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Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

John Miles Hunt, Raleigh, NC (US);

John Weldon Nicholson, Holly Springs, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1614 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1637 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0492 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method can include operating a 3-axis accelerometer having two axes that define a plane and an axis perpendicular to the plane to provide acceleration values for the three axes; increasing a threshold responsive to an increase in magnitude of the acceleration value for the axis perpendicular to the plane or decreasing the threshold responsive to a decrease in magnitude of the acceleration value for the axis perpendicular to the plane; and orienting output to a display in either a portrait format or a landscape format based on comparing the acceleration values for the two axes that define the plane to the threshold.


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