Electronic device, storage medium, program, and displaying method

• US 9,805,494 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2013
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hosoya, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): AMIN, JWALANT B
• Application Number:
  US13/875,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20130300732A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 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 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0268 including a flexible display panel

Abstract

An electronic device is provided which displays an object (body) on a flexible display screen in accordance with a three-dimensional shape of the display screen by utilizing the flexibility of the display screen. An electronic device including a display portion which includes a flexible display device displaying an object on a display screen; a detection portion detecting positional data of a given part of the display screen; and an arithmetic portion calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen on the basis of the positional data and computing motion of the object to make the object move according to a given law in accordance with the calculated three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

Claims

1. A displaying method comprising the steps of:

determining a three-dimensional shape of a display in a deformed state of an electronic device, the display having flexibility; and

displaying an object on the display,

wherein the object is displayed to move in accordance with the three-dimensional shape of the display in the deformed state as if the object displayed on the display is attracted by gravity, and

wherein a shape of the object is changed in accordance with the three-dimensional shape of the display in the deformed state as if the object displayed on the display is attracted by gravity.

2. The displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of storing data of the three-dimensional shape of the display.

3. The displaying method according to claim 1, wherein the shape of the object is determined in accordance with data on physical quantity stored in a storage portion.

4. A displaying method comprising the steps of:

sensing positional data of a display screen of an electronic device, the display screen having flexibility;

determining a three-dimensional shape of the display screen on the basis of the positional data;

simulating motion of an object displayed on the display screen; and

determining the motion of the object,

wherein the object is displayed to move in accordance with change in the three-dimensional shape of the display screen as if the object displayed on the display screen is attracted by gravity, and

wherein a shape of the object is changed in accordance with change in the three-dimensional shape of the display screen as if the object displayed on the display screen is attracted by gravity.

5. The displaying method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of storing data of the three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

6. The displaying method according to claim 4, wherein the display screen comprises a touch panel thereover.

7. The displaying method according to claim 6, wherein the touch panel is a resistive type or a capacitive type.

8. The displaying method according to claim 4, wherein the shape of the object is determined in accordance with data on physical quantity stored in a storage portion.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a display portion configured to display an object on a display screen, the display screen having flexibility; and

an arithmetic portion configured to determine a three-dimensional shape of the display screen,

wherein the object is displayed to move in accordance with change in the three-dimensional shape of the display screen as if the object displayed on the display screen is attracted by gravity, and

wherein a shape of the object is changed in accordance with change in the three-dimensional shape of the display screen as if the object displayed on the display screen is attracted by gravity.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, further comprising a detection portion configured to sense positional data of the display screen, the positional data being output to the arithmetic portion.

11. The electronic device according to claim 9, further comprising a storage portion configured to store data of the three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

12. The electronic device according to claim 9, further comprising an input portion comprising a touch panel.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the touch panel is a resistive type or a capacitive type.

14. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the electronic device is an electronic game machine.

15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the shape of the object is determined in accordance with data on physical quantity stored in a storage portion.