Patent ID: 7148877

Claim:
A liquid crystal display with optical disk drive control functions for a notebook/tablet dual-purpose computer, the liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal display panel displaying contents of an optical disk playing in a optical disk drive; a plurality of control buttons disposed on the liquid crystal display to control the optical disk drive; and an option determining device disposed on the liquid crystal display to determine a predetermined working function of the liquid crystal display and set operation functions of the control buttons, wherein the option determining device further comprises an option controller and an option inductor, the option controller and the option inductor are disposed on the liquid crystal display and a computer base of the notebook/tablet dual-purpose computer, and the option controller and the option inductor determine the predetermined working function of the liquid crystal display and set the operation functions of the control buttons depending on whether the liquid crystal display is turned about 180 degrees and closed on the computer base to expose the liquid crystal display.