US 12,322,310 B2
Information processing device and control method
Yoshinori Ito, Kanagawa (JP); Kyoko Kawamura, Kanagawa (JP); and Noritoshi Yoshiyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Zug (CH)
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/479,951.
Application 18/479,951 is a continuation of application No. 17/817,347, filed on Aug. 3, 2022, granted, now 11,810,490.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-146754 (JP), filed on Sep. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0029606 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/035 (2020.08) [G06F 1/1641 (2013.01); G06F 1/1669 (2013.01); G06F 1/1686 (2013.01); G06F 3/0231 (2013.01); G09G 2320/08 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0464 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0492 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
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1. An information processing device comprising:
a first chassis and a second chassis connected to be rotatable relative to each other;
a foldable one display provided over the first chassis and the second chassis, where the display is switchable between:
a first display mode in which display is controlled by setting a screen area of the display as one display area; and
a second display mode in which display is controlled by splitting the screen area of the display into two display areas of a first display area corresponding to the first chassis and a second display area corresponding to the second chassis;
a memory which stores at least a program; and
a processor which executes the program stored in the memory,
wherein, by executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs orientation processing to detect an orientation of a screen area of the display,
display control processing to change a display rotation in the screen area according to the orientation of the screen area detected by the orientation detection processing,
connection detection processing to detect mounting of an external keyboard on a surface of the second chassis with the display provided thereon, and
display mode switching processing to, when the mounting of the external keyboard is detected by the connection detection processing, control a display area of the screen area in the second display mode to be in a preset display rotation regardless of the orientation of the screen area, wherein
the display control processing is modified, in response to detection of the mounting of the external keyboard by the connection detection processing, to stop the change of the display rotation according to the orientation processing.