Flexible Display Content Layout Across Screen Size Changes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices struggle to maintain the arrangement of content when the display screen size changes, leading to user inconvenience and disruption in tasks such as reading and inputting text.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a flexible display module that maintains the arrangement of first content on a first screen size and adjusts the arrangement of second content based on a detected input when the screen size changes, using a processor to manage the display adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the display screen size is changed, then the display area and adaptability are improved, but the content arrangement stability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay screen size adaptabilityVSAvoidcontent arrangement stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts content arrangement based on screen size changes. When the screen size changes, the processor detects this change and automatically rearranges content elements to maintain optimal display. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to handle different screen sizes while preserving content accessibility and user experience, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes display parameters (such as font size, content spacing, and layout configuration) in response to screen size changes. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system maintains readable and usable content arrangement across different display sizes, thereby achieving both adaptability to various screen sizes and stability of content presentation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If the content arrangement is maintained during screen size change, then user reading continuity is improved, but the display optimization for new screen size deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser reading continuityVSAvoiddisplay optimization for new screen size
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of screen size changes and proactively adjusts content arrangement before the user experiences disruption. By detecting the screen size change event and automatically initiating rearrangement, the system maintains reading continuity without requiring user intervention, while also optimizing the display for the new screen size.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors screen size changes and user interaction patterns, using this feedback to automatically adjust content arrangement. This feedback mechanism ensures that content remains continuously accessible to users while adapting to different screen sizes, balancing reading continuity with display optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If the content arrangement is automatically adjusted when screen size changes, then display adaptability is improved, but user control and prediction deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay adaptabilityVSAvoiduser control and prediction
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects screen size changes and independently adjusts content arrangement without requiring user input. This self-service approach maintains display adaptability while reducing the cognitive burden on users, as the system handles the adjustment process autonomously based on detected screen parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4411524B1Method and device for displaying content
Publication Date: 2026.02.04 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device, according to one embodiment, comprises: a display module capable of changing the size of a display screen; a memory which stores instructions executable by a computer; and a processor which accesses the memory and executes the instructions. The processor may: arrange at least one piece of first content in a first arrangement on the display screen of a first screen size; maintain the arrangement of the at least one piece of first content in the first arrangement on the display screen of a second screen size, on the basis of a size change of the display screen from the first screen size to the second screen size; and arrange at least one piece of second content to be outputted on the display screen of the second screen size in a second arrangement corresponding to the second screen size, on the basis of detection of a first input which causes movement of an application screen on the display screen of the second screen size.