Mobile electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9547382-B2
Application number	US-201414503096-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	Apr 26, 2011
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

A first cabinet comprising a first display module and a second cabinet comprising a second display module are provided. A switching is allowed between: a first state in which the first cabinet is placed on top of the second display module and the first display module faces outside, and a second state in which the first cabinet and the second cabinet are arranged next to each other and the first display module and the second display module face outside. A first screen to be displayed by the first display module and a second screen to be displayed by the second display module are stored and a screen switching operation is detected. Displaying of the first screen on the first display module is canceled and the second screen is displayed on the first display module, when the screen switching operation is detected in the first state.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:
a display operable to display a first screen and receive a touch input by user;
a memory operable to store a second screen; and
a control module operable to, when the display receives a touch input comprising a predefined touch operation on the display while the display displays the first screen, cancel displaying the first screen on the display and display the second screen on the display,
wherein the first screen is a screen of a first application, and the second screen is a screen of a second application, and
wherein the display of the first screen is maintained until the predefined touch operation has been completed.

2. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a registration module operable to receive a touch movement from the user, and register the received touch movement as the predefined touch operation.

3. A method for operating a mobile electronic device comprising a display operable to display a first screen and receive a touch input by user, and a memory, the method comprising:
displaying the first screen on the display;
storing a second screen in the memory;
detecting a touch input comprising a predefined touch operation on the display while the display displays the first screen; and
canceling displaying the first screen on the display and displaying the second screen on the display,
wherein the first screen is a screen of a first application, and the second screen is a screen of a second application, and
wherein the display of the first screen is maintained until the predefined touch operation has been completed.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving a touch movement from a user; and
registering the received touch movement as the predefined touch operation.

Assignees

• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Inami Akiko
• Watanabe Naoya

Classifications

• 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

• G06F3/1438

  using more than one graphics controller · CPC title

• G06F1/1641 Primary

  the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components (G06F1/1647 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G09G2360/127

  Updating a frame memory using a transfer of data from a source area to a destination area · CPC title