CN113821151A

CN113821151A - Page rolling control method and playing terminal

Info

Publication number: CN113821151A
Application number: CN202111087933.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周杉; 于芝涛
Original assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-05-10
Filing date: 2018-05-10
Publication date: 2021-12-21
Anticipated expiration: 2038-05-10
Also published as: CN108595097B; CN113821151B; CN108595097A; WO2019214385A1

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a page scrolling control method and a play terminal. Responding to an instruction of initially displaying a page, and displaying the page on a display interface; receiving an input instruction of switching down a focus; hiding the primary label, moving the secondary label to the position of the primary label before hiding, freezing, and moving the main page content upwards along with the secondary label; and in response to receiving an input instruction of switching down the focus after hiding the primary label, keeping the secondary label frozen at the position of the primary label before hiding, and moving the main page content upwards. The invention fully utilizes the display space of the display interface of the playing terminal and has better user experience.

Description

Page rolling control method and playing terminal

The present application is a divisional application of a chinese patent application filed by the chinese patent office on 10/05/2018 under the name of 201810443987.2, entitled "page scrolling control method and apparatus, and playback terminal," the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of a playback terminal, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for controlling page scrolling and a playback terminal including the apparatus for controlling page scrolling.

Background

In the prior art, when a page is displayed on a display interface of a play terminal, the interface layout as shown in fig. 1 is generally available. That is, a first-level menu such as "search", "open member", etc. is provided above the page, a second-level menu such as "channel", "movie", "VIP", "education", "shopping", etc. is provided below the first-level menu, and homepage contents are provided below the first-level menu. When a user issues a page scrolling command to the playback terminal via a remote control or other tool (e.g., by pressing a down direction key on the remote control to issue a page scrolling command to the playback terminal), the first-level menu and the second-level menu are generally kept still, and only the content of the main page is scrolled up and down, in order to facilitate the user to use the menus.

Since the two-level menu occupies a large portion of the display space of the display interface, the user has to frequently scroll up and down the page using the direction keys to browse the entire homepage content, which is time-consuming and labor-consuming.

It is to be noted that the information disclosed in the above background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and thus may include information that does not constitute prior art known to those of ordinary skill in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a page scroll control method, the method including:

responding to an instruction of initially displaying a page, and displaying the page on a display interface, wherein the page comprises a transversely arranged primary label, a secondary label positioned below the primary label, and homepage content positioned below the secondary label;

receiving an input instruction of switching down a focus, wherein the focus is moved step by step in the display interface;

hiding the primary label, moving the secondary label to the position of the primary label before hiding, freezing, and moving the main page content upwards along with the secondary label;

and in response to receiving an input instruction of switching down the focus after hiding the primary label, keeping the secondary label frozen at the position of the primary label before hiding, and moving the main page content upwards.

According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a play terminal is provided for performing the above method.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure. It is to be understood that the drawings in the following description are merely exemplary of the disclosure, and that other drawings may be derived from those drawings by one of ordinary skill in the art without the exercise of inventive faculty.

Fig. 1 illustrates a display diagram of a page displayed on a play terminal during scrolling according to the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a page scrolling control method according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an initial display of a page on a display interface of a display terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating page display on a display interface of a display terminal during page scrolling according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 shows a schematic block diagram of a page scroll control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Example embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the subject matter of the present disclosure can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, devices, steps, and the like. In other instances, well-known technical solutions have not been shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the present disclosure.

The terms "a," "an," "the," and "said" are used in this specification to denote the presence of one or more elements/components/parts/etc.; the terms "comprising" and "having" are intended to be inclusive and mean that there may be additional elements/components/etc. other than the listed elements/components/etc.; the terms "first" and "second", etc. are used merely as labels, and are not limiting on the number of their objects.

Furthermore, the drawings are merely schematic illustrations of the present disclosure and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and thus their repetitive description will be omitted. Some of the block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically or logically separate entities.

The present disclosure first provides a page scrolling control method, which is implemented in a play terminal. The play terminal includes a display interface for displaying scrollable pages. The playing terminal can be used for playing audio, video, presentation, pictures and the like. The user can send an instruction to the playback terminal through a remote controller or an input device on the playback terminal, and interact with the playback terminal by means of the display interface, for example, perform menu selection, focus switching, and the like. By "focus" is meant that a user can select one or more selectable items displayed on a page, for example, by moving up, down, left, and right direction keys on a remote control to switch between the selectable items, the selected selectable item becomes the focus. As previously described with reference to fig. 1, the page displayed on the display interface generally includes a first level tab (e.g., a first level menu) on the top of the page, a second level tab (e.g., a second level menu) below the first level menu, and home page content below the second level tab. The user may send an instruction to the playback terminal to scroll the page up and down to view the complete page, for example, the page may be scrolled down and up by up and down direction keys on the remote controller. In another example, the user may also receive an instruction to scroll the page through a body motion such as a gesture by the player terminal having the corresponding motion sensor.

In the prior art, the first-level tag and the second-level tag are generally frozen and fixed on a display interface during the scrolling process of the page, so as to be convenient for a user to use. In practice, when the user wants to return the primary tab upwards after viewing the main page content, the focus must first pass the secondary tab to continue returning the primary tab upwards because the focus switch is moved gradually, and the focus will jump out of the main page to reach the secondary tab only when the user continues to instruct to switch the focus upwards when the main page content scrolls to its uppermost portion. This results in the freezing of the display of the primary labels during page scrolling being meaningless and unnecessary. One or more of the embodiments of the present invention make use of this point skillfully, and the tags are designed to be in a hidden mode during page scrolling according to the characteristics of the primary tags that it is impossible to directly obtain focus, thereby freeing up an area for the display of the entire main page content and making full use of the display space of the display interface.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a page scrolling control method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the exemplary page scroll control method includes the steps of:

s201, responding to an instruction of an initial display page from a user, and displaying the page on a display interface.

By "instruction to initially display a page" is meant that the user indicates entry into the page, e.g., to jump to the page from another page or other item. In this case, the playback terminal displays an initial display page of the pages on the display interface. Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an initial display of a page on a display interface of a play terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the example of fig. 3, a page is displayed that includes a primary tab 11 located at the top of the page, a secondary tab 12 located below the primary tab, and main page content 13 located below the secondary tab. Typically, the focus at this time is at the primary label.

S202, an instruction to scroll the page up is received from the user.

The instruction is the first instruction received to scroll the page up. The instruction may appear as the user issuing an instruction to switch focus down. For example, after the user views the initial display page in the incoming page, the user presses a down direction key of the remote controller to send an instruction to the playback terminal to scroll the page upward.

S203, responding to the instruction of upward rolling, hiding the primary label, enabling the secondary label to move upwards to the position of the original primary label and freeze, and enabling the main page content to move upwards along with the secondary label.

And after receiving a page scrolling instruction, subsequently entering a page scrolling process. Unlike prior art schemes in which the primary and secondary labels are frozen and pinned to the page (e.g., pinned to the top of the page) at the same time during page scrolling, in this embodiment of the invention, the primary label is hidden during page scrolling, even if it is not displayed on the page, but only the secondary label is frozen, and the primary page content moves up with the secondary label, moving it up to the position of the original primary label. The main page content may move up the same distance with the secondary tab or may move up less or more than the distance the secondary tab moves for aesthetic, ease of use, or other purposes.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating page display on a display interface of a play terminal during page scrolling according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 4, in page scroll mode, the primary tab 11 is hidden, only the frozen secondary tab 12 is displayed and the main page content 13 is displayed.

The above is directed to the case where the page is initially displayed and an instruction to scroll the page up for the first time is received. In one embodiment of the invention, each subsequent time an instruction is received from the user to scroll the page up, the main page content is moved up in its entirety and the secondary tab is kept frozen unless the bottom of the main page content has been reached (e.g., the focus has reached the bottom-most selectable item of the main page content). That is, if the focus does not reach the bottom of the main page content, then the page scrolling process continues, the primary label continues to remain hidden, and the secondary label continues to remain frozen. If the bottom of the main page content has been reached, the page can no longer scroll down. At this time, the play terminal may prompt the user by voice or the like.

The user may scroll the page back and forth up and down during viewing, and after scrolling the page up, the user may return to scroll the page down to view the browsed main page content. User instructions to scroll the page down may appear to toggle the focus up. For example, the user may press an up direction key on the remote control to issue such an instruction.

In one embodiment of the present invention, after entering the page scroll display mode, if an instruction from the user to scroll down the page is received without reaching the top of the main page content, the playback terminal moves the main page content down as a whole, and keeps the primary label hidden and the secondary label frozen. If an instruction is received from the user to scroll the page down with the top of the main page content having been reached, then the focus will switch up to the secondary tab, and the focus will reach the top of the page after the switch. If the user continues to issue an instruction to scroll the page down at this point (e.g., pressing the up directional key indicates switching focus up), the cast terminal un-hides and reveals the primary label, unfreezes the secondary label and moves down under the primary label, moving the main page content the same distance or more or less down with the secondary label.

In one or more of the above embodiments, the primary label may be a primary navigation bar or a primary menu, and the secondary label may be a secondary navigation bar or a secondary menu. The playing terminal can be a television, and the page can be a column/channel/content navigation page. In other examples, the cast terminal may also be any one of a television, a mobile phone, a computer, a Pad, an MP3, and the like.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a page scrolling control device is also provided. The page scroll control apparatus may be implemented in a cast terminal. The cast terminal may include a display unit for displaying a scrollable page. Fig. 5 shows a schematic block diagram of a page scroll control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, the page scroll control apparatus 500 includes a receiving unit 501 and a scroll control unit 502. Wherein the receiving unit 501 is configured to receive instructions from a user. The scroll control unit 502 is configured to: the display mode of the page is determined in response to the instruction received by the receiving unit 501, and the display unit of the playing terminal is instructed to perform corresponding display. Wherein the scroll control unit 502 is further configured to:

responding to an instruction of an initial display page from a user, and determining the display mode of the page as follows: the page is displayed to include a primary label located at an upper portion of the page, a secondary label located below the primary label, and primary page content located below the secondary label; and

in a case where a page is initially displayed, in response to receiving an instruction from a user to scroll the page upward, determining that a display manner of the page is: and hiding the primary label, moving the secondary label upwards to the position of the original primary label and freezing, so that the main page content is upwards along with the secondary label.

In one embodiment, the scroll control unit 502 is further configured to:

under the condition that the bottom of the content of the main page is not reached, in response to receiving an instruction for scrolling the page upwards from the user each time, determining that the display mode of the page is as follows: the main page content is moved up in its entirety and the secondary tags are kept frozen.

In one embodiment, the scroll control unit 502 is further configured to:

in response to receiving an instruction from a user to scroll a page down without reaching the top of the main page content, determining that the page is displayed in a manner that: the main page content is moved down in its entirety and the secondary tags are kept frozen.

In one embodiment, the scroll control unit 502 is further configured to:

in response to receiving an instruction from a user to scroll a page down when the top of the page has been reached, determining that the page is displayed in a manner that: and the primary label is released from hiding and displayed, the secondary label is released from freezing and moves downwards to a position below the primary label, and the main page content moves downwards along with the secondary label for the same distance.

Other aspects of the page scrolling control device, such as a complete page display scheme for various situations, various implementation details, etc., have been described above with respect to the method embodiments, and they are also applicable to the device herein and the following terminal embodiments, and are not described herein again.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a play terminal, which includes the page scrolling control device as described above.

The page scrolling control device in the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof, and may be implemented as a single device, or may be implemented as a logic integrated system in which components are dispersed in a playing terminal to respectively execute corresponding functions. The units/modules constituting the page scrolling control device can be realized by hardware, software, firmware or a combination thereof, and they can be separate independent components, or can be integrated units/modules that a plurality of components are combined to execute the corresponding logic functions. The hardware, software, firmware, or combination thereof may include: separate hardware components, functional blocks implemented through programming, functional blocks implemented through programmable logic devices, etc., or a combination thereof.

The playing terminal in each embodiment of the present invention is a terminal having a playing function and including a display interface, and can play audio, video, presentation, pictures, and the like. For example, the broadcast terminal may be any one of a television, a mobile phone, a computer, a Pad, MP3, and the like.

Through one or more of the above embodiments of the present invention, a unique page scrolling display scheme is provided, which hides a first-level menu that cannot directly obtain a focus when scrolling a page and only freezes and displays a second-level menu on the page, thereby freeing an area for displaying the content of the entire main page, making full use of the display space of the display interface of the playing terminal, and enhancing the user experience.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is to be limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A page scroll control method, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the responding and receiving an input instruction to switch focus down after hiding the primary label, maintaining the secondary label frozen in the position of the primary label before hiding, and the main page content moving up, comprises:

in response to and after hiding the primary label, receiving an input instruction to switch focus down,

determining whether the homepage content in the display interface reaches the bottom of the homepage content;

if yes, outputting a prompt for reminding that the homepage content cannot be scrolled downwards;

if not, the whole page content is continuously moved upwards.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said causing the home page content to move upward with the secondary tab comprises:

causing the home page content to move upward with the secondary tab, the home page content moving upward the same distance or more or less than the distance the secondary tab moved.

4. The method of claim 1,

receiving an input instruction of switching focus upwards;

judging whether the homepage content reaches the top of the homepage content;

when the homepage content does not reach the top of the homepage content, the hiding of the primary label is maintained, the freezing of the secondary label is maintained, and the homepage content moves downwards integrally;

when the main page content reaches the top of the main page content, the hiding of the primary label is displayed, the secondary label is maintained to be unfrozen, and the secondary label and the main page content are moved downwards.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said moving down the secondary tab and the home page content comprises:

moving the secondary tab and the home page content down the same distance.

6. The method of claim 1,

after the page is displayed on the display interface in response to the instruction to initially display the page, the focus is set to be located at the primary tab.

7. A player terminal, characterized in that it is adapted to perform the method of any of claims 1-6.