Mobile terminal apparatus and method of starting application
AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorHiroshi MORITA
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Abstract
A mobile terminal apparatus includes: a display section; a touch panel section detecting a touch on a display area of the display section; a pattern detection section detecting a pattern input into a specific area of the touch panel section; a storage section storing a relationship between the pattern input into the touch panel section and an application to be started correspondingly to the pattern in an application table; and a control section determining an application corresponding to the pattern detected by the pattern detection section on the basis of the application table stored in the storage section and starting the determined application.
Claims5
A mobile terminal apparatus comprising:
- a display section;
- a touch panel section detecting a touch on a display area of the display section;
- a pattern detection section detecting a pattern input into a specific area of the touch panel section;
- a storage section storing a relationship between the pattern input into the touch panel section and an application to be started correspondingly to the pattern in an application table;
- and
- a control section determining an application corresponding to the pattern detected by the pattern detection section on the basis of the application table stored in the storage section and starting the determined application.
A method of starting an application, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting a pattern input into a specific area of a touch panel;
- storing a relationship between the pattern input into the touch panel and an application to be started correspondingly to the pattern in an application table;
- and
- determining an application corresponding to the pattern detected by the touch panel on the basis of the application table and starting the determined application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.