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Samsung patents game menus that adapt to split-screen views

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent for an electronic device that displays game content on a primary screen and a secondary screen. When a user opens a settings menu, the system filters the available options to show only the functions that work on the specific screen being viewed.

Why it mattersThis could make multi-window gaming on phones or tablets less confusing by hiding settings that do not apply to the current view.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device comprising a display; a memory to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor to execute the one or more instructions. The at least one processor executes the one or more instructions to: control the display to display game content through a first execution screen; control the display to display a second execution screen on the basis of a request for a menu through which a plurality of functions related to the game content can be set; and control the display to display the menu to include at least one function, on the second execution screen, selected from among the plurality of functions on the basis of the first execution screen and the second execution screen.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: control the display to display game content through a first execution screen, based on a request for a menu via which a plurality of functions related to the game content are settable, control the display to display a second execution screen, and based on the first execution screen and the second execution screen, control the display to display the menu to include at least one function that is providable in the second execution screen selected from among the plurality of functions.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
Publication number: US20260315925A1
Application number: 19691891
Filed: May 29, 2026
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 6
Claims: 15

Classified under

A63F 13/533 Human necessitiesA63F 13/49 Human necessitiesA63F 13/837 Human necessities

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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