Foldable Display with Hinge-Defined Areas for Adaptive UI Layout
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Solution Overview
Problem
As user terminal devices provide increasingly diverse functions, the existing interaction methods, such as simply selecting buttons or touching screens, become insufficient for efficiently utilizing these functions, leading to a need for a more convenient and efficient user interaction method.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal device with a display divided into multiple areas by hinges, allowing the display to be bent and unfolded in various configurations, enabling different functions to be displayed and interacted with based on the bending state, such as playing back, mixing, or editing audio content, or performing telephone calls, by controlling the layout and user interface across multiple display areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user terminal device provides increasingly diverse functions, then the functionality and versatility of the device is improved, but the existing interaction methods become insufficient and the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display configuration is made dynamic through hinges that allow the display to be folded and unfolded between different states (first display state with first display area, second display state with first and second display areas, third display state with all three display areas). The controller automatically adjusts the user interface and application execution based on the detected display state, providing adaptive interaction methods that evolve with the device's physical configuration rather than requiring users to navigate complex menus for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The display is divided into multiple independent display areas (first display area, second display area, third display area) separated by folding lines and hinges. Each display area can be independently controlled and configured based on the current display state. Applications and user interfaces are segmented across these display areas, allowing different functions to be accessed and operated simultaneously in different regions, thereby improving interaction efficiency for diverse functions
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display is divided into multiple display areas by hinges, then the adaptability and versatility of the device is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hinge structure serves multiple functions: it physically divides the display into separate areas, enables folding between different display states, and acts as a mechanical indicator of the current configuration state. The controller universally manages all display areas and applications regardless of which display state is active, providing a unified interface for controlling the complex multi-area display system without requiring separate control mechanisms for each display area
3Productivity
If multiple functions are displayed across multiple display areas, then the productivity and efficiency of using the device is improved, but the ease of operation may deteriorate due to the complexity of managing multiple display areas
Solution Approach 1:
The controller automatically detects the current display state (first, second, or third display state) and self-adjusts the user interface configuration, application execution modes, and available functions based on the detected state. This eliminates the need for users to manually configure or manage the complexity of multiple display areas - the system serves itself by automatically adapting the interface to the current physical configuration, thereby maintaining ease of operation while enabling high productivity
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AI summary
A user terminal device and a displaying method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first display area, a second display area, and a third display area along a first folding line corresponding to the first hinge and a second folding line corresponding to the second hinge and a controller configured to, in response to the first bending interaction of unfolding the display with reference to the first folding line being detected, control the display to display an execution screen of the application including a first function and a second function, related to the first function, in the first display area and the second display area, and in response to a second bending interaction of unfolding the display with reference to the second folding line being detected, control the display to display an execution screen of the application including the first function, the second function, and a third function, related to the second function, in the first display area, the second display area, and the third display area.