MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20170097723A1
• Filed: 12/14/2016
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Shinya, Takahashi, Mamoru
• Granted Patent: US 10,156,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• 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

Abstract

A mobile electronic device comprises a display, an operation detector, and a processor. The operation detector is capable of detecting a first touch operation and a second touch operation on the display performed by a part of a human body. The processor is configured to execute a control process responsive to the first touch operation and the second touch operation. The part of the human body performing the second touch operation is located in a position farther from the display than a position of the part of the human body performing the first touch operation. The processor is configured to execute the control process while handling the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation, depending on a time lag between the first touch operation and the second touch operation.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a display;

an operation detector capable of detecting a first touch operation and a second touch operation on the display performed by a part of a human body; and

a processor configured to execute a control process responsive to the first touch operation and the second touch operation,

the part of the human body performing the second touch operation being located in a position farther from the display than a position of the part of the human body performing the first touch operation,

the processor being configured to execute the control process while handling the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation, depending on a time lag between the first touch operation and the second touch operation.

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

the processor is configured to handle the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation, depending on a time lag from the second touch operation to the first touch operation.

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

the processor is configured to handle the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation, depending on a time lag from when the second touch operation is completed to when the first touch operation is started.

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

when the first touch operation is detected while a first mode of detecting the first touch operation and the second touch operation is set as a detection mode, a second mode of not detecting the second touch operation is set as the detection mode.

5. A method of controlling a mobile electronic device, the mobile electronic device comprising a display and an operation detector capable of detecting a first touch operation and a second touch operation on the display performed by a part of a human body,

the part of the human body performing the second touch operation being located in a position farther from the display than a position of the part of the human body performing the first touch operation,

the method comprising:

detecting a time lag between the first touch operation and the second touch operation; and

executing a control process while handling the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation depending on the time lag.

6. A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a control program for controlling a mobile electronic device comprising a display and an operation detector capable of detecting a first touch operation and a second touch operation on the display performed by a part of a human body,

the part of the human body performing the second touch operation being located in a position farther from the display than a position of the part of the human body performing the first touch operation,

the control program causing the mobile electronic device to execute a control process while causing the mobile electronic device to handle the first touch operation and the second touch operation performed continuously as a single touch operation, depending on a time lag between the first touch operation and the second touch operation.