Computing devices with display mode control units
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMario E. Campos, Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Cheng-Hua Yu
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Abstract
A portable computing device may comprise an internal central processing unit (CPU), an internal graphics processing unit (GPU), a communications port to communicate with an external computing device, a first electronic display connected to the internal GPU, a second electronic display connected to the internal GPU, a touch input device to receive touch inputs from a user, and a display mode control unit. The control unit may cause the portable computing device to selectively operate in a dual display operational mode, a direct input operational mode, and an indirect input operational mode.
Claims20
A computing device comprising:
- an internal central processing unit (CPU);
- an internal graphics processing unit (GPU);
- a communications port to communicate with an external computing device;
- an electronic display connected to the internal GPU;
- and
- a display mode control unit to selectively operate the computing device in a plurality of different operational modes including:
- a first operational mode in which the internal GPU drives the electronic display based on data received from the external computing device via the communications port.
A computing device comprising:
- an internal central processing unit (CPU);
- an internal graphics processing unit (GPU);
- a communications port to communicate with an external computing device;
- an electronic display connected to the internal GPU;
- a touch input device to receive touch inputs, and
- a display mode control unit to selectively operate the computing device in a plurality of different operational modes including:
- a first operational mode in which the computing device functions as an input device for the external computing device with the display mode control unit conveying touch inputs received via the touch input device to the external computing device via the communications port.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon that, when implemented by a display mode control unit of a first computing device, causes the display mode control unit to selectively:
- activate a first operational mode in which an internal graphics processing unit (GPU) of the first computing device drives an electronic display of the first computing device based on data received from a second computing device via a communications port of the first computing device;
- and
- activate a second operational mode in which the first computing device functions as an input device for the second computing device with the display mode control unit conveying touch inputs received via a touch input device of the first computing device to the second computing device via the communications port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.