Patent ID: 8982056
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G05B,G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. An industrial process transmitter comprising: a housing configured to be mounted in a fixed orientation; a transducer positioned to interact with an industrial process; a display device fixedly mounted within the housing, the display device having four corner regions arranged about a periphery of a viewing region of the display device; display circuitry that displays a visual output at the display device, wherein the display circuitry provides the visual output at one of a plurality of visual output orientations; local operator interface (LOI) circuitry having a plurality of buttons for receiving input, including input regarding a desired orientation of the visual output, wherein each of the plurality of buttons is disposed at a different one of the four corner regions of the display device; and control circuitry connected to communicate with the transducer, the LOI circuitry, and the display circuitry and receive input regarding the desired orientation of the visual output, wherein in response to the received input regarding the desired orientation of the visual output via one or more of the plurality of buttons, the control circuitry provides instructions to the display circuitry to modify the orientation of the visual output and modifies functionality of the plurality of buttons based on the orientation of the visual output.