Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngrog Kim

Jookwan Lee

Jihea Park

Myunghoon Kwak

Junghyeob Lee

Junwoo Choi

Hyunju Hong

Yangwook Kim

Youngmin Kang

Jihyung Jung

Baekeun Cho

Changhan Lee

Songyi Lee

Taeyang Song

Soyoung Lee

Younghak Oh

Wonkyu Sung

Kibeom Kim

Taeyeong Kim

Moonjeong Kim

Hoyoung Jeong

HoYoung Jeong

Sukdong Kim

Yangsoo Choi

Donghyun Jo

Jonghyuck Yoo

An electronic device according to various embodiments of this document may include a first housing, a second housing coupled to slide relative to the first housing, a rollable display in which a display area is reduced or extended based on sliding-in or sliding-out of the second housing, and a processor operatively coupled to the rollable display, wherein the processor may be configured to display a screen of a running application on the rollable display when the rollable display is in a first state, detect an input for switching the rollable display from the first state to the second state, in response to the input, and determine whether or not a screen state of the running application is able to be maintained when switching the state of the rollable display.

Electronic device comprising expandable display, and user interface provision method

A portable electronic device may include: a first housing; a second housing disposed to be slidable with respect to the first housing; a flexible display in which a display area of the display is contracted or extended on the basis of slide-in or slide-out driving of the second housing; a motor for generating driving force to slide the second housing; a driving circuit for driving the motor; and a processor(s). The processor(s) may: configure the display area of the flexible display as an activation area for displaying visual information; recognize that a consistency problem occurs in an application execution screen when switching from the slide-out state to the slide-in state on the basis of occurrence of a slide-in trigger for contraction of the activation area while displaying the application execution screen on the activation area in the slide-out state; and provide a user interface to allow extension of the activation area on the basis of the occurrence of the consistency problem.

Electronic device having flexible display

Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a sensor configured to measure a temperature of the electronic device; a flexible display wherein an area of the flexible display visible to the outside can be changed; a memory storing executable instructions; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry configured to access the memory and execute the instructions, wherein at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, is configured to: identify a first input for changing the size of the visible area of the flexible display, identify the temperature of the electronic device via the sensor based on the identification of the first input, and identify change conditions of the size of the flexible display based on the identified temperature.

Electronic device for managing temperature, and operating method therefor

Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device and method for communicating using an avatar in a virtual space. To that end, an electronic device may display a first avatar corresponding to a user of the electronic device in a virtual space, display a first graphic user interface (GUI) resource including at least one device capable of establishing connection with the electronic device and, based on receiving an input on the first GUI resource, display a device icon corresponding to the input device in a matching position of the first avatar.

Communication method and device using avatar in virtual space

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

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes: a display having a display area that is variable, at least one processor operably connected to the display. The processor implements the method, including: controlling the display to display a plurality of elements on the display, receiving a user input requesting resizing of the display area, in response to the user input, identifying a core element among the displayed plurality of elements, resizing the display area based on the received user input and the identified core element, wherein a first window in which the core element is displayed is resized in proportion to resizing of the display area.

Electronic device and screen control method thereof

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

Disclosed is an electronic device including a display including a first part where a size viewed from an outside is constant and a second part where an area viewed from the outside is variable, a display driver integrated circuit (IC) configured to control the display, a memory, and a processor operatively connected with the display driver IC and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to, based on the area of the second part viewed from the outside, define a plurality of virtual regions including a first region and a second region adjacent to each other, based on an accumulated value of red, green, blue (RGB) values applied to each frame displayed on a screen, acquire color information of each of the plurality of virtual regions, based on an accumulated use time for each of the plurality of virtual regions and the color information, calculate a plurality of total accumulated values of each of the plurality of virtual regions, set a boundary, which is positioned between the first region and the second region, as a degradation boundary, when a difference value between a first total accumulated value of the first region and a second total accumulated value of the second region is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and transmit degradation data including the degradation boundary to the display driver IC.

Electronic device including display having variable screen size and method for compensating degradation of the display

Disclosed is an electronic device having a variable screen size and in which a degradation boundary may be set based on a total accumulated value. The display having the variable screen size may be partitioned into a plurality of virtual regions, based on the set degradation boundary. Accordingly, the degradation may be compensated with respect to each of the virtual regions.

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Youngrog Kim