Mobile terminal and function control method thereof
AssigneeLenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
InventorYasuhiro Yonemochi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a function control method thereof that can appropriately set or release an operation mode in accordance with a situation of a user. A mobile terminal includes an opening/closing sensor 18 that detects whether the mobile terminal is in an opened state or a closed state, an acceleration sensor 11 that detects acceleration and a posture of the mobile terminal, and a control unit 12 that restricts an execution of a specific function in accordance with the detection result of the opening/closing sensor 18 and releases a restriction of at least a portion of the restricted specific function in accordance with the detection result of the acceleration sensor 11.
Claims9
A mobile terminal that takes at least two forms of a utilization state and a non-utilization state, comprising:
- a state detecting unit that detects whether the mobile terminal is in the non-utilization state;
- an acceleration sensor;
- a posture detecting unit that detects a posture of the mobile terminal;
- a restricting unit that restricts an execution of a specific function in accordance with the detection result of the state detecting unit;
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- a restriction releasing unit that releases a restriction of at least a portion of the specific function restricted by the restricting unit, in accordance with the detection results of the acceleration sensor and the posture detecting unit.
A function control method of a mobile terminal, comprising:
- a state detecting step of detecting whether the mobile terminal is in a utilization state or a non-utilization state;
- an acceleration detecting step of detecting acceleration applied to the mobile terminal;
- a posture detecting step of detecting a posture of the mobile terminal;
- a restricting step of restricting an execution of a specific function, in accordance with the detection result in the state detecting step;
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- a restriction releasing step of releasing a restriction of at least a portion of the specific function restricted in the restricting step, in accordance with the detection results in the acceleration detecting step and the posture detecting step.
A mobile terminal that takes at least two forms of a utilization state and a non-utilization state, comprising:
- state detecting means for detecting whether the mobile terminal is in the non-utilization state;
- an acceleration sensor;
- posture detecting means for detecting a posture of the mobile terminal;
- restricting means for restricting an execution of a specific function in accordance with the detection result of the state detecting means;
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- restriction releasing means for releasing a restriction of at least a portion of the specific function restricted by the restricting means, in accordance with the detection results of the acceleration sensor and the posture detecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.