Patent ID: 8554177

Claim:
An apparatus for unlocking a mobile device using pattern recognition, comprising: a touch sensor unit to sense a pattern touch-input to a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit; a pattern recognition unit to analyze information about the input pattern sensed by the one touch sensor unit; a pattern comparison unit to compare information about the input pattern analyzed by the pattern recognition unit with information about a predetermined pattern stored in a memory; a controller to control the mobile device to unlock the mobile device to enable a user to use the mobile device if the input pattern and the predetermined pattern are equal to each other as compared by the pattern comparison unit, and to supply power for operating the LCD unit after unlocking the mobile device; a power supply unit to supply a power necessary for operating the mobile device, wherein the power supply unit comprises a first power supply unit, and a second power supply unit separately, the first power supply unit is for supplying power necessary for operating the LCD unit of the mobile device and the second power supply unit is for supplying power necessary for operating the touch sensor unit of the mobile device while locking the mobile device, and wherein the LCD unit and the touch sensor unit are independently supplied with power from the power supply unit.