Electronic device and method for controlling pixels corresponding to sensor
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorHongjun KIM
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Abstract
An example electronic device includes a flexible display, a first housing, a second housing, a hinge structure, a first region, and a display region including a second region surrounding the first region, a first sensor, a second sensor in the first housing, and a processor. The processor is configured to identify an angle change between the first surface of the first housing and the third surface of the second housing from a first angle to a second angle, identify a second set of pixels among the pixels in the first region corresponding to the second angle from reference data, deactivate the second set of identified pixels, and activate the remaining pixels except for the second set of pixels.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a first housing including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface;
- a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface;
- a hinge structure rotatably connecting the first housing and the second housing;
- a flexible display disposed on the first surface and the third surface across the hinge structure, the flexible display including a display region including a first region including pixels with a first density and a second region including pixels with a second density higher than the first density and surrounding the first region;
- a first sensor;
- a second sensor within the first housing disposed below the first region;
- and
- a processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- identify, through the first sensor, changing of an angle between the first surface and the third surface from a first angle to a second angle, while a first set of pixels among the pixels in the first region is disabled for driving the second sensor,
- identify a second set of pixels corresponding to the second angle among the pixels in the first region, from reference data for an alignment between the second sensor and the pixels in the first region moved with respect to the second sensor according to change of the angle;
- and
- deactivate the identified the second set of pixels and activate remaining pixels except for the second set of pixels among the pixels in the first region.
An electronic device including:
- a first housing;
- a second housing slidable with respect to the first housing;
- a flexible display including a display region including a first region including pixels with a first density and a second region including pixels with a second density higher than the first density and surrounding the first region, the display region being contracted when the second housing slides into the first housing and being expanded when the second housing slides out from the first housing,
- a first sensor;
- a second sensor disposed below the first region within the second housing;
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- a processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- identify a position change of the second housing with respect to the first housing from a first position to a second position through the first sensor while a first set of pixels among the pixels in the first region is disabled for driving the second sensor,
- identify a second set of pixels corresponding to the second position among the pixels in the first region from a reference data for an alignment between the second sensor and the pixels in the first region moved with respect to the second sensor according to change of the position;
- and
- deactivate the identified the second set of pixels and activate remaining pixels except for the second set of pixels among the pixels in the first region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.