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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
Motorola Mobility Llc, Chicago, IL (US);
Elliot M. Stewart, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An electronic device () includes a housing (), one or more processors (), and a display (). The display, housing, and other components are flexible, stretchable, squeezable, or otherwise deformable in one or more embodiments. One or more flex sensors () are operable with the one or more processors, as is a gravity sensor such as an accelerometer (). The one or more processors can detect () a bending operation () with the one or more flex sensors that deforms one or more of the housing or the display into a deformed geometry (). The one or more sensors can then determine a gravity direction () with the gravity sensor, after the bending operation and operate () the electronic device in a predefined mode of operation () as a function of both the deformed geometry and the gravity direction.