ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20160231922A1
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: CHIBA, Atsuo, TSUIKI, Daisuke, HASHIMOTO, Sunao, UENO, Yasuhiro, TANABE, Shigeki, MORITA, Hideki, MASUIKE, Isao, IBUKI, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 10,268,365 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 contact detector for detecting a contact;

an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration;

a display for displaying an image; and

a controller 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.

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

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

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

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls 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 contact detector simultaneously detects contacts at a plurality of positions caused by the second touch, determines the number of the contacts and controls to carry out an operation based on the number of the contacts.

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

8. A control method of an electronic apparatus comprising:

a contact detection step of detecting a contact;

an acceleration detection step of detecting acceleration;

a display step of displaying an image; and

a control step of controlling, when predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap is detected at the acceleration detection step and, within a predetermined period therefrom, a contact caused by a second touch is detected at the contact detection step, to carry out an operation based on the contact.

9. A control program of an electronic apparatus having a contact detector for detecting a contact, an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration, and a display for displaying an image, wherein

the control program controls, 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.