Samsung patents flexible wearable with adjustable screen orientation
Samsung describes a wearable device with a flexible display that spans two parts of the housing. The device can show content in portrait or landscape mode, using either just the main screen area or extending the view onto the flexible section.
In the filing’s own words
An wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing extending from the first housing, wherein at least a portion of the second housing is flexible, a display disposed in the housing, at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device to display, among a first area and a second area of the display, a screen in a portrait orientation on the first area without displaying a screen on the second area extending from the first area, display a screen in the portrait orientation on the first area and the second area of the display, display a screen in a landscape orientation on the first area of the display without displaying a screen on the second area of the display, or display a screen in the landscape orientation on the first area and the second area of the display, wherein at least a portion of the first area of the display corresponds to the first housing, and wherein at least a portion of the second area of the display corresponds to the second housing.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable electronic device comprising: a housing including a first housing and a second housing extending from the first housing, wherein at least a portion of the second housing is flexible; a display disposed in the housing; at least one processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device to: display, among a first area and a second area of the display, a screen in a portrait orientation on the first area without displaying a screen on the second area extending from the first area, display a screen in the portrait orientation on the first area and the second area of the display, display a screen in a landscape orientation on the first area of the display without displaying a screen on the second area of the display, or display a screen in the landscape orientation on the first area and the second area of the display, wherein at least a portion of the first area of the display corresponds to the first housing, and wherein at least a portion of the second area of the display corresponds to the second housing.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME
- Publication number
- US20260319544A1
- Application number
- 19689177
- Filed
- May 27, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 1/163 Physics & computingG06F 1/1643 Physics & computingG06F 1/1652 Physics & computingG06F 3/04817 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 3/0485 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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