Computing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022147098-A1
Application number	US-202017092300-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 8, 2020
Priority date	Nov 8, 2020
Publication date	May 12, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a first display housing that includes a first display, a first display surface and a recess; a second display housing that includes a second display, a second display surface, where the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface; a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display; and circuitry that controls rendering of information to the second display based at least in part on the position signal.

First claim

1 . A system comprising:
a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a first display housing that comprises a first display, a first display surface and a recess; a second display housing that comprises a second display, a second display surface, wherein the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface, and wherein the second display housing is receivable at least in part in the recess in a portrait orientation and in a landscape orientation; a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display, wherein the position signal is indicative of the portrait orientation or is indicative of the landscape orientation; and circuitry that controls rendering of information to the second display based at least in part on the position signal.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the recess comprises a translation guide.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the second display housing comprises a component that cooperates with the translation guide.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the position signal corresponds to a standard video aspect ratio for a combined display area of the first display surface and the exposed portion of the second display surface.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry controls rendering of a virtual bezel to the second display surface.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the recess comprises an open side, wherein the virtual bezel is renderable along a side of the second display surface that corresponds to the open side and wherein the virtual bezel matches a physical bezel along an opposing side of the second display surface.

7 .- 8 . (canceled)

9 . The system of claim 1 , comprising a keyboard housing that comprises a keyboard, a hinge assembly that operatively couples the first display housing to the keyboard housing.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the recess comprises at least one open side.

11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the second display housing is translatable in two orthogonal directions.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the second display housing comprises a camera.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the camera is activated responsive to translation of the second housing.

14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the first display housing comprises an opening wherein, in at least one position of the second display housing, the camera comprises an aperture that is aligned with the opening for image capture.

15 . The system of claim 1 , comprising activation circuitry that instantiates an application responsive to the translation of the second display housing.

16 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is a first processor of the first display housing and further comprising a second processor of the second display housing, wherein the first processor executes a first operating system to establish a first operating system environment and wherein the second processor executes a second operating system to establish a second operating system environment.

17 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the information corresponds to mobile smartphone information that simulates a mobile smartphone wirelessly coupled to the second display housing.

18 . A method comprising:
in a system that comprises a first display housing with a first display having a first display surface and a second display housing with a second display having a second display surface, deciding whether the second display housing is in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation and, based at least in part on the deciding, controlling rendering of information to the second display of the second display housing responsive to translation of the second display housing in a recess of the first display housing that exposes at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the controlling comprises receiving sensor information by a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display.

20 . One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions to instruct a computing system to:
make a determination as to whether a second display housing, in a recess of a first display housing, is in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation; and based at least in part on the determination, control rendering of information to a second display of the second display housing responsive to translation of the second display housing in the recess of a first display housing, wherein the translation exposes at least a portion of a second display surface of the second display adjacent to a first display surface of the first display.

21 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the first display housing comprises four edges that define a first rectangle, wherein the second housing comprises four edges that define a second rectangle, and wherein each of the four edges of the second display housing is shorter than a shortest edge of the four edges of the first display housing such that the second rectangle defines an area that is less than an area of the first rectangle.

Assignees

• Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Stewart Aaron Michael
• Rose Alden

Classifications

• G06F1/1626

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

• G06F1/165 Primary

  the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information · CPC title

• G06F1/1647

  including at least an additional display (G06F1/1692 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/1694

  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