MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM, RADIAL MENU, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140137042A1
• Filed: 01/23/2014
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Du, Jian, GAO, GE
• Application Number:
  US14/162,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20140137042A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/834
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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

A menu implementing method, comprising: establishing a mapping set between a sub-area and an operation; obtaining an operation event at a starting point being located at the edge of a screen, and popping-up a fan-shaped menu at the edge of the screen according to the operation event; obtaining a distance and an angle between a user'"'"'s operation point and the starting point; searching a corresponding operation in the mapping set according to the obtained distance and angle; performing the found operation. This menu implementing method enables triggering a menu at the edge of the screen and improves the expansibility of the menu in the same direction. Furthermore, a menu implementing system, a fan-shaped menu and storage medium are provided.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a menu at a screen of a hand-held apparatus, the method, comprising:

in response to receiving a first event corresponding to a user touching the screen, displaying a circular sector shaped menu wherein a point along a perimeter of the circular sector shaped menu is aligned with a first edge of the screen;

in response to the user touching the screen at a location within the displayed circular sector shaped menu, receiving a distance and an angle corresponding to the location;

searching for a corresponding operation from a plurality of operations based on distance and angle; and

performing the found operation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the circular sector shaped menu comprises:

circular sector shaped menu into a plurality of sub-areas and associating each of the plurality of sub-areas with a respective each of the plurality of operations.

3. The method according to claim 2 further comprises:

displaying a corresponding menu function items in each of the plurality of the sub-areas.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining a distance and an angle comprises:

obtaining a polar coordinate of the location, and obtaining the distance and the angle between location and the point according to the polar coordinate.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein searching a corresponding operation based on the obtained distance and angle comprises:

determining a sub-area of the screen in which the location is located according to the obtained distance and angle, and selecting the one of the plurality of operations corresponding to the determined sub-area.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein dividing the circular sector shaped menu into a plurality of sub-areas comprises:

dividing the circular sector shaped menu along the radius thereof in the unit of preset distance, and further dividing the circular sector shaped menu in the unit of preset angle, such that dividing the fan-shaped area into a plurality of sub-areas.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the circular sector shaped menu corresponds to a semicircle and wherein aligning the point along the perimeter comprising locating a diametrical edge of the semicircle with the first edge of the screen.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the circular sector shaped menu corresponds to a quadrant with a first linear edge and a second linear edge and wherein aligning a point along the perimeter of the quadrant comprising locating the first linear edge of the quadrant with the first edge of the screen and locating the second linear edge with the second edge of the screen.

7. A menu implementing apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more modules stored in the memory and to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more modules including;

a setting module, configured to establish a mapping set between a sub-area and an operation;

a displaying module, configured to obtain an operation event at a starting point being located at an edge of a screen, and pop up a fan-shaped menu at the edge of the screen according to the operation event;

a processing module, configured to obtain a distance and an angle between a user'"'"'s operation point and the starting point;

a searching module, configured to search an corresponding operation in the mapping set according to the obtained distance and angle; and

an executing module, configured to perform the found operation.

8. The menu implementing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the setting module is further configured to set a fan-shaped area at the edge of the screen with the starting point being a center of a circle, and to divide the fan-shaped area into a plurality of sub-areas according to a distance and an angle between the fan-shaped area and the starting point.

9. The menu implementing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the displaying module is further configured to display a button at the starting point, obtain an operation event on the button, pop up a fan-shaped menu at the fan-shaped area according to the operation event, and display corresponding menu function items in the sub-areas.

10. The menu implementing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the processing module is further configured to obtain a polar coordinate of the user'"'"'s operation point, and obtain the distance and the angle between the operation point and the starting point according to the polar coordinate.

11. The menu implementing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the searching module is further configured to obtain a sub-area in which the operation point is located according to the obtained distance and angle, and search an operation corresponding to the sub-area in the mapping set.

12. A fan-shaped menu displayed at a touch-sensitive display screen, wherein the fan-shaped menu is displayed upon obtaining an operation event at a starting point being located along an edge of the touch-sensitive display screen;

the fan-shaped menu comprises a plurality of sub-areas being divided according to a distance and an angle between a fan-shaped menu and the starting point, each of the plurality of sub-areas comprising an item representing a menu function item of a corresponding operation.

13. The fan-shaped menu according to claim 12, wherein the fan-shaped menu is displayed upon obtaining an operation on a button displayed at the location of the starting point.

14. The fan-shaped menu according to claim 12, wherein the distances and angles between the fan-shaped menu and the starting point are represented as polar coordinates.

15. The fan-shaped menu according to claim 12, wherein texts and icons representing corresponding menu function items are displayed in various sub-areas.