Handheld electronic communication device including touch-sensitive display
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsJason Tyler Griffin, Todd Andrew Wood
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Abstract
A handheld electronic communication device includes a body including an input device and a display assembly including a display. The display assembly is connected to the body and moveable relative to the body, between a first position in which a first portion of the display is covered by the body and a second portion of the display is exposed, and a second position in which the display assembly is displaced such that the first portion of the display and the second portion of the display are exposed and the display assembly is generally flush with the body.
Claims10
A handheld electronic communication device comprising:
- a body including an input device;
- a display assembly comprising a touch-sensitive display, the display assembly connected to the body and moveable by sliding relative to a back of the body, between a first position in which the touch-sensitive display is disposed within a cavity between a front and the back of the body and a first portion of the touch-sensitive display is covered by the body and a second portion of the touch-sensitive display is exposed, and a second position in which the display assembly is moved away from the back of the body,
- wherein, in the second position, the first portion of the touch-sensitive display and the second portion of the touch-sensitive display are both fully exposed and the display assembly is generally flush with the front of the body, and
- wherein the display assembly is moveable, relative to the body, into a third position in which the input device is covered by the display assembly, and
- wherein the display assembly is moveable by sliding, from the third position, in which the front of the body is spaced from the back of the body, into a fourth position in which the display assembly is moved closer to the back of the body and the input device is disposed between the display assembly and the back of the body, and
- wherein, in the first position, the first portion of the touch-sensitive display is in one of a low power mode and a power off mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.