Foldable Flexible Display Content Swapping for User Movement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing foldable electronic devices face challenges in maintaining optimal content visibility and interaction when operating in a laptop geometric form factor, where one display portion is vertical and another is horizontal, leading to inconvenience and difficulty in viewing the lower portion without physically repositioning the device or oneself.
Innovation Solution
Equipping the device with sensors to detect user movement and gaze, allowing processors to dynamically swap content between display portions based on user position and orientation, ensuring the content of interest is always visible on the actively viewed portion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the device operates in a laptop geometric form factor with one display portion vertical and another horizontal, then the device can present content in multiple orientations, but the lower display portion becomes difficult to view without physically repositioning the device or oneself
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the content display adaptive and changeable based on user position. The system dynamically swaps content between the vertical and horizontal display portions in response to detected user movement, transforming a static display arrangement into a dynamic one that adapts to user needs. This resolves the contradiction by allowing the device to maintain multiple orientation capabilities while automatically optimizing viewing convenience through content repositioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by using sensors to detect user position and movement, then using this information to automatically swap content between display portions. The system continuously monitors user position and adjusts content placement accordingly, creating a closed-loop control system. This feedback mechanism resolves the contradiction by enabling the device to adapt its content presentation based on real-time user position data, maintaining versatility while ensuring optimal viewing comfort.
2Ease of operation
If the device uses sensors to detect user movement and dynamically swap content between display portions, then viewing convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling the device to automatically monitor its own operational state (display configuration) and user interaction (position and movement), then autonomously make adjustments to content placement without requiring manual user intervention. The system serves itself by detecting when content visibility becomes suboptimal and automatically swapping content between portions, reducing the need for complex manual control interfaces while maintaining enhanced viewing convenience.
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AI summary
An electronic device and method are disclosed for managing content on a foldable device with a flexible display. The method includes detecting, with sensors, a partially deformed geometric form factor defined by a first device housing pivoted about a hinge relative to a second device housing between an open and closed position. The method further includes presenting, with processors, first content on a display portion of the first device housing and second content on another display portion of the second device housing. Additionally, the method involves detecting, with other sensors, movement of a person viewing the content within the environment of the electronic device. When the movement meets a predefined criterion, the method includes moving the first content to the second display portion and the second content to the first display portion. This approach enhances the user experience by dynamically adjusting content presentation based on user movement.