Apparatus and method pertaining to the stylus-initiated opening of an application

摘要

A particular application is pre-associated with the detection of a predetermined stylus action that occurs while a given electronic device is in a standby mode of operation. Upon then detecting that predetermined stylus action these teachings provide for responsively opening that particular application. By one approach this opening of the particular application occurs in conjunction with switching the electronic device from the standby mode of operation to the active mode of operation. The pre-association can be based, at least in part, upon an automatic association based upon identifying the most-used application for the electronic device. As another example, the pre-association can be based, at least in part, upon a specific user-based selection.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a stylus sensor; a display; a control circuit operably coupled to the stylus sensor and the display, the control circuit having a standby mode of operation during which the display is dark and an active mode of operation, the control circuit being configured to: pre-associate a particular application with detection of a predetermined stylus action that occurs while the control circuit is in the standby mode of operation, where the pre-association of the particular application is an automatic association with the predetermined stylus action based upon identifying a most-used application for the apparatus; detect via the stylus sensor the predetermined stylus action while the control circuit is in the standby mode of operation and responsively open the particular application.