Information processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device

• US 10,500,484 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2018
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd. (NetEase, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd. (NetEase, Inc.)
• Inventors: Li, Xuemei
• Primary Examiner(s): D'Agostino, Paul A
• Application Number:
  US16/106,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20190118078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An information processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes that: a motion control is provided in a graphical user interface, a first touch operation acting on the motion control is detected, and a virtual character is controlled to move in a game scene according to a movement of a touch point of the first touch operation; an orientation control area is provided, a second touch operation acting on the orientation control area is detected, and an orientation of the virtual character in the game scene is adjusted according to a movement of a touch point of the second touch operation; and a perspective control is provided, a third touch operation acting on the perspective control is detected, and a presentation perspective of the game scene is adjusted according to the third touch operation.

Claims

1. An information processing method, applied to a mobile terminal having at least one processor for executing a software application and a touch screen which is rendered with and a graphical user interface, contents rendered on the graphical user interface at least partially comprising a game scene and a virtual character, the method comprising:

providing a motion control on the graphical user interface;

detecting a first touch operation acting on the motion control, and controlling the virtual character to move in the game scene according to a movement of a touch point of the first touch operation;

providing an orientation control area on the graphical user interface;

detecting a second touch operation acting on the orientation control area, and adjusting an orientation of the virtual character in the game scene according to a movement of a touch point of the second touch operation; and

providing a perspective control on the graphical user interface, detecting a third touch operation acting on the perspective control, and adjusting a presentation view of the game scene according to the third touch operation.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein providing the perspective control on the graphical user interface comprises one of the following:

fixedly displaying the perspective control within a preset area on the graphical user interface; and

displaying, when detecting a perspective adjustment triggering event, the perspective control on the graphical user interface.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein adjusting the presentation view of the game scene according to the third touch operation comprises:

adjusting an orientation of a virtual camera corresponding to the presentation view according to the third touch operation; and

determining the presentation view of the game scene according to the orientation of the virtual camera.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein adjusting the orientation of the virtual camera corresponding to the presentation view according to the third touch operation comprises:

acquiring a current position of a touch point of the third touch operation;

determining a vector between the current position and an origin position of the perspective control; and

adjusting a rotation angle of the virtual camera corresponding to the presentation view according to the vector, so as to determine the orientation of the virtual camera.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein after adjusting the presentation view of the game scene according to the third touch operation, the method further comprises:

before detecting an end triggering event of the third touch operation, detecting whether a virtual target exists at a preset position, for displaying the presentation view of the game scene, of the graphical user interface in real time;

when the virtual target exists at the preset position, providing at least one interaction control within a preset area on the graphical user interface according to a preset type of the virtual target, the at least one interaction control comprising at least one preset instruction; and

when detecting a fourth touch operation acting on the at least one interaction control, sending, according to an interaction control selected by the fourth touch operation, instruction prompt information corresponding to the selected interaction control.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein sending, according to the interaction control selected by the fourth touch operation, the instruction prompt information corresponding to the selected interaction control comprises:

acquiring current position information of the virtual target;

generating the instruction prompt information according to the current position information of the virtual target and an instruction corresponding to the selected interaction control; and

sending the instruction prompt information.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein after adjusting the presentation view of the game scene according to the third touch operation, the method further comprises:

when detecting an end triggering event of the third touch operation, controlling the presentation view to restore to a presentation view corresponding to a current orientation of the virtual character in the game scene.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory, configured to store at least one executable instruction of the at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the information processing method as claimed in claim 1 by executing the at least one executable instruction.

10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which at least one computer program is stored, wherein the at least one computer program is executed by at least one processor to implement the information processing method as claimed in claim 1.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a mini-map, wherein the mini-map is one of the followings:

a thumbnail of an entire game scene, and a thumbnail of a local part of the game scene.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion control is a visible control.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion control is an invisible control.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein controlling the virtual character to move in the game scene comprises one of the following:

controlling a moving direction of the virtual character in the game scene; and

controlling a moving direction and a moving speed of the virtual character in the game scene.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the orientation control area is a visible area.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the orientation control area is an invisible area.

17. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the perspective control is a visible control.

18. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the perspective control is an invisible control.

19. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when adjusting the presentation view of the game scene, a position and orientation of the virtual character in the game scene are kept unchanged.

20. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the preset position is one of the following:

a geometric center of the graphical user interface;

a preset coordinate or area on the graphical user interface; and

a position where a crosshair is located on the graphical user interface.

8. An information processing apparatus, applied to a mobile terminal having at least one processor for executing a software application and a touch screen which is rendered with and a graphical user interface, contents rendered on the graphical user interface at least partially comprising a game scene and a virtual character, the apparatus comprising:

a first control element, configured to provide a motion control on the graphical user interface, detect a first touch operation acting on the motion control, and control the virtual character to move in the game scene according to a movement of a touch point of the first touch operation;

a second control element, configured to provide an orientation control area on the graphical user interface, detect a second touch operation acting on the orientation control area, and adjust an orientation of the virtual character in the game scene according to a movement of a touch point of the second touch operation; and

a third control element, configured to provide a perspective control on the graphical user interface, detect a third touch operation acting on the perspective control, and adjust a presentation view of the game scene according to the third touch operation.