DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20150192835A1
• Filed: 10/27/2014
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hye Jin, LEE, Won Yong
• Application Number:
  US14/524,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20150192835A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/153 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0238 Improving the black level
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/02 Flexible displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/035 for flexible display surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/32 semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/38 using electrochromic devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a self light-emitting transparent display and a transmittance adjuster that is disposed behind the transparent display and is configured to adjust a transmittance of external light transmitted through the transparent display.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a self light-emitting transparent display; and

a transmittance adjuster that is disposed behind the transparent display, and is configured to adjust a transmittance of external light transmitted through the transparent display.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transparent display comprises a transparent organic light emitting display.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmittance adjuster comprises an electrochromic device.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmittance adjuster is configured to be discolored according to a plurality of gray levels.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, in the plurality of gray levels, as the gray level decreases, a color becomes darker;

and as the gray level increases, a color becomes brighter.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the transparent display is configured to display an image, and

the transmittance adjuster is configured to be discolored in at least one gray level from among the plurality of gray levels corresponding to a gray value of the image so that the transmittance of the external light is adjusted.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the transparent display includes at least one first region, and

the transmittance adjuster is divided into at least one second region corresponding to a location and a size of each first region.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a controller configured to determine a gray level of the second region based on a gray value of the first region corresponding to the second region.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second region is discolored in the determined gray level from among the plurality of gray levels.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to determine the gray level such that, as the gray value of the first region becomes smaller, the second region is discolored in a darker color, and as the gray value of the first region becomes greater, the corresponding second region is discolored in a brighter color.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to determine the gray level based on a smallest value from among gray values of the first region.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to turn on or off the transparent display or the transmittance adjuster.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transparent display and the transmittance adjuster form a flexible display.

14. A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying, by a self light-emitting transparent display, an image; and

adjusting, by a transmittance adjuster disposed behind the transparent display, a transmittance of external light transmitted through the transparent display.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the transparent display includes a transparent organic light emitting display.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the transmittance adjuster comprises an electrochromic device.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein, the adjusting, by the transmittance adjuster, of the transmittance of external light, comprises discoloring the transmittance adjuster in at least one gray level corresponding to a gray value of the image.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the transparent display includes at least one first region, and

the transmittance adjuster is divided into at least one second region corresponding to a location and a size of each first region.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising determining a gray level of the second region based on the gray value of the first region corresponding to the second region.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the discoloring of the transmittance adjuster in at least one gray level includes discoloring of the second region in the determined gray level.

21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the determining of the gray level comprises determining the gray level such that, as the gray value of the first region becomes smaller, the second region is discolored in a darker color, and as the gray value of the first region becomes greater, the second region is discolored in a brighter color.

22. The method according to claim 19, wherein the determining of the gray level comprises determining the gray level based on a smallest value from among gray values of the first region.

23. The method according to claim 14, further comprising turning on or off the transparent display or the transmittance adjuster.

24. A display apparatus comprising:

a transparent display;

an image processor configured to read a gray value of an image data;

a controller configured to determine a gray level corresponding to the gray value of the image data;

a transmittance adjuster disposed behind the transparent display and configured to adjust an amount of external light transmitted through the transparent display according to the determined gray level.

25. The display apparatus of claim 24, wherein the transmittance adjuster is configured to adjust the amount of external light transmitted through the transparent display by being discolored in at least one determined gray level.

26. The display apparatus of claim 24, wherein the transparent display is configured to display an image corresponding to the gray value of the image data and the adjusted amount of external light transmitted through the transparent display.

27. The display apparatus of claim 26, wherein the transmittance adjuster includes a plurality of independent panels.

28. The display apparatus of claim 27, wherein the controller is configured to determine the gray level for each of the plurality of independent panels.