CUP USING TRANSPARENT FLEXIBLE DISPLAY

• US 20140313176A1
• Filed: 11/07/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hyun-Gu Kang, Jae-Moon Kim, Su-Yeon Yun
• Inventors: YUN, Su-Yeon, KIM, Yoo-Ra, KANG, Hyun-Gu, KIM, Jae-Moon
• Granted Patent: US 9,145,243 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/211
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2227 with means for amusing or giving information to the user A47G23/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2019/2238 with illumination means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/245 provided with decoration, information or contents indicating devices, labels B65D81/366 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0443 with several sub-pixels for the same colour in a pixel, not specifically used to display gradations G09G3/364 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/041 Temperature compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3225 using an active matrix
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/121 characterised by the geometry or disposition of pixel elements

Abstract

Provided is a cup to which a transparent display is applied, the cup including a body comprising a display unit capable of showing contents in the body or displaying content; and a support being attached to or detached from the body, generating a control signal so as to control the content displayed on the display unit, and transmitting the control signal to the body.

Claims

1. A cup having a transparent display, the cup comprising:

a body, the body having a cavity and including a display unit, the display unit being configured to display an image, and being configured to transmit light so as to show contents contained in the cavity; and

a support being attached to or detached from the body, generating a control signal so as to control the image displayed on the display unit, and transmitting the control signal to the body.

2. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body includes a bottom board that is electrically or physically connected with the support.

3. The cup as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bottom board measures a temperature of the contents and then transmits a value of the temperature to the support.

4. The cup as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bottom board adjusts a temperature of the contents by transmitting heat from the support.

5. The cup as claimed in claim 2, wherein the display unit is connected with the bottom board via lines, and the image is controlled by the control signal that is transferred from the support to the bottom board.

6. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit is formed at an outer wall of the body.

7. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support receives data about an image to be displayed on the display unit, by communicating with an external device, and generates the control signal based on the image.

8. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support supplies a charge power to the display unit of the body.

9. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image corresponds to a temperature of the contents.

10. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image corresponds to a method of making the contents.

11. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit includes a plurality of transparent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), each having a hole injection electrode, an emission layer, and an electron injection electrode.

12. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit includes a transparent electrode and a transparent substrate.

13. The cup as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit functions as lighting, and the support generates a control signal so as to control brightness of the display unit.

14. A display device formed at an outer wall of a cup, the display device comprising:

a flexible substrate that is bent due to an external force;

a plurality of pixels that are formed on the flexible substrate and that have a first region for emission and a second region for transmission of external light, wherein contents in the cup may be shown via the second region; and

lines that receive an electric power from a support of the cup.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) that are disposed at the first region of each of the plurality of pixels;

a plurality of first electrodes that are disposed at the first region of each of the plurality of pixels and that are electrically connected with the plurality of TFTs, respectively;

a second electrode that faces the plurality of first electrodes and that has a plurality of island-form transmission windows corresponding to the second region; and

an organic layer that is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

16. A method of controlling a cup having a transparent display, the method comprising:

generating, by a support of the cup, a control signal so as to control an image that is displayed on a display unit of a body;

providing, by the support, an electric power to the display unit of the body; and

displaying the image according to the control signal, by the display unit of the body which receives the electric power,

wherein, when the display unit does not receive the electric power, the display unit shows contents in the body.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the support receives data about an image to be displayed on the display unit, by communicating with an external device, and generates the control signal based on the image.

18. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the image corresponds to a temperature of the contents in the body or corresponds to a method of making the contents.

19. A cup having a transparent display, the cup comprising:

a body, the body having a cavity and including a display unit at a wall of the cavity, wherein;

the display unit is configured to display an image, and is configured to transmit light so as to show contents contained in the cavity, and

the body is configured to attach to and detach from a support, and is configured to receive a control signal generated by the support, the control signal controlling the image displayed on the display unit.