Method and apparatus for controlling display and mobile terminal

• US 10,620,825 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2016
• Issued: 04/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xiaomi Inc. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xiaomi Inc. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Inventors: Liu, Anyu, Du, Hui, Li, Guosheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Barrett, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US15/182,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20160378334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A mobile terminal for controlling display includes: a frame body including a middle frame; a touch screen provided on a front surface of the frame body and attached onto the middle frame; wherein the touch screen covers whole of the front surface of the frame body, or the touch screen covers a remaining area except a predetermined area on the front surface of the frame body, the predetermined area being an exposure area for additional electronic devices provided on the front surface of the frame body; a touch integrated circuit connected with the touch screen; and a processor connected with the touch integrated circuit. According to the disclosure, the whole front surface of the frame body is covered by the touch screen without providing the upper forehead area and the lower button area thereon.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen;

a processor-readable storage medium, including a set of instructions for controlling display of the mobile terminal on the touch screen; and

a processor in communication with the storage medium and the touch screen, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the processor is directed to;

divide the touch screen into a plurality of display regions according to an operational distance from a user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal such that the plurality of display regions have different operational distances from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal,

wherein each of the plurality of display regions is configured to display contents of one of predetermined content types, the predetermined content types being arranged in a priority order,

wherein display regions with a smaller distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are configured to display contents with a content type having a higher priority, and display regions with a greater distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are configured to display contents with a content type having a lower priority, and

wherein the display regions with a smaller distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are larger than the display regions with a greater distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal;

control a display status for each of the plurality of display regions separately; and

display content in a target display region of the plurality of display regions when the target display region is in an activated state, and

wherein the processor is further directed to;

collect historical operation data of a user on the touch screen;

determine, based on the collected historical operation data, a most frequently touched area in a first display region of the plurality of display regions; and

arrange the most frequently touched area as a center of the first display region of the plurality of display regions.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further directed to:

obtain a hand holding manner of the user who is holding the mobile terminal; and

divide the touch screen into the plurality of display regions based on the hand holding manner.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the hand holding manner comprising a left-hand holding manner and a right-hand holding manner.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein to divide the touch screen into the plurality of display regions, the processor is further directed to:

determine a palm touched area on the touch screen touched by the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal; and

divide the touch screen into an anti-false-touch region and a second plurality of display regions, the anti-false-touch region including the palm touched area and being irresponsive to received signals caused by touching from the user'"'"'s hand.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further directed to perform at least one of:

turning the target display region into the activated state when detecting a first preset operation in at least one region of the plurality of display regions;

or

turning the plurality of display regions into the activated state when detecting a second preset operation in the at least one region.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein to display the content in the target display region, the processor is further directed to:

determine a target display content type corresponding to the target display region according to a preset correspondence defining relationship between each of the plurality of display regions and a respective display content type; and

provide display content of the target display content type to the target display region.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further directed to:

when detecting unprocessed information,

treat a display region corresponding to the unprocessed information as the target display region;

turn the target display region into the activated state; and

display the unprocessed information in the target display region.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further directed to:

receive a dragging signal from the touch screen with respect to a display region of the plurality of display regions; and

switch a position of the display region with a position of another display region of the plurality of display regions according to the dragging signal.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further directed to:

detect, from the plurality of display regions, an occluded display region that is occluded; and

change a position of the occluded display region so that the occluded display region is no longer occluded.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein to change the position of the occluded display region, the processor is further directed to perform at least one of:

when the touch screen includes an anti-false-touch region and a palm touched area in the anti-false-touch region disappears, providing the anti-false-touch region to the occluded display region;

moving the occluded display region to overlap a low priority display region having a lowest priority according to priorities of the plurality of display regions;

or

switching the position of the occluded display region with a position of the low priority display region.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a middle frame of a frame body;

a front surface of the frame body; and

a touch screen covering an entire surface of a display area.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a middle frame of a frame body;

a front surface of the frame body, including a display area and an exposure area;

a touch screen covering an entire area of the display area; and

at least one additional electronic device operation of which is not required in order to activate the mobile terminal, each including an exposure on the exposure area of the front surface.

13. A method for controlling display of a mobile terminal on its touch screen, comprising:

dividing, by a hardware processor of a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the touch screen into a plurality of display regions according to an operational distance from a user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal such that the plurality of display regions have different operational distances from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal,

wherein each of the plurality of display regions is configured to display contents of one of predetermined content types, the predetermined content types being arranged in a priority order,

wherein display regions with a smaller distance from a user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are configured to display contents with a content type having a higher priority, and display regions with a greater distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are configured to display contents with a content type having a lower priority, and

wherein the display regions with a smaller distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal are larger than the display regions with a greater distance from the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal;

controlling, by the processor, a display status for each of the plurality of display regions separately; and

displaying, by the processor, content in a target display region of the plurality of display regions when the target display region is in an activated state,

wherein the method further comprises;

collecting historical operation data of a user on the touch screen;

determining, based on the collected historical operation data, a most frequently touched area in a first display region of the plurality of display regions; and

arranging the most frequently touched area as a center of the first display region of the plurality of display regions.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

obtaining, by the processor, a hand holding manner of the user who is holding the mobile terminal; and

dividing, by the processor, the touch screen into the plurality of display regions based on the hand holding manner,

wherein the hand holding manner includes a left-hand holding manner and a right-hand holding manner.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the dividing of the touch screen into the plurality of display regions comprising:

determining a palm touched area on the touch screen touched by the user'"'"'s hand holding the mobile terminal; and

dividing the touch screen into an anti-false-touch region and a second plurality of display regions, the anti-false-touch region including the palm touched area and being irresponsive to received signals caused by touching from the user'"'"'s hand.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising at least one of:

turning, by the processor, the target display region into the activated state when detecting a first preset operation in at least one region of the plurality of display regions;

or

turning, by the processor, the plurality of display regions into the activated state when detecting a second preset operation in the at least one region.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the displaying of the content in the target display region comprising:

determining a target display content type corresponding to the target display region according to a preset correspondence defining relationship between each of the plurality of display regions and a respective display content type; and

providing display content of the target display content type to the target display region.

18. The method according to claim 13, further comprising, when the processor detects unprocessed information,

treating, by the processor, a display region corresponding to the unprocessed information as the target display region;

turning, by the processor, the target display region into the activated state; and

displaying, by the processor, the unprocessed information in the target display region.

19. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the processor, a dragging signal from the touch screen with respect to a display region of the plurality of display regions; and

switching, by the processor, a position of the display region with a position of another display region of the plurality of display regions according to the dragging signal.

20. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

detecting, by the processor, from the plurality of display regions, an occluded display region that is occluded; and

when the touch screen includes an anti-false-touch region and a palm touched area in the anti-false-touch region disappears, providing, by the processor, the anti-false-touch region to the occluded display region;

moving, by the processor, the occluded display region to overlap a low priority display region having a lowest priority according to priorities of the plurality of display regions;

or

switching, by the processor, a position of the occluded display region with a position of the low priority display region.