Method for controlling electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus applying the method
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsAbhishek SAXENA, Chia-Wei CHEN, Hsin-Hao LEE, Ssu-Po CHIN
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Abstract
A method for controlling an electronic apparatus with a display and an input device, which comprises: sensing a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus in a sleep mode, wherein the display is off and the input device is non-active in the sleep mode; activating the input device without turning on the display based on the tilt angle of the electronic apparatus; receiving a user input from the input device while the display is off; and performing a predetermined function based on the user input.
Claims20
A method for controlling an electronic apparatus with a display and a hardware button, comprising:
- sensing a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus in a sleep mode, wherein the display is off and the hardware button is non-active in the sleep mode;
- activating the hardware button without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, wherein the hardware button is not activated if the tile angle does not fall in the predetermined angle range;
- receiving a user input from the hardware button while the display is off, and
- performing a camera function based on the user input;
- wherein the hardware button is applied to trigger the camera function while the display is off and applied to trigger another function rather than the camera function while the display is turned on.
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a display;
- a hardware button, wherein the display is off and the hardware button is non-active in the sleep mode;
- a processing module connected to the display, the hardware button, and configured to:
- activate the hardware button without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, wherein the hardware button is not activated if the tile angle does not fall in the predetermined angle range;
- receive a user input from the hardware button while the display is off;
- and
- control the electronic apparatus to perform a camera function based on the user input;
- wherein the hardware button is applied to trigger the camera function while the display is off and applied to trigger another function rather than the camera function while the display is turned on.
A non-transient computer-readable medium, recording a program, and the program being loaded to an electronic apparatus to execute following steps:
- sensing a tilt angle of the electronic apparatus in a sleep mode, wherein the display is off and the hardware button is non-active in the sleep mode;
- activating the hardware button without turning on the display if the tilt angle falls in a predetermined angle range, wherein the hardware button is not activated if the tile angle does not fall in the predetermined angle range;
- receiving a user input from the hardware button while the display is off;
- and
- performing a camera function based on the user input;
- wherein the hardware button is applied to trigger the camera function while the display is off and applied to trigger another function rather than the camera function while the display is turned on.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.