METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY INTERFACE

• US 20120098867A1
• Filed: 12/28/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zheng, Dandan
• Application Number:
  US13/338,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20120098867A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/672
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for displaying an interface. The method includes: obtaining display information of a current display screen; determining, according to the display information, position information of a picture to be displayed on the current display screen, and arranging the picture to be displayed at a position corresponding to the position information on the current display screen, so as to finish arranging the picture to be displayed on the current display screen. Implementation of embodiments of the present disclosure may effectively enable a user to set the display position, display mode, and occupied display space of a picture to be displayed according to personal preferences, so that the picture desired by the user can be displayed on the current display screen, thereby facilitating the application of the user.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an interface, comprising:

obtaining display information of a current display screen;

determining, according to the display information, position information of a picture to be displayed on the current display screen, and

arranging the picture to be displayed at a position corresponding to the position information on the current display screen.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining position information of the picture to be displayed on the current display screen comprises:

according to the display information, dragging the picture to be displayed to a boundary between other displayed pictures and letting the picture stay for a set time, so as to extend along the boundary to obtain the position information of the picture to be displayed.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining position information of the picture to be displayed on the current display screen comprises:

judging, according to the display information, whether a vacant position exists on the current display screen;

if no vacant position exists, dragging the picture to be displayed to a boundary between other displayed pictures and letting the picture stay for a set time, so as to extend along the boundary to obtain the position information of the picture to be displayed;

or

if a vacant position exists, determining the position information of the picture at the vacant position.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein if the existent vacant position on the current display screen is not enough to arrange the picture to be displayed, the method further comprises:

extending, in a set direction based on the vacant position, a display area enough to display the picture to be displayed, so as to determine the position information of the picture to be displayed.

5. An apparatus for displaying an interface, comprising:

a display information obtaining unit, configured to obtain display information of a current display screen; and

a display processing unit, configured to determine, according to the display information obtained by the display information obtaining unit, position information of a picture to be displayed on the current display screen, and arrange the picture to be displayed at a position corresponding to the position information on the current display screen.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display processing unit comprises:

a first position information determining unit, configured to drag the picture to be displayed to a boundary between other displayed pictures and let the picture stay for a set time, so as to extend along the boundary to obtain position information of the picture to be displayed; and

a displaying unit, configured to arrange the picture to be displayed at the position corresponding to the position information on the current display screen.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display processing unit comprises:

a judgment processing unit, configured to judge, according to the display information obtained by the display information obtaining unit, whether a vacant position exists on the current display screen;

a second position information determining unit, configured to;

when the judgment processing unit determines that no vacant position exists on the current display screen, drag the picture to be displayed to a boundary between other displayed pictures and let the picture stay for a set time, so as to extend along the boundary to obtain the position information of the picture to be displayed;

a third position information determining unit, configured to determine the position information of the picture to be displayed at the vacant position on the current display screen when the judgment processing unit determines that a vacant position exists on the current display screen; and

a displaying unit, configured to arrange the picture to be displayed at the position corresponding to the position information on the current display screen.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

a fourth position information determining unit, configured to extend, in a set direction based on the vacant position, a display area enough to display the picture to be displayed when the vacant position on the current display screen is not enough to arrange the picture to be displayed, so as to determine the position information of the picture to be displayed.