Flexible display apparatus and flexible display apparatus controlling method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9646407-B2
Application number	US-201314047051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2013
Priority date	Oct 5, 2012
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

A flexible display apparatus and a method configured to display three-dimensional (3D) space is disclosed. The flexible display apparatus includes a display that is deformable and is configured to display three-dimensional (3D) image data, a sensor configured to sense deformation of the display, and a controller configured to display some of the 3D image data corresponding to the sensed deformation of the display. The method for controlling a flexible display apparatus with a display includes sensing deformation of a display, and displaying some three-dimensional (3D) image data corresponding to the deformation when the deformation is bending of the display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flexible display apparatus comprising:
a flexible display configured to be deformable;
a sensor configured to sense bending of the flexible display; and
a processor configured to, in response to the bending of the flexible display being sensed while a portion of a panorama image is displayed on the flexible display, determine a bending location and a bending angle of the flexible display, convert at least one of a first image and a second image extracted from the panorama image based on the bending location and the bending angle, and display the converted at least one of the first image and the second image on a corresponding area of sub areas into which the flexible display is divided by the bending location,
wherein the first image and the second image are different portions of the panorama image and represent views from a same viewpoint.

2. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the panorama image is obtained from at least one of photographing a three-dimensional (3D) space, rendering the 3D space, and modeling the 3D space,
wherein the rendering comprises at least one of wireframe rendering, polygon-based rendering, scanline rendering, ray tracing, or radiosity, and
wherein the modeled 3D space is represented by at least one of polygonal modeling, curve modeling, and digital sculpting, and
wherein the modeling is performed by at least one of a constructive solid geometry technique, an implicit surfaces technique, and a subdivision surfaces technique.

3. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to determine new viewing directions regarding a 3D space that corresponds to the sub-areas with a changed arrangement state, and display new images describing the 3D space viewed from a viewpoint in the new viewing directions on the sub-areas of the changed arrangement state in response to the display being rotated so that the arrangement state of the subareas is changed.

4. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein a combination of the first image and the second image are displayed on the sub-areas and each of the sub-areas of the display respectively shows a part of the source image seamlessly.

5. The flexible display apparatus of claim 4 ,
wherein the combination of the first image and the second image displayed on the sub-areas of the display expands a coverage of the portion of the panorama image displayed on the display prior to the bending of the display.

6. A flexible display apparatus comprising:
a display that is deformable;
a sensor configured to sense deformation of the display; and
a processor configured to, in response to the display being bent and divided into the plurality of sub-areas while a first image from among a plurality of multi-viewpoint images of an object is displayed:
control the display to change a position of the first image on the display such that the first image is displayed on a first sub-area from among the plurality of sub-areas, and
display a second image from among the plurality of multi-viewpoint images of the object, the second image corresponding to an angle of bending of the display, on a second sub area from among the plurality of sub-areas.

7. The flexible display apparatus of claim 6 ,
wherein the sensor is further configured to sense a rotation with respect to the display, and
wherein the processor is further configured to replace the first image and the second image with other images from among the plurality of multi-viewpoint images of the object in response to the display being rotated without further bending while displaying the first image and the second image.

8. The flexible display apparatus of claim 6 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to determine an arrangement state of each of the plurality of sub-areas based on a direction and an angle of rotation of the display, and
wherein the display is further configured to display an image, from among multi-viewpoint images of the object, that corresponds to the determined arrangement state on each of the plurality of the sub-areas.

9. A method for controlling a flexible display apparatus comprising a flexible display, the method comprising:
sensing bending of the flexible display while a portion of a panorama image is displayed on the flexible display;
determining a bending location and a bending angle of the flexible display;
converting at least one of a first image and a second image extracted from the panorama image based on the bending location and the bending angle; and
displaying the converted at least one of the first image and the second image on a corresponding area of sub areas into which the flexible display is divided by the bending location,
wherein the first image and second image are different portions of the panorama image and represent views from a same viewpoint.

10. The control method of claim 9 ,
wherein the panorama image is obtained by at least one of photographing a three-dimensional (3D) space, rendering the 3D space, and modeling the 3D space,
wherein the rendering comprises at least one of wireframe rendering, polygon-based rendering, scanline rendering, ray tracing, or radiosity, and
wherein the modeled 3D space is represented by at least one of polygonal modeling, curve modeling, and digital sculpting, and
wherein the modeling is performed by at least one of a constructive solid geometry technique, an implicit surfaces technique, and a subdivision surfaces technique.

11. The control method of claim 9 , further comprising,
rotating the display so that an arrangement state of the sub-areas is changed;
determining new viewing directions regarding a 3D space that corresponds to the sub-areas with changed arrangement state; and
displaying the new images describing the 3D space viewed from the viewpoint in the new viewing directions on the sub-areas with the changed arrangement state.

12. A method of controlling a flexible display apparatus comprising a display, the method comprising:
sensing deformation of the display while displaying a first image from among a plurality of multi-viewpoint images of an object; and
changing a position of the first image on the display such that the first image is displayed on a first sub-area from among a plurality of sub-areas; and
displaying a second image from among the plurality of multi-viewpoint images of the object, the second image corresponding to an angle of bending of the display, on a second sub area from among the plurality of sub-areas.

13. The control method of claim 12 , wherein the displaying comprises;
replacing the first image and the second image with other images from among the plurality of multi-viewpoint images of the object in response to the display being rotated without further bending while displaying the first image and the second image.

14. The control method of claim 12 , wherein the displaying further comprises:
determining the arrangement state of each of the plurality of sub-areas based on a direction and an angle of rotation of the display; and
displaying an image, from among multi-viewpoint images of the object, that corresponds to the determined arrangement state on each of the corresponding plurality of the sub-areas.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Chang-Soo
• Kang Kyung-A
• Lee Geun-Ho

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