Granted Patent B2

US 12,373,093 · App. 18/217,229 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Inventors: Choice Choudhary (Noida Uttar Pradesh, IN); Ankit Agarwal (Noida Uttar Pradesh, IN); Shivam Singh Rajput (Noida Uttar Pradesh, IN)

Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

G06F3/0488G06F3/0416G06F3/044

Abstract

Claims (56)

1. A method for providing control functionality of a display of an electronic device, the method comprising:

determining, by the electronic device, a non-responsiveness of the display on a front side of the electronic device as an event associated with the display of the electronic device;

in response to determining the non-responsiveness of the display on the front side of the electronic device, partitioning, by the electronic device, a rear side of the electronic device into a plurality of dynamic tiles based on a plurality of parameters associated with the display of the electronic device, in response to determining the event, wherein the rear side is opposite the front side;

detecting, by the electronic device, at least one gesture on at least one dynamic tile of the plurality of dynamic tiles on the rear side of the electronic device;

classifying, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture into a gesture category;

determining, by the electronic device, at least one functionality to be performed on the display based on the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the gesture category; and

controlling, by the electronic device, the at least one functionality on the display of the electronic device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the event associated the display of the electronic device further comprises a reduction in user experience during interaction with the display of the electronic device.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of parameters associated with the display of the electronic device comprises at least one of an aspect ratio of the electronic device, a user touch area, or a sensor location and proximity of at least one actionable element with respect to other actionable elements on the display of the electronic device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the non-responsiveness of the display of the electronic device is detected based on one of a capacitance change of the display, a temperature of the electronic device, or a ghost touch on the display of the electronic device.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the reduction in the user experience during interaction with the display of the electronic device is determined based on at least one of a size of the display, a number of actionable elements on the display, and a distribution pattern of the number of the actionable elements on the display.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the gesture category comprises one of a single tap, a double tap, a long tap, a triple tap, a scroll with a single finger, a scroll with double fingers, and a horizontal swipe.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein partitioning, by the electronic device, the rear side of the electronic device into the plurality of dynamic tiles based on the plurality of parameters associated with the display of the electronic device, in response to determining the event comprises:

dividing, by the electronic device, the rear side of the electronic device into the plurality of dynamic tiles based on an aspect ratio of the electronic device;

dividing, by the electronic device, a front side of the electronic device into a first set of blocks based on pixel coordinates, wherein each block of the first set of blocks comprises a block area;

determining, by the electronic device, a touch area of a user on the display of the electronic device;

determining, by the electronic device, that the touch area on the display is greater than the block area of each block of the first set of blocks;

merging, by the electronic device, at least two blocks of the first set of blocks to form a second set of blocks based on one of the touch area and a position of actionable elements on the front side of the electronic device;

determining, by the electronic device, a pattern of sensor features and coordinate values of each of the plurality of dynamic tiles on the rear side of the electronic device;

mapping, by the electronic device, the coordinate values of each of the plurality of dynamic tiles on the rear side of the electronic device to corresponding ones of the second set of blocks on the front side of the electronic device; and

partitioning, by the electronic device, the rear side of the electronic device into the plurality of dynamic tiles based on the mapping.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein classifying, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture into the gesture category comprises:

detecting, by the electronic device, at least one touch coordinate associated with the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device;

determining, by the electronic device, a time stamp of the at least one touch coordinate associated with the at least one gesture;

inputting, by the electronic device, the at least one touch coordinate associated with the at least one gesture and the time stamp of the at least one touch coordinate associated with the at least one gesture to a third machine learning (ML) model; and

classifying, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture into the gesture category using the third ML model.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein determining, by the electronic device, the at least one functionality to be performed on the display based on the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the gesture category comprises:

mapping, by the electronic device, coordinates associated with the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the gesture category into a second set of blocks on the front side of the electronic device, wherein the mapping comprises a start coordinate and an end coordinate of at least one tile of the plurality of dynamic tiles, a tile number, and a list of applications within a tile area of the at least one tile; and

determining, by the electronic device, the at least one functionality to be performed on the display based on the mapping.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising:

determining, by the electronic device, a plurality of functionalities to be performed on the display based on the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device;

inputting, by the electronic device, actionable elements within the tile area, a frequency of usage of the actionable elements, a last activity on the electronic device, and the gesture category of the at least one gesture to a fourth ML model; and

determining, by the electronic device, a priority score for each of the plurality of functionalities to be performed on the display using the fourth ML model.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising:

storing, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture, the gesture category, and the priority score for each of the plurality of functionalities to be performed on the display;

determining, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device for performing the plurality of functionalities; and

automatically determining, by the electronic device, the at least one functionality to be performed based on the priority score for each of the plurality of functionalities.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein detecting, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture on the at least one dynamic tile on the rear side of the electronic device comprises:

inputting, by the electronic device, predefined features and derived features associated with the at least one gesture to a first ML model;

determining, by the electronic device, a quadrant of a set of four quadrants of the at least one gesture by the first ML model;

inputting, by the electronic device, the quadrant of the at least one gesture into a second ML model, wherein the second ML model is a TensorFlow's Keras sequential model;

determining, by the electronic device, coordinates of the at least one gesture by the second ML model; and

detecting, by the electronic device, the at least one gesture on the at least one dynamic tile on the rear side of the electronic device based on coordinates of the at least one gesture.

13. An electronic device for providing control functionality of a display, the electronic device comprising:

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory;

a communicator coupled to the memory and the processor;

a touch management controller coupled to the memory, the processor, and the communicator, the touch management controller being configured to:

determine a non-responsiveness of the display on a front side of the electronic device as an event associated with the display of the electronic device;

in response to determining the non-responsiveness of the display on the front side of the electronic device, partition a rear side of the electronic device into plurality of dynamic tiles based on a plurality of parameters associated with the display of the electronic device, in response to determining the event, wherein the rear side is opposite the front side;

detect at least one gesture on at least one dynamic tile of the plurality of dynamic tiles on the rear side of the electronic device;

classify the at least one gesture into a gesture category;

determine at least one functionality to be performed on the display based on the at least one gesture on the rear side of the electronic device and the gesture category; and

control the at least one functionality on the display of the electronic device.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the event associated the display of the electronic device further comprises a reduction in user experience during interaction with the display of the electronic device.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the plurality of parameters associated with the display of the electronic device comprises at least one of an aspect ratio of the electronic device, a user touch area, a sensor location and proximity of at least one actionable element with respect to other actionable elements on the display of the electronic device.

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