Samsung patents wristwatch with flexible screen that wraps around your wrist
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable device featuring a display that extends from the main body to wrap around the user's wrist. The device uses motion sensors to detect specific gestures, allowing users to switch screens or move visual information onto the flexible part of the display.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a housing, a display including a first area coupled to the housing, and a second area extending from the first region and configured to at least partially surround a wrist of a user while the wearable device is worn by the user, at least one sensor for detecting a motion of the user, memory, comprising one or more storage media, for storing instructions, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the display, the at least one sensor and the memory, wherein she instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wearable device to based on identifying a first motion of the user detected via the at least one sensor while visual information is displayed in the first area, execute a function for screen transition of the display, and based on identifying a second motion of the user while the first motion detected via the at least one sensor is maintained, display visual information in the second area.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device comprising: a housing; a display including a first area coupled to the housing, and a second area extending from the first area and configured to at least partially surround a wrist of a user while the wearable device is worn by the user; at least one sensor to detect a motion of the user; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and one or more processors including processing circuitry wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: based on identifying a first motion of the user detected via the at least one sensor while visual information is displayed in the first area, execute a function for switching a screen of the display, and based on identifying a second motion of the user while the first motion detected via the at least one sensor is maintained, display the visual information in the second area.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY ON BASIS OF MOTION OF USER
- Publication number
- US20260319575A1
- Application number
- 19706409
- Filed
- Jun 12, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 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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