CN110187822B - Terminal and screen display control method applied to terminal - Google Patents

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CN110187822B
CN110187822B CN201910451824.3A CN201910451824A CN110187822B CN 110187822 B CN110187822 B CN 110187822B CN 201910451824 A CN201910451824 A CN 201910451824A CN 110187822 B CN110187822 B CN 110187822B
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The invention provides a terminal and a screen display control method applied to the terminal, and relates to the technical field of terminals. The terminal comprises: a flexible display screen; the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged on the first surface of the flexible display screen, and the first surface is a surface close to the terminal circuit board; an electrode assembly attached to the flexible electrostrictive polymer film; and the controller is used for providing control voltage to the electrode assembly, and the target film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed by the control voltage, and the target screen area at the position corresponding to the target film area on the flexible display screen is driven to deform. According to the scheme, the flexible electrostriction polymer film is arranged in the terminal, and the auxiliary terminal deforms the flexible display screen to assist a user in controlling sliding operation well, so that accurate control over the terminal is achieved.

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Terminal and screen display control method applied to terminal
Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a terminal and a screen display control method applied to the terminal.
Background
At present, the screen surface of a mobile phone is very smooth, when fingers of a person slide under a certain continuously adjusted scene, the control is very difficult to be accurately controlled, the finger can easily slide too large or too small, and the control is not a result wanted by the person, for example, a brightness control bar is slid, the brightness is difficult to be adjusted to the point wanted by the person, and a control dragging bar of a video player is difficult to be dragged to the point wanted by the person when fast forwarding or fast rewinding is carried out.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a terminal and a screen display control method applied to the terminal, and aims to solve the problem that the accurate control of the terminal is difficult to realize due to the fact that the surface of a screen is smooth in the prior art.
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:
in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:
a flexible display screen;
the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged on the first surface of the flexible display screen, and the first surface is a surface close to the terminal circuit board;
an electrode assembly attached to the flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
the controller is connected with the electrode assembly and used for providing control voltage for the electrode assembly, and the target film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed by the control voltage and drives the target screen area at the position, corresponding to the target film area, on the flexible display screen to deform;
wherein the target film region is at least a partial region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a screen display control method applied to the terminal, including:
receiving a screen deformation instruction;
determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction;
and outputting a control instruction to the controller to enable the controller to provide a control voltage for the electrode assembly, and enabling the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film to deform through the control voltage and driving a target screen area on the flexible display screen, which corresponds to the first film area, to deform.
In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal is the above terminal, and the terminal further includes a processor, where the processor includes:
the first receiving module is used for receiving a screen deformation instruction;
the determining module is used for determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction;
and the output module is used for outputting a control instruction to the controller, so that the controller provides a control voltage for the electrode assembly, and the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed by the control voltage, and a target screen area at a position corresponding to the first film area on the flexible display screen is driven to deform.
Further, the control instruction carries indication information for indicating the target screen area.
Specifically, after the target screen area is deformed, at least one of the following items is included:
the target screen area forms at least one convex part;
the target screen area forms at least one recess.
Further, the first receiving module includes:
the receiving unit is used for receiving a first input of a user on the flexible display screen;
and the generating unit is used for generating a screen deformation instruction according to the first input.
Optionally, a target control is included on the flexible display screen;
the receiving unit is configured to:
receiving a first input of a target control displayed on a flexible display screen by a user;
the determining module is configured to:
and determining the screen area occupied by the target control as a target screen area to be deformed.
Specifically, the target screen area is an area corresponding to the scale of the target control, and the screen area of the display area corresponding to the preset scale of the target control on the flexible display screen includes at least one protruding portion.
Further, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film forms a protruding portion or a recessed portion at a preset interval corresponding to a second film region of the target control, except for a display region of the preset scale, wherein the height of the protruding portion of the second film region is lower than the height of the protruding portion at the preset scale.
Optionally, after the output module outputs the control instruction to the controller, the method further includes:
the second receiving module is used for receiving a second input of the user to the target touch area of the target control;
the storage module is used for responding to the second input and storing the associated information of the target touch area;
wherein the association information comprises at least one of: the screen area deformation characteristics corresponding to the target touch area and the display content of the display area corresponding to the target touch area.
Optionally, after the second receiving module receives a second input of the target touch area of the target control from the user, the method further includes:
and the first updating module is used for updating the deformation characteristics of the screen area corresponding to the target touch area.
Optionally, after the storage module stores the association information of the target touch area, the method further includes:
the third receiving module is used for receiving a third input of the user;
a second update module to update a display of a target control in response to the third input;
wherein the updating the display of the target control comprises at least one of:
displaying prompt information, wherein the prompt information indicates the target touch area and display contents of a display area corresponding to the target touch area;
and controlling the screen area corresponding to the target touch area to deform according to the pre-stored deformation characteristics.
Optionally, the flexible display screen does not include a target control;
the determining module is configured to:
and determining the input area of the first input as a target screen area to be deformed.
Further, the first receiving module is configured to:
carrying out object recognition on a first object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of a target object under the condition that the target object is recognized; or
Carrying out object detection on a second object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of the target object under the condition that the target object appears after the first time period is detected
Further, the determining module is configured to:
and determining the area to be displayed of the target object as a target screen area to be deformed.
In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal is the above terminal, and the terminal includes: the screen display control method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the computer program realizes the steps of the screen display control method when being executed by the processor.
In a fifth aspect, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the screen display control method described above.
In the embodiment of the invention, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged in the terminal to assist the terminal in deforming the flexible display screen so as to assist a user in better controlling operation on the terminal and realize accurate control on the terminal.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows one of the schematic forms of a flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
FIG. 3 is a second schematic view showing the configuration of a flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
FIG. 4 is a third schematic view showing a configuration of a flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a screen display control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a detailed flowchart of a screen display control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a second flowchart illustrating a screen display control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 shows one of the block diagrams of a processor in a terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;
fig. 9 is a second block diagram of a processor in the terminal according to the embodiment of the invention;
fig. 10 is a third block diagram of a processor in the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a block diagram of a processor in the terminal according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a processor in the terminal according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 13 is a schematic diagram showing a hardware configuration of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:
a flexible display screen 110;
a flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 disposed on a first surface of the flexible display screen 110, the first surface being a surface close to the terminal circuit board;
an electrode assembly 130 attached on the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120;
a controller 140 connected to the electrode assembly 130, wherein the controller 140 is configured to provide a control voltage to the electrode assembly 130, and the control voltage causes a target film region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 to deform and drives a target screen region on the flexible display screen 110 at a position corresponding to the target film region to deform;
it should be noted that the target film region is at least a partial region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film.
It should be noted that the flexible display screen 110 includes a touch surface (the touch surface is located outside the terminal and can be directly touched by a user) and a non-touch surface (the non-touch surface is located inside the terminal and cannot be touched by the user), that is, the first surface is a non-touch surface, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 can be deformed under the action of an external electric field, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, which are different forms of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 under the action of different external electric fields, respectively, fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a state of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 as a whole, fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a state of local deformation of the surface of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120, and fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a state of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 as a whole; further, the electrode assembly 130 may be disposed on a side of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 opposite to the flexible display screen 110, or may be disposed on a side of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 opposite to the flexible display screen 110; in order to cause different deformations at different positions of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120, the electrode assembly 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one electrode distributed in an array, the control voltage input to the different electrodes by the controller 140 is different, and the deformation modes of the regions of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120 corresponding to the different electrode positions are different.
It should be noted that, in the terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention, the controller 140 may be used to change the form of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120, and as the flexible display screen 110 of the terminal is directly attached to the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120, that is, the form of the flexible display screen 110 may also change with the change of the form of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film 120, and the two are changed synchronously; the touch feeling of the user to the terminal display screen can be changed by the change of the flexible display screen 110 of the terminal, so that the user can be assisted to operate on the terminal well, and the terminal can be controlled accurately.
As shown in fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a screen display control method applied to the terminal, including:
step 501, receiving a screen deformation instruction;
step 502, determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction;
step 503, outputting a control instruction to the controller, so that the controller provides a control voltage to the electrode assembly, and by the control voltage, deforming a first film region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film, and driving a target screen region on the flexible display screen at a position corresponding to the first film region to deform.
It should be noted that, the controller may search, according to the control instruction, a control voltage corresponding to each electrode in a preset voltage table, and apply the control voltage to the electrode assembly, so that the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed correspondingly, so as to enhance the tactile experience of the user on the target screen area.
Further, in order to facilitate the controller to determine and change the area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film, the control instruction carries indication information for indicating the target screen area, and the controller determines the voltage of the electrode of the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film corresponding to the target screen area according to the indication information and outputs the voltage to the corresponding electrode, so as to realize the deformation of the first film area.
It should be noted that, after the target screen area is deformed, the target screen area includes at least one of the following items:
the target screen area forms at least one convex part;
the target screen area forms at least one recess.
That is, by forming a plurality of protrusions and/or depressions, the target screen area of the terminal is made uneven, and thus the user's sense of touch to the terminal screen can be changed.
It should be noted that the terminal may deform the screen according to the trigger of the user, or may automatically deform the screen according to the content displayed by the terminal itself, and the following two aspects respectively describe the screen display control method according to the embodiment of the present invention in detail.
Firstly, deformation of a screen is carried out according to triggering of a user
In this case, the specific implementation manner of step 501 is:
receiving a first input of a user on the flexible display screen;
and generating a screen deformation instruction according to the first input.
It should be noted that, in this case, the terminal detects the first input on the flexible display screen, for example, the first input may be a sliding operation performed by the user or a clicking operation performed by the user; and if the first input executed by the user is detected, indicating that the screen needs to be deformed, and generating a screen deformation instruction.
It should be noted that, in practical applications, the main mode of the user triggering the screen deformation is to adjust the playing progress, brightness, volume, and the like, at this time, the adjustment may be performed according to a sliding bar or a progress bar displayed on the screen, or directly perform an operation in a specific area of the screen without displaying the sliding bar or the progress bar on the screen, because a target control (i.e., the sliding bar or the progress bar) is displayed on the flexible display screen and a target control is not displayed, a specific form of the first input performed by the user is different, and the following description specifically describes an embodiment of the present invention in a case of whether the target control is displayed or not.
1. Target control part included on flexible display screen
Specifically, in this case, the specific implementation manner for receiving the first input of the user on the flexible display screen is as follows:
a first input of a target control displayed on a flexible display screen by a user is received.
That is to say, when the target control is displayed on the flexible display screen, the user may directly perform a sliding operation on the target control or may perform a clicking operation.
After detecting the command for generating the screen deformation, the target screen area to be deformed needs to be determined, specifically, the following method is adopted in the embodiment of the present invention to determine the target screen area to be deformed:
and determining the screen area occupied by the target control as a target screen area to be deformed.
It should be noted that, after a target screen area of the terminal is deformed, the target screen area is an area corresponding to the scale of the target control, and a screen area of a display area corresponding to a preset scale of the target control on the flexible display screen includes at least one protruding portion.
The preset scale refers to a unit scale for a user to recognize on a target control (e.g., a slider), for example, taking the slider as a playing progress bar, marking the playing progress bar with scales according to two percent of the unit on the playing progress bar, that is, a position on a screen corresponding to a specific playing scale may present a protruding portion (that is, 50 protruding portions may appear on the screen), and when the user slides to the playing progress, the protruding portion may perform sliding positioning; for example, taking a slide bar as an example of the brightness adjustment bar, the variation range of the brightness adjustment bar is 0-255, the variation gradient is 1, and the variation gradient is a unit scale, 255 convex portions appear on the screen.
It should be further noted that, when a user uses the target control to perform adjustment, in addition to the area corresponding to the scale of the target control, other areas of the target control may also be touched, and in order to increase the friction force of other areas of the target control except the area corresponding to the scale, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film forms a protruding portion or a recessed portion corresponding to a second film area of the target control except a display area of the preset scale at a preset interval, where a height of the protruding portion of the second film area is lower than a height of the protruding portion at the preset scale.
Through this kind of mode, can increase the unsmooth sense of touch of target controlling part, supplementary user carries out accurate regulation.
It should be further noted that, in a general case, a user may not directly determine an adjustment percentage after adjusting to a proper position when adjusting to brightness, volume, and the like, in this case, the terminal may store a final adjustment position of the user according to an operation of the user, so as to facilitate subsequent use of the user, that is, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a recording function of a user interest point, and specifically, the embodiment of the present invention further includes:
receiving a second input of the user to a target touch area of the target control;
responding to the second input, and storing the associated information of the target touch area;
wherein the association information comprises at least one of: the screen area deformation characteristics corresponding to the target touch area and the display content of the display area corresponding to the target touch area.
It should be noted that the target touch area may be a position of interest on the target control clicked by the user, or may be an area over which the user performs a sliding operation on the target control.
After receiving second input of the user to the target touch area of the target control, the terminal updates the deformation characteristic of the screen area corresponding to the target touch area, namely the deformation state of the screen area is adjusted to be different from the deformation modes of other positions of the target screen area, so that the user can conveniently position the target touch area.
For example, after the user adjusts the scroll bar of the target control to the target position, a sliding operation in a preset direction, a long-press operation, a double-click operation, and the like may be performed at the target position to store the associated information of the target position, and at the same time, the terminal may further update the display state of the target position to help the user record the point of interest.
For example, when it is detected that the user has slid from the first position to the second position of the slider bar, the screen between the first position and the second position is restored from the deformed state to the original state (it should be noted that the screen state of the terminal before the control instruction is output to the controller is the original state), so as to help the user to know the slid position more.
It should be noted that after the associated information of the target touch area is saved, when the target control is displayed next time, the display mode of the target control needs to be updated, so as to facilitate the user to distinguish the marked positions, and the specific implementation mode is as follows: receiving a third input of the user; updating a display of a target control in response to the third input;
wherein the updating the display of the target control comprises at least one of:
displaying prompt information, wherein the prompt information indicates the target touch area and display contents of a display area corresponding to the target touch area;
and controlling the screen area corresponding to the target touch area to deform according to the pre-stored deformation characteristics.
It should be noted that the pre-stored deformation characteristics are stored according to the second input; the third input is used to trigger re-execution of deformation of the screen region corresponding to the target control, and specifically, the third input may be a sliding operation, a long-time pressing operation, a double-click operation, and the like performed by the user.
For example, when the target touch area can be a position of interest on the target control that the user clicks, taking brightness adjustment by the user as an example, after the user drags the slider to adjust the screen to a suitable brightness, the user can press or double-click the current protruding portion, at this time, the protruding portion automatically restores the original state, and the position is saved, so that when the slider is displayed next time, the screen display state corresponding to the position is different from the display states of other positions of the slider.
Taking the user to adjust the sliding bar of the playing progress as an example, as shown in fig. 6, the specific implementation flow in this case is as follows:
step 601, the system framework detects that a user performs a sliding operation on a sliding bar;
it should be noted that, at present, the dragging slider in the android system is a unified interface provided by the system framework, so the system framework can monitor whether the slider is used;
step 602, determining a target screen area to be deformed on a flexible display screen;
it should be noted that, in this case, the terminal determines the screen area occupied by the slider as the target screen area to be deformed, and it should be noted that, in order to make the user know more clearly that there is screen adjustment, the terminal may prompt the user to enter a slider dragging precision mode.
Step 603, outputting a control instruction to the controller to deform a target screen area on the flexible display screen;
it should be noted that such deformation refers to increasing the convex scale of the slide bar and increasing the concave-convex deformation except for the scale of the slide bar on the target screen area to increase the frosted feel of the terminal screen.
It should be noted that, in this case, the experience of the user when sliding can be improved, and the sliding accuracy of the user and the touch feeling of the user to the screen can be improved.
2. Not including target controls on a flexible display screen
For example, when playing a video, the user adjusts the sound, at this time, a slide bar or progress bar for sound adjustment does not appear on the screen of the terminal, the terminal divides the specific area into areas for sound adjustment, and the user can adjust the sound by performing an operation in the area.
In this case, the first input is performed by the user directly on the flexible display screen, and specifically, an input area of the first input is determined as a target screen area to be deformed.
It should be noted that, after the deformation of the target screen region is performed, the region adjusted by the display screen of the terminal indicates the position of the target control, and at this time, the processes of deformation of the target screen region, storage of the associated information of the target touch region, update of the deformation characteristic of the screen region corresponding to the target touch region, and the like may be performed according to the above manner, and details are not repeated here.
Secondly, automatically deforming the screen according to the content displayed by the terminal
In this case, step 501 is implemented as follows:
the method comprises the steps that firstly, object recognition is carried out on a first object, and a screen deformation instruction is generated based on the object characteristics of a target object under the condition that the target object is recognized;
it should be noted that this case is mainly applied to a picture display scene, and specifically, may be a game scene, such as a game scene for racing or running. It should be noted that, since the display of the picture in the game is also made up of one frame of picture, that is, the target object is an area such as an uphill slope, a large pit, etc. in the picture, after the screen deformation instruction is generated according to the target object, the target screen area to be deformed is determined, in this case, the area to be displayed of the target object is directly determined as the target screen area to be deformed.
Performing object detection on a second object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of the target object under the condition that the target object appears after the first time is detected;
it should be noted that, in this case, the method is mainly applied to a game scene, and the deformation of the flexible display screen is adaptively adjusted along with a change of the scene, for example, when the terminal determines that a large pit appears in a game screen after 3 seconds from a current time, the large pit is regarded as a target object, and after a screen deformation instruction is generated according to the target object, a target screen area to be deformed is determined.
Taking the following example of screen morphing performed in the case of the current display picture in the game scene, as shown in fig. 7, the specific implementation flow in this case is:
step 701, identifying a game scene, and detecting that a target object exists in a game picture;
it should be noted that, in this case, the game interface prompts the user that a deformation option is available or an animation of game deformation is displayed when the user enters a game, for example, when some uphill slopes are displayed, the screen may deform to form a protrusion with a certain slope, and when holes are formed, the screen may deform to form a concave shape.
It should be noted that, the terminal (a service in game software or a system framework of the terminal) automatically corresponds a screen such as a hill, a cave, a sea wave and the like to a deformable scene through image scene recognition.
Step 702, determining a target screen area to be deformed;
in this case, the region to be displayed of the target object is determined as the target screen region to be deformed.
703, outputting a control instruction to the controller to deform a target screen area on the flexible display screen;
it should be noted that such deformation refers to adjusting the target screen area to a shape corresponding to the screen image display, for example, when there is a large pit on the screen image, the screen is deformed to a concave shape, and when there is an upward slope on the screen image, the screen is deformed to a convex shape.
It should be noted that, in this case, according to the picture displayed on the terminal screen, the display shape of the screen corresponding to the partial area in the picture is adjusted, so that the screen shape is changed into a form matched with the picture, and when the user is playing a game experience, the touch experience of the user can be enhanced.
As shown in fig. 8 to 12, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes the flexible display screen, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film, the electrode assembly, and the controller, and the terminal further includes a processor, where the processor includes:
a first receiving module 801, configured to receive a screen deformation instruction;
a determining module 802, configured to determine, according to the screen deformation instruction, a target screen area to be deformed;
an output module 803, configured to output a control instruction to the controller, so that the controller provides a control voltage to the electrode assembly, and the control voltage deforms the first film region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film and drives a target screen region on the flexible display screen, where the target screen region corresponds to the first film region, to deform.
Further, the control instruction carries indication information for indicating the target screen area.
Specifically, after the target screen area is deformed, at least one of the following items is included:
the target screen area forms at least one convex part;
the target screen area forms at least one recess.
Optionally, the first receiving module 801 includes:
a receiving unit 8011 for receiving a first input of a user on the flexible display screen;
the generating unit 8012 is configured to generate a screen deformation instruction according to the first input.
Optionally, a target control is included on the flexible display screen;
the receiving unit 8011 is configured to:
receiving a first input of a target control displayed on a flexible display screen by a user;
the determining module 802 is configured to:
and determining the screen area occupied by the target control as a target screen area to be deformed.
Specifically, the target screen area is an area corresponding to the scale of the target control, and the screen area of the display area corresponding to the preset scale of the target control on the flexible display screen includes at least one protruding portion.
Further, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film forms a protruding portion or a recessed portion at a preset interval corresponding to a second film region of the target control, except for a display region of the preset scale, wherein the height of the protruding portion of the second film region is lower than the height of the protruding portion at the preset scale.
Optionally, after the output module 803 outputs a control instruction to the controller, the method further includes:
a second receiving module 804, configured to receive a second input of the target touch area of the target control by the user;
a storage module 805, configured to store, in response to the second input, associated information of the target touch area;
wherein the association information comprises at least one of: the screen area deformation characteristics corresponding to the target touch area and the display content of the display area corresponding to the target touch area.
Further, after the second receiving module 804 receives a second input of the target touch area of the target control from the user, the method further includes:
the first updating module 806 is configured to update the deformation characteristic of the screen area corresponding to the target touch area.
Optionally, after the storage module 805 stores the association information of the target touch area, the method further includes:
a third receiving module 807 for receiving a third input of the user;
a second update module 808, configured to update the display of the target control in response to the third input;
wherein the updating the display of the target control comprises at least one of:
displaying prompt information, wherein the prompt information indicates the target touch area and display contents of a display area corresponding to the target touch area;
and controlling the screen area corresponding to the target touch area to deform according to the pre-stored deformation characteristics.
Optionally, the flexible display screen does not include a target control;
the determining module 802 is configured to:
and determining the input area of the first input as a target screen area to be deformed.
Optionally, the first receiving module 801 is configured to:
carrying out object recognition on a first object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of a target object under the condition that the target object is recognized; or
Carrying out object detection on a second object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of the target object under the condition that the target object appears after the first time period is detected
Further, the determining module 802 is configured to:
and determining the area to be displayed of the target object as a target screen area to be deformed.
The terminal provided by the embodiment of the present invention can implement each process implemented by the terminal in the method embodiment of fig. 5, and is not described here again to avoid repetition. According to the terminal provided by the embodiment of the invention, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged in the terminal, so that the terminal is assisted in deformation of the flexible display screen, a user is assisted in better controlling sliding operation, accurate control over the terminal is realized, and the touch use experience of the user on the screen is improved.
Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing the embodiment of the present invention.
The terminal 130 includes but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 1310, network module 1320, audio output unit 1330, input unit 1340, sensor 1350, display unit 1360, user input unit 1370, interface unit 1380, memory 1390, processor 1311, and power supply 1312. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 13 is not intended to be limiting, and that the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.
The terminal further includes: the flexible display screen, flexible electrostrictive polymer film, electrode assembly and controller.
The processor 1311 is configured to receive a screen deformation instruction; determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction; and outputting a control instruction to the controller to enable the controller to provide a control voltage for the electrode assembly, and enabling the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film to deform through the control voltage and driving a target screen area on the flexible display screen, which corresponds to the first film area, to deform.
According to the terminal provided by the embodiment of the invention, the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged in the terminal, so that the terminal is assisted in deformation of the flexible display screen, a user is assisted in better controlling sliding operation, accurate control over the terminal is realized, and the touch use experience of the user on the screen is improved.
It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 1310 may be configured to receive and transmit signals during a message transmission or a call, and specifically, receive downlink data from a base station and then process the received downlink data to the processor 1311; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Generally, radio frequency unit 1310 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 unit 1310 may also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.
The terminal provides the user with wireless broadband internet access, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse web pages, and access streaming media, through the network module 1320.
The audio output unit 1330 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 1310 or the network module 1320 or stored in the memory 1390 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 1330 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 130 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 1330 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.
The input unit 1340 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The input Unit 1340 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1341 and a microphone 1342, and the Graphics Processing Unit 1341 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frame may be displayed on the display unit 1360. The image frames processed by the graphics processor 1341 may be stored in the memory 1390 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 1310 or the network module 1320. The microphone 1342 may receive sound and may be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 1310 in case of a phone call mode.
The terminal 130 also includes at least one sensor 1350, such as light sensors, motion sensors, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display panel 1361 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display panel 1361 and/or the backlight when the terminal 130 moves to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 1350 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.
The display unit 1360 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 136 may include a Display panel 1361, and the Display panel 1361 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.
The user input unit 1370 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 1370 includes a touch panel 1371 and other input devices 1372. Touch panel 1371, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 1371 (e.g., operations by a user on or near touch panel 1371 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 1371 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 1311, receives a command from the processor 1311, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 1371 may be implemented by various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1371, the user input unit 137 may include other input devices 1372. Specifically, the other input devices 1372 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.
Further, touch panel 1371 can be overlaid on display panel 1361, and when touch panel 1371 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel, the touch panel is transmitted to processor 1311 to determine the type of the touch event, and then processor 1311 provides a corresponding visual output on display panel 1361 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 13, the touch panel 1371 and the display panel 1361 are implemented as two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1371 and the display panel 1361 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, which is not limited herein.
The interface unit 1380 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 130. 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 1380 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the terminal 130 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal 130 and an external device.
Memory 1390 may be used to store software programs and various data. The memory 1390 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for 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, and the like. Further, the memory 1390 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 1311 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 1390 and calling data stored in the memory 1390, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal. Processor 1311 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 1311 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 is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 1311.
Terminal 130 may also include a power supply 1312 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and preferably, power supply 1312 may be logically coupled to processor 1311 via a power management system such that the functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption are performed via the power management system.
In addition, the terminal 130 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.
Preferably, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, a flexible display screen, a flexible electrostrictive polymer film, an electrode assembly, and a controller, further including a processor 1311, a memory 1390, and a computer program stored in the memory 1390 and executable on the processor 1311, where the computer program, when executed by the processor 1311, implements each process of the screen display control method embodiment applied to the terminal, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.
The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the embodiment of the screen display control method applied to the terminal, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the detailed description is omitted here. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.
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 an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
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 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 (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.
While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

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1. A terminal, comprising:
a flexible display screen;
the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is arranged on the first surface of the flexible display screen, and the first surface is a surface close to the terminal circuit board;
an electrode assembly attached to the flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
the controller is connected with the electrode assembly and used for providing control voltage for the electrode assembly, and the target film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed by the control voltage and drives the target screen area at the position, corresponding to the target film area, on the flexible display screen to deform;
wherein the target film region is at least a partial region of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film;
the electrode assembly comprises at least one electrode distributed in an array;
the controller inputs different control voltages to different electrodes, and the deformation modes of areas corresponding to different electrode positions on the flexible electrostrictive polymer film are different;
and the shape of the flexible display screen of the terminal is changed, so that the touch of a user to the flexible display screen of the terminal is changed.
2. A screen display control method applied to the terminal of claim 1, comprising:
receiving a screen deformation instruction;
determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction;
and outputting a control instruction to the controller to enable the controller to provide a control voltage for the electrode assembly, and enabling the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film to deform through the control voltage and driving a target screen area on the flexible display screen, which corresponds to the first film area, to deform.
3. The screen display control method according to claim 2, wherein the control instruction carries indication information for indicating the target screen area.
4. The screen display control method of claim 2, wherein the target screen region, after being deformed, comprises at least one of:
the target screen area forms at least one convex part;
the target screen area forms at least one recess.
5. The screen display control method of claim 2, wherein the receiving a screen deformation instruction comprises:
receiving a first input of a user on the flexible display screen;
and generating a screen deformation instruction according to the first input.
6. The screen display control method of claim 5, wherein a target control is included on the flexible display screen;
the receiving a first input of a user on the flexible display screen comprises:
receiving a first input of a target control displayed on a flexible display screen by a user;
determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction, wherein the determining comprises the following steps:
and determining the screen area occupied by the target control as a target screen area to be deformed.
7. The screen display control method according to claim 6, wherein the target screen area is an area corresponding to a scale of a target control, and the screen area of the display area corresponding to a preset scale of the target control on the flexible display screen includes at least one protrusion.
8. The screen display control method according to claim 7, wherein the flexible electrostrictive polymer film forms protrusions or depressions at preset intervals corresponding to a second film region of the target control, excluding the display region of the preset scale, wherein the height of the protrusions of the second film region is lower than the height of the protrusions at the preset scale.
9. The screen display control method of claim 6, further comprising, after the outputting the control instruction to the controller:
receiving a second input of the user to a target touch area of the target control;
responding to the second input, and storing the associated information of the target touch area;
wherein the association information comprises at least one of: the screen area deformation characteristics corresponding to the target touch area and the display content of the display area corresponding to the target touch area.
10. The screen display control method of claim 9, wherein after receiving a second input from the user to the target touch area of the target control, further comprising:
and updating the deformation characteristics of the screen area corresponding to the target touch area.
11. The screen display control method of claim 9, wherein after storing the association information of the target touch area, further comprising:
receiving a third input of the user;
updating a display of a target control in response to the third input;
wherein the updating the display of the target control comprises at least one of:
displaying prompt information, wherein the prompt information indicates the target touch area and display contents of a display area corresponding to the target touch area;
and controlling the screen area corresponding to the target touch area to deform according to the pre-stored deformation characteristics.
12. The screen display control method of claim 5, wherein no target control is included on the flexible display screen;
determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction, wherein the determining comprises the following steps:
and determining the input area of the first input as a target screen area to be deformed.
13. The screen display control method of claim 2, wherein the receiving a screen deformation instruction comprises:
carrying out object recognition on a first object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of a target object under the condition that the target object is recognized; or
And carrying out object detection on the second object, and generating a screen deformation instruction based on the object characteristics of the target object under the condition that the target object appears after the first time period is detected.
14. The screen display control method of claim 13, wherein the determining a target screen area to be morphed comprises:
and determining the area to be displayed of the target object as a target screen area to be deformed.
15. A terminal, the terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal further comprises a processor, the processor comprising:
the first receiving module is used for receiving a screen deformation instruction;
the determining module is used for determining a target screen area to be deformed according to the screen deformation instruction;
and the output module is used for outputting a control instruction to the controller, so that the controller provides a control voltage for the electrode assembly, and the first film area of the flexible electrostrictive polymer film is deformed by the control voltage, and a target screen area at a position corresponding to the first film area on the flexible display screen is driven to deform.
16. A terminal according to claim 1, comprising: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which computer program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps of the screen display control method according to any one of claims 2 to 14.
17. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored thereon, which, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the screen display control method according to any one of claims 2 to 14.
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