Motorola Mobility LLC

Alexis Grace Valasek

Kathryn Ellen Thomas

Thomas E Gitzinger

Marcello Zuffo

Rohit Sisodia

Francis Kuzhiyil

KiYoun Cho

Sridhar Vashist

Suresh Sethuraman

Jonathon J Prinz

Sanjeev Kumar Poluru Venkata

An electronic device includes a device housing and a blade assembly carrying a blade and slidably coupled to the device housing. The electronic device includes a translation mechanism operable to slide the blade assembly relative to the device housing. The electronic device includes one or more processors operable with the translation mechanism. The one or more processors automatically transition the blade assembly to the peek position when a front-facing imager or front-facing loudspeaker is required unless a privacy mode of operation is enabled, wherein transition of the blade assembly to the peek position is precluded.

Electronic devices with translating flexible display and corresponding methods

A method for detecting, by a force sensing circuit within an electronic device, a change in force applied to a surface of the electronic device. The method includes correlating the change in the force applied to the surface to a functional change of at least one setting of the electronic device. The method further includes identifying when a detected change is a first change of the change in force, which corresponds to a trigger that activates at least one of a plurality of sensing devices within the force sensing circuit to monitor for a subsequent change in the force. In response to detecting the subsequent change of the change in force, the method includes adjusting the at least one setting of the electronic device based on the subsequent change of the force.

Inconspicuous sensing system across multiple surfaces

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