PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150309602A1
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: KATAYAMA, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 9,710,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A portable electronic device provided with a detection section for detecting a contact pattern of a contact object to a housing; a storage section capable of storing an operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in association with each other; a judgment section for judging whether or not a contact pattern corresponding to the detected contact pattern has been stored in the storage section; a control section for controlling the portable electronic device to enter the operating state associated with the contact pattern and stored in the storage section when the corresponding contact pattern is judged to have been stored in the storage section; and a learning section for storing in the storage section the detected contact pattern and an operating state of the portable electronic device executed by a user when or immediately after the contact pattern is detected in association with each other.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A portable electronic device comprising:

a detection section for detecting a contact pattern of a contact object to a housing;

a storage section capable of storing an operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in association with each other;

a judgment section for judging whether or not a contact pattern corresponding to the contact pattern detected by the detection section has been stored in the storage section;

a control section for controlling the portable electronic device to enter the operating state associated with the contact pattern and stored in the storage section when the judgment section judges that the corresponding contact pattern has been stored in the storage section; and

a learning section for storing, in the storage section, the contact pattern detected by the detection section and an operating state of the portable electronic device executed by a user when or immediately after the contact pattern is detected in association with each other.

12. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the storage section stores the operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in association with each other in advance.

13. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the judgment section makes the judgment when the contact pattern stored in the storage section exceeds predetermined accuracy.

14. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the operating state is related to an application activated in the portable electronic device.

15. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the operating state is related to an application serving as an activation target in the portable electronic device.

16. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the operating state is related to a scrolling event.

17. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the operating state is related to a pinch-in or pinch-out event.

18. The portable electronic device according to claim 11, wherein the operating state is related to a flick event.

19. A method for controlling a portable electronic device comprising:

a detection step of detecting a contact pattern of a contact object to a housing;

a storage step capable of storing an operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in a storage section in association with each other;

a judgment step of judging whether or not a contact pattern corresponding to the contact pattern detected in the detection step has been stored in the storage section;

a control step of controlling the portable electronic device to enter the operating state associated with the contact pattern and stored in the storage section when the corresponding contact pattern is judged to have been stored in the storage section in the judgment step; and

a learning step of storing, in the storage section, the contact pattern detected in the detection step and an operating state of the portable electronic device executed by a user when or immediately after the contact pattern is detected in association with each other.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon that is executable by a computer of a portable electronic device to actualize functions comprising:

a detection section for detecting a contact pattern of a contact object to a housing;

a storage section capable of storing an operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in association with each other;

a judgment section for judging whether or not a contact pattern corresponding to the contact pattern detected by the detection section has been stored in the storage section;

a control section for controlling the portable electronic device to enter the operating state associated with the contact pattern and stored in the storage section when the judgment section judges that the corresponding contact pattern has been stored in the storage section; and

a learning section for storing, in the storage section, the contact pattern detected by the detection section and an operating state of the portable electronic device executed by a user when or immediately after the contact pattern is detected in association with each other.