Flexible Display Form Change Account Switching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in automatically adapting user interfaces and account configurations when their form changes, such as from a phone to a tablet format, leading to inconvenience for users who need to manually adjust settings for different usage scenarios.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with sensors to detect form changes and a processor that automatically switches user interfaces and account configurations based on predefined settings associated with each form, allowing seamless transitions without user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the device employs a flexible display that can change form, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveform adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-associates multiple account configurations with different device forms in advance. When a form change is detected, the corresponding pre-configured account is automatically activated without requiring real-time configuration or user intervention, thus resolving the complexity issue while maintaining high adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If the device automatically switches accounts based on form changes, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration switchingVSAvoidcontrol system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The device performs self-service by automatically detecting its own form state and autonomously switching between pre-configured accounts based on that state. This eliminates the need for manual user intervention while keeping the control logic relatively simple through pre-established associations between forms and accounts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple account configurations are maintained for different forms, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration adaptabilityVSAvoidconfiguration management overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The account configuration system serves multiple functions: it stores user preferences, device settings, and form-specific configurations within a unified multi-account framework. This universal approach allows the system to manage diverse configuration information efficiently without requiring separate management systems for each form type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11460882B2Method and apparatus for performing display in electronic device

Publication Date: 2022.10.04 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device employing a flexible display, and an operating method therefor. The electronic device operating method comprises the steps of: detecting a form change of the electronic device; determining an account to be used in the changed form of the electronic device; and displaying a user interface (UI) on the electronic device on the basis of a setting corresponding to the determined account. Other examples are also possible.