US 12,308,001 B2
Electronic device capable of expanding display region and method for controlling screen thereof
Sungmin Hong, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Wankyu Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Myunghoon Kwak, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Changryong Heo, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,805.
Application 17/574,805 is a continuation of application No. 17/324,237, filed on May 19, 2021, granted, now 11,244,658.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0147073 (KR), filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0139357 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G09G 5/373 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/14 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 5/373 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G09G 3/035 (2020.08); G09G 5/14 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a flexible display; and
at least one processor operatively connected to the flexible display,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
display a first execution screen of a first application on a first region of the flexible display,
while a viewable portion of the flexible display is being expanded, sequentially display a plurality of items on a second region of the flexible display, the plurality of items corresponding to a plurality of applications respectively, and
in response to a designated event being identified while an item of the plurality of items is displayed on the second region. display a second execution screen corresponding to the item on the second region of the flexible display while the first execution screen is being displayed on the first region of the flexible display,
wherein the item is automatically selected based on an amount that the flexible display is expanded.