Portable terminal and lock state canceling method

• US 9,398,463 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2015
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tamai, Naoyuki, Kobayashi, Hiroki, Ozako, Shinpei
• Primary Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US14/842,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.1, 455/550.1, 455/566, 455/575.1, 455 901- 903, 455/422.1, 455/403, 455/426.2, 379/428.1, 379/428, 379/3, 379/433.01, 379/433.04, 379/445, 345/173, 715/702, 715/863, 715/864, 715/784
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

A mobile phone (10) includes a touch panel (38) and a touch control circuit (36) detecting a touch operation, and can set a lock state that a telephone function or the like is restricted. If the lock state is set and a key operation is performed, a message urging to long-depress a touch is displayed on a display (30), and when the touch is detected, a changing object representing an elapse of time is displayed on the display (30). If five (5) seconds elapse in a touched state, a completion image is displayed on the display (30). Then, if a finger is released from the touch panel (38) within three (3) seconds after the completion image is displayed, the lock state is canceled.

Claims

1. A portable terminal comprising:

a touch panel configured to detect a touch thereon;

a display configured to display a line that indicates a lock state; and

at least one processor configured to

determine whether or not motion of a touch detected by the touch panel is a predefined touch operation, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches the line, and wherein the display is further configured to change only a portion of the line to a second object that is different than that portion of the line after the motion of the touch detected by the touch panel reaches the line, and

cancel the lock state after the motion of the touch is determined to be the predefined touch operation.

2. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second object is a break in the line.

3. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to cancel the lock state after deleting the second object on the display.

4. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches and intersects the portion of the line.

5. A method for controlling a portable terminal, the method comprising:

during a lock state,

displaying a line that indicates the lock state,

detecting a touch on a touch panel, and

determining whether or not a motion of the touch is a predefined touch operation, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches the line;

after the motion of the touch reaches the line, changing only a portion of the line to a second object that is different than that portion of the line; and

,

after the motion of the touch is determined to be the predefined touch operation, canceling the lock state.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the second object is a break in the line.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising, after the motion of the touch is determined to be the predefined touch operation, deleting the second object before canceling the lock state.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches and intersects the portion of the line.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

during a lock state,

display a line that indicates the lock state,

detect a touch on a touch panel, and

determine whether or not a motion of the touch is a predefined touch operation, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches the line;

after the motion of the touch reaches the line, change only a portion of the line to a second object that is different than that portion of the line; and

,

after the motion of the touch is determined to be the predefined touch operation, cancel the lock state.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the second object is a break in the line.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, further causes to the processor to, after the motion of the touch is determined to be the predefined touch operation, delete the second object before canceling the lock state.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the predefined touch operation comprises a motion that reaches and intersects the portion of the line.