Information processing system, information processing apparatus, terminal device, and display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11907023-B2
Application number	US-202217659711-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 19, 2022
Priority date	Apr 23, 2021
Publication date	Feb 20, 2024
Grant date	Feb 20, 2024

Abstract

An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus including a display and a terminal device to execute one or more applications. The information processing apparatus includes first circuitry to transmit a detection result indicating at least one of a posture, an inclination, and a bending angle of the display to the terminal device, receive layout information of the applications and content information of the applications from the terminal device, and display one or more windows of the applications on the display based on the layout information and the content information received from the terminal device. The terminal device includes second circuitry to determine, based on the detection result, a layout of the one or more windows of the applications corresponding to the detection result transmitted from the information processing apparatus to generate the layout information and transmit the layout information to the information processing apparatus.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing system comprising:
an information processing apparatus including a display; and
a terminal device configured to execute one or more applications,
the information processing apparatus including first circuitry configured to:
transmit a detection result indicating a posture, an inclination, and a bending angle of the display to the terminal device;
receive layout information of the applications and content information of the applications from the terminal device; and
display one or more windows of the applications on the display based on the layout information and the content information received from the terminal device,

the terminal device including second circuitry configured to:
determine where the one or more windows of the applications are arranged based on a layout table in which a layout of the one or more windows of the applications corresponding to the detection result is set in advance to generate the layout information; and
transmit the layout information to the information processing apparatus.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the one or more applications include a plurality of different applications;
the bending angle indicates that the display is folded along a folding line with the bending angle; and
the second circuitry of the terminal device is configured to generate the layout information for arranging at least two windows of the plurality of different applications respectively in a plurality of areas of the display, divided by the folding line.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the one or more applications include a plurality of different applications; and
the second circuitry of the terminal device is configured to generate the layout information for arranging the one or more windows of the plurality of different applications in different areas of the display, according to the inclination of the display.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3 , wherein the second circuitry of the terminal device is configured to generate the layout information for arranging the one or more windows of the plurality of different applications according to the posture of the display, based on information associating the layout and the posture of the display for the same inclination of the display.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the layout information indicates that a display of the terminal device is one of destinations where the one or more windows of the applications are to be arranged.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the detection result is associated with a plurality of destinations where the one or more windows of the applications are to be arranged in the layout table, the plurality of destinations including the display of the information processing apparatus and a display of the terminal device.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the second circuitry of the terminal device is further configured to receive an operation of a user to change a setting of the layout table.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the second circuitry of the terminal device is configured to receive an input by a user indicating whether to automatically generate the layout information in a case where the information processing apparatus and the terminal device are connected to each other.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first circuitry of the information processing apparatus is configured to display the one or more windows of the applications on the display based on a video signal output from the terminal device; and
the second circuitry of the terminal device is further configured to regard the display of the terminal device and the display of the information processing apparatus to be one display area and generate the video signal for displaying the one or more windows of the applications on the one display area based on the determined layout information.

10. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a display; and
circuitry configured to transmit a detection result indicating a posture, an inclination, and a bending angle of the display to a terminal device capable of executing one or more applications, receive layout information of the applications and content information of the applications, the layout information being generated by determining where one or more windows of the applications are arranged based on a layout table in which a layout of the one or more windows of the applications corresponding to the detection result is set in advance, and display the one or more windows of the applications on the display based on the layout information and the content information received from the terminal device.

11. A terminal device comprising circuitry, the circuitry configured to:
execute one or more applications;
determine where one or more windows of the applications are arranged based on a layout table in which a layout of the one or more windows of the applications corresponding to a detection result transmitted from an information processing apparatus is set in advance to generate layout information, the detection result indicating a posture, an inclination, and a bending angle of a display of the information processing apparatus; and
transmit the layout information and content information of the applications to the information processing apparatus.

12. A display method performed by an information processing apparatus that displays a screen on a display, the method comprising:
transmitting a detection result indicating a posture, an inclination, and a bending angle of the display to a terminal device capable of executing one or more applications;
determining where one or more windows of the applications are arranged based on a layout table in which a layout of the one or more windows of the applications corresponding to the detection result is set in advance to generate layout information;
receiving the layout information of the applications corresponding to the detection result transmitted from the terminal device and content information of the applications; and
displaying the one or more windows of the applications on the display based on the layout information and the content information.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the second circuitry of the terminal device is configured to determine where the one or more windows of the applications are arranged based on the layout table, without a selection by a user, when the information processing apparatus is connected to the terminal device.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the layout of the one or more windows of the applications includes a layout on the terminal device as a main screen and the information processing apparatus as sub screens.

15. The information processing system according to claim 14 , wherein:
the determining includes determining a number of the sub screens of the information processing apparatus.

Assignees

• Takahashi Masato
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takahashi Masato

Classifications

• G06F1/1677 Primary

  for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment · CPC title

• G06F1/1616

  with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position · CPC title

• G06F1/1694 Primary

  the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer · CPC title

• G06F2200/1637

  Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer · CPC title

• G06F1/1626

  with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs] · CPC title