Method and device for providing wallpaper in electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12561044-B2
Application number	US-202418890124-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2024
Priority date	Mar 22, 2022
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electronic device having a rollable display capable of supporting a wallpaper and a wallpaper setting, and a method therefor. According to an embodiment, the electronic device may support, by a processor, wallpaper displaying according to a change in an expansion or contraction state of the rollable display and a wallpaper setting for same. According to an embodiment, the processor may operate to configure a first image area corresponding to first wallpaper displayed in a first display area and display a first preview image corresponding to the configured first image area. According to an embodiment, the processor may operate to configure a second image area corresponding to second wallpaper displayed in a second display area and display a second preview image corresponding to the configured second image area.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic device comprising:
a first housing; a second housing disposed to slidingly move relative to the first housing; a flexible display comprising a first display area and a second display area extending from the first display area memory comprising one or more storage media storing instructions; and at least one processor comprising processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to: configure a first portion of an image as a first wallpaper to be displayed in the first display area when the electronic device is in a slide-in state, configure a second portion of the image as a second wallpaper to be displayed across the first display area and the second display area when the electronic device is in a slide-out state, and based on receiving a user input for configuring a wallpaper, display a screen including a first preview image corresponding to the first wallpaper and a second preview image corresponding to the second wallpaper.

2 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to
change a size of the second preview image in proportion to a change in a size of the second display area in response to a sliding movement of the second housing.

3 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
perform an object analysis of various image objects on the basis of an entire area of the image corresponding to the first preview image and the second preview image, generate a recommended object related to at least one image object on the basis of a result of the object analysis, and provide the at least one recommended object to the screen including the first preview image and the second preview image, and wherein the object analysis is recognizing and extracting characteristics, patterns, and/or types implicit in the image.

4 . The electronic device of claim 3 ,
wherein the recommended object includes an icon, an image, and/or a text indicating at least one information related to the at least one image object included in another image area not designated as an image area for wallpaper in the image, and wherein the at least one information includes first information indicating a person, a user face, an animal, a plant, food, an automobile, and/or an object, and second information indicating a number corresponding to each one of the first information.

5 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
detect a user input of selecting the recommended object on the basis of the at least one recommended object, configure in response to the user input, the second portion of the image as a fourth wallpaper on the basis of the selected recommended object, display a fourth preview image corresponding to the fourth wallpaper instead of displaying the second preview image.

6 . The electronic device of claim 3 ,
wherein the slide-in state includes a state when the second housing is slid in the first housing, wherein the slide out state includes a state when the second housing is slid out from the first housing, wherein the first preview image and the second preview image are provided on the basis of a designated image area of one identical wallpaper image or different wallpaper-images.

7 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
identify, on the basis of the result of the object analysis, a recommendable image area on the basis of an area that includes an image object in an entire area of the image, and provide the at least one recommended object on the basis of at least one image object of the recommendable image area.

8 . The electronic device of claim 3 ,
wherein the screen includes a first preview image area and a second preview image area, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to provide the recommended object to at least one of the first image area and the second preview image area.

9 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
in response to a user input of selecting the recommended object, display a preview image based on a recommended image area according to the recommended object on the screen, and zoom the recommended image area in an entire area of the image in correspondence to an output resolution of the slide-out state upon changing to the preview image based on the recommended image area.

10 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
detect a user input for completing configuring a wallpaper, configure the first wallpaper for the slide-in state on the basis of the first preview image in the image, and configure the second wallpaper for the slide-out state on the basis of the second preview image in the image.

11 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
complete configuring the first wallpaper for the slide-in state and the second wallpaper for the slide-out state, determine the slide-in state or the slide-out state when displaying the wallpaper, and display the first wallpaper in the slide-in state or display the second wallpaper in the slide-out state on the basis of a result of the determination.

12 . The electronic device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
while displaying the wallpaper, detect a state change between the slide-in state and the slide-out state, change, in response to detecting the state change, a display ratio of an image area corresponding to the wallpaper to correspond to the slide-in state or the slide-out state, display the wallpaper according to a corresponding state of the slide-in state or the slide-out state, and switch and display the first wallpaper or the second wallpaper successively in response to a change between the slide-in state and the slide-out state.

13 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
detect a user input on the basis of a preview object, switch a first user interface related to a configuring wallpaper to a second user interface related to a preview of the wallpaper in response to the user input of selecting the preview object, determine the slide-in state or the slide-out state upon switching the first user interface to the second user interface, and display a preview of the wallpaper on the basis of a preview image in response to the slide in state or the slide-out state on the basis of a result of the determination.

14 . A method of operating an electronic device including a flexible display comprising a first display area and a second display area extending

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Gyeongtae
• Lee Junghyeob

Classifications

• H04M1/0268

  including a flexible display panel · CPC title

• H04M1/0237

  Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• H04M1/72448 Primary

  with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions · CPC title