CN111459357A

CN111459357A - Method for displaying and hiding shortcut key in reading terminal, terminal and computer storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN111459357A
Application number: CN202010239648.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 程超
Original assignee: Ireader Technology Co Ltd; Zhangyue Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Ireader Technology Co Ltd; Zhangyue Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-03-30
Filing date: 2020-03-30
Publication date: 2020-07-28

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, the terminal and a computer readable storage medium, wherein the reading terminal displays a page of an application program and responds to a touch screen command of a user at a first position of the page to display the shortcut keys; responding to a touch screen instruction of a user at a second position of the page to hide the shortcut key; the first position and the second position do not correspond to the function key of the reading terminal. The invention can quickly call when the user needs the shortcut key and can quickly close when the user does not need the shortcut key so as to avoid influencing reading.

Description

Method for displaying and hiding shortcut key in reading terminal, terminal and computer storage medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of information. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium.

Background

Compared with the traditional display such as L CD or L ED, the technology of the electronic paper can enable eyes not to feel fatigue after being read for a long time.

In order to meet the requirements of users, the functions of reading terminals are becoming more and more powerful. The user can switch between various usage scenarios, such as switching from a reading scenario to a note taking scenario, switching from a listening scenario to a setting scenario, and so forth. The existing scene switching mechanism mainly returns to the previous menu through a return key of a page (generally arranged at the upper left corner of the page), when the menu level corresponding to the scene to be switched by a user is lower than the bottom layer, the user needs to return to the previous menu step by step from the current picture and then gradually go down to enter a function key corresponding to the scene to be switched, and the switching can be realized through multi-step operation.

Compared with an L CD screen, the ink screen is low in refreshing speed, flicker and ghost shadow are prone to occurring in the page switching process, when scene switching or function selection operations jump among multiple pages step by step, the operation is not convenient enough, a user needs to patiently wait for the jump of each page, touch screen flicker and ghost shadow generated by each page jump are also needed to be endured, and use experience is affected.

Therefore, many reading terminals are provided with functions of shortcut keys, icons of the shortcut keys are directly superposed on an original image layer to be displayed, so that a user can directly click the icons to operate the icons conveniently and quickly, but reading is interfered.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to at least partially solve the technical problems mentioned in the background art, the invention provides a method for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, the terminal and a computer storage medium.

In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, where the reading terminal displays a page of an application program, and the method includes: responding to a touch instruction at a first position of the page to display the shortcut key; responding to a touch instruction at a second position of the page to hide the shortcut key; the first position and the second position are not corresponding to the function key of the reading terminal.

In another aspect, the invention provides a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program code for revealing hidden shortcuts, which when executed by a processor performs the method of the preceding item.

In yet another aspect, the present invention provides a reading terminal comprising: the system comprises a processor, a memory, a communication interface and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the memory and the communication interface complete mutual communication through the communication bus; the memory is configured to store at least one executable instruction that causes the processor to perform the operations of the method as described in the preceding item.

In another aspect, the present invention provides an electronic device for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, comprising: touch screen, treater and ink screen. The touch screen is used for receiving a touch instruction. The processor is used for judging whether the touch instruction corresponds to a first position or a second position of a page; if the position is the first position, a display signal is sent, and if the position is the second position, a hiding signal is sent. The ink screen is used for responding to the display signal, displaying the shortcut key and responding to the hiding signal, and hiding the shortcut key. Wherein the first position and the second position do not correspond to the function key of the reading terminal.

According to the technical scheme, the special function can be quickly executed through the operation of the shortcut key, the waiting time for the multi-layer menu to jump is reduced, meanwhile, the multilayer menu is easy to hide, and the icon is prevented from influencing the reading of a user.

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

Drawings

The above and other objects, features and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In the accompanying drawings, several embodiments of the present invention are illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation, and like reference numerals designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:

fig. 1 is a schematic view showing a structure of a reading terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 2(a) and (b) are diagrams illustrating shortcut keys for reading a page according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3(a) to (e) are schematic diagrams showing the hiding of the shortcut keys for reading pages according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a reading page according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a shortcut key revealing and hiding method of a reading terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a hover ball highlighting method of a reading terminal 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 understood that the terms "first", "second", "third" and "fourth", etc. in the claims, the description and the drawings of the present invention are used for distinguishing different objects and are not used for describing a particular order. The terms "comprises" and "comprising," when used in the specification and claims of this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

It is also to be understood that the terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in the specification and claims of this application, the singular form of "a", "an", and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should be further understood that the term "and/or" as used in the specification and claims of this specification refers to any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items and includes such combinations.

As used in this specification and claims, the term "if" may be interpreted contextually as "when", "upon" or "in response to a determination" or "in response to a detection". Similarly, the phrase "if it is determined" or "if a [ described condition or event ] is detected" may be interpreted contextually to mean "upon determining" or "in response to determining" or "upon detecting [ described condition or event ]" or "in response to detecting [ described condition or event ]".

The technical scheme of the invention provides a solution for displaying and hiding shortcut keys on the whole. Different from the prior art, when the menu hierarchy for switching two functions is deeper, a user needs to return to the previous menu stage by stage from the current function page and then enter another function page stage by stage, and the menu can be realized only by multi-step operation. The invention mainly provides the function of the shortcut key, and can hide the shortcut key when a user reads the shortcut key, so that the reading experience of the user is not influenced.

The following detailed description of embodiments of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings.

An embodiment of the present invention is an electronic device, which is a reading terminal capable of operating and reading an electronic book, and fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the reading terminal.

As shown in fig. 1, the reading terminal 100 includes: a processor 101, a communication interface 102, a power component 103, a display 104, an audio component 105, a memory 106, and a key interface 107.

The processor 101 may be a central processing unit CPU or a specific integrated circuit ASIC or an integrated circuit configured to implement an embodiment of the invention. Furthermore, the reading terminal 100 can include multiple processors, which can be of the same type or different types of processors, such as multiple CPUs, multiple ASICs, or a CPU plus an ASIC.

The communication interface 102 is configured as a module for wireless communication between the reading terminal 100 and other devices, including bluetooth 112,

WiFi antenna

122, 4G/5G antenna communication 132, and the like. In another embodiment, the communication interface 102 further includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communications.

The power supply component 103 provides power to the various components of the reading terminal 100. The power supply assembly 103 may include an external power interface 113 and a charging interface circuit 123.

The display 104 is an interactive display interface between the reading terminal 100 and the user, and includes an electromagnetic film 114, a capacitive screen 124, an ink screen 134, and the like.

The electromagnetic film 114 is used for receiving signals of an electromagnetic pen, and is distinguished by magnetic field changes generated by inductors under an electromagnetic pen operating process and a panel, the electromagnetic pen is a signal transmitting end, the electromagnetic film 114 is a signal receiving end, magnetic flux changes when the electromagnetic pen is close to induction, and position points are defined through operation.

The capacitive screen 124 is a touch screen for receiving signals from a user's finger input and includes one or more touch sensors to detect gestures on the touch, slide and touch screen panels. The touch sensor may detect not only the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation.

The electromagnetic film 114 and the capacitive screen 124 are collectively referred to as a touch screen 174.

The ink screen 134 is a display screen using electronic ink, also called electronic paper display technology, and has a main structure including a top transparent electrode layer, an electrophoretic layer, and a bottom electrode pixel layer. The electrophoretic layer is internally provided with a plurality of fine microcapsules, the microcapsules are provided with transparent liquid and a plurality of tiny electrophoretic particles, the electrophoretic particles are distributed in the transparent electrophoretic liquid to form a suspension system, the surfaces of the electrophoretic particles are easy to adsorb electric charges, and the particles capable of inducing the electric charges can move under the action of an external electric field.

Specifically, the electrophoretic particles are classified into negatively charged black particles and positively charged white particles. When a positive voltage is applied to the bottom electrode pixel layer, the white particles are repelled to move toward the top transparent electrode layer, and the black particles are attracted to move toward the bottom electrode pixel layer, in which case the pixel appears white. Conversely, when a negative voltage is applied to the bottom electrode pixel layer, the white particles are attracted to move toward the bottom electrode pixel layer, the black particles are repelled to move toward the top transparent electrode layer, and the pixel is displayed as black.

The display 104 also includes a sensing component 144 configured with a plurality of various sensors for providing various aspects of status assessment for the electronic device. For example: the temperature sensor 154 in the sensing assembly 144 can detect the temperature change of the display 104, and the detected temperature is transmitted to the processor 101 and then to the timing controller 108 as a parameter for table lookup.

The display 104 further includes a front light and light guide plate 164 disposed at a side of the display 104 to provide a stable and uniform light source.

The audio component 105 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 105 includes a microphone 118, and when the reading terminal 100 needs to receive speech, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a speech recognition mode, the microphone 118 is configured to receive external audio signals. The audio assembly 128 also includes a speaker 128 for outputting audio signals.

The memory 106 is used for storing programs, electronic books and notes, and may be a high-speed RAM memory or a non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as a disk memory.

The key interface 107 is used for controlling the page turning of the user, and is generally physical keys, which are disposed at the side of the reading terminal 100 and include a front page turning key and a back page turning key.

The timing controller 108 is used for finding out the corresponding control parameter, i.e. the driving waveform, through the lookup table. Since the black and white particles in the ink screen 134 are sensitive to temperature, the lower the temperature, the less active the particles, the longer it takes to move to the same position in the microcapsule at room temperature; the particles move faster when the temperature is higher, and the time required to move to the same location in the microcapsule is relatively shorter compared to the time required at normal temperature. The temperature sensor 154 collects temperature data on the display 104, and the timing controller 108 finds corresponding control parameters according to the temperature data to select an appropriate driving waveform.

The display driver 109 converts the driving waveform into a control signal to drive the ink particles on the ink screen 134 to move, so that image data to be displayed can be imaged on the ink screen 134.

An application scenario of this embodiment is shown in fig. 2(a) and (b), which are schematic diagrams for operating a shortcut key, which is also called an intelligent assistant floating window (hereinafter referred to as floating window). The floating window comprises a rectangular functional area and convex parts, and when the floating window is hidden, only the convex parts are displayed on a page. Fig. 2(a) shows the page when the floating window is hidden, and when the shortcut key (i.e. the floating window) is hidden, the ink screen 134 displays a convex portion 201 at the left side bar of the reading page 200, which is defined as a first position, and since the first position is located at the margin, the operation and browsing of the current page by the user are not affected.

When a user wants to open the floating window, the user clicks the convex portion 201 located at the first position of the page, the touch screen 174 responds to a touch instruction at the first position to send a display signal to the processor 101, after the processor 101 receives the display signal, as shown in fig. 2(b), the ink screen 134 of the display 104 is driven, the rectangular functional region 203 of the floating window 202 is visually dragged and displayed from the left side bar to the right, the rectangular functional region 203 is covered on the page, and at this time, the convex portion 201 is located at the second position of the page correspondingly.

The rectangular functional area 203 is uploaded with

function keys

213, 214, 215, the

function keys

213, 214, 215 correspond to different operation functions, the processor 101 links the

function keys

213, 214, 215 with a specific program, when a user clicks the specific function key of the rectangular functional area 203, the touch screen 174 returns a touch signal to the processor 101, and the processor 101 can directly execute the corresponding program for the user to quickly start the specific function without entering a menu to search for the specific function key.

In this embodiment, these

function keys

213, 214, 215 can be adjusted according to different usage scenarios, and are typically the function keys that are commonly used by the user on the current page. If the current page is a note page, the

function keys

213, 214, 215 are the function keys that are commonly used in the context of notes, e.g., function key 213 is a jump to a note list page, function key 214 is a jump to a bookshelf page, function key 215 is a jump to a dictionary.

When the user clicks the function key 213, the processor 101 receives the touch signal, and drives the ink screen 134 of the display 104 to display a note list page for the user to view all note contents. When the user clicks the function key 214, the processor 101 receives the touch signal, and drives the ink screen 134 of the display 104 to display a bookshelf page for the user to browse and select the electronic book. When the user clicks the function key 215, the processor 101 receives the touch signal and drives the ink screen 134 of the display 104 to display a dictionary page for the user to search words. In this embodiment, a search bar is further provided in the rectangular functional area 203, so that the user can directly input keywords for query.

In this embodiment, the

function keys

213, 214, 215 in the floating window 202 can be freely set by the user according to the habit, and the function provided by default by the system can also be used. The number of function keys is not limited by the present invention.

When the user wants to close the floating window 202, click the convex portion 201 located at the second position of the page, the touch screen 174 sends a hiding signal to the processor 101, and the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 of the display 104 to hide the floating window 202 after receiving the hiding signal. The hiding is performed by visually folding the floating window 202 toward the left side column until the floating window completely disappears, and the protrusion 201 returns to the column of the reading page 200, i.e., the first position shown in fig. 2 (a).

By directly clicking the function key in the floating window 202, the user does not need to exit the current page and then gradually returns to the upper menu to find the corresponding function key to execute the specific function. According to the embodiment, the user can quickly operate a specific function through the setting of the shortcut key, and the floating window 202 can be hidden when the user is not in use, so that the reading of the user is not influenced.

Fig. 3(a) to (e) are schematic diagrams showing shortcut key highlighting of a reading page 300 according to another embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment also allows the shortcut keys to be hidden when they are not used, in order not to affect the user's reading. Fig. 3(a) is a page showing a general reading, and the ink screen 134 does not display a shortcut key. When the user wants to activate the shortcut key, the user may click a predetermined position (generally, a blank position of the page) of the reading terminal to trigger the shortcut key, in this embodiment, the position set by the reading terminal is a lower right corner of the page, i.e., the first position 301. When the user clicks the first position 301 in a specific manner, the touch screen 174 detects a touch command from the user and transmits the touch command to the processor 101, and the processor 101 indirectly drives the ink screen 134 to display the shortcut key 302 shown in fig. 3(b) via the timing controller 108 and the display driver 109 in response to the touch command triggered at the first position 301 of the page. The shortcut key of this embodiment is a floating ball.

In the embodiment, the specific manner is that the user touches the touch screen 174 at the first position 301 for a plurality of times (e.g., 2 times) within a specific time (e.g., within 1 second), the touch screen 174 detects a touch signal of the specific operation and transmits the touch signal to the processor 101, and the processor 101 determines that the processor is a signal for displaying the floating ball 302, so that the ink screen 134 is indirectly driven to display the floating ball 302 through the timing controller 108 and the display driver 109. The location where the hover ball 302 is displayed on the page is the second location. In this embodiment, the function of the hover ball 302 is to return to the initial page of the reading terminal after the reading terminal is powered on, and in more detail, when the user clicks the hover ball 302, the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 to display the home page of the reading terminal.

When the user wants to hide the floating ball 302, the user clicks the touch screen 174 in a specific manner, specifically, the user clicks the floating ball 302 multiple times within a specific time, that is, clicks the second position multiple times within a specific time, for example, continuously clicks the floating ball 2 times within 1 second, the touch screen 174 receives a signal triggering the hidden floating ball 302 at the second position, the processor 101 responds to the touch instruction, indirectly drives the ink screen 134 to hide the floating ball 302 through the timing controller 108 and the display driver 109, returns to the display page of fig. 3(a), and the processor 101 simultaneously turns off the shortcut key function.

In addition to directly clicking on the hover ball 302 to hide the shortcut keys, in another scenario, this embodiment may also provide other ways to hide the shortcut keys. As shown in fig. 3(c), the second position 311 for triggering the hidden shortcut key may be the same position as the first position 301 in fig. 3(a), when the user clicks the second position 311, the touch screen 174 receives the touch signal, and the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 to cancel displaying the floating ball 302 in response to the hidden signal triggered by the second position 311.

This embodiment may further provide other ways to display and hide the shortcut keys. As shown in fig. 3(d), the first position includes a first sub-position 303 and a second sub-position 304. When the user wants to open the floating ball 302, the user clicks the first sub-position 303 and the second sub-position 304 simultaneously with two fingers, the touch screen 174 receives the touch instruction and transmits the touch instruction to the processor 101, and the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 to display the floating ball 302 in response to the touch instruction at the first sub-position 303 and the second sub-position 304 of the page. When the user wants to hide the floating ball 302, as shown in fig. 3(e), the second position includes a first sub-position 305 and a second sub-position 306, the second position is located at the same position on the page as the first position, and the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 to hide the floating ball 302 by clicking the first sub-position 305 and the second sub-position 306 with two fingers. Clicking 2 preset positions at the same time is less prone to false touch.

The aforementioned first position and the second position may be set by the reading terminal or the user, but are preferably at the blank of the page, and optionally or alternatively, the first position or the second position is at the edge of the page, and the first position and the second position may be different positions or the same position, but are preferably not located on other function keys or control keys, so as to avoid that the processor 101 cannot distinguish the touch signal from the first position or the second position or the other function keys or control keys.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a reading page 400 according to another embodiment of the invention. The shortcut key of this embodiment is also a floating ball, and the operation manner of controlling the floating ball to be invisible is the same as that of the previous embodiment. In contrast, when the user clicks on the hover ball 401 to activate its function, the ink screen 134 displays a plurality of function keys corresponding to the hover ball, the function keys being arranged in a circle around the hover ball. More specifically, the aforementioned annular shape includes a visible region 402 and a non-visible region 403. The visible area 402 is superimposed on the page and is the area visible to the user, and includes 5 function keys, A, B, C, G and H. Accordingly, the non-visible area 403 is located outside the reading page 400, is virtual and is not visible to the user, and includes D, E and F3 function keys. In other words, processor 101 maps the layer comprising the partial ring shape onto the page, which is displayed as viewable area 402 via ink screen 134. Alternatively, the number of the function keys is not limited to 6, and the number of the function keys of the hover ball may be set in the function menu according to the preference of the user.

When the user wants to view or click the function keys in the non-visible area 403, the user presses the ring of the visible area 402, the finger or the stylus slides along the ring, the touch screen 174 receives a signal indicating that the user rotates along the ring, the processor 101 drives the ink screen 134 to move the function keys in the non-visible area 403 to the visible area 402 for display, and the function keys originally in the visible area 402 move to the non-visible area 403 along the ring, and the rotation direction may be clockwise or counterclockwise. The user clicks a specific function key to start the corresponding function.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a shortcut revealing and hiding method 500 for a reading terminal displaying a page of an application according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 5, in step 501, the shortcut key is displayed in response to a touch instruction at a first position of the page.

The shortcut key may be the intelligent assistant floating window of the previous embodiment, the floating window includes a rectangular functional area and a convex portion, and when the floating window is hidden, only the convex portion is displayed on the page. When the floating window is hidden, only the convex part appears at the left side margin of the reading page, and the position is defined as a first position which does not influence the operation and browsing of the current page by the user. When a user wants to open the floating window, the method 500 selects a convex portion located at a first position of the page, and responds to the touch instruction at the first position to drag and display the floating window from the left side bar to the right, wherein the rectangular functional area is covered on the page, and the convex portion is located at a second position of the page. The rectangular function area is loaded with a plurality of function keys corresponding to different operation functions, and the method 500 links the function keys with the specific program, so that when a user clicks the specific function key of the rectangular function area, the corresponding program can be directly executed, and the user can quickly start the specific function.

In step 502, the shortcut key is hidden in response to the touch command at the second position of the page.

When the user wants to close the floating window, click the protrusion located at the second position of the page, and the method 500 hides the floating window in such a way that the floating window is visually folded toward the left sidebar until the protrusion completely disappears, and the protrusion returns to the sidebar of the page to be read, i.e., returns to the first position of the page.

In another implementation scenario, when step 501 is executed, the method 500 responds to click the first location to display the shortcut key in a specific manner, where the specific manner may be that the touch screen is touched multiple times (e.g., 2 times) within a specific time (e.g., within 1 second) at the first location (e.g., at the blank of the lower right corner of the page), the method 500 detects the touch signal in the specific manner, and determines that the touch signal is a signal for displaying the shortcut key, and the method 500 displays that the position of the floating ball on the page is the second location.

In step 502, when the user wants to hide the hover ball, the user also clicks the touch screen in a specific manner, which may be clicking the hover ball multiple times within a specific time, for example, continuously clicking the hover ball 2 times within 1 second, and the method 500 hides the hover ball. In addition, this embodiment may also provide other ways to hide the hover ball. For example, the second position and the first position are the same position, and when the user clicks on the second position, the method 500 cancels displaying the hover ball.

In another implementation scenario, when step 501 is executed, the first position includes a first sub-position and a second sub-position, and the user uses two fingers to simultaneously tap the first sub-position and the second sub-position, the method 500 responds to the touch commands at the first sub-position and the second sub-position of the page to display the shortcut key.

In step 502, the second location also includes a first sub-location and a second sub-location, the second location and the first location may be at the same location on the page, and the user uses two fingers to simultaneously tap the first sub-location and the second sub-location, and the method 500 hides the shortcut key.

The aforementioned first position and the second position may be set by the reading terminal or the user, but are preferably at a blank of the page, and optionally or alternatively, the first position or the second position is at a page edge of the page, and the first position and the second position may be different positions or the same position, but are preferably not located on other function keys or control keys, so as to avoid that the method 500 cannot distinguish whether the touch signal of the hidden shortcut key is the touch signal of the active function key or the touch signal of the other function key or control key.

Fig. 6 is a flow chart illustrating a method 600 of hover ball operation for a reading terminal in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.

In step 601, the shortcut key is set as a floating ball. This embodiment can set the function of the shortcut key as the hover ball on the menu.

In step 602, a hover ball is displayed from the page space, the hover ball overlying the page. The display mode of the control suspension ball is the same as that of the previous embodiment, and the description is omitted. In another scenario, the method 600 may initiate displaying the hover ball through a handwriting track, for example, a user performs a predetermined line drawing operation on a reading page, such as drawing a line back and forth once in a first position, and then the hover ball may be popped up.

In step 603, an instruction for a user to start the hover ball is received. When the method 600 receives a trigger signal that the hover ball is clicked one or more times, a plurality of function keys corresponding to the hover ball are displayed.

In step 604, a plurality of function keys associated with the application are arranged around the hover ball. The function keys are surrounded around the floating ball in a ring shape, the ring shape comprises a visible area and a non-visible area, the visible area is superposed on the page and is a visible area for a user, and the non-visible area is positioned outside the reading page and is virtual and invisible for the user. In other words, the method 600 only maps the layer including the partial ring shape onto the page to become the visible area, and the user can click the function key in the visible area to start the specific function.

When the user wants to view the function keys in the non-visible region, the user presses the ring of the visible region, the finger or the stylus slides along the ring, the method 600 receives the signal that the user rotates along the ring, the function keys in the non-visible region are moved to the visible region along the ring for displaying, and the function keys originally in the visible region are moved to the non-visible region along the ring, and the rotation direction can be clockwise or counterclockwise.

In addition, the invention also discloses a computer readable storage medium, which comprises a computer program for executing the invisible shortcut key, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the operations and the method of the previous embodiment are executed.

Another embodiment of the present invention is a reading terminal, including: the system comprises a processor, a memory, a communication interface and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the memory and the communication interface complete mutual communication through the communication bus; the memory is used for storing at least one executable instruction which causes the processor to execute the operations and methods of the foregoing embodiments.

It should also be appreciated that any module, unit, component, server, computer, terminal, or device executing instructions exemplified herein may include or otherwise have access to a computer-readable medium, such as a storage medium, computer storage medium, or data storage device (removable and/or non-removable) such as a magnetic disk, optical disk, or tape. Computer storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information, such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data.

Examples of computer storage media include RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, Digital Versatile Disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by an application, a module, or both. Any such computer storage media may be part of, or accessible or connectable to, a device. Any application or module described herein may be implemented using computer-readable/executable instructions stored or otherwise maintained by such computer-readable media.

Although the embodiments of the present invention are described above, the descriptions are only examples for facilitating understanding of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope and application scenarios of the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, wherein the reading terminal displays a page of an application program, comprises the following steps:

responding to a touch instruction at a first position of the page to display the shortcut key; and

responding to a touch instruction at a second position of the page to hide the shortcut key;

the first position and the second position are not corresponding to the function key of the reading terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location or second location is a blank of the page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location and second location are the same location in the page.

4. The method of claims 1-3, wherein the page is an e-book reading page, and the first or second position is at a page edge of the page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying step comprises:

and touching the touch screen at the first position for multiple times within a specific time.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the hiding step comprises:

and touching the touch screen at the second position for multiple times within a specific time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location comprises a first sub-location and a second sub-location, the displaying step comprising:

and simultaneously touching the touch screen at the first sub-position and the second sub-position.

8. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program code for revealing hidden shortcuts, which when executed by a processor performs the method according to any of claims 1 to 7.

9. A reading terminal, comprising: the system comprises a processor, a memory, a communication interface and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the memory and the communication interface complete mutual communication through the communication bus; the memory is for storing at least one executable instruction that causes the processor to perform the operations of the method of any of claims 1-7.

10. An electronic device for displaying and hiding shortcut keys in a reading terminal, comprising:

the touch screen is used for receiving a touch instruction;

the processor is used for judging whether the touch instruction corresponds to a first position or a second position of a page; if the position is the first position, sending a display signal, and if the position is the second position, sending a hiding signal; and

the ink screen is used for responding to the display signal, displaying the shortcut key and responding to the hiding signal, and hiding the shortcut key;

wherein the first position and the second position do not correspond to the function key of the reading terminal.