CN113378201A

CN113378201A - Control method and device for terminal equipment, electronic equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN113378201A
Application number: CN202110721720.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘俊启
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-28
Filing date: 2021-06-28
Publication date: 2021-09-10

Abstract

The disclosure provides a control method and device for terminal equipment, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of intelligent equipment, in particular to intelligent control and application programs. A control method for a terminal device, comprising: acquiring a current geographic position of the terminal equipment as a first geographic position; in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition, ceasing to display on the terminal device a representation of at least one functional feature of the terminal device; after the first geographic position is determined to meet the first position condition, the current geographic position of the terminal equipment is obtained to serve as a second geographic position; and in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition, resuming display of the representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device.

Description

Control method and device for terminal equipment, electronic equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of intelligent device technologies, and in particular, to an intelligent control and application program, and in particular, to a control method and apparatus for a terminal device, an electronic device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product.

Background

The terminal device often needs to realize different user rights by setting different modes. It is desirable to have a handover method that requires less computing resources and less user interaction.

Disclosure of Invention

The present disclosure provides a control method, apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product for a terminal device.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a control method for a terminal device, including: acquiring the current geographic position of the terminal equipment as a first geographic position; in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies a first location condition, ceasing to display on the terminal device a representation of at least one functional feature of the terminal device; after the first geographic position is determined to meet the first position condition, acquiring the current geographic position of the terminal equipment as a second geographic position; and in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition, resuming display of the representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a control apparatus for a terminal device, including: a first geographical position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current geographical position of the terminal device as a first geographical position; a first functional feature display unit configured to cease displaying a representation of at least one functional feature of the terminal device on the terminal device in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies a first location condition; a second geographic position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current geographic position of the terminal device as a second geographic position after determining that the first geographic position satisfies the first position condition; and a second functional feature display unit configured to resume displaying a representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device including: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform a control method for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions for causing a computer to execute a control method for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program product is provided, comprising a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements a control method for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to save the calculation cost of switching the mode at the terminal device and improve the switching efficiency.

It should be understood that the statements in this section do not necessarily identify key or critical features of the embodiments of the present disclosure, nor do they limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the embodiments and, together with the description, serve to explain the exemplary implementations of the embodiments. The illustrated embodiments are for purposes of illustration only and do not limit the scope of the claims. Throughout the drawings, identical reference numbers designate similar, but not necessarily identical, elements.

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an exemplary system in which various methods described herein may be implemented, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 shows a flowchart of a control method for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

3A-3D illustrate some example scene diagrams of control methods for a terminal device according to embodiments of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 shows a block diagram of a control apparatus for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 5 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary electronic device that can be used to implement embodiments of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which various details of the embodiments of the disclosure are included to assist understanding, and which are to be considered as merely exemplary. Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Also, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted in the following description for clarity and conciseness.

In the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified, the use of the terms "first", "second", etc. to describe various elements is not intended to limit the positional relationship, the timing relationship, or the importance relationship of the elements, and such terms are used only to distinguish one element from another. In some examples, a first element and a second element may refer to the same instance of the element, and in some cases, based on the context, they may also refer to different instances.

The terminology used in the description of the various described examples in this disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular examples only and is not intended to be limiting. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, if the number of elements is not specifically limited, the elements may be one or more. Furthermore, the term "and/or" as used in this disclosure is intended to encompass any and all possible combinations of the listed items.

Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an exemplary system 100 in which various methods and apparatus described herein may be implemented in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Referring to fig. 1, the system 100 includes one or

more client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106, a server 120, and one or more communication networks 110 coupling the one or more client devices to the server 120.

Client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106 may be configured to execute one or more applications.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the server 120 may run one or more services or software applications that enable execution of the control method for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In some embodiments, the server 120 may also provide other services or software applications that may include non-virtual environments and virtual environments. In certain embodiments, these services may be provided as web-based services or cloud services, for example, provided to users of

client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and/or 106 under a software as a service (SaaS) model.

In the configuration shown in fig. 1, server 120 may include one or more components that implement the functions performed by server 120. These components may include software components, hardware components, or a combination thereof, which may be executed by one or more processors. A user operating a

client device

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and/or 106 may, in turn, utilize one or more client applications to interact with the server 120 to take advantage of the services provided by these components. It should be understood that a variety of different system configurations are possible, which may differ from system 100. Accordingly, fig. 1 is one example of a system for implementing the various methods described herein and is not intended to be limiting.

A user may use

client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and/or 106 to interact with a terminal device or one or more functional features provided on a terminal device. The client device may provide an interface that enables a user of the client device to interact with the client device. The client device may also output information to the user via the interface. Although fig. 1 depicts only six client devices, those skilled in the art will appreciate that any number of client devices may be supported by the present disclosure.

Client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and/or 106 may include various types of computer devices, such as portable handheld devices, general purpose computers (such as personal computers and laptop computers), workstation computers, wearable devices, gaming systems, thin clients, various messaging devices, sensors or other sensing devices, and so forth. These computer devices may run various types and versions of software applications and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, UNIX-like operating systems, Linux, or Linux-like operating systems (e.g., Google Chrome OS); or include various Mobile operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows Mobile OS, iOS, Windows Phone, Android. Portable handheld devices may include cellular telephones, smart phones, tablets, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and the like. Wearable devices may include head mounted displays and other devices. The gaming system may include a variety of handheld gaming devices, internet-enabled gaming devices, and the like. The client device is capable of executing a variety of different applications, such as various Internet-related applications, communication applications (e.g., email applications), Short Message Service (SMS) applications, and may use a variety of communication protocols.

Network 110 may be any type of network known to those skilled in the art that may support data communications using any of a variety of available protocols, including but not limited to TCP/IP, SNA, IPX, etc. By way of example only, one or more networks 110 may be a Local Area Network (LAN), an ethernet-based network, a token ring, a Wide Area Network (WAN), the internet, a virtual network, a Virtual Private Network (VPN), an intranet, an extranet, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), an infrared network, a wireless network (e.g., bluetooth, WIFI), and/or any combination of these and/or other networks.

The server 120 may include one or more general purpose computers, special purpose server computers (e.g., PC (personal computer) servers, UNIX servers, mid-end servers), blade servers, mainframe computers, server clusters, or any other suitable arrangement and/or combination. The server 120 may include one or more virtual machines running a virtual operating system, or other computing architecture involving virtualization (e.g., one or more flexible pools of logical storage that may be virtualized to maintain virtual storage for the server). In various embodiments, the server 120 may run one or more services or software applications that provide the functionality described below.

The computing units in server 120 may run one or more operating systems including any of the operating systems described above, as well as any commercially available server operating systems. The server 120 may also run any of a variety of additional server applications and/or middle tier applications, including HTTP servers, FTP servers, CGI servers, JAVA servers, database servers, and the like.

In some implementations, the server 120 may include one or more applications to analyze and consolidate data feeds and/or event updates received from users of the

client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106. Server 120 may also include one or more applications to display data feeds and/or real-time events via one or more display devices of

client devices

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106.

In some embodiments, the server 120 may be a server of a distributed system, or a server incorporating a blockchain. The server 120 may also be a cloud server, or a smart cloud computing server or a smart cloud host with artificial intelligence technology. The cloud Server is a host product in a cloud computing service system, and is used for solving the defects of high management difficulty and weak service expansibility in the traditional physical host and Virtual Private Server (VPS) service.

The system 100 may also include one or more databases 130. In some embodiments, these databases may be used to store data and other information. For example, one or more of the databases 130 may be used to store information such as audio files and video files. The data store 130 may reside in various locations. For example, the data store used by the server 120 may be local to the server 120, or may be remote from the server 120 and may communicate with the server 120 via a network-based or dedicated connection. The data store 130 may be of different types. In certain embodiments, the data store used by the server 120 may be a database, such as a relational database. One or more of these databases may store, update, and retrieve data to and from the database in response to the command.

In some embodiments, one or more of the databases 130 may also be used by applications to store application data. The databases used by the application may be different types of databases, such as key-value stores, object stores, or regular stores supported by a file system.

The system 100 of fig. 1 may be configured and operated in various ways to enable application of the various methods and apparatus described in accordance with the present disclosure.

A control method 200 for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 2.

At step 210, a current geographic location of the terminal device is obtained as a first geographic location. For example, the geographic location may be a latitude and longitude coordinate or a location identifier, or the like. The terminal device may be a mobile phone, notebook computer, tablet computer, gaming device, or other terminal device capable of moving and acquiring its geographic location in any manner as will be understood by those skilled in the art.

At step 220, in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition, display of the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device on the terminal device is ceased. The first position condition may be falling within a predetermined position range, satisfying a predetermined distance condition or positional relationship with a predetermined position (or positions), or the like. Two or more functional features may be included on the terminal device and the at least one functional feature may be all or part of the functional features on the terminal device.

At step 230, after determining that the first geographical location satisfies the first location condition, acquiring a current geographical location of the terminal device as a second geographical location.

At step 240, display of the representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device is resumed in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

Terminal devices often require different user modes or scene modes when in use. When multiple users share a device, usage rights may differ for different users. Particularly, in a scenario where a teenager frequently uses the parent's terminal device, after the parent goes home, the teenager mode needs to be manually switched to prevent a child or the teenager from contacting some functions of the device that are not suitable for the teenager to use. In the prior art, the authority or the mode is required to be switched manually, or a more complex user authentication means is required to switch the mode, so that higher switching cost is required in terms of user operation and computing resources.

In contrast, according to embodiments of the present disclosure, the device mode can be automatically adjusted to close a feature portal that is not suitable for current use based on the geographical location information satisfying the predetermined location condition. The operation does not need additional operation of a user, is simple and portable, and consumes few computing resources, equipment electric quantity and the like. For example, features that are not suitable for access by children, teenagers, or other users who may use the device but have limited access to it may be turned off when the user is detected at home, or features that are entertaining or otherwise not conducive to work when the user is detected at a cafe, company, etc. office location. Further, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, the limited access mode can also be automatically stopped in response to the first geographic location condition no longer being satisfied (e.g., away from home or work place) after determining that the first location condition is satisfied.

The control method does not need user interaction when adjusting the mode, has simple judging mode, does not need complex analysis and calculation, and can accurately and efficiently achieve the effect of switching the mode.

Table 1 shows some example location conditions and usage descriptions thereof according to embodiments of the present disclosure.

TABLE 1

It can be seen that each location condition may correspond to one geographical location range, or may correspond to multiple geographical location ranges. For example, when a certain threshold value is near the location of "home" and within a certain threshold value near the location of "tutor shift", both are considered to satisfy the location condition 1, and the two threshold values may be the same or different. The location may be manually selected by the user or may be learned through the access state of the device. For example, a prompt may be displayed to the user to set a geographic location as being associated with a particular location condition or child mode by analyzing that the user is always located near a certain geographic location at night, that the user is always manually turning on a child mode near a certain location, and so forth. It is understood that the location condition parameters, numbers, and usage descriptions in table 1 are all examples, and the disclosure is not limited thereto. For example, the table represents the location in the form of "home" and "XX tutor", but the location may also be represented in the form of longitude and latitude, map area range diagram, or other suitable coordinate representation.

Variations of the method 200 according to embodiments of the present disclosure are described below with reference to fig. 3A-3D.

In some embodiments, a "functional feature" may be or may include an application in a device. Fig. 3A shows an example main user interface 310 of a terminal device, in which

functional features

311 and 316 are shown as applications. Specifically, in the example of fig. 3A, the terminal device may provide the following functional features: games 311, novels 312, videos 313, browser 314, course tutoring 315, weather 316, and so on. It will be appreciated that the above functional features are merely examples and that the terminal device may comprise more or fewer or completely different applications as functional features. Further, for brevity, other icons or features that are possible in the main user interface (e.g., device status, time, power, etc.) are not shown, and the disclosure is not limited thereto. According to such an embodiment, the representation of the at least one functional feature may comprise an icon of a respective application installed in the terminal device.

Therefore, when the specific geographic position condition is met, the icons of the preset application programs can be hidden in a main interface (such as a desktop, a program menu interface or a 'home' interface), and the effect of authority control can be achieved simply and quickly. For example, when it is detected that the user is at home, the teenager mode is automatically turned on, hiding applications unsuitable for access by children, such as a specific video application, a game application. For example, referring to FIG. 3B, an example interface 320 corresponding to interface 310 is shown where only browser 324, course tutor 325, and weather 326 (corresponding to 314 and 316 in FIG. 3A) are shown when the location condition corresponding to the child mode is satisfied, and where "games," "novels," and "videos" are no longer displayed. It is to be understood that at least one application hidden herein may be pre-configured or user-custom configured, and the disclosure is not limited thereto.

Alternatively, or in conjunction with the above-described embodiments, "functional features" may be or may include functional items in some application or applications installed in the device. Table 2 shows an example of functional items in an example application (e.g. browser APP). It is shown in table 2 that the function items may be divided into two hierarchies of primary function items and secondary function items, wherein the secondary function items may be understood as sub-function items of the corresponding primary function items, but it is understood that the present disclosure is not limited thereto. For example, all function items may only be considered to be located at the same level, or secondary function items may also have further sub-function items, etc.

TABLE 2

According to some embodiments, ceasing to display on the terminal device the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device may include: in response to determining that at least one function item in a first application installed on the terminal device is associated with the first location condition, causing display of a representation of the at least one function item in the first application to cease while a user interface of the first application is displayed.

Thus, if a function configuration related to a teenager mode is started for a single Application (APP), the "function feature" may be a function entry in the single application, which enables more intelligent and refined mode adjustment and right control for the device. For example, the configuration associated with the location condition (and the corresponding mode) may be set in advance for each level (or only a single level) of the function items in the application. Table 3 shows example configurations associated with different location conditions for a plurality of functional items in an example browser APP. For the sake of brevity, functional items are illustrated here at a single level, and those skilled in the art will appreciate that the disclosure is not so limited.

TABLE 3

Fig. 3C shows an example user interface 330 of a browser or video browsing APP, showing a share button 331, a browse area 332 and a comment area 333 as examples of three functional items of the APP. In the default mode, these three function items may be on. Subsequently, as the user meets a certain location condition, for example, enters a region of "home" with children, it is determined that the entry of the "share" function item and the "comment" function item should be closed based on the obtained geographic location and the mode switching profile associated with the APP, as shown in fig. 3D, in which the user interface 340 is shown to include only the browsing region 342 and not other functional features.

It will be appreciated that the above positional conditions and the mode configuration of the function item switch are merely examples. Any number of preset or user manually configured location conditions and associated configurations of function items may be selected as desired. Such a configuration may be preset (e.g., set by the APP developer when shipped from the factory), may be manually set by the user, or may be a combination of both. For example, the function item switch mode of "child mode" may be set at the time of factory shipment (and may be further modified by the user), while the corresponding function item switches of "working mode" and "other mode" are customized by the user, and so on.

After the first location condition is satisfied and thus a predetermined user mode is entered (e.g., after a predetermined time), the current location may be queried again. According to some embodiments, obtaining the second geographical location of the terminal device comprises periodically obtaining the current geographical location of the terminal device as the second geographical location after determining that the first geographical location satisfies the first location condition.

According to such an embodiment, it is possible to periodically query the current geographical location after determining that the first location condition is satisfied, and update the pattern in real time or periodically based on a match of the current geographical location with one or more pre-stored location conditions.

According to some embodiments, the method 200 may further comprise: in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition and in response to determining that the terminal device is in an active state, starting an active state timer; in response to the count value of the active state timer reaching a first threshold value, causing the terminal device to output an alert; and in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition, deactivating the active state timer. According to such embodiments, the anti-addiction mode can be automatically switched based on the geographical location.

For example, when the current position satisfies a predetermined position condition (e.g., at home, corresponding to a teenager's apparent, or at work, corresponding to a work mode), an activity state timer may also be simultaneously started to record the time of the device's activity state, when a predetermined period of time (e.g., 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or any preset or user-modifiable length of time) is reached, to prevent excessive device usage, and also to prevent a decrease in work efficiency or a long-term use of the electronic device by a child or teenager, resulting in a addiction or impaired vision, etc.

The active state timer may be used to monitor the active state of the device to prevent enthusiasm and prevent prolonged use of the device, and is off by default. As previously described, when the device enters a geographic location that matches a predetermined location condition, an active state timer is started, and in response to the timer reaching a predetermined length of time, the device is caused to output an alert, such as a prompt "you are using xx lengths of time today". The alert may also include restricting access to some or all of the functions of the device, etc. The timer may be cleared after the device stops being used for more than a certain time, or the timer may always accumulate the time length after the first position condition is satisfied, which may depend on whether the user focuses on the continuous use time length or the accumulated use time length, and the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

According to some embodiments, the method 200 may further comprise: in response to the first geographic location satisfying the second location condition, changing at least one of the following displayed on the terminal device: the font size of the text or the size of the media item. Similarly to the first location condition, the second location condition may also be that the current geographic location of the device falls within a predetermined range of locations. According to such embodiments, the display mode may be automatically adjusted for the viewing habits of different users based on geographic location. This is particularly applicable to a scenario where adults share devices with the elderly. For example, according to the fact that the geographic position of the device falls within a threshold range near a preset 'parent' range, the old people mode is automatically started, the font of the device is made to be large, and the device is convenient for a user to use without user interaction.

It will be appreciated that the embodiments described above may be used in combination with each other. For example, the functional feature may include both a part of the plurality of applications installed in the device and some of the functional item entries in some of the applications. As another example of a combination, the second location condition may intersect the first location condition (e.g., an area where an elderly person is present with a child), whereby the device may both turn off functional features that are not suitable for use by a child and adjust the display mode of the device.

A control apparatus 400 for a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 4. The apparatus 400 may include: a first geographical position obtaining unit 410, a first functional characteristic display unit 420, a second geographical position obtaining unit 430 and a second functional characteristic display unit 440. The first geographical location obtaining unit 410 may be configured to obtain a current geographical location of the terminal device as the first geographical location. The first functional feature display unit 420 may be configured to stop displaying the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device on the terminal device in response to determining that the first geographical location satisfies the first location condition. The second geographic position obtaining unit 430 may be configured to obtain the current geographic position of the terminal device as the second geographic position after determining that the first geographic position satisfies the first position condition. The second functional feature display unit 440 may be configured to resume displaying the representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

The apparatus 400 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure can automatically adjust the device mode based on the geographical location information satisfying the predetermined location condition, does not require additional operations by the user, is simple and portable, and consumes very little computing resources and device power.

Some variations of the apparatus 400 according to embodiments of the present disclosure are described below.

Referring back to fig. 3A-3B, according to some embodiments, the representation of the at least one functional feature may include an icon of a corresponding application installed in the terminal device. Therefore, when the specific geographic position condition is met, the icons of the preset application programs can be hidden in a desktop, a program menu interface or a 'home' interface so as to realize mode switching and authority control.

Referring to fig. 3C-3D, according to some embodiments, ceasing to display on the terminal device the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device may include: in response to determining that at least one function item in a first application installed on the terminal device is associated with the first location condition, causing display of a representation of the at least one function item in the first application to cease while a user interface of the first application is displayed.

By the embodiment, the mode adjustment and the authority control of the equipment can be more intelligent and refined. It will be appreciated that such embodiments may be used alone or in combination with the foregoing embodiments.

According to some embodiments, obtaining the current geographical location of the terminal device as the second geographical location comprises periodically obtaining the current geographical location of the terminal device as the second geographical location after determining that the first geographical location satisfies the first location condition.

Thus, the schema can be updated in real-time or periodically, further reducing user interaction and saving computing resources.

According to some embodiments, the apparatus 400 further comprises: means configured to start an active state timer in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies a first location condition and in response to determining that the terminal device is in an active state; a unit configured to cause the terminal device to output an alarm in response to a count-out value of the active-state timer reaching a first threshold value; and means configured to deactivate the active state timer in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

Through the control to the active state timer, the anti-addiction mode can be automatically switched based on the geographic position, and more intelligent equipment mode control is realized.

According to some embodiments, the apparatus 400 further comprises means configured to change, in response to the first geographical location satisfying the second location condition, at least one of the following displayed on the terminal device: the font size of the text or the size of the media item. Thus, the display mode can be automatically adjusted for the viewing habits of different users based on the geographic location.

In the technical scheme of the disclosure, the acquisition, storage, application and the like of the personal information of the related user all accord with the regulations of related laws and regulations, and do not violate the good customs of the public order.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is also provided an electronic device, a readable storage medium, and a computer program product.

Referring to fig. 5, a block diagram of a structure of an electronic device 500, which may be a server or a client of the present disclosure, which is an example of a hardware device that may be applied to aspects of the present disclosure, will now be described. Electronic device is intended to represent various forms of digital electronic computer devices, such as laptops, desktops, workstations, personal digital assistants, servers, blade servers, mainframes, and other suitable computers. The electronic device may also represent various forms of mobile devices, such as personal digital processing, cellular phones, smart phones, wearable devices, and other similar computing devices. The components shown herein, their connections and relationships, and their functions, are meant to be examples only, and are not meant to limit implementations of the disclosure described and/or claimed herein.

As shown in fig. 5, the apparatus 500 comprises a computing unit 501 which may perform various appropriate actions and processes in accordance with a computer program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)502 or a computer program loaded from a storage unit 508 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 503. In the RAM503, various programs and data required for the operation of the device 500 can also be stored. The calculation unit 501, the ROM 502, and the RAM503 are connected to each other by a bus 504. An input/output (I/O) interface 505 is also connected to bus 504.

A number of components in the device 500 are connected to the I/O interface 505, including: an input unit 506, an output unit 507, a storage unit 508, and a communication unit 509. The input unit 506 may be any type of device capable of inputting information to the device 500, and the input unit 506 may receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and/or function controls of the electronic device, and may include, but is not limited to, a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen, a track pad, a track ball, a joystick, a microphone, and/or a remote controller. Output unit 507 may be any type of device capable of presenting information and may include, but is not limited to, a display, speakers, a video/audio output terminal, a vibrator, and/or a printer. The storage unit 508 may include, but is not limited to, a magnetic disk, an optical disk. The communication unit 509 allows the device 500 to exchange information/data with other devices via a computer network, such as the internet, and/or various telecommunications networks, and may include, but is not limited to, modems, network cards, infrared communication devices, wireless communication transceivers and/or chipsets, such as bluetooth (TM) devices, 1302.11 devices, WiFi devices, WiMax devices, cellular communication devices, and/or the like.

The computing unit 501 may be a variety of general-purpose and/or special-purpose processing components having processing and computing capabilities. Some examples of the computing unit 501 include, but are not limited to, a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), various dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing chips, various computing units running machine learning model algorithms, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and any suitable processor, controller, microcontroller, and so forth. The computing unit 501 performs the various methods and processes described above, such as the method 200 or variations thereof. For example, in some embodiments, method 200 or variations thereof may be implemented as a computer software program tangibly embodied in a machine-readable medium, such as storage unit 508. In some embodiments, part or all of the computer program may be loaded and/or installed onto the device 500 via the ROM 502 and/or the communication unit 509. One or more steps of the method 200 described above or a variant thereof may be performed when the computer program is loaded into the RAM503 and executed by the computing unit 501. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the computing unit 501 may be configured to perform the method 200 or variations thereof in any other suitable manner (e.g., by means of firmware).

Various implementations of the systems and techniques described here above may be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, integrated circuitry, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), system on a chip (SOCs), load programmable logic devices (CPLDs), computer hardware, firmware, software, and/or combinations thereof. These various embodiments may include: implemented in one or more computer programs that are executable and/or interpretable on a programmable system including at least one programmable processor, which may be special or general purpose, receiving data and instructions from, and transmitting data and instructions to, a storage system, at least one input device, and at least one output device.

Program code for implementing the methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. These program codes may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program codes, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions/operations specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram to be performed. The program code may execute entirely on the machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.

In the context of this disclosure, a machine-readable medium may be a tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The machine-readable medium may be a machine-readable signal medium or a machine-readable storage medium. A machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of a machine-readable storage medium would include an electrical connection based on one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

To provide for interaction with a user, the systems and techniques described here can be implemented on a computer having: a display device (e.g., a CRT (cathode ray tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor) for displaying information to a user; and a keyboard and a pointing device (e.g., a mouse or a trackball) by which a user can provide input to the computer. Other kinds of devices may also be used to provide for interaction with a user; for example, feedback provided to the user can be any form of sensory feedback (e.g., visual feedback, auditory feedback, or tactile feedback); and input from the user may be received in any form, including acoustic, speech, or tactile input.

The systems and techniques described here can be implemented in a computing system that includes a back-end component (e.g., as a data server), or that includes a middleware component (e.g., an application server), or that includes a front-end component (e.g., a user computer having a graphical user interface or a web browser through which a user can interact with an implementation of the systems and techniques described here), or any combination of such back-end, middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication (e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networks include: local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and the Internet.

The computer system may include clients and servers. A client and server are generally remote from each other and typically interact through a communication network. The relationship of client and server arises by virtue of computer programs running on the respective computers and having a client-server relationship to each other.

It should be understood that various forms of the flows shown above may be used, with steps reordered, added, or deleted. For example, the steps described in the present disclosure may be performed in parallel, sequentially or in different orders, and are not limited herein as long as the desired results of the technical solutions disclosed in the present disclosure can be achieved.

Although embodiments or examples of the present disclosure have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the above-described methods, systems and apparatus are merely exemplary embodiments or examples and that the scope of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments or examples, but only by the claims as issued and their equivalents. Various elements in the embodiments or examples may be omitted or may be replaced with equivalents thereof. Further, the steps may be performed in an order different from that described in the present disclosure. Further, various elements in the embodiments or examples may be combined in various ways. It is important that as technology evolves, many of the elements described herein may be replaced with equivalent elements that appear after the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A control method for a terminal device, comprising:

acquiring the current geographic position of the terminal equipment as a first geographic position;

in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies a first location condition, ceasing to display on the terminal device a representation of at least one functional feature of the terminal device;

after the first geographic position is determined to meet the first position condition, acquiring the current geographic position of the terminal equipment as a second geographic position; and is

Resuming display of the representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the at least one functional feature comprises an icon of a respective application installed in the terminal device.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein ceasing to display on the terminal device the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device comprises:

in response to determining that at least one function item in a first application installed on the terminal device is associated with the first location condition, causing display of a representation of the at least one function item in the first application to cease while a user interface of the first application is displayed.

4. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal device as the second geographic location comprises periodically obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal device as the second geographic location after determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition.

5. The method of any of claims 1-4, further comprising:

in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition and in response to determining that the terminal device is in an active state, starting an active state timer;

causing the terminal device to output an alert in response to the count value of the active state timer reaching a first threshold; and

disabling the active state timer in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

6. The method of any of claims 1-5, further comprising: in response to the first geographic location satisfying the second location condition, changing at least one of the following displayed on the terminal device: the font size of the text or the size of the media item.

7. A control apparatus for a terminal device, comprising:

a first geographical position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current geographical position of the terminal device as a first geographical position;

a first functional feature display unit configured to cease displaying a representation of at least one functional feature of the terminal device on the terminal device in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies a first location condition;

a second geographic position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current geographic position of the terminal device as a second geographic position after determining that the first geographic position satisfies the first position condition; and

a second functional feature display unit configured to resume displaying a representation of the at least one functional feature on the terminal device in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the representation of the at least one functional feature comprises an icon of a respective application installed in the terminal device.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 or 8, wherein ceasing to display on the terminal device the representation of the at least one functional feature of the terminal device comprises:

10. The apparatus of any of claims 7-9, wherein obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal device as the second geographic location comprises periodically obtaining the current geographic location of the terminal device as the second geographic location after determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition.

11. The apparatus of any of claims 7-10, further comprising:

means configured to start an active state timer in response to determining that the first geographic location satisfies the first location condition and in response to determining that the terminal device is in an active state;

means configured to cause the terminal device to output an alarm in response to a count-out value of the active state timer reaching a first threshold value; and

means configured to deactivate the active state timer in response to the second geographic location not satisfying the first location condition.

12. The apparatus of any of claims 7-11, further comprising means configured to, in response to the first geographic location satisfying a second location condition, change at least one of the following displayed on the terminal device: the font size of the text or the size of the media item.

13. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein

The memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1-6.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions for causing the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-6.

15. A computer program product comprising a computer program, wherein the computer program realizes the method of any one of claims 1-6 when executed by a processor.