ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160124522A1
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sumitomo, Sotaro
• Application Number:
  US14/688,280
• Publication Number:
  US 20160124522A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to detect an inclination of the electronic device. The circuitry is configured to detect, as a basic position, a position of the electronic device assumed when a user performs a first operation. The circuitry is configured to release a lock on the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is a first inclination with respect to the basic position.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

circuitry configured to;

detect an inclination of the electronic device;

detect, as a basic position, a position of the electronic device assumed when a user performs a first operation; and

release a lock on the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is a first inclination with respect to the basic position.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is further configured to display a screen image prompting to incline the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is not the first inclination with respect to the basic position.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to detect the basic position in which the inclination of the electronic device assumed when the user performs the first operation is substantially zero.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to release the lock on the electronic device by inclining, with respect to the basic position, the electronic device leftward and rightward a first number of times.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to

perform execution determination processing of determining whether release determination processing to determine whether the lock on the electronic device should be released is to be performed, when the sensor detects that the electronic device is inclined by a first angle or more with respect to the basic position;

determine that the release determination processing should be performed, and perform the release determination processing, when the sensor detects that a position in which the electronic device is inclined by the first angle is returned to the basic position, and the basic position is kept for a first period; and

release the lock on the electronic device when a result of the release determination processing is indicative of that the lock should be released.

6. A method comprising:

detecting an inclination of an electronic device;

detecting, as a basic position, a position of the electronic device assumed when a user performs a first operation; and

releasing a lock on the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is a first inclination with respect to the basic position.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying a screen image that encourages the user to again incline the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is not the first inclination with respect to the basic position.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the detecting includes detecting the basic position in which the inclination of the electronic device assumed when the user performs the first operation is substantially zero.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the releasing includes releasing the lock on the electronic device by inclining, with respect to the basic position, the electronic device leftward and rightward a first number of times.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the releasing includes

performing execution determination processing of determining whether release determination processing to determine whether the lock on the electronic device should be released is to be performed, when the electronic device is detected to be inclined by a first angle or more with respect to the basic position;

determining that the release determination processing should be performed, and performing the release determination processing, when a position in which the electronic device is inclined by the first angle is returned to the basic position, and the basic position is kept for a first period; and

releasing the lock on the electronic device when a result of the release determination processing is indicative of that the lock should be released.

11. A computer-readable nonvolatile storage medium storing instructions executable by a computer, the instructions enabling the computer to perform

detecting an inclination of an electronic device;

detecting, as a basic position, a position of the electronic device assumed when a user performs a first operation; and

releasing a lock on the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is a first inclination with respect to the basic position.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, further storing an instruction for enabling the computer to display a screen image that encourages the user to again incline the electronic device when the inclination of the electronic device is not the first inclination with respect to the basic position.

13. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the detecting includes detecting the basic position in which the inclination of the electronic device assumed when the user performs the first operation is substantially zero.

14. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the releasing includes releasing the lock on the electronic device by inclining, with respect to the basic position, the electronic device leftward and rightward a first number of times.

15. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein the releasing includes

performing execution determination processing of determining whether release determination processing to determine whether the lock on the electronic device should be released is to be performed, when the electronic device is detected to be inclined by a first angle or more with respect to the basic position;

determining that the release determination processing should be performed, and performing the release determination processing, when a position in which the electronic device is inclined by the first angle is returned to the basic position, and the basic position is kept for a first period; and

releasing the lock on the electronic device when a result of the release determination processing is indicative of that the lock should be released.