METHOD OF UNLOCKING TOUCH SCREEN AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME

• US 20130326395A1
• Filed: 08/17/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: OH, Yoon Seok, Sim, Sang Hyun, Seo, Bo Yle, Kim, Ji Hoon
• Application Number:
  US13/588,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

There are provided a method of unlocking a touch screen and an electronic device using the same. The electronic device includes: a display displaying a locked screen image in a screen locked state; a touch screen to which a touch is input; and a controlling unit unlocking the screen locked state when a first touch event continued for a first preset time or longer in the screen locked state and a second touch event generated within a second preset time after the first touch event has ended are sensed.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display displaying a locked screen image in a screen locked state;

a touch screen to which a touch is input; and

a controlling unit unlocking the screen locked state when a first touch event continued for a first preset time or longer in the screen locked state and a second touch event generated within a second preset time after the first touch event has ended are sensed.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first touch event is a tap input, and

the second touch event is one of a tap input, a drag, and a flick.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit performs a control to generate vibrations or a sound in the electronic device when the first touch event is continued for the first preset time or longer.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit performs a control so that a preset event screen corresponding to each second touch event is displayed on display when the second touch event is one of a drag and a flick.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit performs a control so that a preset application corresponding to each second touch event is executed when the second touch event is one of a drag and a flick.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the locked screen image includes an unlockable region, and

the controlling unit unlocks the screen locked state when the first touch event and the second touch event are generated in the unlockable region.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the unlockable region includes a first unlockable region and a second unlockable region, and

the controlling unit unlocks the screen locked state when the first touch event is generated in the first unlockable region and the second touch event is generated in the second unlockable region.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the controlling unit controls the display so that the unlockable region is displayed in the locked screen image.

9. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the controlling unit controls the display so that the first unlockable region and the second unlockable region are displayed in the locked screen image.

10. A method of unlocking a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying a locked screen image on a display in a screen locked state;

sensing a touch event in the screen locked state; and

unlocking the screen locked state when the touch event includes a first touch event continued for a first preset time or longer and a second touch event generated within a second preset time after the first touch event has ended.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first touch event is a tap input, and

the second touch event is one of a tap input, a drag, and a flick.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating vibrations or a sound in an electronic device including the touch screen when the first touch event is continued for the first preset time or longer.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising displaying a preset event screen corresponding to each second touch event on the display when the second touch event is one of a drag and a flick.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising executing a preset application corresponding to each second touch event when the second touch event is one of a drag and a flick.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the locked screen image includes an unlockable region, and

in the unlocking of the screen locked state, the screen locked state is unlocked when the first touch event and the second touch event are generated in the unlockable region.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the unlockable region includes a first unlockable region and a second unlockable region, and

in the unlocking of the screen locked state, the screen locked state is unlocked when the first touch event is generated in the first unlockable region and the second touch event is generated in the second unlockable region.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising displaying the unlockable region in the locked screen image.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying the first unlockable region and the second unlockable region in the locked screen image.