Predictive UI on Extendible Display for Seamless Content Transition
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Solution Overview
Problem
In electronic devices with flexible displays, it is challenging to identify and display desired content when the screen is extended, as existing solutions require additional user input after expansion, making it difficult to confirm content during the expansion process.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with movable housings and sensors that detect user inputs to display content before expansion, allowing for seamless transition between screen states by maintaining display of initial content in one area and introducing new content in another area based on user inputs, ensuring content confirmation without additional user interaction post-expansion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the display is extended to provide a large display area, then the visible display area is increased, but it becomes difficult to identify and display desired content simultaneously with screen expansion
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting user input before expansion and predicting desired content in advance. The processor identifies what content the user wants to access based on pre-expansion interactions, then prepares and displays that content as the screen expands, eliminating the need for additional input during expansion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary prediction mechanism that mediates between the user's pre-expansion input and the post-expansion content display. This prediction system acts as a bridge, translating initial user intentions into appropriate content display during and after expansion without requiring direct user control during the transition.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional user input is requested after expansion to display different content, then content display flexibility is improved, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically predicting and displaying desired content based on pre-expansion user input. The processor autonomously determines what content to display during and after expansion without requiring additional user commands, making the system serve itself by interpreting initial user intentions and executing appropriate content transitions.
3Area of stationary object
If the display area is reduced for portability, then device portability is improved, but the available display area for content is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic display capabilities where the display area can transition between extended and retracted states. The flexible display allows the device to adapt its physical configuration dynamically, providing a large display area when needed and a compact form factor for portability, with the prediction system ensuring seamless content transition during state changes.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device and method in the same are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first and second housing, the second movable relative to the first, a flexible display having an exposure area configurable into a first size and a larger, second size, at least one sensor, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: when detecting that the device is disposed in the first state, displaying a first content, based on detecting a first input, displaying a user interface (UI0 with the first content, based on detecting a second input to the UI, cancelling display of the UI, based on detecting a switch from the first state to the second state, maintaining display of the first content in a first area of the exposure area and displaying a second content in a second area of the exposure area.