Apparatus, method, computer program and user interface for enabling a touch sensitive display

• US 20090091544A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Lindroos, Sanna
• Granted Patent: US 8,130,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An apparatus including a touch sensitive display including a first portion and a second portion; and a processor configured to detect user inputs on the touch sensitive display and control the touch sensitive display, wherein; the processor is configured to control the touch sensitive display, to enable a first state, in which the first portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a first set of functions and the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a second set of functions, and to enable, in response to the detection of a first user input when the touch sensitive display is in the first state, a second state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is not operable to enable access to any one of the second set of functions and the first portion is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a touch sensitive display comprising a first portion and a second portion; and

a processor configured to detect user inputs on the touch sensitive display and control the touch sensitive display, wherein;

the processor is configured to control the touch sensitive display, to enable a first state, in which the first portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a first set of functions and the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a second set of functions, and to enable, in response to the detection of a first user input when the touch sensitive display is in the first state, a second state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is not operable to enable access to any one of the second set of functions and the first portion is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the processor is configured to control the touch sensitive display, in response to a second user input, to enter a state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first user input comprises a trace from a first position on the touch sensitive display to a second position on the touch sensitive display.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein the trace of the first user input from a first position on the touch sensitive display to a second position on the touch sensitive display is in a first direction and the second user input comprises a trace in a second direction different to the first direction.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein the second user input comprises a fingerprint input.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein the second user input comprises a pin number.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the second portion is operable to enable a user to make the second user input.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the second portion is not operable to enable any user inputs.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the first portion is operable to enable access to the first set of functions.

10. A method comprising:

enabling a touch sensitive display in a first state in which a first portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a first set of functions and a second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a second set of functions;

detecting a first user input;

enabling the touch sensitive display, in response to the detection of the first user input, in a second state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is not operable to enable access to any one of the second set of functions and the first portion is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the processor is configured to control, in response to a second user input, the touch sensitive display to enter a state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

12. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein the first user input comprises a trace from a first position on the touch sensitive display to a second position on the touch sensitive display.

13. A method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the trace of the user input from a first position on the touch sensitive display to a second position on the touch sensitive display is in a first direction and the second user input comprises a trace in a second direction different to the first direction.

14. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the second user input comprises a fingerprint input.

15. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the second user input comprises a pin number.

16. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the second portion is operable to enable a user to make the second user input.

17. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the second portion is not operable to enable any user inputs.

18. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the second state the first portion is operable to enable access to the first set of functions.

22. A computer program comprising program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of claim 10.

19. A computer program comprising program instructions for controlling an apparatus, the apparatus comprising, a touch sensitive display comprising a first portion and a second portion, the program instructions providing, when loaded into a processor:

means for enabling a touch sensitive display in a first state in which the first portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a first set of functions and the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a second set of functions;

means for detecting a first user input;

means for enabling the touch sensitive display, in response to the detection of the first user input, in a second state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is not operable to enable access to any one of the second set of functions and the first portion is operable to enable access to a set of functions.

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23. A user interface comprising:

a touch sensitive display comprising a first portion and a second portion the touch sensitive display having a first state, in which the first portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a first set of functions and the second portion of the touch sensitive display is operable to enable access to a second set of functions, and a second state in which the second portion of the touch sensitive display is not operable to enable access to any one of the second set of functions and the first portion is operable to enable access to a set of functions;

wherein when the touch sensitive display is in the first state the touch sensitive display is operable to receive a first user input such that in response to the detection of the first user input the touch sensitive display enters the second state.

24. (canceled)

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