Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
345652000 | Constrained manipulations (e.g., movement in less than all dimensions) | 10 |
20090027420 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic equipment includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module includes a first elongated chamber, a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, an opaque medium partially filled in the first elongated chamber and an air pocket received in the first elongated chamber. The display controlling module is configured for deviating the displayed image at a given angle clockwise or counterclockwise from the original orientation of the image. | 01-29-2009 |
20090066728 | Device and Method for Screen Rotation on a Touch-Screen Display - In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a multifinger twisting gesture is detected on or near the touch screen display. The multifinger twisting gesture has a corresponding degree of rotation. A 90° screen rotation command is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation exceeds a predefined degree of rotation. A screen rotation command with an acute angle of rotation is executed and, upon ceasing to detect the multifinger twisting gesture, a screen rotation command with an angle of rotation opposite to the acute angle is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation is less than the predefined degree of rotation. | 03-12-2009 |
20100026720 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, VIEW ANGLE CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile phone ( | 02-04-2010 |
20100214319 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect portrait/landscape orientation of the apparatus, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve, out of a plurality of image data, image data oriented according to the detected orientation, a display unit, and a control unit configured to display on the display unit an image relating to the retrieved image data. | 08-26-2010 |
20120105481 | TOUCH CONTROL METHOD AND PORTABLE TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A portable terminal and method capable of detecting a touch event unintended by a user to control unnecessary touch so that a corresponding touch event is not applied are provided. The touch control method includes collecting at least one touch event of a touch panel, determining location information of the at least one collected touch event, and applying a touch event by disregarding the collected touch event when the location information is an invalid region. | 05-03-2012 |
20120162263 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SLIDING DISPLAY AND POSITION CONFIGURABLE CAMERA - A handheld electronic device having a movable display screen is used to capture image data. The movable display screen is movable between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position a first portion of the display screen is hidden from view and a second portion of the display screen is viewable, and in the second position the first portion and the second portion of the display screen are viewable, the handheld electronic device having an image sensor, an orientation sensor for sensing an orientation of the handheld electronic device, and at least one position sensor for sensing a position of the display screen. Device orientation information is received from the orientation sensor, display screen position information is received from the position sensor and image data is received from the image sensor representing an image. An image orientation for the image is determined in dependence on both the display screen position information and the device orientation information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120182319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A DISPLAY DIRECTION OF A SCREEN - A system for changing the display direction of a screen includes a gravity sensor, a control key unit, a display control unit, and a control mode choice unit. The gravity sensor is adapted to generate gravity-sensing signals according to the orientation of the screen. The control key unit is adapted to generate a control instruction. The control mode choice unit is connected to the gravity sensor and the control key unit. The control mode choice unit is adapted to send either the gravity sensed signal from the gravity sensor or the control instruction from the control key unit to the display control unit. The display control unit is adapted to control the display direction of the screen according to either the gravity sensed signal or the control instruction. | 07-19-2012 |
20120218305 | Systems and Methods for Manipulating User Annotations in Electronic Books - An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer. | 08-30-2012 |
20120262489 | Relative and Absolute Screen Rotation Draft Agent - An approach is provided where a request is received to rotate graphical objects displayed on a display screen from a first orientation to a second orientation, the request received from a user operating the machine. The second orientation of the graphical objects is calculated based on a rotational reference that is included in the request. The graphical objects are then displayed on the display screen at the calculated second orientation, with the second orientation being visually rotated from the first orientation. | 10-18-2012 |
20140168271 | ROTATION OF VISUAL CONTENT ON A DISPLAY UNIT - A graphics presentation apparatus including a display unit, an eye-tracking module, and a data output module. The eye-tracking module registers image data representing at least one eye of a user of the apparatus. Furthermore, the eye-tracking module determines, based on the registered image data, an orientation of the at least one eye relative to the display unit. Finally, in response thereto, the eye-tracking module generates a control signal controlling the data output module to produce visual content with such orientation on the display unit that a misalignment between the orientation of said at least one part and the orientation of the at least one eye of the user is minimized. | 06-19-2014 |