Content visibility management

• US 9,870,188 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2014
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: VanBlon, Russell Speight, Mese, John Carl, Weksler, Arnold S., Peterson, Nathan J.
• Primary Examiner(s): XAVIER, ANTONIO J
• Application Number:
  US14/461,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20160048364A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• 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 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/12 Use of DVI or HDMI protocol in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: outputting, to a display device, first content; receiving, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device; positioning one or more of the first content and the second content within the display device according to positioning data based on the first content; and displaying both of the first content and the second content on the display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

outputting, to a display device, first content in a first location on the display device;

receiving, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;

said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;

determining, using a processor, that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;

detecting, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;

in response to the detecting, altering, using a processor, one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content; and

displaying both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein applications having a relation are predetermined.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein applications having a relation are dynamically determined.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing eye tracking data;

wherein the altering comprises first determining that the first content and the second content are related based on the eye tracking data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing application usage data;

wherein the altering comprises first determining that the first content and the second content are related based on the application usage data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the altering comprises positioning the second content in a non-overlapping area of the display device with respect to a display area including a portion of the first content.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the portion of the first content comprises a predetermined area.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the portion of the first content comprises a dynamically determined area.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising accessing eye tracking data;

wherein the dynamically determined area is determined based on the eye tracking data.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

a display device;

an input device;

a processor; and

a memory that stores instructions executable by the processor to;

output, to the display device, first content in a first location on the display device;

receive an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;

said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;

determine that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;

detect, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;

in response to detecting that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another, alter one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content; and

display both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein applications having a relation are predetermined.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein applications having a relation are dynamically determined.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to access eye tracking data;

wherein to alter comprises first determining that the first content and the second content are related based on the eye tracking data.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to access application usage data;

wherein to alter comprises first determining that the first content and the second content are related based on the application usage data.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein to alter comprises positioning the second content in a non-overlapping area of the display device with respect to a display area including a portion of the first content.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the portion of the first content comprises a predetermined area.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the portion of the first content comprises a dynamically determined area.

18. A product, comprising:

a computer readable storage device having code embodied therewith, the code being executable by a processor and comprising;

code that outputs, to a display device, first content in a first location on the display device;

code that receives, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;

said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;

code that determines, using a processor, that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;

code that detects, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;

code that alters, in response to output of the code that detects, using a processor, one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content; and

code that displays both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.