FLEXIBLE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD

• US 20150378396A1
• Filed: 06/25/2015
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: PARK, Ji Hyung, KWON, Gyu Hyun, JOUNG, Hae Youn, HUH, Bo Kyung
• Application Number:
  US14/749,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20150378396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible panel having a display unit for displaying a screen and a user interface for allowing a user input, a detecting unit configured to detect a handheld location on the flexible panel, and a control unit configured to change locations of the display unit and the user interface on the flexible panel according to the handheld location. Since the apparatus may be used without being hidden by the hand of a user, readability and work performance may be improved.

Claims

1. A flexible display apparatus, comprising:

a flexible panel having a display unit for displaying a screen and a user interface for allowing a user input;

a detecting unit configured to detect a handheld location on the flexible panel; and

a control unit configured to change locations of the display unit and the user interface on the flexible panel according to the handheld location.

2. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit displays the user interface at the handheld location on the flexible panel.

3. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein a region on the flexible panel where the user interface is displayed is in a bent state.

4. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit moves the user interface to an end of the flexible panel.

5. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit moves the user interface to both ends of the flexible panel.

6. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit moves the display unit so that the display unit does not overlap with the handheld location on the flexible panel.

7. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein a portion on the flexible panel where the display unit is displayed is in a flat state.

8. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the user interface uses a touch pad manner.

9. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the user interface is provided by activating a touch pad at one surface of the flexible panel.

10. The flexible display apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the user interface is provided by activating touch pads at both surfaces of the flexible panel.

11. A control method of a flexible display apparatus, comprising:

detecting a handheld location on a flexible panel which has a display unit for displaying a screen and a user interface for allowing a user input; and

changing locations of the display unit and the user interface on the flexible panel according to the handheld location.

12. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the changing of locations of the display unit and the user interface displays the user interface at the handheld location on the flexible panel.

13. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the changing of locations of the display unit and the user interface moves the user interface to one end of the flexible panel.

14. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the changing of locations of the display unit and the user interface moves the user interface to both ends of the flexible panel.

15. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the changing of locations of the display unit and the user interface moves the display unit so that the display unit does not overlap with the handheld location on the flexible panel.

16. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

by the user interface, activating a touch pad at one surface of the flexible panel.

17. The control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

by the user interface, activating touch pads at both surfaces of the flexible panel.

18. A computer-readable recording medium, in which a computer program for performing the control method of a flexible display apparatus according to claim 11 is recorded.