Technologies for dynamic display with a transformable display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10061424-B2
Application number	US-201514998314-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 26, 2015
Priority date	Dec 26, 2015
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

Technologies for dynamic display include a mobile compute device that comprises a display transformable between at least two different physical topologies. The mobile compute device determines a current physical topology of the display and retrieves a policy based on the determined current physical topology. The policy identifies a corresponding action to occur in response to each of one or more user inputs to the mobile compute device while the display has the current physical topology. The mobile compute device processes a user input based on the retrieved policy.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile compute device for dynamic display with integrated touch, the mobile compute device comprising:
a display comprising an integrated touch controller and transformable between at least two different physical topologies;
a topology monitoring module to determine a current physical topology of the display;
a policy management module to retrieve a policy of a plurality of policies based on the determined current physical topology, wherein the policy identifies a corresponding action to occur in response to a user input that can be detected by the mobile compute device while the display has the current physical topology, and wherein each other policy of the plurality of policies identifies a different action to occur in response to detection of the same user input while the display is in a different physical topology than the current physical topology; and
a user input module to detect the user input,
wherein the policy management module is further to update the retrieved policy in response to a determination that the user input has been detected, wherein the updated retrieved policy includes one or more trigger events, and wherein each of the one or more trigger events enable or disable a particular function of the mobile compute device while in the current physical topology.

2. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , wherein to retrieve the policy comprises to retrieve the policy from a cloud server.

3. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , further comprising one or more sensors, wherein the topology monitoring module is further to monitor sensor data of the one or more sensors to determine whether the display has changed from the current physical topology to a different physical topology.

4. The mobile compute device of claim 3 , wherein the policy management module is further to determine a different policy based on the different physical topology.

5. The mobile compute device of claim 3 , wherein to determine whether the display has changed from the current physical topology to the different physical topology comprises to determine whether the display has been at least one of folded, unfolded, rolled, or unrolled.

6. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , wherein the policy management module is further to update the policy to change the corresponding action to occur in response to one of the one or more inputs while the display has the current physical topology.

7. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , wherein the policy further identifies at least one of a power state or a thermal state of each region of the display while the display has the current physical topology.

8. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , further comprising a sensor hub that includes a plurality of sensors, wherein the topology monitoring module is to determine the current physical topology of the display based on sensor data of the plurality of sensors.

9. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , further comprising an analytics module to store at least one of the current physical topology or the user input.

10. The mobile compute device of claim 1 , further comprising an analytics module to transmit at least one of the current physical topology or the user input to a cloud server.

11. One or more machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a mobile compute device, causes the mobile compute device to:
determine a current physical topology of the display;
retrieve a policy of a plurality of policies based on the determined current physical topology, wherein the policy identifies a corresponding action to occur in response to a user input that can be detected by the mobile compute device while the display has the current physical topology, and wherein each other policy of the plurality of policies identifies a different action to occur in response to detection of the same user input while the display is in a different physical topology than the current physical topology;
detect a user input; and
update the retrieved policy in response to a determination that the user input has been detected, wherein the updated retrieved policy includes a trigger event, wherein the trigger event enables or disables a topology mode while in the current physical topology.

12. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein to retrieve the policy comprises retrieving the policy from a cloud server.

13. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the mobile compute device to monitor sensor data of one or more sensors of the mobile compute device to determine whether the display has changed from the current physical topology to a different physical topology.

14. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the mobile compute device to determine a different policy based on the different physical topology.

15. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 13 , wherein to determine whether the display has changed from the current physical topology to the different physical topology comprises to determine whether the display has been at least one of folded, unfolded, rolled, or unrolled.

16. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the mobile compute device to update the policy to change the corresponding action to occur in response to one of the one or more inputs while the display has the current physical topology.

17. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the policy further identifies at least one of a power state or a thermal state of each region of the display while the display has the current physical topology.

18. The one or more machine-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of instructions further causes the mobile compute device to determine the current physical topology of the display based on sensor data generated by a plurality of sensors of a sensor hub of the mobile compute device.

19. A method for dynamic display on a display transformable between at least two different physical topologies, the method comprising:
determining, by a mobile compute device, a current physical topology of the display;
retrieving, by the mobile compute device, a policy of a plurality of policies based on the determined current physical topology, wherein the policy identifies a corresponding action to occur in response to a user input that can be detected by the mobile compute device while the display has the current physical topology, and wherein each other policy of the plurality of policies identifies a different action to occur in response to detection of the same user input while the display is in a different physical topology than the current physical topology; and
detecting, by the mobile compute device, a user input;
updating, by the mobile compute device and in response to a determination that the user input has been detected, wherein the updated retrieved policy includes a trigger event, wherein the trigger event enables or disables a topology mode while in the current physical topology.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein retrieving the policy comprises retrieving the policy from a cloud server.

21. The method of claim 19 , further comprising monitoring, by the mobile compute device, sensor data of one or more sensors of the mobile compute device to d

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Poornachandran Rajesh
• Zimmer Vincent J
• Adams Nicholas J
• Jeganathan Nithyananda S
• Danneels Gunner D

Classifications

• G06F1/1652

  the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable · CPC title

• G06F3/0416 Primary

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/0412

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G06F9/44505

  Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files · CPC title