Apparatus and method for reducing current consumption in portable terminal with flexible display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9373307-B2
Application number	US-201313775876-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2013
Priority date	Oct 14, 2009
Publication date	Jun 21, 2016
Grant date	Jun 21, 2016

Abstract

A portable device with a flexible display and a method for displaying information in the portable device with a flexible display are provided. The portable device includes a sensor for detecting at least one of a user's face and an ambient brightness, the flexible display including a first area and a second area, and a controller for displaying information in the first area when at least one of the user's face is detected and the ambient brightness has a value greater than a threshold, and for displaying the information in the second area when at least one of the user's face is not detected and the ambient brightness has value less than the threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable device with a flexible display, the portable device comprising:
a sensor configured to detect at least one of a user's face and a value of an ambient brightness;
the flexible display including a first area and a second area, the first area and the second area being on a same side of the flexible display; and
a controller configured to:
determine the first area and the second area of the flexible display when the flexible display is in a bent state;
display information in the first area when at least one of the user's face is detected and the value of the detected ambient brightness is greater than a threshold, and
display the information in the second area when at least one of the user's face is not detected and the value of the detected ambient brightness is less than the threshold.

2. The portable device of claim 1 , further comprising a bending recognition sensor for detecting the bent state of the flexible display.

3. The portable device of claim 1 , wherein the controller displays the information in one of the first area and the second area when the flexible display is bent.

4. The portable device of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller displays black data in the second area if the information is displayed in the first area, and
wherein the controller displays black data in the first area if the information is displayed in the second area.

5. A method for displaying information in a portable device with a flexible display, the method comprising:
determining a first area and a second area of the flexible display when the flexible display is in a bent state;
detecting whether at least one of a user's face is present and a value of ambient brightness is higher than a threshold;
displaying information in the first area of the flexible display if at least one of the user's face is present and the value of the detected ambient brightness is greater than the threshold; and
displaying the information in the second area of the flexible display if at least one of the user's face is not present and the value of the detected ambient brightness is less than the threshold,
wherein both the first area and the second area are on a same side of the flexible display.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the user's face or the ambient brightness is detected by a sensor included in the portable device.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein a bending recognition sensor included in the portable device detects whether the portable device with the flexible display is bent.

8. The method of claim 5 , further comprising displaying the information in one of the first area and the second area when the portable device with the flexible display is bent.

9. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
displaying black data in the second area if at least one of the user's face is present and the value of the ambient brightness is greater than a threshold; and
displaying black data in the first area if at least one of the user's face is not present and the value of the ambient brightness is less than the threshold.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Min-Soo
• Park Seung-Hyun

Classifications

• G06F1/1626

  with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs] · CPC title

• G09G5/14 Primary

  Display of multiple viewports · CPC title

• G06F3/01

  Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer (G06F3/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• Y02B60/1242

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02B60/1289

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic