Flexible Display Workspace Control for Sliding Screen Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in optimizing workspaces as screen sizes change, leading to inefficiencies in application layout and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a flexible display that adjusts workspaces based on sliding operations, using context information to identify and display optimized layouts for varying screen sizes, allowing for easy switching between workspace configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the screen size of the flexible display is changed to provide larger or smaller screens, then the versatility and adaptability of the electronic device is improved, but the optimization of workspace configuration and application layout becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic workspace configuration that automatically adapts to different screen sizes. The system detects the current screen size state and dynamically adjusts the workspace layout, application arrangements, and interface elements without requiring manual reconfiguration. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the workspace complexity manageable through automated adjustment while maintaining high screen size versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of workspace configuration based on screen size parameters. When the screen size changes, the system modifies workspace parameters such as layout density, application window sizes, and element positioning to optimize the display for the new screen dimensions. This parameter-based adaptation allows the system to maintain optimized workspaces across various screen sizes without increasing user-facing complexity.
2Area of stationary object
If the display is made larger to provide a bigger screen, then the multimedia function and web browsing experience is improved, but the portability of the electronic device is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a flexible display that can dynamically change its physical configuration between expanded and folded states. When portability is needed, the display folds to a smaller form factor. When display area is needed, the display expands to provide a larger screen. This dynamic physical transformation resolves the contradiction between display area and portability by allowing the device to adapt its form factor to different usage scenarios.
3Ease of operation
If the screen size is reduced to improve portability, then the device becomes more portable, but the workspace optimization and application configuration become suboptimal
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adjusts workspace parameters based on the current screen size. When the display is folded to a smaller size for portability, the system automatically modifies workspace parameters to optimize the limited display real estate. This includes adjusting application layouts, icon sizes, and interface element dimensions to maintain efficient productivity on the smaller screen. Conversely, when the display is expanded, the system adjusts parameters to utilize the larger screen area effectively.
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AI summary
An example electronic device may include a housing, a flexible display, at least a portion of which is visible to the outside, and at least one processor configured to, in response to a sliding operation being performed to make visible a second portion including at least a portion of a first portion of the flexible display to the outside, based on an input, in a state in which the first portion of the flexible display is visible to the outside, obtain context information in a state in which the second portion is visible, identify one or more workspaces based on the context information, control the display to display a list of the one or more workspaces in a portion of the second portion, and in response to one workspace being selected from the list, control the display to display execution screens of a plurality of applications in the second portion.