Object determining method, object display method, object switching method and electronic device

• US 10,719,163 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Issued: 07/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lv, Lei, Cai, Ming, Yao, Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Neupane, Krishna P
• Application Number:
  US14/143,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20140111460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,395 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/0486 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: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The embodiments of the invention disclose an object determining method, a portable device, an object displaying method, an object switching method and an electronic device. Said method is applied to a touch sensitive portable device. Identifications of multiple objects are displayed within a display area of said portable device. Each of the identifications of said multiple objects has a first status of being selected and a second status of being unselected. Said display area has a first area, the identification of a first object is displayed in the first area, and the first object is in the first status. Said method comprises: obtaining a switch instruction; moving the identification of the first object of the first area, switching the identification of the first object from the first status to the second status, moving the identification of the second object into the first area, and switching the identification of the second object from the second status to the first status according to the switch instruction. The embodiments of the invention can simplify the steps of the user'"'"'s operation.

Claims

1. An object switching method for switching K objects [D₁, . . . , D_K] Did stored in a storage medium of an electronic device, identifications of the K objects are displayed within an object display area of a touch screen of the electronic device, each of the identifications of the K objects has a first status of being selected and a second status of being unselected, wherein the object display area has a first predetermined area, wherein an identification of a currently displayed object D₁ is displayed in the first predetermined area and object D₁ is in the first status of being selected, wherein the K objects are images, the method comprising:

obtaining a switch instruction;

switching from a first mode to a second mode, or from the second mode to the first mode, according to the switch instruction, wherein the switching from the second mode to the first mode according to the switch instruction comprises;

detecting a touching operation on the touch screen of the electronic device; and

switching from the second mode to the first mode according to the touch operation, wherein the currently displayed object Dunn the first status of being selected in the second mode remains the first status of being selected in the first mode after the switching, and the number of objects displayed in the first mode is less than the number of objects displayed in the second mode;

wherein the switching from the first mode to the second mode according to the switch instruction comprises;

detecting a second touching operation on the touch screen of the electronic device; and

switching from the first mode to the second mode according to the second touch operation, whereinthe currently displayed object D₁ in the first status of being selected in the first mode remains the first status of being selected and is displayed different from the other objects in the second mode after the switching, and the number of objects displayed in the second mode is more than the number of objects displayed in the first mode;

obtaining an operation instruction;

starting an application according to the operation instruction; and

invoking a first information of the object within the first predetermined area by the application;

wherein,

in the first mode, when a first input instruction generated by a first slide gesture in a first direction in the first predetermined area is obtained, switching each of the currently displayed object D_j to D<sub>j−

1</sub> or D_j+1 according to input parameter information of the obtained one first input instruction, the switched object D<sub>j−

1</sub> or D_j+1 is displayed in the first predetermined area and in the first status;

in the second mode, when a second input instruction generated by a second slide gesture in the first direction in the first predetermined area, which has the same parameters as the first slide gesture, is obtained, switching each of the currently displayed object D_j to D<sub>j−

N</sub> or D_j+according to input parameter information of the obtained one second input instruction, the value of N being determined according to at least one of a length, a strength, and a speed of the second slide gesture, the switched object D<sub>j−

N</sub> or D_j+N is displayed in the first predetermined area and in the first status, wherein K, j, N are integers, and K≥

1, N>

1, 1≤

j ≤

K.

2. The object switching method according to claim 1, wherein, in the case that the current mode is the first mode, detecting the duration of touching a first predetermined area on the touch screen;

and if the duration exceeds a predetermined period, switching to the second mode;

or

in the case that the current mode is the first mode, if touching a second predetermined area on the touch screen is detected, switching to the second mode.

3. The object switching method according to claim 1, wherein, in the case that the current mode is the second mode, detecting the duration of touching a first predetermined area on the touch screen;

and if the duration exceeds a predetermined period, switching to the first mode;

or

in the case that the current mode is the second mode, if touching a second. predetermined area on the touch screen is detected, switching to the first mode.

4. The object switching method according to claim 1, wherein the object will appear in the first predetermined area on the touch screen by the selection of one of the objects displayed on the touch screen.

5. An electronic device, wherein, K objects [D₁,..., D_K]are stored in a storage medium of the electronic device, identifications of the K objects are displayed within an object display area of a touch screen of the electronic device, each of the identifications of the K objects has a first status of being selected and a second. status of being unselected, wherein the object display area has a first predetermined area, wherein an identification of a currently displayed object D₁ is displayed in the first predetermined area and object D₁ is in the first status of being selected, wherein the K. objects are images, the electronic device comprising:

an obtaining unit for obtaining a switch instruction;

a mode switching unit for switching from a first mode to a second mode, or from the second mode to the first mode, according to the switch instruction, wherein the mode switching unit detects a touching operation on a second predetermined area of the touch screen of the electronic device, wherein the second predetermined area is an area other than the object display area on the touch screen, and the mode switching unit switches from the first mode to the second mode in response to the mode switching unit detecting a touching operation of the second predetermined area;

wherein,

in the first mode, when a first input instruction generated by a first slide gesture in a first direction in the first predetermined area is obtained by the obtaining unit, switching each of the currently displayed objects D_j to D<sub>j−

1</sub> or D_j+1, according to input parameter information of the obtained one first input instruction, the switched object D<sub>j−

1</sub> or D_j+1 is displayed in the first predetermined area and in the first status;

in the second mode, when a second instruction generated by a second slide gesture in the first direction in the first predetermined area which has the same parameters as the first slide gesture is obtained by the obtaining unit, switching each of currently displayed objects D_j to D<sub>j−

N</sub> or D_j+N, according to input parameter information of the obtained one second input instruction, the value of N being determined according to at least one of a length, a strength, and a speed of the second slide gesture,the switched object D<sub>j−

N</sub> or D_j+N is displayed in the first predetermined area and in the first status, wherein K, j, N are integers, and K≥

1 , N>

1, 1≤

j≤

K; and

wherein the mode switching unit further performs the operations of;

detecting a touching operation on the touch screen of the portable device; and

switching from the second mode to the first mode according to the touch operation, wherein the currently displayed object D₁ in the first status of being selected in the second mode remains the first status of being selected in the first mode after the switching, and the number of objects displayed in the first mode is less than the number of objects displayed in the second mode;

detecting a second touching operation on the touch screen of the portable device; and

switching from the first mode to the second mode according to the second touch operation, wherein the currently displayed object D₁ in the first status of being selected in the first mode remains the first status of being selected and is displayed different from the other objects in the second mode after the switching, and the number of objects displayed in the second mode is more than the number of objects displayed in the first mode.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein, the mode switching unit is further used for, in the case that the current mode is the first mode, detecting the duration of touching a first predetermined area on the touch screen;

and if the duration exceeds a predetermined period, the mode switching unit switches to the second mode;

or

the mode switching unit is further used for, in the case that the current mode is the first mode, if touching a second predetermined area on the touch screen is detected, switching to the second mode.

7. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein, the mode switching unit is further used for, in the ease that the current mode is the second mode, detecting the duration of touching a first predetermined area on the touch screen;

and if the duration exceeds a predetermined period, the mode switching unit switches to the first mode;

or

the mode switching unit is further used for, in the case that the current mode is the second mode, if touching a second predetermined area on the touch screen is detected, switching to the first mode.

8. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the object will appear in a first determined area on the touch screen by the selection of one of the objects displayed on the touch screen.