Flexible Display Background Preview for State Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in intuitively and efficiently setting background screens that adapt to changes in device state, such as extension or retraction, as users struggle to visualize how the background will appear in different states.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor that acquires state information and displays sequential preview images on the flexible display, showing a first area of an image for the retracted state and a second area including the first area for the extended state, allowing users to specify the image as a background based on user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible display is used that can change size between retracted and extended states, then the display area can be dynamically adjusted, but it becomes difficult for users to intuitively visualize and set the background screen appearance across different states
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by displaying preview images that show how the background screen will appear in both retracted and extended states before the user finalizes the setting. This allows users to visualize the outcome in advance and make informed decisions about background screen configuration across different display states.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates visual copies (preview images) of the background screen displayed on the flexible display itself, showing how the same background will appear in both retracted and extended states. This copying approach allows users to see and compare different states simultaneously, making the setting process intuitive and efficient.
2Loss of information
If sequential preview images are displayed showing different areas for retracted and extended states, then user understanding of background appearance is improved, but the setting process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the display of preview images for both retracted and extended states into a unified background screen setting interface. By combining multiple pieces of information (preview images for different states) into a single coherent display, the system provides comprehensive visual information while maintaining an integrated and manageable setting process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a temporal dimension to the background screen setting by displaying sequential preview images that show how the background will appear in different states over time. This dimensional approach allows users to visualize changes across states without complicating the spatial layout of the setting interface.
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AI summary
An electronic device comprises a display having a display area, wherein a size of the display area visually exposed in a first state of the electronic device is reduced and a size of the display area visually exposed in a second state of the electronic device is enlarged, and a processor operatively connected to the display, wherein the processor may be configured to acquire state information of the electronic device, successively display a first preview image and a second preview images on the display, based on the state information of the electronic device, wherein the first preview image includes a first area of a specified image and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the first state, wherein the second preview image comprises a second area including the first area and a further area extending from the first area, and corresponds to a preview image of a background screen in the second state, and specify the image as a background screen, based on a first user input.