CN107765773B

CN107765773B - Method, device, terminal and storage medium for displaying information

Info

Publication number: CN107765773B
Application number: CN201710975244.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 宋方
Original assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2017-10-19
Filing date: 2017-10-19
Publication date: 2020-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 2037-10-19
Also published as: CN107765773A

Abstract

The invention discloses a method, a device, a terminal and a storage medium for displaying information, and belongs to the technical field of terminals. The method comprises the following steps: when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen of the terminal is detected, at least one piece of prompting information is acquired, the folding area is lightened, and the at least one piece of prompting information is displayed in the folding area. That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed, only the folding area where the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed may be lit, and the entire display screen does not need to be lit, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal.

Description

Method, device, terminal and storage medium for displaying information

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium for displaying information.

Background

In recent years, with the development of terminal technology, terminals with foldable display screens gradually enter people's lives, for example, mobile phones or tablet computers with foldable display screens. Since the shape of the display screen changes after being folded, it has become important how to display information on the folded display screen.

In the related art, as shown in fig. 1, the folded display screen includes two main body regions and a folding region. When a user needs to use the terminal, the display screen of the terminal can be unfolded, and when the terminal detects preset operation aiming at the display screen, the display screen can be lightened, and information is displayed through the display screen. For example, when the terminal detects a double-click operation for the display screen, the display screen is lit up, and information such as time, weather, or application notification message is displayed on the display screen. When the user does not use the terminal, the display screen of the terminal can be folded, so that the terminal can be conveniently stored.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method, a device, a terminal and a storage medium for displaying information, which can be used for solving the problem of large power consumption when the terminal displays the information in the related art. The technical scheme is as follows:

in a first aspect, a method for displaying information is provided, and is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen, and the method includes:

when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen is detected, acquiring at least one prompt message;

illuminating the fold region;

and displaying the at least one prompt letter in the folding area.

Optionally, after the detecting the wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen, the method further includes:

and when the terminal is determined to be in the folded state currently, executing operation of acquiring at least one piece of prompt information.

Optionally, before the obtaining of the at least one prompt message, the method further includes:

when a prompt message setting instruction is detected, displaying an application list, wherein the application list comprises application identifications of all applications installed in the terminal;

when the selection operation aiming at any application identifier in the application list is detected, adding the selected application identifier to an application identifier set;

correspondingly, the acquiring at least one prompt message includes:

and acquiring prompt information of the application corresponding to each application identifier in the application identifier set to obtain the at least one prompt information.

Optionally, before the detecting the wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen, the method further includes:

when an operation setting instruction is detected, displaying an operation setting interface;

and setting the awakening operation of the folding area based on the operation setting interface.

Optionally, after the displaying the at least one reminder in the folding area, the method further includes:

when preset operation aiming at target prompt information is detected, lightening any main body area of the display screen, wherein the target prompt information is any prompt information in the at least one prompt information;

and displaying an application interface corresponding to the target prompt information in the lighted main body area.

when a wake-up operation for any main body area of the display screen is detected, lightening the main body area and displaying the at least one prompt message in the main body area; or

When detecting that the terminal is currently converted from a folded state to an unfolded state, at least one main body area of the display screen is lightened, and the at least one prompt message is displayed in the lightened main body area.

Optionally, the displaying the at least one prompt message in the folding area includes:

for each prompt message in the at least one prompt message, determining the display position of the prompt message in the folding area through a preset curvature correction algorithm;

and displaying the prompt message in the folding area according to the determined display position so as to correct the visual distortion caused by the folding area.

In a second aspect, an apparatus for displaying information is provided, which is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen, and is characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

the display device comprises an acquisition module, a display module and a display module, wherein the acquisition module is used for acquiring at least one prompt message when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen is detected;

a first lighting module for lighting the folding area;

the first display module is used for displaying the at least one prompt letter in the folding area.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

and the determining module is used for executing the operation of acquiring at least one piece of prompt information when the terminal is determined to be in the folded state currently.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the second display module is used for displaying an application list when a prompt message setting instruction is detected, wherein the application list comprises application identifications of all applications installed on the terminal;

the adding module is used for adding the selected application identifier to the application identifier set when the selection operation aiming at any application identifier in the application list is detected;

correspondingly, the obtaining module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the third display module is used for displaying an operation setting interface when an operation setting instruction is detected;

and the setting module is used for setting the awakening operation of the folding area based on the operation setting interface.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the second lighting module is used for lighting any main body area of the display screen when preset operation aiming at target prompt information is detected, wherein the target prompt information is any prompt information in the at least one prompt information;

and the fourth display module is used for displaying an application interface corresponding to the target prompt information in the lighted main body area.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the third lighting module is used for lighting the main body area when the awakening operation aiming at any main body area of the display screen is detected, and displaying the at least one prompt message in the main body area; or

And the fourth lighting module is used for lighting at least one main body area of the display screen when the terminal is detected to be converted into an unfolded state from a folded state currently, and displaying the at least one prompt message in the lighted main body area.

Optionally, the first display module is specifically configured to:

In a third aspect, there is provided a terminal comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the processor implements any of the steps provided in the first aspect when executing the program.

In a fourth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, on which a computer program is stored, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, performs any of the steps provided in the first aspect.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

in the embodiment of the invention, when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen of the terminal is detected, at least one piece of prompt information is acquired, the folding area is lightened, and the at least one piece of prompt information is displayed in the folding area. That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed, only the folding area where the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed may be lit, and the entire display screen does not need to be lit, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a terminal with a foldable display screen provided in the related art;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method for displaying information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3A is a flow chart of another method for displaying information provided by an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 3B is a schematic diagram of a terminal with a foldable display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4A is a block diagram of an apparatus for displaying information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4B is a block diagram of another apparatus for displaying information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a foldable display screen provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of another foldable display screen provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of another foldable display screen provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic view of another foldable display screen provided by the embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Before explaining the embodiments of the present invention in detail, the application scenarios related to the embodiments of the present invention will be described.

At present, for terminals such as mobile phones and tablet computers, some information displayed on a main interface is usually preset, so that the preset information is directly displayed when the terminal is awakened. For example, when the user wakes up the terminal by double-clicking the display screen, the terminal may display information such as time, weather, or application notification messages on the display screen. However, since the related art needs to light the entire display screen in the process of displaying the information, power consumption of the terminal is large.

Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention provides a method for displaying information, so that a terminal can display the information only in a folding area by using the characteristics of the folding area, thereby reducing power consumption of the terminal.

After describing application scenarios of the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description will be given of a method for providing display information according to the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a method for displaying information, which is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the method specifically includes the following steps, referring to fig. 2.

Step 201: when a wake-up operation for a folding area of a display screen is detected, at least one prompt message is acquired.

Step 202: the fold area is illuminated.

Step 203: and displaying the at least one prompt letter in the folding area.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen of the terminal is detected, at least one piece of prompt information is acquired, the folding area is lightened, and the at least one piece of prompt information is displayed in the folding area. That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed, only the folding area where the at least one piece of prompting information needs to be displayed may be lit, and the entire display screen does not need to be lit, thereby reducing the power consumption of the terminal. In addition, for a terminal with a foldable display screen, displaying the at least one prompt message in the folding area may also increase the user experience of the terminal.

Optionally, after detecting the wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen, the method further includes:

and when the terminal is determined to be in the folded state currently, executing the operation of acquiring at least one piece of prompt information.

Optionally, before acquiring at least one prompt message, the method further includes:

accordingly, the acquiring at least one prompt message includes:

Optionally, before the wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen is detected, the method further includes:

Optionally, after displaying the at least one reminder in the folding area, the method further includes:

when preset operation aiming at target prompt information is detected, lighting any main body area of the display screen, wherein the target prompt information is any prompt information in the at least one prompt information;

when the awakening operation aiming at any main body area of the display screen is detected, lightening the main body area and displaying the at least one prompt message in the main body area; or

When detecting that the terminal is currently converted from the folded state to the unfolded state, at least one main body area of the display screen is lightened, and the at least one prompt message is displayed in the lightened main body area.

Optionally, displaying the at least one prompt message in the folding area includes:

All the above optional technical solutions can be combined arbitrarily to form an optional embodiment of the present invention, and details of the embodiment of the present disclosure are not repeated.

Fig. 3A is a flowchart of another method for displaying information, which is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, and referring to fig. 3A, the method specifically includes the following steps:

step 301: when a wake-up operation for a folding area of the display screen is detected, it is determined whether the terminal is currently in a folded state.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to improve the user experience of the terminal, when the terminal is in a folded state, if the terminal is awakened, the preset prompt information can be displayed in the folded area of the terminal, so that the user can quickly look up the prompt information. Therefore, when a wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen is detected, the terminal needs to first determine whether it is currently in the folded state.

In a possible implementation, magnetic devices are distributed in one of two body regions of the terminal display screen, and sensors are distributed in the other body region. When the display screen of the terminal is in a folded state, the sensor senses the magnetic device. When the display screen of the terminal is in an open state, the sensor cannot sense the magnetic device.

At this time, the determining whether the terminal is currently in the folded state may specifically be: when the sensor senses the magnetic device, it is determined that the terminal is currently in a folded state, and when the sensor does not sense the magnetic device, it is determined that the terminal is not currently in a folded state.

Of course, the determination of whether the terminal is currently in the folded state may also be performed in other manners, such as by using light sensors distributed in the main body area to determine whether the terminal is currently in the folded state, or by using bending angle sensors distributed in the folding area to determine whether the terminal is currently in the folded state, and the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited herein.

In addition, the wake-up operation for the folding area of the display screen is a preset operation, and when the user triggers the wake-up operation, the terminal detects the wake-up operation and then performs the following steps 302 to 304 to display the prompt message in the folding area of the display screen.

The presetting of the wake-up operation may specifically be: and when an operation setting instruction is detected, displaying an operation setting interface, and setting the awakening operation of the folding area based on the operation setting interface.

In a possible implementation manner, the current display interface of the terminal includes an operation setting option, when the terminal detects that a user triggers a preset operation for the operation setting option, that is, detects the operation setting instruction, at this time, the terminal will display the operation setting interface, where the operation setting interface includes multiple wake-up operation options, such as "double-click folding area" and "double-click volume plus key", and when the terminal detects a selection operation for one wake-up operation option among the multiple wake-up operation options, the wake-up operation corresponding to the selected option is set as the wake-up operation for the folding area.

Step 302: and when the terminal is determined to be in the folded state currently, acquiring at least one piece of prompt information.

When it is determined that the terminal is currently in the folded state through step 301, at least one preset prompting message may be displayed in the folded region through steps 302 to 304, so that the user may quickly view the at least one prompting message.

Wherein, the obtaining of at least one prompt message may specifically be: and acquiring prompt information of the application corresponding to each application identifier in the application identifier set to obtain at least one prompt information. The application identifier set comprises a plurality of application identifiers, and the application identifiers are preset application identifiers corresponding to applications which need to display prompt information in a folding area when the terminal is awakened.

Specifically, the implementation manner of presetting the application identifier set may be: when a prompt message setting instruction is detected, displaying an application list, wherein the application list comprises application identifications of all applications installed in the terminal, and when a selection operation aiming at any application identification in the application list is detected, adding the selected application identification to an application identification set.

The prompt message setting instruction is triggered by a user through preset operation, and the preset operation can be clicking, sliding or voice operation and the like.

For example, the set of application identifications includes an identification of a weather application, an identification of a time application, an identification of a calendar application, and an identification of a WeChat application. When the terminal detects double-click operation aiming at the folding area and determines that the terminal is currently in the folding state, acquiring prompting information of weather application, prompting information of time application, prompting information of calendar application and prompting information of WeChat application.

Step 303: the fold area is illuminated.

After obtaining the at least one reminder message, the fold area can be illuminated to facilitate displaying the at least one reminder message in the fold area, via step 304.

Wherein, the folding area is lighted, that is, the power supply connected with the folding area is switched on. Particularly, in the embodiment of the present invention, in order to facilitate the terminal to independently light the folding area, an independent power supply may be provided for the folding area, and when the folding area needs to be lit, the power supply provided for the folding area only needs to be turned on.

Further, in order to facilitate that the terminal can light the folding area and any one of the two main body areas, independent power supplies may be respectively provided for the three areas, so that the terminal can light one of the three areas according to actual needs.

Step 304: and displaying the at least one prompt letter in the folding area.

The at least one prompt message is displayed in the folding area in a list display manner, a scroll display manner, or a page turning display manner, which is not specifically limited herein.

It should be noted that, since the folding area belongs to an area having a certain bending angle, the displaying of the at least one prompt message in the folding area may specifically be: for each prompt message in the at least one prompt message, determining the display position of the prompt message in the folding area through a preset curvature correction algorithm, and displaying the prompt message in the folding area according to the determined display position so as to correct the visual distortion caused by the folding area.

The display position of the prompt message in the folding area is determined through a preset curvature correction algorithm, namely, the corresponding relation between a plane coordinate and a curved surface coordinate is determined in advance, wherein the curved surface coordinate is the coordinate after the curved surface coordinate where the folding area is located is corrected, so that the information displayed in the folding area cannot generate visual distortion. Then, for a certain prompt message, the position of the prompt message displayed in the plane coordinate is determined, and then the display position of the prompt message in the curved surface corresponding to the folding area is obtained according to the corresponding relation between the plane coordinate and the curved surface coordinate.

For example, fig. 3B is a schematic view of a terminal after a display screen is folded, where the wake-up operation is an operation of double-clicking a folding area, and the at least one piece of prompt information is prompt information of a weather application, prompt information of a time application, prompt information of a calendar application, and prompt information of a WeChat application. As shown in fig. 3B, when the terminal detects a double-click operation on the folding area of the display screen when all areas of the display screen of the terminal are in the screen-off state, the terminal is woken up and the folding area is lit up, so as to display corresponding weather information, time information, date information or prompt information of the WeChat application in the folding area. The other two body regions are still in the screen-off state at this time.

It should be noted that the at least one reminder message is displayed only in the folding area to facilitate quick viewing of the reminder messages by the user. Further, when the user needs to view the detailed information of these prompt messages, the terminal may perform the following operations.

(1) When preset operation aiming at target prompt information is detected, any main body area of the display screen is lightened, the target prompt information is any prompt information in the at least one prompt information, and an application interface corresponding to the target prompt information is displayed in the lightened main body area.

For example, after the terminal displays the at least one prompting message only in the folding area, when the terminal detects a double-click operation for one prompting message, such as a double-click operation for the prompting message of the WeChat application, any main body area is lightened, and the interface of the WeChat application is displayed in the main body area, so that the user can view the detailed information of the prompting message of the WeChat application in the interface of the WeChat application.

(2) When the awakening operation aiming at any main body area of the display screen is detected, lightening the main body area and displaying the at least one prompt message in the main body area; or when detecting that the terminal is converted from the folded state to the unfolded state currently, lightening at least one main body area of the display screen, and displaying the at least one prompt message in the lightened main body area.

That is, after the terminal displays the at least one piece of prompting information only in the folding area, the user can display the at least one piece of prompting information in the main area of the display screen according to actual needs in the above manner, so as to continue to view the at least one piece of prompting information in the main area of the display screen.

Of course, in addition to the above two manners, the user may also continue to view the detailed information of the at least one prompt message in the main area of the display screen through other feasible manners, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited in detail herein.

After explaining the method of displaying information provided by the embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for displaying information provided by the embodiment of the present invention will be described next.

Fig. 4A is a block diagram of an apparatus 400 for displaying information according to an embodiment of the present invention, and referring to fig. 4A, the apparatus 400 for displaying information may be implemented by software, hardware, or a combination of the two, and is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen. The apparatus 400 comprises: an acquisition module 401, a first lighting module 402 and a first display module 403.

An obtaining module 401, configured to obtain at least one piece of prompt information when a wake-up operation for a folding area of the display screen is detected;

a first lighting module 402 for lighting the folding area;

a first display module 403, configured to display the at least one reminder in the folding area.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 4B, the apparatus 400 further includes:

a determining module 404, configured to, when it is determined that the terminal is currently in a folded state, perform an operation of acquiring at least one piece of prompt information.

Optionally, the apparatus 400 further comprises:

the second display module is used for displaying an application list when a prompt message setting instruction is detected, wherein the application list comprises application identifications of all applications installed in the terminal;

correspondingly, the obtaining module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus 400 further comprises:

and the fourth display module is used for displaying an application interface corresponding to the target prompt message in the lighted main body area.

Optionally, the apparatus 400 further comprises:

And the fourth lighting module is used for lighting at least one main body area of the display screen when detecting that the terminal is converted from the folded state to the unfolded state currently, and displaying the at least one prompt message in the lighted main body area.

Optionally, the first display module 403 is specifically configured to:

It should be noted that: in the information reporting apparatus provided in the foregoing embodiment, when reporting information, only the division of the functional modules is described as an example, in practical applications, the function distribution may be completed by different functional modules as needed, that is, the internal structure of the apparatus is divided into different functional modules, so as to complete all or part of the functions described above. In addition, the information reporting apparatus and the information reporting method provided in the above embodiments belong to the same concept, and specific implementation processes thereof are detailed in the method embodiments and are not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, block diagrams of a terminal 500 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application are shown. The terminal 500 may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, an e-book, and the like. The terminal 500 in the present application may include one or more of the following components: a processor 510, a memory 520, and a touch display screen 530.

Processor 510 may include one or more processing cores. The processor 510, which is connected to various parts throughout the terminal 500 using various interfaces and lines, performs various functions of the terminal 500 and processes data by executing or executing instructions, programs, code sets, or instruction sets stored in the memory 520 and calling data stored in the memory 520. Alternatively, the processor 510 may be implemented in hardware using at least one of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and Programmable Logic Array (PLA). The processor 510 may integrate one or more of a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a modem, and the like. Wherein, the CPU mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, an application program and the like; the GPU is used for rendering and drawing the content to be displayed by the touch display screen 530; the modem is used to handle wireless communications. It is understood that the modem may not be integrated into the processor 510, but may be implemented by a single chip.

The Memory 520 may include a Random Access Memory (RAM) or a Read-Only Memory (Read-Only Memory). Optionally, the memory 520 includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The memory 520 may be used to store instructions, programs, code sets, or instruction sets. The memory 520 may include a stored program area and a stored data area, wherein the stored program area may store instructions for implementing an operating system, instructions for at least one function (such as a touch function, a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), instructions for implementing various method embodiments described below, and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook) created according to the use of the terminal 500, and the like.

Taking an operating system as an Android (Android) system as an example, programs and data stored in the memory 520 are shown in fig. 5, and a Linux kernel layer 620, a system runtime layer 640, an application framework layer 660, and an application layer 680 are stored in the memory 520. The Linux kernel layer 620 provides underlying drivers for various hardware of the terminal 500, such as a display driver, an audio driver, a camera driver, a bluetooth driver, a Wi-Fi driver, power management, and the like. The system runtime library layer 640 provides main feature support for the Android system through some C/C + + libraries. For example, the SQLite library provides support for a database, the OpenGL/ES library provides support for 3D drawing, the Webkit library provides support for a browser kernel, and the like. Also provided in the system Runtime layer 640 is an Android Runtime library (Android Runtime), which mainly provides some core libraries that can allow developers to write Android applications using the Java language. The application framework layer 660 provides various APIs that may be used in building applications, and developers may build their own applications by using these APIs, such as activity management, window management, view management, notification management, content provider, package management, session management, resource management, and location management. At least one application program runs in the application layer 680, and the application programs can be a contact program, a short message program, a clock program, a camera application and the like carried by an operating system; or an application program developed by a third-party developer, such as an instant messaging program, a photo beautification program, and the like.

Taking an operating system as an IOS system as an example, programs and data stored in the memory 520 are as shown in fig. 6, and the IOS system includes: a Core operating system Layer 720(Core OS Layer), a Core Services Layer 740(Core Services Layer), a Media Layer 760(Media Layer), and a touchable Layer 780(Cocoa Touch Layer). The kernel operating system layer 720 includes an operating system kernel, drivers, and underlying program frameworks that provide functionality closer to hardware for use by program frameworks located in the core services layer 740. The core services layer 740 provides system services and/or program frameworks, such as a Foundation framework, an account framework, an advertisement framework, a data storage framework, a network connection framework, a geographic location framework, a motion framework, etc., that are needed by the application. The media layer 760 provides audiovisual interfaces for applications, such as graphics-related interfaces, audio-related interfaces, video-related interfaces, and audio/video transmission technology wireless playback (AirPlay) interfaces. The touchable layer 780 provides various common interface-related frameworks for application development, and the touchable layer 780 is responsible for user touch interaction operations on the terminal 500. Such as a local notification service, a remote push service, an advertising framework, a game tool framework, a messaging User Interface (UI) framework, a User Interface UIKit framework, a map framework, and so forth.

In the framework illustrated in FIG. 6, the framework associated with most applications includes, but is not limited to: a base framework in the core services layer 740 and a UIKit framework in the touchable layer 780. The base framework provides many basic object classes and data types, provides the most basic system services for all applications, and is UI independent. While the class provided by the UIKit framework is a basic library of UI classes for creating touch-based user interfaces, iOS applications can provide UIs based on the UIKit framework, so it provides an infrastructure for applications for building user interfaces, drawing, processing and user interaction events, responding to gestures, and the like.

The touch display screen 530 is used to receive a touch operation of a user on or near the touch screen using a finger, a touch pen, or any other suitable object, and to display a user interface of each application. The touch display screen 530 is generally provided at a front panel of the terminal 500.

As shown in fig. 7, the terminal 500 includes a first housing 81, a second housing 82, and a connecting assembly 83 connected between the first housing 81 and the second housing 82, wherein the first housing 81 and the second housing 82 are folded by the connecting assembly 83.

The first housing 81 includes a first supporting surface connected to the back surface of the touch display screen and a first back surface opposite to the first supporting surface, and the second housing 82 includes a second supporting surface connected to the back surface of the touch display screen and a second back surface opposite to the second supporting surface. Accordingly, the touch display screen includes a first display area 531, a second display area 532, and a third display area 533, wherein the first display area 531 corresponds to a position of the first housing 81, the second display area 532 corresponds to a position of the second housing 82, and the third display area 533 corresponds to a position of the connection assembly 83. In one implementation, the first display region 531, the second display region 532 and the third display region 533 are made of flexible materials, and have a certain expansion and contraction ductility; in another implementation, only the third display region 533 is made of a flexible material, and the first display region 531 and the second display region 532 are made of a non-flexible material.

In an alternative implementation, the connection assembly 83 of the terminal 500 is of a manual construction. When the user manually separates the first housing 81 and the second housing 82, the terminal 500 is changed from the folded state to the unfolded state; when the user manually closes the first housing 81 and the second housing 82, the terminal 500 is changed from the unfolded state to the folded state.

In an alternative implementation, the connection assembly 83 of the terminal 500 is of an electrically powered construction, for example, an electrically powered rotary member such as an electric motor is disposed within the connection assembly 83. Under the driving of the electric rotating component, the first housing 81 and the second housing 82 automatically close or separate, so that the terminal 500 has two states of unfolding and folding.

The terminal 500 may be divided into an outer folder terminal and an inner folder terminal according to whether the touch display screen is exposed in a folded state. Wherein:

external folding screen terminal

The outer folding screen terminal is a terminal which has a folding angle of 180 degrees and is completely exposed out of the touch display screen in a folding state. As shown in fig. 7, the terminal 500 is an outer folder screen terminal. In the unfolded state, the first supporting surface of the first casing 81 of the terminal 500 is flush with the second supporting surface of the second casing 82 (i.e. the included angle is 180 °), and the first display area 531, the second display area 532 and the third display area 533 of the touch display screen are located on the same plane; in the process of the terminal 500 changing from the unfolded state to the folded state, as shown in fig. 7, the first back surface of the first housing 81 and the second back surface of the second housing 82 are close to each other, and the included angle between the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface is changed from 180 ° to 0 °; in the folded state, as shown in fig. 8, the first supporting surface of the first housing 81 of the terminal 500 is parallel to the second supporting surface of the second housing 82 (the included angle between the first housing 81 and the second housing 82 is 0 °), so that the touch display screen is in a U-shaped folded state, wherein the third display area 533 of the touch display screen forms an exposed U-shaped arc surface.

In an alternative implementation, in the folded state, all or part of the display area of the touch display screen is used for displaying the user interface. For example, as shown in fig. 8, in the folded state, only the second display region 532 is used for displaying the user interface, or only the third display region 533 is used for displaying the user interface.

Terminal with internal folding screen

The inner-folding-screen terminal refers to a terminal that can be folded at an angle of 180 ° and in a folded state, the touch display screen is (entirely or partially) converged. As shown in fig. 9, the terminal 500 is an inner folder screen terminal. In the unfolded state, the first supporting surface of the first casing 81 of the terminal 500 is flush with the second supporting surface of the second casing 82 (i.e. the included angle is 180 °), so that the touch display screen is in a planar unfolded state (the first display area 531, the second display area 532 and the third display area 533 are located on the same plane); in the process of the terminal 500 changing from the unfolded state to the folded state, as shown in fig. 9, the first supporting surface of the first housing 81 and the second supporting surface of the second housing 82 are close to each other, that is, the included angle between the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface is changed from 180 ° to 0 °; in the folded state, the first supporting surface of the first housing 81 of the terminal 500 is parallel to the second supporting surface of the second housing 82, so that the touch display screen is in a U-shaped folded state in which the third display area 533 of the touch display screen forms a U-shaped arc surface that is inwardly converged. In an alternative implementation, in the folded state, no user interface is displayed in all display areas of the touch display screen.

In addition to providing a touch display screen on the support surface of the housing, a touch display screen may also be provided on the first back surface of the first housing 81 and/or the second back surface of the second housing 82. When the inner folding screen terminal is in a folding state, the touch display screen arranged on the back face of the shell is used for displaying a user interface, and the user interface is the same as or different from the user interface displayed by the touch display screen in an unfolding state.

In other possible implementations, the foldable angle of the terminal 500 may also be 360 ° (both inward and outward), and in the folded state, the touch display screen is exposed or converged on the terminal, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In the terminal 500 shown in fig. 7 to 9, the first housing 81 and the second housing 82 are the same or similar in size, and the manner in which the terminal 500 is folded is referred to as symmetrical folding. In other possible implementations, the terminal 500 may also be folded asymmetrically. When the asymmetric folding is adopted, the sizes of the first housing 81 and the second housing 82 may be different or different by more than a threshold (for example, 50% or 60% or 70%), and accordingly, the area of the first display region 531 and the area of the second display region 532 in the touch display screen are different by more than a threshold.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 10, the terminal 500 is an asymmetrically folded outer folded screen terminal, and the first housing 81 has a size larger than that of the second housing 82. In the folded state, the area of the first display region 531 is larger than the area of the second display region 532.

In fig. 7 to 10, only by taking an example that the terminal 500 includes two parts of a housing and a connecting assembly for connecting the housing as an example (the terminal is in a two-fold structure), in other possible implementations, the terminal 500 may include n parts of the housing and n-1 connecting assemblies, and accordingly, the touch display screen of the terminal 500 includes 2n-1 display areas, and the n-1 display areas corresponding to the connecting assemblies are made of a flexible material, so as to implement the terminal in the n-fold structure, which is not limited in this embodiment.

At least one other component is also disposed in the terminal 500, the at least one other component including: cameras, fingerprint sensors, proximity light sensors, distance sensors, etc. In some embodiments, at least one other component is disposed on the front, side, or back of the terminal 500, such as a fingerprint sensor disposed on the back or side of the housing, a camera disposed above the touch display screen 530.

In other embodiments, at least one other component may be integrated within or below the touch display screen 530. In some embodiments, a bone conduction earpiece is provided inside the terminal 500; other components on the front panel of the conventional terminal are integrated in the whole area or a partial area of the touch display screen 530, for example, after a photosensitive element in a camera is split into a plurality of photosensitive pixels, each photosensitive pixel is integrated in a black area in each display pixel in the touch display screen 530, so that the touch display screen 530 has an image capturing function. The terminal 500 has a higher screen occupation ratio due to the integration of at least one other component inside or under the touch display screen 530.

In some optional embodiments, an edge touch sensor is disposed on a single side, or two sides (e.g., two left and right sides), or four sides (e.g., four upper, lower, left and right sides) of the middle frame of the terminal 500, and is configured to detect at least one of a touch operation, a click operation, a press operation, a slide operation, and the like of a user on the middle frame. The edge touch sensor may be any one of a touch sensor, a thermal sensor, a pressure sensor, and the like. The user can apply operations on the edge touch sensor to control the application program in the terminal 500.

In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the configuration of terminal 500 illustrated in the above-described figures is not intended to be limiting, and that terminal 500 may include more or less components than those illustrated, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. For example, the terminal 500 further includes a radio frequency circuit, an input unit, a sensor, an audio circuit, a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) module, a power supply, a bluetooth module, and other components, which are not described herein again.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partly realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with embodiments of the invention, to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy Disk, hard Disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program instructing relevant hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information, which is applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen, is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:

when the awakening operation aiming at the folding area of the display screen is detected and the terminal is determined to be in the folding state currently, acquiring at least one piece of prompt information, wherein the folding state is detected through magnetic devices and sensors arranged in two main body areas, and when the sensors sense the magnetic devices, the terminal is determined to be in the folding state;

illuminating the fold region;

for each prompt message in the at least one prompt message, determining the display position of the prompt message in the folding area through a preset curvature correction algorithm, wherein the display position is determined according to the position of the prompt message in a plane coordinate and the corresponding relation between the plane coordinate and a curved surface coordinate;

displaying the prompt information in the folding area according to the determined display position so as to correct the visual distortion caused by the folding area;

displaying an interface of an application corresponding to the target prompt information in the lighted main body area,

the folding area and the two main body areas of the display screen are respectively provided with independent power supplies, so that any one of the folding area and the two main body areas can be independently lightened.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to obtaining at least one hint information, further comprising:

correspondingly, the acquiring at least one prompt message includes:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to detecting the wake-up operation for the fold away area of the display screen, further comprising:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein after said displaying said at least one reminder in said fold-over area, further comprising:

5. An apparatus for displaying information, applied to a terminal with a foldable display screen, the apparatus comprising:

the terminal comprises an acquisition module, a display module and a display module, wherein the acquisition module is used for acquiring at least one piece of prompt information when the awakening operation aiming at a folding area of the display screen is detected and the terminal is determined to be in a folding state currently, the folding state is detected by magnetic devices and sensors arranged in two main body areas, and when the sensors sense the magnetic devices, the terminal is determined to be in the folding state;

a first lighting module for lighting the folding area;

the first display module is used for determining the display position of the prompt information in the folding area according to a preset curvature correction algorithm for each prompt information in the at least one prompt information, and the display position is determined according to the position of the prompt information in a plane coordinate and the corresponding relation between the plane coordinate and a curved surface coordinate;

the first display module is further used for displaying the prompt information in the folding area according to the determined display position so as to correct visual distortion caused by the folding area;

a fourth display module, configured to display an interface of an application corresponding to the target prompt information in the lighted main body area,

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

correspondingly, the obtaining module is specifically configured to:

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

8. A terminal comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the steps of the method of any of claims 1-4 are performed when the program is executed by the processor.

9. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.