Touch Operation Processing Method and Terminal Device

• US 10,754,539 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2019
• Issued: 08/25/2020
• 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:
  US16/374,233
• Publication Number:
  US 20190227689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 510 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 is presented. 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. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive screen;

one or more processors coupled to the touch-sensitive screen; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to;

detect a sliding gesture on the touch-sensitive screen, wherein the sliding gesture starts from a first area of the touch-sensitive screen and extends to a second area of the touch-sensitive screen, wherein the second area is configured to display an operation interface, wherein the first area shares a common border with the second area, wherein the first area is a screen region other than the second area of the touch-sensitive screen, and wherein the sliding gesture crosses the common border at an entry point; and

scale the operation interface displayed in the second area down to a scaled operation interface in response to the sliding gesture, wherein one edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the common border and the entry point, wherein the first area shares another common border with the second area, and wherein another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the electronic device to:

detect an end point position in the second area of the sliding gesture; and

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

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the electronic device to:

detect completion of the selection operation; and

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

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

5. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the second area is a button.

6. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the selection operation is tapping.

7. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the selection operation is double tapping.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the operation interface is dynamically reduced to the scaled operation interface according to a track length of a sliding distance of the sliding gesture.

9. A gesture processing method implemented by an electronic device, comprising:

detecting a sliding gesture on a screen, wherein the sliding gesture starts from a first area of the screen and extends to a second area of the screen, wherein the second area is configured to display an operation interface, wherein the first area shares a common border with the second area, wherein the first area is a screen region other than the second area of the touch-sensitive screen, and wherein the sliding gesture crosses the common border at an entry point; and

scaling the operation interface displayed in the second area down to a scaled operation interface in response to the sliding gesture, wherein one edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the common border and the entry point, wherein the first area shares another common border with the second area, and wherein another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

10. The gesture processing method of claim 9, 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 second area in response to detecting the end point position of the sliding gesture.

11. The gesture processing method of claim 10, 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.

12. The gesture processing method of claim 11, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the second area is an icon of an application.

13. The gesture processing method of claim 11, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the second area is a button.

14. The gesture processing method of claim 11, wherein the selection operation is tapping or double tapping.

15. The gesture processing method of claim 9, wherein the operation interface is dynamically reduced to the scaled operation interface according to a track length of a sliding distance of the sliding gesture.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs including instructions that, when executed, cause an electronic device to:

detect a sliding gesture on a screen, wherein the sliding gesture starts from a first area of the screen and extends to a second area of the screen, wherein the second area is configured to display an operation interface, wherein the first area shares a common border with the second area, wherein the first area is a screen region other than the second area of the touch-sensitive screen, and wherein the sliding gesture crosses the common border at an entry point; and

scale the operation interface displayed in the second area down to a scaled operation interface in response to the sliding gesture, wherein one edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the common border and the entry point, wherein the first area shares another common border with the second area, and wherein another edge of the scaled operation interface contacts the other common border.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the electronic device to:

detect an end point position of the sliding gesture; and

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

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions further cause the electronic device to:

detect completion of the selection operation; and

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

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the content displayed at the end point position in the second area is one of an icon of an application, a hyperlink address, or a button.

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