Multi-screen Displaying Method and Display Device

• US 20180293960A1
• Filed: 05/26/2017
• Published: 10/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.), HKC Corporation Limited (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.), HKC Corporation Limited (Shenzhen Huike Investment Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHEN, Yu-Jen
• Granted Patent: US 10,380,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1649 the additional display being independently orientable, e.g. for presenting information to a second user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/301 flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED
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• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/02 Flexible displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43076 : of the same content streams on multiple devices, e.g. when family members are watching the same movie on different devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 : Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering

Abstract

Disclosed are a multi-screen displaying method and device. In the method, a user physically folds and splits a curved-surface display screen according to a preset folding line. By software, the curved-surface display screen is divided and split into plural display subscreens by a display interface corresponding to the method of physically folding and splitting the screen, and different display subscreens display different contents to achieve the effect of viewing different display contents for the users'"'"' viewing at the same time, so as to improve the experience level of the users.

Claims

1. A multi-screen displaying method, applied to a display device having a curved-surface display screen, comprising the steps of:

prompting a user to select a multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen, when a user'"'"'s folding and splitting the curved-surface display screen according to a preset folding line is detected;

obtaining a position information of the preset folding line of the curved-surface display screen when the multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen is selected, wherein the preset folding line is a dividing line of adjacent curved-surface display screens formed by folding and splitting the screen;

dividing a display interface of the curved-surface display screen into a plurality of display subscreens according to the position information, wherein a split screen line of the two adjacent display subscreens is superimposed with the preset folding line;

obtaining the display content selected by the user from the plurality of display subscreens; and

displaying the display content selected from the display subscreen through the display subscreen.

2. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 1, further comprising the following steps after obtaining the display content selected from the plurality of display subscreens by the user:

determining whether or not the display content has audio information;

selecting an audio channel from a plurality of audio channels used by the curved-surface display screen when the display content has audio information;

and outputting the audio information from the selected audio channel.

3. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 1, wherein when the user folds and splits the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, the display screen corresponding to the preset folding line is protruded from the curved-surface display screen to block the display contents of the display sub-screens on both sides of the split screen line.

4. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 2, wherein when the user folds and splits the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, the display screen corresponding to the preset folding line is protruded from the curved-surface display screen to block the display contents of the display sub-screens on both sides of the split screen line.

5. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 3, wherein the preset folding line is a vertical folding line;

and the obtained position information of the preset folding line in the curved-surface display screen includes a corresponding column element unit of the vertical folding line in the curved-surface display screen.

6. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 4, wherein when a user'"'"'s folding and splitting the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line is detected, the method comprises the steps of:

installing a pressure sensor at the preset folding line, and determining that the user has folded and split the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line when the pressure sensor has detected that the pressure value falls within the range of a predetermined pressure threshold value.

7. A multi-screen displaying method, applied to a display device having a curved-surface display screen, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a position information of the preset folding line of the curved-surface display screen when a user'"'"'s folding and splitting the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line is detected, wherein the preset folding line is a dividing line of adjacent curved-surface display screens formed by folding and splitting the screen;

dividing a display interface of the curved-surface display screen into a plurality of display subscreens according to the position information, wherein a split screen line of the two adjacent display subscreens is superimposed with the preset folding line; and

obtaining the display content of the display subscreen selected by the user from the plurality of display subscreens through the display subscreen.

8. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 7, further comprising the following steps before obtaining the position information of the preset folding line in the curved-surface display screen:

determining whether or not the multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen is selected; and

obtaining the position information of the preset folding line the curved-surface display screen when the multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen is selected.

9. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 7, further comprising the following steps after obtaining the display content selected from the plurality of display subscreens by the user:

determining whether or not the display content has audio information; and

selecting an audio channel from a plurality of audio channels used in the curved-surface display screen when the audio information has the display content; and

outputting the audio information through the selected audio channel.

10. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 8, wherein the user folds and splits the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, and the method further comprises the step of protruding a display screen corresponding to the preset folding line from the curved-surface display screen for blocking the display contents of the display subscreens on both sides of the split screen line.

11. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 9, wherein the user folds and bends the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, and the method further comprises the step of protruding a display screen corresponding to the preset folding line from the curved-surface display screen for blocking the display contents of the display subscreens on both sides of the split screen line.

12. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 10, wherein the preset folding line is a vertical folding line;

and the obtained position information of the preset folding line in the curved-surface display screen includes the obtained corresponding column element unit of the vertical folding line in the curved-surface display screen.

13. The multi-screen displaying method of claim 11, wherein when a user'"'"'s folding and splitting the screen according to the preset folding line is detected, the method further comprises the steps of:

installing a pressure sensor at the preset folding line;

and determining that the user has folded and split the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line when the pressure value detected by the pressure sensor falls within a range of a predetermined pressure threshold value.

14. A display device, comprising a curved-surface display screen, and the display device further comprising:

a first capturing module, configured to obtain the position information of the preset folding line in the curved-surface display screen when a user'"'"'s folding and splitting the curved-surface display screen by a user is detected, wherein the preset folding line is a dividing line of adjacent curved-surface display screens formed by folding and splitting the screens;

a dividing module, configured to divide the display interface of the curved-surface display screen into a plurality of display subscreens according to the position information, wherein the split screen line and the preset folding line of the two adjacent display subscreens are superimposed with each other;

a second capturing module, configured to capture the display content selected from the plurality of display subscreens by the user; and

a display module, configured to display the display content selected in the display subscreen through the display subscreen.

15. The display device of claim 14, further comprising a first determining module configured to determine whether or not the multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen is selected;

and the first capturing module is configured to obtain the position information of the preset folding line in the curved-surface display screen, when the multi-screen display function of the curved-surface display screen is selected.

16. The display device of claim 14, further comprising a second determining module, configured to determine whether or not the display content has audio information;

and a

selecting module, configured to select an audio channel from a plurality of audio channels used in the curved-surface display screen when the audio information has the display content; and

an output module, configured to output the audio information through the selected audio channel.

17. The display device of claim 15, wherein the user folds and splits the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, and the display device further comprises:

a display screen corresponding to the preset folding line and protruded from the curved-surface display screen for blocking the display contents of the display subscreens on both sides of the split screen line.

18. The display device of claim 16, wherein the user folds and splits the curved-surface display screen according to the preset folding line, and the display device further comprises:

a display screen corresponding to the preset folding line and protruded from the curved-surface display screen for blocking the display contents of the display subscreens on both sides of the split screen line.

19. The display device of claim 17, wherein the preset folding line is a vertical folding line, and the first capturing module is configured to capture the vertical folding line of the corresponding column element unit in the curved-surface display screen.

20. The display device of claim 18, wherein the preset folding line is a vertical folding line, and the first capturing module is configured to capture the corresponding column element unit of the vertical folding line in the curved-surface display screen.