Detailed Description
It should be noted that, the method and the electronic device are based on the same inventive concept, and because the principles of solving the problems by the method and the electronic device are similar, implementation of the method and the electronic device can be referred to each other, and repeated descriptions are omitted. In the present application, a plurality means two or more; in the description of this application, the words "first," "second," and the like are used solely for the purpose of distinguishing between descriptions and not necessarily for the purpose of indicating or implying a relative importance or order.
The method for adjusting the visual angle provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, desktop computers, laptops, notebook computers, ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), handheld computers, netbooks, personal digital assistants (personal digital assistant, PDA), wearable electronic devices, virtual reality devices and the like, and the embodiment of the application does not limit the method.
The electronic device related to the embodiment of the application may include a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant and the like.
Fig. 1 shows an internal structure of an electronic device 100 (hereinafter referred to as electronic device 100) provided in the present application.
As shown in fig. 1, the electronic device 100 may include within it: memory 101, processor 102, display 103, sensors 104, and other input devices 105.
The memory 101 may be used to store software programs and modules, and the processor 102 executes the software programs and modules stored in the memory 101 to perform various functional applications and data processing of the electronic device 100. The memory 101 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 (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, phonebooks, etc.) created according to the use of the electronic device 100, and the like. In addition, memory 101 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 102 is a control center of the electronic device 100, connects various parts of the terminal device using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the electronic device 100 and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 101, and calling data stored in the memory 101, thereby performing overall monitoring of the electronic device 100. Optionally, the processor 102 may include one or more processing units; alternatively, the processor 102 may integrate an application processor that primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., with a modem processor that primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 102.
The USB interface 106 is an interface conforming to the USB standard specification, and may specifically be a mini (mini) USB interface, a micro (micro) USB interface, a USB Type C (USB Type C) interface, or the like. The USB interface 106 may be used to connect a power adapter to charge the electronic device 100, or may be used to transfer data between the electronic device 100 and a peripheral device. When the electronic device 100 is connected to a power supply device (such as a power adapter) through the USB interface 106, the electronic device 100 may transmit power to the power adapter through the USB interface 106. Specifically, the configuration signal lines (configuration channel, cc) in the USB interface 106 (e.g., USB type-c interface) of the electronic device 100 may detect the current sent by the power adapter, and enable current transfer between the electronic device 100 and the power adapter.
It should be noted that, in fig. 1, the electronic device 100 is connected to the power adapter through the USB interface 106 as an example, in practical application, the electronic device 100 may also be connected to the power adapter through other manners, for example, the electronic device 100 is connected to the power adapter through a wireless manner (wifi, bluetooth, etc.), or is connected to the power adapter through other types of charging interfaces. Therefore, the connection manner between the electronic device 100 and the power adapter is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.
The display 103 is used to display information entered by a user or provided to the user and various menus of the electronic device 100, and may also accept user inputs. A particular display screen may include a display panel, as well as a touch panel. The display panel may be configured in the form of an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display ), an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode), or the like. Touch panels, also known as touch screens, touch sensitive screens, etc., collect touch or non-touch operations on or near a user (e.g., operations of the user using a finger, a stylus, etc., of any suitable object or accessory on or near the touch panel, and may also include somatosensory operations; the operations include single-point control operations, multi-point control operations, etc., types of operations), and drive the corresponding connection devices according to a preset program. Alternatively, the touch panel may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch azimuth and the touch gesture of a user, detects signals brought by touch operation and transmits the signals to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch detection device, converts the touch information into information which can be processed by the processor, sends the information to the processor 102, and can receive and execute commands sent by the processor 102. In addition, the first touch panel may be implemented by various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave, and may be implemented by any technology developed in the future. Further, the touch panel may overlay a display panel and a user may operate on or near the touch panel overlaid on the display panel based on what the display panel displays (including but not limited to a soft keyboard, a virtual mouse, virtual keys, icons, etc.), after the touch panel detects an operation thereon or thereabout, the operation information is transmitted to the processor 102 to determine user input, and the processor 102 then provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel based on the user input. In addition to the manner in which the touch panel and the display panel described above are implemented as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device 100, in some embodiments, the touch panel and the display panel may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device 100.
In an embodiment of the present application, display 103 further includes a polarizing film set including at least one polarizing film. Illustratively, as shown in fig. 2, the display screen 103 includes a glass panel, a polarizing film group, a touch panel, and a display panel. The polarizing film group is positioned on the lower layer of the glass panel and on the upper layer of the touch panel. In this embodiment of the present application, the polarizing film set includes a plurality of polarizing films, and the polarizing directions of the polarizing films of each layer are preset to be different, that is, the preset viewing angle of the mobile phone is the maximum value. For example, the polarizing film group includes three polarizing films, the electronic device may preset the polarizing direction of the first polarizing film to be a first direction, the polarizing direction of the second polarizing film to be a second direction, and the polarizing direction of the third polarizing film to be a third direction, so that natural light may be converted into polarized light in three directions through the three polarizing films, so that the preset viewing angle of the mobile phone is a maximum value. If the electronic device adjusts the polarization directions of the three-layer polarization films to be the first direction, natural light can be converted into polarized light in the first direction through the three-layer polarization films, so that the mobile phone adjusts the visual angle to be the minimum value.
The sensor 104 may include a motion sensor, a light sensor, a proximity sensor, and other sensors. The light sensor may include an ambient light sensor that may adjust the brightness of the display unit according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that may turn off the display unit and/or the backlight when the terminal device moves to the ear. The motion sensor may include an accelerometer sensor, a gravity sensor, a gyroscope, and the like. The accelerometer sensor can detect the acceleration in all directions (generally three axes), can detect the gravity and the direction when static, and can be used for identifying the application of the gesture of the terminal equipment (such as transverse and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration, screen switching of the terminal equipment), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer and knocking), and the like. The gravity sensor may be used to detect the magnitude of acceleration in the vertical direction. The gyroscope can detect the rotation angular velocity in all directions (generally three axes), and can be used for the application of the gesture of the terminal equipment (such as horizontal-vertical screen switching and screen switching of the terminal equipment). In addition, the sensor 104 may further include other sensors such as barometer, hygrometer, thermometer, infrared sensor, etc., which are not described herein.
Other input devices 105 may be used to receive entered numeric or character information and to generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of electronic device 100. In particular, other input devices 105 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a camera, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a joystick, etc.
In addition, when the electronic device 100 communicates with the outside in a wireless manner, a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit and a connected antenna, a wireless fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, wiFi) module and a connected antenna may be further included. The RF circuit may be used to send and receive information or complete signal receiving and sending during communication, specifically, after receiving downlink information sent by the base station, the RF circuit sends the downlink information to the processor 102 for processing; and, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, RF circuitry includes, but is not limited to, antennas, at least one amplifier, transceivers, couplers, low noise amplifiers (Low Noise Amplifier, LNAs), diplexers, and the like. In addition, the RF circuitry may also communicate with networks and other devices via wireless communications. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol including, but not limited to: global system for mobile communications (Global System of Mobile communication, GSM), general packet radio service (General Packet Radio Service, GPRS), code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), wideband code division multiple access (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA), long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE), email, short message service (Short Messaging Service, SMS), and the like.
In fig. 1, audio circuitry, speakers, and a microphone may provide an audio interface between a user and electronic device 100. The audio circuit can transmit the received electric signal after the audio data conversion to a loudspeaker, and the loudspeaker converts the electric signal into a sound signal to be output; on the other hand, the microphone converts the collected sound signal into an electrical signal, and the electrical signal is received by the audio circuit and then converted into audio data, and the audio data is output to the RF circuit to be transmitted to other terminal devices, such as: the handset, or outputs the audio data to memory 101 for further processing.
The electronic device 100 also includes a power source (e.g., a battery) that powers the various components, optionally, the power source may be logically connected to the processor 102 through a power management system, thereby performing functions of managing charge, discharge, and power consumption through the power management system.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the internal structure of the terminal device shown in fig. 1 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal device, and may include more or less components than illustrated, or may combine certain components, or may be arranged in different components.
Embodiments of the present application will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The embodiment of the application provides a method for adjusting a visual angle, and in combination with the embodiment in fig. 3, the method includes:
in step 301, a touch screen of an electronic device receives a touch operation of a user, where the touch operation is used to request adjustment of a visual angle of the touch screen.
The touch operation may be a sliding operation for adjusting the visual angle control, or a clicking operation. For example, as shown in fig. 4, a visual angle adjustment control is provided in the setting of the mobile phone operating system, and when the user drags or slides the progress block, the adjustment of the visual angle can be triggered.
In other possible embodiments, the above touch operation may be replaced by a voice command or other operations, which are not listed in the embodiments of the present application.
In step 302, in response to the touch operation, the processor of the electronic device adjusts the polarization direction of the polarization film group in the touch screen.
Specifically, a processor of the electronic device adjusts the polarization direction of the polarization film group by adjusting the voltage of a circuit module connected to the polarization film group in the touch screen. Illustratively, as the voltage increases, the number of polarizing films in the polarizing film group having the same polarization direction as the first direction decreases, and the viewing angle increases; when the voltage decreases, the number of polarizing films having the same polarization direction as the first direction in the polarizing film group increases, and the viewing angle becomes smaller.
The first direction refers to a line of sight direction within a normal visual field of a user of the electronic device. Illustratively, as shown in fig. 5A, when the user of the mobile phone holds the mobile phone normally, the line of sight direction of the user is a first direction, and the second direction and the third direction shown in fig. 5A are other line of sight directions different from the first direction. As shown in fig. 5B, assuming that the polarizing film group in the display screen of the electronic device includes three layers of polarizing films, the polarization direction of the first layer of polarizing film a is preset to be the first direction, the polarization direction of the second layer of polarizing film B is preset to be the second direction, and the polarization direction of the third layer of polarizing film c is the third direction, when the user reduces the screen visibility, the polarization direction of the second layer of polarizing film B can be made to be the first direction by adjusting the voltage value.
Thus, in one possible embodiment, when step 301 requests an increase in the viewing angle, the processor control voltage of the electronic device is increased so that the number of polarizing films in the polarizing film set having the same polarization direction as the first direction is reduced to achieve that the viewing angle is increased; when step 301 requests a decrease in the viewing angle, the processor control voltage of the electronic device is decreased, so that the number of polarizing films in the polarizing film set having the same polarization direction as the first direction is increased, to achieve that the viewing angle is decreased.
In one possible embodiment, when the touch operation is used to request adjustment of the visual angle of the touch screen to the maximum value, the voltage value is zero, that is, the polarization function of the electronic device is in the off state; when the touch operation is used for requesting to adjust the visual angle of the touch screen to the minimum value, the voltage value is the maximum value, that is, the polarization function of the electronic device is in an on state. In other words, the user can achieve the purpose of turning on or off the polarization function by adjusting the visual angle to be a value.
As shown in fig. 6, it is assumed that the mobile phone in the figure is integrated with the above-mentioned visibility angle adjusting function, and when the mobile phone is set to a higher visibility angle, or the privacy protecting function of the screen is not started, the peeper can clearly view the content on the display screen of the user from other directions, as shown in fig. 6A; when the mobile phone is set with a medium visual angle, the peeper can barely check the content on the display screen of the user from other directions, as shown in fig. 6B; when the cell phone is set at a low visual angle, the peeper cannot view the content on the user display screen from other directions, as shown in fig. 6C.
From the above, the embodiment of the application uses the characteristics of the polarizing film, that is, natural light can be converted into polarized light through the polarizing film, so that the visual angle of light can be adjusted by using the polarizing films corresponding to different polarization directions. Compared with the prior art, the polarizing film in the embodiment of the application is built in the screen, can be a combination of one or more polarizing films, is an active design, is not a passive remedy measure stuck on the screen, and the polarizing characteristics of the polarizing films can be controlled through electric signals to realize the effects of opening and closing or different-sized view angles.
Based on the above method for adjusting the visibility angle of the terminal device, the embodiment of the application also provides an electronic device, which can be used to execute the method for adjusting the visibility angle of the terminal device shown in fig. 3. As shown in fig. 7, the terminal device 700 includes a processor 701 and a display 702.
The display 702 is configured to receive a touch operation from a user, where the touch operation is used to request adjustment of a visual angle of the touch screen.
The processor 701 is configured to obtain a touch event corresponding to the touch operation from the display screen, and adjust a polarization direction of a polarization film group in the touch screen in response to the touch operation; when the touch operation is used for requesting to increase the visual angle, the number of polarizing films with the same polarizing direction as the first direction in the polarizing film group is reduced; when the touch operation is used for requesting to reduce the visual angle, the number of polarizing films with the same polarizing direction as the first direction in the polarizing film group is increased.
In a possible embodiment, the electronic device determines a voltage value corresponding to the adjusted visibility angle according to the touch operation request; and adjusting the voltage of the electric signal connected with the polarizing film group to the voltage value so as to adjust the polarization direction of the polarizing film group in the touch screen.
In a possible embodiment, when the touch operation is used for requesting to adjust the visual angle of the touch screen to a maximum value, the voltage value is zero, and the polarization function of the electronic device is in a closed state; when the touch operation is used for requesting to adjust the visual angle of the touch screen to the minimum value, the voltage value is the maximum value, and the polarization function of the electronic equipment is in an on state.
In one possible embodiment, the touch screen includes a glass panel, a polarizing film set including at least one polarizing film, a touch panel, and a display panel, the polarizing film set being located at a lower layer of the glass panel and at an upper layer of the touch panel.
In one possible embodiment, the set of polarizing films has linear polarization characteristics, and different polarizing films of the set of polarizing films are preset to different polarization directions.
In one possible embodiment, the touch operation is used to adjust a sliding operation or a clicking operation of the visual angle control.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the embodiments of the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the embodiments of the present application fall within the scope of the claims and the equivalents thereof, the present application is intended to encompass such modifications and variations.