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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Charles Matthew Sutton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A display device includes a display screen for displaying content items to a user. The display screen is deformable and can display a content item in various display modes. Deformation of the display screen caused by a deforming action of the user, e.g., bending the display screen along a rigid axis, changes the display mode of the content item displayed on the display screen. A sensor module in the display device detects the deforming action and determines the action type of the deforming action. A controller in the display device analyzes the content type of the content item, e.g., video, map or e-book. Based on the action type of the deforming action and the content type of the content item, the controller generates a command to change the display mode. The display screen displays the content item in a different display mode after executing the command.