FLEXIBLE INFORMATION DISPLAY TERMINAL AND INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY

• US 20090219247A1
• Filed: 02/04/2009
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: ISHIKAWA, Tadaaki, MOCHIZUKI, Arito, Watanabe, Junichiro
• Application Number:
  US12/365,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20090219247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1615 with several enclosures having relative motions, each enclosure supporting at least one I/O or computing function constructional details of portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts H04M1/0206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

An information display terminal includes a flexible display unit that displays information and is configured to be flexible; bend sensors that are incorporated in the display unit and detect a bending degree by bending the display unit; and an image display control unit that controls a scrolling speed of the information displayed on the display unit in accordance with a detection output of the bend sensor, wherein a page turn-over display of the information is performed at the scrolling speed in accordance with the bending degree of the display unit. The information display terminal provides an interface for performing content browsing in a virtual world with the same sense of reading an actual book.

Claims

1. An information display terminal, comprising:

a flexible display unit that displays information and is configured to be flexible;

bend sensors that is incorporated in the display unit and detect a bending degree by bending the display unit; and

an image display control unit that controls a scrolling speed of the information displayed on the display unit in accordance with a detection output of the bend sensor,

wherein a page turn-over display of the information is performed at the scrolling speed in accordance with the bending degree of the display unit.

2. The information display terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit that receives external information via the Internet.

3. The information display terminal according to claim 1, wherein an operation member for memorizing the information displayed on the display unit at the time of operation is provided outside of an area of the display unit.

4. The information display terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a audio output unit that outputs sounds having different pitches depending on the scrolling speed.

5. The information display terminal according to claim 1, wherein the bend sensors are installed parallel to each other to detect which side of left and right sides of the terminal.

6. The information display terminal according to claim 3, wherein the display at the scrolling speed depending on the bending degree during a first operation by the operation member is continuous and the information memorized at the time of the operation is displayed on the display unit when the first operation is terminated.

7. The information display terminal according to claim 3, wherein the display at the scrolling speed depending on the bending degree by the first operation performed by the operation member is stopped and the information designated by the first operation is displayed on the display unit.

8. The information display terminal according to claim 7, wherein the display at the scrolling speed depending on the bending degree is restarted when the first operation is terminated.

9. An interface for information display, wherein the interface is used for an information display terminal that includes a flexible display unit that displays information and is configured to be flexible;

bend sensors that are incorporated in the display unit and detect a bending degree by bending the display unit; and

an image display control unit that controls a scrolling speed of the information displayed on the display unit in accordance with a detection output of the bend sensor, and performs a page turn-over display of the information at the scrolling speed depending on the bending degree of the display unit.