Mobile electronic device with an adaptively responsive flexible display

• US 10,241,543 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2017
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Vartanian, Harry
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John J
• Application Number:
  US15/598,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20170255234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 455566, 4555501, 4555751, 455 903
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/373 for modifying the size of the graphic pattern
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0268 including a flexible display panel
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 : Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 : Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A mobile electronic device having a flexible display device is disclosed. A request to retrieve information from a server over a wireless network is triggered based on flexing the flexible display device and other gestures.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a flexible display;

a plurality of sensors configured to detect folding of the flexible display; and

circuitry configured to resize an image displayed on the flexible display in response to the plurality of sensors detecting folding of the flexible display.

2. The electronic device defined in claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors are configured to detect folding of the flexible display into a given shape and wherein the circuitry is configured to resize the image displayed on the flexible display based on the given shape.

3. The electronic device defined in claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors are configured to detect folding of the flexible display into a given shape and wherein the circuitry is configured to resize the image displayed on the flexible display to fit the given shape.

4. The electronic device defined in claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors are configured to detect that a shape of the flexible display has been altered and wherein the circuitry is configured to resize the image displayed on the flexible display in response to the plurality of sensors detecting that the shape of the flexible display has been altered.

5. The electronic device defined in claim 4, wherein the circuitry is configured to resize the image displayed on the flexible display to fit the shape of the flexible display in response to the plurality of sensors detecting that the shape of the flexible display has been altered.

6. The electronic device defined in claim 1, wherein the flexible display comprises an organic light-emitting diode flexible display.