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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMark C. Solomon, Paul J. Doczy, Steven S. Homer, Stacy Wolff
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The present technique provides a system and method for automatically switching viewing orientations of a display in response to physical rotation of the display. The display is rotatably coupled to a base structure via a rotatable mechanism, which has one or more angular switches/sensors that sense the physical orientation of the display and trigger a change in the viewing orientation of the display. The display may be a stand-alone flat-panel display or it may be incorporated into a portable electronic/computing devices, such as a tablet computer. Moreover, the base structure may embody a display support, a port replicator, a docking station, or any other suitable structure having a rotational adjustment mechanism.
A system for automatically switching viewing orientations of a display in response to physical rotation of the display, comprising:
A docking structure for a tablet computing device having a display, comprising:
A portable computing system, comprising a tablet computing device having a display and a rotatable display mount adapted to couple the tablet computing device rotatably to a base structure, wherein the rotatable display mount comprises an automatic viewing orientation switch responsive to angular position changes of the display relative to the rotatable display mount.
A tablet computer system, comprising:
A method for mounting a display, comprising the acts of:
A method for mounting a tablet computing device having a display, comprising the acts of:
A method for automatically switching viewing orientations of a display in response to physical rotation of the display, comprising the acts of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.