Mobile device
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorsAkira Mizumoto, Hayato Takenouchi, Minoru Niwa
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Abstract
A method and system of controlling key operations of a mobile device comprising one or more hard keys and one or more touch keys are disclosed. An operation of one or more hard keys is detected, and measuring an operation time is started in response to detecting the operation. Operations of one or more touch keys are invalidated until the operation time exceeds a certain period of time.
Claims20
A mobile device, comprising:
- a first hard key and a second hard key;
- one or more touch keys;
- a memory storing a first predetermined time period corresponding to the first hard key and a second predetermined time period corresponding to the second hard key, wherein the first and second predetermined time periods are different from each other;
- a first detection module operable to detect a first operation of either the first hard key or the second hard key;
- a first measurement module operable to start measuring a first operation time of the first operation when the first operation is detected;
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- a control module operable to invalidate a second operation of at least one of the touch keys until the first operation time exceeds either the first predetermined time period if the first hard key was operated or the second predetermined time period if the second hard key was operated.
A method of controlling key operations of a mobile device comprising one or more hard keys and one or more touch keys, the method comprising:
- detecting an operation of either a first hard key or a second hard key to detect a hard key operation;
- storing a first predetermined time period corresponding to the first hard key and a second predetermined time period corresponding to the second hard key wherein the first and second predetermined time periods are different from each other;
- measuring a hard key operation time when the hard key operation is detected;
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- invalidating touch key operations of the one or more touch keys until the hard key operation time exceeds either the first predetermined time period if the first hard key was operated or the second predetermined time period if the second hard key was operated.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code that when executed performs a method for controlling key operations of a mobile device comprising one or more hard keys and one or more touch keys, the method comprising:
- detecting an operation of either a first hard key or a second hard key to detect a hard key operation;
- storing a first predetermined time period corresponding to the first hard key and a second predetermined time period corresponding to the second hard key, wherein the first and second predetermined time periods are different from each other;
- measuring a hard key operation time when the hard key operation is detected;
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- invalidating touch key operations of the one or more touch keys until the hard key operation time exceeds either the first predetermined time period if the first hard key was operated or the second predetermined time period if the second hard key was operated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.