Sliding control method and terminal device thereof

• US 9,377,868 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2014
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Dong, Zhongli, Jiang, Ning, Zhou, Chen, Wu, Xi
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Ilana
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERMANN, KIRK W
• Application Number:
  US14/264,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20140285455A1
• Time in Patent Office: 791 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a sliding control method and the device thereof, falling into the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). The method comprises: displaying a slidable trajectory containing a current touch point; detecting a trigger signal being applied to the slidable trajectory; upon detection of the trigger signal, re-determining a current touch point; changing a corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to a second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point; wherein, the first trajectory is entire or part of the slidable trajectory, the length of the second trajectory is longer than that of the first trajectory.

Claims

1. A method of sliding control at a screen of a hand-held apparatus, comprising:

displaying, on the screen, a slidable trajectory containing a current touch point in connection with a control of an application in the hand-held apparatus;

detecting a trigger signal corresponding to a touch or non-touch operation being applied to the slidable trajectory on the screen;

upon detection of the trigger signal, re-determining the current touch point; and

changing a corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to a second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point and displaying the second trajectory on the screen;

wherein, the first trajectory is entire or part of the slidable trajectory, the length of the second trajectory is longer than that of the first trajectory,

wherein touch points on the slidable trajectory correspond to a plurality of pages to be displayed respectively,

wherein, the changing the corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to a second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point comprising;

changing the first trajectory with straight-line appearance on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory with curved-line or folded-line appearance according to the re-determined current touch point, wherein, the changing the first trajectory with straight-line appearance on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory with curved-line or folded-line appearance according to the re-determined current touch point comprising;

determining parameter values of a first pre-determined function according to a location of the re-determined current touch point and a location of a first end point of the first trajectory;

determining a portion of the second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the first end point according to the first pre-determined function;

determining parameter values of a second pre-determined function according to the location of the re-determined current touch point and a location of a second end point of the first trajectory; and

determining an other portion of the second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the second end point according to the second pre-determined function;

wherein, each of the function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function is any one chosen from the group of linear function, parabola function, n-th power function, index function and trigonometric function.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, prior to the determining parameter values of the first pre-determined function according to the location of the re-determined current touch point and the location of the first end point of the first trajectory, the method further comprising:

obtaining a distance between the location of the re-determined current touch point and the first trajectory; and

selecting function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function according to the distance.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, the selecting function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function according to the distance comprising:

detecting whether the distance is smaller than a first threshold or larger than a second threshold, wherein the first threshold is smaller than the second threshold;

if it is detected that the distance is smaller than the first threshold, then selecting trigonometric function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function;

if it is detected that the distance is larger than the second threshold, then selecting linear function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function;

if it is detected that the distance is larger than the first threshold and smaller than the second threshold, then selecting one of parabola function, n-th power function and index function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after the changing the corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point, the method further comprising:

detecting a second trigger signal;

upon detection of the second trigger signal, returning to the first trajectory from the second trajectory.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein, the returning to the first trajectory from the second trajectory comprising:

performing pre-determined times of attenuated sinusoidal oscillation with the first trajectory being an axis of oscillation for content being displayed on the second trajectory, the content being displayed on the second trajectory comprising the re-determined current touch point;

after a last oscillation, returning to the first trajectory from the second trajectory.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, the pre-determined times is five, and phase attenuation rate of the displayed content within every period of the attenuated sinusoidal oscillation is 50%.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after the displaying the slidable trajectory containing the current touch point and prior to the detecting the trigger signal being applied to the slidable trajectory, the method further comprising:

detecting whether the slidable trajectory containing current touch point is displayed at a first time;

if it is detected that the slidable trajectory containing current touch point is displayed at the first time, then performing jitter display for content being displayed on the slidable trajectory for pre-determined length of time, the content being displayed comprising the current touch point.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the re-determined current control point is on the second trajectory.

9. A terminal device, comprising:

a screen;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more modules stored in the memory and to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more modules including;

a touch display module, configured to display on the screen a slidable trajectory containing a current touch point in connection with a control of an application in the terminal device;

a signal detecting module, configured to detect a trigger signal corresponding to a touch or non-touch operation being applied to the slidable trajectory on the screen;

a touch determination module, configured to, upon detection of the trigger signal, re-determine the current touch point;

a trajectory changing module, configured to change a corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to a second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point and displaying the second trajectory on the screen;

wherein, the first trajectory is entire or part of the slidable trajectory, the length of the second trajectory is longer than that of the first trajectory,

wherein touch points on the slidable trajectory correspond to a plurality of pages to be displayed respectively,

wherein, the trajectory changing module is configured to change the first trajectory with straight-line appearance on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory with curved-line or folded-line appearance according to the re-determined current touch point,

wherein, the trajectory changing module comprising;

a first parameter determining unit, a first partial trajectory determination unit, a second parameter determining unit and a second partial trajectory determination unit;

the first parameter determining unit is configured to determine parameter values of a first pre-determined function according to a location of the current touch point re-determined by the touch determination module and a location of a first end point of the first trajectory;

the first partial trajectory determination unit is configured to determine a portion of the second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the first end point according to the first pre-determined function determined by the first parameter determining unit;

the second parameter determining unit is configured to determine parameter values of a second pre-determined function according to the location of the current touch point re-determined by the touch determination unit and a location of a second end point of the first trajectory; and

the second partial trajectory determination unit is configured to determine an other portion of second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the second end point according to the second pre-determined function determined by the second parameter determining unit;

wherein, each of the function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function is any one chosen from the group of linear function, parabola function, n-th power function, index function and trigonometric function.

10. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein, the terminal device further comprising:

a distance obtaining module and a type selecting module;

the distance obtaining module is configured to obtain a distance between the location of the current touch point re-determined by the touch determination module and the first trajectory;

the type selecting module is configured to select function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function according to the distance obtained by the distance obtaining module.

11. The terminal device according to claim 10, wherein, the type selecting module comprising:

a threshold detecting unit, a first selecting unit, a second selecting unit and a third selecting unit;

the threshold detecting unit is configured to detect whether the distance obtained by the distance obtaining module is smaller than a first threshold or larger than a second threshold, wherein the first threshold is smaller than the second threshold;

the first selecting unit is configured to, when it is detected by the threshold detecting unit that the distance is smaller than the first threshold, then selecting trigonometric function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function;

the second selection unit is configured to, when it is detected by the threshold detecting unit that the distance is larger than the second threshold, then selecting linear function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function;

the third selecting unit is configured to, when it is detected by the threshold detection unit that the distance is larger than the first threshold and smaller than the second threshold, then selecting one of parabola function, n-th power function and index function as the function type of the first pre-determined function and/or the second pre-determined function.

12. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein, the terminal device further comprising:

a second detecting module and a trajectory restoring module;

the second detecting module is configured to detect a second trigger signal;

the trajectory restoring module is configured to, upon detection of the second trigger signal by the second detection module, make the slidable trajectory returning to the first trajectory from the second trajectory.

13. The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein, the trajectory restoring module comprising:

an oscillation displaying unit and a trajectory restoring unit;

the oscillation displaying unit is configured to perform pre-determined times of attenuated sinusoidal oscillation with the first trajectory being the axis of oscillation for content being displayed on the second trajectory, the content being displayed on the second trajectory comprising the re-determined current touch point;

the trajectory restoring unit is configured to, after a last oscillation, return to the first trajectory from the second trajectory.

14. The terminal device according to claim 13, wherein, the pre-determined times is five, and the phase attenuation rate of the displayed content within every period of the attenuated sinusoidal oscillation is 50%.

15. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein, the terminal device further comprising a first detecting module and a jitter display module;

the first detecting module is configured to detect whether the slidable trajectory containing current touch point is displayed at a first time;

the jitter display module is configured to, when the first detecting module detected that the slidable trajectory containing current touch point is displayed at the first time, then perform jitter display for content being displayed on the slidable trajectory for pre-determined length of time, the content being displayed comprising the current touch point.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium with computer programming product stored thereon, the computer programming product comprising computer program code, when loaded into a computer system and executed thereon, performs a method of sliding control at a screen of the computer system, comprising:

displaying, on the screen, a slidable trajectory containing a current touch point in connection with a control of an application in a hand-held apparatus;

detecting a trigger signal corresponding to a touch or non-touch operation being applied to the slidable trajectory on the screen;

upon detection of the trigger signal, re-determining a current touch point; and

changing a corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to a second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point and displaying the second trajectory on the screen;

wherein, the first trajectory is entire or part of the slidable trajectory, the length of the second trajectory is longer than that of the first trajectory,

wherein touch points on the slidable trajectory correspond to a plurality of pages to be displayed respectively,

wherein, the changing the corresponding first trajectory on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory according to the re-determined current touch point comprising;

changing the first trajectory with straight-line appearance on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory with curved-line or folded-line appearance according to the re-determined current touch point,

wherein, the changing the first trajectory with straight-line appearance on the slidable trajectory to the second trajectory with curved-line or folded-line appearance according to the re-determined current touch point comprising;

determining parameter values of a first pre-determined function according to a location of the re-determined current touch point and a location of a first end point of the first trajectory;

determining a portion of the second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the first end point according to the first pre-determined function;

determining parameter values of a second pre-determined function according to the location of the re-determined current touch point and a location of a second end point of the first trajectory; and

determining an other portion of the second trajectory between the re-determined current touch point and the second end point according to the second pre-determined function;

wherein, each of the function type of the first pre-determined function and the second pre-determined function is any one chosen from the group of linear function, parabola function, n-th power function, index function and trigonometric function.