Display device and data displaying method thereof

• US 8,638,311 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Tae Young, Hahm, Kyoung Woon, Kim, Hyun Jin, Sung, Ju Yun
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, NICHOLAS J
• Application Number:
  US13/737,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20130120302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 384 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display device and a data displaying method thereof are disclosed. The device includes at least one sensor including a touch sensor to generate touch events according to touch events, a flexible sensor to generate a bend signal to detect bend events, and a pressure sensor to generate a pressure signal to detect pressure events, a storage unit to store a function table, and a controller to control the components of the device. The function table is configured to define control operations to reproduce currently output contents based on the touch events, the bend events, the pressure events, and events combined thereof.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a pressure sensor to detect a pressing;

a bending sensor to detect a bending;

a storage unit to store a menu, the menu specifying operations of the display to be executed by a combination of a strength of the pressing applied at a first area of the display and the bending applied at a second area of the display;

a controller to perform, by referring to the menu, an operation corresponding to the combination of the strength of the pressing and the bending.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine each level of a threshold strength of the pressing.

3. The display of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to display a number corresponding to pages to be flipped, wherein the number is determined in proportion to the strength of the pressing.

9. The display of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to determine the bending associated with a direction, the direction corresponding to direction of pages to be flipped, and wherein

a page is displayed based on a calculation of the number determined by each level of the threshold strength of the pressing and the bending with the direction.

4. A method comprising:

detecting a strength of a pressing;

executing and displaying contents on a device, the contents being determined by the detected strength of the pressing;

detecting bending corresponding to the bending of the device;

loading, in response to the bending, a function table comprising commands to perform a function corresponding to a combination of the detected strength of the pressing and the detected bending, the pressing and the bending respectively being detected at different locations of the device; and

performing the function corresponding to the combination of the detected strength of the pressing and the detected bending.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the strength of the pressing is detected based on a preset threshold strength of the pressing.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein executing and displaying contents comprises counting and displaying a number corresponding to pages to be flipped, wherein the number is determined in proportion to the detected strength of the pressing.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein detecting bending comprises determining the bending associated with a direction, the direction corresponding to directions of pages to be flipped.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein performing the function comprises displaying a page based on a calculation of a number determined by the detected strength of the pressing and the bending with the direction.