Patent ID: 9261914
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A display device, comprising: a flexible substrate that when bent has a curved portion and an uncurved portion; a display unit including multiple light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate and configured to display an image within a display area according to an image signal; a displacement sensor secured to a front surface, a back surface or both of the substrate and configured to detect a state of curvature of the substrate; a control unit configured to control the image signal in accordance with the state of curvature detected by the displacement sensor and to (i) size the image to fit within the uncurved portion of the flexible substrate, (ii) split the display area into at least two split areas, the number of split areas being in inverse relation to the size of the uncurved portion and (iii) simultaneously display within each split area a portion of the image, thereby displaying a split image; and an image region arithmetic unit configured to calculate a split amount and a reduction percentage of an image region based on a lookup table specifying a relation between an output of the displacement sensor and an image split control amount, wherein,