Flexible Display Multi-Window Layout via Shape Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices require multiple user inputs and lack predictability and accuracy in setting multi-window layouts, especially for devices that can change shape, such as foldable or rollable devices, leading to user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a flexible display, sensors, and a processor that receives user inputs to determine and display multi-window layouts based on shape changes, allowing for convenient and intuitive setting of applications across multiple windows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple steps of user input are required to set a multi-window layout, then the device can provide precise control over layout configuration, but user inconvenience increases and operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-provides multiple multi-window layout patterns (such as split screen, three-quarter, quarter layouts) through a graphical user interface before the user actually needs to configure a layout. The user can directly select from these pre-configured options, eliminating the need for multiple-step manual configuration while maintaining layout configuration accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects device shape changes (folding, rolling, expanding) through sensors and autonomously determines and applies appropriate multi-window layouts without requiring explicit user input. The device serves itself by matching detected physical states with corresponding layout configurations, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining layout precision.
2Measurement precision
If the device waits for user input to determine multi-window layout, then layout accuracy according to user intention is improved, but response time increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors device shape changes through sensors (such as flex sensors, Hall sensors) and uses this feedback to automatically trigger appropriate multi-window layouts. This closed-loop feedback mechanism allows the system to respond immediately to physical device changes without waiting for user input, thereby improving both response time and maintaining accuracy by base layout selection on actual device state.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes correspondence relationships between different device shapes (folded, unfolded, rolled, expanded) and specific multi-window layouts. When a shape change is detected, the pre-determined layout is immediately applied, eliminating the need to wait for user input while ensuring the layout accurately reflects the device's physical state and inferred user intention.
3Device complexity
If conventional devices use fixed screen layouts, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to shape changes decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts multi-window layouts based on real-time detection of device shape changes. Instead of using a fixed screen layout, the system continuously monitors device state through sensors and automatically reconfigures the display layout to match the current shape (folded, unfolded, rolled, expanded), thereby achieving high adaptability while maintaining relatively simple system architecture through rule-based automatic adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal multi-window layout solution that works across all device shapes and configurations. By establishing a mapping between different device states and corresponding layouts, the system achieves versatility in handling various shapes (foldable, rollable, expandable) without requiring separate complex control mechanisms for each shape, thus balancing adaptability with system simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device includes a flexible display, a sensor, a memory, and a processor. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a first user input through a display, display at least one graphic user interface (GUI) on the display in response to the first user input, receive a second user input with respect to the at least one GUI, determine a multi-window layout on the basis of the second user input, receive a third user input with respect to the at least one GUI, determine, on the basis of the third user input, at least one application to be operated on the multi-window layout, detect a shape change of the electronic device due to unfolding or sliding by using the sensor, and display the multi-window layout and the at least one application on the display based on the display being extended.