US 12,260,021 B1
Providing user feedback via a rollable screen device
Thomas Yates Merrell, St Charles, IL (US); and Amit Kumar Agrawal, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/472,562.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/016 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1618 (2013.01); H04M 1/0235 (2013.01); H04M 1/0268 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile device, comprising:
a housing;
a screen moveable relative to the housing such that the mobile device has a compact form factor and an expanded form factor;
one or more sensors positioned relative to the screen for detecting user input including one or more forces applied to an expanded portion of the screen in the expanded form factor of the mobile device; and
a configuration manager configured to activate one or more components of the mobile device to indicate that the mobile device received the user input based at least in part on the one or more forces satisfying a threshold value, wherein:
the one or more components include a first actuator and a second actuator; and
to activate the one or more components of the mobile device, the configuration manager is configured to simultaneously drive the first actuator in a first direction and the second actuator in a second direction opposite from the first direction to move the expanded portion of the screen in accordance with a displacement from an initial expanded position.