Patent classifications
H04M1/0245
ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SLIDABLE STRUCTURE
A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a housing, a slider unit having an inlet portion configured to retract into the housing, a flexible display, a first antenna, a wireless communication, a state detection sensor, a first grip sensor, a processor, and a memory, processor performs recognizing that the state of the slider unit is changed from first to second state, correcting a capacitance value calculated using the first grip sensor as a correction value using an offset value corresponding to the second state, and a power back-off that lowers the power of a RF signal to be output from the wireless communication circuit to the first antenna using a power back-off value corresponding to the second state when the correction value is equal to or greater than a threshold value corresponding to the second state.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING ANTENNA DEVICE
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing structure including a first side surface member, a second housing structure including a second side surface member, a hinge structure configured to rotatably connect the first housing structure and the second housing structure and configured to provide a folding axis on which the first housing structure and the second housing structure rotate, and at least one printed circuit board, wherein the first side surface member or the second side surface member includes a first side surface portion a second side surface portion, a third side surface portion, a fourth side surface portion, a fifth side surface portion, a first slit a second slit a third slit, and a fourth slit, and a fifth slit, and wherein at least part of at least one of the second side surface portion, the third side surface portion, and the fourth side surface portion is formed of a radiation conductor and is electrically connected to the at least one printed circuit board.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING IN FLEX MODE
An electronic device may include a display, a bending detector configured to detect bending of the display, a processor electrically connected to the display and the bending detector, and a memory electrically connected, directly or indirectly, to the processor. The processor may be configured to divide the display into a first area and a second area when entering to a flex mode in response to detecting the bending of the display while an application is executed, output a content element of the application to the first area of the display, and output, to the second area of the display, a control element corresponding to one or more items of a level lower than a first level included by a menu item of the first level that is mapped to the flex mode in the application.
APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY FEATURE ACTIVATION FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
A case includes a case body configured to be equipped by the mobile electronic device. The case body includes at least two button accessing means and the mobile electronic device includes at least two physical buttons. The case further includes an actuator coupled to the case body and movable between at least a first position and a second position, where the actuator comprises two or more engagement members. The engagement members, in cooperation with the button accessing means, depress corresponding physical buttons of the mobile electronic device when the mobile electronic device is equipped with the case and the actuator is in the second position. The engagement members are configured to not depress corresponding physical buttons of the mobile electronic device when the actuator is in the first position.
METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MEASURING POSITION ON BASIS OF ANTENNA
An electronic device is provided that includes a foldable housing. The foldable housing includes a hinge module, a first housing, and a second housing. The first housing is connected to the hinge module and includes a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a first antenna supporting a first frequency band. The second housing is connected to the hinge module and includes a third surface facing a third direction, a fourth surface facing a fourth direction opposite to the third direction, and a second antenna supporting the first frequency band, and is folded with the first housing with respect to the hinge module. In the electronic device, in a folded state in which the first surface faces the third surface, the first antenna and the second antenna may be arranged to be spaced apart from each other by half a wavelength corresponding to the first frequency band, and in an unfolded state in which the first direction and the third direction are the same direction, the first antenna and the second antenna may be arranged to be spaced apart from each other by an error range or more, wherein the error range corresponds to the first frequency band.
ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY
An electronic apparatus may include: a housing including a first housing, which forms the side surfaces and rear surface of the electronic apparatus, and a second housing, which is connected to the first housing so as to be able to move relative to the first housing; a flexible display including a first region, which is exposed to the outside of the housing, and a second region, which extends from the first region and is inserted into or drawn out of the housing as the second housing slides relative to the first housing; a first digitizer coupled to the first region of the flexible display; a plate located inside the electronic apparatus; and a second digitizer disposed on the plate, wherein, in a state in which the second region has been drawn out of the housing, the second digitizer can be positioned corresponding to the drawn out second region.
Electronic device with movable flexible display and operating method thereof
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible touchscreen layer movable between an open state and a closed state and having a periphery located at a first distance from a first sidewall in the closed state, and located at a second distance longer than the first distance from the first sidewall in the open state. When the flexible touchscreen layer is moved from the open state to the closed state, at least part of the bendable portion may be led out from a recess to construct substantially a plane. When the flexible touchscreen layer is moved from the closed state to the open state, at least part of the bendable portion may be led into the recess to expose at least one of an inner structure having various modules disposed thereon or electronic component for access and/or use.
Electronic device and method for controlling power of the same
An electronic device including a first housing and a second housing facing each other and combined with each other to be folded or unfolded is disclosed, the electronic device includes: a first grip sensor included in the first housing; a second grip sensor included in the second housing; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: determine a folded state or an unfolded state of the electronic device, sense proximity and/or contact of a human body using the second grip sensor and adjust a radiated power of the electronic device and/or a power of the electronic device based on the sensed proximity and/or contact of the human body based on the electronic device being determined to be in the unfolded state, and sense the proximity and/or contact of the human body using the first grip sensor and adjust the radiated power of the electronic device and/or the power of the electronic device based on the sensed proximity and/or contact of the human body based on the electronic device being determined to be in the folded state.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING OPERATION ON BASIS OF TYPES OF IDENTIFIED COVERS, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device having covers which may be coupled and an operating method thereof, the electronic device may include a housing; a first cover coupled with at least part of the housing, and comprising at least one first identification terminal; a second cover coupled with at least part of the first cover, and comprising at least one second identification terminal which is electrically connectable with the first identification terminal; and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain at least one of first information related to the first cover or second information related to the second cover, identify at least one of a type of the first cover or a type of the second cover based on at least one of the first information or the second information, and perform a designated operation based on at least one of the type of the first cover or the type of the second cover. Other various embodiments are possible.
Electronic device comprising plurality of displays and method for operating same
A method for operating an electronic device, comprising a plurality of displays, which includes a first body unit, a second body unit, a first display which is disposed on the other side of the first body unit and faces a first direction, a second display which is disposed on the other side of the second body unit and faces a second direction, and a processor configured to display on the first display a screen of a first application and, when the angle between the first body unit and the second body unit is smaller than a predetermined angle, display on the second display at least one of an image related to the first application, an image related to first content being executed by means of the first application and an image related to information obtained by means of the electronic device.