1231 results about "Lock screen" patented technology

A touch-based mobile device and a method for performing a touch lock function of the mobile device are provided. In the method, the device displays a touch lock screen in which a cover layer is superimposed over a specific underlying screen and allows the underlying screen to be visible. When an input of a touch moving gesture is detected, the device moves the cover layer depending on the touch moving gesture, and determines whether a distance of the touch moving gesture reaches a predefined critical distance. If so, the device removes the cover layer from the touch lock screen and switches the touch lock state to a touch unlock state, thus allowing a user to more conveniently switch the touch lock state to the touch unlock state.

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a display unit including a touch screen; and a controller configured to enter the touch screen into a locked state, to display a lock screen and an application program icon for executing an application program on the lock screen when entering the locked state.

According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen including an application icon associated with an application. The controller adds an information icon to the application icon when there is new information with respect to the application.

A mobile terminal including a main body configured to be worn on a wrist; a display unit configured to display a lock screen indicating a locking mode of the mobile terminal, said lock screen including a clock having a minute hand and an hour hand connected at a central control point and having time identifications indicating a time of day surrounding the central control point; and a controller configured to receive a touch input on the central control point and at least first and second time identifications to set a range of time, unlock the mobile terminal based on the received touch input, and display information corresponding to the set range of time.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for providing a user interface of a portable terminal. The method includes displaying a lock screen; detecting a request to display an auxiliary including a plurality of modes on the lock screen; and displaying the auxiliary window in a specific mode among the plurality of modes on a side of the lock screen in response to the detecting indicating that the request for the display of the auxiliary window is detected, wherein the specific mode is changed in response to a mode changing event.

According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen including a first icon and a second icon. The controller displays a sub icon associated with the second icon on the lock screen when a gesture in which the first icon and the second icon are superimposed is detected.

Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile device that restricts access to its applications. The mobile device, displays, on the device's touch screen display, a lock screen page for accessing the device in a primary access mode or a secondary access mode. The primary access mode provides access to several of the device's applications, and the secondary access mode provides access to a limited set of the applications. The mobile device receives a touch input on the lock screen page to access the device in the secondary access mode. The mobile device unlocks the device to the secondary access mode by allowing access to the set of applications and restricting access to the remaining applications in the plurality of applications.

Embodiments enable a mobile device to execute an action analogous to a user-defined action in response to receipt of a gesture analogous to a user-defined gesture. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method executes an action on a mobile device. A lock screen view is displayed on the mobile device to prevent unauthorized and inadvertent access to the mobile device's data. While the mobile device is locked, a touch gesture having a pre-defined shape is detected on a touch screen of the mobile device independently of the initial position of the touch gesture on the touch screen. In response to detection of the touch gesture, a particular action is executed on the mobile device while the mobile device stays locked. The particular action determined according to the pre-defined shape. In this way, detection of the touch gesture causes the particular action to execute while keeping the mobile device locked.

A portable electronic device, a control method and a computer program product of the same are provided for providing a shortcut on a lock screen of the portable electronic device. The control method includes the following steps. An application usage history of a number of applications of the portable electronic device is stored. At least one of a current time and a current location of the portable electronic device is obtained. A most-likely-used application is determined from the applications according to the application usage history and at least one of the current time and the current location. A shortcut icon of the most-likely-used application is displayed on the lock screen of the portable electronic device. The most-likely-used application is opened when the portable electronic device is unlocked from the lock screen via a shortcut icon.

The invention provides a device and a method for unlocking and executing an application. The device for unlocking and executing the application is applied to a device terminal of which the screen has a fingerprint recognition function, and comprises a lock screen interface providing module for providing a lock screen interface containing a plurality of application shortcut icons when the screen is on, a fingerprint information acquisition module for acquiring the fingerprint information of a user and the finger staying position of the user upon detecting that the finger of the user stays on the lock screen interface in predetermined time, a fingerprint information analyzing module for comparing the acquired fingerprint information with pre-stored fingerprint information, and a determining and unlocking module for, when the acquired fingerprint information is matched with the pre-stored fingerprint information and one application shortcut icon is present in the position where the finger of the user stays, executing the application associated with the application shortcut icon. The device is capable of greatly reducing the operation steps of the user and enhancing the experience of the user while guaranteeing secure unlocking.

A financial transaction is facilitated without unlocking a mobile device, where the lock screen wallpaper of a mobile device is dynamically set to an image having a scanning code (e.g., a QR code, a barcode, etc.) for use at a business location that the user is currently located.

An electronic device and an unlocking method in the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display unit configured to display at least one function icon on a lock screen, at least one camera, and a controller configured to recognize a face based on data received from the at least one camera in response to a request for unlocking, to select a function icon to be executed from among the at least one function icon, to perform unlocking based on the facial recognition, and to execute, simultaneously with the unlocking, a function corresponding to the selected function icon.

Customized tasks can be performed above the lock screen in response to a user-defined shortcut input as an interaction with a user interface of a device while the device is in a locked state. A method for facilitating user-defined shortcuts for actions above the lock screen includes at least monitoring user interactions made with respect to the user interface of the device while the device is in the locked state for at least one interaction associated with at least one feature of an application. The user interaction may be a gestural input of a custom combination of one or more gestures on a designated region of the lock screen. The user-defined shortcut may be reconfigured at any time by a user.

App content, such as an app notification, is displayed on a lock screen or home screen of a mobile device even when the app is closed. In contrast to present app content, the content may be full-screen, engaging, interactive, and media-rich. An app content SDK is inserted into an app and works directly with native app software. The content SDK determines whether the app has permission to display content on, for example, a lock screen. It may also determine whether the app has priority in displaying the content. The content itself is retrieved either from a content server or from the app itself. In either case, the retrieval and display of the content is coordinated and managed by the SDK which may use other constraints, such as date / time, geographic location, and device motion patterns to determine which content should be displayed.

The invention provides a screen unlocking method. The screen unlocking method comprises the following steps of obtaining unlocking information input by a user, wherein a screen is in the unlighted status; judging whether the unlocking information is matched with an unlocking condition or not; if it is determined that the unlocking information is matched with the unlocking condition, unlocking the screen, and lighting up the screen; keeping the screen locking and unlighted status if it is determined that the unlocking information is not matched with the unlocking condition. The invention further provides a terminal achieving the screen unlocking method. The terminal comprises a processing unit, a display driving unit, a display unit, a storage unit, an input unit and a judging unit. After the technical scheme is adopted, the screen unlocking method and the terminal of the screen unlocking method have the advantages that a user can flexibly use various unlocking modes for unlocking electronic equipment with a currently-locked screen so as to continuously conduct further operations, mistaken operations such as mistaken unlocking and mistaken program starting under the locking status are avoided, the unlocking operating process is secret and safe, and the privacy of the user can be effectively protected.

A method for quickly executing an application on a lock screen in a mobile device is provided. The method includes displaying a lock screen on which a plurality of executable objects are displayed; receiving an unlock command by an input means; determining whether the received unlock command coincides with a preset unlock command; unlocking the lock screen if the received unlock command coincides with the preset unlock command; and executing an application associated with an object corresponding to a last position of the input means. By doing so, the mobile device may quickly execute an application upon unlocking.

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are provided. If a screen of a touchscreen is locked, at least communication-connectable external device is automatically found and the found external device is displayed on the locked screen. Accordingly, both of the unlocking of the locked screen and the communication connection to the found external device can be simultaneously performed in response to a user's touch gesture.

A multiple-access-level lock screen system allows different levels of functionality to be accessed on a computing device. For example, when a device is in a locked state, a user can select (e.g., by making one or more gestures on a touchscreen) a full-access lock screen pane and provide input that causes the device to be fully unlocked, or a user can select a partial-access lock screen pane and provide input that causes only certain resources (e.g., particular applications, attached devices, documents, etc.) to be accessible. Lock screen panes also can be selected (e.g., automatically) in response to events. For example, when a device is in a locked state, a messaging access lock screen pane can be selected automatically in response to an incoming message, and a user can provide input at the messaging access lock screen pane that causes only a messaging application to be accessible.

The invention discloses a method and device for realizing different interfaces for different users. The method for realizing different interfaces for different users comprises the steps that multiple pieces of user sign information granted with credit are set, and different interface configuration files are correspondingly stored for the different user sign information; when an intelligent terminal is started or unlocks a locked screen, first user sign information used for verifying starting or unlocking is obtained; whether the first user sign information is the user sign information granted with credit is verified, and after verification passes, the starting or unlocking operation is executed; an interface configuration file corresponding to the first user sign information is called, and a user interface corresponding to the first user sign information is loaded according to the interface configuration file corresponding to the first user sign information. The method and device for realizing different interfaces for different users delicately utilize fingerprints obtained by the intelligent terminal in the fingerprint identification process, call the interface configuration files in the starting / unlocking process by setting the corresponding relation between the fingerprints and the interface configuration files in advance, and achieve the purpose of displaying different interfaces for different users.

The present invention provides a terminal, including: a display unit, when a notification occurs, displaying an application icon corresponding to the notification on a lock screen interface of the terminal, where the predetermined area where the application icon is located is the first unlocking area; The starting unit is configured to start an application program corresponding to the notification when receiving a user's touch action in the first unlocking area. The invention also provides an unlocking method. According to the technical solution of the present invention, a series of fuzzy operation actions are used as trigger conditions for starting a certain task, reducing the complexity of operation on precise objects and improving the accuracy of the task.

A method for providing a background of a locked screen, an electronic device and a computer program product using the method are provided. The method for providing the background of the locked screen includes the following steps. A selection of a background setting style is received. When the electronic device enters a screen lock state, one or more display data are obtained from a storage device according to the selected background setting style. A background of the electronic device in the screen lock state is generated by using a template corresponding to the selected background setting style and the display data, and the display data on the screen lock background changes as time changes. Accordingly, the purpose of providing a variety of screen lock backgrounds for user selection is achieved.

According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen provided with a display area in which any of a plurality of icons is displayed. The controller displays any of the icons in the display area according to a first touch gesture detected through the touch screen display while the lock screen is displayed.

A smart phone lock screen advertising system is based on a software application that integrates with affiliate websites as well as ad networks and continuously displays daily deals (or other content or ads) on the phone lock screen whenever the screen is awake. The smart phone lock screen advertising may provide a direct link to view the details of a deal (or other content) as well as a link to make a purchase, for example. As such, the smart phone lock screen advertising system of the present invention may ring ad content to a top layer of a smart phone's user interface as opposed to three or more layers deep.

The invention relates to an intelligent hardware device control achieving method and device which aims at simplifying control operation of a user on an intelligent hardware device. The method includes acquiring relevant information of at least one intelligent hardware device through the preset intelligent home thing network protocol when determining that the user conducts first preset operation on a control key on a lock screen interface of a terminal device in the lock screen state and displaying the relevant information on the control interface; conducting controlling corresponding to second preset operation on the intelligent hardware device through the intelligent home thing network protocol when detecting that the user controls the second preset operation relevant to any intelligent hardware device on the control interface. By means of the method and device, the shortcoming that the user unlocks the terminal device and then enters the corresponding intelligent hardware applications to control the intelligent hardware device is overcome, the control operation process of the intelligent hardware device is simplified, and the intelligent hardware device can be controlled conveniently in the lock screen state of the terminal device.

A method for executing an operation on a portable terminal in a locked state includes displaying a lockscreen on the portable terminal including state information of the portable terminal; receiving an input on the lockscreen; determining whether the input corresponds to an operation of an application with respect to the displayed state information; and executing the operation according to the determination. A portable terminal includes an interface unit to output a lockscreen when the portable terminal is in a locked state and to display state information on the lockscreen; an input unit to receive an input; a verification unit to determine whether the input corresponds to an operation of an application with respect to the determined state information; and an execution unit to execute the predetermine operation.

The present description relates to an unlock method and to a terminal for performing same, the unlock method being performed by a terminal that provides a lock function, the unlock method comprising: a step of displaying a voice input screen on a lock screen of the terminal; a step of taking, as an input, voice from a user; a step of performing natural language processing on the voice to acquire an object constituting the voice; a step of determining whether or not the object contains a passphrase for unlocking; and a step of unlocking the terminal or maintaining the terminal in the locked state depending on the result of the determination of whether the object contains the passphrase.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an information display method and device of lock screen interfaces. The information display method includes: loading one or a plurality of floating windows above all the lock screen interfaces, wherein the floating windows are window tools for displaying information above the lock screen interfaces; obtaining information related to attributes according to the attributes of the floating windows; displaying the information in the floating windows.

A method for invoking an application in a Screen Lock screen is disclosed herein. The method for invoking an application in a user equipment includes the steps of selecting at least one unlock application that is to be displayed on a Screen Lock screen among multiple applications, and displaying an unlock application icon respective to each of the select at least one unlock application on the Screen Lock screen.

The invention relates to a system and a method for realizing advertisement putting, effect optimization and statistics in a smart phone. The system comprises an advertisement server module for transmitting advertisement data to be put into the smart phone, a client module for receiving the advertisement data transmitted by the advertisement server module and displaying the advertisement data on a lock screen of the smart phone, and an advertisement putting management module for analyzing the use behavior statistical data of a user and selecting matched advertisements for corresponding smart phone of the user according to an analysis result. According to the system and the method for realizing advertisement putting, effect optimization and statistics in the smart phone, advertisements needed by the user are displayed on the lock screen of the smart phone, so that the advertisements can be seen by audience accurately, the receiving degrees of the advertisements are ensured, the advertisement putting effect is optimized, accurate advertisement putting statistics data are collected, and advertisers are helped to accurately know the behavior habits of the receivers. The system and the method are wide in the application ranges.