CN108427527B

CN108427527B - Information selection method and device and mobile terminal

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Publication number: CN108427527B
Application number: CN201710077774.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李论
Original assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2017-02-14
Filing date: 2017-02-14
Publication date: 2022-01-04
Anticipated expiration: 2037-02-14
Also published as: CN108427527A

Abstract

The embodiment of the application discloses an information selection method, an information selection device and a mobile terminal, wherein the method comprises the following steps: after detecting that the nth information selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal by the user is finished, displaying a first menu option to the user, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option; when the user is detected to select the superposition selection option, setting the selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, wherein the superposition selection state is used for representing that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is kept selected when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation; and when the information selection operation of the user for the n +1 th time of the information is detected, the information selected by the information selection operation for the n time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the n +1 th time are taken as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal. According to the scheme of the embodiment of the application, the convenience of information selection of the user in the mobile terminal can be improved.

Description

Information selection method and device and mobile terminal

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of mobile terminals, and in particular, to an information selection method and apparatus, and a mobile terminal.

Background

In the existing mobile terminal, the common practice for information selective copying is as follows: clicking at the initial position of the selected information, keeping the finger in contact with the touch screen of the mobile terminal all the time, and selecting the content by sliding the finger.

However, the above operation method is only suitable for short or simple information selection, and for long or complex information selection, the operation is difficult or impossible.

How to improve the convenience of information selection to improve user experience is the technical problem that this application will solve.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an information selection method, an information selection device and a mobile terminal, which can enable a user to more easily perform complex information selection operation and improve the convenience of information selection performed by the user in the mobile terminal.

In a first aspect, an information selection method for a mobile terminal is provided, where the method includes: after detecting that the nth information selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal by the user is finished, displaying a first menu option to the user, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option; when the user is detected to select the superposition selection option, setting the selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, wherein the superposition selection state is used for representing that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is kept selected when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation; and when the information selection operation of the user for the n +1 th time of the information is detected, the information selected by the information selection operation for the n time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the n +1 th time are taken as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal.

In a second aspect, an information selecting apparatus of a mobile terminal is provided, the apparatus comprising:

the detection unit is used for detecting the information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal;

the menu display unit is used for displaying a first menu option to the user after the detection unit detects that the nth information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal is finished, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option;

the detection unit also detects the selection of the first menu option by the user;

a superimposition selection setting unit that sets, when the detection unit detects that the user selects the superimposition selection option, a selection state of the information as a superimposition selection state that indicates that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is selected is kept while the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation;

and the information selection unit is used for taking the information selected by the nth information selection operation and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation as the currently selected information of the mobile terminal when the detection unit detects the (n + 1) th information selection operation of the information by the user.

In a third aspect, another information selecting apparatus of a mobile terminal is provided, the apparatus including a processor configured to perform the following method:

after detecting that the nth information selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal by the user is finished, displaying a first menu option to the user, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option;

when the user is detected to select the superposition selection option, setting the selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, wherein the superposition selection state is used for representing that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is kept selected when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation;

and when the information selection operation of the user for the n +1 th time of the information is detected, the information selected by the information selection operation for the n time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the n +1 th time are taken as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program comprising instructions for performing the method of the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, a mobile terminal is proposed, which comprises the apparatus of the second or third aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, after the nth information selection operation is performed, when the condition that the user selects the overlay selection option in the displayed menu options is detected, the information selection state is set to be the overlay selection state, and the information selected after the nth information selection and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation are taken as the currently selected information in the (n + 1) th information selection operation, so that the user can perform complicated information selection operation more easily, and the convenience of information selection performed in the mobile terminal by the user is improved.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments described in the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without any creative effort.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an information selection method of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 2 is a detailed flow diagram of an information selection operation according to an embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an information selection operation according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an information selection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an information selection method of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present application. The method of fig. 1 is performed by a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet Computer, a notebook Computer, a UMPC (Ultra-mobile Personal Computer), a netbook, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and other terminal devices. The method comprises the following steps:

s101, after detecting that the nth information selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal by the user is finished, displaying a first menu option to the user, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the information displayed by the mobile terminal may be information displayed by the mobile terminal through an application such as a browser, a microblog, a communication tool, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), a Short Message Service (SMS), or the like, or information displayed in other manners, which is not limited herein.

It should be understood that the object of the information selection operation in the embodiment of the present application may include only plain text content, and may also include various forms of information such as text and multimedia objects, and the embodiment of the present application does not limit this.

It should be understood that the method of the embodiment of the present application may be applied after any information selecting operation, for example, after the first information selecting operation, or after a plurality of information selecting operations. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, the value of n may be 1, or a positive integer greater than 1.

It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, n is a positive integer. For example, n can take on values of 1, 2, 3, etc. That is, the method of the embodiment of the present application may be applied after any one information selection operation.

Of course, it should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, before step S101, the method may further include: and detecting the nth information selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal by the user. After detecting that the user performs the nth information selection operation on the information displayed by the mobile terminal, displaying a first menu option to the user. Of course, it should be understood that other menu options may also be included in the first menu option, such as non-overlapping selection options, and the like.

At this time, the user may select a menu option by a click operation, a button selection operation, or the like.

And S102, when the user is detected to select the superposition selection option, setting the selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, wherein the superposition selection state is used for representing that the selected information after the nth information selection operation is kept selected when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation.

The form of detecting the user to select the overlay selection option may be various, for example, an operation instruction triggered after detecting that the overlay selection option is selected, and the like. The embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, in order to distinguish from an information selection operation without performing superimposition, a parameter, that is, an information selection state, needs to be introduced, and the information selection state may include at least a state for marking a non-information selection operation and a superimposition selection state for marking a superimposition selection operation using an embodiment of the present application.

Specifically, the information selection state may be recorded with one variable. For example, when the information selection state includes only two states, i.e., includes the superimposition selection state and the non-superimposition selection state, it can be represented by "whether" or "0, 1". Of course, other ways of recording the information selection status are possible.

In addition, it should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the information selection state may be bound to an application or some selection interface of the application, for example, the application in the foreground of the mobile terminal is application a, the information selection state of the mobile terminal in application a is an overlay selection state, when the mobile terminal is switched to application B, the information selection state of the mobile terminal in application B is a non-overlay selection state, and the like.

Of course, it is not excluded that the mobile terminal shares an information selection status among a plurality of applications. In such an application scenario, when the information selection state of the mobile terminal is the overlay selection state, the information selection operation of the mobile terminal may be performed across applications, for example, overlaying the information selected in application a with the message selected in application B, and so on.

And S103, when the information selection operation of the user on the information for the (n + 1) th time is detected, taking the information selected by the information selection operation for the (n + 1) th time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the (n + 1) th time as the currently selected information of the mobile terminal.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, when the (n + 1) th information selection operation on the information by the user is detected, the start position and the end position of the (n + 1) th information selection operation are naturally also detected.

When the information selection state of the application is the superposition selection state, the information selected after the nth information selection operation and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation can be used as the currently selected information of the mobile terminal. The information currently selected by the mobile terminal, that is, the information selected after the (n + 1) th information selection operation.

Optionally, as an embodiment, in step S101, detecting that the user performs an nth information selection operation on the information displayed by the mobile terminal may specifically include:

when the first click operation of the user is detected, a second menu option is displayed to the user, wherein the second menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

recording a first position clicked by the first click operation when the user is detected to select the information selection starting option;

when a second click operation of the user is detected, a third menu option is displayed to the user, wherein the third menu option comprises an information selection ending option;

recording a second position clicked by the second click operation when the user is detected to select the information selection ending option;

the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the first position and the second position.

In the embodiment of the application, in order to facilitate the operation, after the first click operation, a menu option containing an information selection starting option is popped up to identify the starting position of the information selection; and after detecting a second click operation after the user selects the information selection starting option, popping up a menu option containing an information selection ending option to identify the ending position of the information selection. When the user selects the information selection starting option, the first position clicked by the corresponding first click operation is the starting position of the information selection, and when the user selects the information selection ending option, the second position clicked by the corresponding second click operation is the ending position of the information selection.

For example, the user performs a click operation 1 to pop up a menu option 1 containing an information selection start option; the user does not select menu option 1 of the information selection start option but continues to perform a click operation 2 at another location and pops up menu option 2 containing the information selection start option, and then the user selects the information selection start option in menu option 2. At this time, the click operation corresponding to the information selection start option in the menu option 2 is the click operation 2, and the position clicked by the click operation is the first position, that is, the start position of the information selection this time. And when the user selects the information selection starting option and then detects the click operation, popping up a menu option containing an information selection ending option. Similarly, no matter how many times the user performs the clicking operation after selecting the information selection start option, the information selection operation is not completed as long as the user does not select the information selection end option among the pop-up menu options. When the user selects the information selection ending option in the popped-up menu options, the position clicked by the clicking operation corresponding to the menu option is the second position, namely the ending position of the information selection.

According to the information selection method and device, the click operation of the user and the selection operation of the menu option popped up after the click operation of the user are detected in the superposition selection state, so that the information selection operation of the user can be detected, the user can conveniently select massive information, particularly information exceeding a display screen of the mobile terminal, and convenience of the user in information selection is improved.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in step S101, detecting that the user performs an nth information selection operation on the information displayed by the mobile terminal may specifically include: and detecting the sliding operation of the user on the mobile terminal, wherein the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the starting position of the sliding operation and the ending position of the sliding operation.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in step S101, detecting that the user performs an nth information selection operation on the information displayed by the mobile terminal may specifically include:

when detecting a third click operation of the user, displaying a fourth menu option to the user, wherein the third menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

after detecting that the user selects the information selection starting option, detecting a first sliding operation after the user selects the information selection starting option;

the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation.

In the embodiment of the application, the initial position of the sliding operation is determined by clicking and selecting the information selection initial option in the menu options, so that a user can better select information through the sliding operation, and the convenience of the information selection operation is improved.

Optionally, after taking the information selected by the nth information selecting operation and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selecting operation as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal, the method further includes: the first menu option is presented to the user.

In the embodiment of the application, the first menu option is displayed to the user after the n +1 th information selection operation is finished, so that the user can continuously select the superposition selection option, and multiple times of superposition selection of information can be performed.

Optionally, the first menu option further includes an end selection option, and when it is detected that the user selects the end selection start option, the method further includes: and finishing the selection operation of the information of the mobile terminal, and showing a fifth menu option for operating the selected information to the user.

Optionally, the first menu option further includes a deselection option, and when it is detected that the user selects the deselection start option, the method further includes: and canceling the information selected by the user in the previous information selection operation before the user selects the cancel selection starting option or canceling all the currently selected information. It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, canceling the selected information refers to canceling the selected state of the selected information.

Optionally, the information selected in the mobile terminal is sorted according to the selected sequence when the information operation is performed; or the information selected in the mobile terminal is sorted according to the sequence of the current information display when the information operation is carried out.

The method of the embodiments of the present application will be further described with reference to specific embodiments.

FIG. 2 is a detailed flow diagram of an information selection operation according to an embodiment of the present application. In the flowchart shown in fig. 2, text information is exemplified. Of course, it should be understood that the method of the embodiments of the present application may also be applied to the selection of multimedia information. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an information selection operation according to an embodiment of the present application. For the purpose of understanding the technical solution of fig. 2, the embodiment of the present application will be described with reference to fig. 3. The method of fig. 2 comprises:

a user operates a mobile terminal to enter an application containing selectable information 201.

It should be appreciated that prior to implementing the method of the embodiment of fig. 1 of the present application, the user should first operate the mobile terminal to enter an application containing selectable information. Specifically, the application may be a browser, a microblog, a communication tool, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), a Short Message Service (SMS), and other applications related to information selection operations. In the embodiment of the present application, a browser is taken as an example for illustration.

202, the user enters an information selection operation flow.

And the user enters an information selection operation state of the browser by long-pressing the touch screen of the mobile terminal, and selects the information content of the webpage browsed by the browser.

In the mobile terminal of the prior art, the information selection operation is usually entered in a long press manner. The embodiment of the present application is described in a long press mode, but does not exclude a scheme of performing information selection operation in other modes. For example, the user may also enter the information selection operation flow through a corresponding function button or gesture operation, and so on.

And after entering the information selection operation process, the default information selection operation state is a non-superposition selection state.

And 203, the user performs information selection operation.

It should be understood that when an information selection operation is performed on a browser, information selected after the information selection operation needs to be determined according to the current information selection operation state.

And if the current information selection operation state is a non-superposition selection state, the information selected by the mobile terminal after the information selection operation is the information selected in the information selection operation.

If the current information selection operation state is the superposition selection state, the information selected by the mobile terminal after the information selection operation is the information selected before the information selection operation and the information selected in the information selection operation are the aggregate of the information selected before the information selection operation and the information selected in the information selection operation, that is, the information selected before the information selection operation and the information selected by the information selection operation are superposed, which is also the meaning of superposition selection in the application. Specifically, assuming that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is a, and the information selection operation state is the superimposition selection state, and assuming that the information selected by the n +1 th information selection operation is B, the selected information is a + B after the n +1 th information selection operation.

Of course, it should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the information selecting operation may be implemented in various ways.

Optionally, in a specific implementation manner, the mobile terminal may determine the start position and the end position of the selection information of the current information selection operation by detecting a sliding selection operation of the user on the mobile terminal.

Specifically, the user may select information by sliding to an end position after clicking a touch screen of the mobile terminal, where the position at the time of clicking is a start position of the selection information, and the position at which the sliding ends is an end position of the selection information.

Or, optionally, in another specific implementation manner, the mobile terminal may detect the information selection operation of the user by:

when the first click operation of the user is detected, a second menu is displayed to the user, and the second menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

when the user is detected to select the information selection starting option, recording a first position clicked by the first click operation;

and recording a second position of the second click operation click when the user is detected to select the information selection ending option.

The information selected by the information selection operation is the information between the first position and the second position.

and the information selected by the information selection operation is the information between the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation.

As shown in fig. 3 (a) and (b), the user may determine the start selection information by clicking a start option among menu options popped up on the browser, and determine the information selected by the present information selection operation by sliding a start position and an end position of a cursor used for selecting information. The starting position of the sliding operation is the position clicked by the clicking operation of the user.

Of course, other specific implementation manners may exist in the information selection operation, and are not described herein again in the embodiments of the present application.

204, the mobile terminal pops up a menu option.

After the user finishes one information selection operation, the next operation can be carried out on the mobile terminal. At this time, the mobile terminal may pop up menu options for the user to select to determine the next operation.

For example, in fig. 3 (b), after the user completes one information selection operation, a menu option may pop up, which may include an end option and an end and overlay option thereon. The user may select one of the two menu options by a click operation or the like to trigger a different operation.

The mobile terminal determines the menu option selected by the user 205.

The mobile terminal detects and judges the menu option selected by the user, and executes corresponding steps according to the menu option selected by the user.

If the menu option selected by the user is the overlay selection option for setting the selection state of the information presented by the mobile terminal to the overlay selection state, step 206 is performed.

Alternatively, if the menu option selected by the user is a deselect option for deselecting information, step 207 is performed.

When the selection option is finished in the selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal, step 208 is executed.

206, the mobile terminal sets the selection state of the displayed information to be the superposition selection state.

And when the mobile terminal detects that the menu option selected by the user is the superposition selection option, the mobile terminal sets the selection state of the displayed information to be the superposition selection state. In the embodiment of the present application, the overlay selection state is used to indicate that, when the information selection operation of the (n + 1) th time is performed on the information displayed by the mobile terminal, the information selected after the information selection operation of the (n) th time for selecting the information displayed by the mobile terminal is maintained.

After the mobile terminal sets the selection state of the displayed information to the overlay selection state, step 203 may be executed.

Taking fig. 3 as an example, after the mobile terminal performs the nth (n takes values of 1, 2, 3, etc.) information selection operation, the menu options pop up, including an "end" menu option and an "end and overlay" menu option. The menu option of "end and overlap" is an overlap selection option in the embodiment of the present application. When the mobile terminal detects that the user selects the 'end and overlap' menu option, the information selected after the nth information selection operation can be kept in a selected state, and the (n + 1) th information selection operation is performed.

As shown in fig. 3, when the user clicks the "end and overlap" button in (b) of fig. 3, the information selected before clicking the "end and overlap" button may be maintained in the selected state, and then the next information selection operation, i.e., as shown in (c) of fig. 3, may be started.

The mobile terminal cancels the information selection 207.

When the mobile terminal detects that the menu option selected by the user is a deselection option, the mobile terminal may deselect the information. In the embodiment of the application, the deselection option is used for deselecting the selected information in the mobile terminal.

Optionally, in an implementation manner of this embodiment, the mobile terminal may cancel the information selected by the information selection operation performed one time before the user selects the cancel selection start option.

For example, after the nth information selection operation of the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal detects that the user selects the cancel selection option, the information selected by the nth information selection operation may be cancelled. If n is larger than 1, the information selected by the mobile terminal at the moment is the information selected after the n-1 st information selection operation.

Or, optionally, in another implementation manner of the embodiment, the mobile terminal may cancel all selected information. At this time, the selected information does not exist in the information displayed by the mobile terminal.

Of course, it should be understood that after step 207, the mobile terminal may continue with the information selection operation, i.e., perform step 203; alternatively, the mobile terminal may end the information selection operation.

And 208, the mobile terminal finishes the information selection operation flow.

When the mobile terminal detects that the menu option selected by the user is an ending selection option for ending the selection operation of the information displayed by the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal can end the information selection operation flow.

As shown in fig. 3, the "end" menu option is an end selection option in the embodiment of the present application. When the mobile terminal detects that the user selects the "end" menu option, the mobile terminal may end the selection operation on the information presented by the mobile terminal and present a fifth menu option for operating on the selected information to the user. The fifth menu option may include a copy option, a cut option, etc.

Of course, it should be understood that the menu options popped up from the embodiment of FIG. 3 of the present application are merely illustrative. In practical applications, the overlay selection option and the end selection option may adopt other naming modes. In addition, other function options may also be included in the menu option, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited herein.

After the mobile terminal has executed step 208, it may execute step 209.

209, the mobile terminal performs corresponding operations on the selected information.

After the mobile terminal finishes the information selection operation flow, a fifth menu option for operating the selected information can be displayed to the user. The mobile terminal can detect the selection operation of the user on the fifth menu option and complete the corresponding function.

Specifically, as shown in (d) of fig. 3, the fifth menu option may include menu options such as copy, definition, and search, which correspond to operations such as copy, definition, and search, respectively.

Based on the technical aspect, the information selection method and the information selection device can enable the user to select the information more easily, and improve convenience of information selection operation.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present application, where the mobile terminal according to the embodiment of the present application may implement the method implemented by the embodiments of the present application shown in fig. 1 to fig. 2, and for convenience of description, only a portion related to the embodiment of the present application is shown, and details of the technology are not disclosed, please refer to the embodiments of the present application shown in fig. 1 to fig. 2.

Fig. 4 shows a block diagram of a partial structure of a mobile phone 400 related to embodiments of the present application, where the mobile terminal shown in fig. 4 may be a mobile phone, a tablet Computer, a notebook Computer, a UMPC (Ultra-mobile Personal Computer), a netbook, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and other terminal devices.

As shown in fig. 4, the cellular phone 400 includes: RF (radio frequency) circuit 420, memory 430, input unit 440, display unit 450, gravity sensor 460, audio circuit 470, processor 480, and power supply 490. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the handset configuration shown in fig. 4 is not intended to be limiting and may include more or fewer components than those shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes the components of the mobile phone 400 in detail with reference to fig. 4:

the RF circuit 420 may be used for receiving and transmitting signals during information transmission and reception or during a call, and in particular, receives downlink information of a base station and then processes the received downlink information to the processor 480; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, the RF circuit includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, an LNA (low noise amplifier), a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the RF circuitry 420 may also communicate with networks and other devices via wireless communications. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (global system for mobile communications), GPRS (general packet radio service), CDMA (code division multiple access), WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access), LTE (long term evolution), email, SMS (short messaging service), etc.

The memory 430 may be used to store software programs and modules, and the processor 480 executes various functional applications and data processing of the cellular phone 400 by operating the software programs and modules stored in the memory 430. The memory 430 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, image data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone 400, and the like. Further, the memory 430 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The input unit 440 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the cellular phone 400. Specifically, the input unit 440 may include a touch screen 441 and other input devices 442. The touch screen 441, also referred to as a touch panel, may collect a touch operation performed by a user on or near the touch screen 441 (e.g., an operation performed by the user on or near the touch screen 441 using any suitable object or accessory such as a finger or a stylus), and drive a corresponding connection device according to a preset program. Alternatively, the touch screen 441 may include two portions, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 480, and receives and executes commands sent from the processor 480. In addition, the touch screen 441 may be implemented using various types, such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. The input unit 440 may include other input devices 442 in addition to the touch screen 441. In particular, other input devices 442 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, power switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like.

The display unit 450 may be used to display information input by or provided to the user and various menus of the cellular phone 400. The Display unit 450 may include a Display panel 451, and optionally, the Display panel 441 may be configured in the form of an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode), or the like. Further, the touch screen 441 may overlay the display panel 451, and when the touch screen 441 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch screen is transmitted to the processor 480 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 480 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 451 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 4 the touch screen 441 and the display panel 451 are shown as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the cell phone 400, in some embodiments the touch screen 441 may be integrated with the display panel 451 to implement the input and output functions of the cell phone 400.

The gravity sensor 460 may detect the acceleration of the mobile phone in each direction (generally three axes), detect the gravity and direction when the mobile phone is stationary, and may be used for applications of recognizing the posture of the mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like.

The cell phone 400 may also include other sensors, such as light sensors. In particular, the light sensor may include an ambient light sensor and a proximity light sensor. The ambient light sensor may adjust the brightness of the display panel 441 according to the brightness of ambient light; the proximity light sensor may detect whether an object is near or touching the phone, and may turn off the display panel 441 and/or the backlight when the phone 400 is moved to the ear. The mobile phone 400 may also be configured with other sensors such as a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which are not described herein.

The audio circuitry 470, speaker 471, microphone 472 can provide an audio interface between the user and the handset 400. The audio circuit 470 may transmit the electrical signal converted from the received audio data to the speaker 471, and the audio signal is converted from the speaker 471 into a sound signal and output; on the other hand, the microphone 472 converts the collected sound signals into electrical signals, which are received by the audio circuit 470 and converted into audio data, which is then output to the RF circuit 420 for transmission to, for example, another cell phone, or to the memory 430 for further processing.

The processor 480 is a control center of the mobile phone 400, connects various parts of the entire mobile phone using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile phone 400 and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 430 and calling data stored in the memory 430, thereby performing overall monitoring of the mobile phone. Optionally, processor 480 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 480 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 480.

The handset 400 also includes a power supply 490 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, which may preferably be logically connected to the processor 480 via a power management system to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption via the power management system.

Although not shown, the mobile phone 400 may further include a WiFi (wireless fidelity) module, a bluetooth module, and the like, which will not be described herein.

It should be understood that the memory 420 in fig. 4 may store computer programs or instructions for causing the processor to perform the methods of the embodiments shown in fig. 1 and 2, and is specifically configured to perform the following methods:

and when the information selection operation of the user on the n +1 th time of the information is detected, the information selected by the information selection operation of the n time and the information selected by the information selection operation of the n +1 th time are taken as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal.

Further, a specific implementation of the software implementation stored by the memory 420 in fig. 4 may be as shown in the information selecting apparatus 500 of fig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an information selection apparatus 500 according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 5, in a software implementation, the information selecting apparatus 500 may include: a detection unit 510, a menu presentation unit 520, a superimposition selection setting unit 530, and an information selection unit 540, wherein,

a detecting unit 510, configured to detect an information selection operation performed by a user on information displayed by a mobile terminal;

the menu display unit 520 is configured to display a first menu option to the user after the detection unit 510 detects that the nth information selection operation performed by the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal is finished, where the first menu option includes a superposition selection option;

the detection unit 510 further detects the user's selection of the first menu option;

a superimposition selection setting unit 530 configured to set, when the detection unit 510 detects that the user selects the superimposition selection option, a selection state of the information to a superimposition selection state indicating that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is selected is kept while the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation;

the information selecting unit 540, when the detecting unit 510 detects the information selecting operation of the user for the (n + 1) th time of the information, takes the information selected by the information selecting operation for the (n + 1) th time and the information selected by the information selecting operation for the (n + 1) th time as the currently selected information of the mobile terminal.

In the embodiment of the application, after the information selection operation is performed, the information selection device enters the superposition selection state according to the first operation instruction, and then in the superposition selection state, on the premise of keeping the information selected by the information selection operation in the selection state, the text selected by the next information selection operation is also selected together, so that the user can more easily perform the information selection, and better user experience is provided.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the detecting unit 510 further detects a click operation of the user;

the menu presenting unit 520 further presents a second menu option to the user when the detecting unit 510 detects the first click operation of the user, where the second menu option includes an information selection start option;

the detecting unit 510 further records a first position of the first click operation when detecting that the user selects the information selection start option;

the menu presenting unit 520 further presents a third menu option to the user when the detecting unit 510 detects a second click operation of the user, where the third menu option includes an information selection end option;

the detecting unit 510 further records a second position of the second click operation when detecting that the user selects the information selection ending option;

the detecting unit 510 detects the information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal by detecting the selection of the information selection start item and the information selection end item, and recording the first position and the second position, where the information selected by the information selection operation of the (n + 1) th time is information between the first position and the second position.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the detecting unit 510 further detects a click operation of the user;

the menu presenting unit 520 further presents a fourth menu option to the user when the detecting unit 510 detects a third click operation by the user, where the fourth menu option includes an information selection start option;

the detecting unit 510 further detects a first sliding operation after the user selects the information selection start option after detecting that the user selects the information selection start option;

the detecting unit 510 detects an n +1 th information selection operation of the information displayed on the mobile terminal by the user by detecting a clicked position of the third click operation and an end position of the first sliding operation, where the information selected by the n +1 th information selection operation is information between the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the detecting unit 510 is specifically configured to detect a sliding operation of the user on the mobile terminal, where the information selected by the n +1 th information selecting operation is information between a starting position of the sliding operation and an ending position of the sliding operation.

Optionally, the first menu option further includes an end selection option, and the information selecting apparatus 500 further includes an end selection unit 550, when the detection unit 510 detects that the user selects the end selection start option, the end selection unit 550 further ends the selection operation of the information of the mobile terminal; the menu presenting unit 520 also presents the user with a fifth menu option for operating on the selected information.

Optionally, the first menu option further includes a deselection option, and the information selecting apparatus 500 further includes a deselection unit 560, when the detecting unit 510 detects that the user selects the deselection start option, the deselection unit further deselects information selected by the user in a previous information selection operation before the user selects the deselection start option, or cancels all currently selected information.

Optionally, the menu presenting unit 520 further presents the first menu option to the user after the information selecting unit selects information.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the information selected in the mobile terminal where the information selection apparatus 500 is located is sorted according to the selected sequence when performing the information operation.

Or, optionally, as another embodiment, the information selected in the mobile terminal where the information selection apparatus 500 is located is sorted according to the sequence of the current information display when performing information operation.

The information selection apparatus 500 may also execute the method in fig. 1, and implement the functions of the information selection apparatus or the mobile terminal in the embodiments shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, which are not described herein again in this embodiment of the present application.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a mobile terminal, which includes the information selection apparatus 500 in the embodiment shown in fig. 5.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a portable electronic device comprising a plurality of application programs, enable the portable electronic device to perform the method of the embodiment shown in fig. 1.

In short, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

In the 90 s of the 20 th century, improvements in a technology could clearly distinguish between improvements in hardware (e.g., improvements in circuit structures such as diodes, transistors, switches, etc.) and improvements in software (improvements in process flow). However, as technology advances, many of today's process flow improvements have been seen as direct improvements in hardware circuit architecture. Designers almost always obtain the corresponding hardware circuit structure by programming an improved method flow into the hardware circuit. Thus, it cannot be said that an improvement in the process flow cannot be realized by hardware physical modules. For example, a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), is an integrated circuit whose Logic functions are determined by programming the Device by a user. A digital system is "integrated" on a PLD by the designer's own programming without requiring the chip manufacturer to design and fabricate application-specific integrated circuit chips. Furthermore, nowadays, instead of manually making an Integrated Circuit chip, such Programming is often implemented by "logic compiler" software, which is similar to a software compiler used in program development and writing, but the original code before compiling is also written by a specific Programming Language, which is called Hardware Description Language (HDL), and HDL is not only one but many, such as abel (advanced Boolean Expression Language), ahdl (alternate Hardware Description Language), traffic, pl (core universal Programming Language), HDCal (jhdware Description Language), lang, Lola, HDL, laspam, hardward Description Language (vhr Description Language), vhal (Hardware Description Language), and vhigh-Language, which are currently used in most common. It will also be apparent to those skilled in the art that hardware circuitry that implements the logical method flows can be readily obtained by merely slightly programming the method flows into an integrated circuit using the hardware description languages described above.

The controller may be implemented in any suitable manner, for example, the controller may take the form of, for example, a microprocessor or processor and a computer-readable medium storing computer-readable program code (e.g., software or firmware) executable by the (micro) processor, logic gates, switches, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a programmable logic controller, and an embedded microcontroller, examples of which include, but are not limited to, the following microcontrollers: ARC 625D, Atmel AT91SAM, Microchip PIC18F26K20, and Silicone Labs C8051F320, the memory controller may also be implemented as part of the control logic for the memory. Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that, in addition to implementing the controller as pure computer readable program code, the same functionality can be implemented by logically programming method steps such that the controller is in the form of logic gates, switches, application specific integrated circuits, programmable logic controllers, embedded microcontrollers and the like. Such a controller may thus be considered a hardware component, and the means included therein for performing the various functions may also be considered as a structure within the hardware component. Or even means for performing the functions may be regarded as being both a software module for performing the method and a structure within a hardware component.

The systems, devices, modules or units illustrated in the above embodiments may be implemented by a computer chip or an entity, or by a product with certain functions. One typical implementation device is a computer. In particular, the computer may be, for example, a personal computer, a laptop computer, a cellular telephone, a camera phone, a smartphone, a personal digital assistant, a media player, a navigation device, an email device, a game console, a tablet computer, a wearable device, or a combination of any of these devices.

For convenience of description, the above devices are described as being divided into various units by function, and are described separately. Of course, the functionality of the units may be implemented in one or more software and/or hardware when implementing the present application.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

In a typical configuration, a computing device includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The application may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The application may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. In particular, for the system embodiment, since it is substantially similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, reference may be made to the partial description of the method embodiment.

The above description is only an example of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. An information selection method of a mobile terminal, comprising:

after detecting that the nth information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal is finished, displaying a first menu option to the user, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option, a deselection option and an end selection option, and the nth information selection operation is any information selection operation;

when the user is detected to select the superposition selection option, setting the selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, wherein the superposition selection state is used for representing the information selected after the nth information selection operation is kept selected when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation;

when the information selection operation of the user on the information for the (n + 1) th time is detected, the information selected by the information selection operation for the n th time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the (n + 1) th time are used as the currently selected information of the mobile terminal;

presenting the first menu option to the user;

when the user is detected to select the deselection option, cancelling the information selected by the previous information selection operation of the user selecting the deselection option or cancelling all currently selected information;

and when the user is detected to select the ending selection option, ending the selection operation of the information of the mobile terminal, and displaying a fifth menu option for operating the selected information to the user.

2. The method of claim 1,

the detecting of the n +1 th information selection operation of the user on the information comprises:

when the first click operation of the user is detected, displaying a second menu option to the user, wherein the second menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the first position and the second position.

3. The method of claim 1,

when a third click operation of the user is detected, a fourth menu option is displayed to the user, wherein the fourth menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

and the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation.

4. The method of any one of claims 1-3,

sorting the selected information in the mobile terminal according to the selected sequence when information operation is carried out; or

And sorting the selected information in the mobile terminal according to the sequence of current information display when information operation is carried out.

5. An information selection apparatus of a mobile terminal, comprising:

the menu display unit is used for displaying a first menu option to a user after the detection unit detects that the nth information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal is finished, wherein the first menu option comprises a superposition selection option, a deselection option and an end selection option, and when the detection unit detects that the user selects the end selection option, a fifth menu option for operating the selected information is displayed to the user, and the nth information selection operation is any information selection operation;

the detection unit further detects a selection of the first menu option by the user;

a superposition selection setting unit, configured to set, when the detection unit detects that the user selects the superposition selection option, a selection state of the information as a superposition selection state, where the superposition selection state is used to indicate that the information selected after the nth information selection operation is selected is kept when the information is subjected to the (n + 1) th information selection operation;

an information selection unit, configured to, when the detection unit detects an information selection operation of the user on the information for an (n + 1) th time, take the information selected by the information selection operation for the nth time and the information selected by the information selection operation for the (n + 1) th time as the information currently selected by the mobile terminal;

the deselection unit is used for deselecting the information selected by the previous information selection operation of the deselection option selected by the user or deselecting all currently selected information when the deselection option selected by the user is detected;

and the ending selection unit is used for ending the selection operation of the information of the mobile terminal when the detection unit detects that the user selects the ending selection option.

6. The apparatus of claim 5,

the detection unit is also used for detecting the clicking operation of the user;

the menu display unit is also used for displaying a second menu option to the user when the detection unit detects the first click operation of the user, wherein the second menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

the detection unit is also used for recording a first position clicked by the first click operation when the user is detected to select the information selection starting option;

the menu display unit is also used for displaying a third menu option to the user when the detection unit detects a second click operation of the user, wherein the third menu option comprises an information selection ending option;

the detection unit is also used for recording a second position clicked by the second click operation when the user is detected to select the information selection ending option;

the detection unit detects the information selection operation of the user on the information displayed by the mobile terminal for the (n + 1) th time by detecting the selection of the information selection starting item and the information selection ending item and recording the first position and the second position, wherein the information selected by the (n + 1) th time information selection operation is the information between the first position and the second position.

7. The apparatus of claim 5,

the menu display unit is also used for displaying a fourth menu option to the user when the detection unit detects a third click operation of the user, wherein the fourth menu option comprises an information selection starting option;

the detection unit is also used for detecting the first sliding operation after the information selection starting option is selected by the user after the detection unit detects that the information selection starting option is selected by the user;

the detection unit detects the (n + 1) th information selection operation of the information displayed on the mobile terminal by the user by detecting the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation, wherein the information selected by the (n + 1) th information selection operation is the information between the clicked position of the third click operation and the end position of the first sliding operation.

8. An information selection apparatus of a mobile terminal, comprising a processor configured to perform the following method:

detecting information selection operation of a user on information displayed by a mobile terminal;

presenting the first menu option to the user;