# US 10,319,291 B2 · Data processing device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,319,291 B2 - Document ID: US10319291B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/715,427 - Filed: 2017-09-26 - Published: 2018-01-18 - Granted: 2019-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2013-07-19 - Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Hisao Ikeda; Hajime Kimura - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10319291B2 ## CPC - G09G 3/035: {for flexible display surfaces} - G06F 1/1652: {the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable} - G09F 9/301: {flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED} - G09G 3/20: for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} - 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)} - G09G 3/3208: organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED] - G09G 3/3225: using an active matrix - G09G 2300/0426: Layout of electrodes and connections - G09G 2310/0264: Details of driving circuits - G09G 2320/06: Adjustment of display parameters - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS ## Abstract To provide a highly browsable data processing device, provide a highly portable data processing device, provide a data processing device which consumes low power, or provide a data processing device having high display quality, the data processing device includes a display portion having flexibility, a plurality of driver circuit portions arranged in the periphery of the display portion, a sensor portion discerning an external state of the display portion, an arithmetic portion supplying image data to the driver circuit portions, and a memory portion storing a program executed by the arithmetic portion. A first mode in which the display portion is unfolded or a second mode in which the display portion is folded is sensed by the sensor. Luminance adjustment processing is carried out by the program in accordance with the first mode or the second mode. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A semiconductor device comprising: a display portion having flexibility, the display portion includes a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first region and the second region; a first gate driver circuit electrically connected to the first region; a second gate driver circuit electrically connected to the second region and the third region; and a sensor portion discerning an external state of the display portion, wherein a first mode in which the display portion is unfolded or a second mode in which the display portion is folded is sensed by the sensor portion, wherein, in the second mode, the first region of the display portion and the first gate driver circuit face outside and overlap with the third region and a part of the second gate driver circuit, wherein, in the second mode, the display portion further includes a fourth region whose luminance become gradually brighter in a stepwise fashion toward the first region from the third region, and wherein the fourth region is located between the first region and the third region in the second mode. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The semiconductor device according to claim 1, further comprising: an arithmetic portion supplying image data to a plurality of source driver circuits; and a memory portion storing a program executed by the arithmetic portion. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the display portion includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the display portion includes a plurality of organic EL elements. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein an image is displayed on the first region, the second region, and the third region in the first mode, and an image is not displayed on the second region and the third region in the second mode. ### Claim 6 A semiconductor device comprising: a display portion having flexibility, the display portion includes a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first region and the second region; a first gate driver circuit electrically connected to the first region; a second gate driver circuit electrically connected to the second region; a third gate driver circuit electrically connected to the third region; and a sensor portion discerning an external state of the display portion, wherein a first mode in which the display portion is unfolded or a second mode in which the display portion is folded is sensed by the sensor portion, wherein, in the second mode, the first region of the display portion and the first gate driver circuit face outside and overlap with the third region and the third gate driver circuit, wherein, in the second mode, the display portion further includes a fourth region whose luminance become gradually brighter in a stepwise fashion toward the first region from the third region, and wherein the fourth region is located between the first region and the third region in the second mode. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The semiconductor device according to claim 6, further comprising: an arithmetic portion supplying image data to a plurality of source driver circuits; and a memory portion storing a program executed by the arithmetic portion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The semiconductor device according to claim 6, wherein the display portion includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The semiconductor device according to claim 6, wherein the display portion includes a plurality of organic EL elements. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The semiconductor device according to claim 6, wherein an image is displayed on the first region, the second region, and the third region in the first mode, and an image is not displayed on the second region and the third region in the second mode.