CN110096287B

CN110096287B - Application deleting method, flexible screen terminal and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN110096287B
Application number: CN201910244875.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 范博
Original assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-03-28
Filing date: 2019-03-28
Publication date: 2023-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 2039-03-28
Also published as: CN110096287A

Abstract

The invention discloses an application deleting method, a flexible screen terminal and a computer readable storage medium. Because the folding line can divide the screen of the flexible screen terminal into two independent areas, the flexible screen terminal can determine the reserved side area and the deleted side area from the two independent areas, and then the flexible screen terminal deletes all the applications of the control icons in the deleted side area, so that batch deletion of the applications is realized, a user is prevented from performing complicated and repeated cleaning actions aiming at each application to be unloaded, and the operation burden of the user is reduced. Meanwhile, the application deletion is carried out through folding, and the interestingness is strong. The embodiment of the invention also provides the flexible screen terminal and a computer readable storage medium, so that the burden of a user in the application deleting process is reduced, the interestingness of application elaboration is enhanced, and the user experience of the terminal is improved.

Description

Application deleting method, flexible screen terminal and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to an application deletion method, a flexible screen terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

With the expansion of terminal application scenes, the variety of terminal applications is more and more. By installing applications with different roles, the terminal is able to provide different services to the end user. In the process of using the terminal, the service requirement of the terminal is not static, but may change anytime and anywhere, and therefore, the user may download and install a new application due to the newly added service requirement. Meanwhile, a plurality of applications which are not needed or have low requirements are left on the terminal along with the change of the use requirements of the users, and for the applications which are not needed by the users, in order to avoid occupying terminal storage resources, the users need to clean and unload the applications. However. In the current application deletion scheme, a user can only perform cleaning in a mode of "dragging + electrode confirmation" for each application to be uninstalled respectively — one application to be uninstalled is dragged to a designated area, and a terminal is triggered to display an uninstalling related icon, as shown in fig. 1. Then, the user clicks a confirmation operation according to the query operation of the terminal, and determines to delete the relevant data of the application, as shown in fig. 2. Therefore, if the applications to be uninstalled on the terminal are more, the user needs to repeat these tedious operations, which increases the burden of the user and reduces the user experience of the terminal.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problems that the deleting operation in the existing application cleaning scheme is complicated, the operation burden of a user is large, and the experience is not high.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides an application deletion method, including:

monitoring a folding operation for the flexible screen terminal;

after the folding operation is detected, determining a folding line of the folding operation, wherein the folding line divides a screen of the flexible screen terminal into two independent areas;

determining a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas;

and deleting all the applications of which the control icons are positioned in the deletion side area.

Optionally, before all applications of the control icon located in the deletion side area are deleted, the method further includes:

detecting non-folding interactive operation, wherein the non-folding interactive operation is other interactive operation except for folding aiming at the flexible screen terminal;

determining that the detected non-folding interaction operation matches one of the pre-set secondary confirmation operations.

Optionally, the preset auxiliary confirmation operation includes a preset somatosensory gesture operation, and the detecting of the non-folding interaction operation of the user includes:

detecting a non-folding interactive operation of a user through a sensor arranged below a screen;

determining that the detected non-folding interaction operation matches one of the preset secondary confirmation operations comprises: determining that the non-folding interactive operation detected in at least one time period before or after the folding operation is detected is one of preset somatosensory operations;

or the like, or, alternatively,

the preset auxiliary confirmation operation comprises a preset touch operation, and the detection of the non-folding interactive operation of the user comprises the following steps:

detecting contact type non-folding interactive operation of a user on the side face of a screen or a flexible screen terminal through a sensor;

determining that the detected non-folding interaction operation matches one of the preset secondary confirmation operations comprises: determining that the non-folding interaction operation detected in at least one period before or after the folding operation is detected is one of the preset touch operations.

Optionally, monitoring the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal includes:

monitoring the back-to-back folding operation of the flexible screen terminal, wherein the back-to-back folding operation is the folding operation of bending the back of the flexible screen terminal.

Optionally, deleting all applications of which the control icons are located in the deletion side area includes:

only deleting all the applications of the control icons in the deleting side area on the currently displayed application control display page;

or the like, or a combination thereof,

and all the applications of the control icons on the display page of each application control in the deleting side area are deleted.

Optionally, before monitoring the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal, the method further includes:

receiving at least two application movement instructions at different times;

and moving the control icon of the application specified by the application moving instruction to a target area according to the received application moving instruction, wherein the target area is an area on the screen far away from an area where the application control icon which has not been moved within the latest preset time is located.

Optionally, the manner of determining the reserved side area and the deleted side area from the two independent areas includes any one of the following two manners:

the first method is as follows:

respectively determining the moving conditions of the application control icons in the two independent areas;

determining a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas according to the moving condition;

the second method comprises the following steps:

receiving a deleting side designation instruction through a screen;

and determining a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas according to the received deleted side designation instruction.

Optionally, respectively determining the movement situations of the application control icons in the two independent areas includes:

determining the number of applications of the control icon in one of the two independent areas, which are moved from other positions within the latest preset time length, in the area;

determining the reserved side area and the deleted side area from the two independent areas according to the movement condition comprises the following steps:

and determining that all the application control icons are the areas which are moved from other positions according to the application moving instruction before the folding operation is detected as the deleting side areas, and taking the other areas as the reserved side areas.

Further, the invention also provides a flexible screen terminal, which comprises a processor, a memory and a communication bus;

the communication bus is used for realizing connection communication between the processor and the memory;

the processor is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the application deletion method as described in any of the above.

Further, the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs being executable by one or more processors to implement the steps of the application deletion method as any one of the above.

Advantageous effects

The invention provides an application deleting method, a flexible screen terminal and a computer readable storage medium, and aims to solve the problem that the user experience is influenced because only a single application can be subjected to complicated and repeated operations in the existing application cleaning scheme. The folding line can divide the screen of the flexible screen terminal into two independent areas, so that the flexible screen terminal can determine the reserved side area and the deleted side area from the two independent areas, and then the flexible screen terminal deletes all the applications of the control icons in the deleted side area. Because the number of control icons which can be placed in one deletion side area is not limited, a user can delete one or more applications to be unloaded by performing one-side folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, batch deletion of the applications is realized, the user is prevented from performing complicated and repeated cleaning actions aiming at each application to be unloaded, and the operation burden of the user is reduced. Meanwhile, the application is deleted by folding, and the application cleaning mode is novel and is high in interestingness. The embodiment of the invention also provides the flexible screen terminal and a computer readable storage medium, so that the burden of a user in the application deleting process is reduced, the interestingness of application elaboration is enhanced, and the user experience of the terminal is improved.

Drawings

The invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, in which:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a human-computer interaction in a terminal application deletion process provided in the background art;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of an interactive interface in a process of deleting a terminal application provided in the background art;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an alternative mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a wireless communication system for the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 3;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of an application deletion method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of the flexible screen terminal in an unfolded state shown in the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of the flexible screen terminal in fig. 6 folded forward;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a division of the folding lines into areas on the screen of the terminal of the flexible screen in fig. 7;

fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating determining a delete side area and a reserve side area according to an application control icon moving condition according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a flowchart of an application deletion method provided in a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic view of a flexible screen terminal shown folded back in a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a flexible screen terminal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and do not limit the invention.

In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for facilitating the explanation of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in itself. Thus, "module", "component" or "unit" may be used mixedly.

The flexible screen terminal may be implemented in various forms. For example, the flexible screen terminal described in the present invention may include mobile terminals such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Portable Media Player (PMP), a navigation device, a wearable device, a smart band, a pedometer, and the like, and fixed terminals such as a Digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like.

While the following description will be given taking as an example a flexible screen terminal as a mobile terminal provided with a flexible screen, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a fixed type terminal in addition to elements particularly used for moving purposes.

Referring to fig. 3, which is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, the mobile terminal 300 may include: an RF (Radio Frequency) unit 301, a WiFi module 302, an audio output unit 303, an a/V (audio/video) input unit 304, a sensor 305, a display unit 306, a user input unit 307, an interface unit 308, a memory 309, a processor 310, and a power supply 311. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture shown in fig. 3 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, and that a mobile terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes each component of the mobile terminal in detail with reference to fig. 3:

the radio frequency unit 301 may be configured to receive and transmit signals during information transmission and reception or during a call, and specifically, receive downlink information of a base station and then process the downlink information to the processor 310; in addition, uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 301 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 301 can also communicate with a network and other devices through wireless communication. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access 2000 ), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division multiplexing-Long Term Evolution), and TDD-LTE (Time Division multiplexing-Long Term Evolution), etc.

WiFi belongs to short-distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile terminal can help a user to receive and send e-mails, browse webpages, access streaming media and the like through the WiFi module 302, and provides wireless broadband internet access for the user. Although fig. 3 shows the WiFi module 302, it is understood that it does not belong to the essential constitution of the mobile terminal, and can be omitted entirely as needed within the scope not changing the essence of the invention.

The audio output unit 303 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 301 or the WiFi module 302 or stored in the memory 309 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal 300 is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output unit 303 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 300 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 303 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The a/V input unit 304 is for receiving an audio or video signal. The a/V input Unit 304 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 3041 and a microphone 3042, and the Graphics processor 3041 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing apparatus (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 306. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 3041 may be stored in the memory 309 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 301 or the WiFi module 302. The microphone 3042 can receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone 3042 in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and can process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 301 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 3042 may implement various types of noise canceling (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting an audio signal.

The mobile terminal 300 also includes at least one sensor 305, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display panel 3061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display panel 3061 and/or a backlight when the mobile terminal 300 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally, three axes), can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used for applications of recognizing the gesture of the mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer and tapping), and the like; as for other sensors such as a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which can be configured on the mobile phone, the description is omitted here.

The display unit 306 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 306 may include a Display panel 3061, and the Display panel 3061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 307 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 307 may include a touch panel 3071 and other input devices 3072. The touch panel 3071, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect touch operations of a user (e.g., operations of the user on or near the touch panel 3071 using any suitable object or accessory such as a finger, a stylus, etc.) thereon or nearby, and drive the corresponding connection device according to a preset program. The touch panel 3071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 310, and can receive and execute commands sent by the processor 310. In addition, the touch panel 3071 may be implemented using various types of resistive, capacitive, infrared, surface acoustic wave, and the like. The user input unit 307 may include other input devices 3072 in addition to the touch panel 3071. In particular, the other input devices 3072 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, and are not limited thereto.

Further, the touch panel 3071 may cover the display panel 3061, and when the touch panel 3071 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 310 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 310 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 3061 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 3071 and the display panel 3061 are shown as two separate components in fig. 3 to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 3071 and the display panel 3061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 308 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 300. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 308 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 300 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal 300 and external devices.

The memory 309 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 309 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, etc. Further, the memory 309 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 310 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 309 and calling data stored in the memory 309, thereby integrally monitoring the mobile terminal. Processor 310 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 310 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 310.

The mobile terminal 300 may further include a power supply 311 (such as a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 311 may be logically connected to the processor 310 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system.

Although not shown in fig. 3, the mobile terminal 300 may further include a bluetooth module, etc., which will not be described in detail herein.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present invention, a communication network system on which the mobile terminal of the present invention is based is described below.

Please refer to fig. 4, fig. 4 is an architecture diagram of a communication Network system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the communication Network system is an LTE system of a universal mobile telecommunications technology, the LTE system includes a UE (User Equipment) 401, an e-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) 402, an epc (Evolved Packet Core) 403, and an IP service 404 of an operator, which are in communication connection in sequence.

Specifically, the UE401 may be the terminal 300 described above, and is not described herein again.

E-UTRAN402 includes eNodeB4021 and other eNodeBs 4022, among others. Among them, the eNodeB4021 may be connected with other eNodeB4022 through a backhaul (e.g., an X2 interface), the eNodeB4021 is connected to the EPC403, and the eNodeB4021 may provide access to the EPC403 by the UE 401.

The EPC403 may include an MME (Mobility Management Entity) 4031, an hss (Home Subscriber Server) 4032, other MMEs 4033, an SGW (Serving gateway) 4034, a pgw (PDN gateway) 4035, and a PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) 4036, and the like. MME4031 is a control node that handles signaling between UE401 and EPC403, and provides bearer and connection management. HSS4032 is used to provide registers to manage functions such as a home location register (not shown) and holds subscriber-specific information about service characteristics, data rates, etc. All user data may be sent through SGW4034, PGW4035 may provide IP address allocation and other functions for UE401, and PCRF4036 is a policy and charging control policy decision point for traffic data flows and IP bearer resources, which selects and provides available policy and charging control decisions for a policy and charging enforcement function unit (not shown).

The IP services 404 may include the internet, intranets, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or other IP services, among others.

Although the LTE system is described as an example, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the LTE system, but may also be applied to other wireless communication systems, such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and future new network systems.

Based on the hardware structure of the mobile terminal and the communication network system, the embodiments of the method of the invention are provided.

First embodiment

In order to solve the problem that in the prior art, application deletion operations can only be performed for each application, which results in that a user performs tedious and repeated operations for multiple times and user experience is affected when there are many applications to be deleted, this embodiment provides an application deletion method, and please refer to the flowchart of the application deletion method shown in fig. 5:

s502: the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal is monitored.

The application deleting method provided by the embodiment is applied to a bendable flexible screen terminal, and the screen of the terminal is a flexible screen and can be bent towards at least one direction to deform. In this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal monitors a folding event of the flexible screen terminal, and it can be understood that in some flexible screen terminals, a folding operation may be implemented by a driving device driving a folding mechanical structure of the flexible screen terminal, that is, automatic folding of the flexible screen terminal. However, substantially all flexible screen terminals can be folded manually by the user. The folding event monitored by the flexible screen terminal in this embodiment is mainly for the case of manual execution by a user.

It is meaningless that in case of the folding of the flexible screen terminal, some areas of the screen thereof, and some areas inside the flexible screen terminal are particularly compressed, and thus, in the present embodiment, the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal may be detected by a pressure sensor or the like disposed on the flexible screen terminal. In the unfolded state of the flexible screen terminal 6, the screen 60 of the flexible screen terminal 6 is entirely flat, as shown in fig. 6. These sensors may also be able to detect some basic pressure without folding, but this pressure should be relatively small, so to speak a more relaxed pressure; and because mutual pressing of the devices is basically absent, pressure sensors arranged at different positions detect little pressure difference, and therefore pressure characteristics detected by the pressure sensors are relatively balanced. When the flexible screen terminal 6 is folded, the pressure characteristics detected by these pressure sensors are completely different because of the areas where folding occurs and the more severe squeezing of the devices in the vicinity of these areas, fig. 7 shows a schematic view of the folding of the flexible screen terminal in fig. 6, and in his 7, the devices in the oval area 70 are squeezed against each other, causing greater stress, and the pressure sensors in this area will also detect greater pressure. On the contrary, the pressure detected by the pressure sensors in other areas is not large, so that the pressure detection result of the pressure sensors on the flexible screen terminal is integrally characterized by large local pressure; and since the pressing is performed in a short time, the pressure characteristic also exhibits a sharp characteristic.

It can be seen that, in this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal can determine whether a folding event occurs at present by detecting the detection results of the pressure sensors and summarizing and analyzing the current pressure characteristics according to the detection results of the plurality of pressure sensors.

Of course, it is understood that in this embodiment, whether the terminal is folded may also be detected by other sensors or other manners, for example, in an example of this embodiment, it may be considered to determine whether the flexible screen terminal is folded based on the distance between the side edges of the flexible screen terminal or the distance between the vertices of the flexible screen terminal: assuming that when the flexible screen terminal is not folded, the distances from one vertex A of the terminal to the other three vertices B, C, D are a1, a2 and a3 respectively, at least one of the three distance values must be changed after the folding event occurs, and even in some cases, the distances between every two of the four vertices are changed; similarly, the distance between the side edges of the flexible screen terminal can be changed due to folding. Therefore, in this embodiment, the sensors capable of detecting the distance between each other are disposed on the side edges or the vertices of the flexible screen terminal, so as to detect the change of the distance between the vertices, or the change of the distance between the side edges and the vertices, thereby monitoring the folding operation of the flexible screen terminal.

In the present embodiment, the user performs a folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, mainly because the user desires to perform application deletion through some folding operations, but it should be understood that the flexible screen terminal has a folding feature, so that the user does not fold the terminal as required until the application deletion is performed when using the foldable terminal. In fact, there may be some other application scenarios where the terminal is folded, even if the user simply holds the flexible screen terminal, it may be unintentionally folded. And the application deletion is an operation which cannot be backed off, so that the mistaken deletion of the application is avoided because the folding operation which is not used for the application deletion operation is detected as the folding operation for deleting the application by the user. In some examples of this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may detect only some preset folding operations as an instruction for the user to trigger application deletion, for example, in some examples of this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may determine that the user may currently have a need to delete the application only after detecting the back-folding operation. For the forward folding operation of the flexible screen terminal, the flexible screen terminal cannot determine that the user has an application deletion demand even if the flexible screen terminal detects the application deletion demand, and therefore, a subsequent process of application deletion cannot be executed.

Of course, in some examples of this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may also monitor the forward operations as a folding operation that triggers the application deletion process. Moreover, in order to reduce the probability of application deletion by mistake, the flexible screen can also detect other folding operations with greater difficulty or more complex operations to determine whether to trigger the application deletion process.

S504: after the folding operation is detected, a folding line of the folding operation is determined.

It is not surprising that the flexible screen terminal folds along a straight line when folded, similar to our daily paper folding. The straight line along which the flexible screen terminal is folded is referred to herein as a "fold line", or "bend line". For example, in the folding schematic diagram of the flexible screen terminal shown in fig. 7, the flexible screen terminal 6 is bent in the forward direction, and the dotted line shown in fig. 8 is the folding line of the folding, and by dividing the folding line, the screen 60 of the flexible screen 6 is divided into two upper and lower independent areas. For other folding modes, the division of the folding line on the screen is also similar, and therefore, the description is omitted here.

In this embodiment, the folding line of the folding operation is determined, and mainly the position of the folding line is determined, because it can be known from the foregoing description that the folding line determines the specific division of the two independent areas on the screen, including the positions of the two independent areas, the areas of the two independent areas, and the like, in this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal determines the position of the folding line after detecting the folding operation. It is needless to say that after the flexible screen terminal determines the folding line of the folding operation, the dividing mode of two independent areas on the screen is actually determined.

S506: a reserved-side area and a deleted-side area are determined from the two independent areas.

In two independent areas divided by folding lines, control icons of some applications exist respectively. The applications corresponding to the control icons in one of the regions are all deleted, while the applications corresponding to the control icons in the other region need to be retained. As shown in fig. 8, a plurality of application control icons are respectively present in two independent areas (herein, referred to as a first area 801 and a second area 802), and when a user performs a folding operation for triggering application deletion, the user must unload the application deletion corresponding to each control icon in the first area 801 or the second area 802. Therefore, one of the first area 801 and the second area 802 is a reserved-side area, the other is a deleted-side area, and as to which one is a reserved-side area and which is a deleted-side area, the determination may be made by referring to at least one of the following ways:

the method I comprises the following steps:

please refer to the flowchart shown in fig. 9 for determining the reserved side area and the deleted side area from two independent areas:

s902: and respectively determining the moving conditions of the application control icons in the two independent areas.

In this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may determine the movement of each application control icon in the first area 801 and the second area 802, for example, in an example of this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may count the number of control icons in each area that move from other positions to the area within a last preset time period, for example, assuming that the preset time period is 20 minutes, the flexible screen terminal may count the number of control icons in the first area 801 that move from other positions to the first area 801 within the last 20 minutes, where the count result is assumed to be n; meanwhile, the flexible screen terminal counts the number of control icons in the second area 802 that move from other positions to the second area 802 within the last 20 minutes, wherein the counting result is assumed to be m.

It is understood that the "other positions" may include other areas than the current area on the interface displayed on the current screen, for example, for the first area 801, the other positions include the second area 802, and for the second area 802, the other positions include the first area 801. In some other examples of this embodiment, the other locations further include locations on other display interfaces. For example, assuming that the flexible screen terminal includes three application display interfaces in total, and the screen currently displays a first screen on which a first area and a second area are included, for the first area, the other areas include the second area, and all the areas on the second screen and all the areas on the third screen are also included.

It is needless to say that the preset time period is 20 minutes in the above example, but it should be understood by those skilled in the art that this is merely a reference example given for facilitating understanding of those skilled in the art, and in fact, the preset time period may have other time period values, such as one week, one day, three hours, etc.

S904: and determining a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas according to the movement condition.

After determining the movement condition of the application control icon in each of the two independent areas, the flexible screen terminal may select the deletion-side area according to the movement condition of the application in the two areas, for example, assuming that the flexible screen terminal statistically determines n > m, the terminal may select the first area 801 as the deletion-side area, and naturally, the second area 802 is the reserved-side area.

In some other examples of this embodiment, after counting the number of control icons in a region that have moved from other positions to the region within the last preset time period, the flexible screen terminal also counts the total number of application control icons in the region, so as to calculate the occupation ratio of the application control icons that have moved from other positions. When the deletion side area and the reservation side area are selected based on the movement, the flexible screen terminal may select one of the two areas having a larger proportion of the application control icons moved from the other positions as the deletion side area. In another example of this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may select, as the deletion-side region, a region in which all the application control icons are moved from other positions according to the application movement instruction before the folding operation is detected, and naturally, another region is the reserved-side region.

In addition, the present embodiment also provides another way to determine the delete side area and the reserve side area:

the flexible screen terminal can receive a deleting side appointed instruction issued by a user, and then one of the two independent areas is determined as a deleting side area according to the deleting side appointed instruction. For example, in an example of the present embodiment, the flexible screen terminal detects a deletion-side designation instruction through the screen, and then may determine a deletion-side area according to a position at which the deletion-side designation instruction is detected. For example, the flexible screen terminal takes one of the two independent areas in which the delete-side designation instruction is detected as the delete-side area. Alternatively, in an example of the present embodiment, after performing a folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, the user may designate an area that is desired to be the deletion-side area as the deletion-side area to the flexible screen terminal by, for example, double-clicking the area or performing a long-press operation for T times.

It is needless to say that the instruction issued by the user to the flexible screen terminal may also be a reserved side designation instruction by which the reserved side area of the two independent areas is designated to the flexible screen terminal.

S508: and deleting all the applications of which the control icons are positioned in the deleting side area.

After determining the deletion side area on the screen, the flexible screen terminal can delete all the applications of which the control icons are located in the area.

In some examples of this embodiment, the application deletion performed by the flexible screen terminal is only for the application on the currently displayed application control display page, and will not take effect on other currently undisplayed application control display pages. However, in some other examples of this embodiment, the application deletion operation of the flexible-screen terminal is effective for all application control display pages on the terminal, that is, regardless of whether one application control display page is currently displayed, as long as the control icon of the application on the application display page is located in the deletion-side area, the flexible-screen terminal deletes the corresponding application. For example, in an example of the embodiment, the flexible screen terminal includes two application control display pages Q and P, the user first controls the screen display Q, during the screen display of the page, the user may issue an application moving instruction to the flexible screen, and move an application that the user wants to delete to an area Z (undoubtedly, the area is actually a deletion side area that the user wants in the heart) away from other application control icons that have not been moved within a last preset time on the page, and it is assumed that the application moved to the area includes Q1 and Q2; and then, the user controls the screen display application control display page P, the user also moves the control icon of the application which the user wants to delete on the page into the area Z, and if the application which is moved into the area comprises P2, the user performs folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, and after the flexible screen terminal determines that the deletion side area is the area Z, all the applications corresponding to Q1 and Q2 on the application control display page Q and P2 on the application control display page P are deleted.

Through the latter application deleting mode, the user can move the application to be deleted on each application control display page firstly, and finally, folding operation in the application deleting process is performed uniformly, so that the folding times of the user on the flexible screen terminal are reduced, the operation burden of the user is reduced, meanwhile, the folding loss of the flexible screen terminal is reduced due to the reduction of folding of the flexible screen terminal, and the service life of the flexible screen terminal is prolonged.

It should be understood that, if the application is deleted only according to the folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, the risk that the application is deleted by mistake is still relatively high, and in order to reduce the probability of the application being deleted by mistake, in some examples of the embodiment, before all the applications of the control icon in the deletion-side area are deleted, an "auxiliary confirmation operation" needs to be detected, where the auxiliary confirmation operation is for further ensuring that the user performs the folding operation on the flexible screen terminal to delete the applications. In some examples of this embodiment, the secondary confirmation operation is a non-folding interaction operation. As the name implies, the non-folding interactive operation is an interactive operation that is issued by the user in a manner other than the flexible screen terminal. One or more preset auxiliary confirmation operations are stored in the flexible screen terminal in advance, and after the flexible screen terminal detects the non-folding interactive operation, the detected non-folding interactive operation is matched with the preset auxiliary confirmation operations. If the detected non-folding interactive operation is successfully matched with one of the preset auxiliary confirmation operations, the user can be considered to have issued the auxiliary confirmation operation, and therefore, the fact that the folding operation of the user on the flexible screen terminal is performed to trigger the application deletion operation can also be judged.

In an example of this embodiment, the preset auxiliary confirmation operation stored in the flexible screen terminal is a preset somatosensory gesture operation, and if the user needs to issue the auxiliary confirmation operation, the user also performs a corresponding somatosensory gesture operation. Therefore, the flexible screen terminal can detect the non-folding interactive operation of the user through the sensor arranged under the screen, match the detected non-folding interactive operation with the preset somatosensory gesture operation, and determine that the user has issued the auxiliary confirmation operation if the matching is successful.

In another example of this embodiment, the preset auxiliary confirmation operation stored in the flexible screen terminal is a preset touch operation, and if the user needs to issue the auxiliary confirmation operation, a corresponding contact-type non-folding interactive operation, that is, a touch operation, may also be performed. It should be noted that the touch operation performed by the user on the flexible screen terminal may be issued on the screen of the flexible screen terminal, or may be issued on the side of the flexible screen terminal or even on the back of the flexible screen terminal. In an example of this embodiment, the screen and the side of the flexible screen terminal are both provided with sensors, the flexible screen terminal detects the non-folding interactive operation of the user through the sensors, matches the non-folding interactive operation with the preset touch operation after detecting the non-folding interactive operation, and determines that the user has issued the auxiliary confirmation operation if the matching is successful.

It is understood that the non-folding interactive operation issued by the user as the auxiliary confirmation operation may be before the folding operation is performed or after the folding operation is performed. Even more, in some examples of the present embodiment, the user may issue the secondary confirmation operation while performing the folding operation with respect to the flexible screen terminal.

According to the application deleting method provided by the embodiment, not only can one or more applications be deleted simultaneously through the folding flexible screen terminal, and the interestingness of application deletion is enhanced, but also in order to avoid application deletion caused by user folding by mistake, the flexible screen terminal needs to ensure that non-folding interactive operation for auxiliary confirmation is received before the application deletion is realized according to folding operation, so that the risk that the application is deleted by mistake is reduced, and the user experience is enhanced.

Second embodiment

In order to make the advantages and details of the application deleting method provided by the present invention more clear to those skilled in the art, in this embodiment, the application deleting method will be further described with reference to an example, please refer to a flowchart of the application deleting method provided in fig. 10:

s1002: at least two application movement instructions are received.

According to the application deletion method provided by the invention, when the user deletes the application, the user needs to ensure that the application to be deleted and the application to be reserved are in different areas, so in this embodiment, before the user deletes the application, the user needs to move the application on the currently displayed application control display page. Therefore, the user firstly issues an application moving instruction to the flexible screen terminal to specify the application control icon needing to be moved and the moving destination.

In view of the application deletion scheme provided by the present invention, the application deletion scheme is more advantageous in the context of batch application deletion, because when performing batch deletion operation of an application, a user only needs to perform a folding operation after moving all control icons of the applications to be deleted to the same area, and therefore, in some examples, the flexible screen terminal may receive at least two application movement instructions. For example, if at least two application movement instructions are received at different times, after each application movement instruction is received, the control icon of the application corresponding to the application movement instruction is moved.

It can be understood that at least two application movement instructions issued by the user to the flexible screen terminal may respectively display applications on the page for different application controls.

According to the application deletion method provided by the embodiment, application deletion can be completed within a long time, for example, after a user issues an application moving instruction for an application to be deleted, some operations unrelated to application deletion can be performed again. After a period of time, the user issues an application move command for another application.

S1004: and moving the control icon of the application according to the moving instruction.

The application moving instruction issued by the user not only designates the moving icon object to the flexible screen terminal, but also designates the moving destination. For example, in an example of this embodiment, a user may perform a dragging operation by pressing and holding a control icon of an application to be deleted, so as to issue an application moving instruction. For example, the user moves the control icon of the application to be deleted on the currently displayed application control display page to the area in the upper right corner of the screen. The flexible screen terminal moves the application control icon along with the operation of the user.

It is understood that the control icon moved by the user may be a control icon of an application to be uninstalled, or may be a control icon of an application that needs to be reserved. For example, in a situation where the user moves a control icon of an application to be deleted, after receiving a movement instruction of the application to be deleted, the flexible screen terminal may move the control icon of the application specified by the application movement instruction to a target area according to the received application movement instruction, where the target area is an area on the screen that is far away from an area where the application control icon that has not been moved within the latest preset time period is located.

S1006: a folding operation for the flexible screen terminal is detected.

The flexible screen may detect a folding operation for itself by a sensor. In this embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may detect the folding operation through a pressure sensor.

In addition, in some examples of the present embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may use only a part of a specific folding operation as an operation for triggering deletion of an application, for example, use only a back-folding operation as a triggering operation for application deletion. However, in other examples of the present embodiment, the flexible screen terminal may recognize all the folding operations as the operation that triggers the application deletion flow. In fig. 11, the user performs a back-folding operation on the flexible-screen terminal, and after detecting the back-folding operation, the flexible-screen terminal may determine that the user may need to perform application deletion.

S1008: a folding line for the folding operation is determined.

The flexible screen terminal needs to determine the position of a folding line for a folding operation so as to divide two independent areas on the screen according to the folding line. In fact, the position of the folding line is determined by a user during a folding operation, and the user can freely determine the position of the folding line, but it should be understood that, when the user folds the flexible screen terminal, it should be ensured that an application to be deleted and a reserved application which are desired by the user are respectively located on two sides of the folding line, and at least that a control icon of the application to be reserved is not mixed into a control icon of the application to be deleted.

S1010: and determining one area of the two sides of the folding line, which has a larger number of control icons moved from the other area within a preset time length, as a deletion side area.

Assuming that the preset duration is 3h, the flexible screen terminal counts the number n of control icons in the first area, which are moved from the second area within the latest 3 h; meanwhile, the flexible screen terminal counts the number m of control icons in the second area, which are moved from the first area within the last 3 h. Then, the sizes of n and m are compared, and the area corresponding to the larger one is used as the deletion-side area.

S1012: and monitoring somatosensory gesture operation.

In order to reduce the probability of the application being deleted by mistake, in some examples of the embodiment, before all the applications of the control icon located in the deletion side area are deleted, the flexible screen terminal needs to detect an auxiliary confirmation operation issued by the user. In this embodiment, the auxiliary confirmation operation is a somatosensory gesture operation, so the flexible screen terminal monitors the somatosensory gesture operation of the user.

S1014: and judging whether somatosensory gesture operation of moving towards a direction far away from the reserved side area is detected in a preset time period.

If yes, go to S1016, otherwise, end the process.

In this embodiment, the preset somatosensory gesture operation is a stroke of the hand of the user over the screen in a direction away from the reserved side area. However, it is needless to say that, in other examples of the present embodiment, the preset somatosensory gesture operation may be other operations.

S1016: and deleting the application of the control icon in the deletion side area on the currently displayed application control display interface.

After the folding operation of the user on the flexible screen and the somatosensory gesture operation which is issued by the user and meets the conditions are determined to be detected, the flexible screen terminal can delete the application of the control icon in the deletion side area on the currently displayed application control display interface.

In some other examples of this embodiment, after it is determined that the folding operation of the flexible screen by the user and the somatosensory gesture operation which meets the condition and is issued by the user are detected, the flexible screen terminal may also delete all applications of which the control icons on the application control display pages are located in the deletion-side region.

The application deleting method provided by the embodiment supports the user to move the application control icon on the application control display page, so that the control icon of the application to be deleted and the application control icon to be reserved are respectively located in different areas, and therefore the division of the deleting side area and the reserving side area is realized through the folded folding line in the following process, the application in the deleting side area is deleted, and the application in the reserving side area is reserved. In one-time application deleting operation, the number of the deleted applications is not limited, the defect that a user has to perform a large number of complicated repeated operations when deleting a large number of applications is avoided, and the user experience is enhanced.

Third embodiment

The present embodiment will be described with respect to the flexible screen terminal in the foregoing embodiment, but before describing the structure of the flexible screen terminal, a computer-readable storage medium is provided:

the computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs that can be read, compiled, or executed by the memory, including an application deletion program that can be executed by the processor to implement the application deletion method provided in the first or second embodiment.

Meanwhile, the present embodiment further provides a flexible screen terminal, please refer to fig. 12: the flexible screen terminal 120 includes a processor 121, a memory 122, and a communication bus 123 for connecting the processor 121 and the memory 122, wherein the memory 122 may be the aforementioned computer-readable storage medium storing the call guiding program. The processor 121 may read the application deletion program stored in the memory 122, compile and execute the application deletion method provided in the foregoing first or second embodiment:

the processor 121 monitors a folding operation for the flexible screen terminal 120;

after detecting the folding operation, the processor 121 determines a folding line of the folding operation, the folding line dividing the screen of the flexible screen terminal 120 into two independent areas, and then the processor 121 determines a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas and deletes all the applications of the control icons located in the deleted side area.

In some examples of the present embodiment, before the processor 121 deletes all applications of which the control icon is located in the deletion-side region, the non-folding interactive operation is detected, and it is determined that the detected non-folding interactive operation matches one of the preset secondary confirmation operations. The non-folding interactive operation herein is an interactive operation other than the folding for the flexible screen terminal 120.

In an example of the present embodiment, the preset auxiliary confirmation operation stored in the memory 122 of the flexible screen terminal 120 is a preset somatosensory gesture operation, and if the user needs to issue the auxiliary confirmation operation, the user also performs a corresponding somatosensory gesture operation. Therefore, the processor 121 may detect the non-folding interactive operation of the user through a sensor disposed under the screen, match the detected non-folding interactive operation with a preset somatosensory gesture operation, and determine that the user has issued an auxiliary confirmation operation if the matching is successful.

In another example of the present embodiment, the preset auxiliary confirmation operation stored in the memory 122 of the flexible screen terminal 120 is a preset touch operation, and if the user needs to issue the auxiliary confirmation operation, the user also performs a corresponding contact-type non-folding interactive operation, that is, a touch operation. It should be noted that the touch operation performed by the user on the flexible screen terminal 120 may be issued on the screen of the flexible screen terminal 120, or may be issued on the side or even the back of the flexible screen terminal 120. In an example of the present embodiment, the sensor processor 121 is disposed on both the screen and the side of the flexible screen terminal 120, and detects the non-folding interactive operation of the user through the sensors, matches the non-folding interactive operation with the preset touch operation after detecting the non-folding interactive operation, and determines that the user has issued the auxiliary confirmation operation if the matching is successful.

In one example of the present embodiment, the processor 121 only recognizes the back-folding operation as an operation that triggers the application deletion flow, and thus the processor 121 monitors the folding operation is actually monitoring the back-folding operation for the flexible screen terminal 120.

In some examples of this embodiment, the processor 121 deletes all applications in the area on the current application control display page where the control icon is located in the deletion side.

In other examples of this embodiment, the processor 121 deletes all applications whose control icons are located in the deletion side area on each application control display page.

In some examples of this embodiment, before monitoring the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal 120, at least two application movement instructions are received at different times, and the control icon of the application specified by the application movement instruction is moved to the target area according to the received application movement instruction, where the target area is an area on the screen that is far from an area where the application control icon that has not been moved within the latest preset time is located.

In an example of this embodiment, movement situations of the application control icons in the two independent areas are determined respectively, and the reserved side area and the deleted side area are determined from the two independent areas according to the movement situations.

In another example of the present embodiment, a deletion-side designation instruction is received through the screen, and the reservation-side area and the deletion-side area are determined from the two independent areas in accordance with the received deletion-side designation instruction.

According to the flexible screen terminal and the computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiment, because the number of control icons which can be placed in one deletion side area is not limited, a user can delete one or more applications to be unloaded by performing one-side folding operation on the flexible screen terminal, batch deletion of the applications is realized, the user is prevented from respectively performing complicated and repeated cleaning actions on the applications to be unloaded, and the operation burden of the user is reduced. Meanwhile, the application is deleted by folding, and the application cleaning mode is novel and interesting.

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

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention or portions thereof contributing to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method of the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the particular illustrative embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but is intended to cover various modifications, equivalent arrangements, and equivalents thereof, which may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An application deletion method, characterized in that the application deletion method comprises:

receiving at least two application movement instructions at different times;

moving a control icon of an application specified by the application moving instruction to a target area according to the received application moving instruction; monitoring a folding operation for the flexible screen terminal;

after a folding operation is detected, determining a folding line of the folding operation, wherein the folding line divides a screen of the flexible screen terminal into two independent areas;

deleting all applications of the control icon in the deletion side area;

the manner of determining the reserved side area and the deleted side area from the two independent areas includes any one of the following two manners:

the first method is as follows:

the second method comprises the following steps:

receiving a delete side designation instruction through the screen;

2. The application deletion method of claim 1, wherein before all applications of the delete side region with control icons are deleted, further comprising:

detecting non-folding interactive operation, wherein the non-folding interactive operation is other interactive operation except for folding the flexible screen terminal;

determining that the detected non-folding interaction operation matches one of preset secondary confirmation operations.

3. The application deletion method of claim 2, wherein the preset auxiliary confirmation operation comprises a preset somatosensory gesture operation, and wherein the detecting a non-folding interaction operation comprises: detecting a non-folding interactive operation of a user through a sensor arranged below the screen;

the determining that the detected non-folding interaction operation matches one of preset secondary confirmation operations comprises: determining that a non-folding interaction operation detected in at least one period before or after the folding operation is detected is one of the preset somatosensory gesture operations;

or the like, or, alternatively,

the preset auxiliary confirmation operation comprises a preset touch operation, and the detection of the non-folding interactive operation of the user comprises the following steps: detecting a contact type non-folding interactive operation of a user on the side face of the screen or the flexible screen terminal through a sensor;

the determining that the detected non-folding interactive operation matches one of preset secondary confirmation operations comprises: determining that the non-folding interaction operation detected in at least one period before or after the folding operation is detected is one of the preset touch operations.

4. The application deletion method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring of the folding operation for the flexible screen terminal comprises:

monitoring is directed at the operation of the flexible screen terminal folding in the back, the operation of folding in the back is to the folding operation of the flexible screen terminal back of the body bending.

5. The application deletion method of claim 1, wherein the deleting all applications with control icons located in the deletion-side region comprises:

only deleting all applications of the control icons in the deleting side area on the currently displayed application control display page;

or the like, or, alternatively,

and deleting all the applications of the control icons on the display page of each application control in the deletion side area.

6. The application deletion method of claim 1, wherein the separately determining movement of the application control icon in the two independent areas comprises:

determining the number of applications which are moved from other positions within the latest preset time length of the control icon in one of the two independent areas;

the determining a reserved side area and a deleted side area from the two independent areas according to the movement condition comprises:

and determining that all the application control icons are the areas which are moved from other positions according to the application moving instruction before the folding operation is detected as the deleting side area, and taking the other area as the reserved side area.

7. A flexible screen terminal is characterized by comprising a processor, a memory and a communication bus;

the processor is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the application deletion method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6.

8. A computer readable storage medium, characterized in that the computer readable storage medium stores one or more programs which are executable by one or more processors to implement the steps of the application deletion method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6.