METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING SCREEN ON MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20170186127A1
• Filed: 12/05/2016
• Published: 06/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hisense International Company Limited (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.), Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.), Hisense USA Corporation (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hisense International Company Limited (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.), Hisense Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.), Hisense USA Corporation (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: YU, DEYI
• Granted Patent: US 10,242,226 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for capturing a screen on a mobile device, the method including: receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, where the current interface includes first data, and the first data includes personal information; and generating, according to screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, where the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined. These embodiments avoid the need to manually mask an image by starting a dedicated image editing tool to anonymize a screen capture image, thereby significantly lowering the relatively high technical threshold of anonymization processing, reducing the error rate, and improving the modification quality of anonymization. Moreover, the replacement is directly made to the image while the screen is captured without interfering with normal use of reading.

Claims

1. A method for capturing a screen on a mobile device, comprising:

receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, wherein the current interface comprises first data, and the first data comprises personal information; and

generating, according to the screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, wherein the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the personal information comprises information on a username, the first data are first text data signifying the username, and the second data are second text data,

wherein the generating, according to the screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, wherein the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined, comprises:

searching for the first text data signifying the username in the current interface;

replacing the first text data with the second text data; and

generating a screen capture image by performing a screen-capturing operation on the interface in which the first text data is replaced with the second text data.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

replacing the second text data with the first text data after the screen capture image is generated.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the searching for the first text data signifying the username in the current interface comprises:

searching for a view group on a top-most layer in the current interface;

traversing the view group to search for a text view having candidate text data; and

upon judging that the candidate text data matches username data which is predefined, determining that the candidate text data is the first text data signifying the username.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the replacing the first text data with the second text data comprises:

replacing all the first text data with the same second text data;

or,

recognizing separate first text data; and

replacing the separate first text data with separate second text data.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the replacing the first text data with the second text data comprises:

restarting measuring, layout planning and drawing for the text view to which the first text data belongs, and replacing the first text data with second text data during the drawing; and

restarting new measuring, layout planning and drawing for a target view, wherein the target view is a view in the view group other than the text view to which the first text data belongs.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein the replacing the second text data with the first text data comprises:

restarting measuring, layout planning and drawing for a text view to which the second text data belongs in the current interface, and replacing the second text data with the first text data during the drawing; and

restarting measuring, layout planning and drawing for a target view, wherein the target view is a view in the view group other than the text view to which the second text data belongs.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating, according to the screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, wherein the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined, comprises:

generating a first image by performing a screen-capturing operation on the current interface; and

searching for the first data in the current interface;

determining, according to a position of the first data in the current interface, a corresponding position in the first image;

replacing data at the corresponding position in the first image with the second data, wherein the second data is image data; and

taking the first image in which the data at the corresponding position is replaced with the second data as the screen capture image.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the searching for the first data in the current interface comprises:

searching for a view group on a top-most layer in the current interface; and

traversing the view group to search for a view comprising the first data to obtain a found view;

the determining, according to a position of the first data in the current interface, a corresponding position in the first image, comprises;

determining, according to a position of the found view in the current interface, a corresponding position in the first image.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the replacing data at the corresponding position in the first image with the second data comprises:

receiving an operation command inputted by a user, and replacing data at the corresponding position, which is indicated by the operation command, in the first image with the second data.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first data comprises at least one of text data and image data.

12. An apparatus for capturing a screen on a mobile device, comprising a processor and a non-transitory processor-readable medium including computer-executable instructions executed by the computing hardware to perform, on the apparatus, operations comprising:

receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, wherein the current interface comprises first data, and the first data comprises personal information; and

generating, according to the screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, wherein the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the personal information comprises information on a username, the first data are first text data signifying the username, and the second data are second text data;

wherein the operations further comprise;

searching for the first text data signifying the username in the current interface;

replacing the first text data with the second text data; and

generating a screen capture image by performing a screen-capturing operation on the interface in which the first text data is replaced with the second text data.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise replacing the second text data with the first text data after the screen capture image is generated.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

searching for a view group on a top-most layer in the current interface;

traversing the view group to search for a text view having candidate text data; and

upon judging that the candidate text data matches username data which is predefined, determining that the candidate text data is the first text data signifying the username.

16. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

replacing all the first text data with the same second text data;

or,

recognizing separate first text data; and

replacing the separate first text data with separate second text data.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

restarting measuring, layout planning and drawing for the text view to which the first text data belongs, and replacing the first text data with second text data during the drawing; and

restarting measuring, layout planning and drawing for a target view, wherein the target view is a view in the view group other than the text view to which the first text data belongs.

18. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a first image by performing a screen-capturing operation on the current interface; and

searching for the first data in the current interface;

determining, according to a position of the first data in the current interface, a corresponding position in the first image;

replacing data at the corresponding position in the first image with the second data, wherein the second data is image data; and

taking the first image in which the data at the corresponding position is replaced with the second data as the screen capture image.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

searching for a view group on a top-most layer in the current interface;

traversing the view group to search for a view comprising the first data to obtain a found view; and

determining, according to a position of the found view in the current interface, a corresponding position in the first image.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, storing an instruction set that, when being executed, causes a machine to perform a method for capturing a screen on a mobile device, wherein the method comprises:

receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, wherein the current interface comprises first data, and the first data comprises personal information; and

generating, according to the screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, wherein the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined.