Method for setting icon, and electronic device

• US 10,386,991 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2017
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Zhu
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Amy M
• Application Number:
  US15/601,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20170336944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method includes: receiving a first operation of a user, where the first operation controls an icon of an electronic device to enter an editing state; receiving a second operation of the user, where the second operation controls a first icon to move along a first track; determining a correlation between the first icon and another icon during the movement of the first icon along the first track; and after the first icon is most correlated with a second icon, continuing, by the second operation, to control the first icon to move away from the second icon along a second track, and when the first icon is most correlated with the second icon again along a third track, moving the first icon to a location of the second icon and moving the second icon to another location.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an icon, comprising:

displaying a user interface on a display panel of an electronic device, wherein the user interface comprises a plurality of icons including a first icon and a second icon;

receiving a first operation of a user;

in response to the first operation, enabling the first and second icons of the electronic device to enter an editing state;

receiving a dragging operation of the user;

in response to a first portion of the dragging operation, moving the first icon along a first track approaching the second icon;

determining a correlation between the first icon and the second icon during the movement of the first icon along the first track;

after determining that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon, displaying the second icon in a highlighted manner;

in response to the dragging operation being terminated without the first icon being further moved such that the first icon is no longer most correlated with the second icon, displaying a folder in the user interface and integrating the first icon and the second icon in the folder; and

in response to a second portion of the dragging operation without termination of the dragging operation;

first moving the first icon away from the second icon along a second track, and then moving the first icon towards the second icon along a third track while maintaining the second icon in the highlighted manner; and

when the first icon is most correlated with the second icon again along the third track, moving the first icon to a location of the second icon and moving the second icon to another location.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when a center distance between the first icon and the second icon is the shortest compared with center distances between the first icon and other icons.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when an overlapping area between the first icon and the second icon is the largest.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when the first icon and the second icon are overlapped and a motion direction of the first track points to the second icon.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a motion direction of the second track is opposite to a motion direction of the first track, and a motion direction of the third track is the same as the motion direction of the first track.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein an angle between the motion direction of the second track and the motion direction of the first track is greater than 90°

, and an angle between the motion direction of the third track and the motion direction of the first track is less than 90°

.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein moving the second icon to another location comprises:

sequentially moving the second icon and icons on the right of and below the second icon by one location in a left-to-right or top-to-bottom order.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein moving the second icon to another location comprises:

randomly moving the second icon to any empty location in the user interface.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to;

display a user interface on a display panel of the electronic device, wherein the user interface comprises a plurality of icons including a first icon and a second icon;

receive a first operation of a user;

in response to the first operation, enable the first and second icons of the electronic device to enter an editing state;

receive a dragging operation of the user;

in response to a first portion of the dragging operation, move the first icon along a first track towards the second icon;

determine a correlation between the first icon and the second icon during the movement of the first icon along the first track;

after determining that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon, display the second icon in a highlighted manner;

in response to the dragging operation being terminated without the first icon being further moved such that the first icon is no longer most correlated with the second icon, display a folder in the user interface and integrate the first icon and the second icon in the folder; and

in response to a second portion of the dragging operation without termination of the dragging operation;

first move the first icon away from the second icon along a second track, and then move the first icon towards the second icon along a third track while maintaining the second icon in the highlighted manner; and

when the first icon is most correlated with the second icon again along the third track, move the first icon to a location of the second icon and move the second icon to another location.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the electronic device to:

determine that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when a center distance between the first icon and the second icon is the shortest compared with center distances between the first icon and other icons.

11. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the electronic device to:

determine that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when an overlapping area between the first icon and the second icon is the largest.

12. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the electronic device to:

determine that the first icon is most correlated with the second icon when the first icon and the second icon are overlapped and a motion direction of the first track points to the second icon.

13. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein a motion direction of the second track is opposite to a motion direction of the first track, and a motion direction of the third track is the same as the motion direction of the first track.

14. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein an angle between the motion direction of the second track and the motion direction of the first track is greater than 90°

, and an angle between the motion direction of the third track and the motion direction of the first track is less than 90°

.

15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the electronic device to:

sequentially move the second icon and icons on the right of and below the second icon by one location in a left-to-right or top-to-bottom order.

16. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the electronic device to:

randomly move the second icon to any empty location in the user interface.