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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2003
Applicant:
Timo Tokkonen, Oulu, FI;
Inventor:
Timo Tokkonen, Oulu, FI;
Assignee:
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The object of the invention is a method and a software application embodying the method for displaying the information in the display () of a data processing device in a situation where a portion of the display () area, and thus also a portion of the information on the display, is covered by an obstacle () in front of the display (). The method according to the invention detects the size and position of the obstacle (), and then regroups () the information in the display () into a portion of the display (), which is not left behind the detected obstacle ().