Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jihyung Jung

Hyunju Hong

Sungho Ahn

Myunghoon Kwak

Byounguk Yoon

Yangwook Kim

Jookwan Lee

Youngmin Kang

Joongyeon Cho

Soohyun Seo

Hyunsuk Kim

Joungmin Cho

Nakhyun Choi

Soyoung Lee

Donghyun Yeom

Changryong Heo

Junyoung Choi

Kwangtai Kim

Yeonggyu Yoon

Jooyoung Kang

Moonchul Shin

Minuk Kim

Inkuk Yun

Youngrog Kim

Baekeun Cho

Bowon Jung

Songyi Lee

Sungdae Choi

Seungjoon Lee

Hojin Jung

Sanghyuk Park

Hyoungtak Cho

Hyunggwang Kang

Moonsun Kim

Junghyeob Lee

Hoyoung Jeong

HoYoung Jeong

An electronic device including a reinforcing structure is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing movable relative to the first housing, a flexible display supported by at least one of the first housing or the second housing, and a reinforcing structure disposed on a rear surface of the flexible display, wherein the flexible display may include a rolling portion that is at least partially bent in a process of changing from the first state to the second state, and the reinforcing structure may include a support coupled to the flexible display so as to cover a rear surface of the rolling portion.

Electronic device including reinforcing structure

Disclosed are an electronic device for controlling attributes of one-handed mode screen on the basis of a grip shape and a method for controlling same. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present document may be configured to display, on a flexible display, a one-handed mode screen which is reduced and displayed according to a predetermined ratio so as to correspond to a first screen, detect, while the one-handed mode screen is displayed, that a first housing is moved, and determine, on the basis of the detection of the movement of the first housing, the direction of expansion of the one-handed mode screen depending on whether a grip of a portion of a user's body on the top portion of the first housing is sensed by a first grip sensor, among grip sensors, which is disposed on the edge of the first housing.

Electronic device for controlling attributes of one-handed mode screen on basis of grip shape and method for controlling same

An electronic device according to various example embodiments may include a housing including a first housing and a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing within a specific range, a heating part disposed to at least one region of the first housing and second housing, a driving unit disposed to one region in the housing, a flexible display which may include a first portion exposed for view (visible to a user) to the outside of the housing and a second portion extending from the first portion and inserted into the housing or drawn out to the outside when the second housing moves with respect to the first housing, a support structure, at least one temperature sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to sense a temperature and at least control a movement speed of the second housing based on at least the sensed temperature.

Electronic device and method including flexible display

A method and an electronic device are provided for compensating for changed touch sensitivity of a touch panel of the electronic device. It is detected whether a rollable display of the electronic device is expanded. It is detected whether the touch sensitivity of the touch panel of the rollable display is changed, in case that the rollable display is expanded. A rolling direction and a length of extension of the rollable display is changed, in case that the touch sensitivity is changed. It is detected whether a resistance of an expansion area of the rollable display is changed. The touch sensitivity of the touch panel is compensated for, in case that the resistance is changed.

Electronic device including rollable display

An example electronic device includes a housing, and a flexible display in which an area of a display region is configured to be adjusted based on a sliding movement of at least a portion of the housing. The flexible display may include a first region fixedly visible from outside through a first direction of the electronic device, a second region extending from one end of the first region and variably visible from the outside based on the movement of the housing, and including a first bending part bent from one end of the first region in a second direction opposite to the first direction and disposed to face a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first extension part extending from one end of the first bending part and disposed in parallel with the first region, and a second bending part bent from one end of the first extension part in the second direction and disposed to face a first lateral direction opposite to the second lateral direction.

Electric device including flexible display

An electronic device may include a plurality of housings including a first housing and a second housing, wherein the first housing movably connects to the second housing in a moving direction, a display panel in which a screen display area visually exposed to an outside changes depending on a movement of the second housing relative to the first housing, and a lattice plate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel to support the display panel. The display panel may include a flat portion forming the screen display area and comprising a surface substantially forming a flat surface, an edge portion connected to one end portion of the flat portion and comprising at least a partial region which is curved, and a bending portion connected to the other end portion of the flat portion opposite to the edge portion and comprising at least a partial region which bends according to a movement of the first housing relative to the second housing. The lattice plate may include a first lattice portion disposed on a rear surface of the edge portion and including a first lattice pattern, and a second lattice portion disposed on a rear surface of the bending portion and including a second lattice pattern that is different from the first lattice pattern so as to have a relatively higher modulus than the first lattice portion.

Electronic device including display panel

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first structure, a second structure slidably coupled to the first structure in a first direction or an opposite direction to the first direction, a display of which a partial area is arranged in the second structure so as to move together with the second structure, and of which at least part of the remaining area is positioned in the first structure, wherein the size of an area of the display that forms the front surface of the electronic apparatus changes in response to the sliding motion of the second structure, and a plurality of substrates which are arranged in the first structure and include at least one printed circuit board, wherein the first structure may be configured so that at least a portion thereof is electrically connected to the printed circuit board and used as an antenna radiator.

Electronic apparatus comprising flexible display

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first structure, a second structure coupled to the first structure so as to be slidable in a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a display that is at least partially disposed on the second structure and that moves relative to the first structure together with the second structure, in which a size of an area of the display exposed on a front side of the electronic device is changed in response to a sliding motion of the second structure, and a driving unit that connects part of the first structure and part of the second structure and generates an elastic force in the first direction or the second direction in response to a movement of the second structure.

Electronic device including flexible display

An electronic device may include a housing, a display including a touch sensor panel, wherein the display is configured to move with respect to the housing so that at least one portion thereof is exposed from the inside of the housing to the front surface of the electronic device, and at least one processor operatively connected to the display. The at least one processor is configured to acquire, in a state in which at least one portion of the display is exposed to the front surface of the electronic device, data indicating a capacitance change on the at least one portion of the display through the touch sensor panel, identify a moisture-introduced state, based on the acquired data, and perform an operation of responding to the identified moisture-introduced state.

Electronic device for detecting moisture inflow and method for operating same

Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device including a flexible display. The electronic device includes: a housing, and a flexible display in which an area of a display region is configured to be adjusted based on a sliding movement of at least a portion of the housing. The flexible display may include a first region fixedly visible from outside through a first direction of the electronic device, a second region extending from one end of the first region and variably visible from the outside based on the movement of the housing, and including a first bending part bent from one end of the first region in a second direction opposite to the first direction and disposed to face a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first extension part extending from one end of the first bending part and disposed in parallel with the first region, and a second bending part bent from one end of the first extension part in the second direction and disposed to face a first lateral direction opposite to the second lateral direction.

An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes measuring an external temperature of the electronic device by using at least one sensor. The method may calculate, from an entire region of a flexible display, a fixed region that is visually exposed to an outside regardless of a screen size of the electronic device, and a variable region that is visually exposed at least in part to the outside in a screen expansion or screen size change state of the electronic device. The method may compare the external temperature with a preset first threshold temperature, thereby determining heating of the variable region in response to the external temperature being less than the first threshold temperature. The method may heat the variable region by controlling at least one of a luminance or a driving frequency of the variable region.

Electronic device including a flexible display with variable region and method of heating the variable region of the flexible display

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jihyung Jung