US 12,613,950 B2Granted

Electronic device, and user interface method using biometric recognition in electronic device

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSanghyuk Koh, Minsoo Kim, Juyeoung Kim, Seonkeun Park, Sunghoon Lee, Jaewoong Chung, Hanchul Jung

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Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, a biometric recognition sensor, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to receive a first input for recognizing biometric information through the biometric recognition sensor, identify whether the first input is an input related to user authentication in a running application, perform user authentication related to a state of the electronic device, display, on the flexible display a user interface including a menu available for an execution request by receiving a second input while the first input is being held, and perform function corresponding to a menu selected using the user interface, based on the receiving of the second input while the first input is being held.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

a housing;
a flexible display;
a slide driver configured to slide the flexible display in an expansion direction or a contraction direction, wherein the flexible display is configured to be in an expansion state where at least a portion of the flexible display is exposed to a front face of the electronic device or in a contraction state where the portion is not exposed to the front face of the electronic device by moving in the expansion direction or the contraction direction with respect to the housing by the slide driver;
one or more sensors comprising at least one biometric recognition sensor;
memory storing one or more computer programs;
and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the flexible display, the one or more sensors and the memory,
wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to:
receive a first input for recognizing biometric information through the at least one biometric recognition sensor in a locked state,
based on success of a user authentication as result of the recognizing biometric information, display, on the flexible display, a user interface comprising at least one menu to receive a second input while the first input is being held, wherein the at least one menu comprises one of a display expansion menu or a display contraction menu, and
when the second input, corresponding to one of the display expansion menu or the display contraction menu, is received while the first input is being held, control the slide driver to slide the flexible display in the expansion direction or the contraction direction.

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A user interface method performed by an electronic device using biometric recognition, the user interface method comprising:

receiving, by the electronic device, a first input for recognizing biometric information through at least one biometric recognition sensor in a locked state;
based on success of a user authentication as result of the recognizing biometric information, displaying, by the electronic device, on a display, a user interface comprising at least one menu to receive a second input while the first input is being held, wherein the at least one menu comprises one of a display expansion menu or a display contraction menu;
and
when the second input, corresponding to one of the display expansion menu or the display contraction menu, is received while the first input is being held, control a slide driver of the electronic device to slide a flexible display of the electronic device in a expansion direction or a contraction direction.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more computer programs including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving, by the electronic device, a first input for recognizing biometric information through at least one biometric recognition sensor in a locked state;
based on success of a user authentication as result of the recognizing biometric information, displaying, by the electronic device, on a display, a user interface comprising at least one menu to receive a second input while the first input is being held, wherein the at least one menu comprises one of a display expansion menu or a display contraction menu;
and
when the second input, corresponding to one of the display expansion menu or the display contraction menu, is received while the first input is being held, control a slide driver of the electronic device to slide a flexible display of the electronic device in a expansion direction or a contraction direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/643,472Filed 23 Apr 2024 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2021-014326826 Oct 2021
Published: US 2024/0273174 A115 Aug 2024
Granted: 28 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06F 1/16
Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00: constructional details or arrangements
G06F 1/1624
With several enclosures having relative motions, each enclosure supporting at least one I/O or computing function: with sliding enclosures, e.g.…
G06F 1/1652
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: the display being flexible,…