US 11,886,670 B2
Flexible display device and method for driving the same
Wonki Hong, Suwon-si (KR); and Jongseo Lee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,310.
Application 17/520,310 is a continuation of application No. 16/662,977, filed on Oct. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,169,642.
Application 16/662,977 is a continuation of application No. 14/973,775, filed on Dec. 18, 2015, granted, now 10,481,720, issued on Nov. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2015-0058189 (KR), filed on Apr. 24, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057875 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/045 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/044 (2013.01) [G06F 3/045 (2013.01); G06F 3/0414 (2013.01); G06F 3/04166 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible display device, comprising:
a touch display panel comprising a plurality of touch sensors;
a detector to detect a curved portion of the touch display panel and touch information corresponding to a touch applied to the touch display panel based on a sensing result from the plurality of touch sensors;
a screen divider to divide a display area of the touch display panel into a plurality of divided areas with respect to the curved portion and to define the divided areas as a display divided area and a non-display divided area, respectively, based on:
a difference between an area of a touch in the display divided area and an area of a touch in the non-display divided area, and/or
a difference between a number of touches in the display divided area and a number of touches in the non-display divided area; and
a panel driver to control the display divided area and the non-display divided area,
wherein:
the panel driver is to display an image on at least a portion of the display divided area and not to display an image on the non-display divided area, and
the panel driver is to drive at least one touch sensor in the display divided area from among the plurality of touch sensors and to stop a driving operation of at least one touch sensor in the non-display divided area from among the plurality of touch sensors.