Portable Electronic Apparatus and Interface Display Method Thereof

• US 20150149907A1
• Filed: 08/04/2014
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Wu, Jung-Yu
• Application Number:
  US14/450,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20150149907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

A portable electronic apparatus and an interface display method thereof are disclosed. The method includes the following steps of: executing an application; capturing and analyzing an environmental sound around the portable electronic apparatus to obtain at least one sound character;

determining a state of motion of the portable electronic apparatus; comparing the at least one sound character and the state of motion with a statistics data of the application to determine an interface display mode of the application; and locking the interface display mode as a predetermined interface display mode for displaying a display interface of the application when a compared result is obtained by the comparing step.

Claims

1. An interface display method, applied to a portable electronic apparatus, which comprises the following steps of:

executing an application;

capturing and analyzing an environmental sound around the portable electronic apparatus to obtain at least one sound character;

determining a state of motion of the portable electronic apparatus;

comparing the at least one sound character and the state of motion with a usage statistics data of the application to determine an interface display mode of the application; and

locking the interface display mode as a predetermined interface display mode for displaying a display interface of the application when a compared result is obtained by the comparing step.

2. The interface display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the usage statistics data is a statistical data recording the at least one sound character, the state of motion, and the interface display mode during each execution of the application within a set period.

3. The interface display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the usage statistics data is a statistical data recording the at least one sound character, the state of motion, and the interface display mode during each execution of the application within a specified number of executions of the application.

4. The interface display method as claimed in claim 2, wherein recording of the usage statistics data is begun each time the application is executed, and recording of the usage statistics data is stopped when the application is terminated or the application has not been used after a set amount of idle time.

5. The interface display method as claimed in claim 3, wherein recording of the usage statistics data is begun each time the application is executed, and recording of the usage statistics data is stopped when the application is terminated or the application has not been used after a set amount of idle time.

6. The interface display method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the following steps of:

receiving a release command;

unlocking the interface display mode in accordance with the release command; and

locking the interface display mode to the predetermined interface display mode again when the display interface is switched back to the predetermined interface display mode.

12. The portable electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the control module receives a release command, the control module unlocks the interface display mode in accordance with the release command, and the control module locks the interface display mode to the predetermined interface display mode again when the display interface is switched back to the predetermined interface display mode.

7. A portable electronic apparatus, comprising:

a control module used for executing an application;

a sound processing module used for capturing and analyzing an environmental sound around the portable electronic apparatus to obtain at least one sound character;

a movement detection module used for determining a state of motion of the portable electronic apparatus;

a data collection module used for recording a usage statistics data of the application; and

a comparison module used for comparing the at least one sound character and the state of motion with the usage statistics data of the application to determine an interface display mode of the application and for informing the control module to lock the interface display mode as a predetermined interface display mode for displaying a display interface of the application.

8. The portable electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the usage statistics data is a statistical data recording the at least one sound character, the state of motion, and the interface display mode recorded by the data collection module during each execution of the application by the control module within a set period.

9. The portable electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the usage statistics data is a statistical data recording the at least one sound character, the state of motion, and the interface display mode recorded by the data collection module during each execution of the application by the control module within a specified number of executions.

10. The portable electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the data collection module starts recording the usage statistics data each time the application is executed, and the data collection module stops recording the statistical data when the application is terminated or the application has not been used after a set amount of idle time.

11. The portable electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data collection module starts recording the usage statistics data each time the application is executed, and the data collection module stops recording the statistical data when the application is terminated or the application has not been used after a set amount of idle time.