Wireless devices with flexible monitors and keyboards
OwnerJeffrey David Mulleninventor
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Abstract
A portable device (e.g., a wireless device such as a cell phone) is provided with a flexible keyboard and a flexible display screen. Such flexible components may be stored in the housing of the portable device when not in use. The flexible display screen and flexible keyboard may be expanded from the housing when the flexible components are utilized by a user. Non-flexible display and input components may be provided on the exterior of the portable device such that the device may be used, in some form, while the flexible components are stored. In one embodiment, a portion of the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) may be utilized when the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) is stored in said first housing.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a head-wearable device comprising at least one housing, said at least one housing comprising:
- a speaker;
- a microphone;
- and
- a movement sensor, wherein said movement sensor comprises an accelerometer;
- a manual input operably coupled to said head-wearable device;
- wherein said head-wearable device further comprises:
- a display operable to cover at least a portion of at least one eye of a wearer of said head-wearable device, wherein said display is operable to display a virtual object and to allow said wearer of said head-wearable device to view, simultaneously with said virtual object, a portion of said wearer's actual world environment;
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- a camera pointed in a field-of-vision of said wearer and operable to capture an image of said portion of said wearer's actual world environment;
- wherein said display is operable to display said image of said wearer's actual world environment taken by said camera simultaneously with said virtual object.
A head-mounted device comprising:
- a head-mounted power source;
- a head-mounted manual input;
- a head-mounted processor;
- a head-mounted movement sensor;
- a top-of-the-head mounting structure;
- a behind-the-head mounting structure;
- a head-mounted display operable to cover at least a portion of at least one eye of a wearer of said head- mounted device, wherein a first virtual object is operable to be displayed on said head-mounted display and controlled with manual input and a second virtual object is operable to be displayed on said head mounted display and controlled autonomously by said processor;
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- a head-mounted camera, wherein information from said head-mounted camera is operable to be displayed on said head-mounted display simultaneously with said first virtual object and said second virtual object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.