Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Gisoo Lim

Dongil Son

Myunghoon Kwak

Seungnyun Kim

Joongyeon Cho

Jongmin Yoon

Seungjoo Lee

Kyusik Choi

Byunghun Cho

Byounguk Yoon

Hyunju Hong

Changryong Heo

Yongyoun Kim

Raetae Kim

Jongchul Choi

Taekyung Lee

Bongsuk Choi

Jooyoung Kang

Sungkwang Yang

Kiyoun Jang

Jonggyu Park

Gilho Kim

Juho Song

Kwanghoon Choi

A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing, and at least one display module disposed on the housing, wherein the display module includes a fixed barrel including a body part and a segment part protruding along an outer periphery of the body part, a rotary barrel disposed on an outer surface of the body part and rotatably combined with the body part, a first lens module fixed to the body part of the fixed barrel, a display combined with the fixed barrel to cover the first lens module, a second lens module inserted into the body part of the fixed barrel to face the first lens module, engaged with the rotary barrel, and configured to move in a first axis direction against the first lens module as the rotary barrel is rotated against the fixed barrel, a light-emitting member, and an eye tracking camera module.

Wearable electronic device including display module

An electronic device according to an embodiment may comprise: a first display disposed on the first surface of the electronic device facing a user's face based on the electronic device being worn on the user's face; a second display disposed on the second surface of the electronic device opposite to the first surface; a sensor; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, operatively connected to the first display, the second display, and the sensor. At least one processor, individually and/or collectively, may be configured to cause the electronic device to: identify, through the sensor, whether the electronic device is worn on the user's face; activate the second display based on identifying that the electronic device is not worn on the user's; and display a second screen related to a first screen through the first display based on identifying that the electronic device is worn on the user's face while the first screen is displayed through the activated second display.

Method for controlling multiple displays and electronic device supporting same

A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device may include a housing, at least one processor included in the housing, at least one first camera module configured to capture an image for a first field of view (FOV), and at least one second camera module configured to capture an image for a second FOV different from the first FOV. The at least one processor may be configured to control the at least one first camera module to obtain first image frames at a first frame rate, based on identification, based on at least a part of the first image frames, that a user's hand is disposed in a designated area of the first FOV, control the at least one first camera module to obtain second image frames at a second frame rate greater than the first frame rate, and maintain, in an inactive state, the at least one second camera module, or activate the second camera module, and control the at least one second camera module to operate the at least one second camera module at the first frame rate.

Wearable electronic device for controlling camera module and method for operating thereof

A wearable device for adjusting the size of an effective display area depending on external illuminance and a control method is provided. The wearable device includes a display module and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to control the display module to output light having a first brightness value from at least one light source of the display module so as to display a virtual object in an effective display area having a first size, determine whether or not surrounding illuminance of the wearable device increases while the light having the first brightness value is output, change, based on the determination that the surrounding illuminance increases, a size of the effective display area displaying the virtual object from the first size to a second size, and control the display module to display the virtual object in the effective display area having the second size.

Wearable device for adjusting size of effective display area according to external illuminance and control method thereof

The electronic device includes a display including a first area and a second area, a first housing configured to support the first area and to form a first space, a second housing configured to support the second area and to form a second space, a hinge structure configured to foldably connect the first housing and the second housing based on a folding axis to be in a first state in which the first and second areas form substantially a same plane or in a second state in which the first and second areas face each other, and a heat transfer member provided to extend from the first space to the second space through the hinge structure and configured to perform a heat transfer between the first space and the second space.

Electronic device including heat transfer member

A wearable device configured to adjust light transmittance according to illuminance of an external light source and a method for controlling the same are provided. The wearable device includes at least one camera, at least one lens, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to identify illuminance information of an image obtained through the at least one camera, determine a location on the at least one lens, based on the identified illuminance information, the location corresponding to the illuminance information, determine an average illuminance of the image, based on the illuminance information corresponding to the determined location, and compare illuminance information corresponding to the determined location with the average illuminance, and partially adjust light transmittance of the at least one lens, based on a result of the comparison.

Wearable device for adjusting light transmittance according to illuminance of external light source, and method for controlling same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an optical lens, a display module configured to display a screen through the optical lens, a sensor module configured to measure a temperature of the display module at one or more positions, and memory, and at least one processor. The instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to control the display module to display a designated screen, obtain at least one temperature respectively corresponding to the one or more positions from the sensor module while displaying the designated screen, and based on the obtained at least one temperature, change a luminance of at least a part of the designated screen or change a display area of the display module based on the obtained at least one temperature.

Head-mounted electronic device and method for operating the same

An electronic device comprising a flexible display and a method of the electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying, based on a sliding of the flexible display, an object related to a wireless charging function or a payment function, in a first region of the flexible display corresponding to a position of a first antenna included in the electronic device, and when the position of the first antenna is changed by the sliding of the flexible display, changing a display position of the object, based on the changed position of the first antenna.

Electronic device including flexible display and method of operating the same

Disclosed is an electronic device that may include: a housing formed to surround a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction that is the opposite direction of the first direction, and at least part of the space between the first surface and the second surface; a PCB disposed in the space of the housing; a display extending in a third direction, which is different from the first direction and the second direction, and displaying a screen; and at least one processor, wherein the PCB includes a plurality of detection units, a detection target to be detected by least one of the plurality of detection units is disposed within a specific distance in the second direction of the display, and the processor may be set to calculate movement information including at least one among the movement start position of the display, the movement end position of the display, and the movement distance of the display on the basis of at least sensing data received from the plurality of detection units.

Electronic device including display and method for measuring movement distance of display

An electronic device comprises a first structure including a first plate providing a first surface and a second surface and a second structure coupled to surround at least a portion of the first structure and configured to guide the first structure in a direction parallel with the first surface or the second surface. The device also includes a roller mounted on an edge of the second structure and a flexible display including a first area mounted on the first surface and a second area extending from the first area. The device also includes at least one support sheet mounted on the roller and wound around the roller as the roller rotates. The support sheet is wound around the roller when the second area is received inside the second structure, and is unfolded inside the second area when the second area is exposed to the outside of the second structure.

Electronic device including flexible display

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include: a housing, a sliding plate configured to slide-out from the housing, a flexible display including a first section coupled to overlap the sliding plate, and a bendable section extending from the first section and configured to be pulled out from an inner space of the housing during the slide-out, a support sheet disposed on a rear surface of the flexible display, a first curved portion located inside the housing to correspond to the bendable section, a belt connecting the support sheet and the sliding plate to each other, and a second curved portion located inside the housing to correspond to the belt and spaced apart from the first curved portion in a slide-out direction.

Electronic device including slide-out display

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing and that performs a sliding operation, a display, of which a size of a visual exposure area is changed in correspondence to the sliding operation of the second housing, a first variable magnetism member disposed at a first location of the first housing, and of which a magnetic force varies depending on a current or a voltage that is supplied thereto, a second variable magnetism member disposed at a second location of the first housing, and of which a magnetic force varies depending on a current or a voltage that is supplied thereto, a magnet member fixed to an inner surface of the second housing, and that moves between the first variable magnetism member and the second variable magnetism member during the sliding operation, and a processor operatively connected.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Gisoo Lim