US 11,698,705 B2
Electronic device and screen control method thereof
Youngrog Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Yangwook Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Younghak Oh, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/519,673.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0148034 (KR), filed on Nov. 6, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0189680 (KR), filed on Dec. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147196 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0481 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1624 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01); G09G 2380/02 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a flexible display having a display area that is variable physically; and
at least one processor operably connected to the flexible display,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
control the flexible display to display a first window including a plurality of elements of a first application on the display area;
receive a user input to request physically enlarging the display area;
in response to the user input, physically enlarge the display area of the flexible display;
identify a core element among the plurality of elements in the first window; and
display a second window including at least part of the plurality of elements on the physically enlarged display area,
wherein, as the display area is physically enlarged, a size of the second window and a number of a plurality of elements in the second window is gradually reduced, and the core element is maintained in the second window.