Method for controlling screen of user terminal and user terminal

• US 10,133,476 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2017
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: Li, Jianlin, Zeng, Yuanqing
• Primary Examiner(s): Sherman, Stephen G
• Application Number:
  US15/709,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20180011617A1
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3212 Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0277 according to available power supply, e.g. switching off when a low battery condition is detected
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for controlling a screen of a user terminal includes the follows. A touch operation on a screen is detected in a black screen state. When a preset condition is met, the screen is controlled to switch from the black screen state to a bright screen state in which the screen brightness is the target brightness value. A user terminal is also provided.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a screen of a user terminal, comprising:

detecting, by a built-in pressure sensor of the user terminal, a touch operation on a screen in a black screen state, wherein the backlight of the screen is powered off in the black screen state and the user terminal is standby for use in the black screen state;

judging, by the user terminal, whether or not a location of a touch point of the touch operation belongs to a preset area;

when YES, judging, by the user terminal, whether or not a duration of the touch operation is greater than a preset duration and whether or not a touch strength of the touch operation falls within a preset strength range;

detecting, by the user terminal, whether or not a slide operation that slides towards a preset direction with the location of the touch point as a starting location is performed on the screen, when the duration of the touch operation is greater than the preset duration and the touch strength of the touch operation falls within the preset strength range;

when YES, inquiring, by the user terminal, a target brightness value corresponding to an average touch strength of the slide operation according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between strength and brightness;

or inquiring, by the user terminal, a brightness value corresponding to a difference between the maximum touch strength and the minimum touch strength of the slide operation according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between the strength and the brightness;

summing, by the user terminal, a preset default screen brightness value and the brightness value, and using the summed brightness value as a target brightness value, when the preset direction is configured to indicate increasing the screen brightness;

calculating, by the user terminal, the absolute value of the difference between the preset default screen brightness value and the brightness value, and using the absolute value as a target brightness value, when the preset direction is configured to indicate decreasing the screen brightness;

or obtaining, by the user terminal, current battery power of the user terminal;

inquiring, by the user terminal, a target brightness value corresponding to the current battery power according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between battery power and brightness; and

controlling, by the user terminal, the screen to switch from the black screen state to a bright screen state in which the screen brightness is the target brightness value, wherein the user terminal is operable for use in the bright screen state.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after detecting the touch operation on the screen in the black screen state and before judging whether or not the location of the touch point of the touch operation belongs to the preset area:

determining a focus point of eyeballs of a user according to obtained activity information of the eyeballs of the user;

judging whether or not there is on the screen a target point matching with the focus point; and

when YES, conducting the process of judging whether or not the location of the touch point of the touch operation belongs to the preset area.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein judging whether or not there is on the screen a target point matching with the focus point comprises:

judging whether or not there is on the screen such a point, from which the distance to the focus point is less than or equivalent to a preset distance threshold; and

when YES, determining that there is on the screen the target point matching with the focus point.

4. A user terminal, comprising:

a built-in pressure sensor;

a memory configured to store program codes; and

at least one processor configured to execute the program codes stored in the memory to;

detect, using the built-in pressure sensor, a touch operation on a screen in a black screen state, wherein the backlight of the screen is powered off in the black screen state and the user terminal is standby for use in the black screen state;

judge whether or not a location of a touch point of the touch operation belongs to a preset area;

judge whether or not a duration of the touch operation is greater than a preset duration and whether or not touch strength of the touch operation falls within a preset strength range, when judging that the location of the touch point of the touch operation belongs to the preset area;

detect whether or not a slide operation that slides towards a preset direction with the location of the touch point as a starting location is performed on the screen, after judging that the duration of the touch operation is greater than the preset duration and the touch strength of the touch operation falls within the preset strength range;

inquire a target brightness value corresponding to an average touch strength of the slide operation according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between strength and brightness, when detecting that the slide operation that slides towards the preset direction with the location of the touch point as the starting location is performed on the screen;

or, inquire a brightness value corresponding to a difference between the maximum touch strength and the minimum touch strength of the slide operation according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between strength and brightness;

sum a preset default screen brightness value and the brightness value, and use the summed brightness value as a target brightness value, when the preset direction is configured to indicate increasing screen brightness;

calculate the absolute value of the difference between the preset default screen brightness value and the brightness value, and use the absolute value as a target brightness value, when the preset direction is configured to indicate decreasing the screen brightness;

or, obtain current battery power of the user terminal;

inquire a target brightness value corresponding to the current battery power according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between battery power and brightness; and

control the screen to switch from the black screen state to a bright screen state in which the screen brightness is the target brightness value, wherein the user terminal is operable for use in the bright screen state.

5. The user terminal of claim 4, wherein the program codes stored in the memory are further configured to:

determine a focus point of eyeballs of a user according to obtained activity information of the eyeballs of the user, after detecting the touch operation on the screen in the black screen state and before judging whether or not the location of the touch point of the touch operation belongs to the preset area;

judge whether or not on the screen there is a target point matching with the focus point; and

judge whether or not the location of the touch point of the touch operation belongs to the preset area, when judging that there is on the screen the target point matching with the focus point.

6. The user terminal of claim 5, wherein the program codes stored in the memory are further configured to:

judge whether or not there is on the screen such a point, from which the distance to the focus point is less than or equivalent to a preset distance threshold; and

when YES, determine that there is on the screen the target point matching with the focus point.