Flexible Display Layout Switching Across External Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in efficiently changing screen layouts and displaying content across multiple housings or devices, particularly when transitioning between internal and external displays.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a deformable form factor and flexible display that uses visual objects to facilitate user inputs for moving and rearranging screen layouts, allowing seamless transitions between internal and external displays, and supports multiple layouts based on user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible display is used to enable deformable form factor, then adaptability of the device is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic layout adjustment where the user interface automatically adapts to different display orientations and configurations. The system detects device form changes and dynamically reconfigures screen layouts, task bars, and application windows without requiring physical device restructuring, thus achieving adaptability through software dynamics rather than hardware complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The task bar and visual objects are designed to perform multiple functions across different device configurations. The same task bar interface handles both internal display interactions and external display transitions, manages multiple applications simultaneously, and adapts to various orientations, reducing the need for separate control mechanisms for each function.
2Ease of operation
If visual objects are added to facilitate user input for moving screens, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Visual objects serve as intermediary elements between the user and the screen positioning system. Instead of requiring direct manipulation of screen coordinates or complex gestures, users interact with simple visual indicators that mediate the translation of user intent into screen movement, simplifying operation while managing system complexity through this intermediate layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates visual copies or representations of screen content within the task bar (such as thumbnail previews and visual objects). These copies allow users to interact with condensed representations of applications and screens, making it easier to select and move between multiple displays without directly manipulating the full screen content.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple layouts are supported for different external devices, then adaptability is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves multiple layout adaptations by dynamically changing software parameters such as task bar position, visual object size, and application window coordinates. Rather than manufacturing different hardware configurations, the system adjusts display parameters through software to accommodate various external device connections, eliminating the need for precise manufacturing variations.
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AI summary
An electronic device can display, on a display, a first screen of an application and a visual object for moving the first screen. The electronic device can: display a first list of one or more external electronic devices on the basis that the visual object dragged by means of a first input is moved to an edge area of the display; display a second list of different layouts of the first screen in response to a second input which is received through the first list and which indicates that a first external electronic device is selected; and, in response to a third input for the second list, transmit, to the first external electronic device, information for outputting, through the first external electronic device, a second screen which corresponds to the first screen and which has a layout in the second list selected by means of the third input.