Lock control method and electronic device thereof

• US 9,589,126 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2015
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Gajewski, Michal Lukasz
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chaudhry, Muhammad
• Application Number:
  US14/680,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20150286814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation

Abstract

An electronic device having a lockscreen and a method implementing said lockscreen are disclosed herein, the electronic device including a display, a memory, and one or more processors configured to execute the method, the method including displaying a lockscreen pattern on the display including movable points repositionable in response to a drag input, and fixed points that are stationary, detecting drag inputs moving the movable points within the lockscreen pattern, and unlocking the electronic device if the detected drag inputs moving the movable points matches a pre-specified unlock condition stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A method for a lockscreen in an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a lockscreen pattern including a plurality of points including at least one movable points repositionable in response to a drag input, and at least one fixed point that is stationary, wherein each of the plurality of points is spaced from another adjacent point in the plurality of points by a predetermined distance on the lockscreen pattern;

detecting drag inputs moving a movable point within the lockscreen pattern;

in response to detecting drag inputs moving the movable point, displaying folding of the displayed lockscreen pattern based on the moving of the movable points;

in response to displaying folding of the displayed lockscreen pattern, changing an arrangement of at least one point included in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern based on a folded area;

determine whether the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point is matched with a pre-specified unlock condition; and

unlocking the electronic device when the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point is matched with the pre-specified unlock condition.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the drag inputs are executed responsive to a multi-touch input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition includes pre-specified coordinates of the fixed points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition further includes pre-specified coordinates of the movable points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the folded area is determined based on an initial coordinate of a particular moveable point and a direction in which the particular movable point is moved by the drag input.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein changing the arrangement of the at least one point included in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern comprising displaying at least one new movable point on the folded displayed lockscreen pattern.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one new movable point is disposed along an axis of a fold of the folded displayed lockscreen pattern.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one new movable point is displayed by converting at least one fixed point into the at least one new movable point.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition further comprises pre-specified coordinates of the fixed points with the movable points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.

10. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

a memory; and

one or more processors configured to execute operations of;

controlling the display to display a lockscreen pattern including a plurality of points including at least one movable points repositionable in response to a drag input, and fixed points that are stationary, wherein each of the plurality of points is spaced from another adjacent point in the plurality of points by a predetermined distance on the lockscreen pattern;

detecting drag inputs moving a movable point within the lockscreen pattern;

in response to detecting drag inputs moving the movable point, displaying folding of the displayed lockscreen pattern based on the moving of the movable points;

in response to displaying folding of the displayed lockscreen pattern, changing an arrangement of at least one point included in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern based on a folded area;

determine whether the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point is matched with a pre-specified unlock condition; and

unlocking the electronic device when the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point is matched with the pre-specified unlock condition stored in the memory.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the drag inputs are executed responsive to a multi-touch input.

12. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition includes pre-specified coordinates of the fixed points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition further includes pre-specified coordinates of the movable points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.

14. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the folded area is determined based on an initial coordinate of a particular moveable point and a direction in which the particular movable point is moved by the drag input.

15. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein changing the arrangement of the at least one point included in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern the operations further including displaying at least one new movable point on the folded displayed lockscreen pattern.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the at least one new movable point is disposed along an axis of a fold of the folded displayed lockscreen pattern.

17. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the at least one new movable point is displayed by converting at least one fixed point into the at least one new movable point.

18. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the pre-specified unlock condition further comprises pre-specified coordinates of the fixed points with the movable points in the folded displayed lockscreen pattern that changed the arrangement of the at least one point.