Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sangheon Kim

Yeunwook Lim

Inhyung Jung

Banghyun Kwon

Jongwu Baek

Hyunwoong Kwon

Mira Seo

Jinwan An

Taeyong Moon

Misun Kim

Seonghoon Choi

Gisoo Lee

Jiwoo Lee

Kwangyong Choi

Younghak Oh

Taekyoung Kim

Wooyoung Park

Nawoong Han

Jooyoung Jeon

Youngseung Seo

Youngjoon Yang

Seungnyun Kim

Jaeyoung Choi

Dongjun Lee

Kiwon Lee

Kyuok Choi

Hyomin Oh

Junwon Jung

Woocheol Jung

Yongkwon Kim

Dami Jeon

Byungwoo Min

Munhwi Kim

Seoghee Jeong

Seokwon Kim

Yunjeong Choi

Taeuk Park

Chunbae Park

Taeyoung Han

Yongju Son

Byeongyeop Jang

Joonhwan Jeon

Jeongwook Kwon

Kwangbae Yoon

Sungjin Park

Hyunseok Ryu

Seho Myung

Youngjin Cho

Sungjun Kim

Eunkyung Kim

Jaehan Lee

Geon-Soo Kim

Jonghyun Han

Yohan Lee

Seungyong Lee

Sangmin Shin

Hyewon Park

Jinyoung Park

Junyoung Kim

Kyeongyeon Kim

Hyungdo Lee

Jeonghoon Kim

Hyesoon Jeong

Hongsil Jeong

Byunghoon Kang

Sungchan Bae

Seunghoon Ko

Changhoon Kang

Youngdae Lee

Hyein Park

Taekyun Kim

Muyeol Lee

In-Hyung Jung

Seungpyo Hong

Juhyung Lee

Eunyeung Lee

Jungyeol An

Seungyoon Heo

Kwangkyu Park

Yongseok Jang

Keunwon Jang

Sehwan Kim

Hyunmin Kim

Jong-Wu Baek

Jinseong Park

Sangyong Lee

Junkyu Park

Kyuchul Kong

Songgeun Kim

Youngsu Lee

Dongyul Lee

Minseung Kim

Cheonkum You

Byunghyuk Moon

Hochang Chae

Changjin Jeong

Junseok Hong

Sungyul Choe

Daeho Kim

Chanyong Jung

An electronic device may include: a memory, a display, a haptic module comprising haptic circuitry, a sound module comprising audio circuitry, and a processor. The processor may be configured to: detect an event for an output of vibration and sound, delay the output of the vibration, change a sound output mode from a first mode to a second mode for fast output while the output of the vibration is delayed, output the sound using the sound module in the second mode, and output the delayed vibration through the haptic module to be synchronized with the output of the sound. As the sound output mode is changed to the second mode, a sound output path may be opened. The sound output path may be changed from the first path for non-fast output to the second path for fast output.

Electronic device and method for providing user interface thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a camera module disposed under the display, and a processor configured to control the display and the camera module, and a memory operably connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive display metrics information that is changed according to the state of the display, produce an under-display camera area corresponding to a position of the camera module, based on the changed display metrics information, produce a logical cutout of the under-display camera area, and update the layout of an application to be executed, based on the cutout.

Electronic device and method of operating same

An electronic device having a flexible display and a method for providing a control object, based on a user's gripping state of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a memory, and a processor. The processor may control the display such that an execution screen of an application is displayed in a designated state of the electronic device. The processor may detect a control object from the execution screen. The processor may determine a user's gripping state. The processor may identify at least one target control object from the control object, based on the designated state and the gripping state. The processor may provide a duplicate control object corresponding to a control object identified as the target control object to an optimization region corresponding to the gripping state.

Electronic device having flexible display and method for providing control object based on gripping state thereof

According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a cover display, one or more communication circuits, memory, at least one sensor, and at least one processor operably coupled to the cover display, a flexible display, the one or more communication circuits, the memory, and the at least one sensor. The at least one processor is configured to obtain first data and second data. The at least one processor is configured to, based on the first data, display a first screen. The at least one processor is configured to, while the first screen is displayed through the cover display, obtain information on a second screen based on the second data. The at least one processor is configured to change a screen displayed through the cover display from the first screen to the second screen based on the information on the second screen.

Electronic device and method for changing screen through external object

According to an embodiment, a processor of an electronic device is configured to identify the direction of the electronic device using a sensor of the electronic device. The processor outputs an acoustic signal representing a vibration notification for a preset event through a speaker of the electronic device, based on identifying a direction corresponding to a reference direction for representing the vibration notification for the preset event using the speaker. The processor is configured to refrain from outputting the acoustic signal through the speaker based on identifying the direction different from the reference direction, and vibrate the housing using the haptic actuator of the electronic device to output the vibration notification regarding the preset event.

Electronic device and method for outputting haptic feedback related to haptic actuator by using speaker

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may comprise: a flexible display, at least one microphone, a sensor, a communication module comprising communication circuitry, and at least one processor operatively connected with the flexible display, the at least one microphone, the sensor, and the communication module. The at least one processor may be configured to: based on receiving a call signal from an external electronic device through the communication module, identify whether the call signal is a video call signal, based on the call signal being the video call signal, identify a folding state of the electronic device through the sensor, adjust a sound signal received through the at least one microphone based on the folding state, and control the communication module to transmit the adjusted sound signal to the external electronic device.

Electronic device adjusting sound signal and method for controlling the electronic device

An electronic device may include a display and at least one processor configured to execute an application, play multimedia content, obtain information associated with playing the multimedia content, identify a synchronization parameter for synchronization, based on the obtained information, output a UI generated based on the obtained information and the synchronization parameter to the display, and synchronize the audio signal and the video signal.

Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video signals of multimedia content

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen display, memory, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the touch screen display and the memory, wherein the memory store one or more computer programs including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to detect a long press input in response to elapsing of a predetermined first touch time from a first touch for selecting an object displayed on the touch screen display, after the long press input is received, receive a drag signal indicating a move of the first touch in a certain direction, in case that the drag signal does not deviate from any of a drag movement time or a drag movement distance, maintain a selected object in a fixed state, and in case that the drag signal deviates from both the predetermined drag movement time and the drag movement distance, change the object selected by the first touch to a floating state from a time point of the deviation from both the predetermined drag movement time and the drag movement distance, and perform control such that a drag movement of the floating object starts in response to the drag signal.

Electronic device, and method for improving movement operation of object

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes communication circuitry, a display, memory and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: establishing, by control of the processor, a communicative connection to an external device via the communication circuitry; receiving via the communicative connection, auto-complete text input information from the external device; storing, in the memory, the received auto-complete text input information, for usage with a keyboard process of the electronic device; and displaying, via a display, a recommended word, based on the stored auto-complete text input information, wherein the auto-complete text input information includes at least one of user data including complete words for recommendation as predictive text, generated from collecting and applying artificial-intelligence (AI) self-learning on words frequently utilized by a user, and user-defined text shortcuts configured by the user which associate an incomplete input with a completed word for usage as the predictive text.

Electronic device and methods for synchronizing auto-complete text from external device

A method of controlling an electronic device using a stylus includes establishing a wireless communication connection between the electronic device and the stylus; displaying a pointing object on a screen displayed on a display of the electronic device, wherein a position of the pointing object on the screen corresponds to a position of the stylus; obtaining first information related to whether an orientation of the electronic device is changed and second information related to whether the screen is fixed; setting a direction of a coordinate system of the display based on the first information and the second information; and moving the pointing object on the screen within the coordinate system to correspond to a movement of the stylus in space.

Method for controlling electronic device by using stylus, and electronic device for receiving input from stylus by using method

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen and at least one processor operatively coupled to the touch screen. The at least one processor is configured to display an execution screen of a first application on the touch screen, based on receiving a drag input for one of a plurality of pieces of content included in the execution screen of the first application, identify whether the drag input moves to a preset area, based on the drag input moving to the preset area, identify a second application related to a property of the one piece of content, based on receiving a drop input after the drag input, divide the touch screen based on a position at which the drop input is received, display the execution screen of the first application in a first divided area, and display an execution screen of the second application in a second divided area.

Electronic device supporting multiple windows and method of controlling the same

An example electronic device may include: an audio module; a wireless communication circuit for communicating with at least one external electronic device; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, the audio module and the memory. The processor may: acquire an ambient audio signal based on at least one of the at least one external electronic device or the audio module; identify whether preset audio information is included, based on the acquired ambient audio signal; determine the at least one external electronic device connected via the wireless communication circuit in response to the identifying of the audio information; and transmit data related to the ambient audio signal to the determined at least one external electronic device.

Method and electronic device for detecting ambient audio signal

Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a display, a sensor configured to detect geometric deformation of the electronic device, at least one processor, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor and storing at least one application. The memory may include one or more instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: control the display to display an execution screen of the at least one application on the display in response to execution of the at least one application in the memory; check a rotation mode setting of the electronic device; obtain display characteristic information of the display in response to a geometric deformation event detected by the sensor; determine a display mode of the execution screen based on the display characteristic information and the checked rotation mode setting and map same to the at least one application; and control the display to display the execution screen on the display based on the mapped display mode.

Electronic device comprising display and screen operation method thereof

An electronic device having a screen capture function and a method for operating a screen capture function on the electronic device are provided. An electronic device includes a display module and a processor, wherein the processor may display execution screens that correspond respectively to a plurality of applications, based on a multi-window, detect an interaction related to a screen capture while the respective execution screens are displayed through the multi-window, based on the interaction, perform a screen capture for each window based on an area of interest for each window of the multi-window, provide a cue including at least a portion of the area of interest for each window based on the screen capture, and process an event using capture data corresponding to the cue, based on a user input using the cue.

Method for providing capture function and electronic device therefor

An electronic device may include: a display for displaying content; a memory for storing data corresponding to the content; and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to: display content on the display; in response to a user input related to copying, store at least a partial area of the content as first clip data; generate second clip data different from the first clip data on the basis of at least a part of a result of image or text analysis relating to the first clip data; and display, on the display, a first indicator relating to the first clip data and a second indicator relating to the second clip data. Other various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.

Method for providing clipboard function, and electronic device supporting same

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Sangheon Kim