Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for managing display position as a function of content presentation
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsAmit Kumar Agrawal, Rohit Sisodia
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Abstract
A method in an electronic device identifies an operating context of the electronic device. The method determines a content presentation size of content corresponding to the operating context. The method then translates a blade assembly carrying a blade and flexible display that is slidably coupled to a device housing, as well as movable between an extended position, a retracted position, and optionally a peek position, to a position accommodating the content presentation size. Thereafter, one or more processors of the electronic device can present the content on the flexible display.
Claims20
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- identifying, by one or more processors of the electronic device, an operating context of the electronic device;
- determining a relevant context for the operating context of the electronic device;
- selecting, by the one or more processors, a plurality of content items each having the relevant context as content to be presented on a flexible display while the electronic device is operating in the operating context;
- determining, by the one or more processors of the electronic device, a content presentation size of the content corresponding to the operating context;
- automatically translating, by a translation mechanism operable with the one or more processors, a blade assembly carrying a blade and flexible display that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between an extended position and a retracted position to a position accommodating the content presentation size;
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- presenting, by the one or more processors, the content on the flexible display.
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;
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- one or more processors operable with the translation mechanism;
- wherein the one or more processors:
- detect an operating context of the electronic device;
- select two or more content items having at least one characteristic corresponding to the operating context from a plurality of content items that includes content items with the at least one characteristic and other content items without the at least one characteristic;
- determine a content presentation size of the two or more content items;
- cause the translation mechanism to transition the blade assembly to a position between the extended position and the retracted position where a front-facing portion of the flexible display has an area larger than the content presentation size;
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- present the two or more content items on the front-facing portion of the flexible display.
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- selecting, by one or more processors, two or more content items having at least one characteristic corresponding to an operating context of an electronic device from a plurality of content items that includes content items with the at least one characteristic and other content items without the at least one characteristic;
- determining, by the one or more processors, an area amount of a flexible display, carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing between an extended position and a retracted position, that is required to present the two or more content items;
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- causing, by a translation mechanism, the blade assembly to translate toward the extended position by the area amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.