US 12,117,872 B2Granted

Electronic device, storage medium, program, and displaying method

AssigneeSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

InventorKunio Hosoya

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Abstract

An electronic device is provided which displays an object (body) on a flexible display screen in accordance with a three-dimensional shape of the display screen by utilizing the flexibility of the display screen. An electronic device including a display portion which includes a flexible display device displaying an object on a display screen; a detection portion detecting positional data of a given part of the display screen; and an arithmetic portion calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen on the basis of the positional data and computing motion of the object to make the object move according to a given law in accordance with the calculated three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A memory device storing a program for causing an electronic device to execute a process, comprising the steps of:

receiving information of a three-dimensional shape of a display screen from an electronic device;
loading data of an object to be displayed in the display screen of the electronic device;
loading a law to define move of the object;
calculating motion of the object according to the law in accordance with the information of the three-dimensional shape of the display screen and the data of the object;
calculating a deformed shape of the object based on the calculated motion;
and
send an instruction to display the object with the deformed shape in the display screen,
wherein the data of the object comprises an object shape and a position in the display screen,
wherein the data of the object is loaded from an storage portion in the step of loading data of the object, and
wherein the law is loaded from the storage portion in the step of loading the law.

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Facts

Application: 18/388,357Filed 9 Nov 2023 · continuation
Priority: JP 2012-10913211 May 2012
Published: US 2024/0077910 A17 Mar 2024
Granted: 15 Oct 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 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 1/13338
Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods: input devices, e.g. touch panels
G06F 1/1694
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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