Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Timo Tokkonen

Jakke Mäkelä

Kai Markus Ojala

Markku Rytivaara

Mika P Mustonen

Timo Kolehmainen

Jani Mäntyjärvi

Jakke Sakari Makela

Ilkka Tiainen

Petri Juhani Kangas

Antti Ilkka Takaluoma

Sami Sillanpää

Kari Kangas

An electronic device and a method for providing an extended user interface in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device comprises a user interface and a display configured to display data objects. The device is configured to detect selection of a data object on the display, detect dragging of the selected data object to a border of the display and to detect an effort to drag the object over the border in a given direction outside the display. A predetermined action is performed in the device on the basis of the detected effort and the detected direction.

Electronic device and method for providing extended user interface

Apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to compare an identifier of a calling party with one or more contacts of a receiving party to determine privilege information associated with the calling party, the privilege information providing one or more authorised receiving party location-based responses. The apparatus further comprising at least one processor configured to determine a location of the receiving party and provide an associated authorised response to the calling party.

Apparatus for a receiving party

The invention relates to a method for entering characters in a user interface of an electronic device. The method according to the invention comprises: detecting the direction of movement indicated by the input device when the start of the character entering function has been detected; showing the character of the character area on the display, towards which character area the direction of movement indicated by the input device is proceeding; detecting the termination of the character entering function; interpreting the character towards whose character area the direction of movement was last detected to proceed as the character to be entered next, when the termination of the character entering function is detected.

Method and user interface for entering characters

Arrangement for providing operational settings to an electronic device including a data storage, including at least one data storage element including instructions needed to perform one or more functions in the electronic device. The electronic device includes reading means for reading one or more of the plurality of data storage elements, the electronic device further including controlling means for performing one or more functions defined by the instructions included in the read data storage element included in the data storage.

Actuating functionality in electronic device

The object of the invention is a method and a software application embodying the method for displaying the information in the display () of a data processing device in a situation where a portion of the display () area, and thus also a portion of the information on the display, is covered by an obstacle () in front of the display (). The method according to the invention detects the size and position of the obstacle (), and then regroups () the information in the display () into a portion of the display (), which is not left behind the detected obstacle ().

Method and software application for transmitting information remaining behind an obstacle located in front of the display to the user of a data processing device

The invention relates to a method of controlling a locking function in a locking arrangement. The method presented comprises creating () a database from predetermined objects; determining () at least one user-specific inter-object internal order in the database; detecting () a control command for starting the control of the locking function; displaying () a predetermined number of objects on the display of the locking arrangement once the control command is detected; detecting () the selection order of the objects; and changing () the lock state when the detected object selection order is at least sufficiently close to a given user-specific inter-object internal order.

Method and arrangement for controlling locking function

An imaging device comprising at least one image capturing subsystem of a first type, comprising a lens arrangement, configured to produce images. The device further comprises at least one image capturing subsystem of a second type comprising a lens arrangement, having optical or light gathering properties different from the subsystem of first type, configured to produce an image, and a controller configured to select the subsystem with which an image is to be taken.

Imaging device

The invention relates to a method of deactivating the touch screen lock in a portable electronic device comprising a touch screen and means for locking the touch screen. The method comprises detecting touches on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order during touch screen lock and deactivating the touch screen lock once said touches on said predetermined contact areas are detected. The invention also relates to a portable electronic device comprising a touch screen and means for locking the touch screen. The device comprises means for detecting touches on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order during touch screen lock and deactivating the touch screen lock once said touches on said predetermined contact areas are detected.

Method of deactivating lock and portable electronic device

According to the present invention, there is provided a method and device for the viewing, editing and dissemination of an editable object in real-time mobile collaboration sessions. The invention comprises a set of mobile terminals and a protocol which enables users to simultaneously edit the same editable object. An advantageous embodiment of this invention allows for synchronization to occur in real time. Further, synchronization and version control problems are avoided as the invention considers each user's edited version to be a genuine version of the data. The end result of the editing process may be several different versions, and not just one single authoritative version.

Method and device for real-time shared editing mobile video

An electronic device comprises a touch screen and is configured to enter a lock state upon the fulfilment of a predetermined condition. The device is configured to display one or more images on the touch screen when the device is in the lock state, of which images one or more includes at least one predetermined point. The device is further configured to detect a touch on a predetermined point in one or more images and to deactivate the device lock state upon detection of a predetermined number of touches on successive images including a predetermined point.

Method of deactivating device lock state, and electronic device

An apparatus for quantifying irradiance has a first sensor having an output for providing a reference signal of irradiance within a first band, such as the visible light band. A filter and a second sensor are in optical series so that irradiance sensed at the second sensor is filtered. The second sensor outputs a filtered signal of irradiance within the first band. The filter particularly filters irradiance in the first band as a function of irradiance in the second band, such as the UV light band. In an exemplary embodiment, the filter is made from a material that darkens with increasing UV irradiance. A processor has inputs coupled to the outputs of the first and second sensors for determining irradiance in the second band from the reference signal and the filtered signal. Mathematical formulations for the processor are provided, as are methods and a computer program embodied on a medium. A single sensor embodiment is also described.

UV radiation meter using visible light sensors

The invention relates to a method and a device arrangement utilizing the method and a mobile terminal device () belonging to the device arrangement, in which method for giving an alert to the user of a cellular network terminal device (), the user at first searches for interesting objects from the information networks () by means of a network browser in the data processing device (), and after that saves the linking information of the found object as a bookmark into the personal bookmark archive (). The bookmark archive can be located either in the cellular network terminal device (), or in some data processing device, such as a server, to which the terminal device () can establish a data transfer connection. The information in the bookmark archive () is used for giving an alert to the mobile terminal device () about an object that interests the user.

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Oulu, Finland

Timo Tokkonen