Electronic device, displaying method and file saving method

• US 9,507,485 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Cai, Ming, Sun, Ran, Wang, Geng
• Primary Examiner(s): BADAWI, ANGIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/824,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,890 Days
• Field of Search: 715/790
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• 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 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object

Abstract

An electronic device, a displaying method and a file saving method are described. The electronic device is in a first state and has a display area. The displaying method includes obtaining an image; obtaining an information entry; displaying the image in the display area; and displaying a first type information entry from the information entry in a first region of the display area with a first display effect, and displaying a second type information entry from the information entry in a second region of the display area with a second display effect; wherein the first type information entry is different from the second type information entry.

Claims

1. A display method applied in an electronic device, the electronic device is in a first state and has a display area, the display method comprising:

obtaining a real-view image;

obtaining information entries;

displaying the real-view image in the display area; and

displaying a first type of information entry among the information entries, in a first region of the display area by a first identifier with a first display effect, and displaying a second type of information entry among the information entries, in a second region of the display area by a second identifier with a second display effect, so that the display of the real-view image and the information entries are merged and meet a vision theory of human being;

wherein the first type of the information entry is different from the second type of the information entry,

a real object corresponding to the first type of the information entry is an object close to the electronic device, a real object corresponding to the second type of the information entry is an object away from the electronic device; and

the first region is in the lower part of the display region, and the second region lies in the upper part of the display region when the first region and the second region are not overlapped with each other, and an area of the first region is larger than that of the second region when the second region is included in the first region.

2. The display method of claim 1, wherein,

the information entry corresponds to an object, and the information entry corresponds to an identifier;

the display method further comprises;

generating an image file comprising at least the identifier and the real-view image; and

saving the image file.

3. The display method of claim 1, wherein,

the first region at least partially overlaps with the second region, and the area of the first region is larger than that of the second region.

4. The display method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling the second region and the first region to both move in a moving direction when the electronic device is switched from the first state to the second state; and

controlling the first identifier to move in a direction in the first region based on the moving direction of the second region and the first region, and controlling the second identifier to move, in the second region, in the same direction as the first identifier.

5. The display method of claim 1, wherein, the step of obtaining information entries comprises:

obtaining location information of the electronic device;

obtaining orientation information of the electronic device; and

obtaining the information entries and the location information of the information entries, based on the location information and the orientation information of the electronic device;

the display method further comprises;

for each information entry, computing distance from the electronic device to a real object corresponding to the information entry, based on the location information of the electronic device and the location information of the information entry; and

judging whether the information entry belongs to the first type of the information entry or the second type of the information entry, based on the distance.