DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR

• US 20140300557A1
• Filed: 05/07/2013
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: CHO, Eunhyung, CHUN, Sinae, KIM, Jihwan
• Granted Patent: US 9,466,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/22 characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory

Abstract

The present specification relates to a display device and a method for controlling the same, and more particularly, if an area in which an image is displayed includes a curved area, to a display device rotating the image according to a touch input in the curved area and providing additional information on the image together with the image and a method for controlling the same.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a sensor unit configured to sense a user input and configured to deliver a signal according to a sensed result to a processor;

a display unit configured to display an image, wherein the display unit includes a first display area which is plane and a second display area which is curved and concatenated with the first display area; and

the processor configured to control the sensor unit and the display unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

display a first image in the first display area and display a control interface related to the first image in the second display area,

display a following image of the first image in the first display area, if a first input signal is detected,

move the first image and rotate the moved first image according to a vertical axis of the first image, if a second input signal is detected, and

display a second image including an additional information related to the first image according to an amount of rotation of the first image.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first input signal includes a signal generated by a continuous touch input starting on the first display area and ending on the first display area.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the processor determines the following image of the first image according to a direction from a start point to an end point of the touch input corresponding to the first input signal.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the second input signal includes a signal generated by a first touch input moving from the first display area to the second display area and a second touch input concatenated with the first touch input and continuously touching on the second display area for a preset time.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the processor moves the first image according to a direction of the first touch input corresponding to the second input signal.

6. The display device of claim 4, wherein the processor displays the following image of the first image in the first display area in response to the first touch input corresponding to the second input signal and the processor displays the second image in the first display area in response to the second touch input corresponding to the second input signal.

7. The display device of claim 4, wherein the processor adjusts the amount of rotation of the first image according to a position of the second touch input.

8. The display device of claim 4, wherein the processor adjusts the amount of rotation of the first image according to a display curvature corresponding to a position of the second touch input.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the processor rotates the first image according to the vertical axis of right-hand side of the first image in response to the second input signal.

10. The display device of claim 1, wherein if the first image is moved according to the second input signal, the processor uses the second display area as an additional display area of the first display area.

11. The display device of claim 10, wherein if the first image is moved according to the second input signal, the processor displays the first image over the first display area and the second display area.

12. The display device of claim 1, wherein the processor adjusts an amount of the additional information included in the second image according to the amount of rotation of the first image in accordance with the second input signal.

13. The display device of claim 1, wherein if the first image is rotated according to the second input signal, the processor provides a user interface to the first display area to generate the additional information related to the first image.

14. The display device of claim 1, wherein if a third input signal is detected, the processor displays a third image in the first display area and wherein the third image is corresponding to a back side of the first image and includes the additional information related to the first image.

15. The display device of claim 14, wherein the third input signal includes a signal generated by a continuous touch input starting on the first display area and ending on the second display area.

16. The display device of claim 14, wherein if the third image is displayed according to the third input signal, the processor provides a user interface to the first display area to generate the additional information related to the first image.

17. The display device of claim 1, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a file information of the first image, an application information implementing the first image, a memo information for the first image, and a generation information of the first image.

18. The display device of claim 1, wherein the control interface includes at least one of an interface editing the first image, an interface configuring a path to store the first image, and an interface adjusting a magnification of the first image.

19. The display device of claim 1, wherein the processor bookmarks the first image in response to the second input signal.

20. A method of controlling a display device, which includes display unit including a first display area which is plane and a second display area which is curved and concatenated with the first display area, comprising the steps of:

displaying a first image in the first display area and a control interface related to the first image in the second display area;

if a first input signal is detected, displaying a following image of the first image in the first display area;

if a second input signal is detected, moving the first image and rotating the moved first image according to a vertical axis of the first image; and

displaying a second image including an additional information related to the first image according to an amount of rotation of the first image.