Electronic apparatus, control method of electronic apparatus, and control program of electronic apparatus

• US 10,268,365 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Ueno, Yasuhiro, Tanabe, Shigeki, Morita, Hideki, Masuike, Isao, Chiba, Atsuo, Ibuki, Daisuke, Tsuiki, Daisuke, Hashimoto, Sunao
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Nan-Ying
• Application Number:
  US15/024,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20160231922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,691 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• 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 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0293 having a sub-controller with a low clock frequency switching on and off a main controller with a high clock frequency
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An electronic apparatus that may be enabled by a user'"'"'s simple operation to a touch panel, a control method of the electronic apparatus, and a control program of the electronic apparatus are provided. An electronic apparatus includes a contact detector for detecting a contact, an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration, a display for displaying an image, and controllers for controlling, when the acceleration detector detects predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap and, within a predetermined period therefrom, the contact detector detects a contact caused by a second touch, to carry out an operation based on the contact.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch sensor configured to detect a contact;

an acceleration detector configured to detect acceleration;

a display configured to display an image; and

a controller configured to, in a state where the display is inactive,

when

(i) the acceleration detector detects predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap, and

(ii) within a predetermined period from the detection of the predetermined acceleration by the acceleration detector, the touch sensor is activated and detects a contact caused by a second touch,

activate the display to start displaying the image and carry out an operation based on the detected contact caused by the second touch,

wherein the controller is configured to

receive a record of the contact in response to the detection of the contact caused by the second touch,

erase the record of the contact, and

determine whether a further contact is detected by the touch sensor during a further predetermined period after the predetermined period.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller, based on the contact, is configured to execute corresponding application software.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller, based on the contact, is configured to change an operation mode of the electronic apparatus.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller, based on the contact, is configured to change a predetermined setting of the electronic apparatus.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out an operation based on at least one of a position, a mode, and the number of contacts.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller, when the touch sensor simultaneously detects contacts at a plurality of positions caused by the second touch, is configured to

determine the number of the contacts, and

carry out an operation based on the number of the contacts.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out an operation based on the number of times the acceleration detector detects the predetermined acceleration.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a main controller configured to control the acceleration detector,

wherein the touch sensor is configured to receive no power before activation of the main controller in response to the acceleration detector detecting the predetermined acceleration caused by the first tap.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to,

when (i) the acceleration detector detects the predetermined acceleration caused by the first tap, and (ii) within the predetermined period from the detection of the predetermined acceleration by the acceleration detector, the touch sensor is activated and detects the contact caused by the second touch and a type of the second touch,

carry out an operation based on the detected contact caused by the second touch.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the operation based on the contact in response to a final touch regardless of number of touches.

8. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus having a touch sensor for detecting a contact, an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration, and a display for displaying an image, said method comprising:

a contact detection step of detecting a contact by the touch sensor;

an acceleration detection step of detecting acceleration by the acceleration detector;

a display step of displaying an image by the display; and

a control step of,

when

(i) predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap is detected at the acceleration detection step, and

(ii) within a predetermined period from the detection of the predetermined acceleration by the acceleration detector, the touch sensor is activated and detects a contact caused by a second touch at the contact detection step,

carrying out an operation based on the detected contact caused by the second touch,

wherein the control step further includes

receiving a record of the contact in response to the detection of the contact caused by the second touch,

erasing the record of the contact, and

determining whether a further contact is detected by the touch sensor during a further predetermined period after the predetermined period.

9. A non-transitory storage medium storing a control program for causing an electronic apparatus having a touch sensor for detecting a contact, an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration, and a display for displaying an image to execute a contact detection step of detecting a contact by the touch sensor;

an acceleration detection step of detecting acceleration by the acceleration detector;

a display step of displaying an image by the display; and

a control step of, in a state where the display is inactive,

when

(i) the acceleration detector detects predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap, and

(ii) within a predetermined period from the detection of the predetermined acceleration by the acceleration detector, the touch sensor is activated and detects a contact caused by a second touch,

activating the display to start displaying the image and carrying out an operation based on the detected contact caused by the second touch,

wherein the control step further includes

receiving a record of the contact in response to the detection of the contact caused by the second touch,

erasing the record of the contact, and

determining whether a further contact is detected by the touch sensor during a further predetermined period after the predetermined period.