Information handling devices with touch-based reflective display
View Patent ↗Devices, methods and products are described that provide information handling devices with touch-based reflective display. One aspect provides an information handling device including one or more processors; a display device; and a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input; wherein said touchable control area is disposed in place of at least a portion of a standard component of said information handling device, other than said display device, and provides functionality equivalent thereto in one or more configurations. Other embodiments are described.
1. An information handling device comprising:
one or more processors;
a display device; and
a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed;
wherein said touchable control area is disposed in a bezel surrounding said display device and does not overlap said display device.
2. The information handling device of claim 1 , wherein said display device is a reflective display device.
3. The information handling device of claim 1 , wherein said display device comprises a back lit touchscreen display device.
4. The information handling device of claim 1 , wherein said touchable control area comprises a non-back lit reflective display layer, wherein said non-back lit reflective display layer overlays a touch sensitive display layer.
5. An information handling device comprising:
a housing;
a display device disposed within said housing and including a bezel; and
a touchable control area having one or more configurable areas, said one or more configurable areas providing both reflective display and accepting touch-based input, wherein said reflective display substantially only draws power when the display contents are changed;
wherein said touchable control area is disposed in said bezel and does not overlap said display device.
6. The information handling device of claim 5 , wherein said information handling device is selected from the group consisting of a mobile phone, and a tablet computer.
7. The information handling device of claim 6 , wherein said one or more configurable areas receive one or more inputs from an operatively coupled information handling device;
said one or more inputs comprise signals for updating a configuration of said one or more configurable areas.
8. The information handling device of claim 7 , wherein said configuration comprises one or more of: a size of said one or more configurable areas, a shape of said one or more configurable areas, a reflective display of said one or more configurable areas, and a touch zone of said one or more configurable areas.