MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120026109A1
• Filed: 04/26/2010
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Baba, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US13/138,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20120026109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means

Abstract

A mobile terminal device includes: a touch panel in which one of a plurality of segment areas is adjacent to the other segment areas different in at least three directions; a pattern storing unit that associates and stores any of functions of the mobile terminal device with a registered pattern formed of the plurality of adjacent segment areas of the segment areas of the touch panel; a pattern recognizing unit that recognizes the plurality of segment areas continuously touched by a user, as an input pattern; and a function activating unit that compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the input pattern matches the registered pattern.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device comprising:

a touch panel in which one of a plurality of segment areas is adjacent to the other segment areas different in at least three directions;

a pattern storing unit that associates and stores any of functions of the mobile terminal device with a registered pattern formed of the plurality of adjacent segment areas of the segment areas of the touch panel;

a pattern recognizing unit that recognizes the plurality of segment areas continuously touched by a user, as an input pattern; and

a function activating unit that compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the input pattern matches the registered pattern.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein a part or all of the segment areas of the touch panel are adjacent in at least three directions to the other segment areas which are respectively different.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a security lock setting unit that sets a security lock to suppress several operations of the functions of the mobile terminal device,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the function of the security lock set by the security lock setting unit with the registered pattern, and

wherein the function activating unit releases the security lock set by the function corresponding to the registered pattern, and activates the function.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores sequence designation information for designating at least one sequence of the segment areas constituting the registered pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern, and generates recognition sequence information representing a sequence of recognizing the segment areas constituting the input pattern,

wherein the function activating unit compares the sequence of the segment areas designated by the sequence designation information corresponding to the registered pattern compared with and matching the input pattern, with the sequence of the segment areas indicated by the recognition sequence information generated by the pattern recognizing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the sequence matches.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a function selecting unit that selects any of the functions of the mobile terminal device according to the operation input of the user when the function activating unit compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit and the input pattern does not match the registered pattern,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the input pattern as the registered pattern with the function selected by the function selecting unit.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores input condition information representing a condition of receiving the input pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern when the mobile terminal device satisfies the condition represented by the input condition information.

9. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising a security lock setting unit that sets a security lock to suppress several operations of the functions of the mobile terminal device,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the function of the security lock set by the security lock setting unit with the registered pattern, and

wherein the function activating unit releases the security lock set by the function corresponding to the registered pattern, and activates the function.

10. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores sequence designation information for designating at least one sequence of the segment areas constituting the registered pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern, and generates recognition sequence information representing a sequence of recognizing the segment areas constituting the input pattern,

wherein the function activating unit compares the sequence of the segment areas designated by the sequence designation information corresponding to the registered pattern compared with and matching the input pattern, with the sequence of the segment areas indicated by the recognition sequence information generated by the pattern recognizing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the sequence matches.

11. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores sequence designation information for designating at least one sequence of the segment areas constituting the registered pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern, and generates recognition sequence information representing a sequence of recognizing the segment areas constituting the input pattern,

wherein the function activating unit compares the sequence of the segment areas designated by the sequence designation information corresponding to the registered pattern compared with and matching the input pattern, with the sequence of the segment areas indicated by the recognition sequence information generated by the pattern recognizing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the sequence matches.

12. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising a function selecting unit that selects any of the functions of the mobile terminal device according to the operation input of the user when the function activating unit compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit and the input pattern does not match the registered pattern,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the input pattern as the registered pattern with the function selected by the function selecting unit.

13. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3, further comprising a function selecting unit that selects any of the functions of the mobile terminal device according to the operation input of the user when the function activating unit compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit and the input pattern does not match the registered pattern,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the input pattern as the registered pattern with the function selected by the function selecting unit.

14. The mobile terminal device according to claim 4, further comprising a function selecting unit that selects any of the functions of the mobile terminal device according to the operation input of the user when the function activating unit compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit and the input pattern does not match the registered pattern,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores the input pattern as the registered pattern with the function selected by the function selecting unit.

15. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores input condition information representing a condition of receiving the input pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern when the mobile terminal device satisfies the condition represented by the input condition information.

16. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores input condition information representing a condition of receiving the input pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern when the mobile terminal device satisfies the condition represented by the input condition information.

17. The mobile terminal device according to claim 4,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores input condition information representing a condition of receiving the input pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern when the mobile terminal device satisfies the condition represented by the input condition information.

18. The mobile terminal device according to claim 5,

wherein the pattern storing unit associates and stores input condition information representing a condition of receiving the input pattern with the registered pattern, and

wherein the pattern recognizing unit recognizes the input pattern when the mobile terminal device satisfies the condition represented by the input condition information.

7. A method of controlling a mobile terminal device comprising:

associating and storing any of functions of the mobile terminal device with a registered pattern formed from a plurality of adjacent segment areas over a touch panel in which one of the plurality of segment areas is adjacent to the other segment areas different in at least three directions;

recognizing the plurality of segment areas continuously touched by a user, as an input pattern; and

comparing the input pattern recognized in the recognizing of the pattern with the registered pattern stored in the storing of the pattern, and activating the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the input pattern matches the registered pattern.

8. A non-transitory storage medium in which a computer-readable program is stored,

wherein the program causes a computer to execute:

associating and storing any of functions of the mobile terminal device with a registered pattern formed from a plurality of adjacent segment areas over a touch panel in which one of the plurality of segment areas is adjacent to the other segment areas different in at least three directions;

recognizing the plurality of segment areas continuously touched by a user, as an input pattern; and

comparing the input pattern recognized in the recognizing of the pattern with the registered pattern stored in the storing of the pattern, and activating the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the input pattern matches the registered pattern.