US 8,570,345 B2Granted

Image display device

AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation

InventorsMakoto Fujimoto, Genji Kohara

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Abstract

[Object] It is an object of the present invention to provide an image display device capable of properly setting a display direction of an image in accordance with a user's will. [Constitution] When a user holds a cell phone such that a first switching key 8 comes closer to the user's body, this makes the user push the first switching key 8. If the user pushes the first switching key 8, a CPU 100 displays a display image such that a display direction becomes a first direction where the first switching key 8 comes downside. If the user holds the cell phone such that a second switching key 9 comes closer to the user's body, this makes the user push the second switching key 9. If the user pushes the second switching key 9, the CPU 100 displays the display image such that the display direction becomes a second direction where the second switching key 9 comes downside.

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Dependent claims

An image display device comprising

a display area having a display region on which an image is displayed,
a display controller which controls a display of the image,
an operating portion for setting display directions of the image, the operating portion comprising first and second operating portions disposed on both sides of a central portion of the display region, and
a position detector which detects a position on the display region designated by a user, wherein
the display controller lines up an image for providing information and an image for carrying out operation/inputting operation on the display region in one of the display directions corresponding to an operation to the operating portion such that a positional relation of the images is maintained in the respective display directions, and a display direction of the image for providing the information and the image for carrying out the operation/inputting operation is determined based on which of the first and second operating portions is operated, and
the position detector is disposed such that a detection region of the position detector covers a region where the image for carrying out the operation/inputting operation is located in the respective display directions which can be set through the operating portion.

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Facts

Application: 12/921,770Filed 11 Mar 2009
Priority: JP 2008-06476113 Mar 2008
Published: US 2011/0007095 A113 Jan 2011
Granted: 29 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 1/169
Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675: the I/O peripheral…
G06F 1/1626
For portable computers: with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
G06F 1/1671
Details related to the integrated keyboard: special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that…
G06F 1/1684
Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626:…

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