Expandable Display Content Synchronization Modes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current expandable display technologies lack a seamless method to manage and synchronize content across multiple displays, particularly in foldable devices, leading to inconsistent user experiences and inefficient use of screen real estate.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor that provides a user interface to set modes for configuring content on multiple screens independently or synchronously, allowing for adaptive display management based on activation status, folding configurations, and user inputs, enabling efficient use of screen space and maintaining usability across different display modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content on multiple displays is configured independently, then each display can be customized according to specific needs, but managing and synchronizing content across displays becomes complex and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between independent configuration mode and synchronized configuration mode based on user selection. In independent mode, each display can be customized separately; in synchronized mode, changes to content on one display are automatically reflected on other displays. This dynamic switching resolves the contradiction by allowing both customization and simplified management at different times.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the configuration parameter of content management from fixed independent configuration to selectable between independent and synchronized modes. This parameter change enables the system to adapt to different user needs, resolving the contradiction between customization flexibility and management complexity.
2Reliability
If content on multiple displays is synchronized, then consistent user experience is achieved across displays, but flexibility in customizing individual display content is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows dynamic switching between synchronized configuration (for consistency) and independent configuration (for customization). Users can select the mode that best fits their current needs, resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration parameter for content management is made changeable between synchronized and independent modes, allowing the system to balance consistency and customization based on user preferences and usage scenarios.
3Area of stationary object
If foldable devices use expandable displays, then screen real estate is increased, but managing content across the expanded display area becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The expanded display is segmented into multiple logical displays or regions, each of which can be configured independently or synchronized. This segmentation allows efficient content management by treating different portions of the expanded display as separate manageable units while still utilizing the total increased screen real estate.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts content configuration across the expanded display area based on whether synchronized or independent mode is selected, improving content management efficiency while maintaining access to the increased screen real estate provided by the foldable/expandable display.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first display, a second display, and a processor configured to provide a user interface (UI) for setting a mode among a first mode and a second mode, wherein in the first mode, first contents of a first screen corresponding to the first display and second contents of a second screen corresponding to the second display are independently configured, and in the second mode, the first contents of the first screen and the second contents of the second screen are synchronously configured; configure the second screen according to the mode set via the UI, and display, based on whether the second display is activated, one screen among the first screen and the second screen configured according to the mode.