Method and apparatus for providing event of portable device having flexible display unit

• US 10,244,091 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Donghyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US15/251,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20160373565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 455566-567, 345173
• 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 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• 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: G09G 3/2092 Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a CRT G09G1/165
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2219/039 Selective or different modes of illumination
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0269 mounted in a fixed curved configuration, e.g. display curved around the edges of the telephone housing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/22 Illumination; Arrangements for improving the visibility of characters on dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel

Abstract

A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display comprising;

a first area; and

a second area, the second area comprising a curved portion integrally formed in the display with the first area and bent from the first area;

a sensor configured to obtain information related to an orientation of the electronic device; and

a processor configured to, in response to an occurrence of an event, control the electronic device to provide information associated with the event only on the second area of the display if the orientation of the electronic device is a first orientation,

wherein the processor, in response to the orientation of the electronic device is changed to a second orientation while the information associated with the event is provided only on the second area, controls the electronic device to provide the information associated with the event on the first area and the second area.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first orientation is an orientation of the electronic device directed downward and the second orientation is an orientation of the electronic device directed upward.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to operate the electronic device in one of a first mode in which information is provided only on the second area if the orientation of the electronic device is the first orientation and a second mode in which information is provided on the second area and the first area if the orientation of the electronic device is the second orientation.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, in response to the occurrence of the event, control the electronic device to provide a colored indicator as the information associated with the event only on the second area if the orientation of the electronic device is the first orientation and control the electronic device to provide the information associated with the event on the first area and the second area of the display if the orientation of the electronic device is the second orientation.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the display further comprises a third area, the third area comprising a curved portion integrally formed in the display with the first area and bent from the first area,

wherein the processor is configured to operate the electronic device in one of a first mode in which information is provided only on the second area and a second mode in which information is provided only on the third area, and, in response to the occurrence of an event, to control the electronic device to provide the information associated with the event only on the second area of the display in the first mode if the orientation of the electronic device is the first orientation and to control the electronic device to provide the information associated with the event only on the third area of the display in the second mode if the orientation of the electronic device is the first orientation.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, in response to the occurrence of the event while providing information associated with an application on the first area, control the display to provide the information associated with the event on the second area and provide the information associated with the application on the first area.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the display is a touch display.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first area is disposed on a front surface of the electronic device, and

wherein the second area is extended from the first area to be bent on at least one side of the first area and covers a part of the side surface of the electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor configured to, in response to the occurrence of the event while the display is inactivated, activates the second area and controls the electronic device to provide the information associated with the event only on the second area of the display if the orientation of the electronic device is the first orientation.