Patent Document ID: 9146624
Application ID: 13368853
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of a portable electronic device for managing screen orientation, the portable electronic device including a display, a motion sensor and an image sensor, the method comprising: attempting to detect a rotation at the motion sensor; detecting an angle of the device relative to a ground surface; activating the image sensor in response to detecting that the angle of the device relative to the ground surface is less than a predetermined threshold angle between the ground surface and a predefined position relative to the ground surface, wherein the angle between the predefined position and the ground surface is in the range of 20 to 30 degrees; attempting to detect at least one body feature at the image sensor; and determining an orientation of an image at the display in response to detecting at least one of the rotation at the motion sensor or the at least one body feature at the image sensor.