ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20170160811A1
• Filed: 05/28/2015
• Published: 06/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: MASUIKE, Isao, TANABE, Shigeki, MORITA, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US15/313,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20170160811A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/00 Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 ; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• 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 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• 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 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/06 the calling signal being supplied from the subscriber's line circuit

Abstract

A control method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a control method for controlling an electronic device. The control method includes the steps of performing a notification on an event that occurs, detecting a response operation to the notification, outputting, when the response operation is a single-touch gesture, information on the event in a first method, and outputting, when the response operation is a multi-touch gesture, the information on the event in a second method. The control method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes causing a smartphone, for example, when the single-touch gesture is detected, to start making a call using a receiver. The control method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes causing the smartphone, for example, when a multi-touch gesture is detected, to start making a call using a speaker.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen configured to accept a single-touch gesture or a multi-touch gesture; and

a controller configured to cause a speaker or a display, upon occurrence of an event, to notify first information on the event that occurs, wherein,

when a predetermined multi-touch gesture is accepted by the touch screen during notification of the occurrence of the event or within a predetermined period of time since the notification of the occurrence,

the controller is configured to cause the speaker or the display to notify second information related to the event and different from the first information.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the event includes an incoming mail.

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

when receiving the mail,

the controller is configured to cause the speaker or the display to notify reception of the mail as the first information, and

when the predetermined multi-touch gesture is accepted during notification of the reception of the mail or within a predetermined period of time since the notification,

the controller is configured to cause the speaker to read aloud contents of the mail as voice.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein,

when a predetermined single-touch gesture is accepted by the touch screen during notification of the reception of the mail or within the predetermined period of time since the notification,

the controller is configured to cause the display to display the contents of the mail.

5. An electronic device comprising:

a touch screen configured to accept a single-touch gesture or a multi-touch gesture; and

a controller configured to control the touch screen so as to enable acceptance of the single-touch gesture and the multi-touch gesture when an incoming voice call occurs, wherein,

when a predetermined single-touch gesture is accepted by the touch screen during notification of the incoming voice call,

the controller is configured to respond to the incoming voice call, and

when a predetermined multi-touch gesture is accepted by the touch screen during notification of the incoming voice call,

the controller is configured to respond to the incoming voice call.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the controller is configured to respond to the incoming voice call irrespective of contact positions of the multi-touch gesture.

7. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined single-touch gesture is configured to include at least one of a contact start position, a route of a finger moving with continuous contact, and a contact release position, as a condition.

8. (canceled)

9. A control method for controlling an electronic device, the control method comprising the steps of:

performing a notification on an event that occurs;

detecting a response operation to the notification;

outputting, when the response operation is a single-touch gesture, information on the event in a first method; and

outputting, when the response operation is a multi-touch gesture, the information on the event in a second method.

10. (canceled)