Display device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYasushi OKUMURA, Naofumi Yoneda, Rui Morisawa, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
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Abstract
There is provided a device with a part or a whole of a housing thereof having flexibility. The device includes a display unit; a detection unit that detects a bent portion of the display device; and a display switching unit that switches display content of the display unit according to a position and a bent level of the bent portion of the display device detected by the detection unit.
Claims18
A display device with a part or a whole of a housing thereof having flexibility, comprising:
- a display unit;
- a detection unit that detects a bent portion of the display device;
- and
- a display switching unit that switches display content of the display unit according to a position and a bent level of the bent portion of the display device detected by the detection unit.
A display device with a part or a whole of a housing thereof having flexibility, the display device capable of being opened and closed, the display device comprising:
- a display unit;
- a detection unit that detects a bent portion of the display device;
- a determination unit that determines whether an entire portion of the display device is bent or an end portion of the display device is locally bent, according to a position and a bent level of the bent portion of the display device detected by the detection unit;
- and
- a display switching unit that switches a display screen mode of the display unit as display of an electronic device implemented by the display device, based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.
A controller with a part or a whole of a housing thereof having flexibility, comprising:
- a detection unit that detects a bent portion of the controller;
- and
- a control switching unit that switches control content of the controller, according to a position and a bent level of the bent portion of the controller detected by the detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.