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The stylus automatically slides out of the smartphone body

15.06.2015

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published Samsung's patent application for "Electronic Device Having Automatically Ejectable Input Pen".

We are talking about a digital pen like the S Pen, which is used in devices such as the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge phablets. As planned by Samsung, to remove the stylus from the body of the gadget, the user will need to say a certain voice command and (or) draw a predefined pattern on the touch screen with his finger.

To automatically eject the pen, it is proposed to use a special system of small electromagnets with different polarities: this will allow the stylus to be pushed out of the device body. And to hold the pen inside the gadget, a locking mechanism can be used, clinging to the groove in the tip area.

As conceived by Samsung, the presence of a system for automatically ejecting the pen in certain situations will increase the convenience of working with phablets and tablet computers.

Samsung is also patenting an original zoom system for the digital pen: it is proposed to activate the zoom tools by holding the stylus a short distance from the display. By pressing a special button on the pen body, the user will see a zoom menu, after which it will be enough to perform the required action.

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