Portable electronic device and message processing method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9946353-B2
Application number	US-201414465156-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2014
Priority date	Aug 21, 2014
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A message processing method for a portable electronic device includes the steps of: detecting, by a motion sensor, a plurality of first knocks of an object on the portable electronic device and generating a plurality of first detecting signals according to the plurality of first knocks; and encoding, by an encoding system, the plurality of first detecting signals to generate a first message code, wherein a first message is decodable from the first message code by a decoding system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A message processing method for a portable electronic device, the portable electronic device comprising a motion sensor, the message processing method comprising:
detecting, by the motion sensor, a plurality of first operations and a plurality of second operations on the portable electronic device according to a plurality of gravity acceleration values generated by the motion sensor, and generating a plurality of first detecting signals according to the plurality of first operations and a plurality of second detecting signals according to the plurality of second operations;
encoding, by an encoding system, the plurality of first and second detecting signals when the first and second detecting signals are identified as knocking signals to generate a first message code and a second message code, wherein a first message is decodable from the first message code and a contact information is decodable from the second message code by a decoding system, and the knocking signals corresponding to the first operations are separated from the knocking signals corresponding to the second operations by a time interval; and
not encoding the plurality of first and second detecting signals when the first and second detecting signals are identified as shaking operations,
wherein the first and second detecting signals identified as the knocking signals have larger gravity acceleration values for a shorter time interval than the first and second detecting signals identified as the shaking operations.

2. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the portable electronic device further comprises a display device and the decoding system, and the method further comprises:
decoding, by the decoding system, the first message code to the first message; and
displaying, by the display device, the first message.

3. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the portable electronic device further comprises an audio player and the decoding system, and the method further comprises:
decoding, by the decoding system, the first message code to the first message; and
playing, by the audio player, the first message.

4. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by a wireless way, the first message code to a remote portable electronic device, wherein the remote portable electronic device comprises the decoding system configured to decode the first message code to the first message.

5. The message processing method as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving, by the wireless way, a third message code from the remote portable electronic device; and
decoding, by the decoding system of the portable electronic device, the third message code to a third message.

6. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
executing an application software and activating the motion sensor by the application software.

7. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the motion sensor is a G-sensor or an accelerometer.

8. The message processing method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the encoding system is a Morse code encoding system.

Assignees

• Htc Corp

Inventors

• Liu Cheng-Hsi
• Wang Wei-Chien

Classifications

• H04L15/00

  Apparatus or local circuits for transmitting or receiving dot-and-dash codes, e.g. Morse code (teaching apparatus therefor G09B; telegraph tapping keys H01H21/86) · CPC title

• G06F3/167

  Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback · CPC title

• H04M1/72552

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F2200/1636

  Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing · CPC title

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title