# US 10,120,488 B2 · Display method and display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,120,488 B2 - Document ID: US10120488B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/203,080 - Filed: 2016-07-06 - Published: 2016-10-27 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2011-06-27 - Assignees: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited; Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. - Applicants: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.; Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. - Inventors: Bin Li; Yiqiang Yan - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120488B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/0416: {Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers} - G06F 3/041: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - 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 - G09G 5/00: Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators (image data processing or generation, in general G06T) - G09G 5/12: Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players - G09G 2340/0464: Positioning - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract A display method and display device are described where the method includes when a first device is in a first status, the first device displays a first output content of the first device in a first display area of a display module, when it is detected that the first device goes into a second status from the first status, the first device displays the first output content in a second display area of the display module, and displays a second output content in a third display area of the display module, wherein, the first output content is different from the second output content, the second area does not overlap with the third area, and the first area contains the second and third areas. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display method applied to a first device including a display module and a first input module, the first device having at least a first state in which it is connected to a second device including a second input module, the display module displays output content of the first device in the first state and is capable of receiving input from the second input module, and a second state in which it is disconnected with the second device, the display module displays the output content of the first device and is capable of receiving input from the first input module, the method comprising steps of: displaying a first output content of the first device in a first region of the display module by the first device, when the first device is in the first state; displaying the first output content in a second region of the display module, and displaying a second output content in a third region of the display module by the first device, when it is detected that the first device enters the second state from the first state; wherein the first output content is different from the second output content, the second region is not overlapped with the third region, and the first region contains the second region and the third region and wherein the first region, the second region and the third region are within the same display module. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first input module comprises a touch sensitive module; the touch sensitive module is arranged to be overlapped with at least the third region of the display module, and is operable to sense a touch operation on the first output content by an operating object. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the second output content comprises an operation instruction identifier for triggering a command corresponding to the operation instruction identifier when it is detected that a touch sensitive region corresponding to the operation instruction identifier senses an operation by the operating object. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein said displaying the second output content in a third region of the display module comprises: determining the second output content associated with the first output content based on a first input content; and displaying the second output content in the third region of the display module. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the second output content comprises range information on touch operation region for prompting that a touch operation on the first output content can be made in the region limited by the range information. ### Claim 6 A display method applied to a first device including a display module and a first input module, the first device having at least a first state in which it is connected to a second device including a second input module and the display module displays a third output content of the second device in the first state, and a second state in which it is disconnected with the second device, the display module displays a first output content of the first device and is capable of receiving input from the first input module, the method comprising steps of: displaying the third output content of the second device in a first region of the display module by the first device, when the first device is in the first state; displaying the first output content in a second region of the display module, and displaying a second output content of the first device in a third region of the display module by the first device, when it is detected that the first device enters the second state from the first state; wherein the first output content is different from the second output content, the second region is not overlapped with the third region, and the first region contains the second region and the third region and wherein the first region, the second region and the third region are within the same display module. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the first input module comprises a touch sensitive module; the touch sensitive module is arranged to be overlapped with at least the third region of the display module, and is operable to sense a touch operation on the first output content by an operating object. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the second output content comprises an operation instruction identifier for triggering a command corresponding to the operation instruction identifier when it is detected that a touch sensitive region corresponding to the operation instruction identifier senses an operation by the operating object. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein said displaying a second output content in a third region of the display module comprises: determining the second output content associated with the first output content based on a first input content; and displaying the second output content in the third region of the display module. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the second output content comprises range information on touch operation region for prompting that a touch operation on the first output content can be made in the region limited by the range information. ### Claim 11 A display device including a display module and a first input module, the display device as a first device having at least a first state in which it is connected to a second device including a second input module, the display module displays output content of the first device in the first state and is capable of receiving input from the second input module, and a second state in which it is disconnected with the second device, the display module displays the output content of the first device and is capable of receiving input from the first input module, the device further includes a detection module, in which: the display module is operable to display a first output content of the first device in a first region of the display module, when the first device is in the first state; the detection module is operable to detect whether the first device enters the second state from the first state or not; the display module is further operable to display the first output content in a second region of the display module, and to display a second output content in a third region of the display module, when it is detected that the first device enters the second state from the first state by the detection module; wherein the first output content is different from the second output content, the second region is not overlapped with the third region, and the first region contains the second region and the third region and wherein the first region, the second region and the third region are within the same display module. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The device of claim 11, wherein the first input module comprises a touch sensitive module; the touch sensitive module is arranged to be overlapped with at least the third region of the display module, and is operable to sense a touch operation on the first output content by an operating object. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The device of claim 12, wherein the second output content comprises an operation instruction identifier for triggering a command corresponding to the operation instruction identifier when it is detected that a touch sensitive region corresponding to the operation instruction identifier senses an operation by the operating object; the display module is operable to determine the second output content associated with the first output content based on a first input content, and to display the second output content in the third region of the display module. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The device of claim 12, wherein the second output content comprises range information on touch operation region for prompting that a touch operation on the first output content can be made in the region limited by the range information. ### Claim 15 A display device including a display module and a first input module, the first device as a first device having at least a first state in which it is connected to a second device including a second input module and the display module displays a third output content of the second device in the first state, and a second state in which it is disconnected with the second device, the display module displays a first output content of the first device and is capable of receiving input from the first input module, the device further includes a detection module, in which: the display module is operable to display the third output content of the second device in a first region of the display module, when the first device is in the first state; the detection module is operable to detect whether the first device enters the second state from the first state; the display module is further operable to display the first output content in a second region of the display module, and to display a second output content of the first device in a third region of the display module, when it is detected that the first device enters the second state from the first state; wherein the first output content is different from the second output content, the second region is not overlapped with the third region, and the first region contains the second region and the third region and wherein the first region, the second region and the third region are within the same display module. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The device of claim 15, wherein the first input module comprises a touch sensitive module; the touch sensitive module is arranged to be overlapped with at least the third region of the display module, and is operable to sense a touch operation on the first output content by an operating object. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The device of claim 16, wherein the second output content comprises an operation instruction identifier for triggering a command corresponding to the operation instruction identifier when it is detected that a touch sensitive region corresponding to the operation instruction identifier senses an operation by the operating object; the display module is operable to determine the second output content associated with the first output content based on a first input content, and to display the second output content in the third region of the display module. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The device of claim 16, wherein the second output content comprises range information on touch operation region for prompting that a touch operation corresponding to a fixed command can be made in the region limited by the range information.