Electronic devices

US8205170B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Nokia · FI

Inventors

• Mikko Aarras · Helsinki, FI
• Niilo Alfthan · Tampere, FI
• Simon Bradford · Espoo, FI
• Claus Allan Christensen · Elsinore, DK
• Anthony Dalby · London, GB
• Axel Meyer · Helsinki, FI
• William Sermon · London, GB
• Sameer Shirgaonkar · London, GB
• Crispian Tompkin · Los Angeles, US
• Chee Yee Wong · London, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 19, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2250/18
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A portable electronic apparatus arranged to be able to perform a plurality of functions, one or more of a plurality of functions being selectively performable when the apparatus is placed in a corresponding functional mode, the apparatus having a user interface to allow user operation of the plurality of functions, each of the functions being user operable using a particular region of the electronic apparatus user interface, the apparatus comprising a user moveable cover arranged to be moveable into a plurality of positions, wherein each of the cover positions is associated with a particular functional mode of the apparatus and is arranged to cover one or more regions of the user interface not associated with the particular functional mode and to reveal one or more regions of the user interface associated with the particular functional mode.