Patent ID: 9348412
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a notification function in a user device, the notification function being configured to notify to the user as a notification mode of an occurrence of a notification event, the method comprising: detecting whether the notification event is a reception notification event or a function notification event; detecting a face of a user by separating the face area of the user and a background area from each of images collected through a camera and executing an eye pattern from the face area of the user, when the reception or function notification event is detected; executing the notification function to either one of a silent mode or a vibration mode from a sound notification mode in response to the detected function notification event, or outputting contents of a message simultaneously with message originator information on a display unit in response to the detected reception notification event, when the face of the user is detected in the images collected through the camera; and preventing the notification function from changing to the silent mode by an input of the user when the face of the user is not detected in the images collected through the camera.