Electronic device, storage medium, program, and displaying method

• US 10,380,783 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2019
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hosoya, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Jwalant
• Application Number:
  US16/250,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20190172248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 208 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0268 including a flexible display panel

Abstract

An electronic device is provided which displays an object (body) on a flexible display screen in accordance with a three-dimensional shape of the display screen by utilizing the flexibility of the display screen. An electronic device including a display portion which includes a flexible display device displaying an object on a display screen; a detection portion detecting positional data of a given part of the display screen; and an arithmetic, portion calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen on the basis of the positional data and computing motion of the object to make the object move according to a given law in accordance with the calculated three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

Claims

1. A displaying method of an electronic device comprising the steps of:

displaying a first part, a second part, and a third part on a display screen of the electronic device, the display screen having flexibility and the second part being between the first part and the third part;

displaying a first object in the first part on the display screen;

calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen; and

moving the first object from the first part to the third part without through the second part only when the three-dimensional shape of the display screen satisfies a first condition,

wherein the first condition is that a portion of the display screen on which the second part is displayed protrudes downward and the first part and the third part are brought close to each other.

2. The displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the first part and the third part are divided by the second part.

3. The displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the second part is set as a second object, and

wherein a motion of the second object is determined based on the three-dimensional shape of the display screen in accordance with a given law.

4. The displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the three-dimensional shape of the display screen is determined with sensors.

5. The displaying method according to claim 4,

wherein the sensors are positional sensors positioned in matrix in a vicinity of the display screen.

6. The displaying method according to claim 4,

wherein the sensors are acceleration sensors positioned in matrix in a vicinity of the display screen.

7. The displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the first object is displayed based on procedures for display processing, and

wherein the procedures for display processing is incorporated in a computer program as a module.

8. The displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the first object is displayed based on procedures for display processing, and

wherein the procedures for display processing is incorporated in an operating system.

9. A displaying method of an electronic device comprising the steps of:

displaying a first part, a second part, and a third part on a display screen of the electronic device, the display screen having flexibility and the second part being between the first part and the third part;

displaying a first object in the first part on the display screen;

calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen; and

determining a motion of the first object based on the three-dimensional shape of the display screen,

wherein;

when the three-dimensional shape of the display screen satisfies a first condition, the motion of the first object is to stay in the first part,

when the three-dimensional shape of the display screen satisfies a second condition, the motion of the first object is to move from the first part to the third part without through the second part,

the first condition is that the display screen is flat, and

the second condition is that the display screen is bent so that the second part is not level with the first part and the third part.

10. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the first part and the third part are divided by the second part.

11. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein a distance between the first part and the third part in the second condition is shorter than the distance between the first part and the third part in the first condition.

12. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the second part is set as a second object, and

wherein a motion of the second object is determined based on the three-dimensional shape of the display screen in accordance with a given law.

13. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the three-dimensional shape of the display screen is determined with sensors.

14. The displaying method according to claim 13,

wherein the sensors are positional sensors positioned in matrix in a vicinity of the display screen.

15. The displaying method according to claim 13,

wherein the sensors are acceleration sensors positioned in matrix in a vicinity of the display screen.

16. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the first object is displayed based on procedures for display processing, and

wherein the procedures for display processing is incorporated in a computer program as a module.

17. The displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the first object is displayed based on procedures for display processing, and

wherein the procedures for display processing is incorporated in an operating system.

18. A displaying method of an electronic device comprising the steps of:

displaying a first part, a second part, and a third part on a display screen of the electronic device, the display screen having flexibility and the second part being between the first part and the third part;

displaying a first object in the first part on the display screen;

calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen; and

moving the first object from the first part to the third part without through the second part only when the three-dimensional shape of the display screen satisfies a first condition,

wherein the first condition is that the display screen is bent so that the second part is not level with the first part and the third.

19. The displaying method according to claim 18,

wherein the first part and the third part are almost level with each other in the first condition.

20. The displaying method according to claim 18,

wherein the second part is set as a second object, and

wherein a motion of the second object is determined based on the three-dimensional shape of the display screen in accordance with a given law.