METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20150234556A1
• Filed: 03/28/2014
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Shaofeng, Lin, Lijun
• Granted Patent: US 9,904,458 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method for information processing is provided in the disclosure. The method includes: acquiring a first operation of a user; determining a first application and generating a first instruction based on the first operation, wherein the first instruction is adapted to set the first application to a first mode; setting the first application to the first mode based on the first instruction; acquiring a second operation of the user; generating a second instruction based on the second operation; not distributing the second instruction to the first application in the case where it is determined that the second operation belongs to a first type of operation event; and distributing the second instruction to a corresponding application in the case where it is determined that the second operation does not belong to the first type of operation event. An electronic apparatus is further provided in the disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for information processing applied in an electronic apparatus with a touch display unit, wherein a plurality of applications are run on the electronic apparatus, each of the applications is displayed on the touch display unit through a full-screen window mode or a small window mode;

a display area of the full-screen window is equal to an area in which a touch event is acceptable by the touch display unit;

a display area of the small window is smaller than the area in which a touch event is acceptable by the touch display unit, the display area of the small window is smaller than the display area of the full-screen window;

the small window is acquired through transforming the full-screen window by using a first transforming parameter, wherein the first transforming parameter at least comprises a parameter, a matrix, a parameter group or a parameter set and the method comprises;

acquiring a first operation of a user;

determining a first application and generating a first instruction based on the first operation, the first instruction being adapted to set the first application to a first mode;

setting the first application to the first mode based on the first instruction;

acquiring a second operation of the user;

generating a second instruction based on the second operation;

not distributing the second instruction to the first application in the case where it is determined that the second operation belongs to a first type of operation event; and

distributing the second instruction to a corresponding application in the case where it is determined that the second operation does not belong to the first type of operation event.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first type of operation event comprises a key-pressing operation event.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after the first application is set to the first mode, in the case where the number of application windows displayed on the touch display unit is over two and there is an overlapping region between a first window for displaying the first application and other small windows displayed on the touch display unit, the method further comprises:

displaying the first window entirely on the touch display unit.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein distributing the second instruction to a corresponding application in the case where it is determined that the second operation does not belong to the first type of operation event comprises:

determining an operation coordinate of the second operation on the touch display unit based on the second operation;

judging whether the operation coordinate is within the overlapping region; and

distributing the second instruction to the first application in the case where it is judged that the operation coordinate is within the overlapping region.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining a second application in a resumed state in the case where it is determined that the second operation belongs to the first type of operation event; and

distributing the second instruction to the second application.

6. An electronic apparatus with a touch display unit, wherein a plurality of applications are run on the electronic apparatus, each of the applications is displayed on the touch display unit through a full-screen window mode or a small window mode;

a display area of the full-screen window is equal to an area in which a touch event is acceptable by the touch display unit;

a display area of the small window is smaller than the area in which a touch event is acceptable by the touch display unit, the display area of the small window is smaller than the display area of the full-screen window;

the small window is acquired through transforming the full-screen window by using a first transforming parameter, wherein the first transforming parameter at least comprises a parameter, a matrix, a parameter group or a parameter set;

the electronic apparatus comprises;

a first acquiring device, a first generating device, a setting device, a second acquiring device, a second generating device, a first distributing device and a second distributing device, wherein;

the first acquiring device is adapted to acquire a first operation of a user;

the first generating device is adapted to determine a first application and generate a first instruction based on the first operation, the first instruction being adapted to set the first application to a first mode;

the setting device is adapted to set the first application to the first mode based on the first instruction;

the second acquiring device is adapted to acquire a second operation of the user;

the second generating device is adapted to generate a second instruction based on the second operation;

the first distributing device is adapted to not distribute the second instruction to the first application in the case where it is determined that the second operation belongs to a first type of operation event; and

the second distributing device is adapted to distribute the second instruction to a corresponding application in the case where it is determined that the second operation does not belong to the first type of operation event.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first type of operation event comprises a key-pressing operation event.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein after the first application is set to 6 the first mode, in the case where the number of application windows displayed on the touch display unit is over two and there is an overlapping region between a first window for displaying the first application and other small windows displayed on the touch display unit, the electronic apparatus further comprises a display device adapted to display the first window entirely on the display unit.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein in the case where the second operation is a touch operation and does not belong to the first type of operation event, the second distributing device comprises a second determining unit, a judging unit and a distributing unit, wherein:

the second determining unit is adapted to determine an operation coordinate of the second operation on the touch display unit based on the second operation;

the judging unit is adapted to judge whether the operation coordinate is within the overlapping region; and

the distributing unit is adapted to distribute the second instruction to the first application in the case where it is judged that the operation coordinate is within the overlapping region.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a third distributing device, which is adapted to determine a second application in a resumed state and distribute the second instruction to the second application in the case where it is determined that the second operation belongs to the first type of operation event.

11. A method for information processing applied in an electronic apparatus, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises a display unit on which M first applications are run, the electronic apparatus executes a first instruction and displays N first small windows on the display unit;

the N first small windows correspond to N first applications among the M first applications to make each of the N first applications displayed on a corresponding first small window, the first small window is obtained through transforming a full-screen window by using a first transformation parameter, wherein the first transforming parameter at least comprises a parameter, a matrix, a parameter group or a parameter set;

either of M or N is a positive integer;

in the case where a first application is displayed on the display unit through the corresponding first small window, a response mode of the first small window comprises a first response mode and a second response mode;

the method further comprises;

acquiring a first operation on the first small window;

acquiring an attribute parameter of a current first small window, the attribute parameter indicating the response mode of the first small window;

generating a first instruction based on the first operation and adjusting an arrangement of the first small window on the display unit in response to the first instruction in the case where the acquired attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the first response mode;

generating a second instruction based on the first operation and distributing the second instruction to the first application being run in the first small window in response to the second instruction to make the first application respond to the second instruction in the case where the acquired attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the second response mode.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein adjusting the arrangement of the first small window on the display unit comprises at least:

adjusting a displaying area of the first small window on the display unit;

or

adjusting a window size of the first small window in the case where the first small window is displayed on the display unit;

or

adjusting a displayed or hidden state of the first small window on the display unit.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

acquiring a second operation on the first small window, the second operation indicating a switch of the response mode;

acquiring the attribute parameter of the current first small window, the attribute parameter indicating the response mode of the first small window;

switching the first small window from the first response mode to the second response mode in response to the second operation in the case where the attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the first response mode; and

switching the first small window from the second response mode to the first response mode in response to the second operation in the case where the attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the second response mode.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the second operation comprises at least one of a touch operation, a key pressing operation, a gesture operation or a voice operation.

15. An electronic apparatus, comprising a display unit on which M first applications can are run, wherein the electronic apparatus executes a first instruction, N first small windows are displayed on the display unit, the N first small windows correspond to N first applications among the M first applications to make each of the N first applications displayed on a corresponding first small window, the first small window is obtained through transforming a full-screen window by using a first transformation parameter, wherein the first transforming parameter at least comprises a parameter, a matrix, a parameter group or a parameter set;

either of M or N is a positive integer;

in the case where a first application is displayed on the display unit through the corresponding first small window, a response mode of the first small window comprises a first response mode and a second response mode;

the electronic apparatus further comprises a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, a first generating unit, an adjusting unit, a second generating unit and a distributing unit;

wherein,

the first acquiring unit is adapted to acquire a first operation on the first small window;

the second acquiring unit is adapted to acquire an attribute parameter of a current first small window, the attribute parameter indicates the response mode of the first small window;

the first generating unit is adapted to generate a first instruction based on the first operation in the case where the acquired attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the first response mode;

the adjusting unit is adapted to adjust an arrangement of the first small window on the display unit in response to the first instruction;

the second generating unit is adapted to generate a second instruction based on the first operation in the case where the acquired attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the second response mode;

the distributing unit is adapted to distribute the second instruction to the first application being run on the first small window in response to the second instruction to make the first application respond to the second instruction.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the adjusting unit is further adapted to adjust a displaying area of the first small window on the display unit;

or to adjust a window size of the first small window in the case where the first small window is displayed on the display unit;

or to adjust the displayed or hidden state of the first small window on the display unit.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a third acquiring unit, a fourth acquiring unit, a first switching unit and a second switching unit;

wherein,

the third acquiring unit is adapted to acquire the second operation on the first small window, the second operation indicates a switch of the response mode;

the fourth acquiring unit is adapted to acquire the attribute parameter of the current first small window, the attribute parameter indicates the response mode of the first small window;

the first switching unit is adapted to switch the first small window from the first response mode to the second response mode in response to the second operation in the case where the attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the first response mode;

the second switching unit is adapted to switch the first small window from the second response mode to the first response mode in response to the second operation in the case where the attribute parameter indicates that the first small window is in the second response mode.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the second operation comprises at least one of a touch operation, a key pressing operation, a gesture operation or a voice operation.