Image display apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorHyoyeong Kim
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Abstract
An image display apparatus includes: a housing; a display for displaying an image; a driving unit configured to change a size of a display area exposed to the outside of the housing among an entire area of the display; and a controller, wherein the controller determines whether an image displayed through at least a portion of the display area is a static image, when the size of the display area is smaller than the size of the entire area, determines whether the image is displayed for a certain time or longer, when the image is the static image, controls the driving unit to change the size of the display area, when the image is displayed for the certain time or longer, and controls the display so that the image is displayed in response to a degree of change in the size of the display area.
Claims16
An image display apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a display configured to display an image;
- a driving unit configured to change a size of an exposed display area of the display outside of the housing;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- when the size of the exposed display area is smaller than a size of an entire area of the display, determine whether an image displayed on at least a portion of the exposed display area is a static image,
- cause the driving unit to change the size of the exposed display area based at least in part on the image being displayed for a certain time period when the image is the static image, and
- cause the display to continue to display the image in response to a change in the size of the exposed display area.
A method of operating an image display apparatus, the method comprising:
- determining whether an image displayed through at least a portion of an exposed display area is a static image when the exposed display area is smaller than a size of an entire area of the display, wherein the exposed display area is outside of a housing of the image display apparatus;
- changing the size of the exposed display area based at least in part on the image being displayed for a certain time period when the image is the static image;
- and
- displaying the image in response to a change in the size of the display area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.