Rotating display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9892715-B2
Application number	US-201514751880-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2015
Priority date	Jun 26, 2015
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

An apparatus includes a housing and a fixing mechanism configured to attach the housing to an object. The housing includes a display device and at least one processor configured to receive measurement data in a measurement mode during a physical exercise, to process the received measurement data, thus generating exercise data characterizing the exercise, and to display the exercise data through the display device during the physical exercise. The display device is configured to provide a plurality of display view orientations associated with different rotation angles between a first display view orientation, defined by attachment of the fixing mechanism to the object, and a 90-degree rotation from the first display view orientation. At least one function of the processor is associated with the rotation of the display view.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a fixing mechanism configured to attach said housing to an object, the housing comprising a display device and at least one processor configured to receive measurement data in a measurement mode during a physical exercise, to process the received measurement data, thus generating exercise data characterizing the exercise, and to display the exercise data through the display device during the physical exercise; and
a mechanical bezel provided around the display device and is separate therefrom, the mechanical bezel being mechanically rotatable about the display device wherein the display device mechanically rotates together with the bezel relative to the housing,
wherein the display device is configured to provide a plurality of display view orientations associated with different rotation angles of the bezel between a first display view orientation, defined by attachment of the fixing mechanism to the object, and a 90-degree rotation from the first display view orientation, and wherein at least one function of the processor is associated with the rotation of the display view.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the display device is attached to the bezel, and the mechanically rotating bezel is configured to provide a mechanical rotation of the display device between the plurality of display view orientations.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein rotation of the mechanic bezel switches the at least one function of the processor to a second function and wherein the second function is triggering a start of the measurement mode in the apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function of the processor associated with the rotation of the display device is selecting, by the processor, one of the plurality of display view orientations in response to an input and controlling, by the processor, the display device to provide display content comprising exercise data in the selected display view orientation.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein rotation of the bezel provides an electric input serving as said input, and wherein the processor is configured to determine the position of the bezel on the basis of said electric input from the bezel and to select one of the display view orientations on the basis of the determined position of the bezel.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein said input is a user input specifying one of the plurality of display view orientations and the processor is configured to cause the display device to display content in the specified display view orientation.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the user input is received through a user interface of the apparatus.

8. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the user input is received from another apparatus through a communication interface.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processor is configured to cause the display device to display the content in the specified display view orientation in the measurement mode, and to display content in another display view orientation when the apparatus is not in the measurement mode.

10. The apparatus of claim 4 , further comprising a motion sensor, wherein the input is a sensor input from the motion sensor, and wherein the processor is configured to select one of the plurality of display view orientations on the basis of the sensor input.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor is configured to change, during physical motion of the apparatus, the display view orientation dynamically according to the measured motion defined by the sensor input.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of display view orientations provide different rotations of the display view about an axis perpendicular to a plane formed by a display screen of the display device.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of display view orientations provide different rotations of the display view about an axis parallel to a plane formed by a display screen of the display device.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the processor is configured to determine inclination of the display screen with respect to a reference inclination and to carry out perspective compensation for the display view according to the determined inclination.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is a wrist computer configured to be attached to a user's wrist.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is a bike computer configured to be attached to a bicycle.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the housing is detachably attachable to multiple fixing mechanisms of different types and associated with different display view orientations of the display device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to identify a fixing mechanism currently attached to the housing and to select a display view orientation associated with the fixing mechanism currently attached to the housing.

18. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein rotation of the mechanical bezel switches the apparatus from an idle mode to the measurement where the at least one processor receives the measurement data during the physical exercise.

Assignees

• Polar Electro Oy

Inventors

• Komulainen Olli
• Lumme Lauri

Classifications

• G06F3/04897 Primary

  Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability · CPC title

• G06F3/016

  Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user · CPC title

• G09G2354/00

  Aspects of interface with display user · CPC title

• G04G21/025

  for measuring physiological data · CPC title

• G04G17/045

  Mounting of the display · CPC title