Flexible display apparatus and display method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9864438-B2
Application number	US-201615255623-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2016
Priority date	Jul 30, 2012
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display, a sensor which senses bending of the flexible display, and a controller which determines a screen activation region and a screen inactivation region from among a plurality of display regions of the flexible display based on the sensed bending, and displays a predetermined screen on the screen activation region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flexible display apparatus comprising:
a flexible display;
a sensor to sense a bending of the flexible display; and
a controller to:
in response to a message being received, display a notice message related to receiving the message on a region of the flexible display from among a plurality of regions of the flexible display, and
in response to the sensor sensing the bending in the region of the flexible display while the notice message is displayed, display the received message on the flexible display.

2. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller, in response to the sensor sensing another bending of the flexible display, while the received message is displayed on the flexible display, stop displaying the received message on the flexible display.

3. The flexible display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein a direction of the another bending while the received message is displayed on the flexible display is opposite to a direction of the bending while the notice message is displayed on the flexible display.

4. The flexible display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the direction of the another bending while the received message is displayed on the flexible display is a direction toward a side of the flexible display that the notice message is displayed on, and the direction of the bending while the notice message is displayed on the flexible display is toward a side opposite to a side that the received message is displayed on.

5. The flexible display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the controller, while the received message is displayed on a region of the flexible display from among the plurality of regions of the flexible display, in response to the sensor sensing the another bending of the flexible display, displays a screen which is displayed on a region other than the first region of the flexible display from among the plurality of regions of the flexible display.

6. The flexible display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein an area where the another bending is sensed while the received message is displayed is an area where the received message is displayed on the flexible display.

7. The flexible display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the another bending of the flexible display while the received message is displayed comprises folding and flap manipulation.

8. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an area where the bending is sensed while the notice message is displayed is the region where the notice message is displayed on the flexible display.

9. The flexible display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the bending of the flexible display while the notice message is displayed comprises folding and flap manipulation.

10. A display method of a flexible display apparatus, the display method comprising:
in response to a message being received, displaying a notice message related to receiving the message on a region of a flexible display provided in the flexible display apparatus from among a plurality of regions of the flexible display;
sensing a bending in the region of the flexible display while the notice message is displayed; and
displaying the received message on the flexible display.

11. The display method of claim 10 , further comprising:
sensing another bending of the flexible display while the received message is displayed on the flexible display; and
stopping displaying the received message on the flexible display.

12. The display method of claim 11 , wherein a direction of the another bending while the received message is displayed on the flexible display is opposite to a direction of the bending while the notice message is displayed on the flexible display.

13. The display method of claim 12 , wherein the direction of the another bending while the received message is displayed on the flexible display is a direction toward a side of the flexible display that the notice message is displayed on, and the direction of the bending while the notice message is displayed on the flexible display is toward to a side opposite to a side that the received message is displayed on.

14. The display method of claim 11 , wherein the stopping displaying the received message comprises displaying a screen which is displayed on a region other than a region where the received message is displayed from among the plurality of regions of the flexible display.

15. The display method of claim 11 , wherein an area where the another bending manipulation is sensed while the received message is displayed is an area where the received message is displayed on the flexible display.

16. The display method of claim 11 , wherein the bending of the flexible display while the received message is displayed comprises folding and flap manipulation.

17. The display method of claim 10 , wherein an area where the bending manipulation is sensed while the notice message is displayed is the region where the notice message is displayed on the flexible display.

18. The display method of claim 10 , wherein the bending of the flexible display while the notice message is displayed comprises folding and flap manipulation.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Seo Joon-Kyu
• Sohn Jung-Joo
• Kim Hyun-Jin
• Lee Geun-Ho

Classifications

• G06F3/0486

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