Display apparatus and control method for the same

• US 9,947,263 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Kwang Youn, Ahn, Joon Seok, Yong, Seok Woo, Yoo, Jun-mo, Choi, Jung Hwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Mushambo, Martin
• Application Number:
  US15/167,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1612 Flat panel monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/301 flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0613 The adjustment depending on the type of the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0442 Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/001 using specific devices not provided for in groups G09G3/02 - G09G3/36, e.g. using an intermediate record carrier such as a film slide; Projection systems; Display of non-alphanumerical information, solely or in combination with alphanumerical information, e.g. digital display on projected diapositive as background slide projectors per se G03B23/00 = 42 HP
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/035 for flexible display surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2096 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a flat panel suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/006; specific for a CRT G09G1/167

Abstract

A display apparatus capable of controlling a curvature of a viewing area in which a broadcast image is displayed and a curvature of an area except the viewing area to be different from each other, and a control method of the same. A display apparatus includes a display; and a driving device configured to change a curvature of the display, wherein the driving device may control a curvature of a viewing area and a curvature of a background area to be different from each other.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display a broadcast image; and

a driving device configured to change a curvature of the display,

wherein the driving device is configured to control a curvature of a viewing area of the display, in which the broadcast image is displayed, and a curvature of a background area of the display, in which the broadcast image is not displayed, to be different from each other, and

wherein the driving device is further configured to, in response to an image displayed in the viewing area having an aspect ratio different from an aspect ratio of the display apparatus, change the curvature of the display so that the curvature of the background area of the display is less than the curvature of the viewing area.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device is further configured to maintain the viewing area of the display in a curved state and transform the background area into a flat state.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device is further configured to transform the viewing area of the display into a curved state and maintain the background area in a flat state.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device is further configured to change the curvature of the display so that the curvature of the background area of the display is less than the curvature of the viewing area.

5. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device is further configured to change the curvature of the display so that a curvature of an information area is less than a curvature of the viewing area when the information area is formed in the background area of the display.

6. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an input interface configured to input a command to generate an information area in the background area of the display,

wherein the driving device is further configured to, in response to a command to generate the information area being input, change the curvature of the display so that the curvature of the background area is less than the curvature of the viewing area.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device further comprises:

a first base member provided at a rear side of the viewing area of the display;

a second base member provided at a rear side of the background area of the display; and

a hinge member configured to couple the first base member and the second base member such that a curvature of the first base member is controlled to be different than a curvature of the second base member.

9. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the background area of the display is provided on at least one side of the viewing area.

10. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving device comprises:

a first driving device configured to change the curvature of the viewing area of the display; and

at least one second driving device configured to change a curvature of an information area of the display.

11. The display apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first driving device comprises:

a first base member provided in a rear side of the viewing area of the display;

a first driver provided in the first base member and configured to generate a driving force;

a plurality of movement members configured to be moved in opposite directions by the first driver; and

a plurality of rotation members configured to be rotated by the movement members and to move opposite sides of the viewing area in a first direction and a second direction.

12. The display apparatus of claim 10, wherein the at least one second driving device comprises:

a second base member provided in a rear side of the information area of the display;

a second driver configured to generate a driving force to move the second base member; and

a rotation member provided in the second base member and configured to be rotated by the second driver and to move one side of the information area in a first direction and a second direction.

8. A display apparatus comprising:

a display; and

a driving device configured to change a curvature of the display,

wherein the driving device is configured to control a curvature of a viewing area of the display and a curvature of a background area of the display to be different from each other, and

wherein the driving device is further configured to, in response to an image displayed in the viewing area having an aspect ratio different from an aspect ratio of the display apparatus, change the curvature of the display so that the curvature of the background area of the display is less than the curvature of the viewing area.

13. A control method of a display apparatus, the control method comprising:

transforming a viewing area of a display, in which a broadcast image is displayed, into a curved state;

transforming an information area of the display, in which the broadcast image is not displayed, so that a curvature of the information area of the display is less than a curvature of the viewing area; and

displaying in the viewing area an image having an aspect ratio that is different from an aspect ratio of the display apparatus,

wherein the transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state comprises transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state in response to an image being displayed in the viewing area having an aspect ratio that is different from an aspect ratio of the display apparatus.

14. The control method of claim 13,

wherein the transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state comprises receiving an input to transform the display into the curved state and transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state according to the received input.

15. The control method of claim 13 further comprising:

receiving an input to generate the information area in the display.

16. The control method of claim 15,

wherein the transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state comprises transforming the viewing area of the display into the curved state in response to the input to generate the information area being received.

17. The control method of claim 15,

wherein the transforming the information area comprises transforming the information area of the display into a flat state in response to the input to generate the information area being received.

18. The control method of claim 13,

wherein the transforming the information area comprises transforming the information area of the display into a flat state.

19. The control method of claim 13,

wherein the transforming the information area comprises transforming the information area of the display into a flat state in response to an image being displayed in the viewing area having an aspect ratio that is different than an aspect ratio of the display apparatus.

20. The control method of claim 13, wherein the transforming the information area comprises generating a driving force to control a curvature of a first base member, which is provided at a rear side of the viewing area of the display, to be different than a curvature of a second base member, which is provided at a rear side of the information area of the display, wherein the second base member is coupled to the first base member by a hinge member.