US 12,277,287 B2
Electronic device including flexible display and controlling display of a graphic user interface based on sensed stress values caused by a touch on the flexible display
Moonsun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Bohyeon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Hyunju Hong, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,648.
Application 17/518,648 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2021/015341, filed on Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0148045 (KR), filed on Nov. 6, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0183244 (KR), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147178 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0418 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a display including an area visually exposed to an outside of the electronic device capable of being changed between a first state and a second state;
a touch circuit configured to sense a touch by an object; and
at least one processor comprising processing circuitry, operatively connected with the display and the touch circuit,
wherein the first state comprises a state in which an area of the display visually exposed to the outside of the electronic device is supported by a bracket, the second state comprises a state in which a size of the area visually exposed is larger than that of the first state, and the area of the display visually exposed in the second state includes a target area that is not supported by the bracket and is divided into a plurality of unit areas,
wherein the at least one processor is individually and/or collectively configured to:
based on sensing a touch by the object in the target area when the electronic device is in the second state, identify a stress value for each unit area of the plurality of unit areas included in the target area; and
when an identified first stress value of a first unit area among the plurality of unit areas is greater than a first threshold value, control the display to display a graphic user interface displayed in a first area including the first unit area in a second area excluding the first unit area, to reduce pressure to the first unit area,
wherein the graphic user interface includes at least one of an icon and a button capable of being touched by the object, and
wherein the first threshold value is based on a value of high stress endurable by the display to a touch pressure.