1. A method for generating sales presentations and displaying sales content, comprising:
displaying a home page using a computing device comprising processing circuitry and an electronic display, the home page comprising a meeting page element and a plurality of content area elements,
the meeting page element being linked to at least two meeting presentation pages, wherein the at least two meeting presentation pages include an active meeting presentation page to which content is being added or removed and an inactive meeting presentation page whose content is not being changed, and
the plurality of content area elements each being linked to a respective content selection page containing content that can be added or removed from the active meeting presentation page using selection controls, the selection controls having a selected state and an unselected state;
determining, with the processing circuitry, which of the at least two meeting presentation pages is selected as the active meeting presentation page;
determining, with the processing circuitry, the state of the selection controls and, for each selection control placed in the selected state, adding with the processing circuitry content corresponding to the selection control in the selected state to the active meeting presentation page, and for each selection control placed in the unselected state, removing with the processing circuitry content corresponding to the selection control placed in the unselected state from the active meeting presentation page; and
displaying the active meeting presentation page including at least a portion of the content added to the active meeting presentation page using the selection controls with the electronic display of the computing device.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the meeting page element is indirectly linked to the at least two meeting presentation pages through a meetings landing page comprising at least one sales meeting element linked to the active meeting presentation page and at least one sales meeting element linked to the inactive meeting presentation page.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the meetings landing page comprises a new sales meeting control, and further comprising detecting manipulation of the new sales meeting control with the processing circuitry and after detecting the manipulation of the new sales meeting control, generating an additional meeting presentation page and adding an additional sales meeting element to the meetings landing page, the additional sales meeting element linked to the additional meeting presentation page.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting manipulation on the active meeting presentation page of a content portion element linked to the content corresponding to the selection control with the processing circuitry and, after detecting the manipulation of the content portion element, displaying the content linked to the content portion element on the active meeting presentation page.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the content selection page further comprises content portion elements corresponding to the content selection controls, and for each selection control in the selected state, the processing circuitry adds a content portion element corresponding to the selection control in the selected state to the active meeting presentation page.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein a number of links connecting the active meeting presentation page and the content corresponding to the selection controls is less than or equal to a number of links connecting the content selection page and the content corresponding to the selection controls.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of content area elements on the home page is a user content page element linked to at least one user content selection page, the at least one user content selection page comprising selection controls having the selected state and the unselected state, each of the selection controls corresponding to respective user content, wherein the selection controls have the selected state and the unselected state, and placing each selection control in the selection state adds the respective user content corresponding to the selection control to the active meeting presentation page and placing the selection control in the unselected state removes the respective user content corresponding to the selection control from the active meeting presentation page.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the respective user content portion comprises a computer file created by a third party software application.
9. A system for generating sales meetings presentations and providing sales content, comprising a portable computing device comprising an electronic display and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to:
display a home page on the electronic display, the home page comprising a meeting page element linked to at least two meeting presentation pages and a plurality of content area elements;
detect manipulation of the meeting page element and selection of one of the at least two meeting presentation pages as an active meeting presentation page to which content is being added or removed;
display the active meeting presentation page corresponding to the detected manipulation of the meeting page element;
detect manipulation of one of the plurality of content area elements, and after detecting the manipulation of the content area element, display a content selection page corresponding to the manipulated content area element;
display a selection control on the content selection page corresponding to content configured to be one of added or removed from the meeting presentation page using the selection control;
determine a state of the selection control, the state comprising a selected state and an unselected state, wherein, when the selection control is placed in the selected state, content corresponding to the selection control is added to the active meeting presentation page by adding a content portion element linked to the content to the meeting presentation page and, when the selection control is placed in the unselected state, content corresponding to the selection control is removed from the active meeting presentation page by removing the content selection portion element linked to the content,
display the active meeting presentation page with the electronic display;
detect a manipulation of the content portion element on the active meeting presentation page; and
display the content corresponding to the content portion element in response to detecting the manipulation of the content portion element.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to display a meetings landing page upon detecting manipulation of the meeting page element, the meetings landing page comprising sales meeting elements linked to each of the at least two meeting presentation pages, and display the active meeting presentation page upon detecting a manipulation of a sales meeting element corresponding to the active meeting presentation page.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the meetings landing page comprises a new sales meeting control, and wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to detect manipulation of the new sales meeting control and after detecting the manipulation, generate an additional meeting presentation page and add an additional sales meeting element to the meetings landing page, the additional sales meeting element linked to the additional meeting presentation page.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the processing circuitry comprises a programmable processor and a memory component storing instructions for execution by the programmable processor.
13. The system of claim 12, further comprising a tablet computer providing the electronic display and the processing circuitry, and wherein the electronic display comprises a touch-sensitive screen providing an input-output interface for the processing circuitry.
14. A method, comprising building a meeting presentation page with a tablet computer that provides access to sales content for viewing with the tablet computer during a sales meeting, the building the meeting presentation page comprising:
opening a sales application by manipulating an application graphical user interface (GUI) element with the tablet computer;
navigating to a home page of the sales application, the home page comprising a meeting page GUI element providing access to at least two meeting presentation pages and a content area GUI element providing access to a content selection page;
manipulating one or more GUI elements to select one of the at least two meeting presentation pages for adding or removing content, thereby providing an active meeting presentation page;
manipulating one or more GUI elements to display the content selection page with the tablet computer, starting with manipulating at least the content area GUI element on the home page;
manipulating a GUI selection control on the content selection page, wherein the GUI selection control is configured to be placed in one of a selected state and an unselected state, and in response to manipulating the GUI selection control to the selected state, content corresponding to the GUI selection control is added to the active meeting presentation page by adding a content portion element linked to the content to the active meeting presentation page, and, in response to manipulating the GUI selection control to the unselected state, content corresponding to the GUI selection control is removed from the active meeting presentation page by removing the content selection portion element linked to the content; and
wherein the content portion element is selectable and, upon selection, causes the content linked to the content portion element to be displayed by the tablet computer.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein manipulating the one or more GUI elements to display the content selection page consists of manipulating the content area GUI element on the home page.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein manipulating the one or more GUI elements to display the content selection page comprises manipulating the content area GUI element to display a content area page comprising a content selection page GUI element and manipulating the content selection page GUI element to display the content selection page.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein the content selection page comprises a user content selection page and the content linked to the content portion element comprises a computer file created by a third party software application.
18. The method of claim 14, further comprising accessing the sales content during the sales meeting with the tablet computer, the accessing the sales content comprising manipulating the meeting page element to access the active meeting presentation page.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein accessing the sales content further comprises manipulating the meeting page element to display a meetings landing page and manipulating a sales meeting element on the meetings landing page linked to the active meeting presentation page.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the meetings landing page comprises a plurality of sales meeting elements, each sales meeting element corresponding and linked to a respective meeting presentation page.
21. The method of claim 14, further comprising building a plurality of meeting presentation pages with the tablet computer for viewing with the tablet computer during different sales meetings respectively corresponding to each meeting presentation page.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A reflective display device, comprising:
a switching layer for switching between a first state which allows transmission of incident light and a second state which changes a direction of travel of the incident light; and
reflecting means for reflecting incident light from the switching layer,
wherein said reflecting means is adapted to realize a black state by reflecting an image of a black part of an eye of an observer when the switching layer is in the first state, and as the observer recognizes the image of the black part of the eye.
2. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein a white state is realized when the switching layer is in the second state.
3. A reflective display device, comprising:
a switching layer for switching between a transmissive state for allowing transmission of incident light and a scattering state for scattering the incident light; and
a retro-reflector as reflecting means,
wherein a pitch of a smallest unit structure of the retro-reflector is larger than 0 mm and not more than 5 mm.
4. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein the pitch of the smallest unit structure of the retro-reflector is larger than 0 mm and not more than 1 mm.
5. A reflective display device, comprising:
a switching layer for switching between a transmissive state for allowing transmission of incident light and a scattering state for scattering the incident light; and
a retro-reflector as reflecting means,
wherein a pitch of smallest unit structures of the retro-reflector is not more than half a diameter of a black part of an eye of an observer.
6. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 5, wherein the pitch of the smallest unit structure of the retro-reflector is not more than a diameter of a pupil of the observer.
7. A reflective display device, comprising:
a switching layer for switching between a transmissive state for allowing transmission of incident light and a scattering state for scattering the incident light;
color filter sections, which are provided corresponding one to one to respective pixels; and
a retro-reflector as reflecting means,
wherein a pitch of a smallest unit structure of the retro-ref lector is not more than a pitch of the color filter sections.
8. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said switching layer is a light-scattering liquid crystal layer.
9. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said reflecting means is in a form of either one of a corner cube array, a micro sphere array, and a micro lens array.
10. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein light absorbing surface portions are formed at some of planes of the smallest unit structure of the retro-reflector.
11. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein said light absorbing surface portions are provided in a standing direction with respect to a surface direction of the switching layer.
12. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein said light absorbing surface portions are provided along borders of the smallest unit structures of the retro-reflector.
13. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the retro-reflector is in a form of a corner cube array, and the light absorbing surface portions are formed so that front end portions thereof make up a single plane with respect to an imaginary plane connecting respective vertices of the reflecting means.
14. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein said light absorbing surface portions are made of a photosensitive material which is colored by irradiation of light.
15. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 10, wherein said retro-reflector is in a form of a corner cube array, and light absorbing sites are formed at vertices and sides of the corner cube array.
16. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said reflecting means is in a form of a corner cube array, and a light shielding section for shielding reflection of light at vertices and sides of the corner cube array is provided on the reflecting means.
17. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1,
wherein:
said switching layer includes pixels, and said device includes a light absorbing section for absorbing light which passes through different pixels.
18. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 17, wherein said light absorbing section is at least one of a louver, a color filter section, and a black matrix section.
19. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 7,
wherein:
said switching layer includes pixels, and said smallest unit structure of the retro-reflector is formed so that light having passed through one of the color filter sections of the respective pixels returns to this color filter section.
20. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 7, wherein the pitch of the smallest unit structures of the retro-reflector is not more than the pitch of the color filter sections.
21. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one lens sheet is provided in front of the reflecting means.
22. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein a light transmissive resin fills concave portions of the retro-reflector.
23. The reflective display device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:
a display panel including said switching layer and said reflecting means; and
a light absorbing element which covers a side surface of the display panel.
24. A retro-reflector, comprising:
a plurality of adjoining retro-reflecting sections for reflecting incident light so that an outgoing ray of the reflected light is substantially parallel to the incident light,
wherein light absorbing surface portions for absorbing light are provided at borders of the retro-reflecting sections.
25. The retro-reflector as set forth in claim 24, wherein said light absorbing surface portions are provided in a standing direction with respect to a surface direction of the retro-reflecting sections.
26. The retro-reflector as set forth in claim 24, wherein the retro-reflecting sections are is in a form of a corner cube array, and the light absorbing surface portions are formed so that front end portions thereof make up a single plane with respect to an imaginary plane connecting respective vertices of the retro-reflecting sections.