# US 10,120,559 B2 · Portable terminal and determination time setting method

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- Number: US 10,120,559 B2
- Document ID: US10120559B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/969,790
- Filed: 2015-12-15
- Published: 2016-04-14
- Granted: 2018-11-06
- Earliest claimed: 2013-06-25
- Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation
- Applicants: Kyocera Corporation
- Inventors: Yujiro Fukui
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120559B2

## CPC

- G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
- G06F 3/04817: using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34)
- G06F 3/04847: Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
- G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
- G06F 21/74: operating in dual or compartmented mode, i.e. at least one secure mode
- H04M 1/67: by electronic means
- H04W 12/08: Access security
- G06F 2203/04808: Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
- G06F 2221/2147: Locking files
- G06F 2221/2151: Time stamp
- H04M 2250/22: including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A portable terminal comprises a display, a touch unit located on a surface of the display and at least one processor. The processor is configured to set a lock state to restrict an execution of a predetermined processing based on a touch operation. The processor is configured to display a lock screen on the display to unlock the lock state with a touch operation on the touch unit when the lock state is set. The processor is configured to detect the touch operation to unlock the lock state on the lock screen. The processor is configured to measure a touch time in the touch operation when the touch operation to unlock the lock state is detected. The processor is configured to set a determination time of a long-press operation in accordance with the touch time.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A portable terminal, comprising:
a display;
a touch unit configured to detect touch operations on the display; and
at least one processor configured to set a lock state to restrict an execution of a predetermined processing based on a touch operation, configured to display a lock screen on the display to unlock the lock state with a touch operation on the touch unit when the lock state is set, configured to detect the touch operation to unlock the lock state on the lock screen, configured to measure a touch time in the touch operation when the touch operation to unlock the lock state is detected, and configured to set a determination time of a long-press operation based on an average time of a plurality of touch times of a plurality of respective measured touch operations, wherein the determination time is calculated by adding a predetermined time value to the average time, and wherein the determination time does not depend on a touch time in a touch operation other than the measured touch operations to unlock the lock state.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein
the portable terminal further comprises a storage configured to store the plurality of touch times measured by the processor and
the processor configured to calculate the average time of the plurality of touch times stored in the storage, and configured to set the determination time of the long-press operation in accordance with the average time.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The portable terminal according to claim 2, wherein
when the touch time measured by the processor is longer than a predetermined time, the touch time is not stored in the storage.

### Claim 4

A determination time setting method in a portable terminal provided with a processor, a display and a touch unit configured to detect touch operations on the display, the method comprising:
setting a lock state to restrict an execution of a predetermined processing based on a touch operation;
displaying a lock screen on the display to unlock the lock state with a touch operation on the touch unit when the lock state is set;
detecting the touch operation to unlock the lock state on the lock screen;
measuring a touch time in the touch operation when the touch operation to unlock the lock state is detected in the detection step; and
setting a determination time of a long-press operation based at least in part on the measured touch time measured in the measuring step, wherein the set determination time and an average value calculated from the measured touch time and at least one previously measured touch time have a positive correlation wherein the determination time does not depend on a touch time in a touch operation other than measured touch operations to unlock the lock state.