Flexible display apparatus and controlling method thereof

• US 10,354,566 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2017
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwon, Giang-yoon, Park, So-young, Shin, Seung-woo, Eom, Tae-won, Lee, Chang-soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US15/662,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20170345351A1
• Time in Patent Office: 718 Days
• Field of Search: 345156, 345173, 345 13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/001 using specific devices not provided for in groups G09G3/02 - G09G3/36, e.g. using an intermediate record carrier such as a film slide; Projection systems; Display of non-alphanumerical information, solely or in combination with alphanumerical information, e.g. digital display on projected diapositive as background slide projectors per se G03B23/00 = 42 HP
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/035 for flexible display surfaces

Abstract

A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense a bending of the flexible display apparatus, and a controller configured to display first contents on a first screen of the display unit, and to reconfigure and display the first contents on a second screen generated on an area of the display unit based on the bending.

Claims

1. A flexible display apparatus comprising:

a flexible display;

a sensor configured to sense a bending of the flexible display;

a communicator configured to perform a video call with a counterpart terminal; and

a controller configured to;

display a screen of the flexible display,

in response to the bending of the flexible display being sensed, display a first content which comprises a video call image on a first area of the screen and an object related to the first content on a second area of the screen, the first area and the second area being divided based on the bending of the flexible display, and

in response to receiving a user input for selecting the object displayed on the second area and dragging the selected object to the first area, control the communicator to transmit the selected object to the counterpart terminal of the video call.

2. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the screen is an entire screen of the flexible display.

3. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller is further configured to control to reconfigure the first content and display the reconfigured first content on the first area of the flexible display based on the bending of the flexible display being maintained for a certain period of time.

4. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first area is generated in different shapes according to a location where the bending occurred, and

wherein the controller is further configured to reconfigure the first content in different shapes according to the shape of the first area.

5. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communicator is further configured to perform communication with a server, and

wherein the controller is further configured to:

control to transmit information on the first area generated based on the bending to the server, and

receive the reconfigured first content corresponding to the first area from the server and display the reconfigured first content.

11. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

further comprising an eyeline detector configured to detect a direction of a user'"'"'s eyeline,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

control to change a display perspective according to a bending angle according to the detected direction of the user'"'"'s eyeline and the bending,

control to change at least one of the first content and the object related to the first content to correspond to the display perspective, and

display the first content and the object related to the first content on the first area and the second area.

12. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller is further configured to:

control to display a video call image on the first area, and

control to display an object for sharing contents with the counterpart of the video call on the second area of the flexible display.

6. A method for controlling a flexible display apparatus comprising a flexible display, the method comprising:

displaying a screen of the flexible display;

in response to a bending of the flexible display being sensed, displaying the first content which comprises a video call image on a first area of the screen and an object related to the first content on a second area of the screen, the first area and the second area being divided based on the bending of the flexible display;

in response to receiving a user input for selecting the object displayed on the second area and dragging the selected object to the first area, transmitting the selected object to a counterpart terminal of the video call.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the screen is an entire screen of the flexible display.

8. The method according to claim 6,

further comprising reconfiguring the first content and displaying the reconfigured first content on the first area of the flexible display based on the bending of the flexible display being maintained for a certain period of time.

9. The method according to claim 6,

wherein the first area is generated in different shapes according to a location where the bending occurred, and

further comprising reconfiguring the first content in different shapes according to the shape of the first area.

10. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting information on the first area generated based on the bending to the server,

receiving the reconfigured first content corresponding to the first area from the server, and

displaying the reconfigured first content.

13. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

detecting a direction of a user'"'"'s eyeline;

changing a display perspective according to a bending angle according to the detected direction of the user'"'"'s eyeline and the bending of the flexible display;

changing at least one of the screen of the first content and the object related to the first content to correspond to the display perspective; and

displaying the first content and the object related to the first content on the first area and the second area.

14. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

displaying the video call image on the first area, and

displaying an object for sharing contents with the counterpart of the video call on the second area of the flexible display.