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US 12,730,642 B2Granted
Electronic apparatus and method of providing pre-unlock to user
OwnerSeungman Kiminventor
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Abstract
A mobile device includes a network unit to communicate with an external device, a sensor to sense an event of the mobile device, a panel to display a menu and to receive a user input, and a control unit to perform a pre-unlock process to pre-unlock the mobile device to a pre-unlock mode from a power saving mode, and to perform an unlock process to unlock the mobile device to a normal mode from the pre-unlock mode.
Claims20
A mobile device comprising:
- a network unit to communicate with an external device;
- a sensor to sense a first event during a power saving mode, and to sense a second event during a pre-unlock mode, wherein the first event is a lower version of an unlock method, and the second event is a full version of the unlock method;
- a panel to display a menu and to receive a user input;
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- a control unit to unlock the mobile device from the power saving mode to a normal mode according to a password input through the panel, to perform a pre-unlock process in response to the first event to pre-unlock the mobile device from the power saving mode to the pre-unlock mode, and to perform an unlock process in response to the second event to unlock the mobile device from the pre-unlock mode to the normal mode.
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