Method for Adjusting Window Display Position, and Terminal

• US 20160162169A1
• Filed: 06/06/2014
• Published: 06/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xu, Yuan
• Granted Patent: US 10,318,135 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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 3/0481 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A method for adjusting a window display position, and a terminal. The method for adjusting a window display position in the present disclosure includes displaying a window in a first position of a terminal screen; acquiring a rotational angular acceleration and/or a rotating angle of a terminal; determining a change of a rotation direction of the terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and/or the rotating angle; and adjusting, according to a rotational change direction of the terminal, the window to be displayed in a second position of the screen. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a function of dynamically adjusting a window display position according to a change of a rotation direction of a terminal is implemented. After the adjustment, a user operation is more convenient.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a window display position, comprising:

displaying a window in a first position of a terminal screen;

acquiring a rotational angular acceleration and a rotating angle of a terminal;

determining a change of a rotation direction of the terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle; and

adjusting, according to a rotational change direction of the terminal, the window to be displayed in a second position of the screen.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rotational angular acceleration is a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction, and the rotating angle is a rotating angle around the x-axis direction, and wherein determining the change of the rotation direction of the terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle comprises:

when the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determining that the terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the terminal is a downward direction.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rotational angular acceleration is a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and a rotational angular acceleration around a y-axis direction, and the rotating angle is a rotating angle around the x-axis direction and a rotating angle around the y-axis direction, and wherein determining the change of the rotation direction of the terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and/or the rotating angle comprises:

when an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction is greater than an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the y-axis direction, and the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determining that the terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the terminal is a downward direction.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before adjusting, according to the rotational change direction of the terminal, the window to be displayed in the second position of the screen, the method comprises presetting displacement by which the window moves.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein adjusting, according to the rotational change direction of the terminal, the window to be displayed in the second position of the screen comprises:

moving the window of the terminal towards the rotational change direction by the displacement; and

adjusting the window to be displayed in the second position of the screen.

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11. A terminal, comprising:

a processor;

a display; and

a sensor;

wherein the display is configured to display a window in a first position;

wherein the sensor is configured to acquire a rotational angular acceleration and a rotating angle of the terminal;

wherein the processor is configured to determine a change of a rotation direction of the terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle that are/is acquired by the sensor; and

wherein the display is further configured to adjust, according to a rotational change direction of the terminal, the window to be displayed in a second position.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the sensor is further configured to acquire a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and/or a rotating angle around the x-axis direction of the terminal, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

when the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determine that the terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the terminal is a downward direction.

13. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the sensor is further configured to acquire a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and a rotational angular acceleration around a y-axis direction, and/or a rotating angle around the x-axis direction and a rotating angle around the y-axis direction of the terminal, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

when an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction is greater than an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the y-axis direction, and the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determine that the terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the terminal is a downward direction.

14. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to preset displacement by which the window moves.

15. The terminal according to claim 14, wherein the display is further configured to move the window of the terminal towards the rotational change direction by the displacement, and adjust the window to be displayed in the second position.

16. An interface display method, wherein the method is applied to a mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal comprises a display screen and an application program, and wherein the method comprises:

invoking the application program;

displaying an application program interface in a first position of the display screen;

detecting a rotational angular acceleration and a rotating angle of the mobile terminal;

determining a change of a rotation direction of the mobile terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle; and

displaying the application program interface in a second position of the display screen according to a rotational change direction of the mobile terminal.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the rotational angular acceleration is a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction, and the rotating angle is a rotating angle around the x-axis direction, and wherein determining the change of the rotation direction of the mobile terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and/or the rotating angle comprises:

when the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determining that the mobile terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the mobile terminal is a downward direction.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the rotational angular acceleration is a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and a rotational angular acceleration around a y-axis direction, and the rotating angle is a rotating angle around the x-axis direction and a rotating angle around the y-axis direction, and wherein determining the change of the rotation direction of the mobile terminal according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle comprises:

when an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction is greater than an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the y-axis direction, and the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determining that the mobile terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the mobile terminal is a downward direction.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein before displaying the application program interface in the second position of the display screen according to the rotational change direction of the mobile terminal, the method comprises presetting displacement by which the application program interface moves.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein displaying the application program interface in the second position of the display screen according to the rotational change direction of the mobile terminal comprises:

moving the application program interface of the mobile terminal towards the rotational change direction by the displacement; and

displaying the application program interface in the second position of the display screen.

21. An interface display apparatus, comprising:

a display;

a processor; and

a sensor;

wherein the display is configured to display an application program interface in a first position of the display;

wherein the sensor is configured to detect a rotational angular acceleration and a rotating angle of the apparatus;

wherein the processor is configured to determine a change of a rotation direction of the apparatus according to the rotational angular acceleration and the rotating angle; and

wherein the display is further configured to display the application program interface in a second position of the display according to a rotational change direction of the apparatus.

22. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the sensor is further configured to detect a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and/or a rotating angle around the x-axis direction of the apparatus, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

when the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determine that the apparatus rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the apparatus is a downward direction.

23. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the sensor is further configured to detect a rotational angular acceleration around an x-axis direction and a rotational angular acceleration around a y-axis direction, and/or a rotating angle around the x-axis direction and a rotating angle around the y-axis direction of the apparatus, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

when an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction is greater than an absolute value of the rotational angular acceleration around the y-axis direction, and the rotational angular acceleration around the x-axis direction and the rotating angle around the x-axis direction are respectively greater than a first preset rotational angular acceleration threshold and a first preset rotating angle threshold, determine that the terminal rotates counterclockwise around the x-axis and the rotational change direction of the terminal is a downward direction.

24. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to preset displacement by which the application program interface moves.

25. The apparatus according to claim 24, wherein the display is further configured to:

move the application program interface of the apparatus towards the rotational change direction by the displacement; and

display the application program interface in the second position of the display.