IP Library Granted Patent US 11,968,630
Granted Patent B2
US 11,968,630 · App. 17/531,224 · Granted Apr 23, 2024

Electronic device having slidable structure

Inventors: Wonho Lee (Suwon-si, KR); Hojin Jung (Suwon-si, KR); Hyunggwang Kang (Suwon-si, KR); Myunghoon Kwak (Suwon-si, KR); Hyunju Hong (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W52/38H04W52/146H05K5/0017H05K5/0086H05K5/0217
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Patent No.
US 11,968,630
App. No.
17/531,224
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

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.

Claims (34)

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

a housing;

a sliding plate configured to move with respect to the housing between a slide-in state and a slide-out state;

a driving circuit configured to move the sliding plate;

a first antenna;

a wireless communication circuit connected to the first antenna;

a first grip sensor;

a processor connected to the wireless communication circuit, the driving circuit, and the first grip sensor; and

memory connected to the processor,

wherein the memory store one or more programs including instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

while the sliding plate is in the slide-in state, correct a first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor using a first offset value corresponding to the slide-in state,

in response to a user input, control the driving circuit so that a state of the sliding plate changes from the slide-in state to the slide-out state different from the slide-in state according to a degree of movement,

based on the sliding plate changing from the slide-in state to the slide-out state, correct the first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor to be a correction value by using a second offset value corresponding to the slide-out state and different from the first offset value corresponding to the slide-in state, and

in case the correction value is equal to or greater than a threshold value corresponding to the slide-out state, control to lower a power of a radio frequency (RF) signal output from the wireless communication circuit to the first antenna by using a power back-off value corresponding to the slide-out state.

2. The portable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more programs further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

reconfigure an offset value used when the first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor is corrected from an (1-1)-th offset value corresponding to the first grip sensor and the slide-in state to an (1-2)-th offset value corresponding to the first grip sensor and the slide-out state,

reconfigure a threshold value that is compared with a value used to determine whether to perform a power back-off operation from an (1-1)-th threshold value corresponding to the first grip sensor and the slide-in state to an (1-2)-th threshold value corresponding to the first grip sensor and the slide-out state, and

reconfigure the power back-off value used when the power back-off operation is performed from a first power back-off value corresponding to the slide-in state to a second power back-off value corresponding to the slide-out state.

3. The portable electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the one or more programs further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

correct the first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor to be a first correction value by using the (1-2)-th offset value, and

perform the power back-off operation using the second power back-off value when the first correction value is equal to or greater than the (1-2)-th threshold value.

4. The portable electronic device of claim 2 , further comprising:

a second grip sensor,

wherein the one or more programs further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

reconfigure an offset value used to:

correct a second capacitance value measured through the second grip sensor from a (2-1)-th offset value corresponding to the second grip sensor and the slide-in state to a (2-2)-th offset value corresponding to the second grip sensor and the slide-out state; and

reconfigure a threshold value that is compared with a correction value calculated using the second capacitance value measured through the second grip sensor from a (2-1)-th threshold value corresponding to the second grip sensor and the slide-in state to a (2-2)-th threshold value corresponding to the second grip sensor and the slide-out state, and

wherein the one or more programs further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

correct the second capacitance value measured through the second grip sensor to be a second correction value by using the (2-2)-th offset value when a first correction value is less than the (1-2)-th threshold value; and

perform the power back-off operation by using the second power back-off value when the second correction value is equal to or greater than the (2-2)-th threshold value.

5. The portable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the second offset value is determined by subtracting a designated value from the first offset value.

6. The portable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more programs further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the portable electronic device to:

based on the sliding plate being in the slide-in state, configure to use the first offset value when correcting the first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor, and

based on the sliding plate changing from the slide-in state to the slide-out state, configure to use the second offset value when correcting the first capacitance value measured through the first grip sensor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2021
From: LEE, WONHO; JUNG, HOJIN; KANG, HYUNGGWANG; KWAK, MYUNGHOON; HONG, HYUNJU
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058167/0865 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2020-0147381 · Nov 6, 2020 · national
KR 10-2021-0019476 · Feb 10, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTKR2021015008 · Oct 25, 2021
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