Patent ID: 11909433
Assignee: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 8:
9. A method of operating a movable support for orienting and positioning a portable computing device in a vehicle, the method comprising:
detecting that the portable computing device is supported by the movable support;
identifying content data with the supported portable computing device, the content data corresponding to a content type of an active application operating on the portable computing device;
determining orientation data based on the content data with the portable computing device, the orientation data corresponding to a target orientation of the supported portable computing device for the content type of the content data, and the target orientation including one of a portrait screen orientation and a landscape screen orientation;
transmitting the orientation data from the supported portable computing device to a controller; and
using the controller to move the movable support to position the portable computing device in the target orientation based on the transmitted orientation data.