User interface
AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
InventorsTeppo Hemiä, Jouni Hietamäki, Miikka Merilahti, Mirka Murtoniemi, Juha Nousiainen
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Abstract
An electronic input device has a flexible keyboard for receiving user input and a housing defining a space for accommodating the keyboard. The input device has a compacted state and an extended state. The keyboard adopts a compacted spatial configuration in the compacted state and adopts an extended spatial configuration in the second state. In the compacted state the keyboard is wound on a roll. The input device additionally has a retractable, flexible display having corresponding compacted and extended states so that both the keyboard and the display can be rolled in and out together.
Claims14
An electronic input device comprising:
- flexible input means for receiving user input;
- and
- flexible output means for outputting information;
- a first housing defining a space for accommodating said input means;
- and
- a second housing defining a space for accommodating said output means;
- wherein
- said device has a first state, a second state and a third state;
- wherein the electronic device adopts a closed configuration in the first state, adopts a partly opened configuration in the second state, and adopts a fully opened configuration in the third state;
- wherein the electronic device is folded cylindrically around hinge means towards a first direction for adopting the partly opened configuration;
- and
- wherein the electronic device with the partly opened configuration is pulled with a sliding movement towards a second direction being substantially orthogonal to the first direction, for adopting the fully opened configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.