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/606,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20130002524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/173, 345/211, 715/243, 715/246, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• 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 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• 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: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A computational device divides, by a seam, a screen into first and second logical displays; in a first mode, moves the seam to a first position to provide logical displays having different selected aspect ratios, viewing angles, and/or a viewable image sizes and, in a second mode, moves the seam to a second different position to provide logical displays having still different selected aspect ratios, viewing angles, and/or a viewable image sizes.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

a microprocessor executable framework dividing, by a seam, a screen into first and second logical displays;

in a first mode, moving, by the framework, the seam to a first position to provide a first at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the first logical display and a different second at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the second logical display; and

in a second mode, moving, by the framework, the seam to a second position to provide a third at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the first logical display and a different fourth at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the second logical display, whereby the at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size of the first and second logical displays can be varied, wherein the seam movement is in response to a sensed electronic storage device (“

ESD”

) parameter, and wherein the ESD parameter is one or more of ESD voltage, current in and/or out of the ESD, ESD capacitance, ESD inductance, ESD current drain rate, ESD current discharge rate, ESD temperature, ESD state of charge, ESD depth of discharge, and ESD state of health.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in both the first and second modes the first logical display displays a first panel and the second logical display displays a second panel and

wherein the first panel in the first mode has a different size than the first panel in the second mode and the second panel in the first mode has a different size than the second panel in the second mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first panel in the first mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the second mode and the first panel in the second mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the first mode.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the first mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display are similar to at least most of the display elements in the second logical.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display differ from at least most of the display elements in the second logical display in at least one of the following display parameters:

luminance, brightness, intensity, display resolution, dot pitch, refresh rate, response time, contrast ratio, and delta-E, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 95% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a first threshold value and the second mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a second threshold value.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display have a black color while at least most of the display elements in the second logical display have a non-black color, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 50% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.

8. A tangible and non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising microprocessor executable instructions that, when executed:

divides, by a seam, a screen into first and second logical displays;

in a first mode, moves the seam to a first position to provide a first at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the first logical display and a different second at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the second logical display; and

in a second mode, moves the seam to a second position to provide a third at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the first logical display and a different fourth at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the second logical display, whereby the at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size of the first and second logical displays can be varied, wherein the seam movement is in response to a sensed electronic storage device (“

ESD”

) parameter, and wherein the ESD parameter is one or more of ESD voltage, current in and/or out of the ESD, ESD capacitance, ESD inductance, ESD current drain rate, ESD current discharge rate, ESD temperature, ESD state of charge, ESD depth of discharge, and ESD state of health.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein in both the first and second modes the first logical display displays a first panel and the second logical display displays a second panel and

wherein the first panel in the first mode has a different size than the first panel in the second mode and the second panel in the first mode has a different size than the second panel in the second mode.

10. The medium of claim 9, wherein the first panel in the first mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the second mode and the first panel in the second mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the first mode.

11. The medium of claim 8, wherein, in the first mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display are similar to at least most of the display elements in the second logical display.

12. The medium of claim 11, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display differ from at least most of the display elements in the second logical display in at least one of the following display parameters:

luminance, brightness, intensity, display resolution, dot pitch, refresh rate, response time, contrast ratio, and delta-E, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 95% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.

13. The medium of claim 12, wherein the first mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a first threshold value and the second mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a second threshold value.

14. The medium of claim 12, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display have a black color while at least most of the display elements in the second logical display have a non-black color, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 50% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.

15. A computational device, comprising:

a framework operable to;

divide, by a seam, a screen into first and second logical displays;

in a first mode, move the seam to a first position to provide a first at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the first logical display and a different second at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and a viewable image size to the second logical display; and

in a second mode, move the seam to a second position to provide a third at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the first logical display and a different fourth at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size to the second logical display, whereby the at least one of an aspect ratio, viewing angle, and viewable image size of the first and second logical displays can be varied, wherein the seam movement is in response to a sensed electronic storage device (“

ESD”

), parameter and wherein the ESD parameter is one or more of ESD voltage, current in and/or out of the ESD, ESD capacitance, ESD inductance, ESD current drain rate, ESD current discharge rate, ESD temperature, ESD state of charge, ESD depth of discharge, and ESD state of health.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein in both the first and second modes the first logical display displays a first panel and the second logical display displays a second panel and wherein the first panel in the first mode has a different size than the first panel in the second mode and the second panel in the first mode has a different size than the second panel in the second mode.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the first panel in the first mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the second mode and the first panel in the second mode is approximately the same size as the second panel in the first mode.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display differ from at least most of the display elements in the second logical display.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display differ from at least most of the display elements in the second logical display in at least one of the following display parameters:

luminance, brightness, intensity, display resolution, dot pitch, refresh rate, response time, contrast ratio, and delta-E, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 95% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the first mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a first threshold value and the second mode applies when the ESD parameter passes a second threshold value.

21. The device of claim 19, wherein, in the second mode, at least most of the display elements in the first logical display have a black color while at least most of the display elements in the second logical display have a non-black color, whereby an energy usage/unit area for the first logical display is no more than about 50% of the energy usage/unit area for the second logical display.