Portable electronic device adapted to change operation mode
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDong-Kyun KIM, Joon-Suh KIM, Gee-Hong YOON
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Abstract
A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This method intuitively changes the mode based on a rotation of the device without requiring a complicated and unnecessary key input, and provides a more convenient and faster user interface.
Claims15
A portable electronic device adapted to change an operation mode, comprising:
- an operation mode identifier display unit to display an operation mode identifier which stands erect according to a rotation of the portable electronic device;
- a sensor unit to detect a rotation of the portable electronic device;
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- a control unit to switch to an operation mode corresponding to the operation mode identifier which stands erect according to an angle of the rotation of the portable electronic device when a rotation of the portable electronic device has been detected by the sensor unit.
A portable electronic device, comprising:
- a display unit;
- a first icon disposed at a first side of the display unit, the first icon corresponding to a first operation mode;
- a second icon disposed at a second side of the display unit, the second icon corresponding to a second operation mode;
- a sensor unit to detect a rotation of the portable electronic device;
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- a control unit to switch the portable electronic device from the first operation mode to the second operation mode when a first angle between a reference line and a first line intersecting the first icon is greater than a second angle between the reference line and a second line intersecting the second icon,
- wherein the display unit displays a graphic user interface corresponding to the second operation mode in response to the control unit switching the portable electronic device to the second operation mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.