Mobile electronic device and mobile phone

• US 10,601,969 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2018
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: Bao, Xiaoming
• Primary Examiner(s): Holliday, Jaime M
• Application Number:
  US15/956,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20190014201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0264 for a camera module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/20 including a rotatable camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a mobile electronic device, which includes a body, a display screen disposed to an obverse surface of the body, an input-output module, and a drive assembly coupled to the input-output module. The display screen is able to display a start tag and a mode tag. The input-output module includes a base and a camera disposed to the base, and the input-output module is able to be at least partially accommodated in the body. The drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from an end portion of the body in accordance with a user input signal for the start tag, and is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate in accordance with a user input for the mode tag. A mobile phone is also provided.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a body;

a display screen, disposed to a first surface of the body and being able to display a start tag and a mode tag;

an input-output module, comprising a base and a camera disposed to the base, and being able to be at least partially accommodated in the body; and

a drive assembly, coupled to the input-output module, configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from an end portion of the body in accordance with a user input signal for the start tag, and configured to drive the input-output module to rotate in accordance with a user input for the mode tag;

wherein the input-output module further comprises a receiver with electroacoustic transform function, a light sensor, and a flash lamp disposed in the base.

2. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the end portion of the body defines a groove, the input-output module is able to be movably accommodated in the groove, the drive assembly is accommodated in the body, the drive assembly comprises a linear driving member and a rotary driving member, the rotary driving member is fixedly coupled to the linear driving member and is fixedly coupled to the input-output module, the linear driving member is configured to drive the rotary driving member to move together with the input-output module so as to expose the input-output module from the end portion of the body through the groove, and the rotary driving member is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate when the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body.

3. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the end portion of the body defines a groove penetrating a second surface of the body, the input-output module is able to be rotatably accommodated in the groove, the drive assembly comprises a first rotary driving member and a second rotary driving member, the first rotary driving member is fixedly coupled to the second rotary driving member, the second rotary driving member is coupled to the input-output module and both of the second rotary driving member and the input-output module are accommodated in the groove, the first rotary driving member is configured to drive the second rotary driving member to rotate together with the input-output module so as to expose the input-output module from the end portion of the body, and the second rotary driving member is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate when the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body.

4. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the start tag comprises a call start tag and a camera start tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from the end portion of the body in accordance with a user input signal for the camera start tag or the call start tag.

5. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the mode tag comprises a camera switch tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate in accordance with a user input signal for the camera switch tag after the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body.

6. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the mode tag comprises a panoramic camera tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate continuously in accordance with a user input signal for the panoramic camera tag after the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body, such that the camera can continuously shoot in a plurality of directions.

7. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the mode tag comprises a camera switch tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from the end portion of the body, and also configured to drive the input-output module to rotate, in accordance with a user input signal for the camera switch tag.

8. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the mode tag comprises a panoramic camera tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from the end portion of the body, and control the input-output module to rotate continuously in accordance with a user input signal for the panoramic camera tag, such that the camera can continuously shoot in a plurality of directions.

9. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is able to display a close tag, the close tag comprises a camera close tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to hide into the body in accordance with a user input signal for the camera close tag.

10. The mobile electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the close tag comprises a call close tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to hide into the body in accordance with a user input signal for the camera close tag or the call close tag.

11. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is able to display a camera close tag, and the drive assembly is also configured to drive the input-output module to rotate, and control the input-output module to hide into the body in accordance with a user input signal for the camera close tag.

12. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the mode tag comprises a manual control tag, and the drive assembly is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate at any angle in accordance with a user input signal for the manual control tag, such that the camera can shoot pictures in a plurality of directions.

13. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the base comprises a front surface and an upper surface;

and the light sensor comprises a first light sensor disposed on the upper surface and a second light sensor disposed on the front surface.

14. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a body, defining a groove in an end portion thereof;

an input-output module, comprising a base, a rotating shaft disposed to the base, and a camera disposed to the base, and being able to be at least partially accommodated in the body; and

a drive assembly, located in the body, coupled to the input-output module, and configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from the end portion of the body through the groove, and configured to drive the rotating shaft to drive the input-output module to rotate;

wherein the input-output module further comprises a receiver with electroacoustic transform function, a light sensor, and a flash lamp disposed in the base.

15. The mobile electronic device according to claim 14, wherein the drive assembly comprises a linear motor and a rotary motor;

a mover of the linear motor is fixedly coupled to a stator of the rotary motor, and a mover of the rotary motor is fixedly coupled to the rotating shaft;

the linear motor is configured to control the rotary motor to move linearly together with the input-output module, such that the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body, and the rotary motor is configured to drive the rotating shaft to rotate so as to drive the input-output module to rotate, after the input-output module is exposed from the end portion of the body.

16. The mobile electronic device according to claim 14, wherein the body comprises an obverse surface, a back surface opposite to the obverse surface, and a top surface coupling the obverse surface and the back surface;

the base comprises a front surface, a rear surface, an upper surface and a lower surface that are opposite each other correspondingly;

the front surface and the obverse surface face the same side of the body, the rear surface and the back surface face the same other side of the body, the upper surface and the top surface face the same side of the body, and the lower surface faces away from the upper surface.

17. The mobile electronic device according to claim 16, wherein the rotating shaft is disposed to the lower surface of the base, and the camera is located at the front surface of the base or located at the rear surface of the base.

18. The mobile electronic device according to claim 16, wherein the groove is located at a center position of the top surface, or the groove penetrates a side edge intersecting the back surface with the top surface.

19. The mobile electronic device according to claim 16, further comprise a display screen disposed to the obverse surface of the body and being able to display a start tag and a mode tag, wherein the first drive member is configured to drive the input-output module to be exposed from the end portion of the body through the groove in accordance with a user input signal for the start tag, and the second drive member is configured to drive the input-output module to rotate in accordance with a user input for the mode tag.

20. A mobile phone comprising:

a body;

a display screen coupled to the body; and

an input-output module, comprising a base, a camera, a receiver with electroacoustic transform function, a light sensor, and a flash lamp, the camera, the receiver, the light sensor and the flash lamp being coupled to the base, the input-output module being movable relative to the body to make the mobile phone transformable between a first configuration and a second configuration, in the first configuration, the receiver and the camera being exposed out of the body and extending beyond the display screen, and the camera being rotatable relative to the body to face different directions, in the second configuration, the camera being received in the body and covered by the display screen.