WO2012031432A1

WO2012031432A1 - Unlocking method and device for portable device

Info

Publication number: WO2012031432A1
Application number: PCT/CN2010/079135
Authority: WO
Inventors: 刘婉蓉
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-09-09
Filing date: 2010-11-25
Publication date: 2012-03-15
Also published as: CN102402365A

Abstract

An unlocking method and device for a portable device are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes the following steps: setting a preset unlocking figure in the portable device in advance; when the portable device receives an unlocking signal, prompting the user to input an unlocking figure, and comparing the unlocking figure input by the user with the preset unlocking figure; if they are the same, performing the unlocking operation. The present invention enables the user to change unlocking figures, and provides a more interesting, also simple and convenient unlocking method. The user can self-set the unlocking figure at any time, and as compared with password, the operation of figure is more convenient and easier to remember. Because the unlocking operation is only for a certain kind of figure, the misoperation rate would be lower.

Description

Method and device for unlocking portable device

Technical field

The present invention relates to a portable device, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for unlocking a portable device.

Background technique

Currently, the purpose of locking a portable device (such as a mobile phone) is mainly to prevent the user from operating by mistake, that is, inadvertently touching the screen or a button to activate or deactivate certain functions. For example: In the absence of any lock, unintentional contact with the call button will place a call to the number in the call log without the user's knowledge.

In order to match the current portable device type, the unlocking method can be divided into: button machine unlocking and touch screen unlocking. Key unlocking mainly includes: long pressing an unlock button to unlock and combining two or more buttons in a certain order to unlock. These two methods will give corresponding prompts when unlocking. Long press a key to unlock, the operation is simple but the misoperation is very high, and the combination unlocking mode gradually decreases with the increase of the number of combined keys, but it is not convenient for the user to unlock.

At present, the unlocking method of the touch screen is also endless, such as hand-held unlocking, that is, unlocking according to a predetermined hand-held trajectory; the area touches the unlocking, that is, the unlocking slider at the bottom of the screen is dragged to the semi-transparent shadow area at the upper part of the screen to complete the unlocking; Unlock, that is, there are 9 contacts in three rows on the screen. Users can customize one or more of these 9 points to design their own pattern to slide and unlock, such as X-shaped, Z-shaped and S-shaped. , complete the unlock.

However, once the above unlocking method is determined in a certain model, it cannot be changed. The user will be unlocked in a way for a long time in the process of using it. After long-term use, the user will slowly lose interest and become boring. .

Summary of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and a device for unlocking a portable device, which can modify the unlocking graphic by the user, and solve the problem that the user uses a unlocking method for a long time to generate a boring feeling. In order to solve the above technical problem, a method for unlocking a portable device of the present invention includes: setting a preset unlocking pattern in a portable device in advance;

When receiving the unlock signal, the portable device prompts the user to input the unlock pattern, and compares the unlock pattern input by the user with the preset unlock pattern, and if the two are the same, the lock is released.

Setting the preset unlocking graphic in the portable device in advance includes: in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the preset unlocking graphic is input by the user through the handwriting function, and the preset unlocking graphic is saved;

Moreover, when the portable device prompts the user to input the unlock pattern when receiving the unlock signal, the user inputs the unlock pattern through the handwriting function.

Setting the preset unlocking graphic in the portable device in advance includes: selecting, in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, a preset unlocking graphic by using the file manager, and saving the preset unlocking graphic;

Moreover, when the portable device prompts the user to input the unlocking graphic when receiving the unlocking signal, the user selects the unlocking graphic through the file manager.

The user inputs a preset unlocking graphic or unlocking a graphic by handwriting function, including:

The user inputs the graphic through the handwriting function, and the portable device performs fuzzy matching on the graphic input by the user in the font, and displays the result of the fuzzy matching for the user to select.

Before the portable device displays the result of the fuzzy matching, the method further includes: further arranging the results of the fuzzy matching in descending order of matching degree.

A locking device for a portable device includes: a configuration module, a trigger module, a comparison module, and an unlocking module, wherein:

The configuration module is set to: preset preset unlocking graphics;

The triggering module is set to: when receiving the unlocking signal, prompting the user to input the unlocking graphic, and reading the preset unlocking graphic from the configuration module and sending the graphic to the comparison module;

The comparison module is configured to: compare the unlock pattern input by the user with the preset unlock pattern, and if the two are the same, send an unlock notification message to the unlocking module;

The unlock module is set to: Release the lock after receiving the unlock notification message.

The device also includes a handwriting module, wherein:

The handwriting module is set to: In the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the user inputs a preset unlocking map. And sending the preset unlocking graphic to the configuration module; and when the triggering module receives the unlocking signal, prompting the user to input the unlocking graphic, the user inputs the unlocking graphic, and sends the unlocking graphic to the comparison module. The device also includes a file manager, wherein:

The file manager is set to: in the preset unlock graphic setting interface, the user selects the preset unlocking graphic, and sends the preset unlocking graphic to the configuration module; and when the triggering module receives the unlocking signal, prompts the user to input the unlocking graphic. After that, the user selects an unlocking graphic, and sends the unlocking graphic to the comparison module.

The handwriting module is also set to: when the user inputs the preset unlocking graphic and unlocking the graphic, after the user inputs the graphic, the graphic input by the user is fuzzy matched in the font, and the result of the fuzzy matching is displayed for the user to select.

The handwriting module is also set to: Sort the results of the fuzzy matching in descending order of matching before displaying the result of the fuzzy matching. In summary, the invention modifies the unlocking graphic by the user, and provides a more interesting and simple and convenient unlocking mode, and the user can set the unlocking pattern at any time, and the operation is more convenient than the password. And easy to remember. Since it can only be unlocked for a certain type of graphics, the misoperation rate will be lower.

BRIEF abstract

1 is a flowchart of setting an unlocking pattern in the unlocking method of the portable device according to the embodiment; FIG. 2 is a flow chart of unlocking the portable device in the unlocking method of the portable device according to the embodiment;

3 is a block diagram of an unlocking device of the portable device of the present embodiment;

4 is a block diagram showing another implementation of the unlocking device of the portable device of the present embodiment.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

In this embodiment, the user presets a preset unlocking pattern that can be changed, and when the portable device performs unlocking, compares the unlocking pattern input by the user with the preset unlocking pattern, if the two are the same, Then unlock; otherwise, keep locked, prompting the user to re-enter the unlock graphic.

Considering that most portable devices currently support the handwriting function and have the ability to blur the recognition graphics (including letters, numbers, texts, etc.), the present embodiment can set the preset unlocking graphics through the handwriting function of the portable device, and unlock When the user inputs the unlocking graphic through the handwriting function, the portable device compares the unlocking graphic input by the user with the preset unlocking graphic; the preset unlocking graphic may also be pre-selected by the user through the file manager, and when unlocked, the user passes the file manager. Select the unlock graphic, and the portable device compares the unlocked graphic selected by the user with the preset unlocked graphic.

When the unlocking graphic is preset by the handwriting function of the portable device, the user inputs the graphic on the touch screen, and if the input graphic can be recognized, that is, the fuzzy recognition ability of the handwriting function can be used to determine the input graphic, the input is saved. The graphic is used as a preset to unlock the graphic, and the prompt setting is successful; if the input graphic cannot be recognized, the prompt continues to input the graphic and recognize. After the preset unlocking graphic setting is successful, when the user needs to use the portable device, the preset unlocking graphic is input through the handwriting function, and if the portable device can recognize the unlocking graphic input by the user and is the same as the preset unlocking graphic, the unlocking is performed; otherwise, The loop prompts the user to enter an unlock graphic.

The specific embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the embodiment, the user inputs a preset unlocking graphic and an unlocking graphic by using a handwriting function as an example. The preset unlocking graphics may include: letters, numbers, texts, etc., the portable device displays each graphic that is fuzzyly matched with the graphic input by the user, and the user selects the desired graphic as the preset unlocking graphic to complete the setting of the preset unlocking graphic. set. The unlocking process is also performed by the user inputting the unlocking graphic through the handwriting function, and the portable device displays each graphic that is fuzzyly matched with the graphic input by the user, and the user selects the desired graphic, and if the unlocking graphic input by the user is the same as the preset unlocking graphic, the unlocking is performed. ; Otherwise, the user is prompted to re-enter the unlock graphic.

FIG. 1 is a step of setting a preset unlocking graphic by using a handwriting function according to the embodiment, including: 101: the portable device enters a booting interface after being turned on;

102: If the preset unlocking graphic is not set, the portable device prompts whether to perform the unlock setting, and if the user selects to perform the unlock setting, step 103 is performed; otherwise, the end;

The user can also actively select settings or modifications of the preset unlock graphic. 103: The portable device enters a preset unlocking graphic setting interface, and the user inputs the graphic by using a handwriting function;

The handwriting function can be implemented by a touch pen and a touch screen. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the user input graphic is X.

104: The portable device performs fuzzy matching on the graphics input by the user in the font library, and arranges the results of the fuzzy matching in descending order of matching degree and saves them, and simultaneously displays them on the screen;

The result of the fuzzy match is stored in the array MATCH[n], sorted in descending order of matching degree. Normally, a row of matching results is displayed at the bottom of the screen, and it can be scrolled forward and backward through the up, down, left and right buttons to achieve the purpose of display.

105: The user selects a desired graphic from the result of the fuzzy matching, and the portable device saves the graphic selected by the user as a preset unlocking graphic, and completes the setting of the preset unlocking graphic.

At the same time, you can also set the interval between automatic lock and auto lock.

2 is a step of unlocking a portable device by using a handwriting function according to the embodiment, comprising: 201: in a locked state of the portable device, if the user touches the keyboard or the touch screen, the portable device prompts the user to input an unlocking graphic when receiving the unlocking signal;

202: The user inputs an unlock graphic by using a handwriting function;

203: The portable device performs fuzzy matching on the graphics input by the user in the font library, and arranges the results of the fuzzy matching in descending order of matching degree and saves them, and displays them on the screen at the same time;

204: The user selects a desired graphic from the result of the fuzzy matching, and the portable device compares the graphic selected by the user with the preset unlocking graphic, and if the two are the same, the unlocking is performed; otherwise, the locking is kept, prompting the user to re-enter the unlocking Graphics.

For example, in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the user inputs the graphic X as a preset unlocking graphic through the handwriting function, and the portable device saves the set preset unlocking graphic. When the portable device is in the locked state, the user touches the keyboard or the touch screen, and the portable device receives the unlock signal, prompting the user to input the unlock graphic. The user inputs the unlocking graphic through the handwriting function, and the portable device compares the unlocking graphic input by the user with the preset unlocking graphic X, and if the unlocking graphic input by the user is X, the solution In addition to locking; if the unlocking graphic entered by the user is not X, then continue to remain locked, prompting the user to re-enter the graphic.

The preset unlocking graphic and the unlocking graphic are selected by the file manager, and the setting of the preset unlocking graphic and the unlocking mode of the portable device are similar to the above steps, and details are not described herein again.

3 is an unlocking device of a portable device according to the embodiment, including: a configuration module, a trigger module, a comparison module, an unlocking module, and a handwriting module, where:

The configuration module is configured to preset a preset unlocking graphic.

The triggering module is configured to prompt the user to input the unlocking graphic when the unlocking signal is received, and send the preset unlocking graphic from the configuration module to the comparison module.

The comparison module is configured to receive the preset unlocking pattern sent by the triggering module and the unlocking graphic of the user input sent by the handwriting module, and compare the unlocking graphic input by the user with the preset unlocking graphic, and if the two are the same, send the unlocking module to the unlocking module. Lock the notification message.

The unlocking module is configured to release the lock after receiving the unlock notification message.

a handwriting module, configured to input a preset unlocking graphic in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, and send the preset unlocking graphic to the configuration module; when the triggering module receives the unlocking signal, prompting the user to input the unlocking graphic, The user inputs an unlocking graphic, and sends the unlocking graphic input by the user to the comparison module. When the handwriting module is used for the user to input the preset unlocking graphic and unlocking the graphic, after the user inputs the graphic, the graphic input by the user is fuzzy matched in the font, and the result of the fuzzy matching is arranged in descending order according to the matching degree, and displayed on the screen for The user makes a selection.

4 is another unlocking device of a portable device according to the embodiment, including: a configuration module, a trigger module, a comparison module, an unlocking module, and a file manager, where:

The configuration module is configured to preset a preset unlocking graphic.

The comparison module is configured to receive the preset unlocking pattern sent by the triggering module and the unlocking graphic of the user input sent by the handwriting module, and compare the unlocking graphic input by the user with the preset unlocking graphic, and if the two are the same, send the unlocking module to the unlocking module. Lock the notification message. The unlocking module is configured to release the lock after receiving the unlock notification message. The file manager is configured to: in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the user selects the preset unlocking graphic, and sends the preset unlocking graphic to the configuration module; when the triggering module receives the unlocking signal, prompts the user to input the unlocking graphic , for the user to select an unlocking graphic, and send the unlocking graphic selected by the user to the comparison module.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be performed by a program to instruct the associated hardware. The program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium such as a read only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module in the above embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any particular form of hardware and software combination.

The invention may, of course, be embodied in a variety of embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, and improvements made within the spirit and scope of the invention are included in the invention. Within the scope of protection.

Industrial Applicability The present invention provides a user with a more interesting and simple and convenient unlocking method by modifying the unlocking pattern, and the user can set the unlocking pattern at any time, and the operation is more convenient and easier than the password. Make people remember. Since it can only be unlocked for a certain type of graphics, the misoperation rate will be lower.

Claims

Claim

1. A method for unlocking a portable device, comprising:

Presetting a preset unlocking pattern in the portable device;

When receiving the unlock signal, the portable device prompts the user to input an unlock pattern, and compares the unlock pattern input by the user with the preset unlock pattern, and if the two are the same, the lock is released.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein

The presetting the preset unlocking graphic in the portable device includes: in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, inputting the preset unlocking graphic by the user by using a handwriting function, and saving the preset unlocking graphic;

And, when the portable device prompts the user to input the unlocking graphic when receiving the unlocking signal, the user inputs the unlocking graphic by using a handwriting function.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

The presetting the preset unlocking graphic in the portable device includes: selecting, in the preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the preset unlocking graphic by using a file manager, and saving the preset unlocking graphic; and, the portable device is Upon receiving the unlock signal, after prompting the user to input the unlock graphic, the user selects the unlock graphic through the file manager.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the user inputting the preset unlocking graphic or the unlocking graphic by using a handwriting function comprises:

The user inputs a graphic through the handwriting function, and the portable device performs fuzzy matching on the graphic input by the user in the font, and displays the result of the fuzzy matching for the user to select.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein

A locking device for a portable device, comprising: a configuration module, a trigger module, a comparison module, and an unlocking module, wherein: the configuration module is configured to: preset a preset unlocking graphic; The triggering module is configured to: when receiving the unlocking signal, prompt the user to input an unlocking graphic, and read the preset unlocking graphic from the configuration module and send the template to the comparison module;

The comparison module is configured to: compare the unlocking graphic input by the user with the preset unlocking graphic, and if the two are the same, send an unlocking notification message to the unlocking module;

The unlocking module is configured to: after receiving the unlock notification message, release the lock.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the device further comprises a handwriting module,

The handwriting module is configured to: in a preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the user inputs the preset unlocking graphic, and sends the preset unlocking graphic to the configuration module; and receives an unlocking signal at the triggering module When the user is prompted to input the unlocking graphic, the user inputs the unlocking graphic, and sends the unlocking graphic to the comparison module.

The device of claim 6, further comprising a file manager, wherein the file manager is configured to: in a preset unlocking graphic setting interface, the user selects the preset unlocking graphic, The preset unlocking graphic is sent to the configuration module; and when the triggering module receives the unlocking signal, prompting the user to input the unlocking graphic, the user selects the unlocking graphic, and sends the unlocking graphic to the comparison module.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

The handwriting module is further configured to: when the user inputs the preset unlocking graphic or unlock the graphic, after the user inputs the graphic, the user input graphic is fuzzy matched in the font, and the result of the fuzzy matching is displayed, The user makes a selection.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

The handwriting module is further configured to: arrange the results of the fuzzy matching in descending order of matching degree before displaying the result of the fuzzy matching.