ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,077, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Split screen layout control" was invented by Yeonjoo Jwa (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minho Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunsil Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, a method and device for controlling a screen displayed on a display is provided. The method includes: based on a layout of a split screen displayed on the display, verifying a trigger region in the split screen; based on a first input controlling a handle region of a pop-up window displayed on an upper layer of the split s...