Flexible Display Screen Size Adaptation During Telescopic Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices with flexible display screens face challenges in smoothly adjusting screen sizes during telescopic operations, leading to abrupt changes in display content and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A display control method that detects screen adjustment operations in electronic devices with flexible screens, dynamically adjusts the size of transition animations to match changing screen sizes, and redraws application windows accordingly after the operation is complete.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the screen size of a flexible display screen is adjusted during telescopic operation, then the display area is changed to meet portability requirements, but the display content changes abruptly leading to poor user experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescreen size adaptabilityVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-rendering transition animations and preparing display content in advance before the screen size change is fully executed. This allows the transition to be smooth and continuous rather than abrupt, as the visual transformation is already prepared and can be displayed seamlessly during the telescopic operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic adjustment of display content during the screen size transition. Instead of static display updates, the system dynamically modifies the display content to match the changing screen dimensions in real-time, creating a smooth visual transition that adapts to the flexible display's movement and maintains user experience quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If transition animation is played during screen adjustment operation, then smooth transition effect is achieved, but display content size must be dynamically adjusted which increases system complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransition smoothnessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the animation processing module) that mediates between the screen size change event and the display content. This intermediary handles the complex task of dynamically adjusting content size and coordinating the transition animation, isolating the complexity from both the hardware control and the application logic, thereby making the overall system more manageable despite the added complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters dynamically during the transition by adjusting the size parameters of display content in real-time to match the changing screen dimensions. This parameter-based approach allows for flexible and programmable control of the transition animation, enabling smooth visual effects while maintaining systematic control over the transformation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12340455B2Display control method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and electronic device
Publication Date: 2025.06.24 GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD
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AI summary

A display control method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a foreground application in response to detecting that the electronic device starts to execute a screen adjustment operation, wherein the screen adjustment operation is configured to adjust the screen size of the flexible display screen; controlling the foreground application to play transition animation in an execution process of the screen adjustment operation, wherein the size of display content of the transition animation is dynamically adjusted with the change of the screen size to adapt the display content to the screen size; and redrawing and displaying the window of the foreground application according to the screen size which has been adjusted by the screen adjustment operation in response to the screen adjustment operation being ended.