Patent ID: 8587539

Claim:
A flexible display user input receiving system, comprising: a flexible display configured to receive input from a user to indicate a selected graphical user interface element by flexing of the flexible display; at least one flexing sensor configured to characterize a flexing of the flexible display; and a user input controller, communicatively coupled to the at least one flexing sensor, the user input controller configured to: receive a characterization of a present flexing of the flexible display; determine if the characterization of the present flexing corresponds to an excluded flexing within at least one excluded flexing characterization, each of the excluded flexing characterizations corresponding to a flexing in a particular direction and along a particular axis of flexing of the flexible display not associated with a user input; provide, based on a determination that the present flexing does not correspond to an excluded flexing, a user selection corresponding to the present flexing that indicates a selected graphical user interface element on the flexible display; and exclude, based on a determination that the present flexing corresponds to an excluded flexing, the characterization of the present flexing from user input processing that determines user selections indicating a selected graphical user interface element on the flexible display.