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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2001
Sherridythe A. Fraser, San Jose, CA (US);
William Robert Hanson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Palm, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A display system is disclosed. The display system includes a processor and a first display device having a first display surface and receiving display data from the processor. The display system also includes a second display device having a display area smaller than the first display device and moveable over the surface of the first display device. The second display device is either partially transparent or partially translucent. The display system also includes a sensor in communication with the processor and communicating location data to the processor. The location data is representative of the relative location of the first display to the second display. A program is configured to run on the processor and provides display data to the first and second display devices such that the display data prior to the second display device is based on the location data. A user of the system views a composite three-dimensional image when viewing the second display. The composite three-dimensional image is made up of a partial first image from the first display viewed through the second display and a partial second image from the second display.