CN111124235B

CN111124235B - Screen control method and flexible electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111124235B
Application number: CN201911424866.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐桃
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-31
Filing date: 2019-12-31
Publication date: 2021-06-29
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-31
Also published as: CN111124235A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a screen control method and flexible electronic equipment, relates to the technical field of communication, and aims to solve the problem that the control of the electronic equipment is not flexible enough. The method is applied to the flexible electronic equipment and comprises the following steps: receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of a flexible electronic device; and bending a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to the first sliding input, wherein the first target screen area is a screen area determined based on the input parameters of the first sliding input.

Description

Screen control method and flexible electronic equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a screen control method and flexible electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, the screen size of electronic devices is becoming larger for better viewing.

Currently, a user may be used to hold a certain area of the electronic device (e.g., the middle lower portion of the electronic device) during the use of the electronic device. When the screen size of the electronic device is large, if the user needs to operate a screen area far from the holding position of the user, the user needs to adjust the operation gesture, change the holding position, or change from one-handed operation to two-handed operation.

However, if the user holds the electronic device with one hand, the user cannot operate the electronic device to a screen area far away from the holding position when the user cannot adjust the gesture, which causes inconvenience in operation of the electronic device when the user holds the electronic device with one hand.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a screen control method and flexible electronic equipment, which can solve the problem of inconvenient operation of the electronic equipment under the condition of holding by one hand.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the embodiment of the present invention is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a screen control method, where the method is applied to a flexible electronic device, and the method includes: receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of a flexible electronic device; bending a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to a first sliding input; wherein the first target screen region is a screen region determined based on the input parameter of the first sliding input.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a flexible electronic device, where the flexible electronic device includes: the device comprises a receiving module and a control module; the receiving module is used for receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic equipment; the control module is used for responding to the first sliding input received by the receiving module and bending the first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment; wherein the first target screen region is a screen region determined based on the input parameter of the first sliding input.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a flexible electronic device, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the screen control method according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the screen control method according to the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the invention, the flexible electronic device can be applied to a scene that a user needs to operate a screen area far away from the user in one-handed operation, the flexible electronic device can receive a first sliding input of the user on the screen of the flexible electronic device, and the flexible electronic device can respond to the first sliding input of the user to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device. During the use of the flexible electronic device by the user, if the content displayed in the first target screen area, when the operation position is far away from the operation range of the user, the flexible electronic device can control the flexible electronic device to bend the first target screen area according to the first sliding input of the user on the screen, the first target screen area can be bent to the range which can be operated by the user, so that the operation of the user is convenient, especially under the condition of single-hand operation of the user, if the user is inconvenient to adjust the operation gesture and the operation position, or the flexible electronic device is not convenient to adjust to be operated by two hands (such as squeezing a subway, squeezing a bus, etc.), the user can control the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device to bend through sliding input on the screen, the mode for controlling the flexible electronic device is more flexible, the flexible electronic equipment is convenient to operate to a screen area far away from a user under the scene that the user operates the flexible electronic equipment with one hand.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a possible operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is one of schematic screen area bending diagrams of a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flexible screen area of a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram illustrating bending of a screen area in a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a third schematic diagram illustrating bending of a screen area in a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a fourth schematic diagram illustrating bending of a screen area in the screen control method according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a display interface of a flexible electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a fifth schematic view illustrating bending of a screen region of a flexible electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a flexible electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a hardware schematic diagram of a flexible electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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.

It should be noted that "/" in this context means "or", for example, A/B may mean A or B; "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, and means that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. "plurality" means two or more than two.

The terms "first" and "second," and the like, in the description and in the claims of the present invention are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order of the objects. For example, the first screen region and the second screen region, etc. are for distinguishing different screen regions, rather than for describing a particular order of screen regions.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to indicate examples, illustrations or explanations. Any embodiment or design described as "exemplary" or "e.g.," an embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

The flexible electronic device in the embodiment of the present invention may be a flexible electronic device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present invention are not limited in particular.

The following describes a software environment to which the screen control method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is applied, by taking the operating system shown in fig. 1 as an example.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a possible operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 1, the architecture of the operating system includes 4 layers, respectively: an application layer, an application framework layer, a system runtime layer, and a kernel layer (specifically, a Linux kernel layer).

The application layer comprises various application programs (including system application programs and third-party application programs) in an operating system.

The application framework layer is a framework of the application, and a developer can develop some applications based on the application framework layer under the condition of complying with the development principle of the framework of the application.

The system runtime layer includes a library (also referred to as a system library) and an operating system runtime environment. The library mainly provides various resources required by the operating system. The operating system runtime environment is used to provide a software environment for the operating system.

The kernel layer is the operating system layer of the operating system and belongs to the lowest layer of the operating system software layer. The kernel layer provides kernel system services and hardware-related drivers for the operating system based on the Linux kernel.

Taking the operating system shown in fig. 1 as an example, in the embodiment of the present invention, a developer may develop a software program for implementing the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention based on the system architecture of the operating system shown in fig. 1, so that the screen control method may run based on the operating system shown in fig. 1. That is, the processor or the flexible electronic device may implement the screen control method provided by the embodiment of the present invention by running the software program in the operating system.

The screen control method according to the embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a screen control method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, the screen control method may include the following steps 201 and 202:

step 201, the flexible electronic device receives a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device.

In embodiments of the present invention, the screen of the flexible electronic device may be curved, the screen may be folded, and the like.

Optionally, the flexible electronic device may be a flexible electronic device of which a portion of the screen may be bent or folded, or may also be a flexible electronic device of which the entire machine may be bent or folded, that is, the bendable screen area in the flexible electronic device may include all screen areas in the entire machine, or may also include a portion of the screen area, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

For example, the first sliding input may be an input that the user slides in a certain direction on the screen, and the first sliding input may also be an input that the user slides a preset distance in a certain direction on the screen.

Step 202, the flexible electronic device responds to the first sliding input, and bends a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device.

Wherein the first target screen area may be a screen area determined by the flexible electronic device based on the input parameters of the first sliding input.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the first target screen area may be related to an input parameter of the first sliding input, or may not be related to a parameter of the first sliding input, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the first target screen region may be one screen region, and may also include a plurality of screen regions, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention, in the case where the first target screen region is related to the first slide input, the flexible electronic device may determine the first target screen region according to the slide direction of the first slide input, or the slide direction and the slide distance.

It should be noted that, in the case that the first target screen region is related to the first sliding input, the specific number of screen regions included in the first target screen region may be related to the input parameter of the first sliding input.

In the embodiment of the invention, the bending of the screen region of the flexible electronic device can be screen bending, folding, bending and folding.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the first target screen area determined according to different bending manners includes different screen ranges.

Exemplarily, in conjunction with fig. 3 (a), the bending manner shown in fig. 3 (b) is a bending manner 1, and the bending manner shown in fig. 3 (c) is a bending manner 2. In the case of bending in the bending manner 1, the flexible electronic device is bent from the position of L1, and the first target screen area may be the screen area 30, and in the case of bending in the bending manner 2, the flexible electronic device is bent once at the position of L1 and once at the position of L2, and the first target screen area may include the screen area 30 and the screen area between L1 and L2. After the first target screen area is bent, the projection position of L1 on the screen can be any position from L2 to L3, when the screen area between L1 and L2 is perpendicular to the screen area below L2, the projection of L1 on the screen is L2, and when the screen area between L1 and L2 is completely attached to the screen area below L2, the projection of L1 on the screen is L3.

It should be noted that, in the above bending manner 2, a specific value of the screen height H between the straight lines L1 and L2 may be preset in the flexible electronic device, or may be set according to a selection of a user, and this is not particularly limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

It should be noted that, taking the first target screen area as one screen area as an example, the shape of the first target screen area may be a quadrilateral, such as a rectangle or a right trapezoid, and the shape of the first target screen area may also be a right triangle, an isosceles right triangle, or a non-isosceles right triangle.

For example, fig. 4 is a schematic view of a bendable screen area provided in an embodiment of the present invention. Take the edge area of the screen of the flexible electronic device as the bendable screen area as an example. As shown in fig. 4 (a), the screen area in which the flexible electronic device can be bent includes a screen area 31 and a screen area 32; as shown in fig. 4 (b), the region where the flexible electronic device can be bent may include a screen region 33 and a screen region 34; as shown in (c) of fig. 4, the regions in which the flexible electronic device can be bent may include a screen region 35, a screen region 36, a screen region 37, and a screen region 38. The first target screen region may be at least one of the screen region 31, the screen region 32, the screen region 33, the screen region 34, the screen region 35, the screen region 36, the screen region 37, and the screen region 38 described above.

It should be noted that, the bendable screen area is merely illustrated for convenience of understanding, and in practical applications, the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device may be one screen area or a plurality of screen areas. For example, the area may be a screen area of the flexible electronic device near the top end, a screen area of the flexible electronic device near the bottom end, a screen area near the left side of the flexible electronic device, a screen area near the right side of the flexible electronic device, or a triangular area near four vertices of the flexible electronic device, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene that a user needs to operate a screen area far away from the user in one-hand operation, the flexible electronic device can receive a first sliding input of the user on the screen of the flexible electronic device, and the flexible electronic device can respond to the first sliding input of the user to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device. During the use of the flexible electronic device by the user, if the content displayed in the first target screen area, when the operation position is far away from the operation range of the user, the flexible electronic device can control the flexible electronic device to bend the first target screen area according to the first sliding input of the user on the screen, the first target screen area can be bent to the range which can be operated by the user, so that the operation of the user is convenient, especially under the condition of single-hand operation of the user, if the user is inconvenient to adjust the operation gesture and the operation position, or the flexible electronic device is not convenient to adjust to be operated by two hands (such as squeezing a subway, squeezing a bus, etc.), the user can control the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device to bend through sliding input on the screen, the mode for controlling the flexible electronic device is more flexible, the flexible electronic equipment is convenient to operate to a screen area far away from a user under the scene that the user operates the flexible electronic equipment with one hand.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first target screen region includes a first screen region for displaying the target information.

The target information may be a message, may be a control, and the like.

It should be noted that the first screen area is a screen area that is not covered by areas of other screens in the first target screen area after the first target screen area is bent. If the bending position can ignore the width, the first screen area is a first target screen area, and if the bending position has a certain width, the first screen area can be a partial area in the first target screen area.

Illustratively, in conjunction with the bending manner shown in fig. 3 (b), bending is performed at L1, where the first screen region is a first target screen region, i.e., the screen region 30 shown in fig. 3 (b), and in conjunction with the bending manner shown in fig. 3 (c), bending is performed at both L1 and L2, where the first target screen region includes a first screen region, which may be a partial screen region in the first target screen region (the screen region 30 and the screen region between L1 and L2), i.e., the screen region 30 shown in fig. 3 (c).

Furthermore, the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention, before the step 202, may further include the following steps 203 to 206:

step 203, the flexible electronic device obtains input parameters of the first sliding input.

Wherein the input parameters of the first sliding input comprise at least one of: input position, slide direction.

And step 204, the flexible electronic equipment determines the position of the target screen based on the input parameters.

It will be appreciated that the target screen location is the location of the first target screen region.

Optionally, the first screen position may have a mapping relationship with the sliding direction, and the mapping relationship may be preconfigured or may be user-defined, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, if the sliding direction of the first sliding input is the first direction, the target screen position may be a screen position facing away from the first direction; if the sliding direction of the first sliding input is the second direction, the target screen position may be a screen position facing away from the second direction; if the first slide input includes a first direction and a second direction, the target screen position may be a screen position facing away from the first direction and a screen position facing away from the second direction.

For example, in the case that the user operates the flexible electronic device with one hand, if the user holds the flexible electronic device with the left hand in a scene of the lower left area, the user can slide on the screen of the lower left area from top to bottom by using the thumb to control the top end of the flexible electronic device to bend; a user holds the flexible electronic equipment by the left hand in a scene of an upper left area; the user can slide from top to bottom on the screen in the upper left area through the thumb to control the bottom end of the flexible electronic device to bend; if the user holds the middle area of the left side of the flexible electronic device with the left hand, the user can slide from top to bottom in the middle area, the top end of the flexible electronic device can be controlled to bend, and the bottom end of the flexible electronic device can be controlled to bend when the user slides from bottom to top in the middle area; the user can slide down with the index finger and slide up with the thumb in the middle area, and the bending of the top end and the bottom end of the flexible electronic device can be controlled. In a scene that the flexible electronic device is held by the left hand, a user can slide on the screen from right to left through the thumb, and the right area of the flexible electronic device can be controlled to bend.

It is understood that the above description is given by taking a single-handed holding of the flexible electronic device with a left hand as an example, and the scene of the single-handed holding with a right hand is similar.

Of course, the screen position facing the first direction may also be the first target screen position, and if the input position of the first sliding input is the first position, the screen position that is greater than the preset threshold from the input position of the first sliding input may also be the target screen position.

For example, taking the bending mode 2 as an example, with reference to (a) in fig. 5, if the first slide input is a user's slide input from top to bottom on the screen, the first target screen area may be the screen area 31, the flexible electronic device may bend the screen area 31, and the bent state may be the state shown in (b) in fig. 5. Referring to fig. 5 (c), if the first sliding input is a sliding input from left to right on the screen by the user, the first target screen area is the screen area 33, the flexible electronic device may bend the screen area 33, and the bent state may be the state shown in fig. 5 (d).

Illustratively, in conjunction with (a) of fig. 5, if the first input is a slide input within the area 301, the first target screen area may be the screen area 31, and in conjunction with (c) of fig. 5, if the first slide input is a slide input within the area 302, the first target screen area may be the screen area 33.

Step 205, the flexible electronic device determines a target display size of the first screen area.

Step 206, the flexible electronic device determines a first target screen area based on the target screen position and the target display size.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene that a user selects a bent screen area under the condition that the user needs to operate the content on the screen far away from the operation position, the flexible electronic device can acquire the input parameter of the first sliding input, then the target screen position is determined according to the input parameter of the first sliding input, the flexible electronic device can determine the target display size of the first screen area, and finally the first target screen area which can be bent by the first sliding input is determined based on the target screen position and the target display size.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the first sliding input includes N sliding sub-inputs of N fingers, where N is a positive integer; the first target screen region includes T target screen regions, T being a positive integer.

Further, in the screen control method according to the embodiment of the present invention, the step 204 may be specifically executed by the following steps 204a and 204 b:

and step 204a, the flexible electronic device acquires the sliding directions input by the N sliding sub-inputs.

It is to be understood that the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs may include N directions, and the N directions may include partially the same direction or may not include the same direction, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

For example, the first sliding input may be an input where the user's index finger and middle finger slide together from top to bottom, and the thumb slides from bottom to top. For example, the first sliding input is input in which five fingers of the user are all pointing to the palm of the hand sliding on the screen.

And step 204b, the flexible electronic device determines T target screen positions based on the sliding directions input by the N sliding sub-devices.

The N sliding sub-inputs comprise T different sliding directions, and the input parameters of the first sliding input comprise the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs.

For example, if the fingers slide toward each other, two screen areas may be included, where the two screen areas include areas facing away from each other. The three finger pinch slide input may include three screen regions including regions that face away from each pinch direction.

Exemplarily, in conjunction with fig. 6 (a), if the first sliding input is an input in which a user slides one finger from top to bottom and slides the other finger from bottom to top on the screen, the first target screen area is the screen area 31 and the screen area 32, the flexible electronic device may bend the screen area 31 downward and bend the screen area 32 upward, and the bent state may be the state shown in fig. 6 (b). With reference to (c) in fig. 6, if the first sliding input is a user sliding one finger on the screen from left to right and another finger sliding from right to left, the first target screen area is the screen area 33 and the screen area 34, the flexible electronic device may bend the screen area 33 to right and bend the screen area 34 to left, and the bent state may be the state shown in (d) in fig. 6.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the scene of selecting to bend a plurality of screen areas under the condition that the bending of the plurality of screen areas can be controlled, the flexible electronic equipment can acquire N sliding sub-inputs which can be input by N fingers of a user, and then the T target screen positions are determined based on T different sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs. And then, determining T screen areas according to the T target screen positions, and after determining the screen areas, controlling the flexible electronic equipment to bend the T screen areas, so that when a user needs to control the bending of a plurality of screen areas, the user can flexibly select and control which screen areas are bent according to the input sliding direction, and the control mode is flexible.

Optionally, in the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention, the step 204 may be specifically executed by the following steps 204c and 204 d:

and step 204c, the flexible electronic device acquires the input position of the first sliding input.

And step 204d, the flexible electronic device determines the target screen position based on the input position of the first sliding input.

It should be noted that there is a position mapping relationship between the input position of the first sliding input and the target screen position, and the position mapping relationship may be a default in the flexible electronic device or may be customized by the user, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Alternatively, a mapping relationship between the first slide input position and the second slide input position may be stored, or a mapping relationship between the input position and a screen region whose distance from the input position is greater than or equal to a threshold value and which is a target screen region may be stored.

Alternatively, the first target screen region may be located at an upper position of the screen if the input position of the first slide input is located at a lower region of the screen, the first target screen region may be located at a lower position of the screen if the input position of the first slide input is located at an upper region of the screen, and the first target screen region may be located at a right region of the screen if the input position of the first slide input is located at a left region of the screen.

For example, in a scene where the user holds the flexible electronic device with one hand in the right hand, if the user slides in the screen area near the bottom end, the target screen position may be determined to be the screen area at the top end of the screen, if the user slides in the screen area near the top end, the target screen position may be determined to be the screen area at the bottom end of the screen, and if the user slides in the screen area near the middle of the right side, the target screen position may be determined to be the screen area on the left side.

It is understood that the above example is only described by taking a right-handed single-handed holding as an example, and the scene of the left-handed single-handed holding is similar.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene that a user determines which part of the screen area is bent under the condition that the user operates the flexible electronic device with one hand, the flexible electronic device can acquire the input position of the first sliding input, and determine the target screen position based on the input position of the first sliding input, for example, the screen position where the distance of the input position of the first sliding input is greater than the threshold value can be determined as the target screen position where the first target screen area is located, so that the user can conveniently select and control a farther screen area to bend in the operable screen area.

Optionally, in the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention, the step 205 may be specifically executed by the following step 205a, step 205b, or step 205 c:

step 205a, the flexible electronic device determines a preset display size as a target display size of the first screen area.

For example, in the case that the first screen region is a rectangular region, the length of the first side of the first screen region is equal to the height or width of the screen, and the second side may be a first preset length.

The first preset length may be a default value in the flexible electronic device or a value set by a user, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention

Illustratively, in conjunction with (b) of fig. 7, the length of the screen region 31 may be the width of the screen, and the width of the screen region 31 is 2 cm. In connection with (d) of fig. 7, the length of the screen area 33 may be the height of the screen, and the width of the screen area 33 is 2 cm. In conjunction with (c) of fig. 4, the size of the screen area 35 may also be a predetermined size, for example, the screen area 35 is an isosceles right triangle, and the length of the right-angle side is 1/2 screen top length, or 1/4 screen top length.

Illustratively, if the size of the first target screen region is a preset display size, for example, 2cm from the edge of the screen. In the case that the target control is located at the top of the screen, the first target screen area selected by the user may be the screen area 31, and the width of the screen area 31 is 2 cm; under the condition that the target control is positioned at the bottom end of the screen, the first target screen area selected by the user is a screen area 32, and the width of the screen area 32 is 2 cm; under the condition that the target control is positioned on the left side of the screen, the first target screen area selected by the user is a screen area 33 on the left side, and the width of the screen area 33 is 2 cm; with the target control located on the right side of the screen, the first target screen area selected by the user is the screen area 34 on the right side, and the width of the screen area 34 is 2 cm. At this time, if the size of the target control is larger, the flexible electronic device may reduce the display size of the target control.

Step 205b, the flexible electronic device determines a target display size of the first screen area based on a display size of a target object, where the target object is an object displayed in the target area, and the target area is an area including a preset range of the target screen position.

Illustratively, the preset scope may be a screen scope for displaying a control on a screen.

Illustratively, in conjunction with (a) of fig. 7, the length of the screen region 31 may be a width of the screen, and the width of the screen region 31 is associated with a size of a button with the largest size among the buttons 1, 2, and 3. The higher the largest sized button, the wider the screen area 32. The lower the button of the largest size, the narrower the screen area 32. In connection with (c) of fig. 7, the length of the screen region 33 may be the height of the screen, and the width of the second side of the screen region 33 is related to the size of the largest button among the

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4, 5, and 6. The wider the button of the largest size, the wider the area 32. The narrower the button of the largest size, the narrower the screen area 32.

If the size of the first target screen region is variable, that is, if the length of one side of the region is related to the size of the control, after the position of the first target screen region is determined, the size of the first target screen region is adaptively adjusted according to the size of the target control, for example, the target control is a button 1, a button 2, and a button 3 shown in (a) in fig. 5, assuming that the heights of the 3 buttons are all 1cm, the height of the screen region 31 may be 1cm, and assuming that the heights of the 3 buttons are all 1.5cm, the height of the screen region 31 may be 1.5 cm.

Step 205c, the flexible electronic device determines a target display size of the first screen area based on the sliding distance of the first sliding input.

Taking the screen area 35 as an example and referring to fig. 4 (c), the two right-angled sides of the screen area 35 are a part of the left side of the screen and a part of the top side of the screen, respectively, the hypotenuse of the screen area 35 intersects with the two right angles, the size of the screen area 35 may be related to the sliding distance of the first sliding input, the longer the hypotenuse of the screen area 35, and the shorter the sliding distance of the first sliding input, the shorter the hypotenuse of the screen area 35.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to how to determine the size of the first screen area for displaying the target content in the bent first screen area under the condition that a user holds the electronic device with one hand, the flexible electronic device can determine the target display size of the first screen area according to the preset display size, and also can determine the target display size of the first screen area based on the display size of the target object, for example, the target display size of the first screen area is determined based on the display size of the operation control, and the target display size of the first screen area can be determined according to the sliding distance of the first sliding input.

Optionally, the first target screen region further comprises a second screen region; further, after the step 201, the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following step 207a or step 207 b:

step 207a, the flexible electronic device keeps displaying all display contents in the first screen area, and displays all display contents in the second screen area to the third screen area.

And the third screen area is a screen area except the first screen area and the second screen area in the screen.

That is, the content in the first target screen area remains displayed and can be updated with time, and the display size of other content is adjusted to fit the size display of the third screen area.

Illustratively, in conjunction with (c) in fig. 3, the first screen region is the screen region 30, the second screen region may be the screen region between L1 and L2, and the flexible electronic device may maintain the display of all the display content in the screen region 30, displaying the content of the screen region between L1 and L2 in the screen region below L3.

Step 207b, the flexible electronic device maintains the display of the first display content in the first screen area, and displays the second display content in the first screen area and all the display content in the second screen area to the third screen area.

The second display content is all the display contents except the first display content in the first screen area.

That is, the flexible electronic device may display the target control in the first target screen region separately for the user to operate conveniently, display other contents in the screen except the target control in the third screen region, and display a background picture or the like in the third screen region in a size suitable for the third screen region.

Illustratively, in conjunction with (b) in fig. 5, the flexible electronic device may hold button 1, button 2, and button 3 in the screen region 31, displaying other display content in the screen region 31 and content in the screen region between L1 and L2 in the screen region below L3.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene in which a user updates a display mode after controlling the first target screen area to be bent, and under the condition that the flexible electronic equipment can keep the display of all the display contents in the first screen area and display all the display contents in the second screen area to the third screen area, the electronic equipment can display the contents of the screen area which cannot be displayed in the user visual field in the third area which can be seen by the user, so that the user can conveniently browse all the contents displayed by the screen. If the flexible electronic device keeps displaying the first display content in the first screen area and displays the second display content in the first screen area and all the display contents in the second screen area to the third screen area, for example, only the button in the first screen area can be kept displaying, and other contents are all adapted to be displayed in the third screen area, so that the display mode is flexible.

Optionally, after step 201, the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following step 208 and step 209:

step 208, the flexible electronic device receives the first message.

Illustratively, the first message may be any message received by the electronic device with an original display position at the first screen position.

Step 209, the flexible electronic device displays the first message in the first screen area.

For example, in the case that the first target screen region includes the top end region of the flexible electronic device, in conjunction with the form of the flexible electronic device shown in (b) in fig. 6, if the flexible electronic device receives a new message, as shown in (a) in fig. 8, the flexible electronic device may display "you have 1 new message" in the screen region 31. Of course, as shown in (b) of fig. 8, the flexible electronic device may also display "you have 1 new message" at the top of the screen area that is not folded by the screen area 31. If the user clicks "you have 1 new message", the flexible electronic device may also display a detailed presentation of the message and "restore" and "close" buttons in the screen area not folded by the screen area 31, as shown in fig. 8 (c).

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene that the flexible electronic equipment receives the message after controlling the first target screen area to be bent, and the flexible electronic equipment displays the first message in the first screen area after the flexible electronic equipment receives the first message, so that a user can quickly check the first message in the first screen area, or the user can conveniently operate the first message in the first screen area.

Optionally, the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction, and the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include, after step 202, the following step 210 and step 211:

step 210, the flexible electronic device receives a second sliding input of the user in a second direction on the screen.

Step 211, the flexible electronic device responds to the second sliding input, and bends a second target screen area of the flexible electronic device.

The first target screen area is a screen area at a first screen position, and the second target screen area is a screen area at a second screen position; the first screen position is a screen position corresponding to the first direction, and the second screen position is a screen position corresponding to the second direction.

Illustratively, in connection with fig. 5, assuming that the first slide input is an input by the user sliding down on the screen from top to bottom, the second target screen region may be screen region 32, if the second slide input is an input sliding down to top, the second target screen region may be screen region 32, in connection with fig. 4, if the first slide input is an input sliding from the bottom left corner to the top right corner, the second target screen region may be screen region 37, if the second slide input is an input sliding from the bottom right corner to the top left corner, the second target screen region may be screen region 36.

For example, if the first target screen area is a screen area (e.g., screen area 32) at the bottom end of the flexible electronic device, as shown in (a) of fig. 9, in the case where the flexible electronic device receives a new notification message, the user may slide down on the screen, and then as shown in (b) of fig. 9, the flexible electronic device may bend the screen area 39 and display a message detail display, "reply" button, and "close" button of the new message in the area 39.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the scene that the user needs to continuously bend more screen areas after the first target screen area is controlled to bend, in the case where the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction, the flexible electronic device already has a screen area bend, and if the user needs to increase the bent screen area, for example, if the flexible electronic device is in a bent state or has an area that cannot be operated by the user, the user may continue to slide the flexible electronic device on the screen to input a second slide input sliding in a second direction, so as to control the flexible electronic device to bend the screen region corresponding to the second direction, so that the second target screen region is closer to the operation range of the user, therefore, the mode of controlling the flexible electronic equipment by the user is more flexible, and the screen of the flexible electronic equipment is more flexible to operate.

Optionally, the first target screen region comprises at least two screen regions; further, after the step 202, the screen control method according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 212 to 214:

step 212, the flexible electronic device receives a third sliding input of the user on the screen, where the third sliding input includes T sliding sub-inputs of T fingers, and T is a positive integer.

And step 213, the flexible electronic device determines the screen area to be expanded based on the sliding directions input by the T sliding sub.

If the sliding directions of the T sliding sub inputs are the same, the screen area corresponding to the direction is determined as the screen area to be expanded, and if the sliding directions of the T sliding sub inputs include a plurality of sliding directions, for example, two directions, the screen areas corresponding to the two directions respectively may be determined as the screen area to be expanded.

And step 214, the flexible electronic device controls the screen area to be unfolded to be bent to an unfolded state.

Illustratively, the two screen regions included in the first target screen region may be two opposite regions, such as region 31 and region 32, region 33 and region 34, region 35 and region 36, region 35 and region 37, and region 35 and region 38 in fig. 3.

Exemplarily, assuming that the user slides rightward on the screen shown in (d) in fig. 6, the flexible electronic device may restore the state of the screen area 34 shown in (d) in fig. 6 to the state of the screen area 34 shown in (c) in fig. 6, maintaining the state of the screen area 33 shown in (d) in fig. 6; assuming that the user slides leftward on the screen shown in (d) in fig. 6, the flexible electronic device may restore the state of the screen region 33 shown in (d) in fig. 6 to the state of the screen region 33 shown in (c) in fig. 6, maintaining the state of the screen region 34 shown in (d) in fig. 6. Assuming that the user slides both fingers to both sides (i.e., one finger to the left and one finger to the right) on the screen shown in (d) of fig. 6, the flexible electronic device may restore the state of the screen region 34 shown in (d) of fig. 6 to the state of the screen region 34 shown in (c) of fig. 6, and restore the state of the screen region 33 shown in (d) of fig. 6 to the state of the screen region 33 shown in (c) of fig. 6.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the fourth input may be used to control the screen area to be unfolded to be folded to the unfolded state, where the fourth input is a sliding input on the screen of the flexible electronic device, and a pressing input on the screen, or an input on a physical key by a user, may also be used to control the screen area to be unfolded to be folded to the unfolded state.

Optionally, the fourth input may be one input, and may also include a plurality of sub-inputs.

Specifically, in the case that the fourth input is an input, the fourth input may be an input that a user presses one key on a physical key to trigger the flexible electronic device to control the bending region of the flexible electronic device to return to the unfolded state, or the fourth input may also be a preset input on the screen by the user, for example, an input in a specific region, for example, an input of long pressing or heavy pressing in the central region of the screen. In a case that the fourth input includes a plurality of sub-inputs, a first sub-input of the fourth input may be used to trigger the flexible electronic device to start a function of restoring the expanded configuration, and a second sub-input of the fourth input may be used to trigger the flexible electronic device to select a screen area to be restored to the expanded configuration.

Illustratively, after the user performs the corresponding operation in the bending area, the user may trigger the flexible electronic device to issue an instruction to restore the bending area to the unfolded state by pressing heavily or pressing for a long time in a specific area in the screen, and the processor (or system) of the flexible electronic device controls the flexible electronic device to unfold the folding area to restore the original state according to the instruction triggered by the user.

The screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a scene of controlling the screen area to be unfolded to be bent to the unfolded state under the condition that the bent screen area comprises the screen areas at a plurality of positions, a user can adopt different sliding to control one or two screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state according to needs, if the user needs one of the screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state, the user can slide towards the one screen area, if the user needs the two screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state, the user can simultaneously slide towards the two screen areas, the control modes are various, and the user can more flexibly control the flexible electronic equipment.

Optionally, before step 201, the screen control method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 215 and 216:

step 215, the flexible electronic device receives a fourth input from the user.

The fourth input may be an input of a user in a specific area of the screen, and the fourth input may also be an input of a user on a physical key, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Step 216, responding to the fourth input, determining that the area displayed by the target control in the screen is the first target screen area, and outputting first prompt information.

The first prompt message is used for prompting that the first target screen area can be bent.

For example, the first prompt message may be an effect of visually highlighting the first target screen area, shaking a target button, and the like, so as to prompt the user that the first target screen area is an area that can be currently bent.

It can be understood that the screen position where the target control is located is the screen position corresponding to the first target screen area.

It can be understood that the first target screen region of the first prompt information prompt may be one screen region, or may include multiple screen regions, which are determined according to the region displayed by the target control.

According to the screen control method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the flexible electronic device can firstly determine the area displayed by the target control in the screen as the first target screen area by receiving the second input of the user, then output the first prompt information to prompt the user which areas can be bent, the user can determine the first target screen area needing to be bent through the first sliding input, and then the flexible electronic device bends the first target screen area selected by the user.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a possible structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 10, a flexible electronic device 400 includes: a receiving module 401 and a control module 402; a receiving module 401, configured to receive a first sliding input of a user on a screen of a flexible electronic device; a control module 402, configured to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to the first sliding input received by the receiving module 401; wherein the first target screen region is a screen region determined based on the input parameter of the first sliding input.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein when the electronic equipment is operated by a single hand, under the scene that a user needs to operate a screen area far away from the user, the flexible electronic equipment can receive a first sliding input of the user on a screen of the flexible electronic equipment, and the flexible electronic equipment can respond to the first sliding input of the user to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment. During the use of the flexible electronic device by the user, if the content displayed in the first target screen area, when the operation position is far away from the operation range of the user, the flexible electronic device can control the flexible electronic device to bend the first target screen area according to the first sliding input of the user on the screen, the first target screen area can be bent to the range which can be operated by the user, so that the operation of the user is convenient, especially under the condition of single-hand operation of the user, if the user is inconvenient to adjust the operation gesture and the operation position, or the flexible electronic device is not convenient to adjust to be operated by two hands (such as squeezing a subway, squeezing a bus, etc.), the user can control the target screen area of the flexible electronic device to bend through sliding input on the screen, the mode for controlling the flexible electronic device is more flexible, the flexible electronic equipment is convenient to operate to a screen area far away from a user under the scene that the user operates the flexible electronic equipment with one hand.

Optionally, the first target screen region includes a first screen region, and the first screen region is used for displaying the target information; the flexible electronic device further comprises: the device comprises an acquisition module and a first determination module; the acquisition module is used for acquiring input parameters of first sliding input before the control module bends a first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment; the first determining module is used for determining the screen position based on the input parameters acquired by the acquiring module; determining a target display size of a first screen area; determining a first target screen area based on the screen position and the target display size; wherein the input parameters include at least one of: input position, slide direction.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein in a scene of selecting a bent screen area under the condition that a user needs to operate content on a screen far away from an operation position, flexible electronic equipment can obtain input parameters of first sliding input, then the position of a target screen is determined according to the input parameters of the first sliding input, the flexible electronic equipment can determine the target display size of the first screen area, and finally the first target screen area which can be bent under the control of the first sliding input is determined based on the target screen position and the target display size.

Optionally, the first sliding input includes N sliding sub-inputs of N fingers, where N is a positive integer; the first target screen area comprises T screen areas, wherein T is a positive integer; the determination module is specifically configured to: acquiring sliding directions input by N sliding sub-inputs; determining T screen positions based on the sliding directions input by the N sliding sub-inputs; the N sliding sub-inputs comprise T different sliding directions, and the input parameters of the first sliding input comprise the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein in a scene of selecting to bend a plurality of screen areas under the condition that the bending of the plurality of screen areas can be controlled, flexible electronic equipment can acquire N sliding sub-inputs which can be input by N fingers of a user, and then T target screen positions are determined based on T different sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs. And then, determining T screen areas according to the T target screen positions, and after determining the screen areas, controlling the flexible electronic equipment to bend the T screen areas, so that when a user needs to control the bending of a plurality of screen areas, the user can flexibly select and control which screen areas are bent according to the input sliding direction, and the control mode is flexible.

Optionally, the first determining module is specifically configured to: acquiring an input position of a first sliding input; based on the input position, a screen position is determined.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein under the condition that a user holds the flexible electronic equipment by one hand, the user determines which part of a screen area is bent, the flexible electronic equipment can acquire an input position of a first sliding input, and determines a target screen position based on the input position of the first sliding input, for example, the screen position with the input position distance of the first sliding input being greater than a threshold value can be determined as the target screen position of the first target screen area, so that the user can conveniently select and control a farther screen area to bend in the screen area which can be operated.

Optionally, the first determining module is specifically configured to: determining a preset display size as a target display size of a first screen area; or determining a target display size of the first screen area based on a display size of a target object, wherein the target object is an object displayed in the target area, and the target area is an area including a preset range of screen positions; alternatively, the target display size of the first screen region is determined based on the sliding distance of the first sliding input.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein a user determines the size of a first screen area used for displaying target content in a bent first screen area under the condition that the user holds the flexible electronic equipment with one hand, the flexible electronic equipment can determine the target display size of the first screen area according to a preset display size, and also can determine the target display size of the first screen area based on the display size of a target object, for example, the target display size of the first screen area is determined based on the display size of an operation control, and the target display size of the first screen area can be determined according to a sliding distance of a first sliding input.

Optionally, the first target screen region further comprises a second screen region; the flexible electronic device further comprises: a first display module; the first display module is used for: after the receiving module receives a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device, maintaining the display of all display contents in the first screen area, and displaying all display contents in the second screen area to the third screen area; or after the receiving module receives a first sliding input of a user on the screen of the flexible electronic device, maintaining the display of the first display content in the first screen area, and displaying the second display content in the first screen area and all the display content in the second screen area to the third screen area; the third screen area is a screen area except the first screen area and the second screen area in the screen; the second display content is all display contents except the first display content in the first screen area.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein a user updates a scene of a display mode after controlling a first target screen area to be bent, and under the condition that flexible electronic equipment can keep display of all display contents in the first screen area and display all display contents in a second screen area to a third screen area, the electronic equipment can display the contents of the screen area which cannot be displayed in a user visual field in the third area which can be seen by the user, so that the user can conveniently browse all contents displayed by the screen. If the flexible electronic device keeps displaying the first display content in the first screen area and displays the second display content in the first screen area and all the display contents in the second screen area to the third screen area, for example, only the button in the first screen area can be kept displaying, and other contents are all adapted to be displayed in the third screen area, so that the display mode is flexible.

Optionally, the flexible electronic device further comprises a second display module; the receiving module is further used for receiving a first message after the control module bends the first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment; and the second display module is used for displaying the first message received by the receiving module in the first screen area.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein under the scene that flexible electronic equipment receives a message after controlling a first target screen area to be bent, and after the flexible electronic equipment receives the first message, the flexible electronic equipment displays the first message in the first screen area, so that a user can quickly check the first message in the first screen area, or the user can conveniently operate the first message in the first screen area.

Optionally, the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction; the receiving module is further used for receiving a second sliding input of a user in a second direction on the screen after the control module bends the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device; the control module is also used for responding to the second sliding input received by the receiving module and bending a second target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment; the first target screen area is a screen area at a first screen position, and the second target screen area is a screen area at a second screen position; the first screen position is a screen position corresponding to the first direction, and the second screen position is a screen position corresponding to the second direction.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic device, after a first target screen area has been controlled to be bent, a user needs to continue to bend a scene with more screen areas, in the case where the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction, the flexible electronic device already has a screen area bend, and if the user needs to increase the bent screen area, for example, if the flexible electronic device is in a bent state or has an area that cannot be operated by the user, the user may continue to slide the flexible electronic device on the screen to input a second slide input sliding in a second direction, so as to control the flexible electronic device to bend the screen region corresponding to the second direction, so that the second target screen region is closer to the operation range of the user, therefore, the mode of controlling the flexible electronic equipment by the user is more flexible, and the screen of the flexible electronic equipment is more flexible to operate.

Optionally, the first target screen region comprises a first screen region and a second screen region; the flexible electronic device further comprises: a second determination module; the receiving module is used for receiving a third sliding input of the user on the screen after the control module bends the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device, wherein the third sliding input comprises T sliding sub-inputs of T fingers, and T is a positive integer; the second determination module is used for determining a screen area to be expanded based on the sliding directions input by the T sliding sub-modules; and the control module is used for controlling the screen area to be unfolded determined by the second determining module to be bent to an unfolded state.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein under the condition that a bent screen area comprises screen areas at a plurality of positions, a scene that the screen area to be unfolded is bent to be in an unfolded state is controlled, a user can adopt different sliding to control one or two screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state according to needs, if the user needs one of the screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state, the user can slide towards the one screen area, if the user needs the two screen areas to be restored to the unfolded state, the user can slide towards the two screen areas at the same time, the control modes are various, and the user can control the flexible electronic equipment more flexibly.

The flexible electronic device 400 provided in the embodiment of the present invention can implement each process implemented by the flexible electronic device in the foregoing method embodiments, and for avoiding repetition, details are not described here.

The embodiment of the invention provides a flexible electronic device, which can receive a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device under the condition that the user needs to operate a screen area far away from the user in one-hand operation, and the flexible electronic device can respond to the first sliding input of the user to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device. During the use of the flexible electronic device by the user, if the content displayed in the first target screen area, when the operation position is far away from the operation range of the user, the flexible electronic device can control the flexible electronic device to bend the first target screen area according to the first sliding input of the user on the screen, the first target screen area can be bent to the range which can be operated by the user, so that the operation of the user is convenient, especially under the condition of single-hand operation of the user, if the user is inconvenient to adjust the operation gesture and the operation position, or the flexible electronic device is not convenient to adjust to be operated by two hands (such as squeezing a subway, squeezing a bus, etc.), the user can control the target screen area of the flexible electronic device to bend through sliding input on the screen, the mode for controlling the flexible electronic device is more flexible, the flexible electronic equipment is convenient to operate to a screen area far away from a user under the scene that the user operates the flexible electronic equipment with one hand.

Fig. 11 is a hardware schematic diagram of a flexible electronic device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the flexible electronic device 100 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 101, network module 102, audio output unit 103, input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the flexible electronic device structure shown in fig. 11 does not constitute a limitation of flexible electronic devices, which may include more or fewer components than those shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the flexible electronic device includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

Wherein the user input unit 107 is used for receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device; a processor 110, configured to bend a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to the first sliding input, where the first target screen area is a screen area determined based on input parameters of the first sliding input.

The flexible electronic device provided by the embodiment of the invention can realize each process realized by the flexible electronic device in the above method embodiments, and is not described again to avoid repetition.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 101 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message transmission or call process, and specifically, receive downlink data from a base station and then process the received downlink data to the processor 110; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio frequency unit 101 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 101 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The flexible electronic device provides wireless broadband internet access to the user through the network module 102, such as to assist the user in sending and receiving e-mail, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the flexible electronic device 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 104 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, and the Graphics processor 1041 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 frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102. The microphone 1042 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 101 in case of a phone call mode.

The flexible electronic device 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as light sensors, motion sensors, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the flexible electronic device 100 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), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the attitude of the flexible electronic device (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer attitude calibration), and vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer and tapping); the sensors 105 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 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 106 may include a Display panel 1061, and the Display panel 1061 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 107 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the flexible electronic device. Specifically, the user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. Touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 1071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near touch panel 1071 using a finger, stylus, or any suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 1071 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 110, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 110. In addition, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072. Specifically, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

Further, the touch panel 1071 may be overlaid on the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch panel 1071 transmits the touch operation to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 11, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the flexible electronic device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the flexible electronic device, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 is an interface for connecting an external device to the flexible electronic apparatus 100. 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 108 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 flexible electronic apparatus 100 or may be used to transmit data between the flexible electronic apparatus 100 and an external device.

The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 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 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, and the like. Further, the memory 109 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 110 is a control center of the flexible electronic device, connects various parts of the entire flexible electronic device by using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the flexible electronic device and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109 and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the flexible electronic device. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 110 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 110.

The flexible electronic device 100 may further include a power source 111 (such as a battery) for supplying power to the various components, and preferably, the power source 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 through a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions through the power management system.

In addition, the flexible electronic device 100 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and thus, the description thereof is omitted.

Optionally, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a flexible electronic device, which, with reference to fig. 11, includes a processor 110, a memory 109, and a computer program that is stored in the memory 109 and is executable on the processor 110, and when the computer program is executed by the processor 110, the computer program implements each process of the foregoing screen control method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

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 screen control method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated 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 flexible electronic device (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 present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A screen control method is applied to flexible electronic equipment and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device;

bending a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to the first sliding input;

wherein the first target screen region is a screen region determined based on the input parameters of the first sliding input;

the first target screen area comprises a first screen area, and the first screen area is used for displaying target information;

before the bending the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device, the method further includes:

acquiring input parameters of the first sliding input;

determining a target screen position based on the input parameters;

determining a target display size of a first screen area;

determining a first target screen region based on the target screen position and the target display size;

wherein the input parameters include at least one of: input position, slide direction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first swipe input comprises N swipe sub-inputs of N fingers, N being a positive integer; the first target screen area comprises T screen areas, and T is a positive integer;

the determining a target screen location based on the input parameters includes:

acquiring the sliding directions input by the N sliding sub-inputs;

determining T target screen positions based on the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs;

wherein the N sliding sub-inputs include T different sliding directions, and the input parameter of the first sliding input includes the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a target screen location based on the input parameters comprises:

acquiring an input position of the first sliding input;

based on the input position, a target screen position is determined.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the target display size for the first screen region comprises:

determining a preset display size as a target display size of a first screen area;

or determining a target display size of a first screen area based on a display size of a target object, wherein the target object is an object displayed in a target area, and the target area is an area including a preset range of the target screen position;

alternatively, the target display size of the first screen region is determined based on the sliding distance of the first sliding input.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first target screen area comprises a first screen area for displaying target information, the first target screen area further comprising a second screen area;

after the receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device, the method further comprises:

maintaining display of all display content in the first screen area and displaying all display content in the second screen area to a third screen area;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

maintaining display of first display content in the first screen area, and displaying second display content in the first screen area and all display content in the second screen area to a third screen area;

wherein the third screen region is a screen region of the screen other than the first screen region and the second screen region; the second display content is all display content except the first display content in the first screen area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein after bending the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device, the method further comprises:

receiving a first message;

displaying the first message in the first screen area.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction;

after the bending the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device, the method further comprises:

receiving a second sliding input of the user in a second direction on the screen;

bending a second target screen area of the flexible electronic device in response to the second sliding input;

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first target screen region comprises at least two screen regions;

receiving a third sliding input of the user on the screen, wherein the third sliding input comprises T sliding sub-inputs of T fingers, and T is a positive integer;

determining a screen area to be expanded based on the sliding directions input by the T sliding sub-devices;

and controlling the area of the screen to be unfolded to be bent to an unfolded state.

9. A flexible electronic device, comprising: the device comprises a receiving module and a control module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic equipment;

the control module is used for responding to the first sliding input received by the receiving module and bending a first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment;

the first target screen area comprises a first screen area, and the first screen area is used for displaying target information; the flexible electronic device further comprises: the device comprises an acquisition module and a first determination module;

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the input parameters of the first sliding input before the control module bends the first target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment;

the first determining module is used for determining the position of a target screen based on the input parameters acquired by the acquiring module; determining a target display size of the first screen region; determining the first target screen region based on the target screen position and the target display size;

10. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, wherein the first slide input comprises N slide sub-inputs of N fingers, N being a positive integer; the first target screen area comprises T screen areas, and T is a positive integer; the determining module is specifically configured to:

acquiring the sliding directions input by the N sliding sub-inputs; determining T target screen positions based on the sliding directions of the N sliding sub-inputs;

11. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, wherein the first determining module is specifically configured to:

acquiring an input position of the first sliding input;

based on the input position, a target screen position is determined.

12. The flexible electronic device of claim 10, wherein the first determining module is specifically configured to:

13. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, wherein the first target screen area comprises a first screen area for displaying target information, the first target screen area further comprising a second screen area; the flexible electronic device further comprises: a first display module; the first display module is used for:

after the receiving module receives a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device, maintaining the display of all display contents in the first screen area, and displaying all display contents in the second screen area to a third screen area;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

after the receiving module receives a first sliding input of a user on a screen of the flexible electronic device, keeping the display of the first display content in the first screen area, and displaying the second display content in the first screen area and all the display content in the second screen area to a third screen area;

14. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, further comprising a second display module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a first message after the control module bends a first target screen area of the flexible electronic device;

the second display module is configured to display the first message received by the receiving module in the first screen area.

15. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, wherein the first sliding input is a sliding input in a first direction;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a second sliding input of a user in a second direction on the screen after the control module bends the first target screen area of the flexible electronic device;

the control module is further used for responding to the second sliding input received by the receiving module and bending a second target screen area of the flexible electronic equipment;

16. The flexible electronic device of claim 9, wherein the first target screen area comprises at least two screen areas; the flexible electronic device further comprises: a second determination module;

the receiving module is configured to receive a third sliding input of the user on the screen after the control module bends the first target screen region of the flexible electronic device, where the third sliding input includes T sliding sub-inputs of T fingers, and T is a positive integer;

the second determining module is used for determining a screen area to be expanded based on the sliding directions input by the T sliding sub-inputs;

the control module is used for controlling the screen area to be unfolded determined by the second determining module to be bent to an unfolded state.

17. A flexible electronic device, characterized in that it comprises a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on said memory and executable on said processor, said computer program, when executed by said processor, implementing the steps of the screen control method according to any one of claims 1 to 8.

18. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the screen control method according to any one of claims 1 to 8.