Methods and systems for providing sensory information to devices to determine an orientation of a display

A machine readable non-transitory medium storing executable program instructions which when executed cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a motion event from at least one sensor located in a device;
• determining a current orientation of a display of the device;
• determining whether the device is currently moving by comparing previous motion information to current motion information;
• determining whether a default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference when the default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• and
• switching the orientation of the display of the device when it is determined that the device moved within the angle with respect to the ground reference for at least a first time period.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving a motion event from at least one sensor located in a device;
• means for determining a current orientation of a display of the device;
• means for determining whether the device is currently moving by comparing previous motion information to current motion information;
• means for determining whether a default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• means for determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference when the default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• and
• means for switching the orientation of the display of the device when it is determined that the device moved within the angle with respect to the ground reference for at least a first time period.

A method comprising:

• receiving a motion event from at least one sensor located in a device;
• determining a current orientation of a display of the device;
• determining whether the device is currently moving by comparing previous motion information to current motion information;
• and
• determining whether the current orientation of the display matches a default orientation of the display;
• determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference when the default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• switching the orientation of the display of the device when the device moved in excess of the angle;
• and
• determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference for a first time period when the current orientation matches the default orientation.

A machine readable non-transitory medium storing executable program instructions which when executed cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a motion event from at least one sensor located in a device;
• determining a current orientation of a display of the device;
• determining whether the device is currently moving by comparing previous motion information to current motion information;
• and
• determining whether the current orientation of the display matches a default orientation of the display;
• determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference when the default orientation of the display matches the current orientation of the display;
• switching the orientation of the display of the device when the device moved in excess of the angle;
• and p1 determining whether the device moved within an angle with respect to a ground reference for a first time period when the current orientation matches the default orientation.