Google has a patent application submitted for a pattern unlock system where specific actions can be linked to unlock gestures. This appears from a publication of the patent application by the American patentenbureau.
Using the pattern unlock system in the current Android operating system, it is possible to use the smartphone or tablet to unlock with the finger a voordefinieerd pattern to ‘draw’ on the basis of a three-by-three grid of white dots.
From a recently published patent application from Google shows that the company more options for the mechanism have in mind. So that specific actions can be linked to gesture-patterns, while the rest of the device still remains locked. So with a certain finger access to be provided to the email application, but the rest of the system locked.
In addition to launching apps may also be other actions to a gesture linked, though it is not specifically stated what those actions entail. Possible to turn on and turn off certain functionality, such as wi-fi. The recognition of the patterns is according to the patent application independent of the initial starting point of the unlock movement of the finger.
When the Sense interface of HTC is it possible to launch applications from the lockscreen the unlock button to the icons of these applications to move. The custom rom Cyanogenmod has gesture support built in that resemble the system that are in Googles patent is described.
The publication of Google’s patent follows shortly on the granting of the slide-to-unlock-patent competitor Apple. This was an adaptation of the Apple patent is necessary.
