Samsung patents rollable phone screen that saves items for larger view
This filing describes a device with a screen that can extend to different sizes. When the screen is at a medium size, it shows a list of items; if a user selects one, it is saved to a separate storage area. The saved items only appear on the screen when it is extended to its largest size.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a rollable display configured to be inserted or withdrawn; at least one processor; and a memory for storing instructions executable by the at least one processor. The instructions instruct the electronic device to display an information receiving box including at least one piece of information on a rollable display withdrawn to have a size greater than or equal to a first size and less than a second size. Based on a preset user input being received on first information among the at least one piece of information, the instruction instructs the electronic device to store the first information in an information storage box. The instruction instructs the electronic device to display the information storage box including the first information based on the rollable display being withdrawn to have a size greater than or equal to the second size.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a rollable display configured to be inserted into or taken out of the electronic device; at least one processor; and memory configured to store instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions stored in the memory cause the electronic device to: display on the rollable display, an information reception box comprising at least one piece of information, the rollable display being taken out to have a size greater than or equal to a first size and less than a second size; based on a user input being received on first information among the at least one piece of information, delete the first information from the information reception box and store the first information in an information storage box; and based on the rollable display being taken out to have a size greater than or equal to the second size, display the information storage box comprising the first information.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION
- Publication number
- US20260329409A1
- Application number
- 19699283
- Filed
- Jun 5, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0481 Physics & computingG06F 1/1652 Physics & computingG06F 3/0485 Physics & computingG06F 3/0488 Physics & computingG06F 2203/04808 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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