US 12,431,049 B2
Information processing apparatus and control method
Yoshinori Ito, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuichi Sone, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/543,593.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-006528 (JP), filed on Jan. 19, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0257684 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G09G 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/035 (2020.08) [G06F 1/1641 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0464 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0492 (2013.01); G09G 2340/14 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
one foldable display;
a memory configured to store at least a program; and
a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory, wherein
the processor is configured to:
execute the program stored in the memory to perform:
a display mode switching process of switching between a first display mode in which display is controlled by using a screen area of the display as one display area, and a second display mode in which display is controlled by dividing the screen area into two display areas, a first display area and a second display area, and
a display control process of, when switching from the first display mode to the second display mode is performed, displaying a first window having a highest display priority among windows of applications being executed in the first display mode, in the first display area and displaying a first thumbnail image corresponding to a second window other than the first window among the applications being executed in the first display mode, in the second display area,
in the display control process, in a case in which all the windows of the applications being executed are hidden in the first display mode before the switching to the second display mode, display the window of any of the applications being executed, in the first display area, when the switching to the second display mode is performed, and
in the display control process, in a case in which any of a plurality of thumbnail images is selected by a user, hide the first thumbnail image and display the second window corresponding to the selected thumbnail image, as an active window, in the display area in which the first thumbnail image is displayed, out of the first display area and the second display area.