Electronic apparatus and method for interacting with application in electronic apparatus

• US 9,244,594 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Jiang, Yansheng
• Primary Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US14/416,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 715/810
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 3/04842 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a method for interacting with an application and an electronic apparatus. When an electronic apparatus detects that a to-be-operated object in an application is selected, the electronic apparatus may display a selection identifier. The electronic apparatus may detect whether an input track is generated. The electronic apparatus may determine an operation type corresponding to the input track when the electronic apparatus detects the input track and detects that the input track ends. The electronic apparatus may operate the to-be-operated object according to the operation type.

Claims

1. A method for interacting with an application in an electronic apparatus, comprising:

detecting, by an electronic apparatus, whether a to-be-operated object in an application is selected;

displaying, by the electronic apparatus, a selection identifier when the electronic apparatus detects that the to-be-operated object in the application is selected;

detecting, by the electronic apparatus, whether an input track is generated;

determining, by the electronic apparatus, an operation type corresponding to the input track when the electronic apparatus detects the input track and detects that the input track ends, wherein determining includes searching for, by the electronic apparatus, the operation type using the input track according to a corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type;

operating, by the electronic apparatus, the to-be-operated object according to the operation type;

moving the to-be-operated object according to the input track before the electronic apparatus detects that the input track ends;

placing the to-be-operated object in an original position when the electronic apparatus detects that the input track ends and the last touch point of the input track disappears; and

displaying an operation identifier corresponding to the operation type, wherein if the electronic apparatus operated the to-be-operated object according to the operation type, displaying an identifier denoting that an operation corresponding to operation type is finished.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

one input track corresponds to one operation type;

the input track comprises;

a direction track, pattern track or customized track;

the direction track comprises;

an upward track, a downward track, leftward track, rightward track, upper leftward track, down leftward track, upper rightward track or a down rightward track;

the pattern track comprises;

a check mark, a circle, an alphabetic character, a figure or a word; and

the customized track comprises;

a track customized by the user in the electronic apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the selection identifier when the electronic apparatus detects that the to-be-operated object in the application is selected comprises:

drawing and displaying, by the electronic apparatus, a rectangle outside an area of the to-be-operated object when the electronic apparatus detects that the to-be-operated object in the application is selected.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the input track is input by a user on a touch screen of the electronic apparatus via touch input;

or

the input track is input by the user on the touch screen of the electronic apparatus via a mouse connected with the electronic apparatus.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type is preset by a technical person developing the application in a development and design phase and stored in an installation directory corresponding to the application after the application is installed in the electronic apparatus;

or

the corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type is generated by the user via manually configuring each operation type of the application and stored in the electronic apparatus.

6. An electronic device, comprising:

a processing module including a processor;

a detection module, to detect whether a to-be-operated object in an application is selected and detect whether an input track is generated;

a display module, to display a selection identifier when the detection module detects that the to-be-operated object in the application is selected, the display module displaying an operation identifier corresponding to an operation type;

a determination module, to determine an operation type corresponding to the input track when the detection module detects the input track and detects that the input track ends, the determination module searching for the operation type using the input track according to a corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type;

an execution module, to operate the to-be-operated object according to the operation type; and

a control module, to move the to-be-operated object according to the input track before the detection module detects that the input track ends and place the to-be-operated object in an original position when the detection module detects that the input track ends and the last touch point of the input track disappears,

wherein after the electronic device operated the to-be-operated object according to the operation type, the display module displays an identifier denoting that an operation corresponding to operation type is finished.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein

one input track corresponds to one operation type;

the input track comprises;

a direction track, pattern track or customized track;

the direction track comprises;

an upward track, a downward track, leftward track, rightward track, upper leftward track, down leftward track, upper rightward track or a down rightward track;

the pattern track comprises;

a check mark, a circle, an alphabetic character, a figure or a word; and

the customized track comprises;

a track customized by the user in the electronic device.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the display module is further to draw and display a rectangle outside an area of the to-be-operated object when the detection module detects that the to-be-operated object in the application is selected.

9. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the input track is input by a user on a touch screen of the electronic device via touch input;

or

the input track is input by the user on the touch screen of the electronic device via a mouse connected with the electronic device.

10. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type is preset by a technical person developing the application in a development and design phase and stored in an installation directory corresponding to the application after the application is installed in the electronic device;

or

the corresponding relationship between the input track and the operation type is generated by the user via manually configuring each operation type of the application and is stored in the electronic apparatus.