Display unit
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHironobu Abe
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Abstract
A display unit has a flexible display section, a detection section for detecting a deflection amount and a deflection direction of the display section, a determination section for determining a visible portion and a non-visible portion of the display section based on the deflection amount and the deflection direction, and a control section for controlling display contents of the display section. The control section either prevents an image display on the non-visible portion or displays one of a fixed image or a pre-set moving image on the non-visible portion. The display unit also includes a displacement sensor located in the same region as the display section.
Claims9
A display unit, comprising:
- a display panel having flexibility;
- a first acceleration sensor configured to detect a direction of a first plane of the display panel;
- and
- control circuitry configured to:
- determine a projection area of the display panel as a first region of the display panel corresponding to the first plane based on the detected direction;
- control the first region and a second region of the display panel, wherein the first region faces a different direction from the second region;
- determine a first state of the display panel and a second state of the display panel based on the detected direction;
- and
- set the first region to the first state and the second region to the second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.