MOBILE TERMINAL, AND MENU ITEM DISPOSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20150370423A1
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: LIU, Zhe
• Application Number:
  US14/647,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20150370423A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 mobile terminal, and a menu item disposing method and apparatus thereof are provided. The menu item disposing method includes the following steps of providing a menu operation hotspot at a first predetermined position on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, the menu operation hotspot having a predetermined number of touch regions; receiving an input setting; obtaining usage priorities of menu items; and disposing the predetermined number of said menu items on the predetermine number of touch regions in a descending order of the usage priorities, wherein when the input setting complies with left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot; and when the input setting complies with right-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

Claims

1. A menu item disposing method for a mobile terminal, comprising the following steps of:

providing a menu operation hotspot at a first predetermined position or a second predetermined position adjacent to the first predetermined position on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, the menu operation hotspot having a predetermined number of touch regions;

receiving an input setting;

obtaining usage priorities determined by usage frequencies of menu items within a predetermined time period; and

disposing the predetermined number of the menu items on the predetermined number of touch regions in a descending order of the usage priorities, wherein when the input setting complies with left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot and the menu item having the lowest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot; and

when the input setting complies with right-hand operation habit, then the menu item haying the highest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot and the menu item having the lowest usage priority is disposed on leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

2. The disposing method of claim 1, further comprising the following steps of:

in response to a dragging operation of a user on a first item of the predetermined number of menu items, adjusting a location of the first menu item on the touch screen; and

when the first menu item is at least partly overlapped with a second menu item of the predetermined number of menu items and the user stops the dragging operation, swapping the positions of the first menu item and the second menu item on the predetermined number of touch regions.

13. The disposing method of claim 2, wherein the first menu item is any of the predetermined number of menu items in the menu operation hotspot, the user long-presses and drags the touch region that has the first menu disposed thereon so that the first menu item is dragged in the mobile terminal in response to the dragging operation of the user.

14. The disposing method of claim 13, wherein the second menu item is any of the predetermined number of menu items in the menu operation hotspot other than the first menu item.

15. The disposing method of claim 2, wherein a menu operation dead zone is provided at the second predetermined position adjacent to the first predetermined position to prevent false operations of the user.

3. A menu item disposing method for a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprises a touch screen, the method comprising the following steps of:

providing a menu operation hotspot at a first predetermined position on the touch screen, the menu operation hotspot having a predetermined number of touch regions;

receiving an input setting;

obtaining usage priorities of menu items; and

disposing the predetermined number of said menu items on the predetermined number of touch regions in a descending order of the usage priorities, wherein when the input setting complies with left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot; and

when the input setting complies with right-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

4. The disposing method of claim 3, wherein a menu operation dead zone is provided at a second predetermined position adjacent to the first predetermined position to prevent false operations of the user.

5. The disposing method of claim 3, further comprising the following steps of:

When the input setting complies with the left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the lowest usage priority of the predetermined number of menu items is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot; and

when the input setting complies with the right-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the lowest usage priority of the predetermined number of menu items is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

6. The disposing method of claim 3, wherein the usage priorities are determined by usage frequencies of the menu items within a predetermined time period.

7. The disposing method of claim 5, further comprising the following steps of:

in response to a dragging operation of the a user on a first menu item of the predetermined number of menu items, adjusting a location of the first menu item on the touch screen; and

when the first menu item is at least partly overlapped with a second menu item of the predetermined number of menu items and the user stops the dragging operation, swapping the positions of the first menu item and the second menu item on the predetermined number of touch regions.

16. The disposing method of claim 7, wherein the first menu item is any of the predetermined number of menu items in the menu operation hotspot, the user long-presses and drags the touch region that has the first menu disposed thereon so that the first menu item is dragged in the mobile terminal in response to the dragging operation of the user.

17. The disposing method of claim 16, wherein the second menu item is any of the predetermined number of menu items in the menu operation hotspot other than the first menu item.

8. A menu item disposing apparatus for a mobile terminal, comprising:

a processor, and

a non-transitory program storage medium configured to;

provide a menu operation hotspot at a first predetermined position on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, the menu operation hotspot having a predetermined number of touch regions;

receive an input setting that complies with left-hand operation habit or right-hand operation habit from a user;

obtain usage priorities of menu items; and

the predetermined number of the menu items on the predetermined number of touch regions in a descending order of the usage priorities, wherein when the input setting complies with the left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot, and when the input setting compiles with the right-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

9. The disposing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the non-transitory program storage medium is further configured to provide a menu operation dead zone at a second predetermined position adjacent to the first predetermined position to prevent false operations of the user.

10. The disposing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the non-transitory program storage medium is further configured to:

when the input setting complies with the left-hand operation habit, dispose the menu item having the lowest usage priority of the predetermined number of menu items on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot, and when the input setting complies with the right-hand operation habit, dispose the menu item having the lowest usage priority of the predetermined number of menu items on the menu leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot.

11. The disposing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the non-transitory program storage medium is further configured to, when the first menu item is at least partly overlapped with a second menu item of the predetermined number of menu items and the user stops the dragging operation, swap the positions of the first menu item and the second menu item on the predetermined number of touch regions.

18. The disposing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the non-transitory program storage medium is further configured to adjusting a location of a first menu tem on the touch screen in response to a dragging operation of the user on the first menu item of the predetermined number of menu items.

19. The disposing apparatus in claim 8, wherein the non-transitory program storage medium is further configured to provide a menu operation dead zone at a second predetermined position adjacent to the first predetermined position to prevent false operations of the user.

12. (canceled)