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US 11,455,015 B2Granted
Computing system
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsAaron Michael Stewart, Alden Rose
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Abstract
A system can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a first display housing that includes a first display, a first display surface and a recess; a second display housing that includes a second display, a second display surface, where the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface; a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display; and circuitry that controls rendering of information to the second display based at least in part on the position signal.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- memory accessible to the processor;
- a first display housing that comprises a first display, a first display surface and a recess;
- a second display housing that comprises a second display, a second display surface, wherein the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface, wherein the second display housing is receivable at least in part in the recess in a portrait orientation and in a landscape orientation, wherein the first display housing comprises four edges that define a first rectangle, wherein the second housing comprises four edges that define a second rectangle, and wherein each of the four edges of the second display housing is shorter than a shortest edge of the four edges of the first display housing such that the second rectangle defines an area that is less than an area of the first rectangle;
- a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display, wherein the position signal is indicative of the portrait orientation or is indicative of the landscape orientation;
- and
- circuitry that controls rendering of information to the second display based at least in part on the position signal.
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A method comprising:
- in a system that comprises first display housing that comprises a first display, a first display surface and a recess;
- a second display housing that comprises a second display, a second display surface, wherein the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface, wherein the second display housing is receivable at least in part in the recess in a portrait orientation and in a landscape orientation, wherein the first display housing comprises four edges that define a first rectangle, wherein the second housing comprises four edges that define a second rectangle, and wherein each of the four edges of the second display housing is shorter than a shortest edge of the four edges of the first display housing such that the second rectangle defines an area that is less than an area of the first rectangle;
- and a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display, wherein the position signal is indicative of the portrait orientation or is indicative of the landscape orientation, deciding whether the second display housing is in the portrait orientation or the landscape orientation and, based at least in part on the deciding, controlling rendering of information to the second display of the second display housing responsive to translation of the second display housing in the recess of the first display housing that exposes at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions to instruct a computing system, that comprises a first display housing that comprises a first display, a first display surface and a recess;
- a second display housing that comprises a second display, a second display surface, wherein the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface, wherein the second display housing is receivable at least in part in the recess in a portrait orientation and in a landscape orientation, wherein the first display housing comprises four edges that define a first rectangle, wherein the second housing comprises four edges that define a second rectangle, and wherein each of the four edges of the second display housing is shorter than a shortest edge of the four edges of the first display housing such that the second rectangle defines an area that is less than an area of the first rectangle;
- and a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display, wherein the position signal is indicative of the portrait orientation or is indicative of the landscape orientation, to:
- make a determination as to whether the second display housing, in the recess of the first display housing, is in the portrait orientation or the landscape orientation;
- and
- based at least in part on the determination, control rendering of information to the second display of the second display housing responsive to translation of the second display housing in the recess of the first display housing, wherein the translation exposes at least a portion of the second display surface of the second display adjacent to the first display surface of the first display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.