Foldable Display Content Interworking via Flip Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices with multiple displays lack content interworking and interaction, failing to fully utilize the displays to provide a convenient interaction manner for users.
Innovation Solution
A display method for foldable electronic devices that detects the folded state and flips over the displays to display corresponding content on the second display, optimizing the user interface by adjusting elements such as background color and arrangement, ensuring seamless interaction and improved user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different content is displayed on each display in conventional multi-display devices, then each display can be utilized independently, but content interworking and interaction are lacking, and product values are not fully utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into primary and secondary displays with distinct functional roles. The primary display handles main interaction and content presentation, while the secondary display provides supplementary information and context-aware content, enabling content interworking without requiring complex coordination between equal displays.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of treating all displays equally with independent content, the patent inverts the conventional approach by establishing a hierarchical relationship where the secondary display's content is derived from and complementary to the primary display's content, creating interworking through this inverted dependency model.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple displays are provided to improve information browsing capability, then user information access is enhanced, but the lack of content association reduces user convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the secondary display continuously monitors and responds to user interactions with the primary display content. When users interact with content on the primary display, the secondary display dynamically adjusts its content presentation to provide relevant context, navigation hints, or supplementary information, enhancing ease of operation through this responsive feedback loop.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a content association mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the primary and secondary displays. This intermediary layer analyzes content from the primary display and generates corresponding supplementary content for the secondary display, creating seamless content association that improves user interaction convenience without requiring direct user management of multiple independent displays.
3Productivity
If the foldable display is used in folded state providing two displays, then display utilization is improved, but the interaction manner lacks convenience compared to single display operation
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary display is designed with multi-functionality to serve various interaction modes. It can display supplementary content, provide quick actions, show context-aware information, or act as a remote control for the primary display, depending on the application scenario. This universal design enables the folded state to provide convenient interaction without requiring separate optimization for each use case.
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AI summary
An electronic device displays, on a first display of a foldable display, a user interface provided by a reading application, a user may flip over the electronic device, to trigger the electronic device to display, on a second display of the foldable display, a user interface provided by the reading application. In addition, the second display may display the user interface in a form suitable for reading by the user. The user can trigger, in an interaction manner of flipping over the electronic device, the electronic device to display, on the second display with reference to a currently running application or a current location, content that the user expects to view.