US 11,710,433 B2
Display apparatus having frame assembly to bend display panel and method of controlling the same
Byeonghee Won, Yongin-si (KR); Jungtae Park, Yongin-si (KR); and Youngseok Seo, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/530,348.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0038184 (KR), filed on Mar. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0309973 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01); F16M 11/18 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/035 (2020.08) [F16M 11/18 (2013.01); G09F 9/301 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display apparatus comprising:
a display panel comprising a first edge extending in a first direction, a second edge extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a display area where an image is displayed;
a controller configured to obtain information to bend the display panel and, in response, to bend the display panel to a bent display panel; and
a frame assembly located behind the display panel and configured to bend the display panel under control of the controller,
wherein in the bent display panel, the first edge has a first display-panel curvature and the second edge has a second display-panel curvature,
wherein the frame assembly comprises a first frame and a second frame,
wherein the first frame extends in the first direction and is configured to bend the display panel from the first direction to a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction by contracting the first frame,
wherein the second frame extends in the second direction and is configured to bend the display panel from the second direction to the third direction by contracting the second frame.