Mobile terminal and locked state cancelling method

• US 8,913,990 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2013
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nakao, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddiqui, Kashif
• Application Number:
  US13/958,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20130324080A1
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 455410-411, 4554141-4142, 455/466, 455/550.1, 455/566, 715/741, 715/764, 715/773, 715/780, 715/833, 715863-864, 345156-158
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

A mobile phone apparatus is provided with an accelerometer for detecting an attitude and a display for displaying a moving object. Furthermore, a key locked state is set to the mobile phone apparatus for the purpose of preventing an operating error in the key. When an arbitrary key is operated in the key locked state, the moving object and a pocket object representing a predetermined area, etc. are displayed on the display. Then, when the moving object changes in position in correspondence with the change of the attitude of the mobile phone apparatus and is put into the pocket object, the key locked state is cancelled.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal capable of setting a locked state, the mobile terminal comprising:

a detector operable to detect one or more changes in an angle of the mobile terminal;

a canceller operable to cancel the locked state based on the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal; and

a displayer operable to display a movable object in a display area on a display of the mobile terminal, and change a position of the movable object relative to the display area in response to the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal;

wherein canceling the locked state based on the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal comprises

determining if one or more positions of the movable object relative to the display area, resulting from the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal, satisfy a predetermined cancellation condition, and,

if it is determined that the one or more positions of the movable object satisfy the predetermined cancellation condition, canceling the locked state.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the detector comprises an accelerometer which outputs acceleration data of the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the acceleration data comprises values for three axes, and wherein the detector detects the one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal by utilizing an inverse trigonometric function of the values for the three axes.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal comprise a change from a first angle at which a lock screen is initially displayed by the mobile terminal to a second angle which is different than the first angle.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the displayer changes the position of the movable object to represent a center of gravity of the movable object resulting from the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined cancellation condition comprises a position within a predetermined portion of the display area.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined cancellation condition comprises a path in the display area.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the displayer is operable to, when the locked state is canceled, display a standby screen.

9. A method of canceling a locked state, the method comprising, using at least one hardware processor of a mobile terminal to:

display a movable object in a display area on a display of the mobile terminal;

detect one or more changes in an angle of the mobile terminal;

change a position of the movable object relative to the display area in response to the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal; and

cancel the locked state based on the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal by

determining if one or more positions of the movable object relative to the display area, resulting from the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal, satisfy a predetermined cancellation condition, and,

if it is determined that the one or more positions of the movable object satisfy the predetermined cancellation condition, canceling the locked state.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein detecting one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal comprises receiving acceleration data from an accelerometer of the mobile terminal.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the acceleration data comprises values for three axes, and wherein detecting one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal further comprises utilizing an inverse trigonometric function of the values for the three axes.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal comprise a change from a first angle at which a lock screen is initially displayed by the mobile terminal to a second angle which is different than the first angle.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein changing a position of the movable object relative to the display area comprises changing the position of the movable object to represent a center of gravity of the movable object resulting from the detected one or more changes in the angle of the mobile terminal.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined cancellation condition comprises a position within a predetermined portion of the display area.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined cancellation condition comprises a path in the display area.

16. The method according to claim 9, further comprising, when the locked state is canceled, displaying a standby screen.