Electronic device and screen control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoungrog Kim, Yangwook Kim, Younghak Oh
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Abstract
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes: a display having a display area that is variable, at least one processor operably connected to the display. The processor implements the method, including: controlling the display to display a plurality of elements on the display, receiving a user input requesting resizing of the display area, in response to the user input, identifying a core element among the displayed plurality of elements, resizing the display area based on the received user input and the identified core element, wherein a first window in which the core element is displayed is resized in proportion to resizing of the display area.
Claims19
An electronic device, comprising:
- a flexible display having a display area that is variable physically;
- and
- at least one processor operably connected to the flexible display,
- wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- control the flexible display to display a first window including a plurality of elements of a first application on the display area;
- receive a user input to request physically enlarging the display area;
- in response to the user input, physically enlarge the display area of the flexible display;
- identify a core element among the plurality of elements in the first window;
- and
- display a second window including at least part of the plurality of elements on the physically enlarged display area,
- wherein, as the display area is physically enlarged, a size of the second window and a number of a plurality of elements in the second window is gradually reduced, and the core element is maintained in the second window.
A method of an electronic device, the method comprising:
- displaying a first window including a plurality of elements of a first application on a flexible display having a display area that is variable physically;
- receiving, via input circuitry, a user input to request physically enlarging the display area;
- in response to the user input, physically enlarge the display area of the flexible display;
- identifying, via at least one processor, a core element from among the plurality of elements in the first window;
- and
- displaying a second window including at least part of the plurality of elements on the physically enlarged display area,
- wherein, as the display area is physically enlarged, a size of the second window and a number of a plurality of elements in the second window is gradually reduced, and the core element is maintained in the second window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.