Samsung patents live preview for resizing phone widgets
Samsung describes a method for resizing widgets on a touchscreen that shows a live preview of the new layout while the user is still dragging the size handle. The system keeps certain elements, like icons, at a fixed size while expanding or shrinking other areas to fit the new dimensions.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen, and memory, comprising one or more storage media, including instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to identify a first input for editing a first widget corresponding to a first application included in a first screen displayed on the touch screen, in response to the first input display a handler for adjusting a size of the first widget, and based on identifying a second input to the handler, display a preview image corresponding to the size adjusted by the second input instead of the first widget until the second input is released, wherein the preview image includes a first template layout based on the adjusted size, wherein the first template layout includes a plurality of objects indicating positions where information related to the first application is to be displayed, wherein at least one first object among the plurality of objects is displayed at a fixed size, and wherein at least one second object among the plurality of objects changed in size based on the second input.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: a touch screen; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the touch screen and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: identify a first input for editing a first widget corresponding to a first application included in a first screen displayed on the touch screen, in response to the first input, display a handler for adjusting a size of the first widget, and based on identifying a second input to the handler, display a preview image corresponding to the size adjusted by the second input instead of the first widget until the second input is released, wherein the preview image includes a first template layout based on the adjusted size, wherein the first template layout includes a plurality of objects indicating positions where information related to the first application is to be displayed, wherein at least one first object among the plurality of objects is displayed at a fixed size, and wherein at least one second object among the plurality of objects is changed in size based on the second input.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR EDITING WIDGET AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME
- Publication number
- US20260319648A1
- Application number
- 19699750
- Filed
- Jun 5, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/04845 Physics & computingG06F 3/0488 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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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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