Touch operation processing method and terminal device

• US 10,296,204 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2016
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wei, Huan, Zhang, Xuenan
• Primary Examiner(s): Shiau, Shen
• Application Number:
  US14/996,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20160132208A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0428 by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Abstract

A touch operation processing method and a terminal device. The method includes: detecting a touch operation of a user, which starts from a border of a screen display area to the screen display area, and using the first point touched by the touch operation in the screen display area as a starting point; and performing, according to the touch operation, reduction processing on an operation interface displayed in the screen display area, where one edge of an operation interface after the reduction processing includes the starting point. Therefore, the demand is met that the user triggers, by one hand, reduction processing on the operation interface and perform a selection operation on an arbitrary position in the entire screen display area of the terminal device when the user holds the terminal device with a large screen with one hand on it.

Claims

1. A gesture processing method implemented by a terminal device, comprising:

detecting a sliding gesture on a touch-sensitive screen of the terminal device, the sliding gesture starting from a non-display area of the touch-sensitive screen and extending to a display area of the touch-sensitive screen, the display area being configured to display an operation interface, the non-display area not being configured to display the operation interface, the non-display area sharing a common border with the display area, and the sliding gesture crossing the common border at a display area entry point; and

dynamically scaling the operation interface displayed in the display area down to a scaled operation interface according to a track length of a sliding distance of the sliding gesture, one edge of the scaled operation interface contacting the common border, and the edge of the scaled operation interface comprising the display area entry point.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an end point position of the sliding gesture; and

performing selection operation on content displayed at the end point position in the display area in response to the detecting the end point position of the sliding gesture.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

detecting completion of the selection operation; and

scaling the scaled operation interface back to the operation interface in response to detecting completion of the selection operation.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the displayed area is an icon of an application.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the displayed area is a hyperlink address.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the displayed area is a button.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the selection operation is tapping.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the selection operation is double tapping.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-display area shares another common border with the display area, and another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

10. A terminal device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors coupled to the display; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing programming for execution by the one or more processors, the programming comprising instructions for;

detecting a sliding gesture on a touch-sensitive screen of the terminal device, the sliding gesture starting from a non-display area of the touch-sensitive screen and extending to a display area of the touch-sensitive screen, the display area being configured to display an operation interface, the non-display area not being configured to display the operation interface, the non-display area sharing a common border with the display area, and the sliding gesture crossing the common border at a display area entry point; and

dynamically scaling the operation interface displayed in the display area down to a scaled operation interface according to a track length of a sliding distance of the sliding gesture, one edge of the scaled operation interface contacting the common border, and the edge of the scaled operation interface comprising the display area entry point.

11. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the programming further comprises instructions for:

detecting an end point position of the sliding gesture; and

performing selection operation on content displayed at the end point position in the display area in response to the detecting the end point position of the sliding gesture.

12. The terminal device of claim 11, wherein the programming further comprises instructions for:

detecting completion of the selection operation; and

scaling the scaled operation interface back to the operation interface in response to detecting completion of the selection operation.

13. The terminal device of claim 12, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the displayed area is one of an icon of an application, a hyperlink address, or a button.

14. The terminal device of claim 12, wherein the selection operation is tapping or double tapping.

15. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the non-display area shares another common border with the display area, and another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a computer program product comprising executable instructions for processing a gesture received on a terminal device, the terminal device comprising a processor and a touch-sensitive screen coupled to the processor, the touch-sensitive screen configured to cooperate with the processor to display an operation interface, and the executable instructions comprising:

detecting a sliding gesture on a touch-sensitive screen of the terminal device, the sliding gesture starting from a non-display area of the touch-sensitive screen and extending to a display area of the touch-sensitive screen, the display area being configured to display the operation interface, the non-display area not being configured to display the operation interface, the non-display area sharing a common border with the display area, and the sliding gesture crossing the common border at a display area entry point; and

dynamically scaling the operation interface displayed in the display area down to a scaled operation interface according to a track length of a sliding distance of the sliding gesture, one edge of the scaled operation interface contacting the common border, and the edge of the scaled operation interface comprising the display area entry point.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the executable instructions further comprise:

detecting an end point position of the sliding gesture; and

performing selection operation on content displayed at the end point position in the display area in response to the detecting the end point position of the sliding gesture.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the non-display area shares another common border with the display area, and another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the executable instructions further comprise:

detecting completion of the selection operation; and

scaling the scaled operation interface back to the operation interface in response to detecting completion of the selection operation.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the selection operation is tapping or double tapping.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the displayed area is one of an icon of an application, a hyperlink address, or a button.