Method and Wireless Handheld Device for Automatically Switching Handheld Mode

• US 20150042591A1
• Filed: 10/23/2014
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Hongxi
• Granted Patent: US 10,282,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for automatically switching a handheld mode and a wireless handheld device. The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies. The method for automatically switching a handheld mode includes: updating, when it is detected that a duration during which handheld positions of a wireless handheld device do not match a preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds a first preset duration, a first user interface matching the first handheld mode to a second user interface matching a second handheld mode, where a layout of controls on the second user interface is a flip horizontal of a layout of controls on the first user interface.

Claims

1. A method for automatically switching a handheld mode, the method comprising:

detecting that a duration during which handheld positions of a wireless handheld device do not match a preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds a first preset duration; and

updating a first user interface matching the first handheld mode to a second user interface matching a second handheld mode, wherein a layout of controls on the second user interface is a flip horizontal of a layout of controls on the first user interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when it is detected that a duration during which handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds a second preset duration.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein updating the first user to the second user interface comprises updating the first user to the second user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration;

or

wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein updating the first user to the second user interface comprises updating the first user to the second user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration;

or

wherein updating the second user interface to the first user interface comprises updating the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein updating the first user to the second user interface comprises updating the first user to the second user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein updating the first user to the second user interface comprises updating the first user to the second user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state and it is detected that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

11. A wireless handheld device, comprising:

a sensor; and

at least one processor coupled to the sensor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to update a first user interface matching a first handheld mode to a second user interface matching a second handheld mode when the sensor detects that a duration during which handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match a preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds a first preset duration, wherein a layout of controls on the second user interface is a flip horizontal of a layout of controls on the first user interface.

12. The wireless handheld device according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the second user interface to the first user interface when the sensor detects that a duration during which handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds a second preset duration.

13. The wireless handheld device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the first user interface matching the first handheld mode to the second user interface matching the second handheld mode when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

14. The wireless handheld device according to claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

15. The wireless handheld device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the first user interface matching the first handheld mode to the second user interface matching the second handheld mode when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

16. The wireless handheld device according to claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

17. The wireless handheld device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

18. The wireless handheld device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the second user interface to the first user interface when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the second handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the second preset duration.

19. The wireless handheld device according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the first user interface matching the first handheld mode to the second user interface matching the second handheld mode when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.

20. The wireless handheld device according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update the first user interface matching the first handheld mode to the second user interface matching the second handheld mode when the wireless handheld device is in a user-interface non-locked state, and the sensor detects that the duration during which the handheld positions of the wireless handheld device do not match the preset first handheld mode of the wireless handheld device exceeds the first preset duration.