METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EVENT OF PORTABLE DEVICE HAVING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY UNIT

• US 20160373565A1
• Filed: 08/30/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Donghyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,244,091 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 extended from the first area;

a sensor configured to obtain information related to a state 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 state of the electronic device is a first state, and control the electronic device to provide information associated with the event on the first area and the second area of the display if the state of the electronic device is a second state.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the state of the electronic device is an orientation of the electronic device.

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

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

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

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the display further comprising a third area, the third area comprising a curved portion extended from the first area,

wherein the processor 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 information associated with the event only on the second area of the display in the first mode if the state of the electronic device is the first state and to control the electronic device to provide information associated with the event only on the third area of the display in the second mode if the state of the electronic device is the first state.

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