Mobile electronic device, method of controlling mobile electronic device, and recording medium

• US 10,156,932 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2016
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Shinya, Takahashi, Mamoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, William
• Application Number:
  US15/379,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20170097723A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 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 an operation on the display performed by a part of a human body; and

a processor, wherein the operation detector outputs a first detection signal when the part of the human body is located between a first position and a second position closer to the display than to the first position, and then outputs a second detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the first position,

the operation detector outputs the second detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position after the outputting of the first detection signal, then outputs a third detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position, and then outputs a fourth detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the second position, and

the processor is configured to;

perform a first process corresponding to the first detection signal when the operation detector outputs the first detection signal;

perform a second process corresponding to the second detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and does not output the third detection signal within a first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal;

perform neither the second process nor a third process corresponding to the third detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and outputs the third detection signal within the first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal; and

perform a fourth process corresponding to the fourth detection signal when the operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal.

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

the operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal when the part of the human body is located between the first position and the second position after the outputting of the third detection signal, then outputs the first detection signal when the part of the human body is located between the first position and the second position, and then outputs the second detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the first position, and the processor:

performs the fourth process, when the operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal following the outputting of the third detection signal and does not output the first detection signal within a second length of time from the outputting of the fourth detection signal; and

performs neither the first process nor the fourth process, when the operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal following the outputting of the third detection signal and outputs the first detection signal within the second length of time from the outputting of the fourth detection signal.

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

a detection mode of the mobile electronic device includes a first mode in which the operation detector outputs the first to fourth detection signals, and a second mode in which the operation detector outputs the third and fourth detection signals without outputting the first and second detection signals, and

when the operation detector outputs the third detection signal while the first mode is set as the detection mode, the second mode is set as the detection mode.

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

wherein the operation detector outputs a first detection signal when the part of the human body is located between a first position and a second position closer to the display than to the first position, and then outputs a second detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the first position, and

the operation detector outputs the second detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position after the outputting of the first detection signal, then outputs a third detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position, and then outputs a fourth detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the second position,

the method comprising:

performing a first process corresponding to the first detection signal when the operation detector outputs the first detection signal;

performing a second process corresponding to the second detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and does not output the third detection signal within a first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal;

performing neither the second process nor a third process corresponding to the third detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and outputs the third detection signal within the first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal; and

performing a fourth process corresponding to the fourth detection signal when operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal.

5. 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 an operation on the display performed by a part of a human body,

wherein the operation detector outputs a first detection signal when the part of the human body is located between a first position and a second position closer to the display than to the first position, and then outputs a second detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the first position, and

the operation detector outputs the second detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position after the outputting of the first detection signal, then outputs a third detection signal when the part of the human body is located closer to the display than to the second position, and then outputs a fourth detection signal when the part of the human body is located farther from the display than the second position,

the control program causing the mobile electronic device to:

perform a first process corresponding to the first detection signal when the operation detector outputs the first detection signal;

perform a second process corresponding to the second detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and does not output the third detection signal within a first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal;

perform neither the second process nor a third process corresponding to the third detection signal, when the operation detector outputs the second detection signal following the outputting of the first detection signal and outputs the third detection signal within the first length of time from the outputting of the second detection signal; and

perform a fourth process corresponding to the fourth detection signal when the operation detector outputs the fourth detection signal.