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US 12,602,082 B2Granted
Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for providing haptic feedback
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsXiaofeng Zhu, Sanjay Dhar
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Abstract
A method in an electronic device includes receiving, by a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between an extended position and a retracted position, user input. The method then delivers, by a translation mechanism in response to the user input, haptic feedback by causing the blade assembly to translate relative to the device housing with an oscillatory motion.
Claims20
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- detecting, by one or more processors of the electronic device, a device event;
- and
- delivering, by a translation mechanism in response to the device event, haptic feedback by causing a blade assembly that is coupled to a device housing, moveable between an extended position and a retracted position, and that carries a flexible display to translate relative to the device housing with an oscillatory motion;
- wherein the oscillatory motion causes the blade assembly to translate back and forth toward the extended position and toward the retracted position within a predefined distance.
1 more element
An electronic device, comprising:
- a device housing;
- a blade assembly carrying a blade and a flexible display and slidably coupled to the device housing;
- a translation mechanism operable to slide the blade assembly relative to the device housing between an extended position and a retracted position;
- and
- one or more processors operable with the translation mechanism;
- wherein the one or more processors, in response to the flexible display detecting user input interacting with the flexible display, cause the translation mechanism to both:
- translate the blade assembly in one direction across a major surface of the device housing toward the extended position when additional front-facing surface area of the flexible display is required;
- and
- deliver haptic feedback by translating the blade assembly in two directions across the major surface of the device housing with an oscillatory motion back and forth relative to a position of blade assembly relative to the device housing when the user input occurs.
6 more elements
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- detecting, by one or more processors, touch input interacting with a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between an extended position, a retracted position, and a peek position;
- and
- in response to the touch input, translating, by a translation mechanism operable with the one or more processors, the blade assembly with a back-and-forth motion moving the blade assembly between the peek position and the extended position by an amount necessary to provide a haptic response to the touch input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.