APPLICATION SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

• US 20190324615A1
• Filed: 06/28/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
• 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: Chen, Jian, EKSTRAND, Simon, ANDREASSON, Fredrik, WANG, Tizheng
• Granted Patent: US 10,908,789 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• 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 3/0484 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The present disclosure relate to the field of electronic devices, and particularly provide an application switching method and apparatus and a graphical user interface, to resolve a prior-art problem that multi-task switching has a relatively high requirement on hardware of an electronic device. The application switching method includes: detecting a touch pressure value that is generated by a touch operation when a target region of a touchscreen is touched; when detecting that the touch pressure value is greater than a preset threshold, generating a first display window in a current display interface of an electronic device, and presenting a first application in the first display window according to a preset rule; and switching the current display interface to a display interface of the first application if detecting an enable signal for the first application, where the current display interface is different from the display interface of the first application.

Claims

1. An application switching method, applied to an electronic device with a touchscreen, wherein the method comprises:

detecting a touch pressure value that is generated by a touch operation when a target region of the touchscreen is touched;

when detecting that the touch pressure value is greater than a preset threshold, generating a first display window in a current display interface of the electronic device, and presenting a first application in the first display window according to a preset rule; and

switching the current display interface to a display interface of the first application if detecting an enable signal for the first application, wherein the current display interface is different from the display interface of the first application.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating a first display window in a current display interface of the electronic device, and presenting a first application in the first display window according to a preset rule comprises:

obtaining a preset priority of each of at least one application that is running in the electronic device; and

determining an application with a highest preset priority in the at least one application as the first application based on the preset priority of each application.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining a preset priority of each of at least one application that is running in the electronic device comprises:

determining the preset priority of each application based on a basic attribute of each application, wherein the basic attribute of the application comprises at least one of a use time of the application, a time point at which the application is installed, frequency of using the application, a time point at which the application is updated, a rank based on an initial of a name of the application, a memory space size occupied by the application when the application runs in the electronic device, a size of the application, a rank of an operating position at which the application is located on the electronic device, a color similarity of an icon corresponding to the application, or a color similarity of a display interface corresponding to the application.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the current display interface is a display interface of a third application, the generating a first display window in a current display interface of the electronic device, and presenting a first application in the first display window according to a preset rule comprises:

obtaining a category to which each of at least one application that is running in the electronic device belongs;

determining a target category from the category to which each application belongs, wherein the target category is the same as a category of the third application, and the target category comprises one or more applications; and

determining an application with a highest preset priority in the one or more applications as the first application.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

when the first application is presented in the first display window according to the preset rule, presenting, in the first display window, another application that is other than the first application and that is in the at least one application that is running in the electronic device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

when detecting a non-enable signal corresponding to the first application, generating a second display window in the current display interface, and presenting a second application in the second display window according to the preset rule, wherein a preset priority of the second application is lower than a preset priority of the first application.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

switching the current display interface to a display interface of the second application if detecting an enable signal corresponding to the second application.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the switching the current display interface to a display interface of the first application if detecting an enable signal for the first application comprises:

if detecting that a touch location of the touch operation moves to a target location, and the touch operation is released from the touchscreen, controlling the first display window to be enlarged until the first display window totally covers the current display interface, and covering the current display interface by using the display interface of the first application displayed in the first display window.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting a quantity of press times that is generated by the touch operation in the first display window, wherein the quantity of press times is a quantity of times that the touch pressure value generated by the touch operation is greater than the preset threshold; and

if determining that the quantity of press times reaches a preset times threshold, generating a third display window in the current display interface, and presenting a fourth application in the third display window according to the preset rule, wherein a preset priority of the fourth application is lower than a preset priority of an application displayed in a last display window that is generated in the current display interface before the preset times threshold is reached.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the switching the current display interface to a display interface of the first application if detecting an enable signal for the first application, the method further comprises:

detecting movement, on the touchscreen, of a touch location of the touch operation; and

controlling the first display window to move on the touchscreen, and controlling an area of the first display window to be enlarged until the display interface of the application presented in the first display window totally covers the current display interface.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the controlling the first display window to move on the touchscreen comprises:

covering, along a movement direction of the first display window by using the application displayed in the first display window, an interface element that is of the current display interface and that is covered when the first display window moves; and

re-displaying, along a direction reverse to the movement direction of the first display window, an interface element that is of the current display interface and that is covered by the first display window before the first display window moves.

12. An electronic device, wherein the electronic device comprises a touchscreen, one or more processors, a memory, and one or more programs, the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors read the one or more programs stored in the memory, to perform:

detecting a touch pressure value that is generated by a touch operation when a target region of the touchscreen is touched;

when detecting that the touch pressure value is greater than a preset threshold, generating a first display window in a current display interface of the electronic device, and presenting a first application in the first display window according to a preset rule; and

switching the current display interface to a display interface of the first application if detecting an enable signal for the first application, wherein the current display interface is different from the display interface of the first application.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

obtaining a preset priority of each of at least one application that is running in the electronic device; and

determining an application with a highest preset priority in the at least one application as the first application based on the preset priority of each application.

14. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

determining the preset priority of each application based on a basic attribute of each application, wherein the basic attribute of the application comprises at least one of a use time of the application, a time point at which the application is installed, frequency of using the application, a time point at which the application is updated, a rank based on an initial of a name of the application, a memory space size occupied by the application when the application runs in the electronic device, a size of the application, a rank of an operating position at which the application is located on the electronic device, a color similarity of an icon corresponding to the application, or a color similarity of a display interface corresponding to the application.

15. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

obtaining a category to which each of at least one application that is running in the electronic device belongs;

determining a target category from the category to which each application belongs, wherein the target category is the same as a category of the third application, and the target category comprises one or more applications; and

determining an application with a highest preset priority in the one or more applications as the first application.

16. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

when the first application is presented in the first display window according to the preset rule, presenting, in the first display window, another application that is other than the first application and that is in the at least one application that is running in the electronic device.

17. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

when detecting a non-enable signal corresponding to the first application, generating a second display window in the current display interface, and presenting a second application in the second display window according to the preset rule, wherein a preset priority of the second application is lower than a preset priority of the first application.

18. The electronic device according to claim 17, wherein the one or more processors further configured to perform:

switching the current display interface to a display interface of the second application if detecting an enable signal corresponding to the second application.

19. A graphical user interface on an electronic device with a touchscreen, wherein the electronic device comprises

the touchscreen, a memory, and one or more processors configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory, and the graphical user interface comprises a current display interface, a first display window, and a first application, and

the current display interface is displayed in response to detected triggering of a user on the touchscreen of the electronic device;

and

in response to a touch pressure value that is generated when a target region of the touchscreen is touched by a touch operation of the user, when the touch pressure value is greater than a preset threshold, the first display window is displayed in the current display interface, and the first application is presented in the first display window.

20. The graphical user interface according to claim 19, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a second display window and a second application, and in response to a non-enable signal corresponding to the first application, the second display window is displayed in the current display interface, and the second application is presented in the second display window, wherein a preset priority of the second application is lower than a preset priority of the first application.