CN104965668A - Interface operating method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses an interface operating method and device and relates to the technical field of communication, aiming at solving the problem that a large-screen mobile phone is difficult to operate by one hand. The method disclosed by the present invention comprises: displaying application icons on a desktop in a ring-shaped arraying manner and arraying the application icons to form a closed circular ring; rotating the closed circular ring according to rotation operation detected on a touch screen so as to select the application icon of a to-be-started application in a matching manner; after the closed circular ring stops rotating, determining the to-be-started application; and starting the to-be-started application to display an application interface. The interface operating method and device, disclosed by the present invention, are applicable to a scene where the large-screen touch phone is operated with one hand.

Description

Interface operation method and device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for interface operation.

Background

With the development of communication technology, terminals with screens of different sizes are presented in society. Especially for touch screen mobile phones that are relatively fast in development, there are size differences between different or the same brands of mobile phones.

In the prior art, for a touch screen mobile phone with a relatively large screen, when a user holds the mobile phone with one hand to operate, a phenomenon that a part of areas cannot be contacted often occurs. For example, when a user holds a mobile phone with the right hand to perform one-handed operation, only a partial region of the lower right corner is often touched, but a partial region of the upper left corner is not touched, so that an application located in the upper left corner of the screen cannot be opened. For the above case, the user has to change to two hands for operation. Therefore, for a touch screen mobile phone with a relatively large screen, it is very difficult for a user to perform a one-handed operation completely.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the present invention provides a method and an apparatus for interface operation, which can solve the problem that it is difficult to operate a large-screen mobile phone with a single hand.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of interface operation, the method comprising:

displaying application icons on a desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, wherein the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

rotating the closed circular ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to select an application icon of the application to be started in a matching manner;

after the closed ring stops rotating, determining an application to be started;

and starting the application to be started and displaying an application interface.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an interface operated device, the device comprising:

the display unit is used for displaying application icons on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, and the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

the rotating unit is used for rotating the closed circular ring displayed by the display unit according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to cooperatively select an application icon of the application to be started;

the determining unit is used for determining the application to be started after the closed circular ring rotated by the rotating unit stops rotating;

the starting unit is used for starting the application to be started determined by the determining unit;

and the display unit is used for displaying the application interface of the application started by the starting unit.

By means of the technical scheme, the method and the device for interface operation can display the application icons which are arranged and arranged to form the closed circular ring on the desktop, rotate the closed circular ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen, and determine and start the application to be started after the closed circular ring stops rotating. Compared with the longitudinal and transverse arrangement mode in the prior art, the arrangement mode of the rotatable closed ring is adopted, when a user holds the mobile phone by one hand to operate, any application icon on the desktop can rotate to the area which can be contacted by the fingers of the user by rotating the closed ring, so that the user can operate the contacted application icon, and the problem that the large-screen mobile phone is difficult to operate by one hand in the prior art is solved.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention are described below in order to make the technical means of the present invention more clearly understood and to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more clearly understandable.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method of interface operation provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic view of a reduction of a closed loop provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating movement of a closed loop provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a method for application launching according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating interface switching according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a schematic diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating another interface switch provided by embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating another arrangement of application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating components of an apparatus for interfacing operations provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for performing another interface operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an interface operation method, as shown in fig. 1, the method includes:

101. and displaying the application icons on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, wherein the arrangement of the application icons is formed into a closed ring.

The application icons are arranged in a ring-like arrangement as a closed circle and the closed circle is displayed on the desktop. In general, the application icons on the desktop of the mobile phone can be divided into at least one page to be displayed, so that the closed ring can be displayed on any page of the desktop of the mobile phone, that is, the interface where the closed ring is located can be a first interface (a first page) of the mobile phone, a second interface (a second page), a third interface (a third page), and is not limited herein.

In practical applications, the application icons may be arranged in a closed circular ring manner, or may be arranged in a closed elliptical ring, a closed square ring, or a closed rectangular ring, and the shape of the specific ring is not limited. For example, the application icons in fig. 2 are arranged in a closed elliptical ring arrangement, and the application icons in fig. 3 are arranged in a closed rectangular ring arrangement.

It should be noted that the application icons on different interfaces of the mobile phone may be displayed in different arrangement manners, for example, the mobile phone has three interfaces, where the first interface is arranged in an arrangement manner of a circular ring, the second interface is arranged in an arrangement manner of an elliptical ring, and the third interface is arranged in an arrangement manner of a rectangular ring.

102. And rotating the closed ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to cooperatively select the application icon of the application to be started.

Specifically, the application icon displayed on the desktop can rotate along with the rotation of the closed ring. When the user rotates the closed ring on the touch screen with a finger or a stylus, the mobile phone can detect the rotation operation, so that the closed ring rotates. After the rotation of the closed ring is stopped, the user can determine the application icons of the applications to be started according to the current positions of all the application icons.

In a specific implementation process, a user can rotate the closed ring by using a thumb with one hand to enable any application icon on the closed ring to rotate to a position where the thumb of the user can contact, and then the user is matched to select the application icon of the application to be started, so that the application to be started is started.

103. And after the closed circular ring stops rotating, determining the application to be started.

When the closed circle stops rotating, the position of each application icon may change. At this time, if a starting area exists on the desktop, the application corresponding to the application icon falling into the starting area can be determined as the application to be started; if the starting area does not exist on the desktop, the application corresponding to the application icon corresponding to the single-click operation detected on the touch screen can be determined as the application to be started.

104. And starting the application to be started and displaying an application interface.

After the application to be started is determined, the application to be started is started, and after the application to be started is started, a first interface of the application is displayed on the desktop, and then a user can perform subsequent operations on the application. In practical applications, the application can be started in various ways. For example, if a starting area exists on the desktop, the application corresponding to the application icon falling into the starting area may be automatically started, or may be started after confirmation by the user; and if the starting area does not exist on the desktop, starting the application corresponding to the application icon clicked by the user.

The interface operation method provided by the embodiment of the invention can display the application icons which are arranged and arranged to form the closed ring on the desktop, rotate the closed ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen, and determine and start the application to be started after the closed ring stops rotating. Compared with the longitudinal and transverse arrangement mode in the prior art, the arrangement mode of the rotatable closed ring is adopted, when a user holds the mobile phone by one hand to operate, any application icon on the desktop can rotate to the area which can be contacted by the fingers of the user by rotating the closed ring, so that the user can operate the contacted application icon, and the problem that the large-screen mobile phone is difficult to operate by one hand in the prior art is solved.

Further, in the above embodiment, it is mentioned that the application icons are displayed on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement, but the arrangement order of the application icons is uncertain, so that the arrangement order of the application icons needs to be determined before the application icons on the desktop are displayed in the ring-shaped arrangement. In a specific implementation manner, the application icons can be arranged in a random arrangement manner, but when the number of the application icons is large, the random arrangement manner requires that a user rotates the closed rings to search one by one to find the required application icons, and the user operation is difficult. Therefore, in practical application, the application icons can be arranged in a manner that is convenient for a user to search and can simplify the user operation. The following two ways are taken as examples for description:

the first method is as follows: classifying the application icons according to preset classification conditions; and arranging the application icons belonging to the same class adjacently.

The preset classification conditions comprise a browser class, a system tool class, a shopping website class, a video class, a game class, a chat tool class, a system security class and the like. Specifically, each application icon is respectively matched with each class in the preset classification conditions, and if the current application icon is matched with a certain class in the preset classification conditions, the application icon is classified into the class. After the classification is finished, the application icons belonging to the same class are adjacently arranged, and the arrangement sequence among the classes can be random or have a certain sequence.

Exemplary application icons involved in the mobile phone's home interface are browser 1, browser 2, browser 3, calculator, clock, flashlight, recorder, antivirus software, security guard, game 1, game 2, chat tool 1, chat tool 2, shopping website 1, shopping website 2, shopping website 3, video software 1, video software 2, video software 3, the system comprises a browser 1, a browser 2 and a browser 3, which belong to the browser class, a calculator, a clock, a flashlight and a recorder, a shopping website 1, a shopping website 2 and a shopping website 3, which belong to the shopping website class, a video software 1, a video software 2 and a video software 3, which belong to the video class, a game 1 and a game 2, which belong to the game class, a chat tool 1 and a chat tool 2, which belong to the chat tool class, and a antivirus software and a security guard, which belong to the system security class. When the application icons are arranged, if the arrangement sequence of the various types is sequentially browser type, system tool type, shopping website type, video type, game type, chat tool type and system security type, and the sequence of different application icons in the same type can be any, one of the arrangement modes is browser 1, browser 2, browser 3, calculator, clock, flashlight, recorder, shopping website 1, shopping website 2, shopping website 3, video software 1, video software 2, video software 3, game 1, game 2, chat tool 1, chat tool 2, antivirus software and security guard. Therefore, when the user searches the browser 1 and wants to search the browser 3, the user can search the browser 3 by searching the browser 1, and the operation of the user is simplified.

The second method comprises the following steps: and according to a preset association condition, adjacently arranging the application icons with the association relation.

In practical applications, an association relationship often exists among applications, for example, when a user activates a membership card, the user often needs to scan a two-dimensional code first, and after a website related to the membership card is scanned, information such as a user name and a mailbox needs to be filled in, during filling, the user often needs to enter the mailbox to obtain an authentication code, and at this time, the user needs to search a mailbox application to enter the mailbox. Therefore, in practical application, the application icon of the scanning tool can be arranged adjacent to the application icon of the mailbox, so that the operation of a user is facilitated. For another example, more and more people rent houses nowadays, when a user finds houses on house searching software, the user often only can see a map of the location of the house, even some houses have no corresponding maps in addresses, and cannot know specific traffic routes between the location of the house and other places. In this case, the user must search for a map icon among the plurality of application icons to perform the search for a detailed route. Therefore, in practical application, the application icons of the room searching software and the application icons of the map software can be arranged adjacently, so that the user can operate the room searching software conveniently. As a result, when the application icons are arranged, the application icons having the association relationship can be arranged adjacent to each other.

In practical application, each user has own usage habit, so the application icons can be arranged according to the set sorting condition. Specifically, a user-defined icon can be displayed on the desktop, after the user selects the user-defined icon, an application icon sorting menu is displayed for the user to set the sequence of the application icons, and the user can freely drag the application icons to change the sequence, so that the user-defined sorting is completed.

Furthermore, a plurality of applications are applied to the mobile phone, but not every application is frequently used by the user, so that the application icons on the closed circular ring can be displayed in different sizes in order to facilitate the user to search the frequently used applications, and the user can conveniently and quickly find the frequently used application icons according to the sizes of the application icons. Specifically, the setting of the size of the application icon may adopt the following two different modes:

the first method comprises the following steps: and setting the size of the application icon according to the network heat.

The network heat is a frequency of the network user using the application counted on the network, and the network user described in this embodiment may refer to a network user (for example, a user using a certain specific application in the network) or a network user within a specific range (for example, a friend user using a certain specific application in a friend relationship chain). The size of each application icon is set according to the network heat, so that a user can conveniently search the application icon corresponding to the required application. Specifically, the correspondence between the network heat value and the size of the application icon may be positive or negative.

For example, the application icon on the desktop is marked with a browser, a calculator, a clock, a flashlight, a recorder, antivirus software, a security guard, a game 1, a game 2, a chat tool, a shopping website 1, a shopping website 2, a video software 1 and a video software 2, wherein the network heat value is sequentially from big to small, the chat tool, the video software 1, the shopping website 2, the game 1, the video software 2, the browser, the shopping website 1, the game 2, the antivirus software, the security guard, the clock, the recorder, the calculator and the flashlight, the application icon can be marked with a chat tool, a video software 1, a shopping website 2, a game 1, a video software 2, a browser, a shopping website 1, a game 2, antivirus software, a security guard, a clock, a recorder, a calculator and a flashlight, or a flashlight, a calculator, a recorder, a clock, a recorder, a clock, a flashlight, a computer, a recorder, a flashlight, security guards, antivirus software, games 2, shopping website 1, browsers, video software 2, games 1, shopping website 2, video software 1, and chat tools.

And the second method comprises the following steps: the size of the application icon is set according to the frequency of use.

The usage frequency is the frequency used by each application in the current mobile phone, and is similar to the network heat, and the correspondence between the usage frequency value and the size of the application icon may be positive or negative.

Furthermore, when a user holds the mobile phone with one hand to operate, the user often uses the thumb to operate, however, based on different use habits, the thumb has different bending and stretching degrees when the user operates, so that the operation ranges of the thumbs of different users on the desktop are different. Therefore, in order to adapt to the use habits of different users, the mobile phone can correspondingly zoom the radius of the closed circular ring according to the zoom operation detected on the touch screen.

For example, as shown in fig. 4, the user performs a zoom-out operation on the closed ring, where the left drawing is the cell phone desktop before the closed ring is zoomed out, and the right drawing is the cell phone desktop after the closed ring is zoomed out. The arrow on the right drawing is used to illustrate the zooming direction of the closed ring, and is not necessarily displayed on the desktop. After the closed ring is reduced, the positions of the application icons on the closed ring are changed, so that the bending and stretching degree of the thumb is changed when the user operates the closed ring, and the use habit of the user is further adapted.

In addition, in practical application, the closed circular ring is often displayed in the middle area of the screen, and when a user holds the mobile phone by one hand for operation, the user is often used to hold the position of the lower right corner or the lower left corner of the mobile phone for operation. Therefore, in order to adapt to the operation habit of the user, the closed circular ring can be moved according to the movement operation detected on the touch screen, and the closed circular ring can be moved to the lower right corner or the lower left corner area from the middle area for the user to operate.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, the user has made a moving operation on the closed ring. The left figure is the mobile phone desktop before the closed circular ring moves, and the right figure is the mobile phone desktop after the closed circular ring moves. The arrow on the right drawing is used to indicate the moving direction of the closed ring, and is not necessarily displayed on the desktop. After the closed ring moves, the positions of the application icons on the closed ring are changed, so that the use habit of the user is adapted.

It should be noted that the movable position of the closed ring includes not only the lower right corner region and the lower left corner region, but also any position on the desktop, so that the user can move the closed ring to any position for operation.

Further, in general, the user can touch the middle position of the mobile phone screen, so that at least one application icon can be displayed in the hollow area of the closed circular ring, so that the user can operate the application icon.

In practical applications, when a user starts an application (e.g., a chat tool), the user often operates other applications without exiting the application, so that the application runs in the background to avoid restarting (or logging in) the application again. However, when the user needs to open the interface of the application again, it is inconvenient to search the application icon corresponding to the application again among the application icons. For another example, for an application frequently used by a user, each time the mobile phone is opened, the frequently used application can be found by searching from a plurality of application icons one by one. Therefore, in order to facilitate the user to quickly find the required application icon, the application icon can be displayed in the hollow area of the closed circular ring.

Specifically, the at least one application icon may be an application icon of an application running in a background, an application icon of an application started recently, an application icon of an application with a use frequency higher than a preset frequency threshold, an application icon of an application with a single use time length exceeding a first preset time length threshold or an application with an accumulated use time length exceeding a second preset time length threshold, or an application icon of an application with a recent power consumption amount exceeding a preset electric quantity threshold.

Note that the recent power consumption refers to power consumption for each application during a period from the last full charge to the present time. The recent power consumption is positively correlated with the recent use time, so the recent power consumption can reflect the time length of each application used by a recent user, and the application icons of the applications with the recent power consumption exceeding the preset power threshold are displayed in the hollow area of the closed ring, so that the user can find the application icons corresponding to the applications which are frequently used recently in the first time, and the user is prevented from finding the application icons corresponding to the applications which are frequently used recently one by rotating the closed ring.

Further, the application icons displayed in the hollow area may be displayed on the closed circle at the same time or may be displayed only in the hollow area.

No matter which of the above situations is adopted by at least one application icon, the application icons added in the hollow area of the closed ring can be directly clicked by a user for starting, and the user does not need to rotate the closed ring for searching, so that the closed ring rotates to a contactable position and then starts.

Further, in step 103, it is mentioned that there may be a launch area on the desktop, however, when the launch area is located at a different position, the determination manner of the application to be launched is different. The following is presented for different situations:

in the first case: displaying a starting area on the desktop, wherein the starting area is intersected with the closed circular ring; and after the closed ring stops rotating, determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started.

After the closed ring starts to rotate, the mobile phone detects whether the closed ring stops rotating or not in real time. When the closed ring is detected to stop rotating, at least one application icon stays in the starting area due to the fact that the starting area is intersected with the closed ring, and at the moment, the mobile phone automatically starts the application icon staying in the starting area.

In practical application, a user only operates one application at the same time, so that the size of the intersection area of the starting area and the closed circular ring only needs to meet the requirement of one application icon. For example, as shown in fig. 6, a launch area is displayed on the desktop, and the size of the intersection area of the launch area and the closed circle only satisfies one application icon.

Further, after the user rotates the closed ring once, it cannot be predicted that the application icon falls into the starting area after the closed ring stops, so that the application icon staying in the starting area is not necessarily the application icon corresponding to the application that the user wants to start. Therefore, in order to determine whether the application icon staying in the starting area is the application icon corresponding to the application to be started, and avoid starting redundant applications, the following two methods can be adopted:

the method comprises the following steps: and determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area and exceeding the preset starting time threshold as the application to be started.

In general, after the closed ring is stopped, if the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area is not the application that the user wants to start, the user rotates the closed ring again; if so, the closed ring is not rotated, so that whether the application corresponding to the application icon is the application to be started or not can be determined by judging the time for the application icon to stay in the starting area.

For example, the preset starting time threshold is 3s, the closed ring performs two rotations, the time interval between the stop of the first rotation and the start of the second rotation is 1s, and the closed ring does not rotate again after the second rotation is stopped for 3 s. Therefore, after the closed ring stops rotating for the first time, the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area is not the application to be started, and after the closed ring stops rotating for the second time, the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area is the application to be started, so that the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area is determined to be the application to be started after the closed ring stops rotating for the second time.

The above improved method can only be used for general situations, and cannot summarize all situations, for example, although the time for stopping the closed circular ring exceeds the preset starting time threshold, the application icon staying in the starting area may still not be the application icon corresponding to the application that the user wants to start. Therefore, in order to more accurately ensure that the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the launch area is the application that the user wants to launch, the following method two may be adopted:

the second method comprises the following steps: and displaying the starting prompt information, and determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started according to the received confirmation instruction.

After the closed circular ring is stopped, the starting prompt information is displayed, so that a user can select whether to start the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area or not, and the application is started after a confirmation instruction is received, so that the accuracy of starting the application is ensured.

It should be noted that the start prompt message may be displayed in a hollow area of the closed circular ring, or may be displayed in an area below the desktop, and a specific display position thereof is not limited herein. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the start prompt is displayed in the lower area of the desktop, with two options for opening and canceling for the user to select.

In the second case: displaying a starting area on the desktop, wherein the starting area is not intersected with the closed circular ring; dragging the application icon on the closed circular ring according to the dragging operation detected on the touch screen; and if the user drags the application icon into the starting area, determining the application corresponding to the dragged application icon as the application to be started.

In this case, the user may rotate the closed ring to rotate the application icon corresponding to the application that is desired to be launched to a position closer to the launch area or a position convenient for any operation, and drag the application icon to the launch area to launch the application corresponding to the application icon.

It should be noted that the starting area in the second case may be located inside the closed ring or outside the closed ring, and the user may start the corresponding application by dragging the application icon into the closed ring or dragging the application icon into the closed ring. In practical applications, the start area may not be displayed, and the user's start intention may be recognized only by qualitatively detecting the dragging direction of the dragging operation triggered by the user. For example, a user drags an application icon on the closed ring for any distance in any direction outside the closed ring, and the mobile phone detects that the dragging direction is "dragging outside the ring", and then starts an application corresponding to the application icon.

Further, when there are many application icons on the desktop, and when the application icons are arranged to form a closed ring, there may be a phenomenon that the application icons are displayed densely or intersected, so to avoid these phenomena, a second closed ring may be nested and displayed in a hollow area of a first closed ring, and the first closed ring and the second closed ring are concentric rings. Wherein, the first closed ring is the closed ring mentioned in the above embodiments, and the second closed ring has the same function as the first closed ring. For example, in fig. 8, there are two closed rings, the large ring is the first closed ring, the small ring is the second closed ring, and both the closed rings can rotate.

It should be noted that, in a specific implementation manner, two or three closed rings may be provided on the desktop, and the specific number is not limited.

In the above embodiment, the application icons having the association relationship may be adjacently arranged according to a preset association condition, so as to implement the association operation. In the scheme of the concentric rings, a user can establish an association relationship between icons on the two concentric rings by respectively rotating the two closed rings, and further perform association operation.

Specifically, when the application icons on the first closed ring and the application icons on the second closed ring are aligned in a specific area, the applications of the two application icons are started to perform the associated operation.

The specific region is the starting region mentioned in the above method embodiment, and both the first closed loop and the second closed loop intersect with the starting region. After the two closed circular rings stop rotating, the mobile phone can automatically start the applications corresponding to the two application icons staying in the starting area, and can also start the applications corresponding to the two application icons staying in the starting area after receiving the confirmation instruction, so that the associated operation of the two application icons is realized.

For example, as shown in fig. 9, the application icons on the desktop of the mobile phone are arranged into two closed rings, the large ring is a first closed ring, the small ring is a second closed ring, both the two closed rings intersect with the launch area, and the launch area can only satisfy two application icons. After the two closed circular rings stop rotating, the mobile phone can automatically start the applications corresponding to the two application icons staying in the starting area, and can also start the applications corresponding to the two application icons staying in the starting area after receiving the confirmation instruction, so that the user can perform associated operation on the two applications.

Furthermore, when a plurality of application icons are arranged on the desktop, besides the application icons can be displayed in the form of a plurality of closed rings, only one part of the closed rings can be displayed, and the undisplayed application icons can be displayed by rotating the closed rings of the closed rings, so that the layout of the application icons on the desktop is simplified while the user can operate the mobile phone by one hand.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 10, there are 12 application icons on the desktop of the mobile phone, the 12 application icons are arranged to form a closed ring, but only 7 application icons (forming a part of the closed ring) are displayed, and 5 application icons that are not displayed can be displayed by rotating the part of the closed ring. Specifically, if the application icons displayed on the desktop before rotation are the application icons 1 to 7, after the user rotates the positions of 3 application icons partially closed in a counterclockwise direction, the application icons displayed on the desktop are changed into the application icons 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the application icons 10, 11, and 12 that have not been displayed before are displayed on the desktop by rotating the partial application icons, so that the application icons 5, 6, and 7 that have been displayed before are temporarily disappeared from the desktop. Therefore, the user can rotate the partial closed ring to display the needed application icon so as to operate the displayed application icon in the following process.

For the arrangement mode of the partially closed circular ring, the partially closed circular ring can be displayed only in the right half area or the left half area of the desktop to adapt to the right hand or the left hand of the user. However, when the partially closed ring can only be displayed on the right half area of the desktop, most of the application icons will not be touched for the left-handed user. Similarly, when the partially closed ring can only be displayed in the left half area of the desktop, most of the application icons cannot be touched by most of the users who are familiar with right-handed operation. Therefore, in order to adapt to users with different usage habits, the embodiment of the invention provides the following methods:

if the partially closed circular ring is located in the right half part area of the desktop and the finger operation point is detected to be in the left half part area, displaying the partially closed circular ring in the left half part area; and if the partially closed circular ring is positioned in the left half area of the desktop and the finger operation point is detected in the right half area, displaying the partially closed circular ring in the right half area.

When the position of the partially closed ring is switched, the shape of the partially closed ring may not be changed, or the partially closed ring may be displayed axisymmetrically with the long axis of the center axis of the tabletop as the axis of symmetry.

Taking an implementation manner of axial symmetry as an example, as shown in fig. 11, the partially closed circular ring is located in a left half area on the desktop, and when it is detected that the finger operation point of the user is located in a right half area, the partially closed circular ring is automatically and symmetrically displayed in the right half area of the desktop by taking a long axis of a central axis of the desktop as a symmetry axis.

It should be noted that the present embodiment is not limited to the above-described switching method, and may be implemented by other methods. For example, a left-right switching icon is displayed on the desktop, and when the left-right switching icon is detected to be selected on the touch screen or the user slides leftwards or rightwards, the current partially closed ring is displayed in an axisymmetric manner around the central axis of the desktop, so that the left hand and the right hand of the user are switched.

In addition, the specific shape of the partially closed ring can be a half strongly closed ring, a quarter closed ring, or a partially closed ring with other sizes. Wherein, the one-half strong closed ring is a partially closed ring which is larger than the one-half closed ring. In practical applications, a one-half strong closed circular ring is generally displayed on the left or right side of the desktop, and a one-quarter closed circular ring is generally displayed on any one of the four corners (upper left corner, lower left corner, upper right corner and lower right corner) of the desktop. For example, FIG. 12 is a three-quarter closed circle shown on the right side of the desktop, and FIG. 13 is a one-quarter closed circle shown in the lower left corner of the desktop.

In addition, since the application icons may be arranged as a closed circular ring, a closed elliptical ring, a closed rectangular ring, or the like, when only a part of the application icons is displayed, the application icons may be arranged and displayed in other forms such as a partially closed elliptical ring, a partially closed rectangular ring, or the like.

Furthermore, another implementation manner is provided in the embodiments of the present invention, different pages correspond to different parts of the closed ring, and the partial closed ring corresponding to each page forms a complete closed ring; and switching pages according to page turning operation to display different parts of the closed circular ring.

Specifically, one closed ring is divided into at least two partially closed rings, and each partially closed ring is displayed on different pages of the mobile phone. The user can switch the current page to any other page through page turning operation, so that the partial closed ring corresponding to the switched page is operated.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 14, the closed circle is divided into three parts to be displayed on different pages respectively. The quarter closed ring is displayed on the first page, the half closed ring is displayed on the second page, and the quarter closed ring is displayed on the third page. If the page displayed on the current desktop is the second page, when the page turning operation of turning the page to the previous page is received, the page is switched to the first page from the second page, and at the moment, the user can operate a part of closed circular rings on the first page; when the page turning operation of turning the page to the next page is received, the page is switched from the second page to the third page, and at the moment, the user can operate the partial closed ring on the third page.

It should be noted that different partially closed rings on different pages can implement the rotation function. However, rotating the partial rings on any one page causes the application icons on all the partial rings to change.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 15, the closed circle is divided into three parts to be displayed on different pages respectively. The quarter closed ring is displayed on the first page, the half closed ring is displayed on the second page, and the quarter closed ring is displayed on the third page. For the rotation of the partially closed ring, if the application icons displayed on the first page are the application icons 1 to 5, the application icons displayed on the second page are the application icons 6 to 8, and the application icons 14 to 16, the application icons displayed on the third page are the application icons 9 to 13, and the page displayed on the current desktop is the second page, the application icons displayed on the second page become the application icons 2 to 4, and the application icons 10 to 12 after rotating the positions of the 4 application icons of the partially closed ring on the second page counterclockwise. The application icons on the first page and the third page are changed, that is, the application icon displayed on the first page is changed to the application icon 1, the application icons 13 to 16, and the application icon displayed on the third page is changed to the application icons 5 to 9. Thus, turning any one partially closed ring causes a change in the application icons on the other closed ring.

In practical application, a user can search for a needed application icon by combining the rotating part of the closed ring and the switching page. For example, in fig. 15, the current page is the second page, and the application icon 4 is displayed on the second page by rotating the partially closed ring on the second page, so that the application icon 4 can be operated. At this time, if the user wants to search for the application icon 6, the user does not need to rotate the partially closed ring on the second page, and the user can immediately find the application icon 6 by switching from the second page to the third page only through page turning operation, thereby facilitating the operation of the user.

Further, according to the above method embodiment, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an interface operation apparatus, as shown in fig. 16, the apparatus includes: a display unit 21, a rotation unit 22, a determination unit 23 and an activation unit 24. Wherein,

the display unit 21 is configured to display application icons on the desktop in an annular arrangement, where the application icons are arranged to form a closed ring;

the rotating unit 22 is used for rotating the closed ring displayed by the display unit 21 according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to cooperatively select an application icon of the application to be started;

a determination unit 23, configured to determine an application to be started after the closed ring rotated by the rotation unit 22 stops rotating;

a starting unit 24, configured to start the application to be started determined by the determining unit 23;

and a display unit 21 for displaying an application interface of the application started by the starting unit 24.

Further, the determining unit 23 is further configured to determine an arrangement order of the application icons before displaying the application icons on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement manner.

Specifically, the determining unit 23 includes:

the classification module 231 is configured to classify the application icons according to preset classification conditions;

the first arranging module 232 is configured to arrange the application icons belonging to the same category adjacently.

The second arranging module 233 is configured to adjacently arrange the application icons having the association relationship according to a preset association condition.

Further, the application icons on the closed circle displayed by the display unit 21 are different in size.

As shown in fig. 17, the apparatus further includes:

a first setting unit 25, configured to set the size of the application icon according to the network heat.

A second setting unit 26 for setting the size of the application icon according to the frequency of use.

Further, as shown in fig. 17, the apparatus further includes:

the zooming unit 27 is configured to zoom the radius of the closed circle correspondingly according to the zooming operation detected on the touch screen before the starting unit 24 starts the application to be started.

And the moving unit 28 is used for moving the closed circular ring according to the detected moving operation on the touch screen before the starting unit 24 starts the application to be started.

Further, the display unit 21 is further configured to display at least one application icon in the hollow area of the closed circular ring.

At least one application icon displayed by the display unit 21 is an application icon of an application running in the background, or an application icon of an application started recently, or an application icon of an application with a use frequency higher than a preset frequency threshold, or an application icon of an application with a single use time length exceeding a first preset time length threshold or an accumulated use time length exceeding a second preset time length threshold, or an application icon of an application with a recent power consumption exceeding a preset power threshold.

Further, the display unit 21 is further configured to display a starting area on the desktop, where the starting area intersects with the closed circular ring;

as shown in fig. 17, the determination unit 23 includes:

the first determining module 234 is further configured to determine, after the closed ring stops rotating, an application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as an application to be started.

Further, the first determining module 234 is further configured to determine, as the application to be started, the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area and exceeding the preset starting time threshold.

Further, the display unit 21 is further configured to display a start prompt message;

the determining unit 23 is further configured to determine, according to the received confirmation instruction, the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started.

Further, the display unit 21 is further configured to display a starting area on the desktop, where the starting area does not intersect with the closed circular ring;

as shown in fig. 17, the determination unit 23 includes:

the dragging module 235 is used for dragging the application icon on the closed circular ring according to the dragging operation detected on the touch screen;

the second determining module 236 is further configured to determine, when the application icon dragged by the dragging module 235 is dragged into the launch area, an application corresponding to the dragged application icon as an application to be launched.

Further, the closed ring displayed by the display unit 21 is a first closed ring;

the display unit 21 is further configured to display a second closed circular ring in a hollow area of the first closed circular ring in a nested manner, where the first closed circular ring and the second closed circular ring are concentric circular rings.

The starting unit 24 is further configured to start the applications of the two application icons for performing the association operation when the application icons on the first closed ring are aligned with the application icons on the second closed ring within the specific area.

Further, a display unit 21 for displaying a partially closed circle.

The display unit 21 is further configured to display the partially closed circular ring in the left half area when the partially closed circular ring is located in the right half area of the desktop and the finger operation point is detected in the left half area, and display the partially closed circular ring in the right half area when the partially closed circular ring is located in the left half area of the desktop and the finger operation point is detected in the right half area.

The partially closed circular ring displayed by the display unit 21 is a one-half strong closed circular ring or a one-quarter closed circular ring.

Further, the display unit 21 is further configured to switch the pages according to the page turning operation to display different parts of the closed ring when different pages correspond to different parts of the closed ring and the part of the closed ring corresponding to each page forms a complete closed ring.

The interface operation device provided by the embodiment of the invention can display the application icons which are arranged and arranged to form the closed ring on the desktop, rotate the closed ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen, and determine and start the application to be started after the rotation of the closed ring is stopped. Compared with the longitudinal and transverse arrangement mode in the prior art, the arrangement mode of the rotatable closed ring is adopted, when a user holds the mobile phone by one hand to operate, any application icon on the desktop can rotate to the area which can be contacted by the fingers of the user by rotating the closed ring, so that the user can operate the contacted application icon, and the problem that the large-screen mobile phone is difficult to operate by one hand in the prior art is solved.

The embodiment of the invention discloses:

a1, a method of interface operation, the method comprising:

displaying application icons on a desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, wherein the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

rotating the closed circular ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to select an application icon of the application to be started in a matching manner;

after the closed ring stops rotating, determining an application to be started;

and starting the application to be started and displaying an application interface.

A2, before the displaying the application icons on the desktop in a ring arrangement according to the method of A1, the method further comprising:

and determining the arrangement sequence of the application icons.

A3, the determining the arrangement order of the application icons according to the method of A2, includes:

classifying the application icons according to preset classification conditions;

and arranging the application icons belonging to the same class adjacently.

A4, the determining the arrangement order of the application icons according to the method of A2, includes:

and according to a preset association condition, adjacently arranging the application icons with the association relation.

A5, according to the method of A1, the application icons on the closed circle are different in size.

A6, according to the method of A5, setting the size of the application icon according to network heat.

A7, according to the method of A5, setting the size of the application icon according to the frequency of use.

A8, according to the method of A1, before the launching the application to be launched, the method further comprising:

and correspondingly zooming the radius of the closed circular ring according to the zooming operation detected on the touch screen.

A9, according to the method of A1, before the launching the application to be launched, the method further comprising:

and moving the closed circular ring according to the movement operation detected on the touch screen.

A10, the method of A1, the method further comprising:

displaying at least one application icon within the hollow region of the closed circle.

A11, according to the method of A10, the at least one application icon is an application icon of a background running application;

or the at least one application icon is an application icon of a recently started application;

or the at least one application icon is an application icon of an application with the use frequency higher than a preset frequency threshold;

or the at least one application icon is an application icon of an application with single use time exceeding a first preset time threshold or the accumulated use time exceeding a second preset time threshold;

or the at least one application icon is an application icon of an application with the recent power consumption exceeding a preset power threshold.

A12, the method according to A1, wherein the determining the application to be started comprises:

displaying a starting area on the desktop, wherein the starting area is intersected with the closed circular ring;

and after the closed ring stops rotating, determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started.

A13, the method of A12, the method further comprising:

and determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area and exceeding a preset starting time threshold value as the application to be started.

A14, the method of A12, the method further comprising:

and displaying starting prompt information, and determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started according to the received confirmation instruction.

A15, the method according to A1, wherein the determining the application to be started comprises:

displaying a starting area on the desktop, wherein the starting area is not intersected with the closed circular ring;

dragging the application icon on the closed circular ring according to the dragging operation detected on the touch screen;

and if the dragged application icon is dragged into the starting area, determining the application corresponding to the dragged application icon as the application to be started.

A16, the method of A1, the closed circle being a first closed circle, the method further comprising:

nesting and displaying a second closed circular ring in a hollow area of the first closed circular ring, wherein the first closed circular ring and the second closed circular ring are concentric circular rings.

A17, according to the method of A16, when the application icons on the first closed circle and the application icons on the second closed circle are aligned within a specific area, launching the application of two application icons for association operation.

A18, the method according to A1, the displaying the application icons on the desktop in a ring arrangement, comprising:

the display partially closes the ring.

A19, according to the method in A18, if the partially closed circular ring is located in the right half area of the desktop and the finger operating point is detected to be in the left half area, displaying the partially closed circular ring in the left half area;

or if the partially closed circular ring is located in the left half area of the desktop and the finger operation point is detected in the right half area, displaying the partially closed circular ring in the right half area.

A20, the partially closed loop is a one-half strong closed loop according to the method of A18;

alternatively, the partially closed ring is a quarter closed ring.

A21, according to the method A18, different pages correspond to different parts of the closed circular ring, and the part of the closed circular ring corresponding to each page forms a complete closed circular ring;

the display portion closed circle includes:

and switching pages according to page turning operation to display different parts of the closed circular ring.

B22, an interface operated device, the device comprising:

the display unit is used for displaying application icons on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, and the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

the rotating unit is used for rotating the closed circular ring displayed by the display unit according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to cooperatively select an application icon of the application to be started;

the determining unit is used for determining the application to be started after the closed circular ring rotated by the rotating unit stops rotating;

the starting unit is used for starting the application to be started determined by the determining unit;

and the display unit is used for displaying the application interface of the application started by the starting unit.

B23, the device according to B22, the determining unit is further configured to determine the arrangement order of the application icons before displaying the application icons on the desktop in the ring-shaped arrangement.

B24, the apparatus according to B23, the determining unit comprising:

the classification module is used for classifying the application icons according to preset classification conditions;

and the first arrangement module is used for adjacently arranging the application icons belonging to the same class.

B25, the apparatus according to B23, the determining unit comprising:

and the second arrangement module is used for adjacently arranging the application icons with the association relation according to a preset association condition.

B26, according to the device of B22, the application icons on the closed circle displayed by the display unit are different in size.

B27, the apparatus of B26, the apparatus further comprising:

and the first setting unit is used for setting the size of the application icon according to the network heat.

B28, the apparatus of B26, the apparatus further comprising:

a second setting unit for setting a size of the application icon according to the frequency of use.

B29, the apparatus of B22, the apparatus further comprising:

and the zooming unit is used for correspondingly zooming the radius of the closed circular ring according to the zooming operation detected on the touch screen before the application to be started is started by the starting unit.

B30, the apparatus of B22, the apparatus further comprising:

and the moving unit is used for moving the closed circular ring according to the movement operation detected on the touch screen before the application to be started is started by the starting unit.

B31, the device according to B22, the display unit further for displaying at least one application icon within the hollow area of the closed circle.

B32, according to the device in the B31, the at least one application icon displayed by the display unit is an application icon of an application running in the background, or an application icon of a recently started application, or an application icon of an application with the use frequency higher than a preset frequency threshold, or an application icon of an application with the single use time length exceeding a first preset time length threshold or the accumulated use time length exceeding a second preset time length threshold, or an application icon of an application with the recent electricity consumption exceeding a preset electricity quantity threshold.

B33, the device according to B22, the display unit is also used for displaying a starting area on the desktop, and the starting area intersects with the closed circular ring;

the determination unit includes:

and the first determining module is used for determining the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started after the closed ring stops rotating.

B34, according to the device of B33, the first determining module is configured to determine the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the launching area and exceeding a preset launching time threshold as the application to be launched.

B35, the device according to B33, the display unit is further used for displaying starting prompt information;

the determining unit is further configured to determine, according to the received confirmation instruction, the application corresponding to the application icon staying in the starting area as the application to be started.

B36, the device according to B22, the display unit further configured to display a launch area on the desktop, the launch area not intersecting the closed circle;

the determination unit includes:

the dragging module is used for dragging the application icon on the closed circular ring according to the dragging operation detected on the touch screen;

and the second determining module is used for determining the application corresponding to the dragged application icon as the application to be started when the application icon dragged by the dragging module is dragged into the starting area.

B37, the closed circle displayed by the display unit is a first closed circle according to the device of B22;

the display unit is further used for displaying a second closed circular ring in a nested manner in a hollow area of the first closed circular ring, and the first closed circular ring and the second closed circular ring are concentric circular rings.

B38, the device according to B37, the starting unit is further used for starting the application of two application icons for association operation when the application icons on the first closed ring and the application icons on the second closed ring are aligned in a specific area.

B39, the device according to B22, the display unit is used for displaying a partially closed circular ring.

B40, the device according to B39, the display unit is also used for when the part closed ring is located in the right half part area of desktop, and detect that the finger operating point is in the left half part area, will the part closed ring is shown in the left half part area, when the part closed ring is located in the left half part area of desktop, and detect that the finger operating point is in the right half part area, will the part closed ring is shown in the right half part area.

B41, the device according to B39, the part of the closed circle displayed by the display unit is a one-half strong closed circle or a one-quarter closed circle.

And B42, the device according to B39, and the display unit are further configured to switch pages according to a page turning operation to display different parts of the closed ring when different pages correspond to different parts of the closed ring and the part of the closed ring corresponding to each page forms a complete closed ring.

In the foregoing embodiments, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

It will be appreciated that the relevant features of the method and apparatus described above are referred to one another. In addition, "first", "second", and the like in the above embodiments are for distinguishing the embodiments, and do not represent merits of the embodiments.

It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.

The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, virtual machine, or other apparatus. Various general purpose systems may also be used with the teachings herein. The required structure for constructing such a system will be apparent from the description above. Moreover, the present invention is not directed to any particular programming language. It is appreciated that a variety of programming languages may be used to implement the teachings of the present invention as described herein, and any descriptions of specific languages are provided above to disclose the best mode of the invention.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. It is understood, however, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure an understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure and aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects. However, the disclosed method should not be interpreted as reflecting an intention that: that the invention as claimed requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the detailed description are hereby expressly incorporated into this detailed description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the modules in the device in an embodiment may be adaptively changed and disposed in one or more devices different from the embodiment. The modules or units or components of the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore they may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-components. All of the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings), and all of the processes or elements of any method or apparatus so disclosed, may be combined in any combination, except combinations where at least some of such features and/or processes or elements are mutually exclusive. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will appreciate that while some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments, rather than other features, combinations of features of different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention and form different embodiments. For example, in the following claims, any of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that a microprocessor or Digital Signal Processor (DSP) may be used in practice to implement some or all of the functions of some or all of the components of the method, device, server and system for status detection of a walk-on electronic anti-loss device according to embodiments of the present invention. The present invention may also be embodied as apparatus or device programs (e.g., computer programs and computer program products) for performing a portion or all of the methods described herein. Such programs implementing the present invention may be stored on computer-readable media or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an internet website or provided on a carrier signal or in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention may be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In the unit claims enumerating several means, several of these means may be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The usage of the words first, second and third, etcetera do not indicate any ordering. These words may be interpreted as names.

Claims (10)

1. A method of interface operations, the method comprising:

displaying application icons on a desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, wherein the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

rotating the closed circular ring according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to select an application icon of the application to be started in a matching manner;

after the closed ring stops rotating, determining an application to be started;

and starting the application to be started and displaying an application interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to displaying the application icons on the desktop in the circular arrangement, the method further comprises:

and determining the arrangement sequence of the application icons.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining the order of the application icons comprises:

classifying the application icons according to preset classification conditions;

and arranging the application icons belonging to the same class adjacently.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining the order of the application icons comprises:

and according to a preset association condition, adjacently arranging the application icons with the association relation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the application icons on the closed circle are different sizes.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the size of the application icon is set according to network heat.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the size of the application icon is set according to a frequency of use.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to said launching said application to be launched, said method further comprises:

and correspondingly zooming the radius of the closed circular ring according to the zooming operation detected on the touch screen.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to said launching said application to be launched, said method further comprises:

and moving the closed circular ring according to the movement operation detected on the touch screen.

10. An interface-operated apparatus, comprising:

the display unit is used for displaying application icons on the desktop in a ring-shaped arrangement mode, and the application icons are arranged into a closed ring;

the rotating unit is used for rotating the closed circular ring displayed by the display unit according to the rotation operation detected on the touch screen so as to cooperatively select an application icon of the application to be started;

the determining unit is used for determining the application to be started after the closed circular ring rotated by the rotating unit stops rotating;

the starting unit is used for starting the application to be started determined by the determining unit;

and the display unit is used for displaying the application interface of the application started by the starting unit.