Industrial Technology Research Institute

James Lee

Chien-Jui Wang

Junejei Huang

Wei-Chung Chao

Dao-Yang Huang

Chien-Ping Kung

Tai-Yuan Wang

Jen-Chieh Cheng

Yun-Fuh Yeh

Lance M Lan

Lin-Lin Chen

Tai Yuan Wang

A host node is provided with an I/O port and a display monitor. The I/O port transmits packets to a specific one of the remotely accessible server nodes containing a request for information. In response, the I/O port receives packets containing requested information, entries describing other topics of information that can be provided from the specific server node and entries describing other server nodes. The display monitor has a view area on which images are displayed. The display monitor displays a hierarchically organized table. The table includes the entries describing remotely accessible server nodes and the entries describing topics of information that can be retrieved from the remotely accessible server nodes. The entries are hierarchically organized so as to indicate a hierarchical organization of the entries as provided for retrieval from the remotely accessible server nodes which hierarchical order of retrieval is independent of a specific order of retrieval by the host node.

Method and system at a host node for hierarchically organizing the links

A foldable screen display for displaying screen images is disclosed which comprises: (a) at least two sub-displays; (b) a hinging member for pivotally connecting the sub-displays together on a side-by-side manner; (c) a magnifying optical element provided on top of each of the sub-displays, the magnifying optical element providing a magnifying power of between about 1.05 and about 1.3 so as to cause images displayed on the sub-displays to be perceived by a user as if they were from a single display; and (d) a membrane covering both of the sub-displays and the hinging member, the membrane being made of a transparent and resilient material. In a preferred embodiment, the magnifying optical element is a zone plate type magnifying optical element and is constructed to provide a magnifying power approximately equalling to one plus the ratio between the width of the hinging member and the width of sub-display. The foldable screen display provides the advantages of being able to reduce the size of the display without compromising user's desire for maximum viewing comfort; therefore, it is an excellent device for use in making personal digital assistants, electronic books, electronic Rolodex.RTM., pen-based computers, portable TV, etc.

Electronic apparatus with a foldable display

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

James Lee