ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,858, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Display method and electronic device" was invented by Liwei Huang (Shenzhen, China), Jie Ren (Shenzhen, China), Kai Qian (Shenzhen, China) and Xia Wu (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a display method and an electronic device. When the electronic device switches from a screen-off mode to a lock-screen mode, the electronic device may perform gradual expansion from a last image frame displayed in a screen-off interface, and in a gradual expansion process, successively play a transition animation during switching fro...