# US 2023/0055031 A1 · Electronic device including flexible display and method for operating the same

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- Number: US 2023/0055031 A1
- Document ID: US20230055031A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/715,522
- Filed: 2022-04-07
- Published: 2023-02-23
- Earliest claimed: 2021-08-11
- Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Myunghoon KWAK; Bohyeon KIM; Baekeun CHO; Yangwook KIM; Jihea PARK
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20230055031A1

## CPC

- G09G 3/035: {for flexible display surfaces}
- G06F 1/1624: {with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display}
- G06F 1/1652: {the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable}
- G06F 1/3212: Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
- G06F 1/3265: {Power saving in display device}
- H02J 7/80: including monitoring or indicating arrangements
- H02J 7/82: Control of state of charge [SOC]
- H02J 7/855: {with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery}
- H02P 29/00: Arrangements for regulating or controlling electric motors, appropriate for both AC and DC motors (arrangements for starting electric motors H02P1/00; arrangements for stopping or slowing electric motors H02P3/00; control of motors that can be connected to two or more different electric power supplies H02P4/00; regulating or controlling the speed or torque of two or more electric motors H02P5/00; vector control H02P21/00)
- H04M 1/02: Constructional features of telephone sets
- H04M 1/0235: {Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts}
- H04M 1/0237: {Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom}
- H04M 1/0268: {including a flexible display panel}
- G09G 2320/041: Temperature compensation
- G09G 2320/0606: Manual adjustment
- G09G 2320/0626: for control of overall brightness
- G09G 2320/08: Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
- G09G 2330/021: Power management, e.g. power saving
- G09G 2352/00: Parallel handling of streams of display data
- H02P 2205/03: Power loop, i.e. comparison of the motor power with a power reference
- G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
- H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

## Abstract

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise a housing, a plate coupled to the housing to reciprocate, a flexible display including a first portion disposed on the plate and a second portion extending from the first portion and exposed to an outside or retracted into an inside of the housing as the plate reciprocates, a motor configured to move the plate, at least one electronic component, a battery, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to identify an event for triggering a movement of the plate, identify a first power of the battery and a second power for controlling the flexible display and the at least one electronic component, based on the event, identify a third power for controlling the motor, based on the first power and the second power, and provide the motor with a signal corresponding to the third power.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electronic device, comprising;
a housing;
a plate coupled to the housing to reciprocate;
a flexible display including a first portion disposed on the plate and a second portion extending from the first portion and exposed to an outside or retracted into an inside of the housing as the plate reciprocates;
a motor configured to move the plate;
at least one electronic component;
a battery; and
at least one processor,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
identify an event for triggering a movement of the plate,
identify a first power of the battery and a second power for controlling the flexible display and the at least one electronic component, based on the identification of the event,
identify a third power for controlling the motor, based on the first power and the second power, and
provide the motor with a signal corresponding to the third power to move the plate.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:
a detection circuit connected to the battery,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify the first power of the battery, based on a value sensed using the detection circuit, the first power being a peak power providable from the battery.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify the third power equal to or less than a difference between the first power and the second power.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify a first value of a first parameter associated with a fourth power capable of controlling the motor, based on the first power and the second power,
identify a second value of a preset second parameter associated with the third power for controlling the motor,
identify a lower value of the first value and the second value, and
identify the third power corresponding to the identified lower value.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify the first value of the first parameter, based on the difference between the first power and the second power, and a fifth power set to control the motor, and
identify the second value of the second parameter, based on the fifth power.

### Claim 6 (depends on 3)

The electronic device of claim 3,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to reduce a visual characteristic associated with display of content on the flexible display to maintain the second power while the plate moves, and
wherein the visual characteristic includes at least one of a luminance, a brightness, or a scan rate.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
as at least part of reducing the visual characteristic, identify a value of the visual characteristic to be changed based on the value of the visual characteristic before the movement of the plate and a parameter associated with the movement of the plate.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:
a detection circuit connected to the battery,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify a value of a third parameter associated with the second power, based on a value identified using the detection circuit or a value identified using at least one sensor, the third parameter including at least one of a remaining power of the battery or a temperature of the electronic device, and
identify the second power, based on the value of the third parameter.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
compare a difference between the first power and the second power with the third power, and
reduce the second power when the third power is larger than the difference based on a result of the comparison.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to, as at least part of reducing the second power:
reduce a power for controlling one of the flexible display and the at least one electronic component, and
reduce a power for controlling a remaining one of the flexible display and the at least one electronic component when the third power is larger than a difference between the first power and the reduced second power.

### Claim 11 (depends on 4)

The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
when the first value of the first parameter associated with the fourth power capable of controlling the motor is equal to or less than a minimum value associated

### Claim 12 (depends on 5)

The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
when the first value of the first parameter associated with the fourth power capable of controlling the motor is equal to or less than the second value of the preset second parameter associated with the fifth power set to control the motor, reduce the second power until the first value becomes larger than the second value.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
provide power before reducing the second power to the flexible display and the at least one electronic component when the movement of the plate is completed.

### Claim 14 (depends on 4)

The electronic device of claim 4, further comprising:
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify a value of a fourth parameter associated with the third power, based on a value identified using the detection circuit or a value identified using at least one sensor, the fourth parameter including at least one of a remaining power of the battery or a temperature of the electronic device, and
identify the third power, based on the value of the fourth parameter.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The electronic device of claim 14,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to identify the second value of the preset second parameter associated with the third power for controlling the motor, based on the value of the fourth parameter, and
wherein the second value may be proportional to the value of the fourth parameter.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
display an execution screen including information for a plurality of modes associated with control of the motor,
receive an input for selecting a mode from among the plurality of modes, and
identify the third power based on a first mode.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The electronic device of claim 16,
wherein the plurality of modes are associated with a power priority of the flexible display, and
wherein the at least one electronic component and a change degree of at least one of the second power or the third power.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
reduce the second power when the second power for controlling the flexible display and the at least one electronic component is equal to or less than a difference between the first power of the battery and the third power for controlling the motor, based on the selected mode being the first mode,
identify the third power based on a value of a fourth parameter associated with the third power, based on the selected mode being a second mode and, when the second power is equal to or less than the difference between the first power and the third power, reduce the second power, and
identify the second power based on a value of a third parameter associated with the second power, based on the selected mode being a third mode and identify the third power based on the value of the fourth parameter associated with the third power, and wherein a sum of the third power and the second power in the third mode is equal to or less than a sum of the third power and the second power in the first mode or the second mode.

### Claim 19

A method for operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
identifying an event for triggering a movement of a plate reciprocally coupled to a housing of the electronic device, a first portion of a flexible display of the electronic device disposed on the plate, and a second portion extending from the first portion of the flexible display being exposed to an outside or retracted into an inside of the housing as the plate reciprocates;
identifying a first power of a battery and a second power for controlling the flexible display and at least one electronic component, based on the identification of the event;
identifying a third power for controlling a motor, based on the first power and the second power; and
providing the motor with a signal corresponding to the third power to move the plate.

### Claim 20

An electronic device, comprising;
a housing;
a plate coupled to the housing to reciprocate;
a flexible display having a first portion disposed on the plate, wherein a second portion extending from the first portion and exposed to an outside or retracted into an inside of the housing as the plate reciprocates;
a motor for moving the plate;
at least one electronic component;
a memory; and
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
display an execution screen including information for a plurality of modes associated with control of the motor,
identify an input for selecting a first mode from among the plurality of modes,
identify an event for triggering a movement of the plate,
based on the identification of the event,
the plurality of modes being associated with a magnitude of a power of the motor, identify a first power for controlling the motor having a first magnitude corresponding to the first mode and a second power for controlling the flexible display and the at least one electronic component having a second magnitude corresponding to the first mode, wherein a sum of the first power and the second power is lower than a peak power of a battery, and
provide the motor with a signal corresponding to the identified first power to move the plate.
with a minimum power for controlling the motor, reduce the second power until the first value becomes larger than the minimum value.