Lg Electronics Inc.

Sk Telecom Company, Ltd.

Seungmin Seen

Seongcheol Lee

Jeongwoo Lee

Gunseek Oh

Jongin Im

Sangjo Ryu

Jinsool Lee

Taeyun Kim

Kyunghee Yoo

Seunghyun Woo

Gukchan Lim

Jongpil Kim

Jongseok Park

Hayang Jung

Shinhae Lee

Jinsoo Jeon

Dongok Kim

Seungho Shin

Anna Yoo

Misook Kim

Yong Woo Bae

Hak-Soon Lee

Dongyoub Sinn

Jeongseok Ki

Giljae Lee

Sukho Hong

Minchul Shin

Haengchul Kwak

Dongyoup Han

Joonsung Sohn

Jongwun Kim

Jonglin Im

A display panel comprising a light guide plate; a main light source configured to emit light from a first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a first direction; a sub-light source configured to emit light from a second lateral surface vertical to the first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a liquid crystal panel provided in a front surface of the light guide plate and configured to output image information.

Display panel and mobile terminal

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for displaying an image on a multi-display device including two or more displays comprises determining whether the image includes a boundary area image to be displayed over a boundary area between a first display and a second display adjacent to the first display; and inserting dummy data into the image so that the image has an increased size and the dummy data is displayed on a position corresponding to the boundary area.

Image display method

A method in accordance with an embodiment is performed by a control apparatus. The method includes obtaining, when applications having a region within which the applications are overlapped with each other are displayed on the touch display device, information that one application of the applications is displayed to cover the other application of the applications or that said one application is displayed to be covered by the other application within the region; determining, based on the obtained information, touch sensing cycles for touch sensors among a plurality of touch sensors embedded in the touch display device to be different from each other, each of said at least two touch sensors sensing a corresponding part within an entire region where the applications are displayed on the touch display device; and controlling each of said at least two touch sensors to perform a sensing operation based on its touch sensing cycle.

Device and method for controlling touch display, and touch display system

A mobile terminal according to the present invention can provide various user interfaces for editing an image itself displayed on a front surface display area, an editing function for items displayed on the front surface display area, and so on by using the front surface display area and a side surface display area.

Mobile terminal for activating editing function when item on front surface display area is dragged toward side surface display area

A mobile terminal including a light guide plate; a plurality of light sources disposed on at least one side of the light guide plate; a display positioned on a front surface of the light guide plate; and a controller configured to control the display to operate in one of operation states including a first state, in which all of the plurality of light sources are activated such that an entire portion of the display is illuminated, and a second state, in which at least one light source corresponding to a partial portion of the display among the plurality of light sources is selectively activated such that the partial portion of the display is illuminated, perform an operation in accordance with a first touch input applied to the partial portion of the display in the second state, and not perform an operation in accordance with a second touch input applied to a remaining portion excluding the partial portion of the display in the second state.

Mobile terminal

A display device including a liquid crystal panel configured to selectively transmit light for each pixel of the liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate provided behind the liquid crystal panel; a light source array including a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row at first lateral side of the light guide plate, and configured to emit light to the first lateral side of the light guide plate; and a mirror provided in a second lateral side of the light guide plate and configured to reflect the light having reached the second lateral side back along the light guide plate. Further, a rear surface of the light guide plate includes a stepped unevenness having first surfaces configured to reflect light toward the liquid crystal panel and second surfaces configured to reflect light toward the mirror, and a thickness of the light guide plate increases in a first direction from the first lateral side to the second lateral side such that the second lateral side of the light guide plate is thicker than the first lateral side of the light guide plate.

Display device and mobile terminal

A mobile terminal disclosed herein includes a window on one surface of a terminal body and configured to be curved, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) on a rear surface of the window to output visual information, and curved by external force. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel to generate an image using light from a light guide plate, at least one prism sheet disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal panel, and a supporting member accommodating the light guide plate and the prism sheet and supporting the liquid crystal panel. The supporting member includes first and second mounting portions with the liquid crystal panel mounted. At least one of the first and second mounting portions has a recess portion for insertion of an edge of the prism sheet to prevent shifting of the prism sheet due to the liquid crystal display being curved.

A mobile terminal includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit that is disposed on a rear surface of the liquid crystal panel and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel, a window that is disposed to cover the liquid crystal panel and formed in a curved shape along one direction, and a frame that is configured to support the window, wherein the liquid crystal panel is attached onto a rear surface of the window and changed into a curved shape to correspond to the curved window, and wherein the backlight unit is attached onto the frame and formed in a curved shape to correspond to the curved liquid crystal panel.

Mobile terminal and fabricating method thereof

A glass type mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a band frame wearable on a user's head, a light transmissive lens coupled to the band frame to be located in front the user wearing the band frame, the light transmissive lens comprising a transparent screen where an image is focused, a projector for outputting an image toward the transparent screen from a lateral surface of the light transmissive lens, a photo shutter coupled to a front surface of the lens, with a controllable transparency, and a controller for controlling the transparency of the photo shutter, such that the visibility of the image focused on the light transmissive lens may be enhanced by controlling the transparency of the light transmissive lens, using the photo shutter, that a clear image may be seen even in a bright place.

Glass type mobile terminal

A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. In the method, a stereoscopic 3D image that utilizes binocular disparity between a left-eye image and a right-eye image is displayed on a display and a stereoscopic 3D pointer is displayed in the stereoscopic 3D image when a user's hand is detected according to analysis of visual data acquired by a camera. The position of the stereoscopic 3D pointer is moved according to movement of the hand when the movement of the hand is detected according to analysis of the visual data. According to this method, the operation of the mobile terminal can be controlled by the user's hand movement or gesture.

Mobile terminal for controlling various operations using a stereoscopic 3D pointer on a stereoscopic 3D image and control method thereof

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes dividing each of first and second images into a plurality of blocks, the first and second images capable of realizing a three-dimensional (3D) image using binocular disparity; searching the first and second images for pairs of matching blocks and calculating depth information of each of the pairs of matching blocks based on a difference in position between each of the pairs of matching blocks; and calculating stereoscopic information of the 3D image based on the depth information of each of the pairs of matching blocks. Therefore, it is possible to effectively provide stereoscopic information of a 3D image for various purposes.

Mobile terminal and method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal

The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal including a window provided on one surface of a terminal body, and having a rear surface formed in a curved shape, a display mounted to the rear surface of the window and configured to output visual information through the window, and a separation-preventing member having one side coupled to the window and the other side coupled to the display, and configured to prevent the display from being separated from the window in a direction that the window and the display are spaced apart from each other.

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Seoul, South Korea

Seungmin Seen