Patent ID: 8682295

Claim:
A mobile electronic device comprising: an operation detection unit that detects an operation; an activation unit that performs a predetermined action; an inclination detection unit that detects an inclination state of the operation detection unit with respect to a horizontal plane; a control unit that makes the activation unit perform the predetermined action according to the operation detected by the operation detection unit; and a storage unit that stores particular biometric information, wherein the control unit changes a process of the detection in the operation detection unit according to the inclination detected by the inclination detection unit, wherein the operation detection unit is configured to detect an operation by the movement of a subject to be detected and configured to detect the biometric information based on the operation, and wherein the control unit is configured to make the operation detection unit change the operation detection direction by the movement of the subject to be detected according to the inclination detected by the inclination detection unit, make the activation unit perform predetermined actions based on the operation detected by the operation detection unit and a comparison between the biometric information detected based on the operation and the particular biometric information stored in the storage unit, and change the comparison method according to the inclination detected by the inclination detection unit.