Deformable Electronic Device and Methods and Systems for Reconfiguring Presentation Data and Actuation Elements
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorMichael McLaughlin
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a housing, which may be deformable or may include hinges to allow a display, which is flexible, to be deform by bending or other operations. One or more flex sensors detect when the electronic device is deformed at a deformation portion. One or more processors, which include an application processor, reconfigure a presentation of content along the flexible display in response to detecting deformation at the deformation portion, where the reconfiguring includes a content aspect ratio transition from a first predefined aspect ratio to a second predefined aspect ratio.
Claims20
An electronic device, comprising;
- a deformable housing;
- a flexible display supported by the deformable housing;
- one or more flex sensors supported by the deformable housing, the one or more flex sensors detecting when the electronic device is deformed at a deformation portion;
- and
- one or more processors operable with the flexible display and the one or more flex sensors, the one or more processors reconfiguring a presentation of content along the flexible display in response to detecting deformation at the deformation portion, the reconfiguring comprising a content aspect ratio transition from a first aspect ratio to a second aspect ratio.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a flexible display;
- one or more flex sensors, the one or more flex sensors detecting a deflection of the flexible display;
- and
- one or more processors operable with the one or more flex sensors, the one or more processors dividing a portion of the flexible display disposed to one side of the deflection into a first subportion and a second subportion that is complementary to the first subportion, presenting content in the first subportion with a predefined aspect ratio, and repurposing the second subportion for presentation of secondary content.
A method, comprising:
- presenting content, with one or more processors, on a flexible display at a first aspect ratio;
- detecting, with one or more flex sensors, deformation of the flexible display by a bend;
- moving presentation of the content to a portion of the flexible display disposed to one side of the bend;
- subdividing the portion into a first subportion and a second subportion that is complementary to the first subportion;
- presenting the content in the first subportion of the flexible display at the a second aspect ratio;
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- repurposing the second subportion of the flexible display for presentation of secondary content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.