Patent 9524660 was granted and assigned to Samsung on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A display apparatus including a display module, and a drive device to deform the display module, is provided. The drive device switches the display module between a planar state and a curved state in which at least one lateral end of the display module protrudes forward. As such, the user may use the display module both in a planar state and a curved state.