DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20110095974A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Moriwaki, Toshiki
• Application Number:
  US12/907,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20110095974A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/046 Dealing with screen burn-in prevention or compensation of the effects thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/007 Use of pixel shift techniques, e.g. by mechanical shift of the physical pixels or by optical shift of the perceived pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/22 using controlled light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]

Abstract

A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at the substrate and configured to display an image according to an image signal, a displacement sensor provided to a front surface or a back surface of the substrate and configured to detect a curved state of the substrate, and a pixel shift control unit configured to control pixel shifting of the image displayed in the display unit when a curve of the substrate is detected by the displacement sensor.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a flexible substrate;

a display unit including a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at the substrate and configured to display an image according to an image signal;

a displacement sensor provided to a front surface or a back surface of the substrate and configured to detect a curved state of the substrate; and

a pixel shift control unit configured to control pixel shifting of the image displayed in the display unit when a curve of the substrate is detected by the displacement sensor.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the pixel shift control unit executes the pixel shifting in a curved portion when the curve of the substrate is detected by the displacement sensor.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the pixel shift control unit controls the pixel shifting according to a curve amount of the substrate.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the pixel shift control unit recovers a movement amount of the image in the pixel shifting to zero when a recovery of the curved substrate to a flat surface state is detected.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pixel shift amount calculation unit configured to calculate a pixel shift amount based on a lookup table specifying a relation between an output of the displacement sensor and the pixel shift amount;

wherein the pixel shift control unit controls the pixel shifting based on the pixel shift amount.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the pixel shift amount calculation unit determines the pixel shift amount to be zero when an output value of the displacement sensor is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

7. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the pixel shift amount calculation unit calculates the pixel shift amount based on the lookup table which differs for a case where the substrate is curved and for a case where the curved substrate recovers to a flat surface.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the displacement sensor includes a pair of transparent electrodes formed of ITO or IZO and is configured to detect the curved state of the substrate based on a change in resistance value between the pair of transparent electrodes.

9. A method of controlling a display device, comprising the steps of:

detecting a curved state of a flexible substrate provided with a display unit configured to display an image according to an image signal; and

controlling pixel shifting of the image displayed in the display unit when a curve of the substrate is detected.

10. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 9, wherein the pixel shifting is executed in a curved portion in the step of controlling the pixel shifting when the curve of the substrate is detected.

11. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 9, wherein the pixel shifting is controlled according to a curve amount of the substrate in the step of controlling the pixel shifting.

12. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 9, further comprising a step of recovering a shift amount of the image in the pixel shifting to zero when a recovery of the curved substrate to a flat surface state is detected.

13. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 9, further comprising a step of:

calculating a pixel shift amount based on a lookup table specifying a relation between a value corresponding to a curve amount of the substrate and the pixel shift amount;

wherein the pixel shifting is controlled based on the pixel shift amount in the step of controlling the pixel shifting.

14. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 13, wherein the pixel shift amount is calculated based on the lookup table which differs for a case where the substrate is curved and for a case where the curved substrate recovers to a flat surface in the step of calculating the pixel shift amount.

15. The method of controlling a display device according to claim 9, wherein the curved state of the substrate is detected based on an output value of a displacement sensor provided to a front surface or a back surface of the substrate in the step of detecting the curved state of the substrate, and the pixel shifting is not performed when the output value of the displacement sensor is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.