Bendable display device and displaying method thereof

• US 10,387,030 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2018
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Joon-kyu, Kang, Kyung-a, Kwak, Ji-yeon, Kim, Hyun-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, David D
• Application Number:
  US15/891,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20180164977A1
• Time in Patent Office: 558 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 1/1694 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 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A bendable display device and a display method of the bendable display device including a bendable display are provided. The bendable display device includes a display; and a controller configured to display an object on the display, and in response to receiving a user input in a state which the display is rolled, change the object displayed on the display. The method includes displaying an object on the display; and in response to receiving a user input in a state which the display is rolled, changing the object displayed on the display.

Claims

1. A bendable display device, comprising:

a display;

a detector configured to detect a rotation of the display; and

a controller configured to;

display an object on the display,

in response to detecting the rotation of the display in a state which the display is rolled and a rotation speed of the display is less than a predetermined speed, control the display to display first information regarding the object on the display, and

in response to detecting the rotation of the display in a state in which the display is rolled and a rotation speed of the display is greater than or equal to the predetermined speed, control the display to display second information regarding the object,

wherein the first information comprises the second information.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to receiving a user input to the display, change a size of the displayed object on the display.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein, in response to receiving a user input which rotates the display device, the controller is further configured to move a location of the displayed object on the display according to a direction of rotation.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to set an extension area on the display based on a location of a user input and change the object displayed in the extension area.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein, in response to the location of the user input being changed by rotation of the display device, the controller is further configured to change the extension area based on the changed location of the user input.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to set a shape-changeable area based on a location of a user input and change the shape-changeable area into a planar shape.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to display additional information regarding the displayed object in the shape-changeable area.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises the object and an information regarding the displayed object and the second information comprises the information regarding the displayed object.

9. A display method of a display device including a bendable display, the method comprising:

detecting a rotation of the display

displaying an object on the display;

in response to detecting the rotation of the display in a state which the display is rolled and a rotation speed of the display is less than a predetermined speed, displaying first information regarding the object; and

in response to detecting the rotation of the display in a state which the display is rolled and a rotation speed of the display is greater than or equal to the predetermined speed, displaying second information regarding the object,

wherein the first information comprises the second information.

10. The display method of claim 9, further comprising changing a size of the displayed object displayed in response to receiving a user input to the display.

11. The display method of claim 9, further comprising moving a location of the displayed object on the display, in response to rotation of the display device according to a direction of rotation.

12. The display method of claim 9, further comprising setting an extension area on the display based on a location of a user input and changing the displayed object in the extension area.

13. The display method of claim 12, further comprising changing the extension area based on the changed location of the user input, in response to the location of the user input being changed by rotation of the display device.

14. The display method of claim 9, further comprising setting a shape-changeable area based on a location of a user input and changing the shape-changeable area into a planar shape.

15. The display method of claim 14, further comprising displaying additional information regarding the displayed object in the shape-changeable area.

16. The display method of claim 9, wherein the first information comprises the object and an information regarding the displayed object and the second information comprises the information regarding the displayed object.