Screen unlocking method, device and terminal

• US 9,380,148 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Tang, Liangjun, Zhang, Haoting, Tong, Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): THOMAS, ASHISH
• Application Number:
  US14/417,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20150215444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• 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
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

The present document discloses a screen unlocking method, device and terminal. The method includes: acquiring a position of a lighted touch screen point on a terminal screen in a screen locking state, generating and displaying an unlocking interface corresponding to the position, wherein shortcut icons of a plurality of applications which are generated simultaneously with the unlocking interface are displayed on the unlocking interface; and in response to an unlocking request input on the unlocking interface, executing an unlocking operation; or in response to an application request corresponding to the shortcut icon input on the unlocking interface, running an application corresponding to the shortcut icon. Through the present document, the user'"'"'s experience in the unlocking operation can be enhanced, meanwhile, in the unlocking process, the corresponding application can be entered, which provides the user'"'"'s operation with convenience, thus achieves an effect of improving the user'"'"'s experience in the unlocking operation.

Claims

1. A screen unlocking method, comprising:

acquiring a position of a lighted touch screen point on a terminal screen in a screen locking state, generating and displaying a specific shape of an unlocking interface corresponding to the position, wherein shortcut icons of a plurality of applications which are generated simultaneously with the unlocking interface are displayed on the unlocking interface; and

in response to an unlocking request input on the unlocking interface, executing an unlocking operation;

or in response to an application request corresponding to the shortcut icon input on the unlocking interface, running an application corresponding to the shortcut icon;

wherein the specific shape of the unlocking interface comprises one of;

a circular interface and a fan-shaped interface;

wherein the step of generating and displaying the specific shape of the unlocking interface corresponding to the position comprises;

acquiring a distance between a coordinate of the position and a centre coordinate of the screen;

constructing a circular area or a fan-shaped area with a radius of R according to the distance and a preset mathematical algorithm, wherein R is less than or equal to half of a width of the screen; and

filling the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications which are generated simultaneously with the unlocking interface into the circular area or the fan-shaped area, to construct and display the unlocking interface.

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

generating the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications by means of;

reading existing applications stored in the terminal, and selecting the plurality of applications from the existing applications; and

sorting the plurality of applications according to a user'"'"'s access frequency in a preset access period in a descending order from large to small, and generating the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications.

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

simultaneously generating the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications by means of;

reading existing applications stored in the terminal, sorting the existing applications according to a user'"'"'s access frequency in a preset access period in a descending order from large to small; and

selecting, from front to back, the plurality of applications from the sorted existing applications, and generating the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a fan shape corresponding to the fan-shaped interface.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a fan shape corresponding to the fan-shaped interface.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a fan shape corresponding to the fan-shaped interface.

7. A screen unlocking device, comprising:

a processor;

a generation module, implemented by the processor and configured to acquire a position of a lighted touch screen point on a terminal screen in a screen locking state, generate and display a specific shape of an unlocking interface corresponding to the position, wherein shortcut icons of a plurality of applications which are generated simultaneously with the unlocking interface are displayed on the unlocking interface; and

an execution module, implemented by the processor and configured to execute an unlocking operation in response to an unlocking request input on the unlocking interface;

or run an application corresponding to the shortcut icon in response to an application request corresponding to the shortcut icon input on the unlocking interface;

wherein the specific shape of the unlocking interface comprises one of;

a circular interface and a fan-shaped interface; and

wherein the generating module comprises;

an acquirement unit, implemented by the processor and configured to acquire a distance between a coordinate of the position and a centre coordinate of the screen;

a construction unit, implemented by the processor and configured to construct a circular area or a fan-shaped area with a radius of R according to the distance and a preset mathematical algorithm, wherein R is less than or equal to half of a width of the screen; and

a generation unit, implemented by the processor and configured to fill the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications which are simultaneously generated with the unlocking interface into the circular area or the fan-shaped area, to construct and display the unlocking interface.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the generating unit comprises:

a first selection unit, implemented by the processor and configured to read existing applications stored in the terminal, and select the plurality of applications from the existing applications; and

a first sort unit, implemented by the processor and configured to sort the plurality of applications according to a user'"'"'s access frequency in a preset access period in a descending order from large to small, and generate the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the generating unit comprises:

a second sort unit, implemented by the processor and configured to read the existing applications stored in the terminal, sort the existing applications according to a user'"'"'s access frequency in a preset access period in a descending order from large to small; and

a second selection unit, implemented by the processor and configured to select, from front to back, the plurality of applications from the sorted existing applications, and generate the shortcut icons of the plurality of applications.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a corresponding fan shape of the fan-shaped interface.

11. A terminal, characterized in that the terminal comprises the screen unlocking device in claim 7.

12. The device according to claim 8, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a corresponding fan shape of the fan-shaped interface.

13. The device according to claim 9, wherein a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the circular interface is greater than a number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface, and the number of the shortcut icons which can be displayed on the fan-shaped interface is reduced with decrease of a central angle of a corresponding fan shape of the fan-shaped interface.