Patent ID: 9710079
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A mobile terminal comprising: a flexible display configured to be bent in response to force applied to the flexible display; a sensor configured to sense a bending of at least one region of the flexible display, wherein the bending divides the flexible display into a bent region, a closed region covered from view by the bent region, and an open region not covered from view by the bent region; and a controller configured to: control the flexible display to display one or more icons in response to the bending wherein the one or more icons are varied based on information displayed on the flexible display; and execute a function corresponding to a first icon of the displayed one or more icons in response to an additional bending of the flexible display at a particular location; wherein the first icon is selected among the displayed one or more icons according to a bending attribute of the additional bending at the particular location, and wherein the controller is further configured to change a display position of the one or more icons to a different position within the open region according to the bending, wherein the bending attribute of the additional bending comprises information regarding at least a number of times of the additional bending, a strength of the additional bending, or a direction of the additional bending, wherein the controller is configured to control the flexible display to distinctively display the first icon; and control the flexible display to distinctively display a second icon of the displayed one or more icons in response to a change in the bending attribute of the additional bending, and wherein the controller is further configured to execute different functions corresponding to each of the first icon and the second icon according to a strength of the additional bending of the flexible display.