Display method of mobile device selection and terminal device

• US 9,495,019 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2014
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.), Simon Ekstrand
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.), Simon Ekstrand
• Inventors: Cheng, Cheng, Ekstrand, Simon
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Viet
• Application Number:
  US14/587,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20150241994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04801 Cursor retrieval aid, i.e. visual aspect modification, blinking, colour changes, enlargement or other visual cues, for helping user do find the cursor in graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• 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

Abstract

The present invention provides a display method of a mobile device selection and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a location movement signal sent by a mobile device; determining a location, of a cursor focus of the mobile device, on a screen according to the location movement signal; and determining that the cursor focus moves toward a target icon, and if a distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a first threshold, determining that the cursor focus selects the target icon, thereby improving user operation efficiency, reducing operation complexity, and ensuring desirable interaction experience of a user.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a mobile device selection, comprising:

receiving a location movement signal sent by a mobile device;

determining a location, of a cursor focus of the mobile device, on a display screen according to the location movement signal;

determining that the cursor focus moves toward a target icon, and

if a distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a second threshold, dynamically displaying, on the display screen, a change of the cursor focus and a change of the target icon, wherein the change of the target icon includes that a shape of the target icon is lengthened along a direction of the cursor focus and wherein the change of the cursor focus includes that the cursor focus is lengthened along a direction of the target icon, and

if a distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a first threshold determining that the cursor focus selects the target icon,

wherein the second threshold is greater than or equal to the first threshold.

2. The method according to claim 1, after the determining that the cursor focus moves toward a target icon, further comprising:

if the distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is less than or equal to the first threshold, dynamically displaying, on the display screen, that the target icon absorbs the cursor focus.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the change of the cursor focus further comprises:

at least one of a size change of the cursor focus, and a color change of the cursor focus.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein for any target icon, the corresponding first threshold changes according to at least one of user information and time information;

and

for any target icon, the corresponding second threshold changes according to at least one of the user information and the time information.

5. The method according to claim 1, before the receiving a location movement signal sent by a mobile device, further comprising:

receiving a triggering signal sent by the mobile device; and

displaying the cursor focus on the display screen.

6. A terminal device, comprising a processor and a non-transitory processor-readable medium having processor-executable instructions stored thereon, the processor-executable instructions including a plurality of units, the units including:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a location movement signal sent by a mobile device;

a determining unit, configured to determine a location, of a cursor focus of the mobile device, on a display screen according to the location movement signal;

a judging unit, configured to determine that the cursor focus moves toward a target icon; and

a display unit, configured to;

after the judging unit determines that the cursor focus moves toward the target icon, if a distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is less than or equal to a second threshold, dynamically display, on the display screen a change of the cursor focus and a change of the target icon, wherein the change of the target icon includes that a shape of the target icon is lengthened along a direction of the cursor focus and wherein the change of the cursor focus includes that the cursor focus is lengthened along a direction of the target icon, and if the distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a first threshold, determine that the cursor focus selects the target icon,

wherein the second threshold is greater than or equal to the first threshold.

7. The terminal device according to claim 6, wherein the display unit is further configured to:

if the distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is less than or equal to the first threshold, dynamically display, on the display screen, that the target icon absorbs the cursor focus.

8. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the change of the cursor focus further comprises:

at least one of a size change of the cursor focus, and a color change of the cursor focus.

9. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein for any target icon, the corresponding first threshold changes according to at least one of user information and time information;

and

for any target icon, the corresponding second threshold changes according to at least one of the user information and the time information.

10. The terminal device according to claim 6, wherein

the receiving unit is further configured to:

before receiving the location movement signal sent by the mobile device, receive a triggering signal sent by the mobile device and display the cursor focus on the display screen.