# US 11,079,806 B2 · Display device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing display control program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,079,806 B2 - Document ID: US11079806B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/932,853 - Filed: 2020-07-20 - Published: 2021-07-08 - Granted: 2021-08-03 - Earliest claimed: 2020-01-08 - Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Applicants: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Inventors: Ko Takeuchi; Chizuko Sento - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11079806B2 ## CPC - G06F 1/1677: {for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment} - G06F 1/1643: {the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads (details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615)} - G06F 1/1652: {the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable} - G06F 3/04817: using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) - 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 - G09F 9/301: {flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED} - G06F 2200/1637: Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer - G06F 2203/04803: Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS ## Abstract A display device capable of taking a tent state in which a display unit is curved in a direction in which a display surface projects, and the display surface is enabled to be visually recognized from both sides, the device includes a processor configured to, in the tent state, cause a top region to function as an instruction input portion configured to receive an instruction from an operator, the top region being located on an upper side of a first side region directed to one side and a second side region directed to the other side in the display surface and straddling the top of the display surface. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device capable of taking a tent state in which a display unit is curved in a direction in which a display surface projects, and the display surface is enabled to be visually recognized from both sides, the device comprising: a processor configured to, in the tent state, cause a top region to function as an instruction input portion configured to receive an instruction from an operator, the top region being located on an upper side of a first side region directed to one side and a second side region directed to the other side in the display surface and straddling the top of the display surface. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein a display content of the top region in the tent state is discontinuous with display contents of the first side region and the second side region. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to display an operation icon for inputting an instruction to the display device, in the top region. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The display device according to claim 3, wherein the display device is capable of state transition between a flat state in which the display unit has a flat plate shape and the tent state, and the processor is configured to cause the operation icon corresponding to a screen displayed on the display surface in the flat state to be displayed in the top region after the state transitions to the tent state. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display an operation icon for inputting an instruction to the display device, in the top region. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The display device according to claim 5, wherein the display device is capable of state transition between a flat state in which the display unit has a flat plate shape and the tent state, and the processor is configured to cause the operation icon corresponding to a screen displayed on the display surface in the flat state to be displayed in the top region after the state transitions to the tent state. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein an instruction content allowed to be input in the top region is different from at least one of an instruction content allowed to be input in the first side region or an instruction content allowed to be input in the second side region. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to identify whether an operator who has input an instruction in the top region in the tent state is a first operator on the one side of the display device or a second operator on the other side of the display device, and determine an instruction content input in the top region in accordance with the identified operator. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, wherein an instruction influencing a display content of at least one of the first side region or the second side region is received from an operator in the top region, and the processor is configured to determine a target region in which the display content is influenced by the instruction input in the top region, from the first side region and the second side region. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The display device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to determine the target region in accordance with an operation content of the operator on the top region. ### Claim 11 A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a display control program causing a computer to function as: a display device capable of taking a tent state in which a display unit is curved in a direction in which a display surface projects, and the display surface is enabled to be visually recognized from both sides, wherein, in the tent state, a top region is caused to function as an instruction input portion configured to receive an instruction from an operator, the top region being located on an upper side of a first side region directed to one side and a second side region directed to the other side in the display surface and straddling the top of the display surface.