US 2021/0173445 A1Published application

Mobile device with an expandable screen

AssigneeDISH Technologies L.L.C.

InventorsDavid A. Kummer, Danny J. Minnick

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Abstract

A mobile device includes a first display portion, a second display portion and a graphics processor. The first display portion is viewable while the second display portion is obscured when the mobile device is in a retracted configuration. Both display portions are viewable when the mobile device is in an expanded configuration. The graphics processor may be coupled to each display portion and configured to generate a first image for display on: the first display portion when the mobile device is in the retracted configuration; at least one of the display portions while the mobile device is in the expanded configuration; and at least one of the display portions while the mobile device transitions between the retracted configuration and the expanded configuration. The second display portion may be a flexible display material, such as an OLED display and with the first display portion may be a single sheet OLED display.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

a display comprising:
a first display portion;
a second display portion;
and
wherein the first display portion is viewable while the second display portion is obscured from view when the mobile device is in a retracted configuration;
wherein the first display portion and the second display portion are viewable when the mobile device is in an expanded configuration;
a graphics processor, coupled to each of the first display portion and the second display portion, configured to:
generate a first image for display on the first display portion when the mobile device is in the retracted configuration;
generate the first image for display on at least one of the first display portion and the second display portion while the mobile device is in the expanded configuration;
and
generate the first image for display on at least one of the first display portion and the second display portion while the mobile device transitions between the retracted configuration and the expanded configuration.

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Facts

Application: 17/169,489Filed 7 Feb 2021
Priority: 3 May 2011
Published: 10 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06F 1/1641
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: the display being formed by a…
G06F 1/1647
Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing: including at least an…
H04M 1/0235
Characterized by the relative motions of the body parts: slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body…
G09G 2340/04
Aspects of display data processing: changes in size, position or resolution of an image

Family

Application61/482,138Us provisional application · filed 3 May 2011
Application13/461,469Division · filed 1 May 2012
Application15/895,866Continuation · filed 13 Feb 2018
Application16/525,007Continuation · filed 29 Jul 2019
Application17/169,489Continuation
Application15/895,866Division
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