Display device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing display control program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11079806-B2
Application number	US-202016932853-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2020
Priority date	Jan 8, 2020
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp

Inventors

• Takeuchi Ko
• SENTO Chizuko

Classifications

• G09F9/301 Primary

  flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED · CPC title

• G06F3/0412 Primary

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F1/1677 Primary

  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 · CPC title

• G06F1/1643

  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) · CPC title