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US 9,310,963 B2Granted
Unlocking a touch screen device
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsPhillip Lindberg, Sami Niemela
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Abstract
A method for unlocking a touch screen device includes providing a touch screen device in an idle mode. An area or region displayed on a screen of the device in the idle mode is contacted or activated to reveal at least one application icon associated with an active/unlocked state of the device. The region is moved, expanded or dragged to an edge of the device to change a state of the device to an active/unlocked mode and activate the revealed application.
Claims19
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory storing computer program code configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed:
- causing a display of a device to display at least a reduced active region and a non-active region when the device is in a locked mode;
- responding to the reduced active region being moved at least partially over at least one application icon, associated with an unlocked mode of the device, by illuminating or highlighting the at least one application icon;
- and
- changing a mode of the device from the locked mode to the unlocked mode after the reduced active region is moved into an unlock region.
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A method, comprising:
- causing a display of a device to display at least a reduced active region and a non-active region when the device is in a locked mode;
- responding to the reduced active region being moved at least partially over at least one application icon, associated with an unlocked mode of the device, by illuminating or highlighting the at least one application icon;
- and
- changing a mode of the device from the locked mode to the unlocked mode after the reduced active region is moved into an unlock region.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory storing computer program code configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause at least the following to be performed:
- causing a display to display at least a reduced active region and a non-active region when the device is in a locked mode;
- enabling the user to use the reduced active region to reveal at least one element of at least one application icon, associated with an unlocked mode of the device, by moving the reduced active region at least partially over the at least one application icon;
- and
- changing a mode of the device from the locked mode to the unlocked mode after the reduced active region is moved into an unlock region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.