US 2016/0077736 A1 · DISPLAY MODE SWITCHING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL

Abstract

The present application relates to a display mode switching device and method for a portable electronic device. In particular, the present application relates to a portable electronic device that can switch display modes of an integrated display and input device to facilitate composition of a text message by switching between a portrait mode and a landscape mode. A portable electronic device may use a display mode switching method in which a posture of the portable electronic device can be checked, and a display mode can be selected based on the posture. A portrait-mode text messaging composition window with a portrait-mode key map and a landscape-mode text messaging composition window with a landscape-mode key map can be displayed in the selected display mode.

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Dependent claims

A display method of an electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting an orientation of the electronic device;
and
displaying, on a single display screen of the electronic device,
an input region configured to display a plurality of virtual keys according to one of a first key map corresponding to a first orientation of the electronic device and a second key map corresponding to a second orientation of the electronic device, in response to the detected orientation of the electronic device, and
an output region configured to display characters input via the virtual keys,
wherein the second key map corresponding to the second orientation of the electronic device includes a left-side group of virtual keys and a right-side group of virtual keys that are respectively arranged at left and right sides of the single display screen.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/946,331Filed 19 Nov 2015

Priority

KR 10-2008-004815323 May 2008

Published

17 Mar 2016

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

G06F 3/04886
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…
G06F 3/02
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements using manually operated…
G09G 5/00
Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators
G09G 5/38
Characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory: with means for controlling the display position

Family

Application12/472,085Continuation · filed 26 May 2009

Application13/734,425Continuation · filed 4 Jan 2013

Application14/946,331Continuation

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Display mode switching device and method for mobile terminal

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Display mode switching device and method for mobile terminal

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Abstract

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