Device, method, and storage medium storing program

• US 9,323,444 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2012
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nishio, Sanae
• Primary Examiner(s): Olson, Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): SUBEDI, DEEPROSE D
• Application Number:
  US13/727,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen. When a gesture to change a distance between a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display is detected during display of the lock screen in a locked state, the controller for releases the locked state.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a touch screen display configured to display

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state; and

a controller configured to,

when a multi-touch gesture comprising a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changing a distance between the first touch and the second touch is detected during display of the lock screen in the locked state,

release the locked state and change from said locked state to the unlocked state, wherein the controller is configured to perform a continuous change from the locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display is configured to display an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch closer to a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, the controller is configured to release the locked state to execute the application associated with the object.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture in which at least one of (i) a distance between the first touch and the position where the object is arranged and (ii) a distance between the second touch and the position where the object is arranged is changed to a distance shorter than a threshold.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to, during said multi-touch gesture,

in response to a first direction in which at least one of the first touch and the second touch moves with respect to the object and closer to the other of the first touch and the second touch,

execute a first function of the application associated with the object, and

in response to a second direction in which at least one of the first touch and the second touch moves with respect to the object and closer to the other of the first touch and the second touch,

execute a second function of the application associated with the object,

the first direction is different from the second direction, and

the first function is different from the second function.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to release the locked state in response to the detected multi-touch gesture and without further user operation on the touch screen display.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein

the device has no other state during the continuous change between

the locked state in which gestures other than the multi-touch gesture and a predetermined gesture are not accepted through the touch screen display, and

the unlocked state in which another screen is displayed.

12. The device according to claim 1, wherein the multi-touch gesture includes the first touch and the second touch in a same time domain.

4. A device, comprising:

a touch screen display configured to display

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state; and

a controller configured to,

when a multi-touch gesture comprising a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changing a distance between the first touch and the second touch is detected during display of the lock screen in the locked state,

release the locked state and change from said locked state to the unlocked state, wherein the controller is configured to perform a continuous change from the locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display is configured to display an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch away from the other and further away from a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, the controller is configured to release the locked state to execute the application associated with the object.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture in which at least one of (i) a distance between the first touch and the position where the object is arranged and (ii) a distance between the second touch and the position where the object is arranged is changed to a distance longer than a threshold.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein

the controller is configured to, during said multi-touch gesture,

in response to a first direction in which at least one of the first touch and the second touch moves with respect to the object and further away from the other of the first touch and the second touch,

execute a first function of the application associated with the object, and

in response to a second direction in which at least one of the first touch and the second touch moves with respect to the object and further away from the other of the first touch and the second touch,

execute a second function of the application associated with the object,

the first direction is different from the second direction, and

the first function is different from the second function.

7. A method of controlling a device with a touch screen display, the method comprising:

displaying, on the touch screen display,

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state;

detecting a multi-touch gesture, which comprises a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changes a distance between the first touch and the second touch, during display of the lock screen in the locked state; and

upon the detecting the multi-touch gesture, releasing the locked state and performing a continuous change from said locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display displays an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch closer to a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, said releasing the locked state is performed and the application associated with the object is executed.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the detected multi-touch gesture alone is sufficient to cause said releasing the locked state.

8. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a program for causing, when executed by a device with a touch screen display, the device to execute:

displaying, on the touch screen display,

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state;

detecting a multi-touch gesture, which comprises a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changes a distance between the first touch and the second touch, during display of the lock screen in the locked state; and

upon the detecting the multi-touch gesture, releasing the locked state and performing a continuous change from said locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display displays an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch closer to a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, said releasing the locked state is performed and the application associated with the object is executed.

13. A method of controlling a device with a touch screen display, the method comprising:

displaying, on the touch screen display,

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state;

detecting a multi-touch gesture, which comprises a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changes a distance between the first touch and the second touch, during display of the lock screen in the locked state; and

upon the detecting the multi-touch gesture, releasing the locked state and performing a continuous change from said locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display displays an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch away from the other and further away from a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, said releasing the locked state is performed and the application associated with the object is executed.

14. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a program for causing, when executed by a device with a touch screen display, the device to execute:

displaying, on the touch screen display,

a lock screen in a locked state, and

another screen in an unlocked state;

detecting a multi-touch gesture, which comprises a first touch and a second touch on the touch screen display and changes a distance between the first touch and the second touch, during display of the lock screen in the locked state; and

upon the detecting the multi-touch gesture, releasing the locked state and performing a continuous change from said locked state to the unlocked state without stopping said change,

wherein

the touch screen display displays an object arranged on the lock screen, the object being associated with an application,

the multi-touch gesture is a gesture to move at least one of the first touch and the second touch away from the other and further away from a position where the object is arranged is detected, and

when the multi-touch gesture is detected, said releasing the locked state is performed and the application associated with the object is executed.