US Patent 11194361 Display apparatus

A display apparatus includes a display module including a display panel for displaying an image; and a housing module for housing the display module therein, wherein the housing module has a front opening defined therein corresponding to a portion of a display region of the display panel, in a stored mode in which an entirety of the display module is housed in the housing module, the portion of the display region is exposed to an outside of the housing module through the front opening, so that the display module displays Always On Display (AOD) data in the portion of the display region corresponding to the front opening, thus to implement an AOD function.