US 11,750,727 B2
Electronic device including a plurality of displays and method for operating same
Myunghoon Kwak, Suwon-si (KR); Minsoo Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Joungmin Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Sanghyuk Park, Suwon-si (KR); Kibeom Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Teayoung Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunggwang Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Yangwook Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Hyunju Hong, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/311,223
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/006948
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/246802, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0068591 (KR), filed on Jun. 5, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0186849 (KR), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0311846 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04M 1/72469 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/0268 (2013.01) [H04M 1/72469 (2021.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing;
a first display configured to be slidable through the housing, wherein at least a portion of the first display is exposed to an outside through the housing, and wherein a region of the first display, exposed to the outside, is capable of being changed based on a sliding of the first display through the housing;
a second display spaced a certain distance apart from the portion of the first display being exposed to the outside and disposed to form a flat surface with the portion of the first display being exposed to the outside, wherein the first display slides out from a space between the first display and the second display and slides into the space between the first display and the second display;
an optical member disposed in the space between the first display and the second display; and
at least one processor disposed in the housing,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
output a light through a first portion of the first display associated with the optical member, and
wherein the light is diffused through the optical member.