CN111596982B

CN111596982B - Display method, display device and electronic equipment

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Publication number: CN111596982B
Application number: CN202010314156.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张旭亚
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-20
Filing date: 2020-04-20
Publication date: 2024-04-02
Anticipated expiration: 2040-04-20
Also published as: CN111596982A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a display method, a display device and electronic equipment, which are applied to the technical field of communication and are used for solving the problem that a user omits to view notification messages received by the electronic equipment due to limited display space of a status bar of the electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that the electronic equipment receives first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic equipment; in response to the first input, the electronic device updates the target content in the status bar of the electronic device to a target application icon; wherein the first area is an open area in the display screen; the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, and the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic device. The embodiment of the invention is applied to a scene of the status bar display unread message identification of the electronic equipment.

Description

Display method, display device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a display method, a display device and electronic equipment.

Background

Currently, in order to facilitate a user to view an operation state of an electronic device (e.g., a smart phone, etc.) and received notification information, the electronic device typically displays an operation state identifier (e.g., a battery level) of the electronic device and an application icon corresponding to the notification information in a status bar.

In the related art, since the display space of the status bar of the electronic device is limited, the status bar will preferentially display the running status identifier of the electronic device, and no application icon is displayed any more.

This results in a high probability that the user will miss the notification message received by the electronic device.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a display method, a display device and electronic equipment, which are used for solving the problem that a user omits to view notification messages received by the electronic equipment due to limited display space of a status bar of the electronic equipment.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a display method, including: the method comprises the steps that the electronic equipment receives first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic equipment; in response to the first input, the electronic device updates the target content in the status bar of the electronic device to a target application icon; wherein the first area is an open area in the display screen; the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, and the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic device.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a display apparatus, where the display apparatus includes a receiving module and an updating module; the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic equipment; the updating module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and updating the target content in the status bar of the electronic equipment into a target application icon; wherein the first area is an open area in the display screen; the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, and the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic device.

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

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the display method according to the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the input of the user to the open area in the display screen, the content displayed in the status bar of the electronic equipment can be updated to the application icon, wherein the application icon is the application icon corresponding to the unread message. Therefore, the electronic equipment can prompt the user that the application in the electronic equipment receives the unread message in time, so that the user can conveniently and timely check the unread message in the related application.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an interface to which a display method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram of an interface applied by a display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a third schematic diagram of an interface applied by a display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an interface applied by a display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a second schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 9 is a third schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are some, but not all embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

In this context "/" means "or" for example, a/B may mean a or B; "and/or" herein is merely an association relationship describing an association object, and means that three relationships may exist, for example, a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone.

It should be noted that "plurality" herein means two or more than two.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "such as" are used to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g." in an embodiment should not be taken as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete fashion.

It should be noted that, in order to clearly describe the technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention, in the embodiment of the present invention, the words "first", "second", etc. are used to distinguish the same item or similar items having substantially the same function or effect, and those skilled in the art will understand that the words "first", "second", etc. do not limit the number and execution order. For example, the first input and the second input are used to distinguish between different inputs, rather than to describe a particular order of inputs.

The execution body of the display method provided by the embodiment of the invention may be an electronic device, or may be a display device in the electronic device capable of implementing the display method, where the display device may be a functional module and/or a functional entity in the electronic device, or may be other devices for executing the display method provided by the embodiment of the invention, and specifically may be determined according to actual use requirements.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the invention can be a terminal device. The terminal device may be a mobile terminal device or a non-mobile terminal device, for example. The mobile terminal device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a netbook or a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), etc.; the non-mobile terminal device may be a personal computer (personal computer, PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine, a self-service machine, or the like; the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited.

It should be noted that, the display screen of the electronic device in the embodiment of the present invention may be a special-shaped screen, and the special-shaped screen may include two kinds of hole digging screens and runway screens. The special-shaped screens are all provided with holes on the display screen, wherein the holes in the hole digging screen can contain a single electronic device, and the holes in the runway screen can contain a plurality of electronic devices.

Typically, the electronic device may place a camera, a flash, etc. at the opening. Illustratively, the openings in the shaped screen may be located at any position of the display screen (e.g., above, below, upper left, lower left, upper right, lower right, etc. of the display screen). Typically, the display screen includes: display module assembly, touch-sensitive screen and glass apron, trompil is usually in the display module assembly trompil on the display screen, after devices such as this trompil position installation camera, flash lamp, cover touch-sensitive screen and glass apron on the display module assembly after drilling to hide the device of placing in the trompil, and then reach the effect of protecting the device in the trompil.

For example, as shown in fig. 1, an opening (i.e., 12 in fig. 1) in a screen (i.e., 11 in fig. 1) is located at the upper right side of the screen 11, and a front camera (i.e., 13 in fig. 1) and a flash (i.e., 14 in fig. 1) are disposed in the opening 12.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the invention can be an electronic device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited specifically.

The software environment to which the display method provided by the embodiment of the invention is applied is described below by taking an android operating system as an example.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 2, the architecture of the android operating system includes 4 layers, respectively: an application program layer, an application program framework layer, a system runtime layer and a kernel layer (specifically, a Linux kernel layer).

The application program layer comprises various application programs (including system application programs and third party application programs) in the android operating system.

The application framework layer is a framework of applications, and developers can develop some applications based on the application framework layer while adhering to the development principle of the framework of the applications.

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

The kernel layer is an operating system layer of the android operating system, and belongs to the bottommost layer of the software hierarchy of the android operating system. The kernel layer provides core system services and a driver related to hardware for the android operating system based on a Linux kernel.

Taking an android operating system as an example, in the embodiment of the present invention, a developer may develop a software program for implementing the display method provided in the embodiment of the present invention based on the system architecture of the android operating system shown in fig. 2, so that the display method may be operated based on the android operating system shown in fig. 2. Namely, the processor or the terminal device can realize the display method provided by the embodiment of the invention by running the software program in the android operating system.

The display method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the scene that the electronic equipment comprising the special-shaped screen displays the application program icons in the status bar.

For the scene that the electronic device displays the unread message identifier in the status bar, it is assumed that the application program B in the special-shaped screen electronic device a receives the unread message 1. In a conventional electronic device, the unread message 1 may be displayed in the form of an icon of the application B in a status bar of the display screen to prompt the user that the unread message is included in the application B. However, since the hole-digging area in the shaped-screen electronic device generally occupies a part of the space of the status bar, and the area of the status bar is reduced, the shaped-screen electronic device a generally preferentially displays status information (such as battery information, communication signal information, etc.) in the status bar, and no icon of the application program B corresponding to the unread message 1 is displayed. Therefore, the user cannot timely acquire the prompt information of the electronic device about the unread message 1 received by the application program B, the user is easy to miss to check or timely reply to the unread message 1, and the working efficiency is reduced.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment is covered with the touch screen on the hole digging area, so the hole digging area also has a touch control function. Therefore, the hole digging area can be used for secondary use while the electronic equipment is placed, so that a user is helped to trigger the electronic equipment to update and display the application program icons corresponding to the unread messages in the status bar. From the above, the electronic device can update the status information displayed in the status bar to the icon of the application program B corresponding to the unread message 1 by receiving the input of the user to the hole digging area, so as to prompt the user that the unread message is received by the application program B, and further, the user views the unread message in the application program B according to the needs of the user, thereby improving the working efficiency.

The display method provided by the embodiment of the invention will be described below by taking the display device as an electronic device as an example.

As shown in fig. 3, a display method provided in an embodiment of the present invention includes steps 201 and 202:

step 201: the electronic device receives a first input from a user at a first region of a display screen of the electronic device.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the first area is an open area in the display screen. For example, taking a terminal device having a screen as shown in fig. 1 and the screen being a touch screen as an example, an opening 12 in a screen 11 of the terminal device is located at the upper right end of the screen 11, and a front camera 13 and a flash 14 are disposed in the opening 12. Since the touch panel and the glass cover plate are covered over the opening 12, the display panel over the opening 12 has a touch function, but does not have a display function, and at this time, the display panel area corresponding to the opening 12 is set as the first area.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the first input may be a touch input to the first area. Further, the touch input may be a direct input or a hover input (e.g., the electronic device senses a temperature change or a light change through a sensor). Specifically, the touch input may be a click input, a long-press input, or a specific gesture input, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

Step 202: in response to the first input, the electronic device updates and displays the target content displayed in the status bar of the electronic device as a target application icon.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, where the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic device.

Alternatively, in the embodiment of the present invention, the target application icon may be an application icon of the target application. By way of example, the application in embodiments of the present invention may be a system setup application, a functional application, and other applications. Further, the application may be an application program.

If the application in the electronic device includes an unread message, after receiving the first input of the user, the electronic device may be triggered to display, in the status bar, an icon identifier for indicating the application corresponding to the unread message, so as to prompt the user that the application corresponding to the icon identifier includes the unread message.

In one example, when the same application in the electronic device receives a plurality of unread messages, only one icon of the application corresponding to the plurality of unread messages is displayed in the status bar, so as to prompt a user that the unread messages exist in the application, thereby saving the display space of the status bar.

In another example, when the unread message in the electronic device is an unread message in a plurality of different applications, application icons of the plurality of applications corresponding to the unread message are displayed in a status bar. Further, when the applications corresponding to the unread messages are excessive, and all the application icons cannot be displayed in the status bar, a preset identifier may be displayed near the left side frame or the right side frame, where the preset identifier is used to indicate that, in the status bar, besides the application icons already displayed, some application icons corresponding to the unread messages are not displayed.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the target content may be an operation state identifier of the electronic device. For example, a time identifier of the current time (for prompting the user of the current time), a remaining power identifier of the current time of the electronic device (for prompting the user of the remaining power of the current electronic device), a communication signal identifier condition identifier of the electronic device (for prompting the user of the current communication signal quality), and the like. The running state identifier may be all running state identifiers of the electronic device, or may be part of running state identifiers. Specifically, the user may set the running status identifier displayed in the status bar according to his own requirement, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the target content may be all display content in the status bar, or may be part of display content, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

The above target content may be preset for the electronic device, or may be user-defined, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment can place the target application icon and/or the state running identifier through preset software.

For example, the preset software may be an "identification box", i.e., the "identification box" may be software (e.g., a software program) in the electronic device.

For example, the "identification storage box" is used for storing a target application icon and/or a state running identification, and a user can trigger the "identification storage box" to start and run through an opening area of the electronic device.

For example, if the electronic device includes an unread message, before the electronic device receives the first input of the user, the target application icon is hidden in the "identifier storage box", and after the electronic device receives the first input of the user, the electronic device updates the target content in the status bar with the target application icon hidden in the "identifier storage box".

For example, the electronic device may be provided with a pressure sensor or an infrared sensor in the opening area. When the pressure sensor is arranged in the open hole area, the electronic equipment can update the target content in the status bar by receiving the pressure input of the user to the open hole area and using the target application icon hidden in the open hole area device; when the infrared sensor is arranged in the open hole area, the electronic equipment can detect the finger temperature of the user by receiving the first input of the user to the open hole area, so that the target content in the status bar is updated by using the target application icon hidden in the device of the open hole area.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the electronic device updates the target content to the target application icon information, the electronic device can hide the target content in the 'identification storage box' at the same time.

For example, when the electronic device receives an unread message, as shown in fig. 4 (a), an open area 31 is provided at the upper right end of the display screen of the electronic device, and status information (i.e., the above-mentioned target content, such as the power information, the time information, the signal information, and the network speed information in fig. 4 (a)) of the electronic device is displayed in a status bar 32 on the display screen. When the user presses the open area 31 on the display screen (i.e., the first input described above), as shown in (b) of fig. 4, the electronic device updates the status information in the status bar to the application icon corresponding to the unread message (i.e., the first message) in the electronic device (i.e., the target application icon, such as the "weather" APP icon, the "chat" APP icon, the "shopping" APP icon, and the "mail" APP icon in (b) of fig. 4).

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the first input ends and no other input is received, the content displayed in the status bar of the electronic device is restored to the running status identifier by the target application icon, so that the user can flexibly display the content in the status bar.

Illustrating: when the first input is a press input, when the user performs the press input in the open area, the content displayed in the status bar is switched from the status operation identifier to the application icon corresponding to the unread message, and when the user finishes the press input in the open area, the content displayed in the status bar is restored from the application identifier to the status operation identifier.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, if all the application icons corresponding to the unread messages cannot be displayed in the status bar at one time, the electronic device may update the status bar, so that other application icons that are not displayed are displayed in the status bar.

Exemplary, after the step 202, the display method provided in the embodiment of the present invention further includes the following steps A1 and A2:

Step A1: the electronic device receives a second input from the user to the status bar.

Step A2: in response to the second input, the electronic device displays the first application icon update in the status bar as a second application icon.

Illustratively, the first application icon is at least one of the target application icons.

The application indicated by the second application icon is an application corresponding to a second message, where the second message is a message other than the first message in the unread message of the electronic device.

For example, the second input may refer to the description of the first input, which is not repeated herein.

In one example, the second input may be an input by a user to an area where a preset identifier in the status bar is located. For example, the preset identifier may be an identifier for indicating that an application icon still is not displayed in the status bar. Further, the specific area may be preset for the electronic device or may be user-defined, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

In one example, the first input and the second input may be two continuous inputs without interruption, or may be different inputs without limitation.

Example 1: the first input is a pressing input of a user in the opening area, and the second input is a sliding input on the status bar. It should be noted that the second input is a sliding input of the user on the status bar at the end of the pressing input.

Example 2: the first input is a pressing input of a first finger of a user in the open hole area, and the second input is a rotating input of the first finger rotated by the user in the process of pressing the first finger on the open hole area.

For example, the electronic device may update all of the first application icons with the second application icons, or may update only a portion of the first application icons with the second application icons. Generally, the electronic device updates part or all of the first application icons by using the second application icons, and if the number of the second application icons is greater than or equal to the number of the first application icons, the second application icons may be used to update all of the first application icons, and conversely, if the number of the second application icons is less than the number of the first application icons, the second application icons may be used to update part of the first application icons.

In this manner, the electronic device may display application icons that were not previously displayed directly in the status bar by receiving input to the status bar.

Further alternatively, in an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device may use the second application icon instead of the first application icon in at least two display manners.

In the first manner, the electronic device may directly replace the first application icon in the status bar with the second application icon.

In a second example, in combination with the first example, after the electronic device updates the status information in the status bar to the application icon, the user performs a press input (i.e., the second input) on the gap area between the status bar and the open area. At this time, if the number of application icons corresponding to other unread messages in the electronic device is the same as the number of application icons displayed in the current status bar, the electronic device may directly replace all application icons displayed in the current status bar with application icons corresponding to other unread messages.

In a second manner, the electronic device may sequentially replace the first application icon in the status bar in a predetermined display manner.

In the step A2, the display method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may include the following step B:

and (B) step (B): the electronic device controls at least one first application icon in the status bar to move out of the status bar along a preset direction, and controls at least one second application icon to move in the status bar along the preset direction.

For example, the predetermined direction may be the same as the arrangement direction of the application icons in the status bar, for example, when the arrangement direction of the application icons in the status bar is a left-to-right direction arrangement, the predetermined direction may be a left-to-right direction arrangement, or when the arrangement direction of the application icons in the status bar is a right-to-left direction arrangement.

Further, the predetermined direction may be preset for the electronic device or may be user-defined, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

The number of the first application icons moving out of the status bar along the predetermined direction and the number of the second application icons moving into the status bar along the predetermined direction are in one-to-one correspondence, that is, the electronic device moves out of one first application icon and will also move into one second application icon, and the electronic device moves out of N first application icons and will also move into N second application icons.

The number of the first application icons moving out of the status bar along the preset direction and the number of the second application icons moving in the status bar along the preset direction are related to the duration that the electronic device receives the second input, and the longer the duration of the second input, the more the first application icons and the second application icons move in, and vice versa, the less.

For example, when the second input is a sliding input, the first application icon may be updated one by one along with a sliding direction of the sliding input.

For example, in the process of moving the electronic device out of the first application icon and moving the second application icon, the first application icon may be hidden in the "identification storage box", and the second application icon is moved out of the "identification storage box" for display.

Further, the process of moving the first application icon out of the "identification storage box" and moving the second application icon into the storage box may be an endless loop process. That is, if the electronic device continues to receive the second input until all the second application icons are removed, at this time, the second application icons are removed into the "identifier storage box", and the first application icons are moved into the "identifier storage box" from the "identifier storage box" and displayed in the status bar.

It should be noted that, if the status bar of the electronic device includes other unread messages in other applications except for the unread messages in the application corresponding to the first application icon, the electronic device still displays the first application icon in the status bar after receiving the second input, and does not update any icon display.

Example three, in combination with the above example one, after the electronic device updates the status information in the status bar to the application icon, the user performs a sliding input (i.e., the above second input) by the open area 31 to the left. At this time, as shown in (a) of fig. 5, the application icons in the status bar 32 start to move from right to left along with the sliding direction of the user's finger, as shown in (b) of fig. 5, the "weather" APP icon 51 (i.e., the first application icon) in the status bar moves out of the status bar 32 from right to left, and the "game" APP icon 52 (i.e., the second application icon) in the status bar 32 moves in from right to left, and is displayed in the status bar 32.

Therefore, after the electronic equipment receives the first input, application icons corresponding to other unread messages can be displayed in the status bar in a mode of sequentially displaying the application icons one by one along the preset direction, so that a user can conveniently check applications corresponding to all the unread messages, and the user is ensured not to miss checking the unread messages.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the second input is a pressing input of a user on the status bar. Based on this, in the above step A2, the display method provided in the embodiment of the present invention may include the following step C:

Step C: in response to the pressing input, the electronic device updates and displays the first application icon displayed in the status bar as the second application icon in the process that the user presses the status bar.

For example, the above-described press input may receive a second input of the user for a particular setting-specific area of the electronic device in the status bar. For example, the electronic device may set a preset identifier in the status bar, where the preset identifier is used to indicate that, in the status bar, the electronic device still includes other unread messages in the second application except for unread messages in the application corresponding to the first application icon.

In the fourth example, in combination with the first example, as shown in fig. 6, after the electronic device updates the status information in the status bar to the application icon, the user's finger does not leave the display screen, directly slides onto the preset identifier 61 indicated on the left side of the status bar, and performs the press input. After the electronic device receives the pressing input, all application icons displayed in the current status bar are replaced by application icons corresponding to other unread messages.

Therefore, the user can conveniently and flexibly call the application icons which are not displayed by setting the preset identification in the status bar.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device may display, on the display screen, an unread message in an application corresponding to the application icon according to the input of the application icon by the user.

Exemplary, after the step 202, the display method provided in the embodiment of the present invention further includes the following steps D1 and D2:

step D1: the electronic device receives a third input from the user of the target application icon.

Step D2: and responding to the third input, and displaying the first prompt information by the electronic equipment according to the message content of the unread message corresponding to the target application icon.

For example, the third input may refer to the first input, which is not described herein.

The third input and the first input may be two continuous inputs without interruption, or may be different inputs without limitation.

In example 3, the first input may be a first press input by the user in the open area, and the second input may be a second press input by the user on a certain target application icon in the status bar when the first press input is completed.

It should be noted that, the input relationship between the first input and the third input may be preset for the electronic device or may be user-defined, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

The first prompt information may be, for example, the entire message content of the unread message, the partial message content of the unread message, or the prompt information corresponding to the unread message, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

Further, the electronic device may set different prompt information according to different types of applications corresponding to the unread message. For example, when the application is a chat-type application, the first prompt information is name information of a sender of the message, when the application is a weather-type application, the first prompt information is set as information related to temperature, and when the application is a shopping-type application, the first prompt information is set as logistics information related to articles purchased by the user.

For example, the first prompt may be displayed in a floating window. The floating window can be displayed on a display interface in the display screen in a superposition mode, and the display area of the floating window in the display screen is not overlapped with the display area of the status bar in the display screen.

In one example, the floating window may be displayed superimposed on the display interface of the display screen with a predetermined transparency, and assuming that the predetermined transparency is T, the value range of T may be 0% < T <100%.

In one example, the electronic device displays a floating window on the display screen after receiving the third input and displays the first prompt in the floating window. Further, the third input may be a touch input (e.g., a long press input, or a click input) of the target application icon by the user.

Further, the electronic device displays the floating window in the display screen in response to the third input, and cancels the display of the floating window when the third input is over.

For example, when the third input is a long press input, the electronic device displays the floating window in the display screen in response to the long press input, and cancels the display of the floating window when the long press input ends.

Further, the electronic device displays the floating window in the display screen in response to the third input, and cancels displaying the floating window in response to the fourth input when the fourth input is received.

Example 4: when the third input is a click input, the electronic device responds to the click input, the floating window is displayed in the display screen when the electronic device receives the click input of the user on the target application icon, and the floating window is canceled from being displayed when the electronic device receives the click input (namely, the fifth input) of the user on the target application icon again.

In fifth example, as shown in fig. 7, after the electronic device updates the status information in the status bar to the application icon, the user performs press input (i.e., the third input) on the "chat" APP icon 71 (i.e., the target application icon), and a floating window 72 is displayed on the current interface of the electronic device in an overlapping manner, where the floating window 72 displays a prompt message (i.e., the first prompt message) of the name of the person corresponding to the unread message and the number of messages corresponding to the name of the person received in the "chat" APP.

Therefore, the user can call the prompt information of the unread message in the application corresponding to the target application icon through the input of any target application icon in the status bar, so that the user can know the approximate content of the unread message in advance before entering the application, and after the user performs preliminary screening on the unread message, the user can enter the application for viewing more pertinently, thereby saving the time for viewing the unread message by the user and greatly improving the use efficiency of the user.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, after the electronic device receives the unread message, a prompt message for prompting the user to receive the unread message may be displayed in the display screen.

For example, before the step 201, the display method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following step E:

step E: and the electronic equipment displays second prompt information in the second area.

The second region is illustratively a region adjacent to the first region.

The second region is, for example, a region surrounding the first region.

Further, the second area may be an area adjacent to the first area, or may be an area having a predetermined distance from the first area. The predetermined distance may be preset for the electronic device or may be user-defined, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

For example, the second prompting information may be used to prompt the user that there is an unread message in the electronic device waiting for the user to view.

The second prompt information may be a light prompt information.

For example, the electronic device may be provided with an annular indicator light in the open area around the front camera, where the annular indicator light is used to display the light prompt information.

Further, the light source of the annular indicator lamp may be a light emitting diode, a laser lamp, or any other possible light source, which may be specifically determined according to the actual use requirement, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

The light-emitting source may be one or more.

The light emitting diode may be a multi-color lamp (such as an RGB lamp) or a single-color lamp, which may be specifically determined according to practical requirements, and embodiments of the present invention are not limited. For the multi-color lamp, the terminal device can control the light emitting diode to emit light rays with different colors and/or indicate different information received by the electronic device with different light emitting frequencies according to different driving signals. Specifically, the color of the indicator light of the electronic equipment can be dynamically changed according to the actual use requirement, so that the visual aesthetic feeling of the electronic equipment can be improved, and the flexibility of man-machine interaction is improved.

Further, when the electronic device has unread information for the user to view, the annular indicator lamp can emit light at the frequency of X times/second; when the electronic equipment receives a new unread message within a preset time period, the color of the indicator lamp can be changed, the luminous frequency in unit time is improved, and the luminous frequency is changed into the frequency of Y times/second to emit light so as to prompt a user to receive the new unread message, wherein X and Y are positive integers and X is less than Y; when there is no unread message in the electronic device, the indicator light is extinguished and no longer emits light.

Therefore, the user can know in advance that the unread message in the application in the electronic equipment needs to be checked without checking the target application icon in the status bar, so that the unread message can be checked in time by the user conveniently, and the use efficiency of the user is improved.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, after the electronic device receives the input of the user on any one of the target application icons, the application icon may be enlarged and displayed in a floating manner on the display screen.

For example, after the step 202, the display method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps F1 and F2:

step F1: the electronic device receives a fourth input from the user of the third application icon.

Step F2: and responding to the fourth input, and displaying the third application icon on a third area of the display screen by the electronic equipment according to a preset magnification ratio.

The third application icon is at least one of the target application icons.

For example, the fourth input may refer to the description of the first input, which is not repeated herein.

In one example, the fourth input and the first input may be continuous input without interruption, or may be different input without interruption, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

The third area may be a display area of the display screen that does not overlap with the status bar.

The preset amplification ratio may be preset for the electronic device, or may be user-defined, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In one example, after the electronic device receives the first input of the user, the electronic device updates the state information displayed in the state bar to the target application icon, and at this time, if the electronic device receives the sliding input (i.e. the fourth input) of the user in the state bar, the target application icon that the sliding track passes through is sequentially enlarged and displayed according to a preset proportion along the sliding track of the sliding input.

Because the status bar is generally narrower, the displayed application icons are smaller, and through the icon amplifying function, after the electronic equipment receives the input of a user to any target application icon, the target application icon can be amplified and displayed in the display screen, so that the user can more clearly check the application icon, and more accurate further operation can be performed.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the message display methods shown in the foregoing method drawings are all exemplified by the embodiment of the present invention in combination with one drawing. In specific implementation, the message display method shown in the above method drawings may also be implemented in combination with any other drawing that may be combined and is illustrated in the above embodiment, and will not be repeated here.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a possible structure of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 8, a display device 600 includes: a receiving module 601 and an updating module 602, wherein: the receiving module 601 is configured to receive a first input from a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic device; the updating module 602, configured to update and display, as a target application icon, target content displayed in a status bar of the electronic device in response to the first input received by the receiving module 601; wherein the first area is an open area in the display screen; the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, and the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic device.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a second input of the status bar from a user; the updating module 602 is further configured to update and display the first application icon in the status bar as a second application icon in response to the second input received by the receiving module 601; wherein the first application icon is at least one of the target application icons; the application indicated by the second application icon is an application corresponding to a second message, and the second message is a message except the first message in the unread messages of the electronic device.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the updating module 602 is configured to control at least one first application icon in the status bar to move out of the status bar along a predetermined direction, and control at least one second application icon to move into the status bar along the predetermined direction.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the second input is a pressing input of a user on the status bar; the updating module 602 is specifically configured to update and display, as a second application icon, the first application icon displayed in the status bar in a process of pressing the status bar by the user in response to the pressing input received by the receiving module 601.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the display device 600 further includes a display module 603; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a third input of the target application icon from a user; the display module 603 is configured to display, in response to the third input received by the receiving module 601, a first prompt message according to a message content of an unread message corresponding to the target application icon.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the display device 600 further includes a display module 603; the display module 603 is configured to display a second prompt message in a second area; wherein the second region is a region adjacent to the first region.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the display device 600 further includes an execution module 604; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a fourth input from a user on a third application icon, where the third application icon is at least one of the target application icons; the executing module 604 is configured to display, in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 601, the third application icon in a magnified manner on a third area of the display screen according to a preset magnification ratio.

According to the display device provided by the embodiment of the invention, after receiving the input of the user to the open area in the display screen, the content displayed in the status bar of the electronic equipment can be updated to be the application icon, wherein the application icon is the application icon corresponding to the unread message. Therefore, the electronic equipment can prompt the user that the application in the electronic equipment receives the unread message in time, so that the user can conveniently and timely check the unread message in the related application.

The display device provided by the embodiment of the invention can realize each process realized by the electronic equipment in the embodiment of the method, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

It should be noted that, as shown in fig. 8, modules that are necessarily included in the display device 600 are illustrated by solid line boxes, such as a receiving module 601; the modules that may or may not be included in the display device 600 are illustrated with dashed boxes, such as the display module 603.

Fig. 9 is a schematic hardware structure of an electronic device implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the 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. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the structure of the electronic device 100 shown in fig. 9 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device 100 may include more or less components than illustrated, or may combine certain components, or may have a different arrangement of components. In an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device 100 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 configured to receive a first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic device 100; the processor 110 is configured to update the target content in the status bar of the electronic device 100 to a target application icon in response to the first input received by the user input unit 107.

After receiving the input of the user to the open area in the display screen, the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the invention can update the content displayed in the status bar of the electronic device into the application icon, wherein the application icon is the application icon corresponding to the unread message. Therefore, the electronic equipment can prompt the user that the application in the electronic equipment receives the unread message in time, so that the user can conveniently and timely check the unread message in the related application.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 101 may be configured to receive and send information or signals during a call, specifically, receive downlink data from a base station, and then process the received downlink data with the processor 110; and, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, the 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 may also communicate with networks and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The electronic device 100 provides wireless broadband internet access to users, such as helping users send and receive e-mail, browse web pages, access streaming media, etc., through the network module 102.

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 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.) related to a specific function performed by the electronic device 100. The audio output unit 103 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 104 is used for receiving an audio or video signal. The input unit 104 may include a graphics processor (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, the graphics processor 1041 processing image data of still pictures 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 graphics 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. Microphone 1042 may receive sound and be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output that can be transmitted to the mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in the case of a telephone call mode.

The electronic device 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor, wherein the ambient light sensor can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and the proximity sensor can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the electronic device 100 moves to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the acceleration in all directions (generally three axes), and can detect the gravity and direction when stationary, and can be used for recognizing the gesture of the electronic equipment (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer and knocking), and the like; the sensor 105 may further include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, etc., which are not described 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 (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 to generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic device 100. Specifically, the user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations thereon or thereabout by a user (e.g., operations of the user on the touch panel 1071 or thereabout using any suitable object or accessory such as a finger, stylus, etc.). The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch azimuth 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 detection device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, and sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 110. Further, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072 in addition to the touch panel 1071. In particular, 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 operation is transmitted to the processor 110 to determine the type of touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of touch event. Although in fig. 9, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are two independent components for implementing the input and output functions of the electronic device 100, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 may be integrated with the display panel 1061 to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device 100, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 is an interface to which an external device is connected to the electronic apparatus 100. For example, the external devices may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power (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 electronic apparatus 100 or may be used to transmit data between the electronic apparatus 100 and an external device.

Memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a storage program area that may store an operating system, application programs required for at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and a storage data area; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the handset, etc. In addition, 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 electronic device 100, connects various parts of the entire electronic device 100 using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the electronic device 100 and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109, and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the electronic device 100. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; alternatively, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor that primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., with a modem processor that primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The electronic device 100 may also include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and optionally the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system that performs functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption.

In addition, the electronic device 100 includes some functional modules, which are not shown, and will not be described herein.

Optionally, the embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor 110, where the computer program when executed by the processor implements each process of the embodiment of the display method, and the process can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and details are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements the processes of the above-described embodiment of the display method, and can achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here. Wherein the computer readable storage medium is selected from Read-Only Memory (ROM), random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), magnetic disk or 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 one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (e.g. ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) comprising instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present invention.

Claims

1. A display method applied to an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic device;

in response to the first input, displaying a target content update displayed in a status bar of the electronic device as a target application icon;

the first area is an open area in the display screen, and the open area is an upper right area of the display screen;

the application indicated by the target application icon is an application corresponding to a first message, and the first message is at least one of unread messages of the electronic equipment;

after the updating of the target content in the status bar of the electronic device to the target application icon, the method further includes:

Receiving a third input of a user to the target application icon;

responding to the third input, and displaying first prompt information according to the message content of the unread message corresponding to the target application icon, wherein the first prompt information is determined according to the application type corresponding to the target application icon, the first prompt information is displayed in a floating window, and the floating window is displayed in a superposition manner on a display interface in a display screen of the electronic equipment;

the target content is an operation state identifier of the electronic equipment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after the updating the target content in the status bar of the electronic device to the target application icon, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input of a user to the status bar;

in response to the second input, displaying a first application icon update in the status bar as a second application icon;

wherein the first application icon is at least one of the target application icons;

the application indicated by the second application icon is an application corresponding to a second message, and the second message is a message except the first message in the unread messages of the electronic equipment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying the first application icon update in the status bar as a second application icon comprises:

and controlling at least one first application icon in the status bar to move out of the status bar along a preset direction, and controlling at least one second application icon to move into the status bar along the preset direction.

4. A method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the second input is a user press input on the status bar;

the displaying, in response to the second input, a first application icon update in the status bar as a second application icon, comprising:

and in response to the pressing input, updating and displaying the first application icon displayed in the status bar as a second application icon in the process of pressing the status bar by a user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the first input by the user at the first area of the display screen of the electronic device, the method further comprises:

and displaying second prompt information in a second area, wherein the second area is an adjacent area of the first area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein after the updating the target content in the status bar of the electronic device to the target application icon, the method further comprises:

Receiving a fourth input of a user to a third application icon, wherein the third application icon is at least one of the target application icons;

and responding to the fourth input, and displaying the third application icon on a third area of the display screen in an enlarged mode according to a preset enlarged scale.

7. A display device, characterized in that the display device comprises: a receiving module and an updating module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user in a first area of a display screen of the electronic equipment;

the updating module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and updating and displaying target content displayed in a status bar of the electronic equipment as a target application icon;

the display device also comprises a display module;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a third input of the target application icon from a user;

The display module is used for responding to the third input received by the receiving module, displaying first prompt information according to the message content of the unread message corresponding to the target application icon, wherein the first prompt information is determined according to the application type corresponding to the target application icon, the first prompt information is displayed in a floating window, and the floating window is displayed in a superposition manner on a display interface in a display screen of the electronic equipment;

8. The display device of claim 7, wherein the display device comprises a display device,

the receiving module is further used for receiving a second input of the user to the status bar;

the updating module is further configured to update and display a first application icon in the status bar as a second application icon in response to the second input received by the receiving module;

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein the display device comprises a display device,

the updating module is specifically configured to control at least one first application icon in the status bar to move out of the status bar along a predetermined direction, and control at least one second application icon to move into the status bar along the predetermined direction.

10. The display device of claim 8 or 9, wherein the second input is a user press input on the status bar;

the updating module is specifically configured to update and display a first application icon displayed in the status bar as a second application icon in a process that a user presses the status bar in response to the press input received by the receiving module.

11. The display device of claim 7, wherein the display device comprises a display device,

the display module is further used for displaying second prompt information in a second area before the receiving module receives the first input of the user in the first area of the display screen of the electronic device;

wherein the second region is an adjacent region to the first region.

12. The display device of claim 7, further comprising an execution module;

The receiving module is further configured to receive a fourth input from a user on a third application icon, where the third application icon is at least one of the target application icons;

and the execution module is used for responding to the fourth input received by the receiving module and displaying the third application icon on a third area of the display screen in an enlarged mode according to a preset enlarged proportion.

13. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor performs the steps of the display method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.