Multimedia device having flexible display and controlling method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJunghoon PARK, Dongwon CHOI, Namhun KIM, Sunjung HWANG
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Abstract
Disclosed are a multimedia device including a flexible display and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a guide bar, a flexible display configured to be rolled up on an outer circumference of the guide bar, the flexible display having a first region rolled up on the outer circumference of the guide bar and a second region not rolled up on the outer circumference of the guide bar, a receiving unit configured to receive a content and metadata corresponding to the content from a source device, and a control unit adjusting a vertical width of the second region of the flexible display in accordance with a preset condition.
Claims20
A multimedia device comprising:
- a guide bar;
- a flexible display configured to be rolled up on an outer circumference of the guide bar, the flexible display having a first region rolled up on the outer circumference of the guide bar and a second region not rolled up on the outer circumference of the guide bar;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a content and metadata corresponding to the content from a source device;
- and
- a control unit adjusting a vertical width of the second region of the flexible display in accordance with a preset condition.
A method of controlling a multimedia device, which includes a guide bar and a flexible display configured to be rolled up on an outer circumference of the guide bar, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a content and metadata corresponding to the content from a source device;
- extracting an aspect ratio information from the received metadata;
- and
- adjusting an extent of the flexible display rolled up on the outer circumference of the flexible display in accordance with the extracted aspect ratio information.
The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of saving a function or lookup table for determining a vertical width of a region in the flexible display not rolled up on the outer circumference of the guide bar in accordance with an aspect ratio of a screen in the flexible display in a storage unit.
A method of controlling a multimedia device, which includes a guide bar and a flexible display configured to be rolled up on an outer circumference of the guide bar, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a content and metadata corresponding to the content from a source device;
- receiving a command signal for selecting an aspect ratio of a screen in the flexible display;
- and
- adjusting an extent of the flexible display rolled up on the outer circumference of the flexible display in accordance with the received command signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.