Patent ID: 9696836
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: a touch panel that detects a touch operation made on the touch panel; an operation position detecting unit that detects an operation position at which the touch operation has been made on the touch panel; an ear pinna determining unit that determines whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position; an ear pinna operation accepting unit that, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the user's ear pinna, accepts a first operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna; a locking unit that locks an operation of the electronic device based on a second operation input made by the touch operation by a user but not accepted by the ear pinna operation accepting unit, the second operation input being made independently of the first operation input; an unlocking unit that, if the ear pinna operation accepting unit accepts the first operation input, releases a lock for the operation based on the second operation input; and a call enabling unit that, if the ear pinna operation accepting unit accepts the first operation input, enables a call for an incoming call, wherein in a situation where the incoming call arrives while the locking unit locks the operation based on the second operation input, if the ear pinna operation accepting unit accepts the first operation input, the unlocking unit releases the lock for the second operation input, and then the call enabling unit enables the call, and when the call completes, the locking unit again locks the operation based on the second operation input.