发明名称 Display reconfiguration and expansion across multiple devices
摘要 A computer detects the presence of another computer and automatically extends its display onto the other computer. In one embodiment, the computer is a tablet, and the display of one tablet can be automatically extended on to the display of the other tablet in either of portrait or landscape orientation to make a bigger display from the two tablets together.
申请公布号 US8823640(B1) 申请公布日期 2014.09.02
申请号 US201113274339 申请日期 2011.10.16
申请人 发明人 Harris Scott C.
分类号 G06F3/01 主分类号 G06F3/01
代理机构 Law Office of Scott C. Harris, Inc. 代理人 Law Office of Scott C. Harris, Inc.
主权项 1. A portable computer device, comprising: housing, holding a processor therein which runs a program that receives inputs and produces outputs, having a first display screen, and where at least some of said outputs are shown on said first display screen, said housing having at least one sensing part, that senses a proximity of another housing holding another processor and having another display screen, and where said processor runs a program from non-transitory storage that runs a program only on said first display screen in a first mode where said proximity of said another housing is not sensed to create a first output, and automatically shows said first output on only said first display screen in said first mode where said proximity of said another housing is not sensed, and to show said first output across both said first display screen and said another display screen of said another housing in a second mode where said proximity of said another housing is sensed, to create an expanded display including at least one line segment which extends from said display to said another display and is continuous across a junction between said display to said another display, and where a same line segment is displayed only on said first display screen when said proximity of said another housing is not sensed, and wherein the processor sets a first narrower aspect ratio for the display when only a single housing is detected, and sets a wider aspect ration for the display when two housings are detected and where the line segment when the two housings are detected extends over a longer distance than the line segment when the two housings are not detected.
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