Electronic device with extendable gripping feet and corresponding methods
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsGary D Cudak, John S Crowe, Jennifer J Lee-Baron, Nathan J Peterson
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Abstract
An electronic device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors operable with the one or more sensors, one or more extendable gripping feet, and an actuation engine operable to extend and retract the one or more extendable gripping feet. The one or more sensors detect a condition of the electronic device and, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the condition, the one or more processors cause the actuation engine to transition the one or more extendable gripping feet from a retracted position to an extended position where the one or more extendable gripping feet extend distally away from the electronic device.
Claims20
An electronic device, comprising:
- one or more sensors detecting a translation condition between the electronic device and a surface in contact with the electronic device;
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- one or more processors causing an actuation engine to transition one or more extendable gripping feet from a retracted position to an extended position where end surfaces of the one or more extendable gripping feet having a higher friction coefficient than surfaces of the electronic device situate distally from the electronic device, thereby causing the translation condition to cease.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.