MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150363100A1
• Filed: 08/26/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: MIYASHITA, Tsuneo, ISHIZUKA, Yuka, AJIMA, Hiromi, ABE, Motoaki, TAMEGAI, Atsushi, BAMBA, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/835,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20150363100A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

In one aspect, when detecting an event such as receiving emails, missed calls, a schedule notification, or the like, a mobile electronic device executes a process for expanding a first operation part associated with the event on a display module and displaying a second operation part indicating a detail of the event within the expanded first operation part. For example, upon detecting an operation applied onto the first operation part via the touch screen, the mobile electronic device executes a process associated with the first operation part, and upon detecting an operation applied onto the second operation part, the mobile electronic device executes a process associated with the second operation part.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a display module; and

a control module, upon detecting an event, configured to cause the display module to expand a first object associated with the event and display a second object indicating a detail of the event within the first object.

2. The mobile electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control module executes a process associated with the first object when an operation is applied onto the first object, and

the control module executes a process associated with the second object when an operation is applied onto the second object.

3. The mobile electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control module cancels expanding the first object upon detecting an operation applied onto an area among display areas, which is other than areas where the first object and the second object are being displayed.

4. The mobile electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control module cancels expanding the first object upon detecting a predetermined touch gesture.

5. A method of control performed by a mobile electronic device with a display module, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting an event; and

expanding a first object associated with the detected event on the display module and displaying a second object indicating a detail of the event within the first object.

6. A computer program product having computer instructions, stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for enabling a computer of a mobile electronic device with a display module executing the computer instructions to perform operations comprising:

detecting an event; and

expanding a first object associated with the detected event on the display module and displaying a second object indicating a detail of the event within the first object.