US 10,372,165 B2Granted

Display device and control method

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorDoyoung Lee

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Abstract

A display device and a control method are disclosed. The display device comprises: a flexible display unit capable of displaying an image in two directions; a camera unit, which is disposed in a first direction and receives as an input the image in the first direction; and a control unit, wherein the control unit can temporarily capture the image input in the first direction and display the temporarily captured image in the first direction on the flexible display unit in a second direction or a bent region of the flexible display unit when the region of the flexible display unit, which includes the camera unit, is bent in the second direction at an angle equal to or greater than a preset angle, so that the camera unit can receive as an input the image in the second direction, which is opposite the first direction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A display device comprising:

a flexible display unit configured to display images in two directions;
a camera unit disposed in a first direction and configured to:
when the flexible display unit is not bent, receive as an input an image in the first direction;
and
when an area of the flexible display unit, in which the camera unit is included, is bent in a second direction opposite to the first direction at a predetermined angle or more, receive as an input an image in the second direction;
and
a control unit configured to:
temporarily capture the image received in the first direction;
cause the flexible display unit to display the image temporarily captured in the first direction on a second direction side of the flexible display unit or the bent area of the flexible display unit in response to the bending of the area of the flexible display unit in the second direction;
cause the image received in the second direction to rotate in a gravity direction of the display device;
crop the rotated image based on a screen ratio of the flexible display unit with respect to the rotation direction of the image;
and
cause the flexible display unit to display the cropped image.

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A method for controlling a display device including a flexible display unit capable of displaying images in two directions, the method comprising:

temporarily capturing an image in a first direction by receiving as an input the image through a camera unit disposed in the first direction when the flexible display unit is not bent;
sensing bending of an area of the flexible display unit, in which the camera unit is included, in a second direction opposite to the first direction at a predetermined angle or more such that the camera unit receives as an input an image in the second direction;
displaying the image temporarily captured in the first direction on a second direction side of the flexible display unit or the bent area of the flexible display unit in response to the bending of the area of the flexible display unit in the second direction;
rotating the image received in the second direction in a gravity direction of the display device;
cropping the rotated image based on a screen ratio of the flexible display unit with respect to the rotation direction of the image;
and
displaying the cropped image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/533,353Filed 23 Dec 2014
Published: US 2017/0344071 A130 Nov 2017
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06F 1/1652
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: the display being flexible,…
G02F 1/1333
Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements: constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
G06F 1/1686
Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675: the I/O peripheral…
G06F 3/011
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: arrangements for interaction with the…

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