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US 2011/0084984 A1Published application
Self-orienting display
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorScott Manchester
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorScott Manchester
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A self-orienting display senses the characteristics of an object and automatically rotates and reformats a display image in accordance with those characteristics. In one embodiment, the object is the display device, such as a hand held device, that provides the display image. As the display device is rotated, the display image is automatically oriented to either a landscape orientation or a portrait orientation. Characteristics may be sensed by mechanical sensors, electrical sensors, optical sensors, acoustic sensors, gyroscopic sensors, or a combination thereof. Sensors may be positioned on the display device, a person, or a combination thereof. The display images may include graphic display images, textual display images, videos display images, and functional control buttons (e.g., functional displayed representations of control buttons such as play, rewind, stop, scroll). The self-orienting display may also include an authenticator that authenticates a user.
A method of reorienting a display image portion of a display image rendered by a display device, the method comprising:
A system for reorienting a display image portion of a display image rendered by a display device, the system comprising:
A computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon that when executed by a processor causes a display device to reorient a display image portion of a display image rendered by the display device, the program code comprising:
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