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US 10,884,540 B2Granted
Display device with detection of fold by number and size of touch areas
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuo Murata, Tomohiro Kimura, Naru Usukura
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Abstract
A display device includes: a foldable display panel having flexibility; a touch detector disposed selectively on one panel face side of the display panel and capable of detecting a plurality of touch areas; and a determiner for detecting that the display panel is folded only if the touch areas detected by the touch detector are three or more in number, and a largest first touch area thereof is located between the touch areas other than the first touch area.
Claims13
A display device comprising:
- a foldable display panel having flexibility, the foldable display panel including
- a touch detector including a capacitive touchscreen pattern disposed on one panel face of the foldable display panel to detect touch areas;
- and
- a control board connected to the foldable display panel, the control board including a determiner configured to:
- determine whether at least one of the touch areas is detected by the touch detector;
- when the at least one of the touch areas is detected by the touch detector, determine whether the at least one of the touch areas includes three or more of the touch areas;
- when the at least one of the touch areas detected by the touch detector includes the three or more of the touch areas, determine whether a largest touch area that is included in the three or more of the touch areas and largest among the three or more of the touch areas is located between other touch areas included in the three or more of the touch areas and other than the largest touch area;
- and
- when the largest touch area is located between the other touch areas, determine the foldable display panel is folded.
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